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Deploying OpenShift on Packet.net

James Labocki takes Erik Jacobs and Christian Hernandez on a walkthrough of getting OpenShift installed on Packet.net

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All right, I see it going. Hey, everyone. Hi, Christian. Hey, Eric. How are you? Good. So we've also got, as you can see, we've got James Lebaki in Word, and hopefully soon indeed. With us today, we're going to be playing with packet.net. But while he sorts through various livestreaming webcam type issues, we will just kind of have a chat about random things. Yeah, we were just talking about compiling kernels. Because he brought up the camera and was like, well, maybe he has to recompile the kernel to see his camera. Yeah, right? Yes, we're talking about recompile. And so Chris Short will be able to chime in on this. So the Fedora RPM Fusion version of OBS, but also the Flatpak version, neither of them for some reason, ship with the browser plug-in, which now is part of OBS, which is the streaming tool we use, has a version 25. And so I spent the afternoon the other day like trying to build my own RPM, which actually works great until you try and touch a media source, and then it crashes. And it just cracks nice. So I need to spend some more time doing that. But if anybody out there in Twitchiverse wants to RPM package a Fedora-esque version of OBS, we will gladly contribute to said project. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely. But I'm sure it's some good. Well, especially the Flatpaks, I've been using a lot more Flatpaks as of late trying to, just because it's just easier. I don't have to worry about RPMs and dependencies and whatnot. So I kicked one of James's James out because he was in twice. And now it's saying it won't let him. It's saying it won't let him join. So am I sharing the actual part of the Zoom window? Put the chat. Oh, yeah, I am. That's all right. I'm trying to figure out how to allow him to come back in now that I've accidentally kicked him out. Yeah, you accidentally kicked him out. So hopefully we'll be able to let him back in. Otherwise, this is going to be real interesting, slash exciting. We may have to close this meeting and then restart it. But that's OK. But yeah. Oh, so the Flatpak thing, I looked into that too. And they were saying that the Flatpak people were saying that it's like something weird about. So the browser for OBS uses CEF. It says he can't get back in. All right. So I'm going to kill this Zoom meeting and then restart it. So Christian, I'll see you back here in a second. All right. Yeah, we'll be right back then. We'll be back momentarily, folks. So let's see. We're going to do, we'll switch to the break scene. Yeah, break scene. We'll take a break. Hey, we got three heads now. This is great. James here. Say hi, James. Hello. Hi, James. Say hi, Christian. Hello, hello. All right, so now that we're all back-ish, sort of kind of what we're going to do today is we're going to play with some bare metal open. Oh, I probably should get rid of my work grave here. Mode suspended. We're going to do some bare metal open shift. And we're going to do it using bare metal servers from packet.net. And so the OpenShift 4 installer does a lot of fully automated things. And we're working on sort of a fully automated bare metal provisioning solution as well. That's coming down the pipe. But we have this sort of manual installation process that you can do as well. And generally speaking, for bare metal, that's what you would do. You would follow this manual installation process. Even though packet.net is technically a cloud, and it's technically a bare metal cloud, where you have an API that you can get infrastructure resources from, we're not tying into that in any way. So the OpenShift 4 installation today doesn't know anything about packet. They're not on our short-term roadmap. But James has actually, so spoiler alert, this does work. And James has done it before. Now, this is live. So of course, we're going to completely hose it in real time and recover, I think, maybe. But the goal essentially is to go through the steps that James had done before and maybe actually try and automate some of the things that he's doing. Do some live Ansible or something like that. I don't know. We'll get crazy. It's Friday. I don't have a beverage. I mean, I have a regular standard water. Standard water, yeah. Well, technically, it's not even standard water. It's got collagen in it because, you know. Oh, yeah. Take care of my joints. The joints are important. It's important. Yeah, it's important, yeah. It's like, you know, similar analogy would be, you know, if there's no hoof, there's no horse. So if there's no joints, there's no person. But anyway, OK. So enough of me yacking away, James, I guess. So Jell-O-Water. No, it only turns into Jell-O-Water if you use cold water. If you use room temperature water, like out of the tap, it's fine. It doesn't turn into Jell-O. And it really doesn't taste like anything. Like, you kind of don't really notice that there's stuff in there. But anyway, we're not here to talk about collagen supplements. We're here to talk about OpenShift. And so, James, I guess, if you want to share your screen. Yeah, that's the first test of the day, huh? First test of the day. First task of the day is to share the screen and see what happens. Looks good so far. I see your screen being shared. I'm going to make our heads a little smaller here. Try to. There we go. There we go. Split in the screen. I like it. OK. So for sure, you're going to have to make your text way bigger. OK. How's that on the, or should I just do one screen and flip back and forth? I would probably just do one screen at a time, but still make it bigger, even bigger still. Yeah, that's fair. Nice. Because our heads are somewhere. I will try. There we go. Is that good? OK. That's probably good. Let's let our viewers let us know. Yeah, yeah. You can't see it. Raise your hand. Yeah, apologies in advance. At some point, my laptop will decide to do something awful. And so we will lose several frames, but I will do my best to not do anything else while that's going on. So anyway, take us away, Mr. James. All right. Yeah, thanks, Eric. And so I'm glad I have your help so you can help me as I make a bunch of mistakes. So. Pair programming at its finest. Yeah, or at its worst, I guess, I don't know. CIS admins would never do that. Maybe they should. Maybe CIS admins should pair admin. Oh, just got to follow. I don't know who it was. All right, so real quick. So what I wanted to do was walk through deploying OpenShift. I think I'm going to stick with OpenShift 4.3. I know 4.4 is out, but I did this with 4.3. I'm assuming it would work with 4.4, but I'm not going to test it live. Oh, no, no. That's too much testing for a live Friday stream. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to do it with 4.4. We've already got one person saying we should. All right, you know what, James? We're going to do it with 4.4. So here's what we're going to do. So I'm going to use AWS Route 53 for DNS. I know that Payne's Christian, from what I understand, he's a big DNS. Christian loves DNS. I'm a DNS purist. For those of you anywhere on the internet, if you have a DNS problem, you should send it to Christian. Yes, exactly. He loves DNS. All right, and you could recite all the things you're not supposed to do in domain names while we go through this. By the way, we don't have two people clamoring for us to try OpenShift 4.4. So we may have to do some runtime or audible, playtime audible. Yeah, we do an audible. Yeah, call an audible. Do both of them work at our competitors? Or is this stuff? It's fine, man. This is all about trial and error. All right, so here's what you should know. I'll be using Route 53 for DNS. Do you have a slide? No, I don't. No, it doesn't. Can you make a slide on the fly? Yeah, it can be ugly. Yeah, make a slide. All right, so then what we'll do is then we'll provision a bunch of servers on packet.net. I have Route 53 here. I have a hosted zone. Let me make this bigger. Yes, please. There we go. At least 200%. Yeah, if you think you can't see it from the back of your own room, it's probably too small. All right, so this is on my DNS setup here on Route 53. So I'm being lazy. I'm not going to use them for, I'm not going to set up my own bind server. But I am going to set up everything else, essentially. So what are these records for? These records are going to be for everything in my OpenShift cluster. OK, well, really, no way. Yeah, sure. Well, what a novel idea. Well, hey, you ask a stupid question. You get a stupid answer. Well, I asked a non-specific question. So OK, I'll accept your answer. So you have M0 and M1 are going to be the IP addresses for the master nodes and M0 and M1 and M2. And then we have two workers, worker one, worker two. And then you have C names for at CD. So we're to find things. All your apps, you have a wildcard here entry for any of your apps basically to get forward to what's going to be the HA proxies. So that's for application ingress. Exactly. Gotcha. And then, yeah, and then you just have the regular old when someone goes to hit the API of my cluster, it's going to know where to find those as well. So OK, and then that's going to be, I guess, like a load balancer that's going to sit in front of the masters. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to have HA proxy running on like a helper node. So I'll make like a helper node that's going to export NFS, if I remember correctly, do HA proxy and handle a couple of other things. I'm trying to think what else was on there. OK, and so when you say HA proxy on the helper node, which you're talking about is the HA proxy binary like RPM that we ship with rel. Oh, there it goes. Hang on. I know. I think it's Eric. Yeah, Eric is. It is. No, I told you it was going to happen right before I. All right, we're back. So there we go. There we go. When you say HA proxy, you're talking about the RPM that ships with rel. Yeah, yeah, I'm just going to install that straight away on there and configure it. So yeah, and then. So I know I note that you have for your wildcard DNS, you have two entries, right? So I guess you're round robin-ing between the two workers. Yeah, exactly. Gotcha, gotcha, cool. And so you might ask yourself, well, how do you know what the IP addresses of these are ahead of time? And the answer is I don't. I'm going to have to go change them after I kick off the actual provisioning and I get IP. If only we could automate this with. So you could. And in fact, there is actually a Terraform. There's some Terraform and Ansible that the OpenShift engineering team at Red Hat has written to do this. So it's like a both Terraform and Ansible, I think, leveraged together to deploy all the servers on packet and get this up and running. But then you wouldn't have the fun of watching us do it. True, yeah, you'd have the. Well, but you know, we were thinking potentially about us doing it. So, but anyway, let's let's move along and then maybe Christian, you can, we'll switch to you and you can try and re redo some of the steps here. Nice. I do have a packet account. I can send you some access info in the background, Christian. Yeah, we'll just, we'll just do it live. Just send, just put it on the screen. Everyone can have it. No, no. All right. So let me, let me start off by, so we'll deploy one small instance in packet and we'll configure HAProxy, NFS, and Apache on it to start. And then we'll put the OpenShift binaries on there too. And we'll create like the manifests, the ignition files, all that stuff you need to start the OpenShift installation process. Then we'll go deploy a bootstrap node, which is something that you need to deploy OpenShift and then we'll deploy the masters and the workers. We'll probably use like small instances, I think, for those, if I remember correctly. And then we'll wait for everything to deploy. So we'll cross our fingers and maybe that's a good chance to get a coffee or water. And then we'll log in and let me, you know, make sure the cluster's running. Sweet. Sounds beautiful. Sounds like an agenda. Sounds promising. All right. Yes. I hope you guys don't have plans tonight. So we're doing this on R, right? On R, yeah, let's do it. Okay. 4.4 would be scary enough. All right, so we'll let's... Spoiler alert, it won't work on ARM. Yeah, I know, I know. So let me... Oh, wait, they added some new instances here. I was going to see... I just wanted... I was going to do this in Newark, but is Newark gone now? Well, Newark. Click North America. Yeah, but... Or he clicked on all, yeah. I think Newark would be considered under all. It might be because of what I have selected over here. So... Oh, who knows? Let me see. I wanted to just do a custom iPixie. So... Oh, Jesus. Let's see. Wow. Oh, no, no, sorry, sorry, no. I want to do... Sorry, you're right. I want to do a REL7 here. It's like, wow, that's ambitious. It's ambitious, but it's defaulted to 8. I guess it's got to be Dallas. I guess Newark... I just like it because of the airport, but we'll... What? Someone likes the Newark airport. I think you're fired from this stream right now. Yeah, yeah. The airport is the worst airport. It's our greatest chance at herd immunity. I guess it's better than LaGuardia. I'll tell you that. Oh, so Parsiphani is Newark says somebody keeps elite. It says it's Parsiphani is Newark. Oh, you know, that's a... You're right. EWR, there you go. That's a pretty good branding trick there. You know, it's funny, they do what we do. They use airport codes, but it's the city. Thank you for that, by the way. Yeah, it's fine, okay, so... Keybiz, elite. Thank you. Keybiz, elite. So let's do this. I'll hit deploy now and I don't think I forgot to do anything, so let's see. This is a very... Your new devices are queued for creation. This is very stressful. Why? Okay, so basically, you could view the progress of this. Are you concerned about making a mistake? Yeah, absolutely. That's the process, like the journey is not about the destination. Yeah, it's about the journey, not the destination. All right, so my configuration, you'll see here, you could watch the process here. There's also a way to actually, if you wanna SSH and watch this thing boot, you could see that there. Interesting. And I had previously set up my SSH keys in here, obviously, so you have to do that if you didn't, but it's a booty. And what are we gonna do while we kill time? We're gonna kill time while we kill time. You could pull up the Ansible for a packet and we could look at the docs. Oh yeah, what do you think will come up here? Pack it in a guide. Well, there's a guide, well, that's good. No, I know there's a module. You could export here if you wanna turn it off stream. Hit install it. And then try and do some of this stuff. Looks like there's a lot of things you could do, of which I will do none, and I will let Christian do them if he wants to. Yeah, all right, so let's see. Let me get my packet key, get in the background here and see about sending it to Christian. We can have a race, right? I can do it on my end. Well, no, I'm saying I have it in town. Well, I'm just saying, let's see if I can do the Ansible playbook before. If you could write it faster than James can do it while he's waiting for service. Yeah, I do it manually. I don't think it'd be any different. All right, so how do I go? I need to API, API keys, there we go. No API keys. Well, I guess I'll need one. Description, Christian, it's the name of my API key. Oh, how am I gonna send this to you? You can use Keybase. No, I just, I don't wanna open more applications. Oh, more applications. I'm very concerned with my laptop here. So I have a question for James, actually. So I've actually never really used PacketNet. So what's going on now is that it's just going out and just looking for an available hardware. Yeah, I think so. It basically pulls a piece of bare metal out for you and does all the provisioning for it. And you know, I mentioned that there's a very small creature right now running around in a data center. Yeah, that's like a creature. So actually, I mentioned how there was a, you know, the challenge of having to get the DNS, I'm sorry, having to get your IP addresses first from Packet and then plugging those into my DNS. They actually started this pretty cool project called Tinkerbell out there, but it's meant to be able to kind of do all of this and automate it a little bit. I like the name. Yeah, Tink. Yeah, yeah, so they're working on that, but... If you clap, does the server come faster? I don't know if anyone got that reference. I have no idea. Yeah, and anyone on chat, let me know if you got the reference. We've got a question in the chat about, is this first machine that you're provisioning the helper node? Yeah, it's basically gonna be the helper node and then it's not the bootstrap node. So when I was first doing this, I didn't realize that you actually need a whole second. I'm gonna pause you for a second. Can we add any more servers while we're waiting so that we don't have to wait sequentially? No, we can't actually, because everything else we have to add, we have to custom Ipixie, and we're gonna host those Ipixie files. Oh, okay, so we really do need this version. Yeah, yeah, I don't know why, I should have just provisioned it before we started. That's okay. In hindsight, but... Hey, Magic! It's over networking. I mean, it was only three minutes. I know. It just felt longer, yeah. Yeah. Three minutes is a long time when you've got several thousand people watching you live. That's true. And let me see. So this will basically get configured, and then we'll start it up and get in and start configuring NFS, and you could watch me add firewall commands. It's gonna be exciting. Packinit Ansible. So now I'm searching Packinit Ansible, and I'm gonna see here. Do I have to do a pip install or is it? Is Chris Short on the chat? Does he know if I can Ansible doc? Let's see if I have it installed. So the module's called what? What is the module called? Oh, Chris Hackit-Python. Hackit. So I sent Christian an API key in the background for Giggles, so he's gonna... Well, how do I list all the Ansible doc? Ansible doc-... Hey, it looks like... List. I think the server is up. All right, I'm in on my rel7 server over here. Awesome. Okay. Nice, look at that. In Newark. It's in Newark. Okay, so a couple of things. I'm actually gonna just provision some storage and attach it to it. There's some storage on it, but if you wanna, like, obviously not, this is, A, this is completely unsupported, deploying OpenShift on Packet, I think, as far as I know, like Eric said, this is more like just for fun. It's supported in the sense that these are bare metal systems running somewhere. So installing it and running it here is just fine. You will be supported running it on Packet in the sense that these are rel7 or CoreOS systems running on bare metal. So we don't have any supported native integration. That's the thing. There's no Red Hat provided automation today. So if Packet had some weird object storage that you could use, like that's, we don't tie into anything that Packet provides in the context of being a cloud provider. Yeah, the fact, you say the fact that you're doing a bare metal UPI install, that means it is supported. Because that's supported. Yeah, this process we're doing is supported anywhere that rel7 runs. Yeah, let me do a deploy a volume. So I just deployed a 100 gigabyte volume and then I could go manage it. I always forget how to attach it. Storage actions, not clone, delete, snapshot schedules. I think you actually have to go back to the server and add it. So this is just storage space that you're going to attach to the existing server. I guess for NFS, right? Yeah, exactly. I was just going to mount this eventually and then who knows if we'll get that far but eventually just mount this up. We got nothing but time brother. We've only been going for 26 minutes. Don't wish it away yet. Yeah, I was going to ask. I didn't actually see when this ended. Is there an end? There's never an end. It just kind of goes until it fills us out. It goes until it reaches its natural conclusion. Nice. All right, so now I've got that storage attached to here, right? When the fire starts to smolder, that's when we... Yeah, when we see smoke coming out of your brain, we know that maybe we should end. I know. All right, so we'll go here. So let's just, let's get started here. So I'm on my rel7 machine. So now what I want to do is I want to add a couple of repos. I think like, because this comes up much like, whoops. Oh, it comes really bare. Wait a second. Yum repo list, maybe? Yeah, this is 7-7. You might have to install yamkin to the manager. I don't think that comes in the... What provides? What provides? What provides you? Is that the name of the command? Yeah, what provides yourself? Do you like quote bash bin slash, or is it smart enough? Or is it, or is it Yum search? It's, it's now smart enough. No, Yum provides is fine, but I don't, I don't know how much expansion it does on file names with provides. Okay. I don't know. I was an RHC in three. So in the last three days. And rel3. You guys are gonna be making fun of me the whole time. This is pre, this is pre-SNL. Oh man, I got all my certs on five, I think. Got mine on six, so. I'm kidding. I think it was on six. I'm a little newer. All right, let's wait for this to finish here. But what Eric was saying, yeah, it's Yum provides quote slash star slash, yeah. What bin slash, no, no, sorry. Quote splat bin slash thing. Single quote. Yeah. Because if, because then it does like expansion, it does glob expansion of both bin and S bin. And so it may or may not find what you just asked it for. Or they call it the cheerleader, right? Back. No, dude, I don't know what you just wrote. There should be a way to cash this. Yeah, I think it's called Yum fast cash, but you need to go through it once at least. Yeah, I'm just saying like on the, oh, I guess it's not an image, it's laying down. It must be doing an install from packages when you boot. I don't know. Something just dinged at me, which makes me believe that I have, I do have something else open still. I need to close that, here we go. Free up some precious resources here for my. Well, you can do a renice, right? Renice dash 20, negative 20. Yeah, Zoom is the most important thing. Zoom is most important in anything. My gosh. There's a lot of stuff in real seven these days and it's all. I have no idea. Well, it's because it hasn't ever pulled any of the stuff yet. So it wants to validate its cash and blah, blah, blah. So. Yum. So there's three ways to do the same thing. Pseudo DNF, what provides whatever. Yep, that's another option. So if you're on the packet team and you're watching, if you could figure out how to run this after the install. Do it. Well, but then the install would just take longer. Like, I mean. Yeah, it's true. That's true. Well, yeah, it's like, don't make me wait. Right. Yeah. Hooray, there you go. Oh, yummutiles. Why did none of us know that? I bet a Google search would have been faster. Google search would have been quicker, yeah. But I still had to go through that, right? Correct, yeah, you'd have to get the cash. Probably. All right. RPMDB altered outside of yumm, sounds like the packet does something as well. Okay, now you should have yummconfig manager. All right, so let's add a, let's add rel7 server RPMs, make sure it's enabled. Cool. And extras. I've got some. Pretty sure it's all enabled. You never know. What's that? That didn't work. So, the other thing, I'm, yeah. Yeah, it didn't work. Rel7 servers, isn't it server? Oh yeah. There we go. Oh, it's an entitlement thing. Should I subscribe? I'm guessing I have to subscribe, right? You might need to. You might need to. Do you have your employee subscription? I do. Somebody says it was enabled already, so maybe just try and do your thing. Okay, yeah, maybe you're right. WSRI, which I'm sure is WSRI, but I also can't, I'm not sure, so. One time I might, if you notice my RHN ID has engineering in it. I once fooled somebody well enough that I was in engineering, it lasted a day. A day? A day, nice. All right, so question. Can we kind of just create like a script real quick to run all these firewall commands and cheat? They're all commented out. Unless you want to see me type them all out by hand. Well, you commented them out. Oh, I know. I don't know why. Oh, you could have done a visual block there. I know. See, these are the things that I knew were going to happen. If in case you didn't know, bind is number one, DNS is number one for me, and VIM is number two, so. Have you been doing the VS Code VIM? VS Code, yes, I've been, yeah, I've been forcing myself to do that. Dude, the VS Code VIM life, is it? Let me ask you guys, what are all these ports? Let's see here. Well, I recognize a couple of them. So if you do, we go line by line, right? I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. We don't have to do that. So HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, you got the UDP. HA proxy. I'm guessing time protocol. Automap? Wait, no, no, no. What's RPC bind? Yeah, yeah. It's been a while. Okay, so let me just. You can just do bash it. Come on, engineering, let's. All right, all right, all right. So adding a bunch of firewall rules, I probably missed some because I took bad notes the last time I did this. And then we'll, should we, let's not configure NFS yet. Let's just install, install HA proxy. Yeah, right. Keeb says that we should be adding service instead of doing port by port. Oh yeah. Better, yeah. Same behavior, better experience though, yeah. Well, better documentation. You're probably right. And all right, so then what we're gonna need, and oh man, sorry, try to copy and paste. Yeah, Chris, Chris short says that assumes we know what we're doing. No, I said that. Oh, is that, oh, is that you out there? Yeah, no, Chris is logged in. By himself. Okay, so what do we need to edit next is the HA proxy config, right? HA proxy config, SC Linux, all that good stuff. Do we need SC Linux? Well, if you're binding to different, I forget what it is. I think it's, SC will collect any, connect any or something like that. Is that four zero? Yeah. Set four zero would do it as well. Oh, right out of the, right out of the training manual, man. Copy the default config file to a rich. Okay, so here's the new HA proxy config. That's very well. That's right. It's actually, it's not because I want to do it the right way. It's because I'm scared I'm gonna do it the wrong way. There you go. So now we have to put the new, we will have to put the IPs in once we have them, right? Yeah, exactly. So this is basically just creating a simple HA proxy that's gonna, you know, what kind of load balancing, you know, you want to do and all that sort of stuff. And then you'll see it's basically saying for answer for OpenShift API server, the backend for OpenShift API server, these three masters, so on and so forth. And I should say a lot of this stuff I got from various people's GitHub repos at Red Hat. So it was very helpful. I didn't actually have to figure it all out myself. Well, but that means that if you had to go troll and get repos, that means that our docs aren't good enough, which means we have yet again found docs bugs to find. No, well, I mean, I guess setting up HA proxy is not necessarily, you know. Oh, that's true. Okay. Well, but we should be clear. I would hope that at least the docs are clear about which ports need to go where. Yeah, they are there. Okay, great. But knowing how you take that and transcribe it into HA proxy, gotcha. Yeah, see, that's the, also I see you're missing the bootstrap on the API server backend and also the machine config server. No, he had machine config, it was further down. No, I mean, he needs the bootstrap entry for the machine config server. Bootstrap entry. All right, because doesn't the bootstrap first host the machine config service and also the API? Yeah, but when you boot the, when you pixie boot the CoreOS host, you give it that. It's not hitting the load balancer for that, it's going directly. Because the bootstrap server is the machine config server. And so. Interesting. Okay, yeah, yes. Okay, I see what you're saying here. So James will confirm or deny. Well, we're gonna find out. Well, we'll see it. Let's do it. Yes. Because then, because this will simplify my, this will simplify my configuration. If this is true, because I always have to, I remember, but maybe this is my, my information is from port.o, which was alpha long time ago. So everything has changed. I love that we have a partner helping a customer right now in the Twitch chat with regards. There you go. Ansible and configuring HAProxy. This is awesome. All right, so I will, I'm not gonna start HAProxy now because. RDO agrees with me. So. Okay. Well, we'll see. Maybe James found a better way. So, I don't think it was me. I think I took it from someone in consulting to be honest with you. And it, and it worked. So. I trust people in consulting. So I'm not gonna start. I did explode, so I'm gonna keep doing it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I, I'm not gonna start HAProxy because we have to change the values in there anyway. So it's kind of a move point. And then all, let's just get. It's a move point? Let's. It's like a council opinion? What is it? It's a move point. I don't know, a move. Anybody get that reference? Move. Yeah. It's for movie, right? I'm installing a patchy. And then we'll go, we'll go edit our http.com and we're gonna change this to listen on 8080, right? So that way it doesn't conflict with HAProxy. Okay. Cool. What's a patchy gonna provide for us? It's gonna, we're gonna host all of our pics, ignition files, pixie, all that stuff. Yeah. I really am worried I'm gonna butcher this up and it's not gonna. Service. Wow, look at you. Talk about real, real three days. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Yeah. I don't know who decided that system CTL, HTTP dot service start is better. You don't need the dot service. You, it assumes service. If you don't tell it what type of unit you want. Sorry. Old habits die hard. I was actually gonna write a corn shell script for those part of- Corn shell. Okay. Now we're talking. There you go. Oh man. I used to do that in my solaris days. So let's see. Actually, let's just go back here because we have. So let me go back to this screen. If you were looking at your monitor very closely, I apologize for switching from like a black terminal to a white screen. And I'm messing up your eyes pretty bad. You can see that my face got brighter and the video's changed. So it's not working. So is this a permissions issue? No, you went to port 80. Oh, 88. So yeah, you're right. Oh, sorry. All right. All right. Good. Hello world. All right. Okay, so. So just for those watching, please don't DDoS the freaking servers that work. Yeah. That could be nice. While true, do curl. And, curl and. And yeah, exactly. A patchy benchmark. For fuck me. All right. So, all right. So now what do we need to do? We need to get over to. Oh, I just got a clue. We need to go to cloud.redhat.com slash open shift slash install. So maybe I should actually. The college is getting to you, man. It's not the college. It's the. Is it in cluster manager? What do you want to do? We're trying to do. Oh, go, go back. You're in the right place. Yeah, I was just trying to show how you actually get there. Oh, how do you get there? I always get there by try.openship.com and follow the links. Follow the endless links. It's funny, you know, somewhere there's someone in UXD that could be like, like this is how you get there. And then there's like the 800 ways everybody gets there without ever. Yeah. Without ever using it. Yeah. Like I go to this Reddit feed where someone mentioned it once. And then I, and then I. I've definitely done that before for finding. Weird things. It's like I do a search for the thing and it's not the thing I'm looking for, but it's the first search result or whatever. And that takes me to. Yeah. I search for Redis post about OpenShift and then from there. So we want to, so we want to run bare metal. So I'll hit run bare metal. And then you have your downloads. So you have. Did you already do this? Or are you going to show us your key as well? You could copy. Oh, that's true. You can copy it. Yeah, I'm going to copy it and I'll put it on our page. But so I think what I need to download is the installer. Cause I'm just going to drop it on that system anyway. And then this sounds like it's important. Yeah. Sounds like it's important. It might just be. Yeah. I think I need the, let me see. I need the installer init ramfs install, which one? Which one? Let me go. Sorry. You probably can't see that. It's too tight. Making a quick note, because I ran into this when 4.4 came out, the links on this cloud. redhat.com slash openshift slash install aren't always right. I had to file a bug. So, and I had to file a bug to get the sim links updated. So always just make sure you're downloading the right version of Red Hat Core OS. For the version of the installer. So, which you are. This is 4.4. How do I get 4? How do I get 4? How do I get 4.3? Click on parent directory. Looks like I am installing 4.4. Yeah. We are installing 4.4. But if you really wanted 4.3, you can go to the parent directory and then pick. Yeah. If you click on parent directory and. Should I just go through and install 4.4 then? Yeah. Do it. Do it. All right. Where it's like peer pressure. At least that way I'll find the differences. By the way, Andrew suggests that you simply copy the URL and W get the files from the server. Oh, man. I'll tell you, people are smart. I need to listen to more people. All right. That's right. Let's just make a directory called install in here. For phone. W get it? Or curl dash O. However you guys want to. Curl dash O in the redirect. From the person who made fun of me using the service command comes curl dash O. Yeah. All right. Although I'm the person that like when I'm writing code, which really is more just like hacking around. I include the URL from Stack Overflow where I copied the code as a comment. Just so that I can find it later to figure out why I'm doing this really weird thing. I'm doing this because this and just put the link. No, really. I mean, I definitely many Stack Overflow links in my code. Yeah. Let me get another window over here. I just want to see where, whoa. Sorry. This is off camera here. At least I hope it is. I do not see it. You're doing something that you're not looking at us. Is that a Peloton bike in the background, by the way? It is. Indeed. There you go. It's my. Did you gift it to your wife? No. My wife actually gave it to me like two years ago. Oh. There you go. There you go. That was a great commercial. So hold on. What was I getting? Where's my download installer? What was that thing called? Open shift dash installer. Where did that thing go? Because let me just show in folder. Well, if you go, you could just copy the link, right? Yeah. But I just couldn't find it in my downloads directory here. I'm a little slow. Maybe slash temp. You should probably do this earlier in the morning. OK, so. Dev shim, you know. Just put it in your memory. OK, so let me just move. I'm just doing something off camera here. Sorry. We're off screen. It's OK. I'm very. Apologize for being like. This is all casual. Yeah, this is all. So while we're waiting for James, I'll do the obligatory. Where's everybody from? And they can respond and chat. And that could be whatever type of answer you want. Well, as long as it's nice. As long as it's a nice place, I guess. No, I meant like PG-13 answer. Oh, OK, OK. Although I don't think we have a definitive answer about swearing yet. I know that Mr. Dobies has a mouth like a sail. Dobies dropped the F-bombs, so it's. I don't know. I'm like, I'm still being normal because I'm trying to be nice, but. Yeah. Oh, we got somebody from Norway. It's like, if I was in Norway, I would be asleep right now. It is definitely almost bedtime for me in Norway time. Well, Norway's, well, they're starting to get to the point where the day is really, really, really long to get really long sunlight. So they're up north. Belarus, Arabia, Libya. Oh, previous. Although I don't know. I only know that one word in Russian, so. New York City, all right. Uh-oh. My Chrome just froze. Let me see. Oh, baby. There it goes. Wait, it's starting to do something. Oh, for some reason, I can't click on that one installer page. I have to do this, OK. OK, so I downloaded the command line tools. I downloaded a bunch of the stuff over here. Thank you. I got this red. I've got an MFA. Everything. Yeah, I think I need everybody. I have everything I need. Gretzi. Christian, is our word. Oh, my installer is still downloading, actually, or uploading. That's word nerd. OK, so. All right, cool. OK, so I need those files. This R-A-C-O-S to be in my web server, right? So basically on var www.html, let's create something called install. Does that work? Well, it could. Let's call it deploy, because I have a directory called install my home directory. And that will mess with my head. Oh, yeah, I guess. Let me just move. Just move all the files there. I'll move. Yeah, I know. So I'll just move everything into there. I'm going to leave my installer script here, because when you run the installer, you have to paste your pull secret into there, right? Yeah, but it pastes with stars when you paste it into the interactive installer. Yeah, I'm not going to do an interactive installer. I think I'm going to use a, wait, I don't know. I'll show you how I'm doing it. But my point was that if I put that in var www.html, then my manifest is going to have the pull secret on a public website. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, fun. So although it would make for interesting results potentially of this up today. I'm not really worried about the pull secret thing. Then it just looks like you're really excited about OpenShift. By the way, there's no reason to, even if you were, for people watching, there's no reason for you to steal the pull secret, because you can apply, you can sign up for a free account and get your own pull secret. It's free anyway. Yeah, pull secret's free. So by the way, so it's developer.redhat.com, sign up, you get a pull secret. Nice. I like it. Okay, so let me see if my secure copy of, okay. So the OpenShift tools are still here, right? And they finished uploading. They're, yeah, 81 meg looks good. So let me just do one of these. Just a hash, make sure it's... Yeah. Okay, so now what I need to do is... Client tools, probably you need OCNs, Qtl, CubeCuttle, Qbop, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, I will need those, won't I? All right, let's figure that out in a little bit. Actually, I could use most of those from my laptop, right? Yes. They should be backwards compatible. Once the cluster's running. So you say that with so much confidence. I like it. All right, OpenShift install, create manifests, dash dash directory equals, and we're going to create them in... Oops, I guess I need a directory first, huh? What should we call it? Twitch. Manifests. How about that? Am I the first one to come up with that idea? No. You think? I created a Twitch something the other day. I don't remember what it was. Oh, when we did our metrics one, we had a Twitch metric that was a random number generator for how many viewers we had. This isn't right. Wait, I'm doing something wrong here. There was supposed to be a way... You need an install-config. So you can do create install-config, or you can drop an install-config.yaml directly in that directory. Oh yeah, I know what I need to do. So I make the directory Twitch, and then I create this file. Correct in there. Yeah. And there's a copy button, I think, on the top right. The top right corner. Yeah. Look at that. Okay. Did you hit Control-C? To install-config.yaml. So basically, this is what it's going to look like. You guys can tell me how poorly I don't understand how to do all these things, or how bad I am at all this stuff. But basically, let me look at this. I just want to see. I have a little cheat sheet here on my side where I was doing this kind of stuff before. Okay. So base domain. This is going to be my domain name that was in AWS in Route 53. So this will be demonstrate.net. Did you really buy that? That's fun. Yeah. I like it. I like it. I couldn't think of anything fast enough. So this metadata name, this is going to be my sub-domain. So if I go back to- I believe we call it the cluster ID, right? We call it the cluster ID that- yeah, well, you have tests, right, in this- Yeah. I don't know what the right terminology is for that. I think it's cluster ID. I think we call the cluster ID. What did the doc say? Oh, yeah. Let's go look. Here on the page, metadata six. The cluster name that you specified in your DNS records. We were both right. We were both in the right. All right. We'll let you know when that happens. All right. Shortling your SCAT. All right. And then poll secret. Obviously, we're going to replace that with my poll secret. And then SSH key. This is where you should place your SSH key you want to use to be able to access bootstrap master and workers. So I'm guessing what I should probably do is just drag this off screen, copy that in, save it, and then we'll be good. Yeah. Yep. Just give me 30 minutes. Yeah. So let's, let's 30 minutes to make that update. I don't do well with everything everybody watching, you know, it's really scary. Although we're hitting, we're hitting 45 users. So we're getting close to mining. I told my, I told my kids to join. So that's four. Oh, there you go. Doing my part. Yeah. That's right. I'm trying to think. Oh, they thought, they thought you were going to play Minecraft or something though. Yeah. Something exciting. So someone just says more than zero worker replicas replicas. No. No. So no. So what, so the reason it sets a zero in case you didn't know is that you're telling the installer how many machine sets or machine configs you're going to build. And since we're doing this manually, the installer isn't going to build the machines for you. We're going to build the machines. So if you, if you take a look at the dock, what numbers James, if you can just a little bit, it's number, number four. So if you scroll down and see number four, it tells you to set it to zero. So you must have the value of replicas parameters to zero or workers. So there you go. If you were doing an IPI install, let's say on a cloud provider with cloud integration, then you definitely need to set it to like two or three something other than zero. All right. Sorry. I told you it was going to take this long. So someone said I came here for modern warfare ended up with open ship. So it's, it might be hopefully it's the wrong stream. Yeah. You can, you can, you can see some sim racing stuff with on my drive with Eric stream someday soon. All right. Is that what the, the seat is next to you Eric? Yeah. It's my hero. You're racing. Yeah. Oh, there you go. See this racing rig. Nice. Let me see. Let me just do a couple of things. Okay. So I have my install config in that directory with the poll secret. Oh wait, what happened to it? Oh, no, it's there. I just, I'm just scared. I'm going to screw it up and cost us a bunch of time. So I'm being careful. All right. So let me drag this back over here. Okay. And you do a tree. Right. Tree. Find. Fine. Fine. Yeah. Free. I'm not found. I think give you the bare minimum, man. Yeah. Okay. So. So now we've got. That done. What's next? So now we have to create manifests or do we. Ignition configs. Wait, I'm trying to think through this. Oh, we do an install create manifests directory. We do. We had to create manifests because by default. The installer will try to make the, the master schedule of all, which we, we don't want. What do the doc say? Yeah. Anytime you ask what we should do, I'm going to ask you with the doc say. Reading documentation is not the way to learning. Thanks for the follow up, Mr. Harry's. Yeah. Smashing your head against the wall is how you know. Exactly. Open shift install create. I think it's create manifests. Yeah. It's create manifests. Yeah. And then it's. Does this mean James will need to write his own machine sets or none at all because UPI? So the answer is none at all because UPI machine sets only work in a cloud provider integrated environment where we have a machine API controller for that particular cloud. And since we're not treating packet like the cloud, there are no machine sets. So we will be using bear node definitions. And then we will. So we won't have machine sets. We won't have machines. We'll just have bear node definitions. And then when we do the bootstrap process for new nodes, our workers, when they come in, they will simply report in and then we will accept them. So, so just to clarify, because someone's saying there's no machine sets with UPI, that's not technically true because if you do an AWS UPI, you will still have machine sets. This is specific to bear metal UPI, which I think it's wrong. I think we kind of made a mistake by calling it bear metal UPI, because we should maybe call it like the manual installer or. Yeah, I mean the key differentiator is whether or not there's a cloud provider configured in the cluster. So like you said, UPI is possible on all of the clouds. Well, I shouldn't say all. There are a number of clouds where UPI installations are supported. And even though it's UPI where you're pulling all the levers yourself and it's not fully automated, we do have that cloud provider integration. So when you do that on AWS UPI, all you're doing is pulling more levers on your own, but those machine sets and that cloud provider integration still is available and can be used. So you can do machine sets, auto scaling, all that stuff, even if you do UPI in a cloud. How about VMware UPI? So VMware UPI is actually the only one we have right now. We're working diligently together with VMware engineering to get a fully automated installer. Part of the thing is if you think about what an IPI installation requires, it requires load balancers and it requires other dynamic infrastructure to be created. And we had to work with VMware to figure out what API call we're going to make to get a load balancer as an example. So that's hopefully four or five-ish. We're still trying to figure that out, whether that's going to be four, five, four, six, but it's definitely on the roadmap. Where are you at, Mr. James? Yeah, just a couple of things. So I ran that create manifests. It failed because my JSON file was not formatted correctly. So I fixed that. I ran it and now I have, actually, if I look inside of that Twitch directory, it now created a whole bunch of manifests for me as you can see that. Can you list that folder out real quick as well? Yeah, sure. Find dots. There you go. Lots of YAML. So I have a whole bunch of cool stuff that happened. And then what I do need to do is, if in that manifests, there is this cluster scheduler O2 config. And I think I have to change this to false, according to the documentation. And I think it was also according to the message it spit out at you. Yeah. Well, it's a warning, right? It says control schedule. Yeah. But it doesn't tell you how to do it. Couldn't they just have told me, just go. You may wish to blah, blah, blah. Yeah. You may want to. So let's see. Okay. So we've got. Elaine, thank you. Keeps. Thank you. Open shift install create manifests. Directory Twitch. Okay. So now we want to create the ignition files, right? Yep. So we're going to run an open shift install, create the ignition dash configs. That look right? Somebody looks good to me. All right. Let's run it. Your fingers. Colonel panic now. There we go. Okay. Success. So four dot four is working so far. This is great. Okay. So now what we want to do is we're going to go to our, so now we have everything we need to successfully deploy as far as ignition config files and manifest, right? So now we're going to go over to. Our. Web server over here and we're just going to make a. Oops. Sorry. I'm just going to make a file called bootstrap dot boot, which will be our I pixie file. Okay. We're going to need three. We're going to, we're going to have to have three I pixie files, one for the bootstrap node, one for the worker nodes and one for the master nodes. Makes sense. Because the bootstrap host is also running core OS, right? Exactly. Okay. So what we're doing is we're creating an I pixie config specific for the bootstrap host and the bootstrap host is the one that actually sort of configures the cluster. Like if I remember correctly, the bootstrap host starts its own cluster and quotes, it's just one node and then it stands up the masters, the control plane and sort of like then puts them in charge. Right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I, it sounds plausible what you just said. We're going to go with it for now. Hopefully there's an engineer watching who will correct me if I'm wrong. Which was super fun when we did the monitoring one. Apparently they're actually not that happy. The monitoring engineering team, but that's okay. Engineering in general, right? I don't think we said anything. They're not there. So here you're changing the IP address. These IP address is specific to the helper that you have. Correct? Yeah, exactly. So I just pulled that from the packet.net server. I probably should just have created DNS entry for it and make it a lot easier. If I were going to do this ever again in my life. Well, or especially if you were going to be bootstrapping lots of clusters. Yeah. You would probably make this a little bit easier. Yeah. It sounds like I've done this before. It sounds like I've done which one. Yeah. Also though, the reason we're doing IPXE is because we can't really, on packet.net we can attach an ISO and just do the install from that, right? Exactly. Yeah. They have a, they have an IPXE, sorry, they have a custom IPXE option for when you're deploying a server, but they don't have like, yeah, just drop an ISO onto this. I think it has some to do with the magic foo that they have going on in the, their deployment stuff. Magic foo. I'm assuming. Magic foo. Little, little trolls, right? The little hamsters running around. I was going to actually ask you guys, do you think you could, not obviously not with packet, but do you think you could leverage satellite to do this? I don't know. I don't know. Satellite supports IPXE. Well, not IPXE, but satellite does do pixie booting. Yeah. Yeah. We need to ask rich Dorito. Is this Dorito? Dorito. Oh, Dorito. I was like, what a cool last name. Do you know Rich? No. Oh, okay. That's a surprise. Sorry. Yeah. We need to not do that. That was the thing that Chris short posted the other day. Let me rephrase that. Wow. I really need to introduce you to Rich. There we go. Okay. There you go. Yeah. He's a, he and I were actually both going for him, me and Scott McCarty were all trying to make the transition from sales engineering. Oh, all at the same time. And so we were all in Raleigh. Which we discovered we were all there because we were all interviewing for the satellite TMM role. But it didn't dawn on us until we're sitting in the lounge at the Marriott. You're sitting in the waiting room. No, no. We're sitting in the lounge at the Marriott. Like with Chris Wells basically, who was running that group at the time. Oh, funny. Marketing group. And we were like, Oh. Oh. Like nobody said it, but we all sort of looked at each other at the same time. Oh yeah. So, which got the nod for that one. And then I ended up coming to work under Dan Young's. At the time, as the first open shift TMM. And then Scott ultimately ended up moving over to portfolio marketing and then into PM. So yeah, I forgot to replace while you guys were talking. I forgot I got to replace all these image names with four, four, three now. That was another reason not to do for. So what? Another reason to not pre-prepare. Oh, I could probably do like substitute four, four, three. I was going to say you can run a set script. Yeah. I understand. But by the time I do that correctly. Yeah. What, didn't we say like, why, what did you post Eric the other day on Slack is like, why, why do something once? Oh, here. Wait, no. I was just looking through my, my tweet stream because one of our viewers asked about me, I think, annoying engineers. And so the quote is from a guy. It says never spend six minutes doing something by hand when you can spend six hours failing to automate it. Yeah. Exactly. That's, that's what, that's when CF engine was the predominant. Wow. It's not nice. Yeah. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. So someone, someone posted the actual actual said command. Yeah. It's actually pretty cool. Well, it's the, the syntax of the actual said command. It wasn't the actual command to run. Like you couldn't just, Oh no, somebody did post the set command. Yeah. You were talking about, I was looking at the VI one, not the said one. Go ahead. I'm looking at this. This didn't, this didn't copy and paste correctly. Did it? Don't ask me. This is, I've never used I pixie. So this is, this is your, you can do a set list. So if you do a colon set list, it'll show you where the line breaks are. Yeah. You guys are really making me nervous here. So this kernel line is supposed to be all one line. That's good. Okay. And then, then the, and then the, then the, then the. That's, that's our main. I've got to, I just got to, I mean, we find out pretty quick when you pixie boot it, nothing works. This should be. Yeah. We're not, we're not being good pear admin. Programmers. Yeah, someone, someone just says there's a delay. There's a delay in chat. Yeah, that's, that's true. We're probably a good 30 seconds delayed. Blame the internet. In the end to, it's a series of tubes from what I understand. So many. So many tubes. tubes. All right. So I know people are all getting upset with me right now for editing this all by hand. But nobody's getting upset with you. They're just laughing at you. Small shell script. Yeah. Okay. So did I miss anything? I changed everything to the IPs. I changed the version. So now I have these three files, right? Master bootstrap worker. And then all right. So now what are we going to do? We're going to I pixie our master. No, no, it doesn't matter. We're going to do all three of them at the same time, right? Well, wow. You guys, you guys, you guys do your bootstrap first. I just usually provision them all and then just go update my DNS records, cross my fingers and see what happens. Do whatever you want. I mean, it's your show. Yeah. All right, cool. I'm not telling you not to do it. Yeah, not intentionally unhelpful. Yeah. So we'll do some x86 mall. Just for fun. And then we'll do custom I pixie. Let me just make sure I can actually get to that. That you should probably start your HH proxy stuff. Well, no, I got to replace the IP addresses first, remember? That's why you don't get the IPs in order to get the IPs. Yeah. Can someone put the said for that? Paste that in the chat. If you have the said, okay, well, we'll do, I guess we could do the bootstrap first. Let me see. Yeah, let's try this. Okay. Wait a second. I feel like I was just looking at my notes and you have notes. You are such a cheater. Yeah, I have notes. I'm notes. Man, you're trying to script. It's actually a blog post, but that's why it's not working because I wrote it afterwards. And then I was trying to go back in my history of my command line. You can never do that. It's always so hard when you do something cool. And then you're like, I'm going to go and write a blog post about this. And then you have to go back through the dirty mess of whatever. Through your notes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Notes. You took notes. Yeah, you took notes. What? Okay. So actually, I guess let's do the bootstrap first. Do we have to give that a domain name? I'm trying to think of how this works. Is there anything in DNS that's that relies on that? No. So the idea, so the host name gets set because of the reverse DNS. Okay. So it'll look up at its own IP address and whatever name it resolves to, it'll set that as its host name. Okay. So I could just literally... I don't think the host name here is important. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Because nothing is looking at the host name for the server. Unless that's how they set up their DCP or whatever. I think it'll work. Let's give it a shot. Yeah, let's do it. Do it live. So we're going to, again, so custom IPixie. By the way, all this stuff is accessible via API too. So like all that stuff could, you could definitely blow this out with like Terraform, Ransful or whatever you want. Yeah. Christian and I are going to do that on a future Slack, or Slack, on a future Twitch. I thought you were going to do it now while I was doing this. At the end, you were going to be done writing it all. I wouldn't be done writing. Yeah. Yeah. And you're going to press the button. Okay. So that's coming up now. While that's coming up, let's just go, let's just go for it. And while we're waiting for that to come up, we'll provision the masters and the workers all at the same time. Okay. Percipeny, X1 small, custom IPixie. And we want the... Do you choose New Work because that's that's the closest data center to you? No, I just love the airport. Oh, well, you weren't kidding. I just thought... I thought you were making a joke. Definitely Dallas would be closer to him, I think. Okay. Okay. Which one? Oh, sorry. This is really probably... Or Love Field, or Love Note. What was it called? The Twitch with the fully automated UPI would already be in after-party mode by now. Mode by now, that's right. Don't rub it in. And then M1. That's my other one. Is that right? And M2. Do you guys remember? Yes, that's the one. M2. Okay. So let's go ahead and... Only because you can't switch screens or your laptop. Oh, yeah, your laptop will explode. I can't do much. If you see me looking down, I'm probably looking at my phone. Okay. So let's see. These new devices are starting up. Let's see if it works. Well, it says... Oh, no. We were unable to create your devices. The facility EWR has no provisional X1 small XC servers matching your criteria. Oh, no. I did have a problem where I had to message someone. I had to message someone at packet before because I ran out of... Like it said, we're not allowing you to provision more than five servers or something. Maybe they flagged me as a bit... No, they legitimately just might not have any. So funny story. We just had Red Hat Summit, as many folks know. We did a lot of virtual labs. We were running most of that infrastructure on AWS. And we actually got panicked phone calls from Amazon because we had used all of their M5s. Amazon is like, can you not? Because we have not... Can you not use all the M5s? Yeah. We used all the M5s. Somebody says packet has a Slack instance bugged them there. Hey, guys, you should come on our Twitch and watch us mess you up. Yeah, come on. I actually... I messaged them earlier and told them on their Slack channel that we'd be doing this if anybody wanted to watch and see my really bad sysadmin skills. Yeah. If anyone from packet is on, chime up on the chat. Let's see. I just used the mediums. Well, it's like $3 an hour. So it'll cost me an extra few bucks here. When I ran this, it was... I think it cost me $70 a day. You have no more mediums, looks like. Oh, we were unable to create your devices. Huh. This is not good. This is the one thing... I was expecting to fail, but not for this reason. This is what you get for using Newark. Oh, man, we do have a guy from packet on. He says, hey, I'm here from packet. He's checking. Oh, look at that. See exactly. Yeah. See, that's what happens when I tweet and I tag them in it. Somebody's like, hey, you should look at this. All right. So... Because I was about to... So just try one. I think the issue is just they're short on... Well, he's looking or she could be. I don't know. I don't want to assign gender. Right now, there's somebody running around with some cables. Yeah. So cables. Yeah. Remote hands is running these servers right here. He said, this person says, try T1 small. Would that be big enough for CoroS though? It might not be, but it's probably going to fail. That's good enough for a worker. Yeah. That's good enough for a worker. It would work for workers. I don't think it's going to work for masters at all. For a master, no. Or use C1. I think I just did C1, didn't I? I just... C1 large. All right. No, you did medium. So should I try S1 large? Scroll up. Is there a C1 x86? It was a C2 medium x86, which would be big enough. That's the one that I just tried and it didn't work. Are you sure that's the one that you just tried? I thought you tried a C1. That's arm. C1 large is arm. But is there another C1? So far, I tried C1 small and it said not enough and I tried C2 medium and it said not enough. You know what I wonder? If there's not enough, why even show you? You would think they would just show you what's available. C1 small, the person says, we should try again. T1 small? C1. Charlie 1. C1. Charlie 1. I think I just tried that, but it didn't work. Let's try it again. I'd feel really bad if they powered down somebody else's server just now. That would make for interesting live television. Or select a different data center, someone said. Yeah, but the problem is I... Oh, here we go. All right. Hey, thank you. Whoever did whatever. Yeah, whoever did... Yeah, whoever racked those servers. Thank you. Yeah. Okay, so we'll let those get started and then I'll just do the workers while we're at it. Yeah. Did I just do C1 small? Percipity. Yeah, how do you give them the little... Because we can give a little prize thingies now, right? I don't know. Can we? I think we can receive bits. I don't know that we can give them emotes only chat. Followers only? Slow mode? Yeah. Yeah. Emotes only chat. Followers only. Slow mode. Block terms. We can block some terms. Okay. I don't know. Intro word or phrase. W2. What's going on with the boost shop one that you made? I don't know yet. I'm too nervous to look. Just close your eyes. Is it W1? Okay, so you went with master zero? Yeah. Both with a worker. You went with one. Yeah. Okay. The workers never started zero. Interesting. Okay. They're inferior. They're inferior. That's right. All right. So last one, we'll try and boot the workers here. There's no way that this actually works on the first time, by the way. I just want to be clear. Okay. So the way you check the install is you run, what is it like? Open shift install, blah, blah, blah. Wait for bootstrap. Yeah. One of these, huh? Yeah. Wait for bootstrap complete. Yeah. Sorry. I should have copied my copy. Such file directory. I always do log level nine. Just give me everything. Is that right? That looks good to me. Oh, I don't know. Because you're already in deploy and it's trying to put stuff in Twitch. If your durr is Twitch. I went in the wrong. I was in the wrong. I was where I copied all that stuff over. So oops. If you need additional devices, next one up is M1 extra large. Oh, sorry. Zero is already life-cycled out of the cluster. What? I think we need zero. What is this? Error executed. Except zero args received one. Because you have log level info two. So what is that two at the end? There you go. That is me making a mistake. Okay. So now we're waiting, right? While we wait, we could also probably... We could wait while we wait? We could. It's an option. So, okay. What happened to my worker too? It never deployed. It never spawned up. Yeah. Maybe it ran out of Cs while we were watching. Maybe it ran out of Cs. You could try. I've had some weird things on the web UI with packet for a while, but I think part of it might just be Chrome or something. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have a lot of luck with Chrome. Maybe try to deploy it again. Yeah, I guess I should. I'm just worried that I'm missing something and it's going to all of a sudden... Awesome. Now we have people in our chat talking to the packet person about how they can use packet. Nice. There we go. I think that deserves some credits in my packet account. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, some free beer advertising money here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, or racks some more servers or something. Yeah. Or I'll just give you my shipping ad. Yeah. Give me some of the super micros that you have lying around. W2. I don't want any servers in my home. I was going to say I waffle back and forth with putting like a server chassis, replacing my tower chassis in my basement. That's my file server with an actual server chassis. And then I'm just like, I don't even go in the basement that often, but I just don't want loud fans. Yeah. They're out of C1 Smalls. We ran a lot of C1 Smalls. All right, so just pick something random for a big one. Okay. Which one should I do? Yeah, pick the one like with eight CPUs and... We only need one of them and we're not running it for a long time. Are you chipping in on this or am I paying for this myself? What cost center are you? Hold on. Yeah, right. There's 29 and one extra largest available. Oh, shoot. I didn't update my DNS records. That's going to hose me. Yep. There we go. Okay, so let's go quick and do that. M0, can I like split screen this and make it faster? Even if it's hard for you? It looks like, well, hold on. One or more. Oh, there was an error message for you that you ran away from. Sorry. I'm just going to do this now because I think this is going to be... Oh, wow. That's an awesome rendering. Let me just... Yeah, apparently the AWS web console is not designed for mobile. Yeah. Let me... I'm just going to go change these edit records. So why is this... What's going on here? Let me just go back to this. Yeah, you chose the wrong record set. You chose SCD. Yeah. Or you chose the CNAME record, not a... The CNAME record, not the A record. Yeah. The 96 save. Okay. We'll do that one. We'll take M1. We'll change it to this. We'll change M2. And we'll change our worker. We should have the open stack guys to try and install open stack on PacketNet. I think they did. I think actually a lot of the telco team works. Did that? I think they work with them regularly. Nice. I like it. I mean, honestly, like it's been good. So this 39.3, this is going to be what my... This will be my helper. That would be the helper one. Yeah, the helper one, yeah. The API is going to be the helper node permanently or temporarily? HAProxy. So that's for HAProxy. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah, my bad. Okay. And then this will be the workers. Yes. Assuming you have one round around each worker. Good old round, Robin, DNS. DNS is not a lifelancer. Now I shouldn't need to change everything else, am I right? Everything else looks good now. I just changed everything over. All right? In theory. Let me see here. 49, 111, 69, 27, 29. Yep. And then everything else is 131, which is the load balancer. Looks good to me. Then I need to start HAProxy. All right. I got to go change that. So SSH again. Actually, this guy. There we go. Oh, you got to edit the IPs. Yeah. Yeah. Let me just... Thanks for the follow, Robin. Okay. Miss the master here. Cool. So far so good. Moving right along. Oh, I mean, to be fair, if things are going to break, this is where they will break. Yeah. I still think you need the boot shop and the API in the config, in the API section, but we'll see. This worked for you before. I thought it did. Okay. So let me just make sure I got this right. These are going to be the three. Okay. These are the three masters, obviously. Okay. So just do this. Not bad if we could actually bang this out in a couple of hours. I mean, obviously, we've been terraforming Ansible. It'd be a lot faster. One hour, 26 minutes so far. So you're still under the couple. I'm just... If I finished... I had this blocked off till the end of the day. So you stand between me and a cocktail. And dinner. Did we decide if cocktails were allowed on our Twitch stream? I don't know. Are we between you and a cocktail? Or is it really just that you don't have the cocktail handy? That's a good question. I think it's the latter. I turn off my video for a few seconds. You know why? There you go. I don't know. Why not enjoy your cocktail while streaming? That's exactly the question that we're trying to figure out the answer to. All right. Does this look good? Does it look like I replaced everything? It looks like it. We're trying to find out. Can you look at the... I don't think it's good. Yeah, I don't think it's going to start. But let's start it. I thought HAProxy just starts. Start HAProxy ordering. Start HAProxy. System CTL action unit. This is why I... Yeah, there you go. System CTL status HAProxy. Oh, bad rapping. It's running, yeah? It says active running. You can look at its log. Yeah, look at the... You have the port 9000 open, right? So you can look at the status page if you want. I don't have the port 9000 open. Oh, you don't? Okay. You're listening on it. That's just the status, right? Yeah, that's the status page, yeah. It's on localhost. So if you... I don't know if it's a text of all... 9000? Dash, 9000 slash TCP, yeah. Or you can do an SSH boarding and connect to localhost. Oh, god, dude. Come on. That's just the IP address. And then port 9000, you said? You say? That's what I said. Boom. Boom. Have it look. So it looks bad because all your back ends are reporting down. Yeah, yeah. Back end looks down. Because they're not... Well, but they're not receiving... That's actually okay because none of them are receiving traffic yet. Like they're not... They're not up yet. Yeah, it's the install still going. Well, the install is not doing anything, I don't think. So... Well, I got an SSH to that bootstrap node, basically. Correct, yeah. Yeah, so first let me SSH... Since I will need to be on the helper node before I SSH to the bootstrap, because that's what I used where my key was, right? That's when you generated the key. Yeah, whoops. Roots. Always Roots. Wow. Always Roots. Always bare metal, always root. No stable root login? No, always bare... Not on REL7. Is it... Oh, is it Coro? What's the user name? It's Coro. It's Coro. Oh, that's right. Yeah, sorry. Oh, thanks for the follow. Although it doesn't look like Xander. But... Yeah, this is not good. Is there a console? Yeah, there's an out of band. There's an out of band. Yeah, it's like a TTY or something. Yeah. Yeah, we can get into... It'll tell you what error it is. Ooh, uh-oh. This is probably the key on your desktop, right, that you need to use. Oh, yeah. Maybe open another tab. Whoa, tiny. There we go. Wow. Not much happening here. Nope. So what are we trying to do? Debug? We're trying to figure out... Yeah, we're trying to figure out what's going on because I can't SSH to the... I wonder... Should I see if the master came up? Just for fun? Same thing. You don't have to... You don't have to open a port or something on PacketNet or something? No, it's just wide open. That's what's so awesome. So you started saying... I don't have a bare metal. Oh, I see it. I started to say, oh, because I was thinking, do I actually have permissions to download these... You're breaking up. This is actually... No, you're breaking up. Oh, my internet connection is unable. Nice. We can hear you now. Yeah, you're right. Okay, so what's the question? Sorry, I started downloading these. I thought maybe there was a permissions... I thought maybe there was a permissions issue here, but it doesn't include... Can you curl it from within that network? Because sometimes... Like, can you curl that? This looks like it's too... But look, this looks like it might be... I think there's something wrong with me. Do a... Oh, okay, I see what you're saying. If you do a colon set list, it'll tell you... Well, he's not in Vim. This is... He's looking at it in the browser right now. Well, I'm saying he's... Are you talking about the line wrappings? Like, it should all be one line? Or what do you think it is? Yeah, yeah, let me... Let's go... I don't know. I'm just guessing that there's something screwed up in my iPixie configs, right? Because it's not even... See the nicks? Normally, when I boot this, I would see like... I would watch the... He walks through that SSH. I can get to the T to buy, and then I'll watch that terminal, and I can see it come up. And it's hard to catch though on packet, because like, you'll just be getting this like text output, and then it'll... You know, if your iPixie doesn't work, you kind of wonder why didn't it work. But I'm wondering if it has something to do with either permissions or the... So what do you do, a colon, what? A colon set space list. And this one... Yeah, it'll give you the line endings. The line endings, yeah. So you don't have a file in slash R-H-C-O-S. Oh my goodness. That's what it is. There we go. So this is what happens when you plan... When you plan and you take notes, and then you copypasta your own notes. Can you set... How do you unset? Unset list? Set no list. Yeah, I mean... One word or two. Not that it matters. One word. One word. It matters. I don't like those things. Yeah, it's scaring you. You don't like to make me... It's scaring you to tell you where the line breaks are. Okay, all right. So those are in a folder called deploy, right? So I basically... I don't know. Where'd you put it? I have to basically sub... S slash R-H-C-O-S. Or is it percent? What is it? Percent space? Percent S slash... No space. R-H-C-O-S slash... That's not gonna work. Slash G? Yeah, globally. Oh no, that'll work. Yeah. No, that's bad. No, because you changed the name... Oh. So here's what you... Okay, so you ready? So colon... No, I'll get it. We'll get it. Don't worry. Colon percent S. So stop. No, no, no, stop. Stop, stop, stop. Go back. Okay, escape it. No, no. Go one more back. At. So if you lead with at instead of slash, it sets the character for the delineator for the sequence to be at. So now you can do slash R-H-C-O-S. At. At. So that's the delimiter now. Slash deploy. At G. At G. That won't work though. That's not gonna work either. No, no, no. That's the same pattern. Yeah, yeah. So put a slash at the end of R-H-C-O-S. At. Older times that. Slash deploy slash. Yeah. At G, sorry. Whoa. Undo whatever you just did. Undo. Oh, shoot. How do I get my history? Oh, there we go. There we go. At G, like that. Yeah. All right. You know what? I'm gonna copy and paste that line. Copy, pasta. More confidence. I probably need it again. Yeah. Yeah. I do. I need it twice more. And while that's before I go to the other files. Stop, stop, stop. Go back. It didn't work. Uh-oh. Undo. You. Do it again. Calling up. You need a slash. Nope. Undo. Calling up. You need a slash before that. You need a slash at the end of the deploy. Yeah. There you go. All right. All right. Brush your fingers. Can we do a lot of. How many engineers does it take? Yeah. How many, how many R-H-C-E? Can we do a, um. Is that the right? Okay. Before you do this, is that the right URL? Well, actually here. Before you do that, check the URL and see that it actually works. Yeah. But before I even do that, I'm just going to terminate all these because it takes a while. And I don't. But wait, why do you need to terminate them? Why can't you just reboot them? Um, I don't know if that will work. Let's, let's try it. What? Oh, you know why? I'll tell you why it won't work because I didn't check this little box, which I should have. Oh, checking the box. That always gets me. Let me show you what I mean by that. So the problem is, is I should have said, when I did customize Pixie, I should have said persist Pixie as the first boot option after provisioning. What was, oh, gotcha, gotcha. Because now it's considered booted. I think we could try it. Let's, let's try it. Um, oh, I knew, I knew I would do something wrong. If only we had spent six hours failing to automate this. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so we'll change these. Okay. Chris, are we breaking it? Chris asked if we were breaking anything and I said we just started to break everything. Okay. So you're saying basically make sure that this file actually exists. Yes. Well, yeah, whatever it's telling us to grab, make sure that you can actually grab it. Okay, so there you go. Is there a deploy folder on that server? Yeah, hold on. Is that the name? There is a deploy, but then let me just maximize this and see what, oh my goodness. Did I just switch completely over to Google Meet somehow? Yeah. And the heck did that happen? Sorry about that. Maybe that's why your camera wasn't working because you were on Google Meet and it captured your camera. Well, the weird thing is, no, I think I just accidentally pressed some key sequence that made that. Anyway, all right. I think it's .img, right? Or something like that or something weird. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, copy link location. Well, that's the indent ram fs or whatever. Yeah. Why is it showing me the short stuff here? Why can't I get like a, let me just go. I can never. Because that's how you have a patch. That's what a patch does. Yeah, the patch has a config. Sometimes, well, sometimes I'll see the long name and sometimes I'll see the short name. I've never figured out what. Why? Oh, it looks like they changed it to be installer. Oh, they changed the. Why was this? rxcos-443. Yeah. So this is what I just copied. The x8664 is there twice. Well, it says the a636. It looks like they have it. Oh, yeah. Now they have it. Looks like they've added this. Yeah, because now we support power, right? And Z. So different architectures. Not ARM, but that's another conversation. Okay. So basically I need a, at the end of this, I need a dash x8664. Is that right? Yeah. You could have just right clicked from the folder list in Apache and then pasted. I would probably recommend doing that. Yes, I could have. But installer and it ramfs. Installer dash kernel. Okay. Then you're sure you have the right path. All right. One is iso. Okay. So you're saying just, just delete this whole line here? Don't do that. Whatever, whatever you had just done. Don't do that. Yeah. Just hit X a few times. X, X, X, X. Oh, I would have done like, Well, V. Oh, D. Oh, like copy block. Yeah. Should I do that for all these? The initial RAM disk? Well, you need to get it to be the right thing. I don't know what thing. Yeah, it just, it seems like it seems like it's just, it's just no. It should do what I mean. Not what I said. Why can't it do exactly? Why can't it do what I want it to do? All right. And then, well, I got to do this like 20 times because I got three of these files, right? That's right. Okay. So, anyone on the chat knows the first time, then you can just where is the, is it raw.gc this, right? What's that? Yeah. Do it once and just copy the file, right? Because there's less changes afterwards. But then I have to change it from, well, from is, so like, which requires less changing. How about that? Wait a second. This would be Twitch, right? Wait, what is this bootstrap.ign? Where is it? I don't know. I think it's, Oh, it's in the manifest. So I have to copy those manifests over to make them public, right? Yes. Oh, if you didn't copy the ignition file. Yeah. If you didn't copy the ignition file, yeah, the ignition file needs to be be somewhere public. Correct. Okay. I've done this once. I'm practically an expert. Right. So we need the bootstrap ignition file that was generated by the installer when you generated the manifests. And that needs to go somewhere. It doesn't have to go to that folder. It just has to go to the right place. It's got to go to that folder because it has to be accessible by the iPixie. So you, you're getting flustered, I think. So you don't literally need a folder path called deploy bootstrap packet env. You can put bootstrap.ign wherever you want it, as long as it's accessible. Yeah, no, I know. I, yes, that, yeah. I think that's what I, I thought you said. Okay. That's what you thought that I meant, but you said something different in response. So what requires the least amount of changes is you basically copy this three times and they're just, you just change the bootstrap, right? I, I appreciate the fact that you're, you're telling me this because one, you're right. And two, you're probably getting very tired of my command line skills. Well, you're probably more tired of us picking on you. By the way, seeing, seeing someone use VI for me is frustrating because I know like all the, all the shortcuts. So it's not just you, because I know like all the shortcuts and key bindings and I'm, I'm pretty fast with it. So I just twitch, hold on. Where's my, okay. Do I need just those IGN files, ignition files, or do I need everything from that? You need the ignition files. Okay. So start out IGN. Yep. HTML. That's not gonna work because you're doing an LL. Well, it'll, it'll work, but it won't do what you wanted. It won't do what you wanted to do. That's very true. The, the, the actual. I'm never coming, I'm never coming on here again. We chased you off. Just don't rage quit halfway through because then we're going to have to start over. Yeah, yeah. You got to persevere, man. It's tough. I'm not good at talking and typing at the same time either. Oh man. It's tough. All right. Let's see. Try to talk, type and then walk like that. Like, like, yeah, on my walking desk. Yeah. And you're walking desk. So now I needed to change bootstrap that last line on the bootstrap here to be just deploy deploy. Oops. Yeah. Good. All right. Is this, is this look right now? I'll copy this. Yeah. You copy this to boot to master.boot. Should I have done it to copy master.boot to master.arriage. Just kidding. Well, straight from, straight from training. And then now you, yeah, master. There you go. Because the rest of the config is the same. So. Yeah. That seems goofy that there's not like, uh, like it, well, I guess it's an iPixie deficiency. A script to automate this. No, it's an iPixie thing where it's like, you don't, um, I guess iPixie can't be dynamic. Like it, you can't be programmatic. You can't like pass a parameter to iPixie you around. This goal, the goal of this, this whole idea is, is, uh, to kind of fix some of that. Um, all right. So let me go back to, uh, where's packet? There it is. Packet net. All right. So now I think you said, yeah, are you going to try to delete them or are you going to try and reboot them? I thought I did delete them. Didn't I? Oh, I was going to try and reboot them. All right. Let me try. Yeah. Just do them, uh, the bootstrap maybe one at a time. Yeah. You're going to have to change the IP addresses again, right? If we delete them, we will have to change the IP addresses and the DNS. I don't know if you, uh, exact. Let's do the three boots. Let's try it. And then let's get the out of band. Oh, my internet connection is unstable. Sorry about that. Out of band. It's interesting that out of band is in band. Because you can have sage to it. Okay. Let's see. Super micro. Super micro. Oh, there we go. I thought it was going to, I thought these were, these were just Xboxes or something. So what's it doing here? It's a hit F12 to get the, uh, the boot menu. I think it's, uh, I don't think that'll work very well. Because technically it didn't provision the first time. So there's nothing on the disc. So even if pixie was the second option, then it should fail. Or it's whoever used this server's last, whoever used this server last, if they didn't, uh, if they didn't, uh, yeah, I'm just kidding. They didn't degauss it. Yeah. Put, put a magnet on it. Boom. I picked. All right. So. It's your internet that's not working. Well, he's, he is trying to, I pixie. So it does, it does tend to drop in and drop out again. So it, it looks like I pixie's failing to. It says file nonexistent TFTP operation. Not supported. Is that the destination server? Wait, net zero dot seven next server one, two, 31. Is that the server you're trying to reach? Yeah. Is that the help, the helper or right? Did you have to start a service? Did you have to start a service on x pixie on something? That's, that's why I'm wondering if this won't work. No. Well, let's just, yeah, exiting Intel boot agent that, that looks like. But it tried, also it tried to I pixie, but it failed to I pixie. Don't, but, but the problem is that when I initially booted it, I gave it my I pixie file. And, and then I didn't check that box to say persist this to reboot essentially. So now when I rebooted it, it's probably trying to go to some. I pixie default, I pixie try, try one new server. And then, uh, and we'll see if it works. You think I should just try the bootstrap? I just try something. But I'm going to delete all these. All right. Do it. Yeah. Do it. Or the change DNS anyways. You are. Yeah. Uh, one of our viewers says that the helper needs to enable TFTP, but I don't think I pixie uses TFTP. It does not. I don't know what I pixie does. Does some sort of voodoo. I think it's HTT. I don't know what I'm going to ask. I've always done regular pixie with boot and all that. So I don't, I'd never. Let's see. I pixie. It's hard for me to think with all this going on. This is great. So the FAQ. What does the I and I pixie stand for? It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't pixie. It stands for no one. All right. Deploy bootstrap.boot. Custom I pixie. C1 small. And I am in parsypony. All the wise known is Newark. Parsypony Newark. Okay. How far is parsypony from Newark? I'm assuming they're close. No. I would think Eric would know. Eric was from there. Well, I don't remember my jersey geography. One of our viewers. Your jersey geography. Okay. He got you. So I pixie says you can boot from a web server via HTTP. So there's your answer to whether. I think sort of escape. Oh, look what it did to my terminal looks so. If you do reset, it'll it'll. I kind of like it. Yeah. You kind of you're going to leave it there. Yeah. It's romantic. That's right. With the red, the red hue. So this is where you're waiting for the server to get to a point where it's powered up enough to show us something. Is that what's going on here? Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, the hamsters have to go in and. Do you have the right IP or the right SOS URL? I mean. Yeah, I think so. I think I just copied it out of here. It's like a sauce report. Yeah. It just takes a while, right? For the hardware to come up. For the hamster or the hamster. Yeah, little L's have to go in and rack it. I forget there's actually an escape key, but I don't know what it is. I think it's still there. Oh, there you go. Okay, hold on. Oh, wait. Look at that stopping. Stopping docker stopping. This is this is. We are we are observing the there built in process right now. So this is yeah packet back and stuff. Oh, I thought I thought it was the pixie stuff starting up. Okay. No, that's what it was going down back end. Well, because it booted up and wiped itself and then it reconfigured itself and now it's rebooting again, I think. It's like, oh, someone else requested me. I wonder how how did they deal with like burning? Because like, you know, having like wiping and like cycling hardware over and over again, it must be taxed. It must be hard. I don't know. It must be hard. Yeah. All right. I mean, on the machine. Here's the Ipixie. Right. Configuring the network. Say no whammies, no whammies, no whammies. I thought I was supposed to do sync, sync, sync. Oh, that's right. Sync, sync, sync, call. Looks good. There you go. Yeah, it's getting your file. It's our kernel. There we go. Boom. There it is. There's the. All right. Should we start others? Sure. Why not? All right. I'm going to start the other three and then go change DNS because that takes a while and then we'll come back and see where this bootstraps at. Yeah. Don't forget to check the box for the thing. Oh, yeah. What's in the box? Should I? The custom pixie. Yes. It depends how you're. With the way things are going. How confident you are. I would strongly recommend it. Next, you're going to tell me to make sure I back up my files to .eridge. I would never tell you anyone that ever. All right. So master.boot will do three masters. Oh, you know what? We'll do it this way. I'm zero dot test. Let me just write down that. We'll add two more. And one and two. Good, right? Yeah. All right. I think so. Looks good. Do I have the right URL? Good enough for a town this size. I just watched the three amigos on the Cinco de Mayo. Oh, did you? There you go. I don't think you have a plethora of piñatas. Okay. Those are coming up. Let's deploy the workers. I'm taking donations, by the way, for those of you on. There you go. Watching for VI class. For VI class. VI classes. That's right. We need to send you to VI class. Yeah. I thought working with computers that was the VI class. That was the class. Yeah. The school of hard knocks is what it is. Okay. I got some. Okay. It looks like things are starting to come along. Let's fix the DNS entries. Christian's favorite. My favorite subject, DNS. We were told to use m1xlarge for the workers by another packeter. Use nano. We could use nano. Nano. It was a little easier. So the APIs, again, are the helper node, right? Because that's HAProxy. All right. Oh, so I don't have to touch those. I don't know which one of those is which because they're not. The workers, I don't have address for yet. The C1 small host name is the... That's the bootstrap? Or that's the helper? The bootstrap? X1 small is the helper. C1 small is the bootstrap. Got you. Correct. Yeah. You are correct. M1 and 2. Someone says nano rules. What about Pico, right? Isn't there a fork, Pico? These guys are not getting IP addresses over here. Maybe you exhausted their IP addresses. No. The error at the top says it's waiting for something to deprevision before proceeding. Please wait a few minutes. We're in a broad state because they're cycling things. Cool. So they'll come up when they come up. Check on the bootstrap. Maybe see how we're doing. Yeah, check on the bootstrap. Yeah, let's look at it. Oops. Is that here? It looks like it rebooted. Liberty, bibbity. Bibbity, babbity, boo. Can I just do this? Well, maybe also try to SSH into the bootstrap. Yeah. Or like type control l in that as well. Maybe it'll break the screen. Where's the bootstrap? It's this one, yeah. Yeah. Okay. What happened? Do a control... On that screen, do a control l. Uh, yeah, nothing. Nothing, huh? Maybe try redoing the SOS connection. Yeah, hold on. Sorry, I'm going to make my screen a little smaller so I could see things. Out of band info. There we go. Whoops. I guess we probably should have just left it up and running, huh? Well, you do. Yeah, but I don't... Yeah. I have no history. Yeah. It doesn't give you a buffer or anything. It just... Yeah. Hmm. We'll scroll back buffer. Does that thing... Do they reboot after they install? No, right? Yes, they do. Maybe it's rebooting. I don't think it would take that long. Yeah. Connection closed because it rebooted. Well, it closed because... Oh, it closed because... Oh, okay, got you, got you. All right. This is interesting. So, it's Apache that's serving all the Bootstrap files, right? Yes. So, what do the Apache logs say? Yeah, that would be... Hold on. Let me just think about this. If I go back to... Well, should we watch one of these? The master? Let's try it. That looks good. Not overranging. Oh, it's restarting. So, maybe it's just taking a long time to reboot this thing, the Bootstrap. Seems like it's a really long time. Oh, is it in an iPixie loop? Isn't it going to go into an iPixie loop now? It may. Should. Yeah, I checked the box to say always iPixie, right? Right. But the way that CoreOS works is that it'll iPixie and then the ignition file that it grabs, the ignition process looks at the system and goes, I've already been ignitioned once. I'm not going to do anything and then I'll just continue booting. And so it exits. Don't ignition me. Yeah, it's supposed to, at that point, exit. Okay, so this thing looks like it started rebooting the master. Cool. What about the Bootstrap? Yeah, what's the escape here? Terminate connection. It's showing you. Till the dot looks like... Yeah, it's not working for some reason. Or worm, yeah. That's the... Hey, this is my Bootstrap. The bootstrap is up. No? Yeah. Oh yeah, it's up. You have to do it from the... Yeah, there you go. Wrong key. It's up and you got a failed... Failed unit is probably better than not getting in via SSH. Oh. Is that me or Eric? It's me. Eric, Eric sounding like... So someone asked if you want to change the configuration for a CoreOS node. Do you change the ignition file? So yes and no, right? So when you first set up a CoreOS node, yes. You have to change the ignition file. Afterwards, you will use the OpenShift's machine config operator, which uses ignition like syntax in order to change. So if you want to change the SSH key or just add a configuration file, you would use the MCO for that. Yeah, so ignition is essentially like first boot. In regular Linux OS land, it only runs once. And so while what Christian was saying about ignition syntax, effectively there's always an ignition file, but we have an operator that runs on... To simplify it, because it's really complicated to explain it in detail. There's an operator that runs on all the nodes that's pulling the rendered ignition file and looking at all of the defined configuration files. And if it sees that there's a difference between the rendered ignition that it pulled and the files that are local to the host, it will rewrite the files that are local to the host to match whatever's rendered out in the ignition file that it pulled. So it uses the ignition file, it's just not the ignition process on boot. After the very first boot with iPixie and ignition, it will never do the full ignition setup, which includes partitioning disks and all this other junk. So if I remember correctly, when you're doing a cloud-based OpenJet 4 cluster, it's always iPixie booting the instances. It just doesn't actually do the full ignition initialization. It just goes, oh, I've already done this, and then it continues on to the regular boot. I believe that's what happens. I believe, I believe it. It gets even more complicated when you start talking about machine config pools and machine, but we'll say that for another... Oh, we should probably do that as a stream. Yeah, yeah, about the MCP, the MCO and Hall on the relationship. That's... I'm going back. Let's do it. So we won't know. I don't know the answer to this. I have always had different experiences. So does it care the fact that it's not named Bootstrap? It came up with the name ECR1, C1 Small, whatever. That I think will resolve that hostname though, I believe. Yeah, so I think... So yeah, that was my question. As long as it resolves, it should be fine. Yeah, as long as it resolves, it should be fine. It doesn't have to be named Bootstrap. I guess this was my question. I've never done it without naming it Bootstrap. I think that's how I did it last time and it worked, but let's, I guess we're going to find out. I don't know what happened to my terminal. Oh, you know what? When I have multiple monitors, it doesn't like it for whatever reason. Okay, so let's go back here. So I just updated all the HA proxy IP addresses in DNS in there. Let's see if I can run this. Wait for Bootstrap to complete and then also... Run the journal CTL. Do it. This looks good so far. What's this failed to create manifests mean? What am I doing? Do you know? So... It's just running in a loop wedding for EdCD and everything to come up and... I believe so. So I think... This is the Bootstrap host? Yes, the Bootstrap. These might be okay, but I don't... What are the containers that are running on this host? Do I have to do like a CRI CTL-L or something? Yes, you have to do sudo, but yeah. And I think it's podman for Bootstrap. It's... Oh, they might have changed it for 4.4. So we'll see. Podman PS, if you're trying to do that. Sorry. So it's doing something. PS-A, see if EdCD tried to start and didn't. Did a bunch of stuff. It's just not clear. Yeah, it says Bootstrap-EdCD. So I don't know if you want to take a look at that. So it's doing something teardown right now is the thing that's running. But that's why I was saying do a CRI CTL because you want to see... So podman starts the static stuff. And then I think the actual cluster is using cryo that runs on the Bootstrap host. Yeah. So CRI CTL. The same Docker command. So like PS. Oh, okay. Got it, got it, got it. So you have some container called manager that's running actively, which is probably a good sign. Actually, if many containers running. Many containers running, so that's a good, yeah. Okay, so this looks like it's doing its thing, huh? Yeah. Yeah. So the API should be responding because you have a cube API service that's running on this host. Yeah, so go to your status page. Yeah, HA proxy. Yeah. I bet you there's still... It's like 9000, right? Or whatever it was. So it's all red. So this is what I'm saying. I think you needed the Bootstrap in that OpenShift API. Well, so let's go, so hang on, right? So go back to the install terminal where it says waiting for whatever. No, no, the install terminal. Oh, gotcha. So it's waiting for the Kubernetes API at api.test, right? How is anything ever going to come up there if the Bootstrap is the API? Yeah, because it would have to be in the HA proxy config is what you're saying. I would assume at some point it needs to be. I mean, what do the docs say? You and your docs. I mean, we can sit around and poke each other in the eye until we figure it out or we could just look at the docs. You did say clown, right? I don't know why you went to look at the docs and then avoided looking at the docs. So I'm going to look at the docs. You can tell me what it says while I add it. Sure. Tell me that it won't help after I do the work. Right. Tell me that I didn't have to do it. Okay, so you're saying you got to add that Bootstrap. And the machine config server as well. What's that? And the machine config server, you're on the right track. Oh, which the machine config the one I'm on? Like the helper now? No, no, no. That's the. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Got, got, got. Yeah. Okay. Got, got, got. Yep. Load balancers. Before you install OCP must provision two layer for load balancers. Port 6443 machines, bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap from the load balancer after the machine initializes the cluster to 2623 bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine after the bootstrap machine. So 443 and 80 are the only two that don't need the bootstrap because they also don't need the master. What's, what's, what's funny is that you have your haproxy set up with see the turn green. That's a good sign. Right. Yep. It turned green. But like you, you added the workers to the haproxy even though you're not sending the the DNS to the haproxy, you're sending them directly to the workers. Oh yeah. That's true. Yeah. I guess I should change my DNS to point at the haproxy, huh? It'll, it'll work either way, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ideally, you would have a bootstrap to complete. So now we have 40 minutes to wait. Right. Well, you can, you can tell the log. We can tell the log. What's the, what's the log saying on the, on the bootstrap? Right. Because it's always, yeah. So we can, we can explain what's happening here. Um, is that tailing it right there? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So what's happening here is the, the bootstrap sets up a temporary API server. Right. And then, um, it'll spin up an instance of SCD. Right. So it's basically we're using Kubernetes to install Kubernetes. Um, the bootstrap then will scale SCD, the scale, the SCD, um, a service, right, into the masters, and then it will scale off SCD. So then the masters now all of a sudden have SCD running on it. Um, and then at some point while all the configuration is set, um, when the bootstrap is finished setting up the masters, it'll transfer over the API to the, uh, to the master control plane. Nice. So let me, uh, go, go check out what's happening on the master. Maybe at the same time. What do you think? Yeah, let's do it. Let's see. We'll do it live. Let's get, let's get kooky. Let's get wild. Let's get kooky here. Um, nothing is happening on the master. Yeah. The master's probably waiting for, what does the out of band say for the master? That's a good question. Uh, band. Oh, sorry. It says nothing. It says nothing. Maybe it's still rebooting. That's a long reboot. Uh, it makes me want to check my, um, oops. Master makes me want to check the master.boot and make sure I didn't finger master.ign, which is there. And it's a long time I've been typing. Okay. Oh, yeah. Good. So the ignition files there, right? Looks like it. Uh, yeah. So. Huh. All right. So what is the, what's the challenge here? What's the challenge? What if we check out the other master and see what happened there? We've got so many. We've got so many masters to choose from or just wait till the bootstrap's done. Connection. Yeah. So it's probably rebooting at this point. Because the masters have to check into the machine config, um, service. Yeah. Did they time out? Uh, I don't know how long. If it does, it's a long time because, um, I remember doing it like within like 30 minutes or an hour, it'll, it'll, it'll pick, it'll pick up. Okay. Well, are the, are all of the masters doing the same thing? I just checked too. Let me check the third. I, I didn't see what's going on. So are they all doing the same thing? The first two are, I'm checking the last one. Okay. Um, oh yeah. No, this is, this is correct. So, yeah. So if my understanding is that, um, so the masters will, iPixieBoot, they grab ignition, but then ignition tells them to like get stuff from the bootstrap host, doesn't it? Yeah. From the machine config, um, machine config. Well, from whatever, right? So, so I think. Oh, I see what you're thinking. Yeah. I think the masters are actually paused waiting for the bootstrap host to be ready to get more things to do. Yeah. So the question is what, what's going on on the bootstrap host other than that, other than that is basically, so what does the install say? It's running. What is the install terminal say? Oh, you're not actually running the install. So at this point, Oh no, this is just a, this is just to watch the install, right? Oh, is it? So it's waiting for boot. Yeah. So it says, it's waiting for the bootstrap to complete. Yeah. Waiting for bootstrap to complete. This, this seems to, it seems like normal messaging. But where can we get more information about what's going on? If you do, just do a journal ctl-f, not don't look at a specific service. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the whole journal, give me everything. Actually, I wish we could like exclude bootcube.sh. What was that? That was interesting. Status for podbootstrap cluster updated to running. So I think things are starting. Yeah. It's just taking a while. Yeah, I think, it's just taking, yeah. What kind of disks are these? What size is the bootstrap server? It's, uh, yeah. Do like a free dash m or something. It's a c1 small. But even their c1 small specs are pretty decent, aren't they? They, it is, uh, c1 small. Oh, I, they don't have them. They don't have them in Dallas. In Dallas. Sorry, buffering. It's okay. Oh, he's frozen. We're back. Uh, yeah, but it's only one, it's one CPU with an unknown speed. So I don't know. It looks. Node has sufficient memory event message. That's fine. That's normal. Yeah. Okay, good. Node has sufficient. That's actually, I think it's good. Yeah. Has to be a error. There's no warning. No one has ever said warning. No error. Error success. Error success. All right. So hold on. Let's wait. Did, um, thought I saw an error went by. Oh, sorry. Let me, let me look for how to journal CTO without, I mean, you could journal CTO and then pipe it into grep to get rid of boot cube. Grip dash B. Yeah. Yeah. So the bootstrap host seems to be happy because these aren't, I don't, are any of these error messages? I don't see any error messages or nothing that stands out yet. Setting no annotation to enable my control. I'd imagine we'd be seeing some errors by now. What does the documentation say? I mean, maybe kill one of the masters and do a new one. I don't know. Maybe they came up to early. Hold on. I would say that when I did this before, it did take, you know, a significant amount of time sometimes for these to come up. Let me just try an SSH to this and see if I can then, oops. All right. So this is my helper node. So let me go from here to the. So Andrew says on the bootstrap system to look at the. Hey, it's up. Oh, the master. Hey, it's up. The master master one. Mine, we're not going to do that. Yeah. No, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're wrong, Andrew. No, he might be right. You're doing the wrong host. But the fact that it answered SSH, it means that it's up. That it's up. Yeah. I feel like I'm going crazy right now because I'm taking crazy pills. Well, you're doing this from the wrong host and you're trying to do root. That didn't work. Well, because you have to do, because you have to do no, no, no, that's the wrong host and you're trying to do root. Yeah. So you're not okay. So there you go. Core. I'm not on the wrong host. I'm on the right host. And like what Eric says, the fact that SSH is answering is a good sign. Well, that's the only sign that is important. Yeah. Hey, it's running. Right. We're just not patient. The problem is patients. Yeah. So Andrew, yes, up does not mean joined to the cluster, but the fact that it wasn't Hey, look at this means it wasn't working. Well, that means joint Andrew. This means it's up in the cluster because it's starting to, starting to turn green here. Yeah. Greenness. You're so, you're so negative, Andrew. Thanks for the follow up. I know this guy named Andrew, who's always pretty negative that I work with. I don't know if that's the same guy. It might be the same guy. It's good. They're a different Andrew. Got you. We're just kidding Andrew. Okay. Okay. So this thing is rolling, huh? So there you go. Well, so get rid of the grip V. Yeah. Yeah. So now Eric's following my my train of thought here. That's scary. Just do that. Yeah. We need less of that. Hey, look. Bootcube service exited. So bootstrap is done. Is it? Yeah. It said bootcube service exited. No, scroll up. Break out and scroll up. Break out. I saw it right here. Okay. Exited with failure. I don't know if that's good though. Yeah. Oh, timed out waiting for condition. So I did. So to answer, I guess to answer the question, it is, it did time out. So the install failed? Well, timed out. I think it's going to start again. It says scheduling restart. Oh, okay. Already exists already exists. Okay. So no, bootcube is doing something again. So this is better. It's just slow. It takes a while. It's doing it just takes a while. Yes, it did say failed. Andrew. You can just exit the masters at this point. Yeah. All right. So we should give us more information. While we watch this, while we watch this slowly move, I should have used the X1 large in hindsight. Where the bootstrap you mean? For all of them because For all of them. Because 15 minutes is definitely worth $12. That's a beer. Yeah. What? It's only like a dollar or something an hour, isn't it? Okay. It's like a dollar an hour. Yeah, but there's six of them, right? $12 beer. No, there's three masters and one bootstrap. That's four. That's $4 an hour. Those are public sporting event prices. All right. The open LA price will be $16. Complete command running anywhere. What is the output of that? So what is the install? Yes. I'm sorry? Install terminal tab say. What do you want me to do now? What is the install terminal tab say? It is now safe to remove bootstrap resources. Interesting. So should I shut it down? Well, if you want, you can. But one thing you could do would be to log in to the cluster. Yeah, yeah. Oh, well, no, wait, you do need to remove the bootstrap. Before you log in? Well, because the bootstrap process is complete, but the installation process is not, right? Isn't there something that you have to run in the installer after bootstrap? Yes. So, yeah. So here. Oh, yeah. So what do you got to run? So generating SSHT, installation program, creating the config file. Yes. So if you go into the install directory. Three node cluster, creating. Yeah, there's an auth. Yeah, there's an auth file in there. Correct, yeah. Right. But isn't there something we have to do after the wait for bootstrap complete? Yes. Yeah. So it's. You must remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer. Must. So there's not. You must remove the bootstrap machine. Well, your bootstrap is still in the load balancer pool, but it's not part of the cluster. So you may, you have a one in four chance of garbage. Failing. So I could just take it out of the load balancer, right? Correct. Yes, that's the. That's one. And that's probably where you got, that's where you got the copy pasta from. You probably got your end, your end result. Yeah. That's a good point. You can just comment it out and then you wouldn't have copy pasta failed. I'm assuming you could put comments in HA proxy. Yeah. Future James will, will, will thank you. Not when I, not when I shut these all down in 10. Yeah, exactly. There we go. So then now go, go to the, the HA proxy setting. I just take, I just commented it out and restart HA proxy, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you, yeah, you did that. I was going to say, if you want to look at the, the, the status page just to make sure it's out, did he freeze? Oh, okay. Okay. What was it to me to move out of my way? Master, master, master. Okay. My workers still aren't there though. I got to add the workers. No. No, no, no, no. No. No, well. The workers should be coming up soon. It should come up soon with a, with a, with a router. So now go back to. The installer node. The installer node and then do an export of kube config. Export. Capital kube config equals and then whatever that has to it. Is it, I do pwd slash, uh, work. So when we booted the workers, we pointed them at the iPixie server and the iPixie server has an ignition file, but does that ignition file have the cluster information in it? Yeah. It should have, yeah. It does. Okay. Just making sure. Oh, sorry. I can't multitask, apparently. For kube config equals space. So then now if you, yeah, hit, yeah, kube config. If you do oc get nodes. Oh, I don't have the, um, where's the, can I just do a yum install oc? What is that, oc client? No. No, it's done with binary. You can, you can use the, or qBatman username and password from anywhere because this cluster is publicly accessible. Yeah. Let me just do this. Let's see if it's up. You're really worried about somebody getting the username and the password? Yeah. The photo, if their memory is, I don't want to be responsible. I don't want to be responsible for anybody's, um, anybody's bitcoin mining operation. I'm just kidding. So it would be, it's console. Console dash. Oh, here I have it right here. You can just get the routes. Yeah, I know. But I don't have the oc client. Yeah. You can, but do you have the oc client on your laptop? Yeah. So then you can log in with the, with the username and password. Yeah. You're kidding. So right now the, the router isn't up because, so you have to approve the CSRs for 4.4 now. I have never, Right. But the router's not, the router's not serving the API. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. You're right about that. Yeah. OC login. Whatever the API URL is, which is on the install page. What is the API URL? Look at your first tab in your terminal. Uh, first time in my terminal. Scroll up. Yeah, scroll up. You have a, oh, you cleared it. Yeah. Oh, you cleared the hell out of it. He, he, yeah, he cleared his buffer. Do the, um, It's the open shift install command, right? Yeah, wait for boot. It's in your DNS. Yeah, I know. But yeah, I actually, let me see. I can actually, yes, there we go. HTTPS and 6443. Yeah, uh, let me get, I am so flustered. This is really challenging. Uh, sorry. HTTPS. Yeah. Sweet. Q, bad man. What? Is it APN? No, no, no, no, it's not the issue. Oh, it's not the int one. Yeah, that's why. Yeah. Unexpected response. Yeah, you're gonna have to do this with the certificate because the API service is in up either. So the problem is that the API services, the cluster operators are, are trying to fire up. Yeah, are trying to fire up and, and. So this is new in 4.4. Yeah, um, no, it's always been this way, but I haven't, but machine config approval should happen automatically. I just haven't been able to do it. You could also just copy pasta, the kube config file to your laptop. Download the binary to the, uh, Yeah. Why don't I just install the OC client tools on my helper node? You can do it. Whatever you want. All right. Where do I get those? Try.openship.com. They were on the screen that you were on two seconds ago. This is how I get to it. The install page that you were looking at, they were there. Oh, they were there. Yeah. Oh, you were on the, yeah, there we go. Download clients or whatever it is. Oh, it's a mirror. So can I just copy the link and, and do W get? Or, uh, maybe. Yes. Yeah, there you go. Are they really that small? It wasn't small. It's 252 megabytes. There it is. Now you got OC. Sorry, 25 megabytes. So now OC get, uh, nodes, I guess first. Yeah. So now you see this is masters, but there's no workers. That's why the API hasn't scheduled yet. So now I do an OC get CSR. I just want to see it. I just want to follow the documentation to make. Oh, there you go. Finally, you finally got him. That's right. Yeah. So let's see. Get CSR dot slash OC is there. And you'll see there's a lot. There's a pending one for the nodes, right? So you need to approve those. There's a quick one liner. Uh, a little bit. You can do that. You can do them that or you can do the one liner. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah, ideally. Yeah. Ideally you wouldn't want to do the, um, the one liner. Because your XRX doesn't have, um, a dot slash OC. Yeah. Yeah. So, so the way that this works for the people who are still paying attention to this most boring of awfulness. So there is a series of, uh, yeah. So basically you don't just want to allow nodes to join the cluster. I mean, in, in certain cases you do, if you really, really know what they are, but the way that this works is essentially the worker comes up via the bootstrap and ignition process. And it basically waves it in and it says, Hey, I'm a node over here. I would like to participate in this cluster. And so that involves a certificate process. And then we're essentially doing client certificate authentication between the nodes and the masters via APIs. And so what we just did was we said, Okay, we're going to approve the certificate requests to actually finish creation of the certificate, which then allows the nodes to be authenticated. So now the API communication can finish, which means the node can finish joining the cluster. So at this point, OC get nodes should have shown that we have, if we do OC get nodes. Yeah, look, it's actually, we see that we have two running workers. And so at this point, there are operators in the cluster that are pre-configured for all of the ancillary services. CO, oh, is that cluster operators? Cluster operators, yeah. Oh, look at that. I learned something. So this was, yeah, so this will show you that. So ingress is, yeah. Ingress is the operator that controls the HAProxy router. Thank you for the follow, Charlie and steadfast. And so when the workers come up, the pods that the operators were trying to schedule can finally be scheduled. So if we do an OC describe on one of the worker nodes, dude, just put in your path. I was just thinking that. This cluster is only living for like, oh wait, OC describe. Yeah, there's no, commands don't have shortcuts. Yeah, that's, oh, OC, sorry. Do I have to do nodes? Yes, node singular or node. There you go. So now what we see is there's a bunch of pods that have been scheduled and oh look, the router is scheduled. So at this point, we should be able to visit the OpenShift console if you do an OC get route capital dash capital A. I think I have it right here. Oh, I think you got it right. There it is. All right, two hours and 30 minutes. We did it. There we go. Not days, but hours. It hasn't loaded. Well, it's like lost James again. Oh, it lost the James. Sounds like adding a server to a puppet master. Yes, it's very similar to the way that puppet does their kind of authentication approval stuff. So now August, this is for the sake of learning. Sorry, go ahead, Christian. No, no, I'll say now that this is, now that this is like, now that the cluster operators is running, now you can do what Eric was alluding to earlier was the wait for install complete command. Is that required? Is it required? No, not necessarily, no. What does it actually do? I don't think it does anything. It waits for the install to complete. The command actually does the boots. The docs don't even say to do it. It doesn't necessarily need to be run, to be honest with you. I think we're good. All right. So clusters up. This is pretty crazy. Now we can. I mean, come down. I mean, it's not. It's pretty crazy to me. The H.A. So one thing to note here is that should be all green now. Yeah, go ahead. So I'm looking at the instructions and one of the things of note is image registry removed during installation. And what it's talking about is that because we don't have object storage available by default, the operator kind of gets angry and basically turns off the built-in image registry. And so we would have to configure storage for the registry, which preferably is not NFS, but NFS does work. It's not recommended. It's definitely not ideal, but it can be used. And so was that James, why you had set up the export? Yeah, that's why I initially set that up was I basically just built a small a small bit of storage to back my registry. And then actually for, sorry, I did it for persistent volumes because I was doing this to deploy VMs via CNV. So basically via OpenShift-vert. So yeah, in fact, that's maybe what I'll do is since these are all running on small instances, maybe I'll leave this cluster up and running for a day or two and see if I can get OpenShift-vert working and import a VM or something on this one. So this is interesting. Someone in chat, yeah, it's your call center. Someone in chat asked, what about adding another worker now? Do it. What does that entail? Do it. What does that entail? Create a new worker and point it at the worker ignition file and it comes up and then I approve the CSR, right? Yep, here we go. Is that it? It should be that easy. Should we do it? Make a really big one. Should we try it? What's the biggest server they can give us? Yeah, what's the most expensive one you can do? Let's do that. Ooh, $1.70. That's gonna kill us. I don't know, man. It's all right. I'm changing call center soon, so I gotta be careful. I don't wanna... So Crutan, John, how do you balance where your control plane endpoint is? So at the very beginning, one of the things we had done was create an HAProxy load balancer running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a helper node to provide a bunch of the installation stuff. And so that HAProxy is acting as a load balancer in front of the three masters. And so all of the API traffic goes through that HAProxy load balancer and then gets assigned to one of the control planes. Vanilla, Cube that I run, I use keep alive D to have a VIP. We don't need keep alive D because we have more than one control plane. So we rely on HAProxy detecting endpoint health in order to handle traffic. Basically, hopefully that makes some sense. Oh, living dangerously. By the way, Crutan, John, I like your nickname. Well, why is that living dangerously? Oh, I don't know. I always put stuff in user local bin. I always leave for bin and S bin for like package install things. Yeah. While we're waiting. What do you do? Oh, corn. Oh, God. Oh, you're using... You actually use corn. I'm strangling you now. That was back in my son. So is a worker happening yet? What's going on? Oh, it's OC. Well, it's probably just booting, to be honest with you. Let's look. Oh, I got to add it into DNS. I need HAProxy. What? No, it's a worker. So this would be... It's not going to receive a router by default. Yeah, but don't I need to put it into DNS over here? You need to put it into DNS, but not into the router because... Yeah, because the router doesn't auto-scale with you adding workers. So what you've just done now... Well, like it's good practice here. This is kind of like a six to one, half a dozen of the other, right? So ideally what you would do is create nodes dedicated for... At least for routers. Use taints and tolerations to ensure that the routers only land on those nodes. And then put those nodes in the load balancer pool for the wild card. What James is doing is... It's going... You would see here... It'll never turn green. Yeah, because the router will never... So I don't know where we dropped out, but the quick recap is... If you put all the nodes into the load balancer pool for the wild card, HA proxy will eventually figure out which nodes have routers and which ones don't, and stop sending traffic to the ones that don't. And if the routers get flipped around, it will eventually figure it out and fix itself. So it's... Best practice is to create nodes just for certain things, but this works in a pinch. I'm not sure why W2 was pending... Thanks for the follow, but I... Visigot Nui. Vis... Visigot Nui? I guess, yeah. So basically waiting for this... This got to come up and then we'll be done, right? Approve the CSRs and... Wait a second, my worker never came up W3, did he? W3 did not... I don't know, reload the page maybe? Oh, yeah, it doesn't look like it. Did we get one of those... Did we get an error that we ignored? Thanks for the follow, hard work. Well, no, that's the strange thing is I actually have it here. You added an IP for it. Yeah, and now it's gone. Maybe I violated the terms of service. Oh, TOCs. Anyway, it would have worked. Trust isn't what it worked. Trust us. So what's the takeaways here? Make sure your iPixie config files work, and the contents of your iPixie files actually exist. That's important. What other mistakes did we make? Well, it's all about preparation, right? So ideally you would know all of this beforehand, like what IP addresses you're going to have, what their host names are, the Pixie configurations, all of that, you would have the load balancer configurations. Well, you're going to know your final IP addresses, right? Because in theory, if you're doing iPixie, you have to have DHCP. Now, we could have done this without... But if you want to run some bare metal and tool around with it, this is a great... This is kind of a cool setup if you just want to get some bare metal and be able to spin it up, especially if you're using the Terraform and Ansible Automation that exists. I mean, you could basically get a bare metal cluster for less than a hundred bucks a day with some pretty decent hardware behind it, you know? Yeah. And so not... You want to spin it up and bring it down. This isn't knocking packet, but in an environment where you can load ISOs, you don't need to do the Pixie bootstrap. You can actually load a boot ISO into the server, boot from the ISO, and then type in where the ignition stuff is to do your processing and provisioning of hosts. It's just that because we're doing this in packet, we have the ability to do the IPEXie. So, you know, that makes life easier. Not only that, but like if... From what I understand, packet has an on-premises bare metal management system that they sell. So if somebody has that, this gives you a good idea of how you could start to integrate those two. Obviously it's not foolproof on our side, but... It certainly isn't foolproof because these fools totally screwed it up. All right, that's like almost three hours' worth of stuff. But, you know, we did it, right? Like we started from nothing and a little bit of preparation. And we spent a large quantity of time chasing our own tails, so probably about 40 minutes of tail chasing. And we got a cluster up and running. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, thanks a lot for indulging me and letting me come on here and do this and not making fun of my VI skills too badly. Although I think there's a side chat somewhere going on about it. I'm pretty sure. Well, I'm chatting here on Twitch. Got some random Q&A. So James, I mean, feel free to bounce. We're going to... Christian and I can hang out and answer some random Q&A for the next 15 minutes. Sounds good. Sounds good. I'm going to head out. Thanks. Have a good weekend. Thank you. All right. Thanks for the content, so to speak. Yeah, see ya. Cheers. Anybody else got any last minute questions? Although I'm asking this question and it probably takes like four minutes for... Yeah, we have to wait the 30 seconds or whatever, right? Thank you. I'm actually looking at the stream now. So James is still on the stream. I'm looking at the stream right now. I got you, I got you. And James is still on. Yeah. But anyway, we'll hang out in the chat, I guess, for a minute or two. Actually, I think I probably need to bounce. But anyway, Christian, thanks so much for harassing James. Yeah, that was fun. That was fun for sure. And yeah, so we've got a lot of stuff planned for the stream. So keep an eye on the OpenShift Twitter, keep an eye on our Twitters. Do we have this stuff on the OpenShift website yet? Like the schedule? The OpenShift website. No, we're working on it. I knew it hit the blog. Yeah, we're working on it, yeah. So you definitely just have to kind of pay attention to the Twitters. Or if you're following us, you could hit the follow button. Twitch is very kind. It will send you a notification either via email or other mechanisms when we are live. So we'd appreciate the follows. And tell your friends and co-workers and, I don't know, maybe your spouses or kids or whatever if they're into technology. Yeah, everyone to get everyone on the stream. Yeah, it's mostly going to be OpenShift, but who knows, someone else may be entertained by us monkeying around. All right, we'll have a great weekend. Thanks for your time. We'll talk to you soon. All right, you too. Yeah. Cheers. Bye. All right, bye everyone. Cheers.

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Example Filing for IRS Deduction Part 2 - Income Tax 2023

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And then if I go up to, let's say 70, let's go to 80,000. Well, let's just do 78,000. It should be gone again, 78,000. And it has now disappeared once again. All right, so now it gets messy with a married couple. So let's change it to a married couple now. So I'm going to go back on over and say they're married. Now it's important when doing the data input, when married, to indicate that this is the spouse. So that you have to be able to apply it out to the software news that they can apply out the limits based on each individual spouse. And these of course are in the order of the first one being the taxpayer, the first one you enter into the software, the taxpayer. The second one that you list is going to be the spouse, right? So you got to get that straight so that it can do the proper calculation. Let's say that they both have, let's say the second one is 50,000. And neither of them have a retirement plan, let's imagine. So neither of them have a retirement plan to start with. I can then maximize the contribution. And I could say, well, if they're married, the max is not 6,000, it should be twice that. And I'm going to go back on over to page two and I can jump to the data input and say let's say number one for both of them saying maximize for each of them. So now it comes up to 12,000 of course. Now the max contribution could increase if they're older than 50 as a general rule. So let's do that, let's change the age. So I changed the age for just one spouse and now you've got 13,000, which was the 6,000 for one and the 7,000 for the other. So let's bring it back. I'm going to bring it back down so they both get the 6,000. So they're both under 50. And now let's say that one of the spouses, let's say the first spouse on their W-2 has a retirement plan. So now they've got a retirement plan, which would be indicated on the W-2. And so I'm going to go back on over and say now it's been limited to 6,000 because it basically said, well, the other one, it got removed on the other one, which is kind of what you might expect, right? You'd say, okay, well, if they had access to the 401k, but there's an income threshold. So if I bring the threshold back under like 109,000, I believe. So notice my total income right now is 150. So let's bring it down. Let's bring it down to under 109,000. So let's say this is like minus 40, which we'll bring it down to two, one, two. So let's check that out. So 140, I meant to say 40,000. So I brought it down to 109. Is that's what I was trying to do. So 109,000. And so now it's at the 12,000 again. So it's been basically allowed, even though we had the 401k. So we have both of them in place. If it's between 109 and 129, so let's increase it a little bit. Let's say I increase it by like 5,000. So now it's at 114. So if I go back on over, now it's phasing out one of them, right? So it's basically phasing out one's spouse is at 6,000, the other's at the 4,500. And then if I go up above, above ground, I believe 129, then it'll be removed once again. Now, what if we have a situation, let's concentrate on the other spouse and let's say our income for this spouse that has a retirement plan is quite high, 200,000. The second spouse doesn't have the retirement plan, but they only made 50,000. So, and they still could be limited in this situation due to the first spouse having such a high income. So if I go back on over now, we see as we max out the retirement plans that we don't have anything. So the general rule there is if married, filing jointly and your spouse has a 401K, you can take the full deduction for your IRA contribution as long as you're modified adjusted gross income is less than 204,000. It's gotta be less than the 204,000. So that gets a fairly relatively high threshold, but you can see how those kind of rules start to enter play. They get quite complex actually when you get into the age limitations, all the combinations that you could think of, right? You've got the age limitation. So usually you'd wanna be memorizing that you can have the 6,000. If you're older over 50, it goes up to 7,000. If you don't have any other 401K or someone else has access to the 401K and wage limits, but if you have access to a 401K, then there's gonna be limitations in terms of how much you might be able to deduct. And if married, even if your spouse has access to a 401K that still might limit, each spouse's access to being able to deduct depending on the income threshold, which you would probably be dependent to some degree on the software to help you calculate, which you can calculate as a last minute kind of tax planning thing. Therefore the general strategy would be max out your 401K plans before 2022 has ended because you can't put any more in there for the tax year 2022 or whatever tax year you're talking about until after that date. And then we can see if we can maximize any added amount with the IRA and use the software to do that calculation, obviously in order to take advantage of any kind of deduction related to an IRA or retirement plan, you need to have cash flow available to be putting the money into it.

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用日常物件量测 - Measuring with Everyday Objects (Chinese)

你可以用日常物件去帮助孩子学习拿小物件量测大物件。 “生活教学”是一个全球化的运动，人们藉由分享知识去更佳教育我们的孩子并为界创造了希望。 Chinese translation by Ming Liu, and Xueni Peng. Narration by Xueni Peng. You can use everyday objects to help a child learn about measuring a larger object with a smaller object. Teach for Life is a global movement of people sharing knowledge to better educate our children and create hope for the world. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeachforLifeICT/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/teachforlife_ Instagram: https://instagram.com/_teach4life_ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/teachforlifeICT/

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LIVE: Barkley Marathons, Strava Questions

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Good evening everybody alright how you doing welcome back to the studio here we are let me make sure we're live on actual YouTube and not just in the back end and one second oh my goodness 20 people already chiming in so good to see everyone I think the Wi-Fi butter my bread that is right Robert hopefully we're looking okay in the back end it looks a little pixelated but right now on YouTube it's looking it's looking clear and crisp so oh good to see everyone good to see everyone okay let me just set my phone down and another night in the studio here we are let's let's get it rolling oh man where's everybody from where are you watching from I see Alberta Canada is in the house so let us know in the chat if you're new welcome basically I always like to ask where everyone's from at the beginning because it's incredible to see the global community come together here on this YouTube channel so yeah let us know and I'm just gonna flip this screen real quick one second one second and here we go okay there we go Virginia in the house Nova Scotia for David the Cambridge UK whoo it's pretty late in Cambridge isn't it oh my goodness Singapore North Carolina for Anthony Baltimore Maryland for Andrew Honduras Overland Park Kansas Remington Indiana you better believe it Washington State for Ethan Jeff is from Charlotte North Carolina oh yeah Steve Charlotte North Carolina I love it I love it Chad all Chad tuning in from Centennial Colorado just down the road good to see everyone and I'll also ask at the beginning if you could share the link out spread it around especially I always like to spread it around extra I'm gonna do that right now on Twitter if you could that would help get more people here as we get rolling here we'll let folks stream in and I'm just gonna tweet this out but yeah I like to post it on Twitter I also do Facebook every now and then any spreading of the link helps out this channel all right let me just tweet this out and give a shout out to all of you let's go so cool and all right there it goes out on Twitter okay South Florida's in the house Cincinnati Daniel all love it Fullerton California Denver represent for Jason mmm so good oh yes Belgium and left I'm just gonna pronounce your your name that way left Coriman thank you for tuning in from Belgium Belgium did you know my last name is D'Amore and my family's lineage is rooted in Belgium right on the French Belgian border I think near Alsace Alsace if I'm not pronouncing that correctly but so anyway shout out to Belgium it's got a special place in my heart okay and let's see here I'd like to ask I'd like to ask how was your run today but also are you suffering from any from any injuries right now so kind of a two-part question as we get rolling remember today's vlog was all about injuries kind of a tough topic but a necessary topic if you are striving to stay healthy and or get over an injury so let us know in the chat a lot of comments came in today on the vlog like too many which means there's a lot of people struggling with little you know sometimes little injuries sometimes big injuries so let us know in the chat if you are how was your run today and then are you struggling with any injuries that would be that would be sweet I guess I actually I think I forgot to tell everyone that right now I'm injury-free I forgot to mention that in the vlog this morning so that is good definitely a few little aches and pains just like pretty normal stuff last week I had a little pain by my shin splint like near my shin area just like for a day it was kind of strange I monitored it make sure it didn't progress and get worse and sure enough you know it's been gone for you know a week now so that is my update on the injuries so far pretty darn healthy so that is good let's see any God five mile tempo and no injuries good a let's see here Andrew says I've been struggling a bit with shin splint so today I went for a hike instead of running very smart Andrew I think that's brilliant it's always good to back it off just a little bit and the key Andrew will be to see how does it feel tomorrow oh my goodness 80 people here let's see if we can push it over a hundred this is awesome welcome everyone and tonight so tonight we're gonna talk about Barkley if you are a mountain or ultra runner or trail runner you're gonna love this topic so we're gonna talk about Barkley and then I am in catch up mode with respect to questions from all of you so I'm gonna I might just explain this right now before I do want to just jump back into the chat real quick Daniel says I he ran at sea level felt great he is running the Carlsbad 5 5k I think it's on Saturday so shout out to Daniel a faithful viewer of the vlogs good luck Daniel and then let's see Mike says 7 mile run today in the New Balance 880s nice Devin says last race of the outdoor season tomorrow okay nice John Fulmer is in the house that is what I'm talking about oh man this is amazing so four miles today 830 pace this is incredible so everyone John Fulmer and I went to high school together we ran on the track team I was the two mile guy he was the hundred mile or hundred meter 200 meter like really really fast really fast oh bud shout out to you bud that's awesome so cool okay moving on here Scott had a five mile tempo Luke rest day on legs mind ran a marathon at work nice okay so oh man almost to a hundred viewers that's awesome so here's the deal with respect to communication on this YouTube channel basically oh man the channel continues to grow at a pretty quick clip and I didn't know that was going to happen three or four months ago so last December I said to all of you in a vlog like email me your questions I'm here for you I want to help you whether it's with training shoe you know questions about running shoes whatever the case may be so I wanted to I wanted to help you but what has happened is the volume of emails that I'm receiving is going up and up and up every single week and literally I would have to stop sleeping in order to reply to all of the emails and not to mention messages on Instagram and not even to mention that the questions down in the comments below the daily vlog so it's getting a little hard to reply to you and I apologize if I put out false information about answering your questions via email so what I've decided is that when a question comes in if it's a quick quick answer like if it's one or two sentences I can do that but sometimes these questions that are sent to me on email are really really long like it would require 10 to 15 minutes to type out a really well thought out answer so I just I just don't have that kind of time therefore the questions are going to end up in here in a running shoe box so if you email me a question I will put it in the box especially if it's if it's a long answer and it will and then I'll be able to answer live for all of you and the benefit is that not only do you get to hear the answer but everybody else will get to hear the answer about training about running shoes about whatever and of course if it's like confidential or a personal question I won't answer that live in front of everybody just making that clear but that is going to be our strategy moving forward so okay so cool thank you all for being here oh man we got Michael here 11 kilometers at real easy pace in the Bondi six nice Logan is here Trevor Kayley let's see this is awesome Jules Joey oh my goodness Chad set a personal record yesterday on the 10k and 5k distances in the same run that always feels good congrats Chad alright so here we go we're gonna talk about these three topics once again and I think we're gonna dive in I don't want to spend too much time on Barkley but I do just want to touch upon it because I think it's a really interesting topic if you're not familiar with this event and I'm gonna do my best to summarize it but to get going hold on just need to take a little drink there to get going we're gonna do our traditional trivia question so here we go so let's go how many one second so the Barkley marathon so this Barkley it should have marathon after it but I don't have enough space on the chalkboard so it's called the Barkley marathon it's a race it takes place in Tennessee it's very interesting I'm gonna explain it all here in one minute but for all the Barkley junkies out there these trivia questions are for you here we go trivia question number one how many finishers have there been at the Barkley marathon and I'll just say the race has been going on about 30 years so how many finishers in the history of the race have there been that's question number one and as you're thinking about it as you're thinking about it I'm going to monitor the chat here shout out to Louise Jared Ethan oh man running with Ronan is here nice Jason Scott nice shout out to Scott that's awesome 15 boom Trevor in the house Trevor you got it that is awesome good work everybody that is awesome so 15 finishers ever ever how crazy is that alright question number two what item must be submitted during the check-in process at the Barkley marathon if I think it's only if you're a new attendee to the event but what what item must be submitted during the check-in process at the Barkley marathon here we go here we go oh man good to see everybody wow there is a lot of people here goodness goodness goodness license plates that's right old tanker gets it so when you arrive I believe the registration or the check-in no the registration fee is $1.65 we'll talk more about that in a second you got to bring a license plate from your home state or country and then you need to bring an item for well this connects to the next question what is the what is the nickname of the legendary race director of the Barkley marathon that's question number three what is the nickname of the legendary race director of the Barkley marathon here we go here we go oh man this is so cool and then we'll just do we'll just do one more but I think you guys are gonna get it real quick oh man here we go oh man so cool to see everyone I can tell there is some good las boom Trevor in the house las gets it and Trevor your first good work everyone old tanker you got Jared awesome running at altitude so cool las is correct and last question what do runners have to find at various checkpoints along the Barkley course that's gonna be easy because you got I can tell you guys are on that you guys are on your a game oh man oh man so here's I'll wait in the chat but I have a feeling it's gonna come up real quick that's right Lazarus Lake Danny you got the full name there good job the full nickname I should say okay book pages boom there we go that was easy good job everybody so let me do my best to that's right books so you guys okay I thought maybe I'd be able to I wasn't sure so let's dive into it the Barkley marathon it happened the race happens once a year usually in April and basically it's a very unique race off the beaten path although it has become much much more know better known as many I can tell by the chat that you all are on the you all are on the game as far as what what the event is about so the Barkley marathon as far as I know started in 1986 started by Gary Cantrell aka las Lazarus Lake is his nickname and he was a ultra runner from the 70s and 80s so the race takes place in Tennessee at frozen head State Park and basically and I just should I should mention I am not a Barkley expert I do enjoy following the event but I'll just do my best to communicate what takes place there as much as possible and so it is a hundred plus mile race it's long it's really people don't even really know how long it is because every year usually las and somebody and raw dog I think isn't is his nickname raw dog they change the course up every year just a little bit in order to keep it interesting for the runners and I think to make sure that runners that are repeating or runners that are kind of going out to scout the course don't figure out the course ahead of time and it's so it's a hundred miles correct me if actually I'm gonna ask all of you I think it's 50,000 feet of vertical climbing again roughly so vertical up and then vertical down so a hundred thousand vertical change but 50k up so we're talking a lot of climbing but if somebody knows for sure let me know in the let me know in the chat yeah and it might be it might be a hundred and twenty miles like we nobody really knows and that is part of the beauty of the race is that you're not allowed to use a GPS watch so it's a very kind of simplified race usually there's only 40 racers every single year and sometimes it's that number fluctuates just a little bit and to to apply to the race you have to it's like I honestly would love to run the race I don't know I don't even know how to apply and I've done a little bit of research I've heard it's not what you know it's who you know type of situation to apply and basically you have to write you have to write an essay to and submit it to Laz explaining why you should be chosen to run the Barkley Marathon oh my goodness this is so cool like a lot of you are in tune with this race which is exciting and a little surprising like let's see yes so Trevor I would love I would love to be a participant someday so it's $1.65 I believe or $1.56 somewhere right around there very very affordable and that's the beauty of it since you've watched the documentaries you probably have heard last say like if somebody gets upset at me I can just kind of laugh at their face because it cost $1.65 to enter so if there's if something goes wrong it's like well it's you know it's like what's it's like there's it was so cheap to apply so anyway and as far as I want to make sure I'm not missing anything on the application so the application the essay and then you get like a letter of condolence basically if you are accepted to run the Barkley and basically saying I'm sorry that you've been chosen to race it because as the finishing rate explains it's a very very difficult race so and let's dive into what happened this year basically the race just finished you know three days ago four days ago and nobody finished I'll just say it right now nobody finished I think it was the second year in a row that nobody has finished and not to be not surprising I mean although I must say beginning before the race there was a lot of buzz around the event because there were some big names coming back and sure enough like nobody finished I was pretty surprised actually that nobody finished and then during the race so let's let's run through that basically and I'm gonna get into the chat and answer your questions and listen to you all as well here in a second but basically the race starts at any time from midnight to noon on a particular day it's all a mystery this race is all a mystery so you don't actually know the official start time until an hour before so it could be at you know 12 it could be at like 105 a.m. and you get notified at 12 05 a.m. that you have an hour to prepare to go run las lights a cigarette everybody knows that las lights a cigarette to start the race so there's no gun and it's just straight up brutal if you guys are watching these document documentaries on Netflix and YouTube and it's just it looks really tough and I've done some really challenging mountain running here in Colorado and there's the there's the element of elevation that we have to deal with here sorry altitude that we have to deal with here in Colorado but in Tennessee the altitude is not too bad but it's like you have to deal with the underbrush and the the briars and the fallen trees and all of these crazy create like it's like an obstacle course out there trying to get over the that's right you blow the conscious shell that is correct Daniel to the war and everybody that it is time to start the race so it is an amazing amazing event as far as like I like it because it keeps ultra running simple and to a certain extent pure and and even though it has gained more popularity recently it's just like that pure like go out and see what the human spirits can accomplish and to watch the tears and the blood and like it's just like it really strips down the human I feel like it strips down all of our walls that we might put up between us and others like when you are going through a challenge like that so I so anyway I'm gonna jump into the chat and answer any questions here let's just see here and if anybody does have any inside information on applying don't hesitate to email it to me because I've done a little bit of research and it's been a little challenging yes that is correct they say it is like climbing into seven descending Mount Everest twice it is exactly that as far as pure elevation gain and loss now granted it's not at high altitude but still it's ridiculous really really ridiculous and okay let's see Eduardo says Laz is a sadist I don't know if I'm saying that right but it's like he would probably embrace that description he's not afraid to challenge people and literally break it's almost like training to be a Navy SEAL like they want to break you down type of situation so Laz is probably a little bit you know a little bit like that I would I would agree with that was amazing that at FKT holder Carol Sabe was racing it as well that is correct Jules old toad asks how many loops do you think you could finish oh yeah I didn't even I forgot to mention that so it's a it's a 20 mile loop 20 but in in parentheses or in in air quotes there I mean how many laps I mean I would love to so a fun run is if you do three loops I would like to think on my first time I could do three loops I've heard like it you usually have to go back two three four times to really learn the course and figure it out some people do get it done in the first year I think the biggest oh there we go Luke that's awesome thank you for that super chat Luke Luke says a $2 super chat for Seth's Barkley entry bribe money fund amen amen I would love that Luke you just covered the registration fee because it is that affordable so and it's correct me if I'm wrong five loops or five laps around the park around through the trails so basically yeah I'd like to say I could do three but I wouldn't I would definitely go into it not with a attitude of I'm going to like it's a really a really humbling I can just tell it's a very humbling experience so oh Eduardo thank you for that super chat awesome 790 I appreciate it oh Chris says my run buddy Rand Barkley this year did not finish one loop Chris I get it man it's like it's absolutely humbling and breaks you down and yes five thank you for I thought it was five five loops correct yeah so five and 60 hours that is correct just it's just and then of course the Gary Robbins documentary put on by ginger runner I mean you know that was pretty pretty heartbreaking I don't know I'm sure he'll go back I know I'm pretty confident Gary will go back and try and get it done but he missed it by like seven or eight six seven seconds but he came he came down the wrong trail so we actually missed the course a little bit but that was that was pretty crazy story right there okay so any other thoughts on Barkley if not we're actually going to dive into the box here in one second and thank you for being here holy smokes 129 people watching I appreciate it we've been if you're just joining we're talking about the Barkley marathon that just happened last weekend in Tennessee at marathon it's like a hundred hundred twenty who knows mile race with a ton of climbing and it's more like you run it but it's definitely a power hike situation as well like you are working on power hiking throughout as well there you go 60 hour time limit that is right Lanny or Laney okay so yes okay that's good to know I didn't know that Gary was injured let's dive in here we go so again if you have emailed me and you can email me my emails down below with questions about training about running shoes about racing tactics about life in general whatever you want to email me about but just know that unless I can give a short answer in reply there's a good chance that your answer your question will end up in the box for the live stream the following week because the volume of emails is just going create like it's just blowing up so okay there we go that's right get out the wizard sticks okay all right Barkley marathons yes old tanker I think you are correct right maybe somebody can confirm that for me nice oh that's interesting Kurt so Gary Robbins announced over the weekend he plans to run next year that's awesome I would love to see I mean if I can if I can figure out the application process I will I will probably put my name in the hat for next year I've heard though it's like it's getting more and more difficult but um anyway so all right here we go first question from all of you no we are not doing a running shoe giveaway tonight that was fun though who was there on Monday night let us know in the chat that was fun okay here we go moving on here okay question for you how do you stay mentally and this is from Bryce and this was an email how do you stay mentally tough especially training alone the easy days aren't too bad but on workout days when it isn't going well how do you stay positive and grind it out in college I had teammates to help get me to the end of a workout but training alone has been tough so that is from Bryce that's a great question I'll be interested to hear in the chat if anybody else struggles with kind of that mental toughness it's sad it is very sad a lot of them at least in the United States like I hardly ever run with anybody mostly because I'm too busy and like schedules don't overlap so Bryce I can I totally get it I envy the East Africans in Ethiopia and Kenya who like go out for a run with like 30 40 50 runners almost every single day in these groups and they just like pound ground together I miss my times in college you know running together with a team so Bryce I totally get it awesome I'm glad some folks were here on Monday so my answer to that is Bryce I always you know I certainly try and look with the glass half full attitude and think of like there's a couple different maybe mental tricks you could do but one would be what is the other option the other option is you're injured and you have to go to the pool and swim laps or you have you're injured and you have to sit on the couch and you can't get out the front door even if it is alone or the other option is you're too busy to get a run in that day and that's like way worse than actually getting out the door alone for for whatever the mileage might be on that particular day so that's one little like mental trick I use like if I don't want to get out the door I just say gosh what is like the other option is not so good just sitting around or I'm too busy or I you know I don't know whatever the case may be oh I just heard a horn outside my house sorry one second okay we're good so and then as far as mental toughness Bryce I always I think I've raced so much through the years and Bryce I don't know what your racing schedule looks like but I love to think about my peak race and racing is so much more fun when you are fit and really really fit and when you are on the razor edge of like okay I am at my peak fitness this is going to be a really really fun day whether you're chasing down a PR or you're trying to win the race or you're trying to run the best leg in a relay whatever the case may be so it's runners I know I get it like we don't get to participate in our sport as far as racing as much as you know basketball or baseball so that can be tough but anyway those are a couple things that I use in my mental quiver to pull out when I don't want to get out the door it's with respect to mental toughness okay I know that was kind of a lot there and I have I have not I'm just going pulling these questions out I have no idea what questions I'm getting here so I hope that can help a little bit okay moving on pacing is on point oh yeah I'm sensing you could you could be leaning toward this for Cleveland so this is from Frankie that came in yesterday on Strava basically I ran in these shoes yesterday and I ran in them today the audios for is and come back tomorrow morning for the full review of this shoe so Frankie is wondering what my marathon shoe is going to be Frankie I don't know I will say I've got we've got we've got options right we've got we've got options here in the studio so it's very exciting and I don't hold up these shoes to like brag I just hold them up like to say oh look at look at how many running shoes I have I hold them up to say like I'm genuinely genuinely testing out these shoes for all of you like if I was not doing this YouTube channel I would probably have like two pairs of options for a marathon racing shoes so Frankie I don't know thank you for that question but I genuinely don't know what shoe is it is going to be all right moving on again thank you for that let's see here okay let's see this is from yes yes okay left I think you're watching I hope you're watching right now from Belgium he says I wonder what your philosophy is behind the speed workout venturing into a long run most plans focus on either workout or either long run unless you want to train your body to run tired so remember last week everybody I went to the track for the first time in 10 years that was a lot of fun to go to a dirt track and just hit it so left there's kind of two two things here first is I'm very very busy and so I have volume goals that I want to hit every single week and every you know really like that seven to ten day window because I know for a fact like how much I know how much volume I need to run 219 for a marathon like I have I have talent but I'm not you know I'm not the most talented runner out there so I am like testing the waters in this first marathon attempt to figure out okay how much volume can my body handle and how much speed can I add to my legs considering I'm coming off of ultra running and trail running so the philosophy behind the workout last week was first of all to get the legs moving a little bit at five minute flat pace right I did eight eight four hundred meter repeats in 75 seconds with a minute rest so it was great and then I went and did a 15 mile so left just so you know that 15 miles is a middle distance day for me can see I know the total day was 20 but I broke the workout into two sections so for a long run for me is really it's at least 20 and it's it's more like 22 to 24 now left you have to like last last year I was doing 30 mile 35 mile 40 mile long runs to get ready for like hundred mile races so it's like I know it's crazy and I don't want to encourage anybody to go do that like I and that's where like I just test I'm testing the waters for me and frankly for you like how does the body react to these different types of training so anyway I'm an ultra runner that's actually coming back in distance like today I did a 15 mile tempo and it was it was hard but like my perspective on 15 miles is it's a different perspective considering I was doing 30 mile 35 mile long runs in 2018 so that's one thing and then basically you already answered the question in your in your question basically yeah I want to train my legs to go fast when they're tired so that's why I did and eventually I'm gonna flip flop so I'm gonna do a 15 mile tempo and then hit the track I know it's crazy but that's what that's what I am approaching that's how I'm approaching this marathon training but listen everybody everybody I'm I'm I'm trying to run under 220 and that's like that's not easy it's I don't know if I can do it I like I really don't know so but I have a pretty good sense as to what my body needs to get me there oh my goodness I hope that helps left oh that was a great question I really I really appreciate you tuning in here we go okay pulling out here there was one that was connected to another okay we'll go with this one all right moving on oh this is a long one hold on oh man we're gonna save this I apologize it's a really long one and that would actually be a tip if you do have a really important question maybe try and keep it like two three four sentences at the most just because this is this is this is like a paragraph here so I'll I'll try to come back to that okay moving on hey Seth you should put a video together detailing your PRs I think I've watched all your videos but haven't seen this topic cheers oh I don't know who sent that in sorry about that I do have a video type PR into the search engine box on the channel and it'll come up I have one video dedicated to all of my PRs and frankly some people ask me like what's my half marathon PR what's my marathon PR and I just have to say I don't know I don't know because I did that one I did the one hour 11 minute half marathon last October I think it was alone not in a race on a not a not not not the flattest course so frankly we're about to figure out together in Cleveland what my marathon PR will be and what my half marathon PR will be because I I'm I'm thinking actually I know I need to set a half marathon PR in the marathon race yeah that's just that's that's the gameplay in for Cleveland okay moving on here thank you all and I will jump into the chat here in a minute I just want to make sure I get through as many of these questions as possible okay hey Seth how do you find the Nike Zoomfly flynits for three minute per lot per kilometer pace can they handle it thanks that's from Turhan basically Turhan I did not wear the Zoomfly flynits for the workout last week remember I I'm hoping Strava creates a feature where they can you can split mileage in a in one session so I did the Zonte fours on the track the new balance Zonte fours on the track for the the 400 meter repeats they were amazing and then I switched over over to the zoom fly flynits so I think that's what you're seeing on Strava so I did not wear the zoom flies for the three minute per kilometer pace I think they would be they would be fine at that pace but not on a track like the turning it's a really tall stack height in the actually here it is look at that stack height of the zoom fly it's just too tall for a track you know definitely I would not wear these on a track that is for sure maybe but yeah they could definitely handle you know five minute pace for sure they're not the lightest option out there but they would do the trick okay so cool to see everybody here let's see Daniel ask what is Strava say is your best effort I know I don't quite understand that feature Daniel I don't get it like it kind of guesses your I don't understand how they're I know what you're saying maybe somebody can jump on to the chat and talk back and forth I don't I don't understand those guesses from Strava okay next this is from XC is life on Instagram I was also wondering if you were going to review the kiger fives so just so you know everybody the Nike wild horse and the Nike tarot kiger fives are just being released like right now so yes I will be reviewing most likely both I don't know we'll see but yes stay tuned for that review good one here we go oh man nice turhan nice is turhan is in the house okay what shoes will you be running in at the Cleveland Marathon that is from Hugh I already answered that Hugh we shall see we shall see is it in the studio right now I actually don't even know we I'm still testing and figuring out like there's a lot of options out there for running shoes or marathon shoes okay this is from Uchu Quran I'm sorry if I'm not saying that correctly he says hi James and just so everyone knows my first name is Seth but you can definitely call me James that's my middle name so he says hi James I just watched your aerobic base video amazing information I have a question during the aerobic base training period should I add once a week interval training into a program or should I just keep on focusing on the aerobic base training thanks Uchu Uchu Uchu Quran sorry I'm not saying that right basically I would say for the half marathon and marathon the first two to two and a half months of training I would focus just on aerobic base building now I don't know like what your training block looks like so how long is your training block but for me I prefer two to two and a half months of just aerobic base training but for the 5k or the 10k I would say it's a little different I would say yes you do want to start adding some interval work earlier so instead of two to two and a half months in I would probably go seven to nine weeks in roughly just you know roughly where I would yeah I would start to add some interval work gentle at first and then slowly ramping up the volume and the intensity of the interval training so yeah I hope that helps again that's a broad answer I don't know your your goal race I don't know your peak race or your you know that but that's like a general rough answer that I would give for that thank you for that question I move it on and I'll jump after this one I will jump into the chat for one second okay oh boy okay this is a long one okay he says da da da da da he says some advice he's looking for some advice or tips for racing should I run my own race or run to win oh yeah this is a gentleman who's running a race in Israel maybe this weekend and I think it's a half marathon and his marathon personal best is 123 congrats I think he's in high school maybe but it sounds like he's trying he might be able to win it depending on the competition that shows up and so he's just asking for some racing tactic or racing strategy for the race let's see so I would say Lou and his name is Lewis thank you for that question basically Lewis for me if I show up at the starting line and I have a chance to win it I Lewis I would I would so what I test the waters I always test the waters for a 5k it's really like in the first 800 meters really I mean pretty quick into the race for a half marathon I would test the waters for a mile and a half maybe two miles and just listen so get in the pack get toward the front if you feel confident that you can run that pace whatever you know don't go out too fast but just listen to everybody around you listen to the breathing watch their watch their stride like are they really working and digging to make that pace happen or they kind of floating along like it's like it's a cakewalk so I would wait like a mile and a half to two miles into the half marathon and then at two miles if you're feeling good and everybody around you's you know feeling okay maybe you just start to increase that pace just a little bit to push it forward and see if others can respond hope that helps good question Lewis oh baby okay yeah I said I'm gonna jump in here let's see oh man lots of questions okay there we go that's right jazz we are we want to go running right now okay so Hine asked do you think that other than the shoe comfort does the specific shoe features make a difference for the average recreational runner some of those special shoes are really pricey let's see so I think the question is does the specific shoe features make a difference for the average wreck I would say that it will make you faster Hine yes I would say like I would yes I know they're pricey I know some of these shoes in the studio right now all of these right here are pretty you know these are all pretty pricey the the turbo the rocket and then the 4% they're all pricey but I I think they'll make anyone faster just a smidge now it's not gonna it's not gonna change the game completely but it's running shoes have really come a long ways in the last five years especially racing shoes so yeah I mean you know if you're racing a marathon at you know 12 minute pace or 13 minute pace it might not make a huge difference but anything I would say under 1130 pace I would say yes I'd say anybody can get a benefit good question thank you for that okay let's see here so many questions coming in okay I'm jumping back in here real quick thank you I'm in it again you all know about super chat and obviously it supports the channel but if you really have a question that you're just dying to ask I will answer all of the super chat questions I can't get because why because that's your hard-earned money and I appreciate it but I can't answer all the questions or else we would be here till midnight much maybe some maybe sometime we will we'll pull an all-nighter together how's that sound okay Jake asks I'm from the UK I stayed up to 2 a.m. but my size was not given away do you give away US size 14 wow that's a big foot Jake huge fan of your YouTube channel my parents are going on holiday to Denver in two weeks any recommendations for running routes for my dad Jake that's awesome thank you Jake for staying up late sorry we didn't pull a shoe size 14 for you and yes we will do another running shoe giveaway at some point basically Jake I would say he should check out Mount Falcon is a spot Deer Creek or Boulder if he wants to stay close now there is quite a bit of climbing there something a little easier would be Green Mountain it's a little a little more flat but anyway Jake good question I hope your dad has a good time in Denver okay moving on let's just see here if there's any questions I can jump into let's see oh my goodness okay let's see Trevor asks when you and one other person are leading a race what is the protocol for who should lead oh that's kind of interesting Trevor Trevor okay I'll be honest Trevor I haven't been in the lead of a race like too often but I would say Trevor if it's like a half marathon with with a headwind and somebody is sitting on your tail for over two miles I would certainly I would move to the side and let him I would if he's just if somebody's just drafting off of you like I would not let that happen I like I would fall back a little bit I tuck in anyway that's a good question Trevor but if there's a headwind you should not be and that's I would say that's just basic like if you're running the exact same pace for a half marathon a marathon like longer races nobody should sit on you forever and ever I think it's drafting is good but I do think it's it's good to like yeah I'm not I'm not a fan of just sitting on someone and then out kicking them I'd rather race it and get and see who can see you can win it okay moving on here Gorm ask I had my first run in my hoca carbon rockets today they're awesome expect that except that the right shoe is digging into my heel a little I expect them to be fine with a few more kilometers in them any tips to alleviate this in the meantime okay I want to ask right now for the for the chat who owns the hoca carbon rockets does anybody own them let us know in the chat if you do and are you struggling with it sounds like it was his right heel the heel was digging into into him Gorm I have not had that issue just so you know the full review of this shoe just published yesterday or two days ago no yesterday so I just gave my full review got to go check that out I must say though the more that I run in the carbon rocket the more that I like it I was a little apprehensive at first with the the one millimeter drop or offset from heel to toe and then the weight just over seven ounces in my size I just felt like I felt like it's it's it's moving in the right direction hoca but it's not it's not the perfect shoe yet I will say the upper on the hoca carbon rocket is the best upper I've ever ever worn I mean it is so comfortable this upper hoca you nailed the upper so just putting that out there right now but Gorm I have not had that issue okay moving on let's just see if there's any anyone here let's see okay moving on let's go here let's see okay we've got probably three more in the box oh man we are rocking and rolling okay hey Seth this is from Tristan it sounds like he's in the UK I absolutely love what you're doing on here on YouTube just wondering if there was any way you could change the giveaway slightly so that people outside of the US could get their name in the hat I'm in the UK was fast asleep that's smart congrats to all the winners from Tristan yes we will do a giveaway at some point at noon so noon my time which I think is 6 or 7 p.m. in London I think I think London is seven hours ahead of Colorado so that's a good we will do a giveaway I don't know when but we will we will do one at noon my time good question and of course like the giveaways are for everyone but they're most especially for people who truly need running shoes and can't afford them so just putting that out there like you know two years ago I could not afford brand new running shoes so now I can so I wouldn't put my name in the hat now anyway just wanted to put that out there okay let's keep going here so cool to have everyone here shout out to Caleb and Scott and oh man Kurt okay oh yeah I want to talk about the Vamero 14s in one second okay this is from Alex hey Seth I've been looking for a pair of the New Balance beacons but I am finding it quite hard to find a pair for a good price or ones that ship to Australia are there any shoes as light and soft as the beacons that's from Alex so he's looking for a pair of beacons that are at a good price so I don't have the beacons in the studio right now Alex basically the Skechers go run ride 7 I would say and I don't own this I don't own the GRR 7 is kind of the short short way to say it I don't own that shoe but I have tried the shoe on in Skechers running shoe store and they were good I enjoy I thought they were very comfortable and the cushion was there and I think they're oh man let me know in the chat I think they're around $80 now like they're pretty affordable the Skechers go run ride 7 would be an option I don't know if they're if Skechers is in Australia but anyway Alex I would look into them you know you know what oh man I'm trying to think of another gosh yeah anyway I'll just leave it there Skechers go run ride 7 for affordability good question okay the baby blues that is right Daniel okay moving on one more one more in the box and I'll just jump into the question real quick Scott from the Vermeero 14s Scott I'm deathly afraid of tying the Vermeero 14s on my feet now because like the laces cut into the top of my foot so bad that one time it legit it really took like 10 days for the pain to go away it didn't stop me from running but it was very concerning so I think I laced them too tight Nike I think you really really may because I am not the only one that suffered this pain there are other people out there on the internet who are complaining about the same issue where the laces or something is wrong at the top of the tongue where basically the tongue is not tall enough or there's not enough padding on the tongue of the Nike Vermeero 14 and I love the shoe it's a nice good heavy long run shoe like I like it it's like a good just get miles in it like for me at like 730 to 8 minute pace like just go pound it out and get it done not it's not a fast shoe but I'm I I probably won't wear them until after the marathon I just don't want to risk it at all so good question from Scott like I love the shoe don't the ride is amazing but it just a little too much pain through the top of the foot okay let's see here okay just making sure oh man Caleb says he got the go run ride 7 for $10 at running warehouse oh my goodness yeah they're really cheap they're really cheap good good call to Caleb okay let's see Michael's in the house he says me too I can't find the beacons here in Australia anywhere the new balance online store has one pair size seven and a half us okay good to know Michael I think the Canadian Marathon record holder Cam Levin's is a hocusponsored and running Boston that's from Trevor nice okay let's see here Jason's in the house totally agrees that those laces bite I run the vermero is very loose now I know I know it's crazy it's just crazy I run them loose too and I'm just like whoo I just got to wait I just got to give it time give it a little time on I good shoe but I just I got to figure that out okay let's see here Justin I'm gonna get to you in a second about plantar fasciitis because I know you've been asking about that okay one last question well we do have two but let's just do this one this is from Seth another Seth and it's a long it's kind of a longer one he's in Alabama and he runs actually we've kind of already touched upon this Seth but I'll do it again basically he's wondering I follow your channel and love it I just want to know how to stay positive all the time and not be negative I run at the University of Montevallo in Alabama I know you ran a good time in the 5k and just lately whenever I race or do workouts I just have these negative thoughts that tell me I can't go on what do you do to get through that if you answered it would be awesome I ran 15 19 for a 5k and I know I'm capable of so much more I just get into a race and shut down easily when it begins to hurt and I'm just trying to find out something since you're a positive guy okay Seth good name man oh listen I am not a psychologist and I'm just riffing here we're just riffing right back and forth trying to share from experience not necessarily from a professional psychologist mindset basically it takes time to develop the appreciation of pain and knowing Seth that someday you're gonna be old and you're not gonna be able to race 15 19 for a 5k you're gonna be racing 35 minutes for a 5k because guess what we all get old our knees start to hurt our hips start to go out this happens this is part of the human experience so I always say like I know it's maybe not the easiest thing to hear but I try to keep life in perspective understanding like this pain is beautiful because someday I'm not gonna be able to do this and frankly like today on my 15 mile run I was flying by people and I was like gosh how fortunate am I that these people are like you know they're just like they're not they're just they're just like okay there were some people walking and that's fine walking is good but like I could tell that they were trying to regain their their fitness their their their health like they probably can't run right now because either they're a little too big or whatever the case may be so I'm like gosh how blessed am I to be able to run right now and so Seth oh man so anyway that's like one little approach I take is like someday you're not gonna be able to go crush it on the track and make go into the as Courtney DeWalter says go into the pain cave like go into the pain cave set up some lawn chairs and just and just live a little just enjoy that pain cave a little I love that quote from Courtney so anyway Seth good question I'm not sure if that helps but I just like keep life in perspective know that someday you're gonna you're not gonna be able to do what you get to do you're very very fortunate to be at a university where you can race on a consistent basis all right does that sound good Seth great name and we can keep going back and forth feel free to email me back holy smokes get me fired up Seth get me fired up okay let's see here moving on to okay we're actually gonna save this and let's see where are we at in the chat okay we're gonna open it up anything you want to ask me right now open Q&A anything anything hit me up in the chat we'll go for maybe five to ten more minutes and and this is awesome so cool okay let's see here let's see here oh man so good yes yes expect the pain and welcome it as a friend as you are walking hard working hard enough to to have it show up it is complimenting you on your effort that is right awesome Jordan is here Daniel's here Greg is here shout out to Greg let's see here Anthony's here okay read Trevor says read Alex Hutchinson's endure nice like I'm guessing he's a real he's really good at like getting over these getting over you know mental challenges when it comes to racing okay I'm waiting for the questions to stream in here docute asks worst running memory I mean docute there's very few but you know what you know it comes to mind immediately is when you have to go to the bathroom it's sorry it's sorry to go there but like when your stomach is just like all tied up in knots that is probably one of the worst situations oh that is not good so yeah you know I went there I went there we're family here okay let's see Andrew asks how do you pace your long runs Andrew I usually go for seven to seven thirty pace right now when I'm fit when I'm just working into my fitness it's probably like eight minute pace eight thirty pace roughly good question Andrew but yeah seven to seven thirty pace for my long runs okay Daniel asked do you plan on going for a PR in the 5k oh man Daniel Daniel Daniel so my PR for the 5k is 1446 I ran it in Eugene Oregon at the University of Oregon 12 years ago when I was in college and it was at you know basically sea level and I felt real good like it was a good race but then I had a lot of injuries so I was unable to drop that PR time down lower but I will say Daniel I'm feeling very very good right now and like strong and fit and I'm gonna I'm gonna race on on Sunday at the so I'm racing the cookie chase 5k in Denver if you live in Denver come out to the cookie chase 5k you can register I think the day of and this is gonna be a good time so I'm gonna race and I'm gonna see what we can do listen we're at elevation here but I'm gonna go for I'm gonna I'm gonna go for broke as I like to say okay Trevor asked do you think you'll have a grandson named Seth Trevor I wouldn't be surprised I would not be surprised that's a good question okay let's see here let's see any tips for stress fractures oh man I've had nine stress fractures in my life so you're speaking my language you got to get in a boot immediately so put yourself in a boot put yourself on crutches if you want to heal even quicker usually I did crutches for two weeks and then a boot for four weeks and then during that time I was in the pool every single day aqua jogging and swimming and that actually was pretty darn good and then I would hit the stationary bike real hard that all worked pretty well to keep okay fitness you lose muscle strength but um so yeah that would be a couple ideas for you but yeah boot crutches oh man I had a lot of stress fractures so that was crazy times oh runner mom hall is in the house from Seattle I love it thank you for being here okay planer fasciitis real quick stretch your hamstrings and your calves hamstrings and calves three times a day ten minutes each session so 30 minutes a day hamstrings and calves hams your I am I learned last year like your planer fasciitis is not it doesn't start at your foot it starts because your entire kinetic chain like from your from your basically your lower back all the way down to your your toes it's all connected so anyway um yeah you want to really stretch out and then gentle massaging on your arch not on your heel so gentle massaging at first and then slowly you can get you can dig in a little bit more just trying to loosen up that fascia tendon but stay away from the heel because that's where it's probably inflamed and hurting the most again things that I've learned over time okay moving on Tyler asks am I coming to Wisconsin anytime soon I don't think so but I'd love to race in Wisconsin at some point let's see do I run daily I struggle running more than two to three times a day two to three times and we'd love to run more often any tips ways to increase thanks that's from Dominic I do run every day but I do take like a Christmas time I always take two to three weeks off every Christmas like no matter what and then after Cleveland I will take on I'll take a week maybe ten days I'm a big big fan of taking long chunks of time off after a peak race so how to increase I would say two to three times a week is a great place to start I always say though like five is this is a beautiful number I think you know especially if you're not if you haven't been running for years and years running every day can be it can be physically draining but also a little bit of a risk of injure of getting an injury so I would say shooting for five days a week is great because then you can do a rest day in the middle of the week and then maybe Sunday you take a rest day as well and then every other day you're running how to how to get there oh man I mean I think priorities oh it's like you just have you got to maybe say no to say no to like I used to play softball I love softball say no to softball and maybe say yes to running or I don't know you might have to cut something out of your schedule so good question I wish I had more for you okay holy smokes there are a lot of questions here when was the last time I had a side stitch that's from Justin I don't know I mean they happen I don't know maybe a month ago they happen occasionally you know they'll pop it'll pop up yeah they're no fun they're no fun let's see here okay oh boy I don't know if I can get to all these let's see alright Ben Ben agrees for planter fasciitis let's see Michael says he just grabbed a pair of beacons still expensive but hey nice Anthony asks have you ever been injured in your taper for a race how did you balance recovery and not losing fitness yes Anthony I have been injured in a taper for a race and gosh it depends on how far out but my injury happened like six days before so I honest Anthony I raced I raced through it I just ran through it I was like ah like I gotta go this is now is the moment so I wouldn't necessarily recommend that unless you're you know yeah I wouldn't recommend that but I have raced through yeah I have done a race on an injury so gosh let's see here okay I'm just trying to and always if you if you put a question mark at the end of your question it does help me find them here in the chat let's see oh my goodness sports fan is huge for cross country okay alright I'm not seeing any other questions so maybe we're good I'm just seeing like conversations happening okay Carl asks why do I have Strava on the blackboard behind me so Carl basically well first of all we have D'Amore Global Running is the group that we have on Strava there's like 1200 runners now in that group it's crazy last week we ran collectively together 26,000 miles together what that's like once around the earth 26,000 miles almost and so but the reason Strava is up there Carl is that basically why is it up there a lot of questions are coming like when I post my run people will ask questions which I love but I don't always have time I don't have time to answer all of them so what I'm doing now is I'm copying and pasting those questions for the live streams on Wednesdays does that make sense Carl so basically that's why it's up there is to oh yeah just to let everybody know keep the questions coming but I'm gonna be start answering the questions in the live stream because it's just like the volume of questions is bountiful if you know what I mean okay I think we're good I think we're good unless there's oh thank you for that super chat Tyler I love it I love it appreciate that oh Jim I apologize I met I'm not in a three-piece suit I am that was Jim that was an old photo I had to get a thumbnail up Jim I'm sorry I do I little a little a little clickbait there I do apologize okay Christian asks are you having a meet-up at the Cleveland Marathon because I'm running it and would love to meet you yes Christian it's gonna be after the race it will not be before I like to get in the zone I like to focus I need to rest right I'm a big advocate of staying off your feet the day before or two even two days before a peak race like you want to get a shakeout run in make sure the legs are still moving but I'm a big fan of of staying off your feet the day before a peak race so it'll be after the race I don't know the details yet we will figure it out we will figure it out so stay tuned for details on that okay so let's see and Jules asks what's your favorite kind of coffee Jules darker the better darker the better I if anybody doesn't know like I love coffee and I wish like Jules I can't really afford expensive coffee like I would love to buy high-end coffee at some point in my life but I like dark roast darker the better good question Jules I like those life questions as well okay and okay what we'll take okay I'm gonna take three more three more real quick Dominic asked do you have a rotation for the shoes you run in Dominic how I choose the shoes that I'm going to run in it all depends on the workout and the distance for example like you know I wouldn't take the zoom fly flying it's on a track I wouldn't um well these are all very similar shoes out here right now I wouldn't I wouldn't take the audios for from Adidas on an easy run I wouldn't do that this is a racing shoe so yeah it all depends on what the task at hand is for that particular day good question Dominic hopefully that helps that's a big question actually I could go into more detail on that sometime another time okay and law I have not used cycling workouts to get my aerobic actually okay I take that back in college I did use some cycling workouts to build up my aerobic base but that was yeah that was in college and it was mostly because I was coming off of injuries but good question I don't bike now okay yes I need a bow tie that is right okay two more questions um let's see um oh man so oh man okay there's so many questions it's great you guys you guys are the best okay Alan asks I'm just wondering if you've ever made a vlog on improving one's cadence and I think that question also connects to somebody asked how I work on my running form so basically Alan I need to do another video I'm just it's it's hard to find time but another video on plyometrics so it's plyometrics are basically explosive jumping that you do on a on a soccer field or somewhere there's grass to work on explosive movements and also I spend a lot of time actually today you'll see it in tomorrow's vlog I spend a lot of time just in my living room walking around like on my toes doing duck feet walks all these little movements with my feet to strengthen my ankles and my feet because I think that is the that is the your foot strike so how your foot strikes the ground that is the foundation of your running if your foot strike is a little off it throws everything else off up your entire leg so I always I really focus on strengthening my ankles my Achilles tendon my fascia my my all the teeny tiny muscles and tendons I guess it'd be more tendons and ligaments in my toes all of that so and then from there build up from there up the leg with mr. Robot you guys go search on the channel plyometrics and you might be able to see it's like this it's called I called mr. Roboto and basically you're doing a slow motion like you're going through molasses for like do it for like 15 to 20 meters down a soccer field and you just you do your running form in slow motion going just like really emphasizing every single movement so anyway huh well we'll get we'll get to more of that soon okay one more question oh man Scott and everybody there's just so many I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Daniel sorry guys I just there's just so many Daniel I do drink coffee before a race and I drink coffee before before workouts just a little bit just a little bit I like a little cock first of all I like coffee and a little jolt to the system but you got to watch it on race day definitely tone it back it's probably it's probably like three quarters of a cup like a normal-sized coffee cup not a big one and then and then yeah like three quarters of a cup so good question all right we got to call it it's we've been going for 75 minutes it's amazing I love you guys thank you for being here that was a lot of fun again email me your questions send them to me on Instagram those are probably the two best ways and then if you also want to ask on Strava underneath a run or in demore global running we'll do the same thing a week from tonight April 10th 7 p.m. Mountain time and I'll do my best to answer as many as possible thank you Tanner for that last super chat there dollar nine and nine I appreciate it thank you Tanner and that is all you all are the best we'll do this again and seek beauty work hard and love each other right that's how we roll here on this channel and of course I never know how to stop the the livestream so hold on here yeah I have no clue

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TOTAL RAPE OF UKRANIAN WOMEN - Russia USE SEXUAL VIOLENCE as a weapon of war: INVESTIGATION STARTED

#Kanal13​ #VideonuBəyən​ #AbunəmizOl #Kanal13Televiziyasi An international team of legal advisers has been working with local prosecutors in Ukraine's recaptured city of Kherson in recent days as they began gathering evidence of alleged sexual crimes by Russian forces as part of a full-scale investigation. The visit by a team from Global Rights Compliance, an international legal practice headquartered in The Hague, has not previously been reported. Their efforts are part of a broader international effort to support overwhelmed Ukrainian authorities as they seek to hold Russians accountable for crimes they allegedly committed during the conflict, now nearly 10 months old. Accusations surfaced soon after Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of rape and other abuses across the country, according to accounts Reuters gathered and the U.N. investigative body. Moscow, which says it is conducting a "special military operation" in Ukraine, has denied committing war crimes or targeting civilians, and the Kremlin denies allegations of sexual violence by the Russian military in Ukraine. The Russian defence ministry did not immediately respond to questions for this article. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Dec. 9 that a UN Human Rights report about Russian attacks on civilians was based on "rumours and gossip," and Moscow has accused Ukrainian forces of brutal reprisals against civilians who cooperated with Russian forces. The scale of the Ukrainian prosecution's task is daunting, with the number of alleged international crimes running into tens of thousands and as war in the east and south of the country makes already complex work more difficult and dangerous. "We've come down here for a three-day mission to support the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG), and specifically the team investigating conflict-related sexual violence," said Julian Elderfield, one of the legal advisers who took part in the Kherson visit that ran from Thursday to Saturday. "(It's about) asking the right questions, pursuing unique or different lines of investigation that might otherwise not have been pursued by local investigators," he told Reuters in Kherson on Saturday (December 10). More than 50,000 alleged incidents of international crimes have been reported by Ukraine's prosecutor general since Russia's full-scale invasion. They include hundreds of potential cases of alleged war crimes, genocide and crimes of aggression, some of which could be escalated to overseas tribunals like the International Criminal Court (ICC) if they are deemed sufficiently serious. In June, Ukraine held a preliminary hearing in its first trial of a Russian soldier charged with raping a Ukrainian woman during Russia's invasion. The suspect was not in Ukrainian custody and was tried in absentia. Elderfield and Olha Kotlyarska, a legal adviser also working for Global Rights Compliance, together make up the mobile justice team supporting the Ukrainian prosecutors' fact-finding mission in Kherson. They joined Ukrainian prosecutors visiting hospitals, a local aid distribution center and other sites to pursue lines of investigation and interview victims of alleged abuses, including sexual violence. Ukraine's special war crimes unit for conflict-related sexual violence is also collecting video and photographic evidence that could help them identify perpetrators for future prosecutions. Whether Russian commanding officers are to blame, or subordinates who carry out their orders, is one of many thorny issues to be resolved in the future, local investigators said. Anna Sosonska, deputy head of Ukraine's eight-member war crimes unit for sexual violence, told Reuters she would supervise the investigation and look into the possible role of Russian political and military leaders in any crimes. "Everywhere where Russian soldiers were based they committed war crimes, they committed sexual violence and they tortured, they murdered," she said. Rape can constitute a war crime under the Geneva Conventions that establish international legal standards for conduct of armed conflicts. Widespread or systematic sexual violence could amount to crimes against humanity, generally seen as more serious, legal specialists said. Serhii Doroshyn, deputy head of the national police's Investigation Department in Crimea and Sevastopol, told Reuters the unit had questioned about 70 people so far. Many of them said they had been held at up to 10 detention centers in the Kherson region during Russia's occupation. He added that more than half said they had been subjected to various forms of sexual violence. There are likely to be many more witnesses, he added. © KANAL13 [ Azərbaycanın ilk peşəkar internet televiziyası ] The First Internet TV of Azerbaijan Tags: Ukriane, Russia, Putin, Putler, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zelenski, Kiev, Kyiv, Kadirov army, Kadirov, Kherson, Bucha, Kharkiv, Ukrainian pilots, vagners, Russian tanks, NATO, drones, Moscow, Kreml, war victims Ukraina,

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Implantation of a Vascular Access Button for Chronic Blood Sampling and Drug Administ... | RTCL.TV

### Keywords ### #rabbit #bloodcollection #chronic #vascularaccess #vascularaccessbutton #RTCLTV #shorts ### Article Attribution ### Title: Implantation of a Vascular Access Button for Chronic Blood Sampling and Drug Administration in the Rabbit Authors: Jon Ehrmann, Wendy Johnson, Arlene de Castro ,and Marcie Donnelly Publisher: MDPI AG DOI: 10.3390/surgeries4020016 DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/3d4a39fc9e024ea2bab08c50c91393be Source URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4095/4/2/16 ### 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 0:00:24 - Title 0:00:29 - End

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The authors have developed a new model for chronic vascular access in rabbits using a vascular access button, VAB. This model has been found to be effective and reliable, with a high patency rate and minimal complications. It is a viable alternative to existing methods of chronic vascular access in rabbits, providing a convenient and reliable means of collecting blood samples and administering drugs. This article was offered by John Airman, Wendy Johnson, Arlene DeCastro, and others.

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Using nuclear science to improve animal breeding

Animals, so important for food security – they provide us with milk, with eggs, with meat. But as global population growth has accelerated, so has the demand for animal produce – putting a strain on both farmers and the environment. Simply raising more animals is not an option; it would put even greater pressure on an already strained environment. The solution lies in increasing the productivity of those animals. This is usually done by selecting and breeding superior animals; but this is a slow process, it can take several years to determine their breeding potential. Now, with advances in genomics, it has become possible to estimate the breeding potential of an animal on the day of its birth, simply by looking at its DNA – or genome map. Just watch the animation and you will see how.

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Animals. So important for food security. They provide us with milk, with eggs, with meat. But as global population growth has accelerated, so has the demand for animal produce, putting a strain on both farmers and the environment. Simply raising more animals is not an option. It would put even greater pressure on an already strained environment. The solution lies in increasing the productivity of those animals. This is usually done by selecting and breeding superior animals, but this is a slow process. It can take several years to determine their breeding potential. Now, with advances in genomics, it has become possible to estimate the breeding potential of an animal on the day of its birth simply by looking at its DNA, or genome map. This map pinpoints the location of specific features on the animal's chromosomes, so-called DNA markers that are important, for example, for milk, meat, or egg production. These genome maps are produced using a nuclear technique known as radiation hybrid mapping. A few cells collected from an animal are irradiated using gamma rays to randomly break up the DNA into short, manageable strands. The irradiated cells are then fused with rodent cells to propagate the short strands of animal DNA, the so-called radiation hybrid panels. These hybrid panels now enable the mapping of several DNA markers onto each of the broken DNA pieces that are subsequently put together to generate the whole genome map of the animal. Once the full genome is mapped, tens of thousands of such markers are combined onto a DNA chip, which can then be used to determine the breeding potential of the animal. Application of DNA chips derived from such radiation hybrid maps to screen and choose the best animals has totally revolutionised the breeding of dairy cattle to increase milk production. The joint FAO IAEA division now assists countries throughout the world in the use of radiation hybrid mapping to develop DNA chips for other important farm animals, including zebu cattle, goat, and camel, to sustainably increase animal productivity, attain food security, and protect the environment.

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Lt. Gen. David G. Bellon Testimony to U.S. Senate on Marine Reserve Force

U.S Marine Corps Lt. Gen. David G. Bellon, Commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces South, speaks about budget spending on the fiscal year 2023 in the Marine Forces Reserve to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, June 7, 2022. (Courtesy Video by Department of Defense) Defense Now - June 2022. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe95fdmDwNk9IGEDfYKiTckm8YN5P4J6l Checkout for more Latest Defense & Technology News Updates. www.defenseflashnews.com Lt. Gen. David G. Bellon Testimony to U.S. Senate on Marine Reserve Force WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES 06.07.2022 Film Credits: Marine Forces Reserve

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I'm deeply concerned, however, that the administration's failure to direct the appropriate resources to the crisis at the southern border has resulted in shifting the burden to the Guard. Because the administration has refused to fund the construction of a comprehensive barrier along the border, it has been compelled to send the National Guard to deal with the consequences. Further, if the administration succeeds in appealing a recent court decision, Title 542 restrictions will end, and the demands on the Guard's manpower and resources will only increase. Recently, we've seen as much as $300 million in a single year reprioritized from the Guard to pay for border deployments. That's a lot of money. Now we're seeing active military components cover most of the bill, which puts a significant and unnecessary strain on the DOD in the year of execution. Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable. So today I would like to understand, if you can help us here, how the administration's policies at the border are straining your resources and how the President's budget supports the fundamental requirements of the Guard and the Reserves. I would also like to know whether your respective budgets fall short of providing adequate funding for much-needed equipment, modernization, training, and recruitment. I know that's a lot, but this is the funding committee. Thank you very much. Chairman Tester, Ranking Member Shelby, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and to testify on behalf of the Commandant of the Marine Corps about your Marine Corps Reserve. I am honored to appear with my fellow Reserve Components Service Chiefs and my senior enlisted leaders, Force Sergeant Major Carlos Ruiz and Command Master Chief Kerry Wessler who are seated directly behind me. As the Commandant stated two weeks ago before this committee, the Marine Corps must be ready to respond to crisis in any climate place. That is part of our national security. On average, every year, approximately one-third of my force activates for exercises or in support of global combatant commands. From no notice, deployments to CENTCOM, INDOPAYCOM, and UCOM, to at home in support of COVID-19 operations, to recruit training in support of both coasts for the recruit depots at Paris Island and San Diego, to operations allies welcome here at home for our Afghan partners. There is no timeline or mission that your Marine Corps Reserve will not and cannot answer when called upon. As the Marine Corps approach to global threats continues to evolve, so must the Marine Corps Reserve. This means not only having the right capabilities at the right capacity, but also getting the right access to our warfighters at the speed of relevance to meet future demands in an increasingly complex global landscape. Our three-year effort under Force Design 2030, punctuated by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, has led us to consider whether the current models for authorities and resource funding will allow us to generate, access, and deploy the Marine Corps Reserve at the speed of need required by growing global threats. With the current lack of overseas contingency operations funding, our ability to respond to future contingency scenarios is severely questioned. I would like to work with this committee to explore a new, more modern set of authorities and funding that would enable and empower your Marine Corps Reserve to continue responding to crisis and contingency with increased flexibility. As you are aware, a vitally important component of Force Design 2030 is the Marine Corps strategy for talent management. As part of this evolving strategy, the Marine Corps must continue to leverage the Reserve component to recruit and retain and promote diverse warriors who possess unique talents, skills, and perspectives. Talent management like Force Design must succeed in order to ensure that we have the best warrior leaders in place so that we win future battles. As this committee is well aware, Reserve Marines work extraordinarily hard to balance family responsibilities, civilian careers, and education with their military service. They introduce different perspectives to the Marine Corps based on their wide range of background and experiences. They have chosen to continue to serve honorably even though many of them have long since fulfilled their initial obligation to the Corps. On a daily basis, they demonstrate extraordinary selflessness and continue to answer their irrational call to serve. I want to thank the committee for your continued support to the National Guard and Reserve Equipment Appropriation. In this coming year, I would like to work with this committee to explore several opportunities to enhance the Marine Corps' littoral maneuver and sustainment capacity by building these capabilities within the Marine Corps Reserve. I believe that leveraging the degree of funds for this effort can have a direct and immediate impact to our operational and strategic posture. By increasing the flexibility of Nogria, Congress can help protect our warfighters and prevent strategic risk to mission by ensuring your Reserve Marines remain at the peak of operational readiness. Finally, I echo the sentiments of my fellow Reserve Service Chiefs, and I would actually personally like to thank Ranking Member Shelby for over 60 years of public service serve. You are a true example of a servant leader. General Scoby, Rich, I want to thank you for everything you've taught me over the last three years, and I'm so proud to have served with you. Senator Shelby and General Scoby, on behalf of all the Reserve Marines, we thank you for your service to our nation, and I appreciate the opportunity to be here today and look forward to your questions. I propound this to all of you. The Guard and Reserves are often the last service components to fill new equipment, platforms, and you tend to receive less in the President's budget for procurement than others on upgrades. And each of you identify critical equipment platforms that need urgent upgrades and modernization that are currently unfunded. Also, how do you plan to mitigate any risk associated with budget gaps in these platforms? So I think to answer your question, I would have to say, I mean, thinking about what our actual priorities are, which is the individual sons and daughters, moms and dads that make up the Corps. So the very first priority would have to be individual combat equipment, which is the very body armor that they wear on their body, their night vision, all the things that make them survivable and effective as individual warriors. The platforms that they will man are important, too. That's got to be the priority. As far as new capabilities, back to my previous statement, I think coastal, near-coastal and riverine maneuver platforms, small craft.

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App Lab Simple Quiz App Tutorial

In this video, I'll show you how to make a simple quiz app using the amazing Code.org App Lab. App Lab is an amazing free online website that lets you create simple (and not so simple) apps using drag and drop block and/or JavaScript. Code.org: https://code.org/ Intro to App Lab: https://studio.code.org/s/applab-intro/lessons/1/levels/1 NEED HELP? 🆘 Watch this first and then let me know in the comments below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6AwVuu6O3Y ❤️❤️ SHOW SOME LOVE AND SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL ❤️❤️ LINKS 🗄️ GITHUB: https://github.com/wynand1004 💬 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tokyoedtech 📜 Subscribe to my Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKgM8k 📝 Check out my Blog: https://christianthompson.com ⬇️ Download Geany Editor: https://www.geany.org LEARN MORE PYTHON ➡️Space Invaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvtlEj_T55o&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-lqvqL5nNNZC6KoRdSrhQwK ➡️Snake Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP7KMlbvtOo&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-n8k9SR49AshB9j7b5Iw7hZ ➡️Pong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8WgrUWG_I&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-kXk2PyBxhSmo84hsO3HAz2 ➡️Space War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1IDnP5IrI&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-muprNCDYiKLZ-Kc3-p8thS ➡️Intro to Python (for Java Coders): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIulVFh4S-k&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-n4c4QMmUVknHxfjDlvbY1l ➡️Space Arena - The Ultimate Python Turtle Graphics Game Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUoJjHOlY24&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-kK78GXDVzytiZlJtCyiFyW LEARN MORE JAVA ➡️Basic Java for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxmQeC-3uuE&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-lCMWT4wd3VbZbv_swTd_eT ➡️Intro to AP Computer Science A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g99HckBk8c&list=PLlEgNdBJEO-kaJjwvtMrBBrm6-i4w1TQG #Tokyoedtech #JavaScript #Tutorial #Beginner #AppLab

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Welcome to Code.org App Lab, making a simple quiz app with me, Tokyo EdTech. So let's go ahead and get started. We are going to be using Code.org, a great website if you haven't seen it before. Check it out. You can log in, create an account. I did another video on this, so you might want to check that one out first. So assuming that you're all logged in, you're going to go to Create and you'll see App Lab. So I'm going to go ahead and click App Lab and make a new project. So today what we're doing is doing a very simple quiz. So Tokyo EdTech's quiz. And so what we're going to do is I'm going to try and make this as simple as possible. Let's see if I can make that any bigger. Might be helpful. There we go. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to be making a very simple quiz app and I'm going to have multiple screens with multiple questions. So when you start doing a project like this, what you want to do is you want to start from your design. So I'm going to go ahead and click on my first screen and I'm going to change the ID. I'm going to call this Main. And this will be basically my first screen. So what I usually put here is I put something like a label and this might be label title and I'll call this Music Quiz App. Now I'm going to spend a bunch of time trying to make this look super-duper pretty. We'll just leave it the way it is and go ahead and make that 30 and drag this over and make it so we can see the whole thing. So I'm going to make a simple Music Quiz App and so I'm on my main screen. I've got a title and I'm just going to make a little start button here. So I'm going to call this Button Start and the text is going to say Start. And again, I could put a bunch of other stuff, some images, make it a little bit nicer but for now I just want to do this to show you how the coding side of it works. So I'm going to go ahead and hit Run and so this is what my app looks like. I'm going to hit Start. Nothing happens, of course. So let's go ahead and take care of that. Well actually first, I'm on screen main. So what I need to do is I need to make another screen for my first question. So I'm going to go to Screen and I just drag that over and let it go. So I'm going to call this Screen Q1. So this is going to be my first question. So I'm going to go back up to Label and I'm going to call this LBL Q1. It kind of makes sense. So I'm going to say who is the singer of the cure? Yes, I'm a big fan of the cure so I'm going to go ahead and put that here. Again, I can go ahead and make this a little bigger. I can go ahead and play with the font size. I'm going to go ahead and try to make that, let's say 20. And I can also do text line. I usually like to do things centered like that. So now what I'm going to do here is I'm going to make two buttons. Now you can have two, three, four, five buttons. It doesn't matter. Okay. So I'm going to call this button Q1A1. So that's button, question one, answer one. And the text is going to be, let's see what would be a good choice. It's a Bob mold, it's mode. Okay. And then I'm kind of a lazy person. So I'm going to go ahead and click this and I'm going to duplicate it. And what you can do is you can get your size and fonts and stuff set up the way you want it to. And so I'm going to call this button Q1A2. And the text of this one is going to be Robert Smith, which is the correct answer. So now I've got two questions that I want to be using. Now I'm going to go ahead and just make one more screen. Actually, I was going to go ahead and copy this screen. So I'm going to go ahead and duplicate it. Okay. Now it says screen three. So I'm going to call this SCRQ2. Because this is going to be my question two. Oops, that's the wrong thing. I think I'm clicked on this. I'm going to go back and click on the screen. I'm going to call it SCRQ2. Okay. And it is not letting me do this. Question two. Why is that? So let's go ahead and question screen Q1. That should be SCRQ1. Well, let me do that. Let's see here. Okay. That's fine. I'm going to go to SCRQ2. I don't know why it doesn't let me do that. Screen Q2. That's fine. Maybe it has to be a certain length to Q1. Very weird. I don't know why it's doing that. But anyway, normally I do SCR. I don't know why it's not letting me do that here. So let me try this one more time. SCR. It does not like Q2QQ. Huh. The numbers. Somehow the numbers aren't registering quite correctly. Screen Q2. Well, I'm not going to fight it. I'm just going to go ahead and go with it. And go screen Q1, screen Q2. Now again, I'm using names that make sense. Okay. Actually, that's how I'm going to try one more thing, because that really bothers me. Question 2. It lets me do that. I guess it's the length. So SCR. I'll say question 1. Okay. It does let me do that. So it has something to do with the length. Okay. So I'm going to go to question 2. Now notice how this label is now LBL, label 3. So I'm going to call this label Q2. Sorry. Label Q2. So this is question 2 label. And this is going to be button question 2, answer 1. And this is going to be button question 2, answer 2. And I'm going to go ahead and make a different question here. And so who's the singer of the cure? Let's see here. Who is the... I like singers. I like music. Who is the singer of... I can't do the Beatles because there's four singers. So let's think here. It's a good man. Who is the... Okay. I'll say who's the guitarist. Guitarist of Pink Floyd. And so we'll go ahead and we're going to make this one is going to be... I think that's the right answer. Well, this is David Gilmore. And for this one, we'll go ahead and make this... There's another... I'll say Eric Clapton. Obviously for the wrong answer. Okay. So what I'll do is I'll go ahead and program this now and just program it so that it works a little bit. So just to reiterate, to review, we've got our main screen. We've got screen question 1. We've got screen question 2. And so we've got different questions. Everything's labeled properly. I'm going to go over to my code part of my app. And if you didn't watch my other video on how to do this or you haven't watched the tutorial video from code.org I would strongly recommend you do that before we get into this. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull this over and what I'm going to do is on button start. So notice how my cursor is on top of this. See it says BTN start. So I'm just going to hit the drop down and I'm going to find button start. So when I click button start, what I want to do is I want to go to the next screen. So if you scroll down in the UI controls, you'll see set screen. So I want to go to screen question 1. Okay, so let's go ahead and run it and test it. I'm going to hit start and it takes me to this screen. So now I'm going to do basically the same thing. I'm going to go on event. Okay, button question 1, A1. I can also do button on event, button Q1, A2. So now if I go to that screen, let's take a look at that real quick. So Robert Smith is the correct answer. Bob Moll is an incorrect answer. But it doesn't really matter at this point. So no matter which one I do, I want to actually go to the next screen. I'm not keeping track of the score quite yet. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and run it. Start. So I hit Bob Moll. It takes me to who's the guitarist at Pink Floyd. Okay, so I'm going to reset that. Now, I'm going to do the same thing for that next page. Okay, so I'm going to go to on event. So on ID. So it's going to be button question 2, answer 1. Same thing. I'm going to be setting screen. Now we don't actually have a next screen actually. So I guess I have to leave that out for now. So let's go ahead and think about this. So what I want to do is I want to make a music quiz app. And when I hit start, it's going to take me to the first question. And it's going to take me to the second question. And I'm going to have one more screen that tells me the result. So I'm going to go back to design. And I'm going to go ahead and drag screen in again. Creates a new screen. I'm going to call this SCR result. And then I can pull in a label. And I'm going to call this label result title. And we'll call this results. And let's see here. We're going to make this pretty big. And then I'm going to go ahead and make one more label. And I'm going to call that actual label score. And the text, I'm going to leave it like this score. I'll leave it like that, zero for now. And we'll talk about how we're going to change that in a second. So I'm going to go ahead and make that 20. And again, I can center it. I can do all kinds of different things with the appearance of it. So I've got screen result and the score. So now I want to go back to my code at this point. So when I click button, question 2, A1, I'm going to go to that final result screen. When I click on button, question 2, answer 2, I'm going to do, oops, wrong one. That should be on event. I'm going to do button, question 2, answer 2. Same thing, set screen, screen result. Again, I'm just going to go ahead and test it, make sure it's working. So start, Bob Moll. Okay, so this part is working. I should do, I should check start, oops, I should run it. Start, Bob Moll, David Gilmore, results, good. Start, oops, run. Start, Robert Smith, Eric Clapton, results. So far, so good. It's doing exactly what we wanted to do. Now, here's the trick. What I need to do is I need to create a variable. And a variable is like x, it just stores a value. So I'm going to go ahead and put there, and I'm going to make this the first line of my program. I'm going to call this score. And when I start the program, the score is zero. So I'm going to go back to my design. And if you remember, question 1, button Q1A2 is the correct answer. And for question 2, Q2A1 is the answer. So watch what I do here. So when I click button 1, question A2, that's the correct answer, I do the following. Notice I'm not choosing there, I'm just choosing x equals. And before I set the screen, I'm going to say score equals, type score plus 1. What that does is it adds 1 to the score. Can I copy that now? And then over here, for the second question, A1 was the correct answer. So I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing. It's got to be before you set the screen. So score equals score plus 1. Now, here's the trick. Here's a bit of a trick for you. Let's see. Let me just make sure. I want to try one thing. I don't know if this is possible, so I should check this before. I just want to check one thing. And if it works, I'll tell you. If it doesn't, I'll just ignore it. Screen result, oops. Screen result. No. Okay, we can't do that. Okay, so let's get rid of that. So what I'm going to do, now this is my last correct. This is my last question. So what I want to do is on my last question only, I'm going to do the following. Set property, label, score. I'm going to set the text to the following. Score, space, plus score. See, I might have to scroll out a little bit here. Okay, so it came out, quote, score, below space here, plus score. I'm going to do the same thing for the other last question. Again, there are other better ways to do this, but if you're a beginner, this is a good way to do it that's understandable. Okay, same thing. I'm going to do score, colon, space, and after the quotation mark, score. This is a hit tab. The program automatically switches it to block program. Now, again, I think I showed this in the other video. You can switch this into JavaScript and just type code if you'd like to. It's probably easier for beginners to do it this way. Okay, so let me go ahead and run this and make sure it works. So quiz app. So who is the singer of the cure, Robert Smith? Who is the guitarist of Pink Floyd, David Gilmore? And you can see my score is two. Let's go ahead and reset it. I'm going to test it and run it again. I'm going to test it and get the wrong answers. Bob Mullen, Eric Clapton, and you can see my score is zero. Now, I should test correct answer and wrong answer, and should get one. And there's also one other path there, wrong answer and correct answer, score one. So that is how you do a very super simple quiz app with very, very low coding requirements. Let me just make this just a little smaller. And I'm going to go over this one more time and just explain what I did. Okay, so I started out with my design. I created my first screen. I called it main. I put a label. I put a button. And then I put two question pages, two question screens. Okay, label question one, button question one answer one, button question one answer two. And then I did the same thing with screen question two. Just change the labels to label Q2, button Q2 A1, and button Q2 A2. And then a file screen result. Now I could have had, you know, I could have had 20 questions. So I'd have 20 screens. I have a label called result title and a label called score. And then I just set that default to score zero. Then in my code, I did the following. I set the score to zero at the start. When I click the start button, I go to screen question one. When I click button Q1 A1, I go to screen question two. Because this is the wrong answer. When I click button Q1 A2, I add one to the score. Then I go to screen question two. On screen question two, if I push button Q2 A1, I add one to the score. Then I update the label score over here with the text to score plus score. Note the quotation marks. That's really, really important. So quotation marks here, no quotation marks there. Then I set the screen to the result screen. Same thing for button Q2 A2. Even though it's the wrong answer, I do the same thing because I still need to set this to whatever the total is at that point. But the difference here is this was the right answer, so I add one. And that is it. That's the entire code. Now, if I were to make... I could end up making screen question three, screen question four, screen question five, screen question six. And it's just the exact same concept. So I could just basically copy and paste all the code. Or again, I can just drag it all in. And so we're only using a few of the features of this program. But you can do some pretty advanced stuff. So again, I made a variable. I did some events where we click, we set the screen, and we set the property of this. And that, my friends, is that. So click like. And if you have any questions, hit the comments down below. Take care and keep on coding.

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Maths VIII RSA 4 5

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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says construct a trapezium PQRS in which PQ is equal to 6 cm, QR equal to 4 cm, RS equal to 3.2 cm, angle Q equal to 75 degrees and SR is parallel to PQ. Let's proceed with the construction. Before making the actual trapezium PQRS, first let's construct the rough sketch of the trapezium PQRS. This is the trapezium PQRS where we have PQ is equal to 6 cm, QR is equal to 4 cm, RS is equal to 3.2 cm, angle Q is 75 degrees and we have that SR is parallel to PQ. Now let's construct the trapezium PQRS step by step. First of all we draw PQ equal to 6 cm. We have drawn PQ equal to 6 cm. Now look at the rough sketch. As you can see angle Q is 75 degrees. So in the next step we make angle XQP equal to 75 degrees. This angle XQP is of measured 75 degrees. Now in the rough sketch as you can see we have QR of measured 4 cm. So in the next step with Q as the centre and radius 4 cm cut an arc on the ray XQ. So we have cut an arc of radius 4 cm taking Q as the centre. Let this point be point R. Now since it's given that SR is parallel to PQ so at point R we will draw SR parallel to PQ. So in the next step we write draw a ray RY parallel to PQ. To draw a ray RY parallel to PQ we make an angle of equal measure as angle Q at the point R. Now measuring this arc we cut an arc of equal measure on this arc. So we have drawn this arc which is of equal measure as this arc. Now from the point R we will pass a line which also passes through this arc. So this is the ray RY parallel to PQ since this angle is of measure 75 degrees that is angle XRY is of measure 75 degrees also angle XQP is of measure 75 degrees that is angle XRY is equal to angle XQP. Now since the corresponding angles are equal so this means that RY is parallel to PQ. Next we need to make RS equal to 3.2 cm so our next step would be with R as the centre and radius 3.2 cm an arc on the ray RY. So this is the arc of radius 3.2 cm from RS the centre take this point as point S then next we join so this PQ RS is the required trapezium where we have PQ equal to 6 cm angle Q equal to 75 degrees QR equal to 4 cm then RS equal to 3.2 cm. So this completes this session hope you have understood the solution for this question.

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Telegram Support | "Join Us" (HackconCTF 2018)

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Virtual Durham Planning Commission Oct 13, 2020 (w/captions)

0:00 Intro 0:26 Call to Order 2:14 Roll Call 4:11 Approval of the Minutes 6:28 Adjustments to the Agenda 8:48 Resolution Recognizing Akram Al-Turk 12:50 2021 Meeting Schedule 14:44 A1900017/Z1900044 551 Olive Branch Road 1:00:08 Z1900057 Corners at Brier Creek Townhomes South 1:43:09 Information Item: Landscape Manual Revisions 1:59:07 Other Matters 2:06:23 Adjourn To view the the live stream version (with better audio) visit https://youtu.be/hI1QHnf8xXk This virtual regular meeting of the Durham Planning Commission for Oct 13 2020 will be streamed at 5:30 p.m. on the City of Durham's YouTube, Facebook and Twitter accounts. It will also be streamed on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon with the free Boxcast app. After Boxcast is loaded, then search for City of Durham NC. This meeting was also televised on Spectrum channel 8, Google Fiber channel 8, Frontier channel 70 and AT&T U-verse channel 99 in Durham, North Carolina. Finally, it can also be viewed on Boxcast TV at https://boxcast.tv/channel/q9rxy3m1fowkfvinjskd To view the full agenda, visit http://DurhamNC.gov/AgendaCenter/Planning-Commission-15 Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/cityofdurhamnc Like: http://www.facebook.com/cityofdurhamnc Follow: http://www.twitter.com/cityofdurhamnc Follow: http://www.instagram.com/cityofdurhamnc Visit: http://DurhamNC.gov

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Welcome to the Durham Planning Commission. The members of the Durham Planning Commission have been appointed by the city council and the board of county commissioners. We're an advisory board to the elected officials. You should know that the elected officials will have the final say on any of the items that are before us this evening. Tonight's meeting is being held virtually using the Zoom meeting platform. And in this virtual meeting setting, public participants do not have the ability to talk or be seen by default to maintain decorum and a discernible record of the meeting. The chat function has also been disabled. Speakers will be given the ability to speak at the appropriate time in the meeting. So if you have preregistered to speak on any item that will be having a public hearing on this evening, we will call your name in the order that you signed up just like we would at an in-person hearing. If you call in before the meeting started and staff was able to get your name, your name will also be called to speak at the appropriate time as normal. You may call into the meeting tonight by dialing 1-301-715-8592. And if you want to speak, you can wait until the particular public hearing is opened. And after all the registered speakers have spoken, we'll give an opportunity for you to be able to digitally raise your hand and we'll give you the opportunity to speak as well. You can press star nine to digitally raise your hand at the appropriate time. We ask that everyone speaking during the public hearing start by providing their name and their address and then you can make your public comments. Finally, all motions are stated in the affirmative. So if a motion fails or ties, the recommendation is not favorable. Thank you. May we have the roll call please? Good evening, Chair Busby and planning commissioners. We know of one absence for this evening that will be commissioner Baker and one potential late arrival. That's commissioner MacGyver. So can I have commissioner Amondola? Here. Chair Busby? Here. Commissioner Durkin? Here. Commissioner Johnson? Present. Vice chair Kenchin? Present. Commissioner Landfried? Present. Commissioner Lowe? Present. Commissioner MacGyver, I don't think he's joined us yet. Commissioner Miller? Here. Commissioner Morgan? Here. Commissioner Williams? Here. Thank you. Thank you. May we have a motion to excuse commissioner Baker from this evening's meeting please? So moved. Seconded. Moved by commissioner Miller, seconded by commissioner Morgan and we'll have the roll call vote please. Commissioner Amondola? Yes. Chair Busby? Yes. Commissioner Durkin? Yes. Commissioner Johnson? Yes. Vice chair Kenchin? Yes. Commissioner Landfried? Yes. Commissioner Lowe? Yes. Commissioner Miller? Yes. Okay, commissioner Morgan? Yes. And commissioner Williams? Yes. Okay, thank you. Great, thank you. So we have three previous meeting minutes to be approved. Those were sent out about a week ago and we can do all of those in one motion. Those are for the August 11th, September 15th and September 22nd meetings. And before we have a motion are there any issues with any of those? They look fine to me, but I don't know if anyone caught anything that we need to change before we approve them. Mr. Chairman, would it be possible in future to send all the minutes to former commissioner member, Brian, just for review before we vote? I think that's a great idea. It looks good in that view. A warm little security blanket. I don't know if he will appreciate it, but we could try. Commissioner Miller, would you be willing to make the motion? I will. I think that we approve the proposed minutes that were recited by Ms. Smith. Actually, I believe they're recited by you, Mr. Chairman. And okay, so commissioner Miller, and the motion is to approve the August 11th, September 15th and September 22nd, 2020 meeting minutes. And was that commissioner Morgan who seconded? Amandoya. Yeah. I thought, I thought, I don't know. He beat me to it. Commissioner Amandoya. Okay. And included with that motion are the consistency statements that are embedded in those minutes. Thank you. Will the roll call please on the motion? Okay. Commissioner Amandoya. Yes. Chair Busby. Yes. Commissioner Darken. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Keenshin. Yes. Commissioner Landfrey. Yes. Commissioner Low. Yes. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. Commissioner Williams. Yes. Thank you. Adjustments to the agenda. I know that Ms. Smith, I know you have something. I did want to note that former commissioner Santiago just got back to me in the past hour. He's not able to make it tonight. We're going to see if he can join us next month. Okay. We can take that off of today's agenda. Okay. I would recommend that we move the resolution for Akram Alturk up to the top of the agenda. And then I know Grace, you wanted to add one other item. Yes. If we can move the resolution for former commissioner Alturk to the front before the public hearings and then add a new business item C and it's just the adoption of the 2021 meeting schedule. Mr. Bosby, if I may then jump in, I know you have an un-seconded motion pending but with your kind permission, I would like to offer instead, this motion is that we advance the item 11B to the top of the agenda and follow it with a new item concerning our schedule for the next calendar year. We'll put that next on the agenda. That is a valid motion if we have a second. Seconded. Thank you. And the roll call vote. Commissioner Emondoya. Yes. Chair Bosby. Yes. Commissioner Durkin. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Kynchon. Yes. Commissioner Landfrey. Yes. Commissioner Lowe. Yes. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. And Commissioner Williams. Yes. And I wanted to get backwards if I may and just state for the record that all of the public hearing items have been noticed in accordance with state and local law and the affidavits for those notices are on file in the planning department. Thank you. Thank you. Akram, it's good to see you. We've missed you. Thanks for joining us tonight. I have, you're on mute. I was just saying it's good to see you all too. I'm still learning how to unmute myself. Take a month off and you forget all the tricks. So Akram, we have a resolution to thank you and honor you for your service on the commission. I'm gonna read it in its entirety. We'll have a vote and then I know we've said goodbye before, but this is one more opportunity for us to thank you for all your great service. This is a resolution and appreciation of Mr. Akram Alturk, whereas Mr. Akram Alturk was the member of the Durham Planning Commission from May 2nd, 2016 through September 15th, 2020. And whereas the Durham Planning Commission and the citizens of the city and the county of Durham have benefited from the dedicated efforts that he displayed while serving as a member of the Durham Planning Commission. And whereas this commission desires to express its appreciation for the public of a job well done, now therefore be it resolved by the Durham Planning Commission that this commission does hereby express its sincere appreciation for the service rendered by Mr. Alturk to the citizens of this community and that the clerk for the commission is hereby directed to spread this resolution in its entirety upon the official minutes of this commission and this resolution is hereby presented or will be mailed to Mr. Alturk as a token of the high esteem held for him adopted this 13th day of October, 2020. If I may, Mr. Chairman, I move the resolution. Second. Moved by Commissioner Miller, seconded by Commissioner Durkin and we will have a roll call vote please. Yes, I forgot how to unmute myself as well, so. Commissioner Amendoia. Yes. Chair Busby. Commissioner Durkin. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Kanchin. Yes. Commissioner Landfreet. Yes. Commissioner Lowe. Yes. I don't believe Commissioner MacIver has joined yet. I don't see him. Commissioner Miller. He said yes. Okay, got you. Got you. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. And Commissioner Williams. Yes. All right, thank you. Thank you. Akram, good news, it was unanimous. The floor is yours. Thank you again for your service. We miss you. Sure, yeah, I said a lot of my last meeting, so I'll keep this brief. I just want to thank you all again. I really love being part of the commission, I love serving residents of Durham. Learned a lot from you all, and so I will miss being on the commission, miss the long meetings, and I will miss living in Durham. I'm probably moving right before Thanksgiving, and it'll be nice to be in Austin, close to family and friends, but it's bittersweet, so thanks again. Well, thank you. And we will be, I'll work with the staff and we'll get a hard copy of the resolution sent to you. So you have one more thing to pack and move to Austin. Thanks again, Akram. Thank you. Take care. Grace, we will hand it to you. Next on the agenda is now the 2021 meeting dates. So emailed the proposal out, it's very straightforward. We didn't move any meetings, all the meetings are the second Tuesday of the month, so Ms. Durkin doesn't have to worry about it missing a per calendar again. We didn't have any conflicts with city council, so it's straight every, the second Tuesday of every month. So I just need a motion to approve that for now. We can always make adjustments later. Before we vote, we've had this problem in the past, and I forgot to check about it, but it just occurred to me now, are we confident that all of our second Tuesday meeting dates are don't conflict with election days? As far as I know, I checked earlier and I know that the November date does not. I did not check the October date, but I can do that and circle back to you if there's a conflict, we can always fix it. All right, thank you very much. Sure thing. Thanks for bringing that up. So Mr. Chairman, I move that we adopt the schedule. Second. Second. Thank you. Commissioner Miller moved it. Commissioner Williams seconded, and we'll have the roll call vote. Emondoya, Commissioner Emondoya. Yes. Chair Busby. Yes. Commissioner Durkin. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Kanchin. Yes. Commissioner Landfried. Yes, sorry. It's okay. Commissioner Lowe. Yeah. Okay. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. And Commissioner Williams. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you. We will move to our first case. This is the 551 Olive Branch Road, and it's case A1900017 and Z1900044, and we will begin with the staff report. Hey, good evening, Chair Busby and commissioners. Alexander Kale here to present on the 551 Olive Branch Road zoning map change. The case is, the agent is Kurt Berger from FFAC Olive Branch East. This is the 551 Olive Branch Road area, right where Doc Nichols Road meets Olive Branch. The jurisdiction is in the city. The site acreage is about 19.61 acres, located in the suburban development tier. The existing zoning is residential rural, and the rezoning request is for a PDR 5.556. The current flume designation is a low density residential recreation open space. This proposal is to build up to 108 townhouse units. I can see the aerial map, the location of the site. This is again, right next to the intersection of Doc Nichols and Olive Branch Road, just east of that. You can see the area photos here. There is a lot of heavily-treated areas and surrounding and adjacent single-family homes near the property. For the zoning context, again, it's currently residential rural, and the proposal is for move towards a PDR 5.556. Some of the tax commitments that we wanna note for this applicant's proposal is limiting the number of units to 108, a minimum 60-foot right-of-way dedication for proposed collector street, a minimum of five-foot of additional asphalt to be provided for the full frontage of the site along the east side of Olive Branch Road, and that's to allow for a bicycle lane. The construction of an exclusive self-bound left-turn lane with adequate storage and the appropriate tapers look at Olive Branch Road. And then the construction of a continuous three-lane cross-section on Olive Branch Road as well. Graphic and design commitments on this development plan include the location of tree coverages, site access points, project boundary buffers, riparian buffers, and no-build lines. This is a 100-foot stream buffer with a 10-foot no-build setbacks, and the building and parking envelopes. Additionally, there's graphic and design commitments on this development plan that include gabled roofs, accent materials that include brick or stone masonry, a very color palette, outdoor decks or patios, have a minimum of 40 square feet will be provided on all dwelling units, front-facing garage doors that have windows, attractive details or garage-style adornments, windows on the front facade of the dwelling include shutters or trim, and windows which face a public right-of-way on the rear elevation or side elevation of dwelling will include trim as well. For the tree save on this, the required tree save is 20%, and the applicant on the D plan is committing to a tree preservation of 20%, all through the preservation of the existing tree coverage on the site. Staff has done a review against comprehensive plan policies. It is consistent with the flum designation of low-medium density residential, the suburban tier is defined, continuous development patterns, the current infrastructure capacity as you saw in the staff report, the school level of service standard, and the development review of adopted and regional bicycle plans. Additionally, additional policies that this is compliant with is the natural heritage inventory, the open space master plans, and the residential as defined. Staff does determine that these requests are consistent with the comprehensive plan, the public interest and applicable policies and ordinances. Thank you. Thank you, Chair Busby. Yeah, I appreciate it. We will open the public hearing and of the individuals who signed up in advance, we have, appears we have the applicants as proponents and one individual as an opponent. So we will just provide our usual 10 minutes per side for this hearing. And we will start with the applicants. Mr. Neil Gosha, I know you're signed up as well as Ryan Akers, Jesse Hardesty, and maybe Colin Brown is listed as well. I don't know if those are all members of your team, but the floor is yours for the proponents. Sure, and good evening, Chair Busby and members of the planning commission. My name is Neil Gosha. I'm an attorney at the Morning Star Law Group here at Endurham and 112 West Main Street. I'm representing the applicant. It was Kurt Berger, I believe he's on the call. I did want to note Colin Brown is not part of the team, I don't think. I do have a few folks from McAdams, Ryan Akers, Jesse Hardesty, I believe Dick Williams might also be on the call. So first of all, thank you, Mr. Cahill, for your presentation of the case. As mentioned, the site is right around 19 acres and is in the Doc Nichols, all the French road area that I know you all know has seen a lot of development proposal. This particular project is interesting because the site actually does not have a lot of road frontage. Moreover, at only 108 units, the project is not very large. Nevertheless, because of the cumulative impacts of the development proposed and approved in this area, this relatively small project includes several road improvements. The developer is committing to adding a bike lane along all of French road along this frontage, adding an exclusive southbound left turn lane along all of French road so cars accessing the site can get out of the way of the road traffic and is providing a continuous three lane cross section on all of French road between the two proposed access points despite not having frontage on that portion of the road. It also is important to note that the internal road network is being coordinated with the adjacent Mungo project in order to provide an important east-west collector for this region. Because Mungo was first to the table, so to speak, it basically got to decide where the collector would go. Of course, its portion of the collector does not actually connect to anything but the leg that will be built in conjunction with this project actually will get folks out to all of French road. Over time, as future properties develop, that collector street will provide access between all of French road and Virgil road as properties develop for future. Finally, I wanted to note that the decision to make this a town-home community came from input we received both from staff and from city council members before we filed the rezoning case. As you know, there is a housing shortage in Durham in our initial discussions with city council about this project. We can send plans that were entirely single-family, entirely towns or mixed with both. The feedback we got for this big bridge was overwhelmingly for all town-homes, so that is the direction and we went based on that feedback. As I mentioned, we have our team available to answer questions you may have. We hope you will favor this project tonight and I would just ask the reserves to remain during the time for any rebuttal. Thank you. Thank you. As I mentioned, we have one individual who signed up to speak in opposition. It is Tony Elliott and Tony, it looks like you are with us this evening. Yes, thank you. You bet, if you give us your name and address and you can make your remarks. Okay, my name is Anthony Elliott, address 623 Olive Ranch. All right, so my opposition to this is this area has traditionally been rural residential. If the builder would like to build rural residential, I have absolutely no problem with that. The other construction areas in this area have already built over 100 houses in this area, with all of which are not filled yet. Once those are filled, and he builds another 109 units, figuring at least two to three cars per house, that's gonna be, by the time all these are filled, there's gonna be thousands of cars coming through this area every day. And if you try to get to work at the same time as everybody else, we'll never get out of this place. It's already gotten so bad with the units at our field that we can't even get to our mailbox in the afternoon. The addition of more homes in this area is gonna be a problem. I understand that they want to develop the area because they own it. The wildlife really has been hit significantly with this. We used to see lots of wildlife crossing our land. Deers, wild turkeys, now nothing. The only deer I see now are laying in the road as a grease spot. So I would hope that if they were gonna do this, if they could just use the whole track as wildlife reserve, instead of building another 109 units. That's really my case. Thank you. And then there was a column Brown listed. So I'm just gonna, they may not be here this evening or they may have signed up for the wrong case, but if you are with us, if you can raise your hand, and again, you can press star nine to digitally raise your hand. And then while we do that, I'll ask if anyone else would wanna speak on this item during the public hearing, you can also raise your hand and we'll give you the opportunity. Well, I don't see anyone else who is asking to speak. And so we will close the public hearing and commissioners, if you can raise your hand either regularly or virtually, I'll call on you, Commissioner Miller. Commissioner Miller, the floor is yours. You need to unmute. All right, very good. Thank you. So I wanted to start with questions. There's a notation in the staff report about creating a non-conformity with one of a lot off the property. Can somebody explain that to me and show me on the map? Actually from the staff, please. Okay. Alexander, if you could pull up the development plan, I think I'm familiar with the area or the question that Mr. Miller has. So on the development plan sheet. All right, so to the left, Alexandria, if you wanna go to the bottom left of the development plan sheet, there's a notation there where that point of access is being shown. There you go. So I would like for Mr. Gush to address this because he's done a lot of research on the order of how this should happen. We made a note in the staff report as to why this will be non-conforming for now until it gets to site plan and is entitled at that point. There is a proposal to put in a 50 foot public right of way there and what you'll see is when that is installed, it will leave or when that is plated, it would leave a strip. I guess it's, I think it's a 50 foot strip that would be technically being non-conforming a lot that the applicant could add to their proposal through their site plan and decide if they're gonna, which and how they're gonna use it at that point in time. We just, there's no way to address it at this point through the development plan stage other than to call it out and be sure that it's addressed at the site plan stage so that we don't create a non-conforming lot when that right of way is plated. So it's. So let me, if I may. So it's my understanding because this is more than 90 units, we've got to have two access points, right? And so this would be the second access point. Correct. And while, so it helped me understand I thought the UDO doesn't allow us to create to do rezoning or approve projects that create non-conformities. Who actually owns this piece of land? So I'll let Mr. Gose answer your question. It hasn't been created yet. We called out that it could be if it's not resolved when the access is plated at the time of site plan. We wouldn't allow them to create the non-conforming lot. But I don't understand when you say it could be. It has the appearance that it could be. We would not allow that at site plan. If they could not rectify the situation at site plan they would be short on access and potentially not be able to build their project. So Mr. Gose, can you explain the background on the ownership and these two lots or this one lot and what's going on, please? Sure, absolutely. And so the lot currently is not owned by the applicant. However, the applicant does have it under contract. The main issue with the non-conformities you're right Commissioner Miller that and that would be our second point of access. That's why we've shown it there with the error. Problem is the additional parcel is not part of the zoning request. This came up after the development plan had been submitted. So what we're unable to do is make any commitment to that's related to the parcel that is not part of the zoning. However, so we can't do that through the zoning. If this rezoning is approved it would not create any non-conform potential for a non-conforming situation to come at site plan. Once that additional parcel is conveyed to the developer and if a 50 foot right of way is dedicated through there then there will be a remainder piece of land that is not conforming with that zoning district. However, the UDO does allow for sizes if they are part of an open space lot like common open space lot for the community. That's like where you would see the buffer around generally that's going to be its own lot. Typically it's not usually wide enough to meet the middle lot requirements for the typical zoning district, residential zoning district. Same thing would happen here. So the additional leftover portion of that lot that is not part of the 50 foot right of way that's being dedicated would become part of the open space lot for the rest of the community. That would have to happen and be proposed at site plan in order for the project to be approved with 108 units. Otherwise we would be capped at 90 units because we'd only be able to provide one point of action. So it seems to me that if you have this parcel under contract you should have included it in the overall rezoning. There is no doubt that if the timing of that were allowed us here that that would have been the cleanest way to do it. But the... Well, again, I'm commenting, I'm not asking. I'm just uncomfortable with this. It seems to me that this is too complex. I'm not sure it's actually consistent with the spirit of the UDO for us to approve a rezoning which has built into it the possibility of a violation of the UDO. And I know you're in a hurry to get this approved but I think the thing to do is to fix this and to wait a cycle while you do it. Grace, if this were withdrawn and then resubmitted with this lot that is on Olive Branch Road added, would that be a start over or just a modification to the current zoning case? No, it could be modified at this time. It would cost a little, may cost them a cycle. And the zoning's not really creating a non-conformity. I think we were mostly just wanted to point out to you all that the second point of access will not be firmed up and actually a real access until the time of site plan. And you're satisfied that the commitments don't require them to build 108 townhouses. It would be up to 108 townhouses. They could not dip below the significant deviation, the significant change, which would be the 20%. They'd have to stay within the 20% of what their density calls for. But they can do that with, that's very close, isn't it? It's close, but I don't, I think it works out. I think we did that math already and it works out. Let me ask you this. Could this be fixed with a commitment that makes it clear what will happen with regard, I just don't, in other words, we would find up with a project that spills outside its development plan boundaries even if it works the way Mr. Ghosh wants it to. I'm not comfortable with that. The staff had the same problem with this. We've tried to figure out what kind of commitment could be made to make this more clear. However, the, because the property is not included in the development plan, they can't make any commitments regarding that property because it's out there to be. I answered my impression before I finished asking you. Right, so we basically told him that he was kind of proceeding at his own risk because if he can't write, I think that there's a, it would be limited to 90 units. I think there's a significant ripeness problem here and I don't believe this is ready for prime time, but I've got more questions. I noticed that there is this through right of way that goes right through the steep slope area. And I'm not, I'm not particularly happy with that. But I will confess, this is a funny piece of property. I have not actually gone on to it. I drove back and forth on Aledge Branch Road. I parked on Doc Nichols Road to look at it, but there's, it's hard, it rises up a little bit behind these houses that face out at Branch Road, but you don't have any clear indication. From my vantage point, I didn't get to see what this looks like back there, but I know that when slopes are steep enough in order to get a drawing on the map, they're pretty darn steep. And I've troubled with a plan that plans for a road I don't believe anybody's ever gonna build. I just don't see a connecting street going through there. I do not see enough activity and development in this area to justify it. So that's another problem I have with that. I noticed that the, to help me understand, cause the design, these design commitments have some wording and I will say that the next case has the same thing. So maybe I can ask the question once. It says that the front-facing windows on the units will have shutters. Will there be front-facing windows on these units at the ground level? And that's a question for you, Neil, or for somebody on your team. Yes, but I think I understand why you're kidding. It doesn't necessarily windows, I think Neil. In other words, will there be ground-level windows that are not garage windows or the window in the front door of the house for some or all of these units? In other words, is this a commitment that is a commitment to put shutters on two upstairs windows? No, I think I understand point. And my understanding is just there will be windows on the ground floor of at least some of these units that are just windows, not the door, not the garage windows. All right, thank you. That really helps me understand a little bit. And two more comments. I guess my biggest problem with this is, so I'll have a question for staff. So I'm a dinosaur and you send me a paper version of this staff report. And when I look at the attachment three concerning the future land use map, I don't understand it because there is no legend that tells me what the colors mean. It just shows me the case area and then it says the parcels are described by dark lines. But the map you sent me has several colors on it. And I wanna make sure I understand that except for the part of the map that is designated very low residential, the rest of it is low density residential. And then the gray shaded area is recreation open space. Do I understand the map correctly? Yes, that is correct, commissioner. All right, thanks. So my biggest problem is, is that we're, if we approve these two cases because this is a flum change and a rezoning, we will be creating a 19, well a 20 acre, I'll give them the other portion of an acre, a 20 acre island of a different category and the future land use map in an area that is completely surrounded by lower densities and which in the projects that have been presented to us up to this point have all been for lower densities. So I'm not sure I understand a justification is a simple matter of consistency why this 20 acre parcel, which doesn't even have its own direct access to Ollie Branch Road becomes an island of higher density development than everything that is around it and everything that could be around it and everything that's actually in the hopper and coming. And so I'm very uncomfortable with that. Those are my points, Mr. Chairman and members of the commission. Thank you very much. Thank you, Commissioner Miller. Other commissioners, any additional questions or comments? Commissioner Amandolia, the floor is yours. Thank you, Chair. I just have a couple of comments on this case. There are two primary reasons I don't like this case. First off, it's an auto-oriented portion of Durham. It's seeking a lot, it's experiencing a lot of development currently and to my knowledge and understanding, there is not a lot, if any, proposed commercial activity in the area. And so even with potential walkability standards, there would not be many commercial activities to walk to. And so it'd be more for going on a stroll rather than getting to employment or any kind of services. The second concern I have is the level of impervious surfaces on this site given that it is right next to a future 100-year floodplain. And basically the entire site slopes down to the edges. I think that is not good planning for future flood impacts, especially within areas that is experiencing such high-intensity development currently because of those two things I'll be voting no on this case. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Johnson. Thank you, Chairman. So my first question is for the applicant regarding the proposed residential units. What is the anticipated price points for these units? We believe these units will start about 250,000. And do you have a sense of the average size of a typical unit? Square flip. If someone on the team does, I'm not the best person to answer that. I will leave it just, hopefully someone can raise their hand to answer that question. If you want to continue with your comments. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not a make a break question, but I'll be interested in that. And hearing the prior questions and comments and responses. So you opted to move forward with this request as is with the understanding that if you, if all of your assumptions doesn't play out regarding getting the second access point, you'll have to go down to 90 units. And so that potential outcome along with the points that Commissioner Miller raised in regards to the development and the density that it brings in regarding the surrounding area. Can you just provide some insight on like one, obviously it seems that if you're okay with the 90 with a lower number of units that it doesn't necessarily hurt your economics with it. But what's the rationale for wanting to bring this up, the maximum units that you're requesting, like bringing a level of density that's not necessarily compatible with what's around it in an area that would basically build on to this notion of auto dependent like development. So in regards to what this development beyond bringing additional units to this area of Durham, like what is the other benefits that you are seeing or articulate to us like, how is this an overall benefit in what you're proposing to bring to this site? So first of all, I'll go back to your previous question about the size of the units. I guess they're roughly around 1800 square feet. And then to answer your question that you just asked. So there are, I guess, three reasons for it. So first of all is we did have discussions with council members before we filed this rezoning case. And honestly, we were concerned that the density that we're proposing might not be dense enough. So the additional density, as compared to the rest of the area was not, we weren't concerned that this thing was too dense or we were concerned that it might not be dense enough. And in fact, that was a lot of the feedback that council gave to the Mongo project first time it came through to council. One of the other reasons for the additional density here is the need for housing in Durham generally. And in this area in particular, there is the surro of those stations, which is meant to accommodate moderate density, which is what staff has described previously for surro. So it's meant to within this base and provide for a moderate density residential. And that's exactly the type of density that we're going to go over in the project. And then the last thing I want to touch on was, I'm not sure if any of you all had an opportunity to catch the presentation at the September 24th work session that staff gave to council about surro. But in general, what they were talking about is development in this overall basin and how that, and what that might look like in the future. And I think Commissioner Anandolia touched on this a bit, this is auto-oriented type of development. And I don't disagree. However, you know, what staff has determined is that development in the surro's area is most likely going to be auto-oriented. Ask point blank by city council what kind of trends it would be possible in this area. For example, the bill judge who was with the transmission department explained that even traditional bus service probably isn't going to be likely here based on the density that surro's could support. So, you know, one thing that staff touched on in its presentation to council is that there are areas in surro's that simply cannot be built at anything other than a suburban density. And then there are areas where, you know, like this small pocket, 19 acres, which might be able to support more density because of its, you know, relative to other areas and surro's doesn't have as many environmental impacts. But in the basin in general, there are, you know, natural heritage areas, flood plains, wetlands and that type of thing. And so there are many properties that simply aren't going to be able, even though the basin is quite large, there's not going to be able to support higher density. This is one of those projects or acreages that is going to be able to support more than four years of the acre. And we have tried to provide a density which makes sense in that context. All right, thank you. And so in my general comments from what I've heard up to this point, and thank you, Neil, for the response, is I'm not, so if we assume that we are, say I'm not opposed to the fact that auto-oriented development is not necessarily going to go away just because we understand that there are more environmentally friendly ways to develop land these days. The issue for me is still like, that doesn't mean that if we accept that cars are going to be on the road and it justifies like higher density projects that doesn't fit in with existing landscapes, right? And so for me, it's for this parcel here and I'm inclined to vote against in hopes of getting something better, but understanding that if we're going to develop this site here, I still think that like what we're getting is like minimum standards in regards to like the 20% tree coverage preservation or whatnot. It's like, if you're gonna live in a car-oriented area, like can we do something with these developments to make it, to enhance the quality of life in other areas? And I just feel that with proposals like this, where we're being asked to basically allow something that otherwise would not be, we should aim to do better than average at best and minimum at worst. And so I just don't see how projects like this, even if they comport on all the other areas or bringing value to Durham from a long-term standpoint when we're seeing like the impacts of building auto-oriented developments and on the flip side, like when we look out west, it's like when you see the impacts on environments, when we don't plan forward thinking enough, wildfires and things like that, not saying that this is a one-to-one comparison, but are we thinking more in a forward thinking manner in regards to what are we actually creating on the ground if we're conceding to some assumptions such as, like this part of Durham is gonna be auto-oriented? Like, well, should we be looking for other components within these developments that bring some other value that we're not getting because we are allowing or bringing certain types of development? So I'm curious to hear if there's other thoughts from the commission in regards to this proposal, because I think it has implications for others that we'll see going forward and just trying to get a, I'm interested to hear other thoughts, so I'll leave it at that for now. Thank you, Commissioner Johnson. Commissioner Durkin. I just wanted, I don't have a lot to add to what has already been said, but I wanted to at least echo those thoughts, especially about the auto-oriented development. And I think there is a distinction between being auto-oriented, there's a spectrum, being auto-oriented and then being a lot of transit and buses, trains and lines that go lots of places and this is on auto-oriented where you can't walk anywhere. So there's a, you could have commercial nodes that you can access, like we'll see in the next case, which I think there's a great distinction between this one and the second case tonight. And there, you don't have to have intense transit in order to satisfy our desire to not have something auto-oriented, but there's nothing to even walk to on this area. There's not a sidewalk even along Dr. Dickles, we're all a branch, sorry. So that's really, I'm just gonna stop there and just say that I'm also a no on this one. Thanks. Thank you. Mr. Landford. Thank you. Yeah, I echo the comments that have been made before. And I think commissioner Johnson's point about, looking for other kinds of community benefits, acknowledging that a development in this area is not ever gonna be a transit hub, but that there are still other considerations for quality of life. And I have a question for the proponent in an email that was sent to the commissioners. There was mention made of a development, I think across the street, Olive Branch West that had some conservation elements and greenway elements. I'm curious what the statuses of that development and why it wasn't packaged with this one because it sounds like that might be offering some of the quality of life and conservation benefits that we might look to, but I don't think we can consider those given that this is a separate project. Sure. Yeah, so the main reason that one is not packaged in with this one is because, well, I mean, they're not a package deal. The other one is a conservation subdivision which does not require rezoning. So we'll be submitting for annexation on that one. And it is the same applicant, but they didn't come together at the same time. So they're not, I mean, I guess I'll put it this way. When we filed that one, we didn't necessarily know the other one was gonna point to this, but with the conservation subdivision, yeah, I mean, I think you're right. There are those quality of life aspects to it, like the greenways and then, you know, with what Commissioner Durkin was talking about about walking, there, if this parcel were located near an area, whatever it's commercial nodes or something like that, sure it would be walkable, but the fact that it's not located there is something that is just, I mean, we can't change it on this project and there's a whole wide area here where there isn't a commercial node. I'm not sure this 28 or so has anything to do with why there isn't a commercial node here. And in fact, that is something that the planning staff was speaking with and presenting to council at that September 24th word session was that the idea that there would be any kind of commercial node or mixed use development in the Searles area probably is far fetched because of significant top topography concerns in the area that wouldn't really allow for big box type of development that you typically see with retail or non-residential development. So, I mean, yes, this area in general lacks a commercial node. I'm not sure that it will be fixed. But, you know, with regard to walkability, this project is up against the Greenway corridor. Does it go anywhere? No, but I'm not sure that's gonna change now or later. Mr. Lanefried, any additional questions or comments? Thank you. I think for the reasons that have been stated that I'll also be voting no in this project. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Miller, I see you've raised your hand again. I don't see any new comments from other commissioners. The floor is yours. I just wanted to make an observation. I noticed in the staff report, this is on page three and section D1. In the staff analysis, it says the proposed development plan will allow for more units in a generally more affordable unit type multi-family as opposed to single family. I don't think there's any evidence to base on which to base conclusion that townhouses are gonna be cheaper than single family. They might be cheaper to purchase on day one but townhouses because there are a whole row of houses all sharing the same building and same roof are going to have serious homeowner association dues which are part of the cost of owning the unit and they never stop, it's relentless. And in fact, having observed the performance of townhouses over time in my job, the older they get, the more expensive they are to maintain and the more the dues have to go up. So I think that has to be taken into account. Sure, the townhouses original purchase price may be slightly smaller per square foot than a similarly functioning single family house but you have to factor in homeowner dues. Now, of course, I will be quick to acknowledge that for most of the projects that we approve that contain single family homes, there are homeowner association dues there too. But those pay for amenities in common areas that are not part of the building there, they tend to be smaller. But when all the unit owners in a townhouse are responsible for replacing roofs and for fixing plumbing and those kinds of things over time, those homeowner association dues are not inconsiderable. And so when I see statements like that that make these broad assumptions that are not borne out in actual practice, I find it a little bit disappointing. Sure, the purchase price might be a little cheaper up front but it doesn't have to be. As a matter of fact, we have people who are building townhouse units that are very high end and very expensive. And so I think I would accept a staff conclusion that smaller is generally cheaper than bigger but I don't think that from form to form you can necessarily say that one is going to be cheaper than another. Thank you, Commissioner Miller. And I'll just add I wanted to echo what Commissioner Durkin said earlier. I was really struck with this item and the following item and that the context of this proposal makes a lot more sense in the next proposal and the surrounding areas. So there are a variety of concerns I had coming into tonight and this discussion has helped illuminate those. And so I still plan to vote no on this item and seeing no other commissioners asking to speak. This is an appropriate time for the first of two motions. Then if I may, Mr. Chairman, in connection with case reverse this time a 19,00017 which would be the Comprehensive Plan Amendment case. I move that we send it forward to the city council with a favorable recommendation. Second. Thank you. Moved by Commissioner Miller, seconded by Commissioner Johnson and roll call vote. Chair, I just want to verify. I don't see Commissioner McIver on the call yet. So I'm not going to call his name. Okay. Unless you tell me different. So Commissioner Amandoya. No. Chair Busby. No. Commissioner Durkin. No. Commissioner Johnson. No. Vice Chair Kenchin. No. Commissioner Landfreet. No. Commissioner Low. No. Commissioner Miller. No. No. No. No. No. No. Commissioner Miller. No. Commissioner Morgan. No. And Commissioner Williams. No. Okay. It's a unanimous, it failed zero 10. And Commissioner Miller, if we could have a motion for the zoning case, please. Yes, sir, Mr. Chairman. With the connection with Z1900044 and this is the rezoning case concerning 551 Olive Branch Road. We'll move that we send this forward to the city council with a favorable recommendation. Second. Thank you, Commissioner Miller and Commissioner Johnson. We'll have a roll call vote. Commissioner Amandoya. No. Chair Busby. No. Commissioner Durkin. No. Commissioner Johnson. No. Commissioner Landfreet. No. Vice Chair Kenchin. No. Commissioner Low. No. Commissioner Miller. No. Commissioner Morgan. No. And Commissioner Williams. No. It's a unanimous zero 10, it failed. Thank you. Our next case is case Z1900057 and that is the corners at Briar Creek Townhouses South. And we'll start with the staff report. Good evening, Danny Caltrow of the planning department. The request is for Z1900057 for rezoning map change has been received from Stephen Dorn of Lenard Corporation and Jesse Hardicy of McAdams Company for one parcel of land located at 4228 Corners Parkway, totaling 18.91 acres. The applicant proposes to change the zoning designation of the site from commercial general with a development plan, CGD to commercial general with a development plan CGD for a maximum of 138 townhome units. No changes proposed to the future land use map designation of commercial, which is consistent with the zoning request. The aerial map indicates the location of the site at Corners Parkway near Highway 70 and TW Alexander Parkway. The site has been previously cleared and graded. Apologize, is the screen not showing up? No. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me escape and it should have come up. I apologize. The screen chair didn't work. My apologies. Let me pull it back up. So did it. Ah, is it sharing now? Yes. My apologies. I'm sorry. No problem. Okay. Let me start back. All right. There we go. Okay. Let's start all over then. The request is for Z19-0057. Resoning map change has been received from Steven Dorn of Lenard Corporation and Jesse Horace of McAdams Company for one parcel of land located at 4228 Corners Parkway. The total land area is 18.91 acres. The applicant is proposing to change the zoning designation of the site from commercial general with a development plan, CGD, to commercial general with a development plan, CGD, for a maximum of 138 town home units. No changes proposed to the future land use map designation of commercial, which is consistent with the zoning request. The aerial map indicates the location of the site at Corners Parkway near Highway 770 and TW Alexander. The site has been previously cleared and graded, as you can see in the site photos. The area around the site is in various stages of proposed development, proposed and existing development. A mix of commercial shopping centers, residential development and office and medical uses can be found in the vicinity. With some of the commercial uses, a part of the existing CGD zoning development. The site is CGD and adjacent to commercial CGD zone and planned residential PDR zone and RS10 zone properties. The proposed zoning of CGD is consistent with the future land use map. The development plan indicates the required commercial general dimensional standards, uses limitations of three access points, environmental features, require tree coverage quantities and locations, require project boundary buffers and impervious surface restrictions. The key commitment in restricting the site to maximum 130 town home units as permitted building type, a maximum impervious surface area not to exceed 70% or 12.45 acres and completing the following traffic commitments for Corners Parkway and the site driveway, Harris-Tieter driveway, prior to issuance of certificate of occupancy, which include constructing the site driveway as a full movement driveway opposite Harris-Tieter driveway, constructing an exclusive eastbound left turn lane of Corners Park at the site driveway and adequate storage and appropriate taper and restricting the northbound approach of the existing Harris-Tieter driveway as an exclusive turn lane and it's shared through turn lane. Staff analyzed the proposed development for consistency and their comprehensive plan policies and determined that the request is consistent with the comprehensive plan and applicable ordinances and staff is available for any questions. Thank you very much. We will open the public hearing and the individuals who signed up in advance were the, there were three members of the proponents team, I believe, Neil Gauch, Charlie Yokely and Jesse Hardesty. Great, should I begin? Yeah, whoever's gonna speak and you've got 10 minutes if you need it. Sure and good evening everyone. It is me again, Neil Gauch, attorney at the Morningstar Law Group, 112 West Main Street. I'm representing the applicant for this project. Mr. Yokely is on the call with some familiar folks with McAdams, I believe Ryan Akers is on the call and I think you already mentioned Jesse Hardesty and maybe Nick Williams as well. Let me start first by thanking Mr. Koltra for his presentation. Like the last project, this one also is about 19 acres and is for town. The proposed rezoning in this case would allow for up to 130 town homes. This rezoning is a little strange because the zoning technically already allows for town home development. But the development plan does not speak to it directly. Instead, the development plan is limited to a certain amount of square feet instead of any particular number of units. The proposed rezoning clarifies the requirements for residential development in the area in a manner which is more consistent with how we generally think about residents. This project is located in Broward Creek behind the area where the Harris Cedar was built. Because of its location, it has great access to retail, grocery, restaurants, transit, and other services, most of which is within walking distance. If you are familiar with the area, then you know that there are several townhomes and single-family homes nearby. You might not know that just north of this site, there is a site plan for a multi-family community. So there is quite a mix of housing types in this area. I do need to address a mistake on the development plan. We have vetted this changing staff. There is a commitment that says no more than 70% of the homes will be contained in two-car garage. This condition was meant to address rear-loading units. So that condition should be stricken and replaced with a commitment that at least 20% of the homes will be rear-loaded. Again, we did run this by staff already. Basically, the condition is meant to speak to the design of the site. This commission often has touted the benefits of rear-loaded homes, which tend to create more attractive pedestrian-friendly streetscape. Because of the proximity of this site to the shopping center, we want the design to encourage folks to walk more. The nearby transit service, hopefully with more walkability in the community, there might be more ridership. This community has a lot of things that make for a great community, walkability, approximate to goods and services, a variety of housing types in the area, as well as a mix of unit types in the community, both front and rear-loaded townhomes. It's close to transit, it's in-built, and even as a down-zoning. The good news is that the traffic improvements associated with the previous version of this development plan have already been implemented for the most part. So this is a down-zoning that's coming after the infrastructure has been accounted for. Ultimately, this project is an in-built development in an otherwise mixed-use area. We feel like this is consistent with a lot of the things that we've heard from this body and from the city council about new developments, what they'd like to see. So we hope to have your support tonight on a vote. And again, we have our team available to answer your questions. Thank you for your time. Thank you. So that was it who signed up in advance. If there is anyone else from the public who would like to speak, you can digitally raise your hand, that's star nine, and I'll just give it a moment to see if there's anyone else who would like to speak on this item. Chad Boyette will unmute you and there you go. If you can give us your name and address and you can make your remarks, please. Mr. Boyette, are you able to speak? Can you hear me now? Mr. Boyette, Chad Boyette, 4233 Corners Parkway. Great, thank you. We are eager and just wanted to express support for this project. We think the addition of townhomes next to our retail center will be a great compliment use for all of our retail tenants and help drive sales for all of the tenants in that center. Great, thank you very much. You're welcome, thank you. We'll have the last call on any public comments. You can raise your hand, star nine. It looks like that is it. So we'll close the public comment period. And Commissioner Miller, you have your hand raised. The floor is yours. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I wanna make sure I understand the proffer that was made during the applicant's presentation. Could you go over that again for me, Neal? Sure, there's a proffer that at least 20% of the units will be real voted. Oh, well, that's what I thought you said. How many percent, what's the percent? 20. 20%, thank you, that helps. Now, my other questions relate to how this rezoning fits in with the previous development plan for the larger project. So staffs, tell me, jump in when I'm wrong. So some time ago, we approved a development plan rezoning for this property and more property around it that had several different components, commercial component and a residential component and that the property that we're looking at today is part of what was previously part of the commercial component of the old development plan. Am I right so far? And the commitments on that old development plan with regard to development intensity for this area, which include, if I understood that map, the old map include the property that we're talking about today plus the property that is currently developed and being developed as a shopping center. That was all one together, right? On the old thing. That is true. And it said it was gonna be 390,000 square feet of development there. That I cannot attest to, I would need to pull that plan just to make sure, but. I'm just looking at A of your staff report and it says allows for a gross floor area of 390,000 square feet. Yes. 60 acres zone CG. That's correct, Mr. Miller. Sorry, Danny. Danny's jumped in and helped us at the very last minute. Mr. Other's had to be out. So, but that is correct. Yes. Okay. Well, I hope Emily's okay. And so can somebody tell me how many square feet have been already been developed out of the 390? So I was over there and I drove around. You've got, it looks like there's a Harris teeter in there and more than a couple of other commercial spaces, including a couple of out parcels. Did I see it correctly? There is a Harris teeter. There are some other strip parcels in there and another one, another strip parcel in there. I'm looking at it on Google Maps right now. See. So maybe somebody with a development team or even Chad can tell me what the total square footage of all the current commercial development is. Hey, Tom, this is Neil. Yeah. It's around 240. Wait, so my computer dinged for reasons that are mysterious to me and I did not hear your, the last couple of words of your sentence. I believe it's around 240,000. 240,000 square feet. So here's. Commissioner Miller, this is Grace. I'm sorry, I'm trying to start my video. On the front page of the development plan, I just pulled it up. There's a chart and I think it does say it's close to 244,000. Yeah. So Neil's pretty much on it. So if I understand the way this is going, essentially if we approve this rezoning, it would lift the develop, right now there's a development intensity limit on the CG portion of this old development plan that limits this whole area to 390,000 square feet. Of commercial development. If we approve this rezoning today, the commercial development in that overall CG area can still go to 390, right? That they, so it's at 240 now, that extra 150 is still available. That's correct. And on top of that, they'll get to add these townhouses in the section of the property that is the subject of this rezoning. Right. They came back and asked for the residential density because it's very difficult to figure out using square footage for residential. So that's why they're asking for that. But you're correct. They're not proposing to reduce the square footage for commercial in exchange for residential. They're adding residential to the 390. That is my understanding. Mr. Ghosh can correct you if you're wrong. And so Mr. Ghosh called this a down zoning. This really isn't a down zoning. Of course, what does that mean? It is in fact, a request to intensify the development of this parcel of the subject parcel and the larger older development plan rezoning by adding townhouses that were not previously allowed without any diminution of the development capacity that the previous development plan allowed. Do I understand it correctly? Everybody's having trouble finding their unmute buttons. Who are you asking? You, you. I mean, I think you're technically correct. That's certainly, I think we are rezoning this section, which is CGD and we are adding this, we are adding townhouses to this section. You are correct that there is no, for the, I guess for the rest of the CGD, original CGD development plan area, there is no reduction in the overall square footage. On this parcel, there's a reduction in square footage. I mean, this is gonna go from potentially being able to build 150,000 ish square feet of retail to now being townhouses. Okay. And so my next question, I'm going to move from questions for which I already knew the answer to a question where I'm not sure I know the answer and I'm going to guess. I'm always troubled by rezonings which pull a parcel out of a previous development plan and change it without revisiting and re-looking at the old development plan together as an integrated development idea. But the reason that you're doing it here is, is that you no longer control all the land in the old development plan. And under the new changes to state statute, you are no longer able to apply to rezone other people's properties without their express consent. Is that true? So the applicant on this one is Lenard. Right. Lenard doesn't control any piece of property except this piece that has a contract. Right. So the reason we can't have this rezoning contemplate the all of the old development plan so that we could look at all, we looked at it, we or our predecessors looked at this at the old thing as an integrated multi-use project incorporating quite a lot of land. And we looked at it in an integrated way. We can't do that again now because your client doesn't have the authority to ask for us to look at all of it under this the statute is now written. Is that correct? Whereas once that may have been possible. Yes, I suppose that's correct. All right. Thank you very much. Now let me ask you something that really matters to me in this area, because I noticed this is actually the idea that has been prosecuted here with the old development plan. And I guess to a certain extent with this because it's part and parcel of the same thing is these multi-use projects are easier for me to get the components I want. So I like the idea that we are thoughtfully placing residential around the place where these people will shop especially necessity shopping like groceries. So I kind of like all of that. I also note that we're right on top of a transportation corridor and that isn't going to change. The one thing because we're not looking at the overall development plan, just this one section. The one thing that's kind of missing here is what I've called a dozen different things. But what I always mean is if I lived in one of these townhouses or one of the even denser residential units that are yet to be built out here, where do I go if I want to stand in a little grove of trees? Where is the place where my kids will walk to throw a frisbee? Where is that shared development, developed open space, a park or whatever it might be. I know there is no component like that in the subject property that is the subject of this rezoning, but that may not matter if it is a required element in something in the old development plan next door. Is there anything like that in the old development plan? Neil? Am I unmuted, right? Okay, there you go. Everyone's having trouble with the mute button. So my understanding is the old development, well, the old overall development plan included CGD and the PDR component. Right. The PDR component would have an on-site humidity requirement, open space requirement. So the multi-family piece, which is being built, will have an open space component to it. And I can't tell you what that is. But you had no commitments relating to what form it might take. It might wind up being incorporated into some otherwise required, like riparian buffer. But no, the PDR has a requirement for activity. So it can't be part of that buffer. Right, right. But it's going to be clear that PDR, like this is not a request for PDR, that PDR already is elsewhere in the overall. So because this is going to be residential in general commercial, it's not going to include that shared developed open space requirement. There's no, that component is missing from this unless you commit to adding it. Correct. All right. Those are all my questions. Thank you. I'm sorry. Commissioner Miller, this is Grace Smith. I just looked at the legacy plan. I took a quick look at it. And it does appear that there are, it looks like there is nine, let's see here, open space. It looked like it was around nine acres committed. It looks, yeah. So they got tree coverage. Open space required looks like 9.8 acres. And open space percentage is right at 8%. Yes. I saw that, Grace, but I got the impression that none of this is developed open space. None of this is going to be a park. Oh yeah, that I'm not 100% sure. I just wanted to make, I was just mostly making sure that you knew there was some committed on the legacy plan. Right, because we do have an open space requirement, but there's no commitment that specifically contemplates some sort of recreation area for all the people who will live either in the subject property or the larger development. In other words, if one of my concerns always, and I have lots of them, but one of my concerns is, is that when we create something like this, it's while it's, you ought to be able to walk to some place to have some sort of recreation. It doesn't have to be highly intensive. I'm not talking about swing sets and all of that. However, I'm not knocking them, but some sort of open space where people can go and not be amongst buildings and parking lots and those kinds of things. So thank you. I've got answers to my questions. So that's, and I- Yeah, I don't see what you're asking about to answer your question. I don't see that. Okay. Commissioner Miller, this is Danny Kaltra. I just looked up the unified development ordinance for residential development and non-residential districts. And in the suburban tier, open space is required at 18% of the gross area for residential development and non-residential districts. I appreciate that, Danny, but that's not what we're talking about. Thank you very much. Commissioner Morgan. Thank you, Chair. Actually, I'm familiar with the area as I've watched it kind of grow over time. And I'm also familiar with plans by DOT to eventually disconnect TW Alexander and Route 70 as part of the Route 70 freeway plan. And they're planning on using Corners Park right way as a kind of an interchange or a way to get off of Route 70 and to get on to TW Alexander. Question for transportation though, it's just more of information is, is there any plans on changing any of the mass transit? I know there was a stop right on TW Alexander right now. And as this grows, would there be a plan to relocate it or change a route to put a stop on Corners Parkway? Is anybody available for that question? Hi, Erling Thomas, Transportation. I'm not aware of any plans currently to make changes to the transit route as the area continues to grow and develop, you know, the transit provider would evaluate whether or not changes are needed to the routes or additional stops. Yeah, it just seemed like because the transportation or the current stop was built before Corners was even built, it's on TW Alexander right near the Corners Parkway where that traffic light is. It's at the end of the actual commercial area. I was just wondering if there was any plan to kind of reroute that or do anything along those lines? None currently that I'm aware of. Okay. Thank you. That was my question, Chair. Thanks, Commissioner Morgan. Commissioner Johnson. Thank you. Just to get the obvious out of the way to the applicant, can you provide an anticipated price point for these residential units? The anticipated price point for these units is going to be around $320 to $340,000. And I did also want to just, on Commissioner Morgan's question, there is a bus stop in between Corners Parkway and kind of the driveway for the commercial area. I just want to make sure that they were aware of that. It sounds like maybe that's what you were talking about. There is already a bus stop there. There is one on TW Alexander right near the corner of Corners Parkway. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And so just a couple of comments. And so I'm inclined to support this project. What I would note is, I'm losing my thought, is that Commissioner Miller, the one point that I did note, I think Commissioner Miller and I have in some way connected mentally without talking personally, but was the question around like the open space, like what would that be a component of this development that incorporated that open space piece that would be accessible to the people who would be living in this thing? Because just for me personally, I'm understanding the value and the need essentially as we live in a new moment and essentially of having these nine revenue generating components to development that enhances the quality of life for people who are living there. But I won't allow that to be like a deal killer for this project because it's much better than what we just considered. And so to the commission members is like, this is the difference in like, we see a comparative like example of what can make sense even though it doesn't have everything that we would ideally want versus compared to the other project, very vanilla, right? And so if we're being asked to grant something that otherwise would not be allowed, I think that we should be moving towards giving our limited resource, our asset, which is our vote and feedback to elected leaders as leverage on what we have. So this is essentially leveraging on things that are occurring around in this area versus essentially building and hoping that stuff will happen in an area more accepting that some things won't happen. So let's just do something without being thoughtful about what it is that we are allowing to come. So I'll just say that and again, I'm inclined to vote in favor of this request. Thank you. Thanks, Commissioner Johnson. And good luck breaking the mind now with Commissioner Miller. Commissioner, I'm on earlier. Thank you, Chair. I have a couple of questions. First, I have a question for Nell. I am still fairly new to this. And so I would ask you to kind of clarify what's going on with the tree coverage provided in this case. I notice there's like a range given for both preservation and replacement. And so if you could just like clarify the intent there of what that means. Sure. And Ryan, are you still on the line? Maybe you can assist on this one, but I didn't want to point out one thing about it. So we're, because we are rezoning it, we're actually ultimately going to end up on this parcel, providing more tree-safe than otherwise would have been required, almost double. So, you know, what the current zoning would require on this parcel, for example, the 10% tree-state. And through ours, we're looking at, I think around more like 20%. Ryan, if you could address kind of tree-safe requirements here and what we're proposing. Sure. Based on the change of use from the CG to the residential, I hadn't thrown it into the same residential category. So we had to up the tree-safe requirement for this portion, which is what we're showing on the current development plan. And could you specify for me kind of the difference like why there's a range of preservation versus replacement? And also, I guess, I'll just go ahead and jump to my next question about this. To me, looking at Google Maps, there's no trees to preserve. Well, that's the answer, you just answered it. So if we can't hit our required amount, that we have to do a replanting to hit that minimum. So we are preserving all the trees that are remaining because it was cleared for commercial use because of the change, we have to do 20%. We had to go back up to the required amount. And because you have to replant, you have to pay a penalty in replanting. So we actually went above what the minimum required would be, well, otherwise if you had the trees. So that's to your point, exactly. Thank you. And I have a question for staff and this is kind of jumping ahead in our evening. If we are to approve the landscape manual later tonight, and will those changes apply to this case? It would depend, this is Danny Kulture again, it would depend on when the manual changes are adopted by city council and versus when they're adopted, this zoning would take effect and be adopted. Okay, thank you. And then next, I have a question for Chad Boyutt, if you're still on the line, you may not have the specific answer to this since you aren't the business owners in this area. But if you have an idea of kind of the average wage of employees in this retail center, could you speak to that any? Is Chad still with us? This is Chad, can you hear me? Yes. As just the owners of the retail center, we are not. Thank you. So I intentionally waited for commissioner Johnson to ask his typical question about housing price points before asking this question because one thing that I think would make this project even better is if we could have some idea that people could live in this area and walk to work and just based on pure assumptions of the type of, the type of businesses there, we have retail, we have restaurants, to me it seems unlikely that we will have people purchasing homes at over 300K and who are working in these businesses. I think that would be a vast improvement on this site would be to have some kind of affordable housing component so that there would be that potential for people to live across the street from their workplace. I recognize that though this is a vast improvement over many of the cases that we get, I appreciate the walkability and the fact that there are services nearby. I just also want to consider like who has the access to walkability and based on this case, it is people who would be consumers rather than people who would be employees of these businesses. And I just want to note that that may not necessarily swing my vote either way but that is something I'd like to see considered grip more in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Landfrey. Thank you. I had a question for the proponent. It looks to me like if someone was going to the Harris teeter on foot from the development, they would use site access number two. And I just wanted to confirm that sidewalks and the necessary amenities would be provided there for that safe crossing. So yes, the road network in this area will include sidewalks and I believe there will be strife across and I'm not sure if there will be any kind of pedestrian like beacon, I'm not quite sure, but there will be sidewalks provided. Okay, great. Thank you. And I'm also going to support this proposal. I think having voted against a number of town home developments, it's important to also vote for something when it provides enough of what we've been saying that we're looking for and this development for me crosses that threshold. So I will be voting for it. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Miller, you have raised your hand again. So I just wanted to say out loud, I actually completely agree with Commissioner Johnson. However strange that may be, I'm going to vote for this too. It doesn't have everything I want in it, but I will note generally, because I look at all the, this is my break point between small and large projects is about 20 acres. And so this is on the small side of that, but it fits inside a larger project that now will have a commercial component. It will have a fairly intense residential component and then with this rezoning, a less intense residential component. And just to make sure I understand, when I looked at what we're calling the legacy development plan, the PDR portion of that provides for fairly high dwelling units per acre. Does it not staff? I'll have to get back. I think I closed it after I was talking to you a minute ago, but I'll be glad to check that. Just give me a moment. I thought it was somewhere more than 10 units an acre. And so as a PDR, and without having really studied that legacy plan, probably like I should have in order to be prepared for this meeting, and I apologize for that. It seems to me that it'll probably be multi-family and apartments. So my read on what is happening here is we are modifying an older legacy plan that's already in development to add a residential component that was not previously there. Admittedly, what's being added is could be the high-end residential part of it because it will be a lower density townhouse project, whereas the rest of the PDR, if it's developed to its full potential, and I believe as a matter of law in North Carolina, we're supposed to assume that it will be. That those will probably be apartment units. And of course, in line with what I said in the last case, they might be very expensive apartment units. I'm not sure. We certainly have those in Durham, but maybe not. But there is a mix of housing types, and I like to see that. It's near transportation corridor, I like that. It does have transit, I like that. I'm impressed that there will be at least some rear-loaded units in the townhouses, which means that there is some hope that the streetscape will be more human and pedestrian friendly. So it hasn't got everything I want, but it has a lot of what I want. I also tend to see this project already as an extension of Briar Creek. The Briar Creek pattern, it's not something that I wanna see get extended much more, but it's pretty much already surrounded with projects that are in that sort of West Raleigh mode. I don't really see any harm in giving these developers what they want here in exchange. I believe we are getting some things that are useful, although the design, as you know, I always care about design commitments. I know that the design commitments are very similar to the ones we looked at before, but they are, especially with the 20% rear-loaded units, just that much better that persuades me to vote in favor. Mr. Miller, just to answer your question, it's a PDR-12. 12, that's all I thought, then meaning 12 units per acre. Great, thank you, Commissioner Miller. I plan to vote for this as well. I think as Commissioner Amandolia said, I wish there was more on the affordability side. It doesn't check every box, but it checks a lot of boxes, and I believe it's an improvement over the current zoning. So I don't see anyone else with their hands raised, so I will accept a motion. So if I may, Mr. Chairman, in connection with, I'm going to make a motion for a case where I'm actually going to vote in favor of my motion. In connection with Z19, 00057, concerning the townhouses at Corners at Briar Creek, a move that we send this forward to the city council with a favorable recommendation. Second. Thank you, Commissioner Miller and Commissioner Johnson. Will the roll call vote, please? Commissioner Amandolia. Yes. Chair Busby. Yes. Commissioner Johnson, no, Commissioner Darkin. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Kenchin. Yes. Commissioner Landfried. Yes. Commissioner Lowe. Yes. Commissioner MacGyver. He's not here. Not President Steele. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. Commissioner Williams. No. No. No. All right. Passes nine and one. No, I believe you had two nos, did you not? Oh, I didn't hear another no. I thought Mr. Member Darkin voted against it. Did I miss here? You missed me. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, so it's nine and one. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And the final official item on tonight's agenda is the landscape manual revisions. Yes, and I just wanted to clarify for the record that this is an information item only. So just receive the report and you can certainly share your comments and any kind of feedback you have with the staff, but it is information only. And if I may, Mr. Chair, I got in the last few days a considerable number of messages from members of the public that seem to be under the impression that we would be making some sort of decision on this. And I'm concerned that if those folks are with us tonight that we make some provision to hear from them, because I want to know about this and should I choose to make comments to send along, I want to be informed by what the citizens have to say. Absolutely. And why don't we do this actually? Ms. Smith, if you don't mind coming back on screen, it would be helpful for you to, and this may be in the staff report as well, but this is a little bit of a different item. If you don't mind walking us through the approval process and then why it's coming to us is information. And then we can go to the staff report, but I will offer opportunities for public input as well. Right, so this item has already been to Joint City County Planning Commission. This is one of the items that Joint City County Planning Commission actually has to take action on, one of the few items under their umbrella that they take action on. And then it will go to the governing bodies, but however we're bringing it to this commission as a courtesy, we didn't want to skip over planning commission. We wanted to make sure that we got this item out in as many forms as possible and to share with as many groups as possible. And so it did come to the Joint City County Planning Committee at last week's meeting and it was approved unanimously, including my vote and a few members of the organizations that had worked on this were present at that meeting as well. So we were able to recognize them and thank them for their contributions. I don't think... Just to clarify, I did say that we were bringing here as a courtesy. It's not listed as one of the responsibilities under the Planning Commission's purview and you wouldn't normally, you don't have a public hearing on this item, but we wanted to make sure that it was shared with you nonetheless. If I may, Mr. Chairman. This is something that matters to me and I've commented on from time to time during my time on the Planning Commission. I will note that this manual is incorporated into the UDO by reference. And so it is in fact becomes part of the UDO and its provisions to the extent that they're incorporated by reference become part of the law of the County of Durham. And so quite frankly, when we have manuals like this which are subject to change and incorporated by reference so that they become part of the UDO, I believe they should come to the Planning Commission and I believe they should be subjects of public hearing because if we don't do that, then what we wind up with however convenient it is to skip a public hearing, we wind up with one degree less public engagement that I think something like this deserves. Anything in the UDO that compels or addresses, prohibits or encourages behavior in the whole business of zoning and land use, I think ought to be aired in front of the Planning Commission and that's my plug for us and what we do. Okay, thanks Commissioner. I appreciate that Mr. Miller, but procedurally we're following the procedure that we've been advised to follow through our attorney's office and we did bring it here as a courtesy and we'll certainly share your comments. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Why don't we move to the staff report and then I do see that Katie Rose Levin has her hand raised so I'll offer her the opportunity to offer remarks as well as commissioners. Certainly. Thank you. I'm going to share screen. I do have a small PowerPoint presentation I'll put up and we'll go from there. So good evening. Danny Coltr again, representing the Planning Department was being presented tonight over the visions to the Durham Landscape Manual. Last year members of the department were tasked with updating the manual from its initial adoption in December, 2005 and the last revision in April of 2013 through efforts with members of the Planning Department the Department of General Services, Landscaping and Urban Forster Division, Department of Parks and Recreation, Public Works, Stormwater Services and through partnerships with various members of the Durham Environmental Coalition, we're hopeful that you will receive these and support these changes. Through the course of the process there were four areas to the revisions we felt needed to be addressed to bring the manual up to current industry standards. Text revisions, UDL amendments and new planting installation certifications, plant chart revisions and revised planting details and examples. The text in the manual was updated to reflect the current best industry practices. We removed recommended practices and revised the manual to only reflect required practices and techniques. Eco-friendly tips were added to promote ecologically sound installation and maintenance practices in addition to the water-wise and water conservation tips that currently reside in the manual. Through dialogue with the Environmental Coalition Partners there was a push to utilize more native species in Durham which promote better wildlife habitat and ecosystems versus using non-native vegetation. And although not a direct revision to the landscape manual this dialogue yielded future recommendations to some UDL text amendments such as utilizing all native species in tree replacement areas and repairing and buffer revegetation and mitigation. This dialogue also yielded the recommendation to require that a licensed landscape architect or licensed landscape contractor must certify that the correct planting practices in the manual have been utilized. The invasive species list was updated. We reviewed current allowed vegetation against local and national plant data. As a result, we expanded the prohibited lists in the manual based on recommendations from urban forestry staff, the Durham Environmental Coalition and NC State University Resources. We reorganized the current plant tables and condensed from eight large tables consisting of 248 pages down to four tables consisting of approximately 142 pages. And also adjusted the graphics for better legibility in order to provide the user with a more efficient process for plant selection. The way we accomplished was to group all native and non-native species together adding key symbol keys for identification removing the individual named cultivars, removing ambiguous designations and streamlining the water-wise plant conditions and cultural notes information. And these are some of the current tree plant table formats which shows what we had before with the cultivars listed, the planting conditions and the cultural notes. And we revised these to streamline the efforts. It's much more legible and much easier for people to actually navigate the plant tables. Same thing with the shrub plant tables and it's much more navigable. We also revised our planting details. The manual contained poor quality graphic details and illegible text. And the goal was to update those with cleaner and more legible details. We also wanted to modify all details to meet the current best practices and industry standards. And these are all details. The text is very illegible and we updated the two industry standards and cleaned up all of our details. And finally, based on dialogue with our environmental partners we committed to revising potential updates on a five-year cycle which is much more frequent than has been performed in the past. This will ensure that any future potential invasive species are placed on our Durham's prohibited lists and as industry standards change we can update the manual accordingly. Thank you. Appreciate that staff report and all the time you put into this effort as well. It was a concerted effort not only with staff but with all our environmental partners and also with some of our consulting partners within the community. That's great. So as Commissioner Miller noted I know a lot of us have received comments from members of the New Hope Audubon Society. I know Trees Durham and the LRB Creek Watershed Association also have been working on this and I understand are all supportive. I will, this is not an official public hearing but I see both Katie Rose Levin and Mimi Kessler are in attendance and have their hands raised. So if we can bring them off a mute and we can give you love to hear your thoughts and give you two minutes each to share your thoughts and feedback and we can start with Katie Rose. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I'm Katie Rose Levin, the executive director of Trees Durham. I just wanted to point out that this process was really well done and it created an excellent product. So as Danny mentioned people from the planning staff led by Jessica, Danny was a big contributor worked with different environmental groups, different industry groups as well as people across the city to really update us in a way that is fantastic and also to create a process that will continue going on for years. So this is an example of I think how city government best works. In addition to what Danny said I wanted to point out some particular things that were good. Right now it's really challenging for the city to get out and look at all these landscapes. So as a result, a lot of them aren't, this is all these invest practices. So the compromise was instead of hiring more zoning compliance staff or in addition to actually having the professionals on the ground doing the certification. So it creates jobs and also a better product for Durham. It reduces or eliminates the use of excess nitrogen, fertilizer, phosphorus and other types of chemicals. They're not allowed to apply it without a soil test first. So that's really going to improve water quality as well as our product. It increases the number of natives and eliminates invasive species. The city and all of our land trust pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to get rid of invasive species. So this is really going to be a long-term benefit for Durham. And it also increases and updates the standards for tree planting which should result in more viable long-term healthy trees. So this is just a couple of the specific things that would improve. And I just, a lot of times I'm in here asking you to vote against things and that the process isn't working as well as it should. And I think when it works well this product is a great example of how good process and democratic engagement is really beneficial for everyone. So thanks to you and thanks to the city staff who did spend hours and hours and hours working with us and working on this. Thank you. Meany-Kessler? Good evening. Can you hear me? Yes. Good. I'm thrilled to hear that they were so receptive to the expert providing guidance and that that guidance was heard and is reflected in the document. I am very concerned however about the process because while they have asked the experts they haven't actually asked the public and I want to know at what point in the normal process where is the public engagement process other than to write all of you? Thank you. Commissioners, if you would like to speak on this item let me know. Commissioner Miller? So Danny and more than a couple of places in your presentation you referred to industry standards that doesn't necessarily always persuade me what industry are we talking about? We looked at different technical standards across the industry. We also- What industry are we talking about Danny? We're talking about the American Institute of Nursery Institute updating those planning standards. We're talking about the planning industry not the development industry. Correct. Correct. Thank you. That was what I wanted to know. Sorry about that. Horticultural practice in other words. Commissioner Miller, you're good. Any other commissioners? Any additional thoughts or feedback? Okay, I don't see anything. Again, I want to just thank the staff for working with the community partners and this is exciting. I think it's a good step forward and I'm glad it'll be updated every five years. That's the official agenda for tonight. I think we do need to now have a vote for an excused absence for Commissioner MacGyver. He did indicate that he would be running late but he said he was definitely going to be late. He wasn't sure if he'd be here period. So if we can make a motion and have a vote for an excused absence for him, that'd be great. Yeah, I'm ready to take that now. Mr. Chair, I move that we excuse the absence of Commission Member MacGyver. Second. Great, I love the roll call vote, please. Yes, Commissioner Amondoya. Yes. Chair Busby. Yes. Commissioner Durkin. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Kinchin. Yes. Commissioner Landfreyd. Yes. Commissioner Lowe. Hey. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. Okay, I know we lost you. And Commissioner Williams. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. And then the final stuff, just a few housekeeping items. If you haven't seen it yet, Grace did send around a Zoom to, I'm sorry, a doodle poll to try to schedule the Planning Commission retreat now that we're through all the backlog meetings. And so if you can fill that out and we can get a sense of, do any of those dates work for us? So this would be more of a deeper dive into the comprehensive plan update and some other items that we've been wanting to get back on track. Grace, I don't know if you have anything to add to that. No, I came up with those four slots to start with, just to see what kind of participation we would get. So far, one of the dates and times is looking pretty strong. I think November the 18th, the midday, date looks pretty good. I think so far we've got a very large following for that time. But if you haven't completed the poll, please do so that we can figure out what day and time we will actually end up with. Great, thank you. And then Grace, I was just gonna ask, next month, now we're back to normal time. So November 10th at 5.30 is our regular meeting. What, anything you can tell us about what to expect? Right now it looks like we may end up with five cases, but one of them is tentative. And I say that because it's one of those things that it may or may not be ready, but definitely four cases. Yeah. And Mr. Chairman, I have a question and a request if I may. You may. So the first question is, Grace, when do you want our comments this time? So we had agreed at the last meeting and if everyone's still okay with that, we were gonna give you two weeks. Two Tuesdays. Two Tuesdays to send in your comments. And you can do one of two things. You can email them directly to Terry Elliott or you can put the comments in your decision forms. Okay, and you're gonna send those to us. Right, we're trying to start sending those the day of the meeting, but definitely the day after we'll send those. And what we need for you to do, if you're going to type them in your decision forms, you need to actually type comments, not just pick stuff off the decision form. Like type something at the bottom so we know that you did, you had comments. All right, thank you. And then. My question. All right, piggyback off of your question, Tom. It wasn't a reminder for the last one. And so I forgot. So we gave everyone two weeks and I guess we can put something on the calendar to remind everyone when the two weeks has run out. We had extended it to give you all more time, but if we need to remind you, I think everybody's used to the reminder also. Okay, I can ask Miss Elliott to remind everyone. Thank you. Okay. And so this is a special request and I don't know if it's happening with all the commission members, but it's begun to happen with me. Not only a couple of us remember a very significant zoning case that took a lot of time and a lot of public engagement. And that was a zoning case. Gosh, was it in 2015 or 16 or sometime, maybe 17 at the corner of guess and latter roads when publics wanted to build a mixed use project there? Evidently something is happening up there now and that a neighborhood meeting has been held with the developer and I'm getting quite a lot of comments from the public about a project. I don't know anything about. And I realized that those neighborhood meetings happened before anybody has actually filed anything with the staff, but as soon as it is convenient for you folks to send us something that surprises us of what's going on so that when we engage with the public, I don't have to ask them. I just, it's just not a good look. I would like to have a little bit of information on this one. When we see a big one coming and I believe this may be that being forewarned helps. It makes me in any way feel like I'm a better resource for the members of the public who want to engage with me. Thank you. All right, so a couple of things on that that there was a neighborhood meeting. The application was just submitted like maybe yesterday. So it's literally in our hopper. None of us have even probably looked at it because it's sitting in a digital box somewhere, but we will get to it this week. We've also created a new landing page that you're going to be hearing about this week that has our new submittals on the website that anyone can access. It will be anyone, a citizen, planning commissioner, elected body, person, anyone. So I'll send you the link to that this week. And also the staff will give you some background on that guest and latter project because I know that's a hotspot and we'll make sure you find out what is going on once we look at the proposal we'll let you know. That's huge and I'm already getting questions and some things I can answer, but most things I would prefer to check with you first grace before I go back to the public. I don't want to make a hot situation hotter through mistake. So, and you've always been very kind to me by responding. Well, no problem. We're here to help you. And I will send you the link to that page. And then if that page doesn't help you, you can always reach out to us. I will say that the new submittals will not be on that page immediately. It might take a couple of weeks to get them loaded. It's a new thing we're doing, but we have it up to date through the summer. It's got all of 2020 submittals so far up to the summer. So we'll be adding the new ones very soon. That's great. Thank you. Commissioner, is anything else for this evening? Yes, if I may. Is the applicant, is that the same? Is that Publix again? It is a different group that's looking at the property now. As far as I know, they're not affiliated with Publix or the other applicants that were involved in the previous application. So the previous one, the developer was to be a real estate group out of Florida that customarily assisted Publix. And I believe this group is out of Raleigh, but I'm not 100% sure. It's not the same group, I do know that. And I do know they have a different proposal. They are looking at doing a mix of commercial and residential just as before, but they do have a different idea. So we'll get to look at it this week and give you a heads up about it just so you have that information. Thank you, Grace. Thanks. Not seeing anything else, we will adjourn the meeting. I hope everyone stays safe and I'll see you next month. Thanks, bye. Bye, thanks, bye. Bye, everybody. Bye, good night.

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This town offers a rich history and a peaceful lifestyle. But what truly sets Altenberg apart is its affordability. You can secure a home here at prices that are truly a steal, making it our seventh cheapest town to purchase a house in Germany. Moving on, we land in the sixth spot, the picturesque town of Salzvettel. Located in the Saxony and Halt region, this town is a hidden gem. It's known for its half-timbered houses and the serene Jitzel river that flows through the town, providing a tranquil setting for its residents. Salzvettel offers a perfect blend of a rich cultural heritage and modern conveniences, all without burning a hole in your pocket. The cost of buying a house here is significantly lower than in many other towns, making Salzvettel a worthy contender on our list. Now, let's move to the fifth spot, our midway point. Here we find the delightful town of Permacens, perched on the edge of the Palatinate Forest in the Rhineland-Palatinate region. Living here, you'll be surrounded by nature's beauty, with the forest offering plenty of outdoor activities. Permacens is also known for its vibrant arts scene, boasting several museums and theatres. The best part? The cost of homes here is surprisingly affordable, making Permacens a great choice for those seeking a balance between cost and quality of life. So, there you have it, folks. From the historical allure of Altenberg, the tranquil charm of Salzvettel, to the nature-kissed Permacens, these towns offer a blend of affordability and lifestyle that's hard to resist. They are perfect for those of you who dream of owning a home in Germany without breaking the bank. Stay with us, the best is yet to come. We're getting closer to the top of our list of affordable towns. Buckle up as we journey into the fourth town on our list, a gem in the heart of Germany, Bacchum. This town is a blend of modern city life and rich history. The average property price here is refreshingly low, making it an attractive option for those seeking to own a home in a vibrant, bustling town. You'll find a multicultural community, thriving arts scene, and a variety of outdoor activities to keep you entertained. Next, we're off to the third most affordable town in Germany, Chemnitz. This town, nestled in the state of Saxony, is a hub of innovation and industry. Despite its economic strength, the property prices in Chemnitz remain relatively low. It's a place where the old meets new, with stunning architecture from different eras standing side by side. Plus, it boasts a rich cultural scene with numerous museums, theaters, and galleries to explore. Now hold your breath as we reveal the second cheapest town to buy a house in Germany. Welcome to Sigen. Nestled in the lush green hills of North Rhine Westphalia, Sigen offers a serene and peaceful environment. It's a paradise for nature lovers, with numerous hiking trails and parks. The property prices here are surprisingly affordable, making it an ideal place to settle down and enjoy the tranquility. Each of these towns offers a unique blend of affordability, culture, and quality of life. Whether you're a fan of bustling city life, or prefer the quiet charm of a smaller town, you're sure to find your dream home in one of these affordable German towns. And now, the moment you've been waiting for, and the town with the most affordable housing in Germany, is Bitterfeld-Wolfen. Nestled in Saxony-Anhalt, this charming town boasts a rich history and a vibrant culture. But what sets it apart is the attractive housing market. Here you can secure a home without breaking the bank, making it an appealing choice for those looking to stretch their euros. Imagine living in a place where the blend of history and modernity is just outside your doorstep. Bitterfeld-Wolfen offers this unique combination with beautifully preserved historical buildings juxtaposed against recent developments. The town's housing market is as diverse as its architectural landscape, offering a range of homes that cater to different budgets and lifestyle preferences. The affordability of Bitterfeld-Wolfen does not compromise on quality. The town offers a high standard of living, with efficient public services, top-notch schools, and a strong sense of community. So there you have it, the 10 most affordable towns to buy a house in Germany. We hope this video has given you some hope and inspiration for home ownership in Germany. We've journeyed together through the 10 most affordable towns, each with its unique charm and appeal. From the vibrant culture of the 10th to the incredible value offered by the number one spot, we've seen just how attainable owning a home can be. Remember, Germany's housing market is full of hidden gems, places where the cost of living meets quality of life in a perfect balance. Each of the towns we've explored today offers a unique blend of affordability, culture, and lifestyle that makes them perfect for anyone looking to invest in a home. So, whether you're a young professional, a growing family, or an adventurous retiree, these towns offer something for everyone. So why wait? Start exploring your options today. Don't forget to subscribe to The European Hub for more informative videos about Europe. We have a lot more to share with you. Until next time!

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The Mind - Benders: LSD and the Hallucinogens

1970 The Mind - Benders: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and the Hallucinogens, ca. 1970. ARC Identifier 13260 / Local Identifier 88.6. This film explores the history of hallucinogenic drugs, and specifically the effects and therapeutic uses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Combining graphics that suggest a hallucinogenic experience, snippets of interviews with users (who explain their reasons for taking the drug) and doctors, and taped sessions of research with volunteers, the film delves into the destructive as well as possible positive uses of the drug. http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExecuteRelatedOrganizationSearch?id=1170209&relationship=AD_CREATOR Made possible by a donation from Public.Resource.Org

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hallucination is defined as an apparent perception, as by sight or hearing, for which there is no real or external cause. From this word is derived the name given to a special group of drugs, the hallucinogens. You don't, I don't usually see something that's an actual real thing that I could describe as, you know, sometimes one time I saw a lot of faces, just all these faces appeared in front of me. And they were children's faces and oriental faces and old faces and just all kinds of different faces in front of me. And one time I looked in the mirror and I saw just my face just went through all these changes of different emotions and ages and you know I could feel all of the things that I saw. Among these drugs the hallucinogens are included mescaline, a chemical taken from the peyote cactus, psilocybin extracted from a variety of Mexican mushroom, DMT synthesized from the compound tryptamine and of course LSD-25 a derivative of lysergic acid and currently the best known of the hallucinogens. For the very beginnings of unrecorded time men have reached for substances in the world around them that would alter, extend and materially change their perception of reality. The reasons, loneliness and fear, boredom and a desire for the new and the unknown, exploration and experimentation. The reasons as varied and as many as the grains of sand on a beach. In 1965 because I was curious about it I had several friends who had taken it and they told me that they had you know very good experiences with it and I was just curious. Well I was curious what I read what I've heard and if it could help I was looking for I was just looking for something. Sort of because I had heard it makes you not only closer with yourself but with everybody this sort of love-peace type thing and I really wanted to find out if this was true. It was a kick it was a thrill you know when I first started taking it was to explore myself. Well I found I could only go so far before I just ran dead up against myself and I couldn't go any farther and then after that I just started taking it for kicks and just to do something. Some have used these drugs to journey into the uncharted tunnels of the mind in search of medical and scientific truth. Others look behind the curtain just for kicks. Whatever the reason the fact of the matter is the use of these drugs is on the rise and it would seem valuable and interesting to inquire into cause and effect. Since LSD is the hallucinogen drug currently most popular and in greatest demand we will center our attention here and later draw broad conclusions concerning all of the mind-bending drugs. As a starter here are some hard facts worth considering. LSD is incredibly powerful eating or injecting even a smaller quantity of LSD as one two hundred and eighty thousandth of an ounce can cause such symptoms as hallucination distortion panic impulses toward violence suicidal acts and psychosis. Today we know quite a bit about what it does but very little about how it does it. Scientific studies have shown that the physical effects of LSD include an increase in blood pressure heart rate and blood sugar. These physiological changes are often accompanied by nausea chills flushes irregular breathing trembling and sweating. Recent research on animals has shown that LSD may cause cell damage and lead to serious abnormalities and malformations in the offspring. In one study four or five pregnant animals were given a single injection of LSD. The results showed early abortion still born and under developed offspring. In the culture of human blood cells it was found that LSD damaged the chromosomes in the white cells. In addition to these physical symptoms there is clear evidence of serious psychological and emotional disturbances resulting from even a single use of LSD. The group use of the hallucinogens at parties is becoming a familiar part of the scene. An atmosphere is created and mass use of the drug becomes the central factor in the lives of many young men and women. The problem is that while the drug is not physically addicting there is considerable evidence that it can cause psychological dependence. So let's count the cost and take a good look at the results. I remember once it was I wasn't using LSD it was peyote which is reasonably similar and I was in bed and I was in bed with a young lady and I turned and I looked at her face and her face distorted into sort of a flesh dripping monster face. Features became drawn and like jowls hung and she grew fangs and I quickly turned my head away and I told me that this couldn't be so and for about an hour I wouldn't look at her face again. It was really frightening. I could see all around me no matter which way I was facing. It was just real frightening. I went to this survival land and I was afraid everyone was going to go there and things were never going to be the same and that everyone was going to become real vicious and hateful and just climb on top of each other to get what they wanted and I never thought the world was going to be any different than that. Everything vibrates. I can I look at chairs and they I can see the waves and it's pulsating vibrating and this I can everything turns into vibrations. It's like everything is falling apart. I have an eye and an electronic microscope and I can see all the atoms in everything. Everything pulsates. I took the acid around two in the morning and started reading this book and there are sections in it that give instructions to a person who is dead and they tell him to do certain things and hang on to certain things and let go of other certain things letting just allowing the experience to happen to you naturally and in the course of that I got very confused as to whether I was alive or whether I was dead and it was really very very far out to just not know whether I was alive or dead and so if I'm dead what is what is happening what's been happening with my life if I've been dead all this time you know what is the truth behind all of this. All the results are not yet in. The evidence is inconclusive. The only thing we know for sure is that we just don't know enough in carefully controlled experiments. Interesting results have been reported on the therapeutic use of LSD with a mentally ill, the drug addict, the terminal cancer patient and in the VA hospital in Topeka, Kansas a special research program for alcoholics. Well this this program was started in January of this year where we begin treating five patients for 26 days. We bring them in on one Monday and they spend one week of getting acquainted and having all the tests and examinations done to keep them busy for the whole week, day and night practically. The second Monday we give them a small dose of LSD in the five man ward together. This is to help the group pull together and in their group experience during his 26 days to also get some good from this. Then the third Monday we give them a larger dose individually and have each one of them cared for by one of these teams who have associated with them and they give them their complete support and this is where we aim for the so-called psychedelic experience. It seems to work pretty well of course it takes time to work through. Also in this program we bring these men back every four months or three days and this follow-up is quite important. Some of the things that are outstanding is I know I kept fighting the religious music. I didn't know why then but Dr. Coran kept urging me to find out why I was fighting this and I remember I was just really scared to death. The thing that affected me as far as the first patient is concerned was the openness which he talked with me. The quality also seemed to be more realistic than he has shown before. Qualities in my head, the good qualities of course virtue, love, trust. Then I seen the other ones hate, anger, distrust. I seen them all in my head and it was like I was strangling myself like I had to get rid of all the bad qualities and I was strangling myself fighting against them. And especially the looking at the two sides in his head in this process these things were thought about rather deeply and the thing that makes the difference here is the emotion that goes along with them. And I just reached up and it was like somebody grabbed me and brought me up. And I interpret this as for the first time in my life I wanted love and I think this is the thing that was probably my biggest problem is that I thought everybody was fortunate on me and I wasn't going to let them. But it's not a question. I think from hearing this man report his experience that there definitely is a change as of now for prognosis is concerned time. There are currently over 50 research projects in progress under the auspices of the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Mental Health. All part of our continuing search to discover more about the hallucinogens. The questions remain. The mind bending drugs seem to offer so much but what do they really deliver? As to what it has to offer that's a difficult question because what we've seen here have been some things that I don't think most kids thought they were getting when they took the drug. We've seen some kids that have had prolonged psychosis. Some have had to go to state hospitals. Some have been treated for two or three months and have been able to leave UCLA. Some of them have had severe depressions. Some have been very confused and some of the groovy hallucinations and the colors that they wanted they couldn't stop. They got tired of it after 12 or 18 hours but they couldn't stop the colors. How do they work and what are the long range effects of this drug on human personality? Well we don't know a great deal about long range effects. People always are asking about chronic brain damage. What we do know first of all is that the electroencephalogram or brain wave test. On this we see in electrodes that are on the scalp and also depth electrodes planted inside the brain. We see changes from LSD in man and animals after a normal dose and these changes last from one to two weeks after administration. In addition we also see the reoccurrences. You take LSD once, the effect wears off in 12 to 16 hours then up to a year later either with stress or without stress without ever taking the drug again you have the same reoccurrences the people call them flashes or flashbacks. Reoccurrences of all the LSD symptoms in their original intensity. Certainly this implies that something chronic is going on in the brain. Do these drugs really make possible a richer more productive happier life? When we follow them along what we're impressed with is their whole style of life may change that instead of being involved in productive activity they claim that they feel better and yet this feeling better is alongside of a business of where they've withdrawn from life they're disregarding their personal appearance they don't really care about how they function and the rest of the world and they're involved in the kind of a pseudo-philosophic concern with life and themselves with a real absence of contact with other human beings. So it's this interesting business of a kind of withdrawal and the statement of this kind of life makes them feel much better and more insightful. Should the federal government exercise any control over these drugs and if so why? It's a simple matter from our point of view that you can't let something get out in a general distribution until it has shown some therapeutic potential and it is shown it under certain conditions and you can predict fairly well what's going to happen when you give this drug to a large number of people. This hasn't been shown yet so we have to be very careful and trying to carry out the necessary research that's going to establish whether or not it has a significant therapeutic potential for people. If it does... Questions that must be answered and because we do not know enough the United States government controls the manufacture and use of this drug in the interest of all the people. Like all the new drugs the government feels that a reasonable degree of controlled scientific investigation must provide the answers. LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, DMT and the other hallucinogens. The mind-bending drugs. Do they extend the range of the human mind or do they simply offer an easy escape from the demands of this world and time? Make love and play the guitar and eat, go down to the beach and go swimming and occasionally write some things when I feel like writing and think about how I'm going to get a little more money to not starve to death. It gets you out of that whole intellectual academic framework that you've been taught to be in all the years that you've gone to school. Not only emotional hangers but social hang-ups don't do this and don't do that and you shouldn't associate with these people and the things that Maurice you might say that I brought up with. I just get flashes of people seeing me and it's kind of a schizophrenic thing. In a way I want people to see me and sometimes I don't. I'd get up and I'd feel like someone had a rawhide band around my forehead and it was just such a pressure that by afternoon I'd be crying so every morning I'd wake up with this pressure and every afternoon I'd cry. To make possible creative achievement and a more valid and intense perception or do they merely substitute an unreal fantasy world for the sometimes harsh facts of reality. Oh yes I think that I experience things much more intensely now than I mean I've hallucinated without having any drugs since I've taken LSD. I had very vivid light experiences. Sometimes I went into lights that are brighter than the sun and I see patterns in everything dirt trees there's patterns everywhere. And right then I hallucinated a fish that just came and swallowed the worm and I said oh boy this is it this stuff is really as good as they say it is. Drugs are going to flip a lot of people out and probably kill a lot of people but if they haven't the sense to find out all there is that's been written about anything they're going to use and if they haven't the discretion to decide whether or not in the final analysis they're capable of handling it then that's their problem. They will flip out and that's how it is. Broaden and increase the life experience or do they rather contract the user's world until it centers totally and wholly around the drug. Yeah I was looking for a lot of things because I was really strung out at that time on not finding anything in life that was too interesting. A great great fear of being alone just I could be with a group of people but I couldn't communicate to them. Well what what can scare you is that all structure can break down everything can become one and that's sort of scary. Another thing that can happen is when you're really far out things just can disappear. Because as you suggested I'm one allergic to it and two I don't like to even entertain the notion that that sort of flip out may occur again. I'm not afraid of anything anymore which is you know has good points and it's bad points on especially you know not afraid to die. I became suicidal for a while and every now and then go back to there. The true potential of the hallucinogenic drugs remains unmeasured and largely unknown. The danger of lasting physical and psychological damage to the user remains an important factor in the rising use of these drugs. I think a lot of kids say that at first and then after they're through talking to Dr. Fisher and I they change their mind because we certainly think rebellion is a very healthy thing and we like rebellion and we think great changes in society come out of rebellion and we think that we adults have kind of screwed things up. We haven't done a very good job in the adult world with the with the bomb hanging over us in Vietnam with our crazy ideas about censorship our crazy sexual attitudes our abortion laws we haven't done a very good job. However I do think that fooling with LSD is like Russian roulette. I don't think it's like swallowing goldfish I don't think it's spinning a hula hoop or crowding a lot of people into a telephone booth. I think unfortunately this can be a permanent long-lasting damaging situation so I'm all for rebellion. I think a great deal of good can come out of it. I hope people who are considering using LSD however will think of some of these things we don't know them all we do know a few though and one of them ones that we really know is that they may be damaging themselves permanently. The facts of the matter suggest caution and a careful counting of the cost.

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Esfand surprised by Y'shtola's power in Final Fantasy XIV

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Wait, does WoW have more furry races? Here's the thing, chat. WoW may have some furry races, but the difference is they are more sexualized in Final Fantasy XIV even if there's less of them. You're goddamn right they are. Ha ha ha ha! Yeah, that's awesome. Furries in chat, what the frick? You do your own my server? Yeah man, I play on Malboro because Crystal is where the content is, dude. When I was told that Crystal is the RP, don't play there, I was like, I'll see you guys later, I'm going to Crystal. What is that shield? What is wrong with my shield? It's an AQ-40 shield. So I want to go to LunarCon. I also am like only a couple main scenario quests away from Cape Westwind. Here's what we're going to do. So we'll get caught up on main story quests because we're not quite at Westwind yet, but I want to get caught up to it. Okay, here we go. Escape from Castrum Sentry. Here we go. Now go your preparations, S-Fan. We'll leave as soon as you're ready. Wherever the Empire goes, misery invariably follows in its wake. For the sake of all who call Aorzia home, we must put an end to Gaius's ambitions. But first, we have friends to rescue. Biggs, Wedge, and I lie in wait, east of Castrum Sentry, just outside the Stronghold's patrol perimeter. Don't forget to wear your disguise, or this will be the shortest rescue mission in history. Okay, hello, hello. Oh, I can't do this yet. Oh, I have to be disguised as an Imperial soldier to activate the quest. Okay. Imperial, Imperial, Imperial. Look, this is a good disguise. Obviously, they're gonna know that I'm part of the Imperial. Forgive me for saying so, but you cut quite a dashing figure in an Imperial Black and Crimson. But now is no time for jests. Okay, let's review the infiltration plan. Castrum Sentry lies just beyond. A short while ago, an Imperial patrol left to do its rounds. Alphano and I will create a diversion out there. Keep them occupied for as long as we're able. Meanwhile, the three of you will enter the Stronghold, posing as the patrol returning from duty. Should Alphano and I prove less distracting than hoped, I will contact you via link pearl. Be ready to beat a hasty retreat. That seemed a little unnecessary. Wedge will lead the way in the Reaper. Stay close to him. The Imperial patrol should be returning any moment now. You'd best be off. You have spirit. That I will allow. This is funny to me. Dude, the lip sync is terrible, dude. Can you believe that? You wish to be rid of the icons. Do you not? How come the metal mask doesn't move? Oh, frick. Smack your dumb ass. As you wish, my dear. It's your beard. Menphilia, you leave us no choice but to employ more rigorous methods of study. My lady, I got the shins since fourth grade. Oh, no. Oh, my apologies. I didn't notice you there. I was so engrossed in my task, you'd be engrossed to have the tribunous commanded. You did arrange for the prisoners to be transported? What prisoners do I speak of? Oh, you mean you haven't heard? Have a look in the storage tower when the next you pass this way. Try hard seven. Slash try hard seven. That's a fine salute. Anyway, welcome to Castrum Century, engineer. Oh, what prisoners? Yes, they're being held in the storage tower, but I strongly suggest you pay them no mind. You were summoned here to work and not to gop a day or see us defeated heroes. Now show a bit of enthusiasm or I'll have you reported. The Vortnian Devs like Star Wars? See, I thought the same thing. Like, it just reminded me of Star Wars, this whole thing. What a blood. It's all men. Forgive me for asking, but haven't you visited the storage tower recently? Have you? I only asked because I dropped something in there. And who am I fooling? I've fallen for one of the prisoners, all right? I dare say you know the one I mean. It's the Lafellon lass, I'm spinning. She's so adorable it hurts. I want to sweep her up into my arms and squeeze her into my arms. What do you think it would take to convince the Centurion to lend me the key so I can see her? All right, Biden. Did you know that Yoshi P made the Devs play cat and box so they could learn how to not make a game? True. Security's tight, just as we expected. We're going to need a special key if we want to get past this bulkhead. Might as well RP didn't sleep makes Frank. Yeah. Duty calls. Ooh. Wait, does Wild have more furry races? Here's the thing, Chapp. Wild may have some furry races, but the difference is they are more sexualized in Final Fantasy 14, even if there's less of them. You're goddamn right they are. Yeah, that's awesome. Furries and Chapp with the Frick. Manfilia and the rest. Oh, thank goodness they're safe. I am the one you want. Leave the others be. If you harm my friends, I swear I shall take my own life and you shall answer to your mistress. Tartario, we must do something. You're right. We may not get a better chance. Eliminate the intruders. You came. I'm coming. Okay, I'm reading chat. That was what, that was, that was, you know what, I'm just not going to read it anymore. I'm stuck. Dude, arrive late, 345? 380, rage of hello, we're in it. I'm doing these quests as Paladin until I hit a little 50 by the way. Can I kick? Oh, with the immune system I just didn't see it. Oh, well, as then, I was so scared. Thank you. I shuddered to think what might have happened had you not arrived when you did. Did you not see Thinkward anywhere? I'm beginning to fear for the fella. To linger here shall yield us no answer. Let us away, air the window to our liberty, close this shot. I do all men have the Southern draw. They don't, only like half of them do. Well, what did you say? Escape, then recapture them. Fail, and I shall have your head. And what have we here? The tribunous herself, just as you said. You have the eye of Powerman, Eda. Oh, oh. Well, she's kind of hard to miss in that showy armor of hers. A cursed scion. How did you slip our defenses? First, you must answer for your own wrongdoing, Livial, Liviasus Junius. More intruders, protect the tribunous. Oh, confound it, Eda, with me. Fan out and surround them. Now, wedge, don't do it. S-Fan, hold them off. I'll look after Minfilia to Taru. This infernal creation is shielded by energy, it's not its own. Whatever is generating it, she'll must be near. Find it, S-Fan. Okay. Oh, look at this guy. We label it in vain, till the beast be divested of its shield, our blows shall not find their mark. It's dead or injured. Oh, another one? Really, dude? They're all not getting away, bring forth the Colossus. So like, I can leave, animation goes away, and then I step into it and I won't get hit. Okay. That tri-poopy, I did it once, I didn't like it. You could have done that the whole time. What the? Pray, forgive us, heavily outnumbered. Stitch to your Magitek armor, fool of a lullaby. Well, excuse me, she's all yours if you think you can do any better. These boys are so different than the ones I gave them. This is Sid. Can you hear me? Can you hear me, Captain? I need you to count to the bar. Which is more pitiful, aorzea, or the masses that clamor for their implausible panaceas. What in the seven hells? What in the seven hells? It's here. They finished it. Ultima weapon. Look, there, beside the black wolf an Asian, an overlord, no less. His garba tests to that. Lahabrea, it could only be him. La Chubagabra. Face reveal? Face reveal? Oh, frick. Wait, what? Thankrid. Wait, what? Wait, what the heck? Seriously? No way. No way. Dude, talk about a plot twist. He was Lahabrea? No. No, this cannot be. This is so good, dude. We have to go now. This is good, dude. You belong in a museum. Dude, this is so good, man. And to think that it was I who suggested that Thankrid investigate the Asians. How could I have been so blind? Small wonder the enemy knew our every move and where to find us. People talk. The Alliance leaders take their hopes on the science, but now they believe us all dead or missing. We must go and offer them what assurances we can that defeat is not inevitable. Cryol, this is Minfilia. The situation may have taken an ill turn. Forgive me if I seem brusque. Ey yo, Minfilia, you want to turn off your phone? We're in the car. Wonderful. But the battle is far from over. Ey yo, Minfilia. If we stand together, there shall ever be hope of victory. The people of Eorzea falter for want of such hope. Let us bear to them the tidings that the scions of the Seventh Dawn are returned. I hope we can count on you. My regards to Grandfather. The pizza will be here soon. I am ready. Let us pay a visit to the Council of the Alliance leadership. So is the hair crazy because my frame rate is too high? Rally all available forces. I want them ready to move upon my word and relate to Slavsirin, the order to sail. That is all. The maelstrom stands ready, one of the flames. Ready as we'd like to be. I need only to give the word to Raul. Has there been no word from Ishgard? None. The dragons have got their tongues. Silent to the last, I was unwise to hope for better. What would stir the archbishop to open his holy mouth if not this? And he claims the fury for his guard. It is bad company or comedy. The Holy See has made its choice. We will proceed without its cooperation. I believe we are all acquainted with the terms of Black Wolf's ultimatum. We must agree upon a course of action. Not less than the fate of Eorzea hangs upon the decision of this council. Van Belsaugh claims to wield the power to smite primals. Should we yield to him, he pledges to rid the realm of its false gods, get off of resistance, and he swears that we shall share the primal's fate. Choose, we surrender all resistance. We must answer his one, for if but one surrenders, the rest shall surely fall. Let us pray for the wisdom to do right by all our peoples. Okay, so actually this is a good timing for us to go to Lunar Con.

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Surf Station Surf School 2019

Meet your 2019 Surf Station Surf School instructors Parker and Jeremy and sign up for the best surf lessons in FL! https://surfstationsurfschool.com/ Surf clips by NPI Productions Production and Editing by Memory Camero

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Hey guys, welcome to the 2019 Surf Station Surf School. My name is Parker. My name is Jeremy, and we're going to be your 2019 camp directors. So this summer we're not only going to be learning how to surf, we're also going to be learning about different places in the world where you can surf. Not only that, we're going to be learning about environmental issues associated with the ocean and keeping the beach safe. Also we're going to be learning about competition strategy and just having fun. Now we'd like to introduce ourselves. Hey guys, my name is Parker Cooler. I'm a junior at Flagler College, and I've been surfing my whole life. I can't wait to get you guys out there this summer. I've been a surf instructor for about eight years now, and I've done competitions all over the United States. I can't wait to help you guys whether you're beginning to get you on your feet or if you're a shredder looking to improve your skills, we can help you out. Hey, what's up guys? My name is Jeremy. So stoked to be hanging out with you guys all summer. It's a little bit about me. I'm born and raised in Florida. I've been surfing my whole life. Traveling around the world for the past couple of years. Surfing all breaks around the world. Yeah, so stoked to hang out with you guys this summer. So now that you guys know a little more about us, we'd love to get to know you guys this summer. Yeah guys, come on and sign up and let's have some fun.

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Shifting Mindsets, Create A Life Of Freedom & Upscaling What You Do - PS. in Conversation

I had a conversation with @LaurenTickner who is one of Forbes top ten entrepreneurs. We spoke about her drive for doing what she does and the passions she has for the future. Her journey of losing weight in an unhealthy way and reframing how she saw her fitness journey, as well as managing panic attacks at a young age and other game changing nudges that have got her to where she is now. Lauren shares her three motivations behind her success and motivation. We discussed about her upbringing and having a brother with a disability and how that has helped shaped the woman she is today and the drive she has to help him and others in similar situations. We speak about shifting mindsets, establishing new healthy habits for longevity, working on creating a life of freedom and much more. You’re going to get a lot out of this interview from someone who is so driven and enthusiastic. We also share our personal observations of the mindset differences between the USA and the UK as both are coming from parts of the UK that have limiting belief systems. How she went from working at one of the top management investment firms in London to being a Forbes top entrepreneur. This interview is for any who are in business, entrepreneurship, start up companies or those who want to create new healthy habits, shift mindsets and turn their passions into a profit. Questions I ask - 1.12 - what were the game changers that nudged you towards what you are doing now in the sweet spot you have got to? 3.30 - at what point did you realise that you hated your job and wanted to get out of it, and how long after did you stay? 6.37 - what do you think it was at 18 that gave you the awareness to get unstuck? 9.35 - where does your driven-ness come from? 13.35 - What’s the difference to you between working in a business and on a business? 18.45 - Your time in the states, why would you want to spend more time there? 21.51 - What are the mistakes start up companies and entrepreneurs make? 24.25 - What is something people don’t know about you which is probably your superpower ? 30.09 - In what ways are you weird? 31.25 - What is a new belief / habits that’s improved your world in the last few years? 35.00 - Who would you be mentored by and why? 38.00 - What do you want to be doing in the next 5 years? Let me know what you thought of this conversation, share with me on social media @PaulScanlonUK and tag in @LaurenTickner and don’t forget to subscribe and please leave a review. Visit paulscanlon.com for more information on seminars, resources and to keep up to date with Paul Scanlon.

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Hey guys, welcome to today's podcast. In this episode today I'm in conversation with Lauren Tickner. Lauren is one of Forbes top 10 entrepreneurs and she and I met when she attended my communication masterclass in London some years ago. We've been tracking with each other ever since. She is a lovely lady and a very successful lady and she's speaking in this interview about how to turn your passions into profits. She's giving advice to all you out there that are involved in any kind of start-up venture. She has a lot of great wisdom for you guys. She speaks about some of her daily go-to routines and habits that have been part of the making of her. She also speaks a little bit about what it was like growing up with her disabled brother and how that relationship has been part of shaping who she's become in her career in just a beautiful way. You're going to love this interview with Lauren. She is a great person and thanks for being here in this space. Leave a comment, leave a review, tag me in on that and if you don't subscribe please do so. Thanks again for being here with me. Enjoy this conversation. Because watching and listening to some of your podcasts, I know you've had a two or three game-changing nudges towards what you do now including your feeling about your brother and your protectiveness towards him and then you've fed her for the corporate world when he did a bit of that. So I picked two big nudges towards what you do now. Was it those things and other things that made you keep moving towards the sweet spot you're in now? Yeah, well I was also overweight at one point. Right, I heard you talk about that. Yeah, I lost weight in a really unhealthy way and long story short I ended up having panic attacks every single day while I was at school age 16 and 17 primarily and so my mom would have to come and pick me up from school early every day and through getting to that point I then wanted to become stronger both physically and mentally and so that's how I got into fitness and then from being into fitness I started posting on Instagram and people in my year found this account because I kept it secret for such a long time and they literally tore me to shreds. I mean I'm telling you you can imagine teenage people when people are doing something that's a bit different because nowadays everyone in their grandma Susan has a fitness Instagram account but then people didn't and so what I did is I kept it private then everybody found it and it was you know that feeling where you feel like you're being engulfed by a black child. So I tried to stop doing that however I ended up continuing on with it because I just love the community. I wasn't making these posts on Instagram I mean literally I was just sharing health-ified recipes that's what I called that and so it was like I was making brownies and stuff with protein powder and and egg whites and whatever and so I was posting that type of thing it wasn't like you know all these bot workouts that people are posting and nothing like that it was it was like you know just just a food blog but I was still really embarrassed but yeah I continued on with it because I wanted just to make friends with other girls who are into the same thing girls my age because I was like 16 17 at the time and then from there got really into fitness and that was also a similar time as when I went and started working in asset management and I was simultaneously posting to Instagram and I hated that job so much I mean so so much like that feeling you know when you're just really bored I don't know if you've had it for a while but I used to get it all the time when I was a kid but you're just so bored. But at what point did you know I mean at what point did you realize in that job that you hated it and how long after that did you stay kind of thing? So that was one moment that I think was really really pivotal for me and I think it was just before Christmas time so I started the job in September and then it was around Christmas and I remember saying to one of my colleagues oh it would be nice to go on on holiday but I don't want to take a vacation because I want to save all my days of holiday for summer and then the man sat behind me he piped into the conversation and he had four daughters and they were all of similar age to me some of them were actually older than me and I remember him saying oh yeah we haven't been on holiday for I think it was five years and he was planning on taking them away that year for Christmas but he couldn't I think because one of his daughters got in a car crash and he had to pay that off or something because she didn't have her insurance covering it because it was helpful something that I don't remember and so I was looking around at the office and I noticed really clearly that during the Christmas period even on Christmas Eve the majority of the office was still there working and I was like huh this is really interesting because I'm working at one of the top investment management firms in the whole of the world yet these people that are all around me they don't have freedom you know they don't have the ability to go and do what they really want to do because let's be real who wants to be sat in an office having right to London when most the world is spending time with their families but they don't have the ability to go and do that because they have to go to work and I was thinking huh this is so interesting because if I continue working in this job I was 18 if I stay here what's gonna end up happening is I mean well I'm just working towards where all these people are at because I was the lowest of the low in that in that company I was the youngest person they'd ever employed and so if I kept in that job I just remember thinking to myself huh if I stay here then I'm just gonna end up just like them you know and so it was just this moment for me a realization that I was working every single day to get better at something that I didn't want to be good at and it just made no sense because I had this whole other world where it was just on my phone you know I go on my phone and I would just post to Instagram and I would comment to people and I was just that was like what I love to do and so I don't really remember how much longer I stayed I think it was like five or months because they kept telling us that we were going to get this bonus right and at that point I was really motivated by money and so what ended up happening is I actually handed in my notice the day after I got my bonus and yeah I left on the 1st of April because I just remember that because it's April Fool's Day and I think I got a bonus of like 2.5k and I'm like oh I wasted like so many months of my life just the 2.5k but I wonder what you know looking back what is it what was it about you say you were 18 at the time so what was it about the 18 year old Lauren number one that thought that but more importantly did something about it because to have felt stuck would not be unusual for many people as you know but to have done something about it in the way that you did to have a bit of a plan an exit an offer out plan to move to something else even though you weren't sure what that was that's unusual and I'm wondering whether or not you feel back then this entrepreneurial leanings that you clearly now strongly in was what was happening back then at 18 it's funny someone asked me this exact question yesterday and I kind of just had this realization right now I am arguably and look I'm not saying this to to impress anyone but it's just because it's just my personality I am probably one of the most driven people that you could meet you know I just I'm just like I know what I want and I'm going to make it happen no matter what and so it's funny when I say this because it's sort of contradictory however I'm very lazy when it comes to actually like leaving my house right I hated the commute so much oh my gosh the trains were late every single day and it was just really annoying me and there was nothing more that I wanted to do I would look out my window in my office we were in the zigzag building by London Victoria right we had a pretty cool view and I just remember looking out and thinking the gym is just down there on that road down there I would love to go and work out right now because I my gym was just across the road and I was like I just wish I could go to the gym that was just what I wanted to do and so I just wanted to go and do what I wanted to do and so it was really frustrating to me how I would say to my boss I was like okay well because all of the work could have been done from home right it could have all of it was on the computer I did not need to be there we just needed access to Bloomberg and we needed access to like a couple of these other softwares that they had already on store and all of their laptops and so it was just the old-fashioned way of thinking and so I think being you know 20 years younger than the majority of people that work there I think I just saw the ability to take everything online before they did and they still didn't get it you know right now going through the whole coronavirus pandemic I'm sure they've adapted but you know if they had implemented these types of things 10 years ago which would have been very feasible then businesses would have been way ahead by now so for me I think it's just a case of realizing like I just remember thinking this is just this is just silly and and I just didn't want to work for someone else um purely because of selfish reasons at that point yeah I just wanted my own freedom what has your drivenness come from um I think well back then it was because I just wanted to be able to do my own thing right and I think we all get started for our own personal reasons and then I think what every every successful entrepreneur that I've spoken to or any just anyone who is happy and fulfilled you find that at the beginning you're motivated for something that is either for you or one of your close family members or friends so it might be that you just want to make money because you really really want to buy a nice house or maybe it's that you're motivated to raise money for charity because your sister needs a heart transplant whatever but then you'll find that to continue on doing that thing you need some sort of fulfillment through doing it and so with regards to me back when I first started it was because I wanted that freedom for myself and then I built a fitness business because I never wanted other people to go through the same struggles that I had been through in fitness and then having successfully built that business I then wanted to help others build online businesses so they could never work jobs that they hated as much as I did and then now for me it's like okay cool I mean I love helping people build online businesses and it is really really rewarding but when you do it a certain number of times it so becomes predictable you know it's like assistance someone comes in they do the work they get the result whereas now I just want to keep pushing and keep growing because ultimately my brother has tons of disabilities and so I've seen someone who has had their freedom taken away from them so I want to be able to make the most of mine to be able to firstly live my life but also secondly be able to ultimately assist in the overcoming of you know stigma around disability a cure for epilepsy and also I want to build a business as able to supply quality care for people who have disabled children in their families because I've been you know my parents got divorced a couple years ago and so sometimes my they help my brother will go to my dad's house sometimes I'll go to my mom's house and I've been there because they'll typically go to my mom's house more often I've been there where my mom and I will get back from I don't know going for lunch together and the carer who's looking after my brother is just sat there asleep you know and it's just like how can this how can this how can this be you know he's supposed to have two on one care so this person it's fine when he's just by himself because he was just my brother's just like lying there watching tv or something and this other person's supposed to be looking after him but he has epilepsy you know if he had a seizure or something this person isn't even caring for him and so ultimately I want to be able to build something which is really going to provide freedom to these families of these disabled children because I mean again it's you typically find drive in the things that have affected you right and so for me it's like well I have literally had half my child had taken away from me because I wasn't able to do the things that I could do because my parents had to look after my brother you know and so while these are things that are close to my heart for those reasons I think that if everybody were to just look inside of themselves inside of their families inside of their personal experiences and just find one thing that's important and meaningful to them then I think that's going to allow them to really find what they're not it's kind of cliche like put on the start to do but find fulfillment in doing something so for me it's been those three things me being affected by the whole thing with losing weight super unhealthy and having panic attacks then working a job that I hated and then ultimately my brother that's my theory when you came to my master class in London if you remember I talked about that section about finding your why which you've just described I think and the importance of that I think to give I think the difference between the outstanding and the average is something to do with what you just said is that the drive and motivation essential calling or sense of purpose or cause is often rooted in things like that that are often quite private that become this massive sense of calling and purpose that is I think what you just answered was your calling your sense of why behind what you do you talk Lauren quite a bit about the difference between working in a business and on a business what's the difference well I think ultimately let's just take it back one step further I think that the majority of people in this world well they work a job so they put their time into an exchange and the value exchange is that they work a job and in return they get money and so it's really interesting because when it comes to business and you start talking about money people are like oh you're so you're so money motivated and all you care about is money but a lot of people work jobs that they hate just in exchange for money and so really when you think about it people's biggest addiction is their paycheck because they're going to work for something despite the fact that they hate it they're going back again and again and again just to get the money in that bank and so I think this is something for a lot of people to look at and think huh why am I working this job and if it just is for money then fine but think well what is your deeper reason why is you just alluded to because money without fulfillment is never going to cause you to live the life that you really really want to be living deep down inside some people go complacent for a period of time and they're like yeah I'm making money I'm able to go see my friends on the weekend I'm able to go on one vacation per year and they're cool with that but imagine this imagine if you were able to take the hours of nine to five every single day plus the commute and let's say that's an extra I don't know 10 hours of your day right imagine you were able to take an extra 40 to 50 hours per week and put that towards something that you're passionate about imagine how much more fulfilled your life would be if you're spending an extra 40 to 50 hours a week doing something that you enjoy and I think people get confused and they get stuck because they don't understand where to start when it comes to building a business think about it this way right let's say your goal was just let's say in your job you're making I don't know each year 50 grand right or even less like 30 grand so each month what's that going to be I mean I can't do the maths right here but let's just say it's like three to three to four grand a month okay so let's just say you were able to get a result for someone else for example you're able to help them find a new partner or lose fat or find their own reason why or find a good career well if you were able to just get I don't know three to four clients each month paying you like one to two k that's more than what you're making in your job and so even if you were just having conversations with people about your passion so it's not that you enjoy anyways you can then write them as a client and turn them into someone who is then your income right so your income is no longer your job your income is from another human who you enjoy talking to because it's about the thing that you're interested in and again like when it comes to passion versus you know something that's going to be profitable we do need to be careful there because you know if your passion is I don't know knitting yeah for sure you can make your income from that but at the end of the day it might not necessarily be totally lucrative right unless you're teaching other people how to knit and you go for a type of market who is going to actually pay for it but you see what I'm saying so it needs to be something that people will pay a high price for but anyway just going back to in versus on your business um I mean working in your business is doing the day to day so these are the things that in the future you can actually hire a team to do for you and then working on your business is the things that we just mentioned right finding your reason why finding a profitable market looking at opportunity figuring out what you can sell and then creating the direction of where you want to go and so I think as a CEO as the business owner as an entrepreneur it's your duty to work on the business but at the beginning you will have to work in the business until you have enough revenue and profits in your business to actually pay all the people to do it but at the end of the day you can't keep doing it all yourself because you're going to get burned out and that's when you risk presenting what you're doing you don't want that to happen you know you spend some time I didn't know whether you were moving temporarily to America or thinking of moving that long term um but you spend some time in the States is it a plan for you to be there more regular yeah yeah I want to and if so why well the mindset in the US is very different here in the UK so in the UK you try and tell people hey I have an online business and they do not get it even now they still don't understand and if you have online business they think you're selling stuff on eBay or something like that and so I just like being in the US because the mindset is different right where people support you rather than knock you down and I find that in the UK you talk about things like building a business and people just think you're a scam and it's a really interesting mindset like even listening to this right now there's probably people thinking oh yeah this is a scam it's not possible it's not feasible and I get it because I used to think that too and so that's why I find it funny because I totally get it I mean I'm from sorry you know my parents are probably like the most typical English people you could think of and so I understand the mindset and with that said I think it's just the case of you have to surround yourself with people who want to lift you up and I just find that I struggle to find that type of person in the UK and I've tried to create communities around it here and I I'm grateful to have been one of the thought leaders in the UK for women in fitness which was really cool I created like a whole movement around that back when I was you know between the ages of 18 to 20 but when it comes to building businesses and stuff I just feel like the UK is pretty far behind in doing things they just when I get on phone calls with potential clients um yeah a UK person they will they will just make all the excuses in the world whereas people from the UK like they're like hey take my credit card details let's go it's crazy I agree I think people that do what I think people that do what we do i.e. people that are sole traders or want to make a living um in some unusual way different from the nine to five thing that's to do with personal development coaching mentoring startups there is this generic thing across Europe that is resistant to it and I agree with you which is why I love America so much in our home there of that entrepreneurial outgoing have-a-go mindset in America I think he's one of the biggest pluses of America there's a lot of disadvantage of the American culture as there is with UK but one of the big pluses I think as you say is that working online immunizes you to a degree I suppose from being nailed down to any particular geography right so you can reach the world from your lounge which a lot of people in the pandemic are finding out was always possible yeah it's funny isn't it only through a global pandemic do people finally realize that you can actually do things just from your top right exactly exactly what do you think is that one of the biggest mistakes of startups you think that they spent too much time in rather than on I think that one of the biggest things that people do which is a mistake is that they just they just don't understand what the best offering is for their market and so a lot of people try to totally reinvent the wheel so many people think that to be an entrepreneur you have to be an inventor but there's a difference between an inventor and an entrepreneur an inventor is someone that creates something new an entrepreneur is someone who solves a problem for a particular market with the hope of taking a profit and they're willing to take financial risks to do so and so there's a lot of people who are entrepreneurs right they aren't willing to take on financial risks right they aren't willing to go ahead and actually put in the work to try and make it happen instead what they'll do is they'll think of an idea they'll go and research it for a long time they'll go and try and find a way to create it and then they'll fail and then they're like oh this isn't for me and I've been one of those people you know I've tried to create brand new things and it's just I'm not an inventor right at this stage of my life maybe in the future I'll have a cool idea and I'll be resourceful enough to make it happen ultimately I'm an entrepreneur and so when it comes to thinking of the creative inventive like I can think of the vision whereas you need those people to be the ones who actually make it happen because if you're the one who's trying to create the vision and trying to build it then you're only you and you're you're the only one who's coming up with the decisions so what I've done through building my team here at impact school is I have realized that I can think of an idea but if I'm the one who's creating it I'm gonna waste so much time because I'm not trying to build out all of these fancy crazy things you know so I think at the beginning though I had to do it you know I had to because I didn't have enough profit in my business to reinvest back in but I think the biggest mistake probably if I was starting again that I would go back and redo is taking our business loans to actually reinvest back into my business because then I couldn't hire people sooner but I didn't really understand that debt is leverage I didn't understand the difference between good debt and bad debt and so that held me back for a long time again a very very English mindset and UK mindset and only through studying finance did I really understand that what don't people is it something that you think people don't know about you that you think is probably your superpower like like it seems to me from 18 that drive or some people would call it stubbornness or whatever people call it there's something about all of us I think that people perhaps are not aware of because it doesn't sit out there in the shop window of your life but underneath there's something about humans I think that people don't know that you know probably is your go-to superpower I think there's a couple of things right I think the first one is I really really really really don't care what people think about me like I don't care I mean I'm very I'm a very strange person right I'm very weird and I don't care and so I didn't always used to be that way though only through building my whole fitness Instagram and then everyone finding it did I really finally feel like okay my true self is out there in the world so now I can just be myself and so I think through putting things on social media it's allowed me to become that way and before that though I you know I never even told my dad that I was having panic attacks until like a couple of years ago my dad never knew I was very afraid to be vulnerable because I thought that people would take me less seriously and that I would seem weak or that I would just seem like I was trying to get attention okay so that's the first thing second thing is that I don't even think that their habits anymore they're my identity and so I think that in order to be truly successful happy and fulfilled you need habits that become so ritualized they become your identity and they become who you are because your identity is the hardest thing to shift this is why people who are overweight for example maybe they see themselves as the fat girl right I used to see myself as the fat girl and so I kept doing things that would be in alignment with that subconsciously and so your subconscious mind is the most powerful thing so now when everyone finally found out that I had this fitness Instagram I became the fitness girl and so every single opportunity that there was I would go and do the exercise I would go and have that healthy plate of food because when I was out in public that's how people saw me and that's how I saw myself and even with that it's like okay I see myself as someone who is going to change the world so is someone that's going to change the world in my own unique way going to be doing things that someone who's like a slob on the couch who just doesn't really care about much going to do no I'm not going to do that I'm not going to self sabotage because I'm not the type of person that does that but trust me I never used to think this way and so only through doing habits again and again and again and again and again do they become my identity and so you see these things where it's like it takes 21 days to build a habit I don't believe that I think for everyone it's different and it also depends on your starting plane and so I was saying on a podcast the other day how I used to have this really bad habit as of like a week ago snacking in the evening okay and so it was really annoying me because again I am very good when it comes to my fitness my health and I understand the food that I'm putting in my body and so on and so forth however I just had this habit of snacking in the evening and it was really frustrating me because it only happens when I'm here in the UK because typically when I'm traveling like I'm eating dinner's out and then I'm just not hungry in the evening and there's no food in the house but I was okay Lauren look enough is enough there's only one way to change this we need to just get rid of this once and for all and so I started saying to myself you're not the type of person who does this you're the type of person who cares about your health and you're the type of person who wants to wake up in the morning feeling energised and you you want to make sure that you're eating until you feel fulfilled right and so rather than saying I'm not going to snack I'm not going to eat after eight instead I said what I am going to do so I added rather than subtracted because adding rather than subtracting is going to be one of the most profound ways to change the way that you show up right so I just said to myself you know who am I what type of things do I do how do I show up and so it's yeah I mean I'm I just have an apple and then I'm good but with that said it's just it's so powerful and so it becomes something that you think about throughout the day as well and so when it comes to some things that people probably don't know about me but maybe they maybe they know it now because I make a lot of content is that I am very routine so first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is I do a hypnosis track for 15 to 20 minutes and it'll just be about whatever I mean just anything really so I'll listen to that hypnosis and then wake up and I work out first thing and then after that I'll then go for a little bit of a walk for like 20 minutes while I take a call with one of my team members and I get back and then I'll have my first meal of the day and then I get on with my most important unit of work and then after that it's a case of just making sure that I'm being proactive rather than reactionary but sometimes you have to react when you have a team you know what I'm saying so I think it's just these habits that become your identity. I think that's one of the most fundamental things as an entrepreneur or just someone who wants to live a life of full firm and is absolutely necessary. In what ways are you weird? I don't even know like if anyone knows me you just know I'm weird I'm just like strange you know but I don't care. I'm just myself you know what I mean like if I want to say something I'll say it and I'm also not rude about it you know what I mean like some people are rude there's a fine line between being yourself and being rude I'm definitely not a rude person but if I don't know it's a good question actually um I just I'm just I'll just do random things and I don't really care about what people think about me I don't know just just random stuff you know. I think everybody should have non-negotiable weirdnesses about them that other people think you should work and fix but I think they're part of who you're supposed to be. I think weird people are taking over the world people like Elon Musk and these guys they are these quirky eccentric types when you look at it they're taking over the world I don't know what'll come next Donald Trump and so on these people are getting in charge. I know exactly well I think you know even just I'm trying to think of some random examples but for example like nah I just can't even think of anything but whatever. In the last few years Lauren is there a new belief or habit you've talked about that has most improved your life but you could think this for me has been a game changer that new belief that new thinking or that new habit that I've added to my life have been game changers and do you think there's something that everybody could tap into the things that you feel have worked for you. Yeah shifting your identity through your competition right I think that's really what it is you go to the gym you lift weights you put in the reps you get stronger it's just the same when it comes to your life and so I think it's a case of realizing which direction do I want to go in and if I was the type of person who was already there what would I be doing I think it's a case of asking the right questions to yourself so many people have a problem for example oh I'm not making enough sales okay and they stop that but instead of saying I'm not making enough sales imagine if you said what could I do to increase my sales or imagine if you said what would my competition do to increase their sales how can I get more sales why am I not getting enough sales it's asking yourself questions around these particular topics and so what I'll do every day is I'll take a problem that I have for example I'm not making enough sales and then from there I will pick one question to ask myself for example why am I not making enough sales then from there I'll go down the spider web to answer that particular question right so I'll say why am I not making enough sales okay I don't have enough leads and then I'll keep going down into the potential reasons for why am I not making enough sales and then once I've got this sort of like this spider's web of things then I'll go to the next level and so for example one of the answers was I don't have enough leads okay then I'll ask myself why don't I have enough leads and then I'll go down and make another spider's web and the answer to why I don't have enough leads might be I'm not reaching enough out to enough people per day on Instagram okay and then from there it's like what could I do to reach out to more people per day on Instagram I could hire someone who could do that for me and then it's like okay how am I going to hire someone who could do that for me I can find them here I can all these you get all the answers to the spider's web and so I do that every day and I compare all my answers and then I go back up once I'm at the bottom I go back up the spider's web to figure out which answer is going to be the best for me then and then I'm solving my problems every single day connect in the dots yeah yeah and again I don't do this always visually sometimes I'll just do it in my head because I don't need visuals like I'm not one of these visual people I'll just think about everything and I will go through my head and I come up with a solution and suddenly if I'm like bingo sometimes I don't even need to do the whole thing suddenly I'm sometimes just like bingo I'll send a message to myself so I don't forget and then we implement it immediately and actually take action on it and I think a lot of people have ideas but they have so many ideas they never execute on anything and you don't need to execute on all of your ideas if you do that's going to kill you off I mean I'd say the most successful people that I've come across they say no more than they say yes right and so I think it's a case of just thinking what is actually going to move me along and just executing on that as fast as possible and so I would say that speed is my number one thing because at the end of the day if you fail fail fast I know that's something I think someone wrote a book about that but if I'm going to fail I'd rather fail now than later because you never lose your learn and so I want to learn to grow every day if you could be mentored by anyone mentored by anyone in the world who would it be and why have you thought about I'd love to get an hour with that person that guy that woman if you could do that if money wasn't an object or they gave it free anybody in the world that you'd like to be mentored by and why yeah that's an awesome question I would definitely say Bill Gates okay in what he and his wife have done through their whole foundation is just so powerful and it makes me excited like even gives me goosebumps thinking about it the fact that they've been able to give so much money for causes that are meaningful to them is just incredible the one thing I mean they're pretty big on vaccines I still am not sure how I feel about that yeah I don't know again I'm still I'm I don't know enough about the whole thing I just I don't know so I don't know yet about vaccines but I just love the whole the money that they've been able to donate I think it's just insane and it shows you you know people think that people make you make a lot of money or evil and all this stuff but it's really it's really not true and I think that being able to speak to him and let's say he was like fully just gonna tell you anything I would love to get the intel about all these things that are going on in the world because let's be real he knows stuff about the coronavirus and about 5g that we human beings here on this earth don't know and so I want to know the the stuff you know I want to be able to get into the minds of people who who have this that these like such high level like business people they just know these things and so I want to know what's your hobbies how do you chill out I love going for walks every single day I'd go for a walk I mean I love seeing my friends but obviously you know that can't be done right now during the coronavirus pandemic right there's some people who are going to be listening to this in the future okay yeah but right now my life literally and my co said this to me the other day when I was on the phone with him and just made me laugh so much because I was saying like can you give me some ideas for content to film and he was like well because he's from Chile and he was like learn let's be real every day right now all you do is go for a walk work and work out and I was like oh that's kind of sad isn't it but you know I don't really have anything else to do right now whoa it's just that's just what I'm doing and so my hobbies I love going out to eat that is my favorite thing to do like literally my favorite thing and traveling but that's sort of a consistent thing and when I travel my favorite part is like going out to eat and making content they're my favorite things to do very cool and next five years plans ideas what do you want to be doing within five years yeah so I'm really at a space in my life now where I'm taking myself out of working in my businesses yeah work fully on them and then ultimately I don't see myself selling them because I have my coaching company and then I have a lead generation company where we focus a lot on LinkedIn right but I don't see myself you know stepping out or selling them by any means I do want to start buying and acquiring companies growing them and then selling them and so that's really my next step so I have a mentor who's helping me with that and so I'm going to focus on buying online businesses merging them together scaling them selling them and I'm really excited about it because I was going to go down the property route and start investing my money in property but I realized my skills are around business and online businesses and so especially while I'm young and like I have energy and I'm still excited about it and it's still growing super fast it just makes more sense for me to do the whole online business buying selling and so on and so forth because the margins are much higher yeah there's more risk but I'm not afraid of risk and because I have my other two businesses who are bringing in consistent cash flow and then from there after five years that's probably when I'll start getting into property but yeah that's sort of the direction that I'm taking. Very cool how can people find you the listeners Lauren how can they find you social media and what you're up to and so on? Yeah so any platform Lauren Teichner L-A-U-R-E-N-T-I-C-K-N-E-R so you can find me that I also have a podcast called Impact School so if you just type impact school into any podcast provider then you'll find it. My favorite platform right now is definitely LinkedIn but things change fast so we'll see. Yes listen I want to give you a massive thank you for your time today and for hooking up and eventually getting on our Zoom call together and I really wish you well in everything you are doing and I want to thank you again for the time you took to come to my event in London a few years ago I appreciated you coming to the master class and I kept watching what you're doing ever since then I think it's very exciting what you're doing and I wish you so much success for the future. Thank you Noah I appreciate you likewise I think what you do is great and it's just incredible to see the impact that you're having on people's lives so yeah I just want to commend you for that because it's truly truly incredible and just go to show what you can what you can do you know what I mean people should realize we're just two everyday people you know what I'm saying who have just decided that we're going to make it happen and I think that's that's where a lot more people could be living the life they want to be. I agree thanks Lauren thanks for your time take care speak soon. Well thanks again for listening to today's podcast I hope you found it beneficial and I know time is precious come out and follow us all but I would love if you would take time to write a review or comment and above all maybe subscribe to my podcast channel thank you

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Sat. 7/24/21 - *RNB* ANGELS + 6 TEAMS!! - 2021 TOPPS MUSEUM BASEBALL 6BOX PYT #17

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DLAC 2022 - Final Presentation - Placer School for Adults

Accessible Video with Audio Description: https://otan.us/video-presentations/digital-leadership-academy/dlac-2022-final-presentation-placer-school-for-adults/ PRESENTERS: Beth Lanning, Counselor Arij Mousa, CTE Program Coordinator Michele Raymond, Admin Assistant, CTE Instructor DATE: 5/20/2022

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OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Good morning OTAN team, D-Lackers and RPSA administrators. Beth, Michelle, and I are happy to be here today to present our final project to you. And we can thank the OTAN team enough for their support throughout the past two-year journey. Penny Pearson, congratulations on your retirement. Neda Anasari, Destiny Simpson, Dr. Porter, and our fabulous coach, who is extremely patient, supportive, and incredible Blair Roy, thank you all. Our final project is on transitioning ESL students into career pathways. During the first year, and for the midterm project, we focused on transitioning ESL students into our current career pathways, which we will discuss in more details in the next few slides and the challenges we changed, which made us change to the final project. Next, first, I would like to thank our administrators, Eric Veracan, our principal, and Stephen Kasparite, our assistant principal for their support throughout the last two years. We couldn't have done this project without their support. Eric, Stephen, if you'd like to pop in, say hello, feel free to do so, if you're there. And finally, and most importantly, also our fabulous and patient coach, Blair Roy, she met with us on a weekly basis and guided us through the process. Her inspiration and support are incredible. Thank you, Blair. Next. Secondly, I'd like to introduce my D-LAC team and myself. We started with four members, team members, Beth, Michelle, Chris, and I, and we lost one of our team members, Chris Anderson, to the district office halfway through the project. My name is Eddie Jemuzan. I'm the CTE coordinator. I've been with Placer School for adults for the past 28 years and the time has come. Like Penny, I'm retiring at the end of this year. I would like to introduce Beth and Michelle and have them introduce themselves, Beth. Yeah, my name is Beth Manning and I'm one of the counselors. We have two counselors here at Placer School for adults. A lot of my roles consist of our high school diploma program and our GED program, along with our CTE pathways and our career exploration and career assistance with our students. I do a lot of registering students, working with them on their transcripts, helping them to be successful. And now, Michelle. My name is Michelle Raymond and I am an administrative assistant here at Placer School for adults. And about three years ago, I decided to go ahead and get my CTE credentials. So I have a CTE credential in sales and marketing, business and finance, and as well as technology. Thank you, Michelle and Beth. Next. To complete our project, we worked closely with Chrissy Agee, our ESL teacher and department chair, and Chris Staver, who is also one of our ESL teachers. Next. Oh. Let me start by giving you a little background about who we are and who we serve, what programs we offer and how the pandemic affected us in the last couple of years. Placer School for adults is located in the foothills and we serve both Placer and Nevada counties. We offer high school diploma, GED, ESL, and CTE Career Technical Education program. Placer School for adults is also a member of the Sierra Joint Consortium, which includes Nevada County Adult Education, Placer School for adults, Roosevelt Adult School, Tahoe Truckee, and Sierra College. As many of you have been experiencing a drop-down in enrollment, so did we. If you look at the chart in 2018-19, our school thrived in attendance. As you can see, we were about 10,000 students duplicated, which means a student could have taken more than one class. And then unduplicated was half of that, about 4,700 something, I forgot, I don't remember. 4,830. Right, thank you. And then when the pandemic hit in 2020, our enrollment declined to almost half. Our attendance dropped from 10,000 duplicated to 5,487 unduplicated, and from 4,830 duplicated to 2,876 unduplicated. The attendance continued to drop in 2021, dramatically, to 1,429, to also 7,98 unduplicated. This semester, our enrollment picked up a bit and we were pleased with enrollment, so the numbers are going up. Next. So we focused on IELCE, Integrated English Literacy and Civic Education. We wanted our students to have these three skills, ESL, Digital Literacy, and Career Pathways. So we wanted to provide the English Language Learners who are professional with degrees and credentials in their native countries, with the language skills and the digital literacy skills needed for career pathways and for obtaining jobs. So Placer Schools for Adults collaborated with Lincoln High School and Roseville Adult School to provide both ESL classes and through Roseville Adult School and Digital Literacy through Placer Schools for Adults. And the students would take ESL and then switch to taking Digital Literacy. And that worked really well. Next slide. Examples of career pathways that we offered were welding and manufacturing and product development, construction, pre-apprenticeship and OSHA 10 certification under Building and Construction Trades and then Excel, Microsoft Office for the Workplace, Accounting and QuickBooks under Business and Finance, entry-level bookkeeper and as well as clinical medical assistant under Health, Science and Medical Technology. Next. As I mentioned in my previous email slide, Placer Schools for Adults pilots and collaborates to provide services to parents of Lincoln High School students. So we use Lincoln High School classrooms and technology and then Roseville Adult School provided an ESL teacher to teach the ESL language. And then Placer Schools for Adults provided a teacher to teach the Digital Literacy. Next slide. Beth will speak about the challenges that we face transitioning ESL students, English-English learners into career pathways. Beth? Yeah, like many of you, we have a lot of challenges. One of them, of course, being a low attendance which could be in part because of COVID. Thankfully though, we had invested prior to the pandemic, we had invested a lot of time and energy and money into technology. So we had a pretty robust technology program already in our school. So we were very familiar with video conferencing and we did have an online curriculum for our high school diploma class. So that really helped a lot. We had student persistence was another challenge. Just lack of enrollment because students for whatever reason just didn't have the motivation or whatnot to come to class. We had limited English proficiency. They had lack of transportation. So they had transportation issues. They had childcare issues, low technology or not enough technology at home or not enough skills to access our transportation. So those were a lot of challenges that we faced. Thankfully too, we were able to, we only were online pretty much for a few months and then we were back in session. So that was really good that we were able to get back in session pretty quickly. Next slide. So with the challenges, we had a new opportunity to partner with a company called Mountain Enterprises and they're a forestry management company that they contract through PG&E to clean up around high wires and just the forest areas of high fire danger. So in the spring of 2021, we piloted a class and it was about a month long. We had 53 students enrolled in the spring. Then in fall, we had a decline in enrollment to only 13 students. Next slide. We were very excited to partner with Mountain Enterprises but in the first year, we faced many challenges. We had low participation due to students long hours of work and they also worked a lot of overtime. So by the time class started, which was at night in the evening classes, they just didn't have the energy to come to class. So students, and they didn't even have an incentive also to participate. So that was another reason. Next slide. So we refocused with Mountain Enterprises and we came to an agreement with them and decided to make the class a condition of employment. We also developed a blended learning model that was based on CASA scores and it included homework assignments as well. So we CASA assessed each student and based on their scores, we were able to develop instruction according to their scores. Yeah. We also were able to loan them Chromebooks. So students who did not have access to technology were able to loan one of our Chromebooks that we had available. And students could also allow, include family members if they were 18 years or older. We offered the class three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and we used the curriculum Pearson Future eBooks in my English lab. Next slide. This year, or actually last year, we integrated a program called Goal for It and used it as a goal planning tool to help students be successful. This program allows students to define their goals short-term and long. The process starts as we onboard students and enroll in classes. A counselor or a teacher introduces the activity and helps the students work their way through the process. After a goal is defined, students create a plan to achieve the goal. They work through barriers and come up with solutions around the barriers to achieve the ultimate goal. They also decide on a timeline of when they plan to reach this goal. Next slide. Michelle is gonna now talk about the pathways. So we started to get creative on what we could do to really help our students get into the pathways. And one of the things that we started doing was inviting our ESL students into other classes, for instance, like our clinical medical assisting program so that they could kind of see what the students were doing, how they were interacting with the different students to feel successful and possibly participating in these programs. We wanted to talk a little bit about the idea 101 and 102 experience that we had. This, first of all, we really like to thank Destiny. It really helped us feel some of the gaps that we had, such as meeting the needs of our students. It helped us to learn about other programs and what other schools are doing. It was so fun to be able to collaborate with Martinez. Thank you so much. You guys are amazing. We really enjoyed getting to know you guys and we really appreciate it. Other things that we did where we really focused on our technology, also classroom learning management systems were moving towards Canvas. And then we were looking at other models of what other schools in the areas were doing as far as teaching. Another thing that we did was we focused on rubrics for instruction, such as curriculum and how we could focus on what curriculum worked best for our students. Our focus was to increase the student involvement, which in essence increases our students' success. So we had an execution of implementing persistence, focusing on our students' progress and the flexibility to meet our students' needs. Examples that we used, we put view sonics in all of our classrooms to inspire the use of technology at our teacher academies. We actually had somebody from Viewsonic come in and train our teachers on how to use the equipment. We, at our teacher academies, we also collaborate amongst staff and other schools at times. We focused on our students' needs and the various challenges that they had so that they could get past those challenges and focus on classroom instruction. We also focused on our strengths. We love this, Dr. Porter. This is one of our favorite things was looking at our team strengths and really learning to focus on those strengths instead of our weaknesses, because I think that's what we all do. We focus on our weaknesses so we can be better at it. And we really learned that to focus and play on our team and our teammate's strengths and to get us through the project. So thank you, Dr. Porter. We'd also like to thank the OTAN team and Blair, where you are so supportive as our team members. We encountered a lot of challenges. We had three of our team members have deaths in their family and having a team leader, one of our team moved to the district. So it was definitely challenging, but Blair all along was there cheering us on and being our biggest cheerleader. And we can't thank you enough. So thank you very much.

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Easter: Christian Cleric Tasks Nigerians To Remain Hopeful For New Nigeria

As Christian faithful join their counterparts across the world to celebrate Easter, Nigerians have been tasked to remain hopeful of a new Nigeria where love, peace, unity, and progress thrive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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As Christians faithful joined their counterpart across the world to celebrate Easter, Nigerians have been tasked to remain hopeful of a new country where love, peace, unity, and progress thrive. The senior pastor of the Evangelical Church of Weninghall, first aqua on one borough, Reverend Dr. James Moore, gave this charge during the Resurrection in Pre-Service in Kaduna. Reverend Moore says, Christ's sacrificial deaths and glorious Resurrection are the highest expression of love and self-giving to Mankind. It marks a special day to the believers all over the world, and that's why we as a church decided to celebrate the Lord and to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is still hope in the history of Nigeria, whatever the crisis, whatever the challenges that we have, because we believe that we have the resurrected Jesus Christ. So we believe that anything that lies dead in the history of Nigeria, the Lord shall bring it back to life. Our prayer all over for the Christians and for the nation of Nigeria is that we should remain hopeful, knowing fully that there is hope, there is hope because Jesus has brought life so we also we are celebrating. So for the history of Nigeria, we sincerely say that there is hope. This is not the end of life, but this will be the beginning of greater things the Lord will do to us as a nation. We appeal to President Bola Tinibu to roll out mechanisms to address the economic hardship and other challenges Nigerians are facing. President, I met Tinibu in as much as it is our responsibility as Christians to pray for him, which we are doing. We know that he is leading this country in a very tough time. Citizens are suffering. Life has become so tough. We pray for him that he will not lose focus, that he will look up unto the Lord as the Lord will guide him to alleviate the pains of Nigeria. People are truly suffering. Is it economy? It's not easy. Everything has become tough for Nigerians. Can the government, being led by Tinibu, come to the rescue of the people? Some of the worshipers express excitement witnessing the resurrection of Christ from the dead. As a Nigerian, we are to use this season to show love, to also preach the resurrection of Christ so that every other person, an unbeliever or a believer that has lost faith will be strengthened and believing that God will do it for us and Nigeria is going to be the best place in the planet to live. If Jesus could die and rise, give us hope as mankind. It means Nigeria has hope. This is our belief. We don't care what the nation is going through. We don't want to look at what we are going through, what we see around us. We are not moved by it, but we are moved by the fact that if Jesus is alive, Nigeria will live. Nigeria has hope.

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Trading Options - Weekly Video Update from October 19, 2018

Each week our NavigationTrading Pro Members get access to a Weekly Update video to review all trades from the week. Here is one from October 19, 2018. Click https://navigationtrading.com/pricing/ to learn more about our Pro Membership! Happy Trading! The NavigationTrading Team https://www.navigationtrading.com [email protected] Connect with us! YouTube.com/navigationtrading Facebook.com/navigationtrading Twitter @navtrading1 Stocktwits.com/navigationtrading

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What's up, Navigation Traders? Welcome to this week's video update. Today is Friday, October 19th. Before we jump into the alerts for the week, just wanted to point out a couple new things in the members area. When you first log in, you're gonna see a couple things. One, strategy watch list. We have updated this with some new symbols. We've removed some symbols. As symbols come in and out of favor, some stocks go out of business, get bought, merged. Other liquidity events come into the markets. This will be updated from time to time. And just to let you know, we just recently updated that so you can click on the strategy watch list for an updated version there. And then secondly, we sent out an email about this, but also the earnings watch list. We are getting ready to be in the thick of earnings season. And so this is something that's going to be continually automatically updated for you to give you the upcoming earning dates of the, about 170 some stocks of the most liquid stocks that we would consider for earnings related trades. And all those strategies are taught in our earnings course called how to trade options on earnings for quick profits that you'll have here. So let's jump into the alerts for the week, starting with Monday the 15th. The first trade that we made was in the ES. So we were simply rolling this trade down. We are over 50% of max profit on this piece of the trade. So what we like to do is we like to roll those strikes closer to the current price, pick up some credit for doing so. And in this case, we just, we stayed in November and because there's decent time left, some of the trades we had already rolled out to December. So just kind of spread that risk around via the different time frames until expiration. So if we take a look at that, here is the analyze tab. You can see price is pretty close to where we rolled it from. So if we get a little bit more downside, that would benefit this. And this is our long put vertical, which we originally implemented for that short Delta in our portfolio. Gotta keep that short bias anytime you're selling premium to protect yourself from vicious downside moves, like we've seen recently. And that's benefited us greatly for having that short Delta on. Now, as far as where we stand with our short Delta to theta ratio, we always talk about, we like to be in that one to one to five to one. So for every dollar of theta, we like to have a dollar of short Delta up to a maximum of negative five Delta per one. So one to one to five to one is the kind of ratio that we like to play in. And right now we're about one to one. So we're on the lower end of that range. So if we had a massive move down, it's not gonna help us as much. But of course, if this market turns around and starts going higher, we're gonna be in a good position for that as well. So I really like having this position after the big down move, it sucks away a lot of our short Delta and that's just how the game goes. And so we're gonna continue to manage that as needed. If we do see some more upside in the market and we wanna reposition for a little bit more short Delta, we might do that. We're automatically going to get more short Delta as the price moves up due to the range bound trades that we like to trade as part of our core strategy. But we'll just see what happens. So right now we're about one to one. Now the long put vertical is also separate from our ES iron condor trade. So we've got two sets of short call verticals that were originally part of our iron condor trade. And we'll go over those in just a second here because I know we've got some trades that happened this week in that piece as well. The next trade was an opening adjusting trade in IWM. So we just added an iron condor in IWM, IV percentile nice and high at 97. And so we added that on. So we still have a short put vertical on as well from an iron condor. Let's take a look at that. And this is the iron condor we just put on. So we've got a little bit of profit in there at this point. Not enough to do anything with yet. And then if we look at just the short put vertical, which we still have on, you can see it's busted way out of range with this down move, but we're holding it to kind of help balance out our portfolio if it moves back up. Great, we'll benefit on that piece. If not, we'll probably close this as we get closer to expiration or potentially roll it to help balance our portfolio depending on where everything is at. So stay tuned for that. Next trade, rolling adjusting trade in Apple. So same kind of situation. In this case, this was our last trade that we had left in October with just four days to expiration. Those October options expired today, Friday. And so we just simply rolled down our long put vertical. Excuse me, we just rolled it out in time. So we rolled it from October to November, stayed in the exact same strike. So we're at the 232.20. And we just picked up some credit for doing so and continue to keep that as short delta in our portfolio. And Apple's been really strong until this week and we finally got some down movement to help benefit that piece, but here you can see where price is still well within our range, pretty close to where we put it on. And if we get some more downside in Apple, that'll benefit that trade. Next one was a closing adjusting trade in Ford slash CL. So we closed out one of our short strangles, booked around 40% of max profit on that piece of the trade. And at that point we were still holding our adjusted strangle which was at the 68 and a half strike for both the puts and calls. So we still had that on and we exited that later here in the week. So once we get to that alert, I will go to the platform to show what we've got there. And then next trade was a closing trade in EWZ. So we had a short strangle on here, had this on for just 13 days, booked a profit, over 40% of max profit in just 13 days. And remember I've been talking about this for a couple of weeks, but even before the market volatility that we've seen, the implied volatility in EWZ was extremely high due to the current presidential elections that are going on in Brazil. And it really pumped up the option premium which was a great opportunity to be selling premium. Fear is nearly always overstated and that was the case here. So we booked a nice profit on that one. Next trade was a closing trade in Costco. So we had an iron condor on in Costco, had that on for just 11 days and booked a 35% of max profit in just 11 days. And that's how quickly this implied volatility can contract. This was actually a post earnings iron condor that we did in Costco. So they had earnings but implied volatility stayed bid, stayed really high. So we jumped in there and sold some premium and benefited well. So good trade in Costco. Next trade was a closing trade in EWW. This was another kind of allowing the same lines, booked over 30% of max profit in just six days. And we put on a short strangle in EWW when the implied volatility got super high, contracted and booked a nice profit really quickly in EWW. Next trade was a closing trade. And so this is where we closed out of our short strangle in oil and CL. So this is one that we've had on for a few months and we just stayed mechanical. We sold some premium. It kind of moved to one end of our range. We might add a little piece to it and we continued to roll and stay mechanical and do what was needed. And so this was the close of the overall trade that we've been in for a few months. So let me go to the closing trades if you didn't see this. This was our biggest single winner that we've seen in our Alerts portfolio ever since we started posting our alerts. So we booked over $3,400 just on this one trade. You can see we started this trade back in, at the end of May. So several months in the trade but just continued to stay mechanical. And we were never really down on the trade. Implied volatility was just nice. So we kept kind of adding to it and taking it off, and as you can see, booked a really nice profit there. So great trade in oil, and I've talked about this before, but oil is one of my favorite vehicles just because you get so much credit for a fairly low buying capital requirement. So love trading oil. And so we were out of that at this point. And then the next trade was EWZ. So implied volatility staying nice and high. So we entered a new short strangle in EWZ. And so we've still got that on. If we take a look at EWZ here, you can see still pretty centered well within our range. And we'll still continue to monitor that one as needed, but nothing to do at this point. And that's in November, which at this point now has 28 days to expiration. So remember, once we get under 21 days, we'll be looking to roll or do something or close that one out. So we'll see what happens. If we get a quick contraction in implied volatility, who knows, we may book this winter if things go like they have been. And if not, we'll just continue to manage it as needed. Next trade was a closing trade in XRT. So again, another quick winner. We were only in this one for eight days, booked right around 30% of max profit in just eight days in XRT. XRT is the retail ETF. So if you take a look here, if I could type this in here, XRT, you can see implied volatility. We put it on when implied volatility spiked up to this area and then had a quick contraction and took that off for a nice winner. So we're at an XRT at this point. Next trade was an opening adjusting trade in EEM. So we already had an adjusted strangle in place. Price moved down to the very lower end of the range in our adjusted strangle. And so we hadn't adjusted that one again yet. But in this case, we just added on another centered strangle. In this case, we did it out in December with 64 days to expiration, which is just outside of our wheelhouse. We tend to stay within that 30 to 60 days. But in this case, November only had 29 days, so less than 30. In December had 64, a little bit over 60. So we opted for the further dated options, giving us a little bit more time on this one. And so if we take a look at EEM, we've still got both of these pieces in place. Here is our November one, which is an adjusted strangle, currently basically a straddle at the 42 strike. And you can see prices hanging out down here in the lower range. If we look at just the calls, you can see we've still got a tiny bit of profit left in those calls. So if price moves much lower at all, we're going to adjust that. But if it moves back up, we may book a profit if it moves up. So we'll just see what happens. I'm not ready to roll those calls down yet at this point. And then the piece from the alert that I just added was this another strangle. You can see it's dead centered. Not much profit or loss at all. Still very centered from right where we put it on. So we'll continue to watch that as well. Next trade was an opening trade in Ford slash 6B. So I noted here that 6B was just recently added to the navigation trading watch list. And this is the British pound futures. So we used options on that futures contract and sold some premium here. And I noted that the IV percentile is currently at 86, and we used the corresponding ETF, which is FXB. So if we take a look at FXB, that's because the implied volatility indicator isn't very accurate on some of these futures contracts. So you've got to use the corresponding ETF to get an accurate reading. And in this case it was nice and high. So we put on that short strangle in Ford slash 6B. And you can see we've got a little bit of profit here up about 87 bucks, but not enough to take off yet. We're looking for between 30% and 50% of that max profit before we close that one out. Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in Ford slash ES. So this is one of our short call verticals. It was originally part of our iron condor trade, kind of same situation as the long put vertical where we're up over 50% of max profit. So that profit line started to really flatten out on us. So we wanted to roll those strikes closer. And in this case we rolled this out from November to December and then adjusted our strikes down to pick up a nice credit here. So if we take a look at ES again, we already looked at the long put vertical here. So let's reset these so I can check on the correct boxes and then we'll take a look. So we'll uncheck that and then we will take a look at this one here. And so you can see price has moved down some since then. So we're up several hundred dollars on that piece. And then here is the other one. So very similar trades, both of them out in December and this one is pretty close to where we put it on. So just again holding those for that short delta, that short bias in our portfolio. And we'll continue to manage those as needed. Next trade and the last trade was we got back into oil. So applied volatility stayed nice and high. IV percentile was at 62 and IV rank was at 70. And we were using USO, the corresponding ETF, to look at that. Now usually IV percentile most of the time is higher than the IV rank. So in this case I noted what the IV rank was as well. Sometimes you get in periods where the IV rank, based on the calculation of that implied volatility indicator, they just have a little bit different calculation. That's why we use both. Because we want to see if either one is over 50, that to us that represents good opportunity to enter trade. So let's take a look at USO. And you can see it's at 66 on the percentile now, 73 on the rank. So great time to be selling premium. So we entered a new short strangle in oil. And you can see it's right where we put it on. Applied volatility has actually gone up a little bit since we put it on. So you can see we're slightly down on the trade but dead centered in the middle of our range. So those are all the alerts. Let's take a look at some of the other positions. I mentioned these ones, gold. Gold we have this short strangle on here. And it seems like gold has been hanging out in the upper end of its range for quite a while now. So we're down on the trade but still well within our range. No need to adjust yet. We are in the December options which still have 39 days to expiration so a lot could happen in the next 39 days. So if price continues higher then we'll just roll our puts up, collect some more credit and continue to manage that as needed. Obviously if price moves down back into the center of our range, we'll have the opportunity to book a profit. And that would probably happen next week. If price moved down we'd have a chance to book this one next week but we'll see what happens. Natty gas has been a little bit of a wild ride for us but we've got two pieces to this trade on. One is this adjusted strangle where you can see prices hanging out up here. So could use a little bit of downside movement to benefit that piece. And then we've got this other unadjusted strangle where price is pretty centered here and just waiting for some implied volatility contraction to benefit that. If we take a look at the implied volatility we'll use UNG which is the corresponding ETF. You can see this implied volatility has been grinding higher and it's higher than when we put it on so we haven't gotten a lot of that theta decay for just being in the trade for the period of time we have but eventually this will contract and assuming price stays in a decent range for us hopefully we get out of this one nicely. Next trade, wheat. We've been in this one for quite some time continuing to manage. I was actually looking for a closing. We had a little over $300 at one point according to looking at this. I tried to get filled, we weren't getting filled and it's come down a little bit since then but we'll continue to manage this. The other thing we will, if it moves a little bit lower potentially we might add another centered iron condor around that to collect more credit and extend duration on that trade. Apple, I already mentioned that we've got the long put vertical so looking for some downside to benefit that. DIA, we've got two short call verticals one in November, one in December. This is our November position and so just looking for some more downside to benefit that piece and then also the one that's out in December where we've got a profit there as well but could use a little bit more downside to do anything on that. Again, these were part of an iron condor we're just holding on to and continuing to roll an extend duration to keep that short delta in our overall portfolio. EEM, I already mentioned that one. EWZ, I mentioned FXI. We've got two butterfly spreads on in FXI. This is the call butterfly and you can see price had moved down slightly outside of the range here and we added a, hold that one for now. Both of these are in November so we added a put butterfly and you can see this one's pretty centered. We're up some money on this one. Not enough to take off yet. We like to get about 20 to 25% profit on this and we've got $720 in this so $140, $150 is what we're looking for before we would book a profit in that one. IWM, we've got the short put vertical already went over that one so could use some upside on that and we've got the other full iron condor as well. Kind of a similar story with IYR. We've got this short put vertical because price had come down through our breakeven and so we took off the untested side and so we're just looking for a little bit of upside movement in IYR to benefit that piece and then we've also got another full iron condor on here where you can see we're pretty centered. We've got some profit in that and we haven't taken off yet. QQQ, we've got two sets of short call verticals and just waiting for this one in fact is over 50% of max profit but I just wanted to give it until next week instead of doing some more. We did a lot of rolling the last couple of weeks so just trying to spread that out. Still got plenty of profit in there if we do continue down but we will look to potentially roll this out to December which strikes closer to price, collect another credit and continue to play that game and keep it for short delta and then same thing with this one here we don't have quite as much profit here but just holding on to this for that short delta and if it continues too much lower we'll do the same thing with rolling and continuing to extend duration on that one. Restoration hardware one that we don't trade very often but it's set up nicely for what we're trying to do and this was simply the point where we're under that one to one short delta to theta ratio and so we wanted to add some more short delta on and in this case RH it came up and it had this big move down and then bounced up because they announced a stock buyback and we're looking for the stock to roll back over it went up a little bit higher after we put that on but it's starting to look like it's rolling over now so we'll continue to see what happens but again we just put that on for some additional short delta SMH this one we've got a short strangle on here that has been adjusted price is moving down here out of our range but remember we don't really pay attention to the breakevens after we've made an adjustment the way we like to look at this is if we just look at the untested side you can see we've still got a little bit of profit left in that one but if price moves much lower here we'll roll those calls down collect some more credit and then potentially roll out to December if we need to extend duration on this one TLT the bonds we need a little bit of up movement in TLT and we could book a profit there if not we may look to add to this one and add on another centered iron condor probably out in December if we were looking to add that next week and VXX we had our short call vertical that we added after implied volatility spiked up now implied volatility has gone higher since we put this on so that's why price has moved out of our range if we get another explosion in implied volatility we would probably add to this but at this point we're just waiting to see if implied volatility continues to contract and if it does price will move back into our range so we'll just see what happens and then XLK short bias position here we've got a decent amount of profit here we're just holding on to this and we'll either roll or close this one out depending on what happens there so that's all the alerts and those are all the positions hope that was helpful everybody have a great weekend and look forward to another great week of trading next week talk to you soon

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Lenin and the Bolsheviks | What did Lenin really stand for?

The history of the Bolsheviks - particularly the life and ideas of Vladimir Lenin - contains essential lessons to guide us in the struggle for revolution today. In this talk from the recent Marxist Student Federation summer school, Rob Sewell - editor of Socialist Appeal - explains why we need to build a revolutionary leadership on the model of the Bolsheviks. 🔗 Find out more about the lessons of Bolshevism over on our education hub: https://www.socialist.net/organisation-and-tactics.htm 📚 Get a copy of 'Lenin and Trotsky: What they really stood for' from Wellred Books, Britain's Marxist bookshop: https://wellredbooks.net/lenin-and-trotsky-what-they-really-stood-for.html ✊ Get involved in the fight for socialism! Join Socialist Appeal today: https://www.socialist.net/join

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Mae'n cwrdd, yma, ond byddwn yn mynd i'r gwn i'r cyfnod oed, fel ydych chi'n gilydd ychydig yng Nghymru, fe oedd ymlaen yng Nghymru yng Nghymru yng Nghymru. Mae yna, erddangos weithio yma i'r Gwyrdd, yn y camp yng nghymru i ddod i gael i ddim yn ymlaen, ym gyfnod yn ei ddweud yng nghymru. Mae'r rhesymau ar y cyfnod yn llwylliant, Fy gennym ni'n goddwyd drwng ysgrifennu i'r Bryddon a'r ysgrifennu, gennym ni'n gwneud o'r helyniadau o'r Bryddon. Rwy'n cael ei wneud i'r ffruwyshwn. Fy gennym ni… Rwy'n cael ei wneud i'r fawr i'r fawr o'r fawr o'r fawr, rwy'n cael ei wneud i'r fawr o'r llun o'r llunio. Mae'r cysylltu'r ysgrifennu y Lennan yn ystod i naddwyd. Felly mae'n ffordd, mae'n wneud i'r comradu, mae hwn yn ymgyrch yn eu cyfnod ar gyfer y tîm ni. Yn y mwyaf, o'r ffrindau cyfnodol. Yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch ar gyfer y llai o fynd, o'r ymwyaf, o'r ymgyrch, o'r llennant, o'r enghwyls, ac o Trotsky. Ac y cwso, mae'n ychydig o'r ddisgolion, y ddisgolion gyhoch o'r ddisgolion yn y ddweud. Rydym ni'n ddweud ychydig ymrwyf yn cael ei gwaith o'r ddisgolion, ac yn ymdweud, mae'n ei ddweud i ddweud i ddweud i ddweud y ddweud. mae'r ffordd rydw i'n gweithio, mae'r ffordd rydw i'n gweithio yn llunio'n gweithio o'r gweithio'n gweithio o'r frasgau sy'n teimlo'r llunio sy'n ymddangos, yn gwneud hynny'n yr ysgol. Rwy'n cael ei wneud y tawr gyda'r ffordd rydw i'r ffordd. Mae'n ffordd yn ymddangos. Rydw i'n gweithio'r ffordd rydw i'n gweithio o'r bwysig o'r ffordd. yng nghyd, y ysgol yn ysgol yn y Brifysgol yng Nghymru fel yw'r iawn, yng Nghymru yng nghymru yn ysgol yn yma'r ysgol yn ymddiad. Ond yw eich gwybod gweld i'r ffarnwg ymddiad felly mae'r bwysig hefyd wedi'i gweithio'r ysgol oки i fynd i'r wrthoedol. Mae hynny'n fyddai'n gweithio'r llennyn ac mae'r ysgol yn balsyfism. Yn ffaraes balsyfism mae hynny'n gweithio'r hynny'n攻hwch yng Nghymru o'r concept, y dyfodol. Rydyn ni'n balshwych. Rydyn ni'n balshwych ar ei ddysgu. As yw'r ddigon i yn ei tynnu. Rydyn ni wedi yw'r ddysgu. Rydyn ni wedi'n ddigon i'r ddigon. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r lehau a wneud ystod o'r organ. Rydyn ni'n defnyddio'r iddiadau fathigol am ddegon ni'n ddym ni, llunio'r rhifigio, yr unig i'r myfgleddau a'r ddaf amser o'r myflethau. Mae'r ddaf, mae'r ddaf yn rhoi yn ymgyrch. Mae'r ddweud o'r ddweud ar y cysylltu newydd, mae'r ddweud o'r ddwyf yn ystod, ac mae'r drosio, dyma'r rhai ddweud o'r ddweud? Y ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud, sy'n rydyn nhw'n'n dweud o'r ddweud. Ond mae'n ystyried o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. sydd oedd ymddangos fel yno. A i'r bach yn ymddangos, mae'r cyfnod iawn yn gwneud. A'r cyflos wedi'u cyflos, mae gennym lle o'r gwleidio'r ymddangos yma. A, nifer o'r gyflos, ymdŵr i'r gweithio'n cyflos ymddangos, ymddangos yw'r gwleidio'n cyflos yn gweithio'r idea llwyniadau. a'r tassau yw'n dweud yw'n cael ei ddweud. A'r ddiwedd i'r ddweud y peth o'r ddechrau, y dyfodol y Refelwyr yn ddechrau'n gwirio'n dweud yw'r ddefnyddio. Y dyfodol yw'r ddechrau'n ddechrau'n ddegwyd? Mae'r ddegwyd yw'n ddegwyd. Felly nid oedd ymlaen i'r ddechrau. A yna ddim yn fwyaf o'r ddweud i'r ddegwyd, ond yn ysgolwyr. ac ydy'n gwybod i'n fwyaf am gweithio Lennin a bosialism, sy'n ddim yn ddifigwyrm iawn, a'r ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn a'r ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn, y rhai ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn. Fy enw, Lennin yn ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn, ystod amser yn ymdill yn ddechrau i'r ddifigwyrm iawn. Yn 1870, rhai ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn, yn ei ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn, y byddwch yn ymdill, ymwysig yn ddifigwyrm iawn, y botwll yn y gallu ddifigwyrm iawn i'r ddifigwyrm iawn, 150 miliwn yma, wasi'r hunu pedigol yn yma i'r hunu農 ar Bwb dynamic yma yn Aelodau Peethosburg yng Nghymru ac amllewch yn ymddrach o'r hunu hefyd, i'r hunu'r hunu'r hunu. Gyd-naw yma i Marks i Angles, maeth y gallai unrhyw yma, ychydig yma eich hunu a'r hunu dethau deutlau eich hunu ar rywun hyn o brydiau syddoddoddoddoddodd roedd y hunu llyfl. dwi'n bwysig o fynd i fynd i'r gwahodd, ac mae'n bwysig o'r ddweud o'r clas yw. Rwy'n dweud o ffraithio'r cyflog, o'r cyflogol yw'r cyflogol. Rydyn ni'n bwysig o phobl yw'r cyflogol, oherwydd mae'n ddod o'r ideaen o marxysm. Mae'n bwysig o'r dweud i'r cyflogol yn y rysyn o'r cyfrwys, a the attempt by a young generation to overthrow Zarrism. Mainly through the Norodnich movement, which was based on individual terrorism. They wanted to assassinate the the Zarr hoping that would change things. The problem is you assassinate one Zarr and they put another one in his place. That individual terrorism doesn't work. But unfortunately his brother Heirioech yn ddim yn ysgrifennu yn ei wneud ystod i'r ddweud ar gyfer yr arddangos i'r gyfnodd. Mae'r gysylltu. Rydyn ni'n ddweud bod y ddiwedd yn gweithio. I rydyn ni'n ddysgu'n ystod i'r ddweud. Rydyn ni'n ddweud o'r ddwyg Lennin, efallai yn sgwr ar gyfer ydy. Mae'r ddweud yn gweithio, mae'n ddweud o'r ddwygnu ar gyfer ystod. You could say that Lenin was quite a very intelligent young man, and he began at a thirst for ideas, and first he had sympathy with the Norodnix, thus I'm sure, but then began to be affected by these ideas from a broad called Marxism. Because Russia was obviously, as I said, a totalitarian regime. They were censorship. The ideas of Marxism weren't circled in a big way. Ond ydych yn hyn ymgyrch yn ei gwneud mewn senghor. Mae'r yng Nghaerlenion wedi'u bod yn gallu i'r ysgwrdd a'u wneud i ni'n gofio. Yn ystod, ac mae'n rhan o'n fath o'n rhan o'u. Yn ystod yw'r ar-ddiad, y coginion, y mae ysgwrdd y marx? Mae'n rhan o'n fath o'r rhaglenion i'r rhaglenion. Mae'n rhan o'n rhan o'n ysgwrdd y university. byddai'r brôn iawn. Mae'r Unifeil Cazan yn gyflawniol, a mae'n gofyn ni'n gwybodaeth a'r ystod ychydig, a gallai'n bosib, mae'n gwybodaeth oedd o ffordd, o'r ffordd, o'r ffordd, o'r ffordd. A mae'n gweithio i'r ddeudol a'r ddweud, i'r ddeudol, a fyddwch i'r mwythau i'n gweithio i'n gweithio i'r newydd i'r ddweud i'r ddweud ac mae'n gweithio i'r ddaf i'r Unifersiwyr Synch Pethysbwrg. Felly mae'n gyffredig, fel y bydd y gallu gwneud y cysylltu yma, fel y ffa, o ffais. A mae'n dechrau yn y ddweud yn y law. A'r ydym yn y gweithio yma, y 21, 22 yma, mae'n ddweud rydyn ni'n ddau'r marxism. Mae'n gwneud yn cyfnodol, mae'n ddweud o'r lawi, As long as he was concerned and realised himself he needed to basically make the sacrifice of voting his life in revolution in not only Russia but also internationally. This is a young man, and in St Peter's Bourg he established a group, a very small groups, a circle at that time. a chyfnodd, ymateb ymgyrch am yng Nghymru, a'r ffordd yn ymwyllfa arddangos. Maen nhw, ond, ydw yw'r ymdyn nhw'n ei ffwrdd, a felly mae'n sy'n ei gweithio. A'r gweithio mae'n ei wneud mae'n meddwl ymgyrchol yn ymgyrchol, fel yma ym 3 ymgyrchol. A'r bobl Bryde, mae'r bobl Bryde yn ymgyrchol, Diolch am yr unrhyw beth o valley, yna Tazmania. Roedd, bicyclesydd o'r llwyf ymlaen o'r legwyr, yno'r lefling gyda'i gwaith, a ydych chi'n dod o'r ddefnydd. bod yn amlwg i ddaliadu ac yn ond roedd yna, a'r lefling yn sybu cyfrifol. Mae'n ddarwm, ei wneud, mae'n ystod o'r holl diwrs o ddesig, eich oeddo, yno sut hwnna ychydig, yna bod nes сказала pwy fyddwn i quedion gynhal yng nghymru. Mae'r gwaith arnyfr oMusikio y t unwt yng Nghymru, mor hwn yn y bwyll yng nghymru, y Roedd, yng Nghymru, y Brannu, yng Nghymru, gweld o'r oran, o bwyny o'r oran, o'r oranau yn cyfdwyllol yng nghymru, ac roedd efo i euchaf i'r idea i fynd yma, mae'r awsiau a'r awsiau a'r awsiau a'r awsiau a'r awsiau a'r awsiau a'r awsiau. yn ymlaen. Mae'n gweld yma'n gwaith. Mae'r ymdyniau yn ymdyniau yn cael ei wneud y parwyr o'r cyflawn i ddau i'w rysg. Felly mae'n gofio i'n meddwl i'r cyflawn i'u wneud yn 1898. Mae'r gwybwch ymdyniau yn ei wneud, mae'n gyfer y byddwch yn cyflawn i'w gwaith. Mae'n rhaid i'w wneud ar y cyflawn i'r byw. Mae'r gwybwch yn cyflawn i'w gwaith i'w gwaith, mae'n gwybwch yn ei ddau i'w dim yn ei ddweud, was a manifesto that was all I had and this but it's had a big impact on Lenin. He was in touch also with other people who had gone to exile, forced into exile because of the conditions. Man called Kleckanoff, we were established a small group in Switzerland, you know the emancipation of labour group, only half a dozen people, trying to fight for these ideas of Marxism in Russia trying to smuggle back you know different copies into Russia of the works of Marx and Engels in particular and Lenin not only absorbed these ideas in a serious way which I think is an example perhaps to everybody, the seriousness in which he didn't just like-mindly skip over ideas, he tried to thoroughly understand them and therefore read and thoroughly tried to grasp what they were getting at which stimulated his whole approach you know what he was going to do when he got out of exile in 1900 for instance and he had certain correspondence with people about the establishment not of the partiness there or the re-establishment of the party but the beginnings of that which is the establishment of a newspaper. If they could in fact get a newspaper, a Marxist newspaper that could be the focus around which the elements could develop of a party. He later called it like the scaffolding you know in a building this would be the framework and he went and so Plec enough after after he was released in 1900 how old is he then 27 years of age I think he was yes 27 years you mean oh sorry when he went into exile he was 27 by the time he came out he was 30 in 1900 so it's an early young man who'd gone through all this experience and now has been thrown into this cauldron to try and found a revolutionary party in Russia um he brought out uh he wrote extensively in in Iskra he edited it together with others he even came to London on that basis but um he wrote a book called what is to be done and that book is quite a classic because in there he argues that first of all the conditions in Russia you can't have a kind of party like in Britain and so on whether you know this is going to be a revolutionary party that's going to be used to to lead the working class to overthrow the own order that has to be built up of professional revolutionaries who prepare to dedicate their lives in order to carry this through he says there's no point in an amateurist you know a setup this is going to be a dedicate after all he said that revolution is not a you know an incidental thing it's not an easy thing it's an enormous it's what it's a life and death question and therefore you have to have serious people who are prepared to carry it through and therefore he wrote this this uh this booklet where he says that um you know that without revolutionary theory you could have no revolutionary movement theory was the basis of it theoretically training cadres people are prepared to give their lives to the movement was the key aspect and that's what he put forward and that's and that tendency around Iskra this newspaper one a majority of the of the circles in Russia there was other confused ideas at the time I haven't got into I haven't got the time to go into them about economism and legal Marxism obscure ideas at the time to water down the ideas and try they combated those ideas and by the time they established a new conference which in reality was the founding conference in 1903 they Iskra did one a majority of of the opinion of the delegates the majority were supporting this the ideas that Lenin and Iskra had been arguing for over the previous two or three years which is an amazing achievement and in this congress they hammered out the fundamentals of what this party was going to be like on the national question about reformism and revolution with the character of the party and so on and so forth and the interesting thing about this I did write an article recently I think in the social appeal which carried about this congress where a split took place Iskra was the dominant force everybody had all the majority and suddenly there was a division in the ranks of this Iskra and the division wasn't very clear to begin with it was over like secondary as you would have thought organizational questions what is a member how do you define a member who should be on the editorial board you wouldn't think these are sort of earth shattering questions but Lenin in particular the faction he led at that time uh was called for what I better known at them as the hards as opposed to the other tendency that was there around Matoff which is called the softs they had a more softer attitude Lenin had a more harder attitude that was the kind of difference a quite a strange way of looking at things but he was a bit of an anticipation of what was going to come his anticipation of political differences that were going to emerge a year or two later and what they what the significance of it they then became they had a vote at the end of the day I don't want to go to all the ins and outs but the Bolsheviks and Bolshevism arise from the name of majority and Menshevism and Mensheviks are always from from the as a Russian word for minority so it was only a question of majority and minority within this historical conference at the time the Bolsheviks were the majority and the Lenin and they uh carried the day but it led to a split quite a bad split really and people walked away uh disgruntled Lenin tried to explain what had gone on what does get the bottom of this and what are you saying was the party had to be professionalised and there were those who didn't want the professionalization they wanted to make it a come over a loose knit kind of amateurish body kind of thing you know open to the middle class intellectuals you know could come and go that kind of thing what does Lenin said no you need a firm revolutionary party based on discipline based on you know a courageous movement and membership not a loose knit party and that was the split in 1903 and it began this idea of Bolshevism and Menshevism but it was only organisational questions later became political and the political differences were quite stark that the Menshevik tendency because the revolution in Russia was coming you could see that but what it was the character of this revolution well it was a revolution to modern to get rid of the czar to get rid of nationalism give land to the peasants and bring about national unity of the country solve some of the basic questions that we had solved in Britain 200 years ago in other words prepare the ground for capitalism really modernising the country that was the basis of it and of course you know under Oliver Cromwell you know that was our bourgeois revolution but this was a lot later with the working this young working class in Russia now began to emerge and come out of the scene in fact that was the big thing in 1905 the first revolution in Russia actually arose from a defeat of the war war actually is the midwife of revolution which is interesting for us today um there was a war between Japan and Russia and Russia was defeated it spurred on an impetus to revolution in Russia and that night you know a five revolution was an incredible year long event as a matter of fact where the working class came to the fore and the debate the debate in the movement was amongst the metrics in the bolsheviks the metrics thought that revolution well it should be led by the by the bourgeoisie led by the capitalist and the workers should be subordinate in support in the capitalist because after all it was bringing in capitalism Lenin on the other hand and the bolsheviks said hang on no no no the the ruling the the bourgeoisie in Russia are tied to imperialism they tied to the landlords they're tied to the old regime they will not play a revolutionary role in fact they're going to play a counter revolutionary role and that the only class in Russia that was revolutionary was the young working class which was shown in 1905 and they could win went over the peasantry on that basis as well so you have an alliance of workers and peasants carrying through this revolution which Lenin thought would have a big impact on Europe a successful revolution in Russia doing away with the tsar would have a big impact on Europe and would actually spur socialist revolution in Europe which will then you know come back into Russia itself so it's a very internationalist outlook that Lenin had very advanced there was one other person or perhaps had a more clear review and that was Leon Trotsky at that at the time he said yes the bourgeoisie account a revolutionary the working class is revolutionary it should lead the revolution but and it should get with the monarchy and and yes give land to the peasants and and all those things that the the capitalist did you know along two centuries ago in the west but it shouldn't just stay like that it should proceed to carry through nationalisation the economy proceed to have socialist measures and this was what the theory was of permanent revolution because if you had a socialist revolution in Russia which no one had ever thought of Russia a most backward country you could ever think of in the whole of of Europe how could ever Marx never certainly thought that he thought you know it would be Britain, Germany, France, where the industrial working class is strong but he was trotsky he had the idea no the working class could come to a come to power even before the west in Russia but of course it could not complete the revolution it would actually be the beginning of a world revolution because there was no no basis for socialism in backward Russia but if they had revolution could spark other revolutions in Germany, France, America and so on they then would provide Russia with all the material basis to move towards socialism you know those world revolution was the prospect as what Trotsky was putting forward even but even a bit more advanced if you like than Lenin at that particular time but the main I think lesson from it was the intervention of the of the Bolshevik Party and Lenin in the 1905 revolution and the experience that that gave Lenin later on said he was a dress rehearsal what a wonderful expression a dress rehearsal for a future revolution in Russia itself he drew out the lessons he said there's no more almost movements of the working class movements of the peasants and so on they threw up the workers in organizations that you've never even heard of before they're Soviet which was a workers committee a workers council which was an embryo of workers power precisely that's the lessons that he was learning this shows the independent movement of the working class and their organizations they've thrown up is the basis of a new society in the future that was a quite an almost again Trotsky had the same idea in fact Trotsky became the leader of the Petrograd Soviet in 1905 so they learned a lot out of this experience the first movement of the of the revolution was through the working class that was clear they were thrown up independent organizations and they showed their capacity to struggle all it was lacking if you like was the revolutionary party with the ability to pull it all together and of course the Bolsheviks and the Menshiviks grew enormously by the way because of revolution in a period of revolution people would draw huge revolutionary conclusions and they looked for revolutionary way out so the Bolsheviks and the Menshiviks all in one party by the way called the the russian social democratic labour party that they all grew enormously tens of thousands joined this organization and so on and so forth the only thing is that by the end of the year the revolution went down there was a defeat of the revolution there was an insurrection in in moscow in december and after that there was a defeat of the revolution and as a consequence the tsarist regime came with a male fist and slammed down on the working class and the revolutionary movement at that time so there was a normal reaction came was introduced a period of reaction a period where the working class was on the retreat where there was enormous then disillusionment there was a big setback the obviously the parties began to fall apart a bit on that under those circumstances people committed suicide because of the of they had so much illusions the thing was going to happen and then they were destroyed because people were being sent to Siberia were being shot were being hanged I mean the regime was absolutely vicious to say the least so this is a period now enormous difficulties having gone through 1905 now this is a period of reaction and this period of reaction would last until 1911 1912 was the revival so it lasted quite a bit of time within that period even the Bolshevik party was very very reduced to a skeleton if you're like you know under those conditions bear in mind that Lenin was then exiled all the leaders practically were in exile they couldn't stay in Russia for fear of being arrested and therefore they worked in those mainly abroad and in Lenin's case mainly in Austria and Switzerland to prepare to try to smuggle into into Russia you know illegal revolutionary newspapers and so on and so forth there was a debate that took place in the Bolshevik movement what under the impact of this disillusionment I would say which was looking for an easy way out one was saying let's dissolve the party just have an open party forget about the illegal it was called liquidation as you can spread they want to just a legal party illegal party I mean how can you have an illegal revolutionary party and desarys I mean just it wasn't going to happen but that was you know let's do something of that character then others thought you know let's uh uh you know up to left and up to left way boy caught everything because it was correct that boy caught the doom out in a revolution because the revolution was taking over everything you don't want to call for elections under those conditions but when it was a period of ebb then obviously conditions changed and they were those saying oh no boy caught everything boy and Lenin's position no use every opportunity you have because there's not many there to fight for our ideas so it'll be wrong to boycott things because you'd be boycotting yourself and therefore try and use the avenues that were available there was a bit of a bit of a struggle within the Bolshevik party under those circumstances and Lenin if you like stood his ground there was was clear and what if you can put it that way was clear as to what was needed at the time not to go around the down the road of ultra leftism and not to go down the road of opportunism but to steer a course to preserve the cadres to educate them for the next for the move forward and that's that was the whole essence of Lenin's work I think in these particular years because by 1912 you have a revival of the movement you know you can't keep the the movement down all the time just like in Britain in a sense what have you had in Britain I think you've had about 30 years perhaps 40 years of really semi-reaction in Britain to be honest about it you know trade union membership fell by half number of strikes fell to the lowest level since I think the 1880s right or the 1890s it just collapsed and you've had that for one reason or another but now there's been a new revival now they they recognize that even the even the sun isn't it I think the other day I don't read it but it's sort of online you know a class war they know what's coming that's the whole point and we should we should understand what's coming they've drawn the same or similar conclusions to ourselves in that regard and in 1912 there was a revival in Russia and because Lenin had done the work it holding the Bolshevik party together in a in a clear way and educated it and training it although it was in difficulties by the time then this this movement occurred in 1912 they were in a really a reasonably good position so they launched a daily newspaper an open legal daily newspaper called Pravda it was called and they published articles of course they're you know they've obviously been shut down by the by the censor in many cases but they they try to keep this paper going for a few years and the readership of the paper another was the support for the Bolshevik party and the ideas he was offering grew was estimated to do four fifths of the working class in Russia supported Pravda or sympathised with Pravda the big support in the working class and this was this was obviously you know extremely positive this was they also won elections in the Duma after you know in 1912 there's new elections they won six MPs if you like in the Duma which acted as again a lever to as a a tribune for the people to argue the case of the people argue the case of fundamental change and so on so there was quite an advance you know and things were looking you know pretty good if you like at that time of course nothing stays still as we know and all those commas are aware that by 1914 things took a turn for the worst that is the world war broke out august 1914 an imperialist war which had been brewing for some time because the the rivalry of the imperialist powers that the second international all the all the big socialist parties come to get past resolutions against the war before that and how they were going to oppose the war and that was the line that they had right up until august 1914 and then when the test came they capitulated all the all the main parties all the socialist parties gave in through through down this tower of internationalism and adopted a nationalist chauvinist position of supporting their own ruling class in the first world war it was a betrayal of international socialism a betrayal of the movement uh Lenin of course to be honest first of all Lenin didn't believe what he what that they had betrayed he saw the german paper called vorbets and it said that he's supporting the war he said it must be a forgery of the german general staff he did not believe it but then obviously it dawned obviously on him what the real situation was that they had betrayed the working class and as rhoda Luxembourg said that time as far as the german party was concerned it was a stinking corpse this organization now these parties which had betrayed the working class could never lead the socialist revolution they could never lead the working class as a power because they have capitulated to their own bourgeoisie their their own ruling class and therefore we have to realize that Lenin very early on we knew the third international a new international with a clean banner defending Marxism and internationalism and he wears the water for like a a campaign within starting with the bolshevik party the main enemy is at home in other words against this poison of chauvinism and we are almost you know almost lined up with the ruling class which obviously had an impact at that time in at that moment in 1914 because the barrage of propaganda by the ruling class against germany against russia against all the other powers whipping them up you know if you like and that that has happened today as well in relation to ukraine we know the poor ukrainian people are being used as a pawn by western imperialism in order to do the dirty work for western imperialism it is an imperialist conflict and as a consequence we've seen on the british tv and other estates whipping up this this ferori you know of support for the poor well we understand that but it's done in a cynical way they're they're not interested in the plight of the ukrainians they're interested in one thing is that their interest of imperialism and how they can position themselves you know both in relation to their power politics and their interests which rules their own which rules their policies and of course behind them is american imperialism the biggest imperialism of all they're out for what they're out for their own interests of course they're collided with russia but that's an imperialist rivalry if you like and we our task was to expose what was going on to cut across this sham this propaganda that was going on and stand yes as lenin did now the words yes you're in a minority with so what you know we have to resist the the impact if you like of bourgeois public opinion because that's what it is or petty bourgeois public opinion which should be mobilized and can be mobilized at certain points and the revolutionary party has to has to stand up to that and stand on its principles and fight against it because we know that the situation will change and this propaganda will eventually die down that they will not have the same responses that they have at apricle time people will change on the basis of events it's events that change and they through the experience of the world war on the bloodshed and the horror obviously result that in a changing consciousness of many workers and was preparing a revolution at that moment but lenin's if you like rose to come out very very hard against the leaders who had betrayed and to fight for an internationalist policy and if you like you bent the stick to say this is what I we expect from every one of our comrades to to to understand they must not bend to this bourgeois campaign they must not bend to imperialism and so on and so forth and as a result they stood firm and but they were a tiny minority the member of internationalists in the world at that time was very very small well from Lenin Trotsky the Bolsheviks in Britain you had John McClain in in Scotland you had James Connelly in Ireland you had Eugene Debs in America you had Rosa Luxembourg and Carline it but it's a handful you know struggling against the the stream they come together in Zimavild in 1915 but that's mainly a kind of pacifist conference if the truth has been told Lenin was on the left of that you know arguing for revolution you know arguing for the if like civil war that's what he was talking about turn the war into civil war I mean these these are quite sharp language and the reason why the sharpness was to pose things bluntly not them not to to fudge things because the pacifists were obviously there's a lot of pacifism and ideas that that nature peace there's no how can there be peace in the middle of an imperialist war we have to overthrow the ruling class if you want peace and that's the way that Lenin posed it a revolutionary approach to the to the to the first world war itself but he was isolated when he was in well in Switzerland he went to Australia he was in Australia he went to Switzerland and trying to camp you know hold the thing together from abroad the war he said he he he gave a lecture actually in January 1917 to young socialist in Switzerland swiss young socialist it was a lecture about the the lessons of the 1905 revolution and in it at the end he says look I know that Europe appears to be a graveyard you know it's it's it's it's dead it's shattered there's no movement out there far from the war the din of the war he says but what is being prepared is a revolution that's what's being prepared now and they were all quite taken aback by this this this incredible prophecy if you like that revolution's being prepared in Europe but he did say that he said well I'm getting on now he said and probably the older generation will not see it in my time he said it'll be the youth that carries through the revolution and yet within one month the Tsar had fallen and the Russian revolution had taken place shows sharp and sudden changes in the situations he said which is prevalent that we have at the present time it shows the the enormous instability and crisis underlying society that's the reasons for it so we had this this the revolution breaking out in Russia in February 1917 the Bolsheviks didn't win a majority they only had 8 000 members at that time in February 1917 the Menshviks actually had a bigger force many because they may have mainly had intellectuals and people that people knew them and so on and so forth they took the line of least resistance I suppose a provisional Government was established the Tsar had been overthrown and what else happened? Soviets were created by the working class that was the decisive feature of the revolution but Lenin shows the genius of Lenin he recognized that the whole situation had fundamentally changed your bourgeois government you've got the Soviets being being established big organizations which could have taken power at that time by the way that they were so powerful the bourgeois were very very very weak and yet they were propping up a bourgeois government the Soviets were through the Menshvik majority were propping up the bourgeois government and from a fraction from from Switzerland he wrote a telegram no confidence in this bourgeois government no confidence in Karenski above all only of confidence in yourselves the independent movement of the working class that initials initial reaction because there were those in Russia even in the bourgeois party were wavering you know oh you know intoxicated by revolution oh look at this it's all happening you know and but no Lenin had a very level ahead and then he suggested they came back he wrote what was called letters from afar these these several letters he wrote before leaving Switzerland which basically said this is just the beginning of a revolution that is that we get there's going to be a second phase to the revolution where the working class will come to power and we can have it'll be a socialist revolution he'd never said that before it's what Trotsky said in 1904 1905 per revolution he'd come over to that kind of position and when he went to the to the Bolsheviks on coming back from exile he had a conference how he got here he had to argue to change this perspective that from this you know modernized bourgeois state no we want a socialist revolution he was in a minority of one he the others were just astounded what the hell is Lenin on about you know he's gone mad talking about and the on the basis of his his powers of persuasion particularly of the worker members of the Bolshevik party were more closer to the revolutionary feelings or the masses he was able to convince the majority of the Bolshevik organization the Bolshevik party at that time because it became a party in 1912 so it was the Bolshevik party at their task now was to prepare a second revolution for the working class they come to power a socialist revolution as the beginning of a world revolution it wasn't a russian revolution it was the beginning of the world revolution that's the way you saw it not like later on it's the Stalinist society you know socialism one country and all the rest it's nonsense Lenin always says it's the world revolution which is more important this is just the beginning of it and therefore that was the plan that was the idea he won over the Bolshevik party and then skillfully if you like was able to patiently explain these ideas they were growing they were developing the Bolshevik party and winning over sections of workers who obviously were impatient because of war the the lack of food the lack of bread and obviously the the peasant who were in up in arms as well because they didn't have any land and they used the slogans bread land and peace all power to the soviets because the soviets were in the hands of the right wing were in the hands of the reformers so he said yeah but we can patiently win them over we'll win the working class over by propaganda by by agitation and that's exactly what happened because the the old regime couldn't answer the problems couldn't bring about peace couldn't give the workers bread couldn't give the land to the peasants they they did nothing they were impotent all they want to is pursue the war let's let's keep the war going that was the whole basis of their program so the Bolsheviks were able to to gain more and more of a majority even by by june when the the the soviets when the mensurex had to call a demonstration of the soviets and they thought they'd had the majority all the placards came out in the demo all power to the soviets bread land and peace it was all the bolshevik slogans and uh and this that was that intolerable and that's why they launched uh a campaigning of slander against the bolshevik party lending was they denounced lending as a as a a german agent of course as the usual stuff using a german agent which was obviously serious because if they arrested him as being a german agent they would have shot him and the party advised him to go underground and he fled to finland at that time uh just like unfortunately what should have happened to to um Carl Liebnik and Rosa Luxembourg because they were hunted as well in january 1919 by the counter revolution and instead of escaping berlin which they should have done and got into hiding they didn't and they were caught and when they're caught they were murdered and that's what would have happened to to lending if you hadn't escaped at that particular time and from exile he was uh always say um in touch with the comrades from finland in touch with the bolsheviks we're now underground party they smashed up all their printing presses they drove them underground they arrested the leaders trotsky was in in jail and other leaders where it were put in jail and they were only released in august when there was a counter revolution taking place of cornell off journal cornell off was marching his troops to overthrow the provisional government and they were so terrified they allowed the bolsheviks to to act if you like which they did act to um subvert the counter revolution but in doing so they won more support and by september october they won the overwhelming support of the support in the soviets in moscow in petersburg and a lot of many others as well and lenin from afar was demanded they take power all power to the soviets if we've got a majority they should take power the party now should be on course for insurrection and of course they were those in the party in the leadership were a bit evident about this and that's what you always have a crisis within the party in one sense is a decisive turn isn't it in events this is not just you know go about your daily paper sailing around the corner this is actually preparing to take power and because trotsky was in a position as leader or became a leader of the milit the revolution military committee because they wanted i was i was the garrison in in petrograd in that in that sense they were able under his tutelage were able to organize the insurrection which took place on the 25th of october the old calendar on the 7th of november which had to be trotsky's birthday what a great birthday present they came it came to about lenin comes into the hall the old leaders of the of the soviets disappeared they scuttle out and basically lenin says this we are we are here to create a new world order you know and this was a revolution in the making and this was an amazing feat that shocked the entire world despite everything but the only way this could come about was the borschwick party without the party it would not be possible to do anything you you cannot just improvise a party the whole role of lenin and he was he i would say was the most advanced thinker in relation to the importance of the party trotsky no luxembourg no none of the none of the leaders understood the real significance and importance of building the revolutionary party but lenin and that's what he devoted his life to do build this this instrument this steeled instrument of those who are prepared to make this understood and prepared to put their lives on the line to carry through the revolution and he he gathered those two together they became the cadars on which they were able to win the working class under those revolutionary conditions but if he wouldn't if it didn't exist it wouldn't have happened i think trotsky compared it to a piston box you know and the energy of the masses is like steam you know the energy steam is very powerful you put it through a piston box you can drive a locomotive but if without the piston box it disappears into the air it's nothing and that's through the energy of the masses has to be directed to take power that's the basis of the revolutionary party and that's what we're trying to create today for the revolutionary events that are coming in britain you cannot wait in order to build the party as it comes along you have to organise it train it educate it pull it together shape it if you like on the basis of the experience of bolshevism of lenin and the experience of the last hundred years as well of learning what what the score is in that way preparing for the ground that emerges they came to power i haven't got as i've run out of time basically but lenin they come to power but they knew that they would have to extend the revolution internationally they couldn't have socialism in russia it was too backward you know 70% of the people illiterate so backward country if you couldn't establish a material bit new class society on that basis it needed to extend it to the west and that's what they tried to do in 1919 they established the communist international the third international and with that they put a call out for the formation of communist parties all over the world and within a year huge communist parties out of the old organisations crisis emerged and mass communist parties were created in Germany in France in Italy in Czechoslovakia whole number of countries apart from britain which was very very small as another another lesson going to another time probably but here showed the potential unfortunately a revolutionary tie did break out as well after the after the the first world war but it was betrayed these young communist parties either didn't exist or they were very very embryonic and therefore the leadership fell to the social democracy your reformers leaders who then betrayed the working class power could have been in the hands of the german working class in november 1918 but it was squandered you know all the attempts of the working class that come to power because but Trotsky summed it up to me the crisis of of mankind is a crisis of leadership the revolutionary leadership that's the essence that's the the real essence and he hoped that the third international would solve that problem unfortunately uh Lenin had been shot in 1918 by a social revolution left social revolutionary he had a stroke in 1922 then a series of stroke strokes that put him out of action and by that time you had the growing bureaucracy within the Soviet Union because of the backward country very very few people could read and write the old official started to come back in the state apparatus and Stalin was the figure head of this bureaucracy in Russia itself and when Lenin was on his deathbed he carried out a struggle with Trotsky alongside Trotsky against bureaucracy within Russia itself asking for the removal of Stalin unfortunately he was paralyzed and then he died and then there was a manoeuvre against Trotsky and he was sidelined and eventually as we know Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union launched the idea of a new international the fourth international unfortunately in 1940 he was hunted down and murdered this whole family had been wiped out by actually so he he was the standard bearer for Lenin you're in a continuation like Lenin continued the struggle of marks and angles when they died but Lenin died it was Trotsky who carried on the struggle of defensive Marxism and we our heritage goes back to those days of the Russian revolution of Trotsky's left opposition where the the comedy who founded our tendency Ted Grant was brought up in the left opposition and absorbed the ideas and prepared the way for the defense of those ideas that we have today our tendency the international Marxist tendency internationally has the only ideas that can overthrow capitalism win a majority in the working there's no one else this is no one else the sex don't make me laugh the reformists where we we've had a guts full of the reformists are capable of doing they have no faith whatsoever in revolution revolution they have a good laugh about that they have no idea what's coming therefore we alone have that responsibility it sounds like an enormous task as Lenin pointed out to the young socialist in January 1917 what's coming but events comrades events will throw up this revolutionary movement but if we have the embryo we develop a small organisation that has the capacity then we can build on that we can go from five ten thousand fifty thousand and become a factor in the situation a British revolution on the cards a successful revolution will transform the entire world it would set the whole world alight and that's what our aim is on the basis of this crisis coming up we and we alone if we do our job correctly if we put ourselves on the line and if we link up with best work is in Britain we can overthrow capitalism and lay the basis of the socialist republic in Britain as the basis for the world revolution itself that's the lesson of Lenin that's the lesson of Bolshevism and we must learn it

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Moose Population Remains Low But Stable In Northeastern Minnesota

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The DNR says the moose population in northeastern Minnesota remains stable but relatively low for the seventh year in a row. The department released results of the 2018 Moose Survey today. DNR Commissioner Tom Landwer says while the moose population appears stable, low numbers of moose are still a major concern for the department. The 2018 aerial moose survey estimated 3,030 moose in northeastern Minnesota. That's statistically unchanged in the vast area from last year's estimate of 3,710. Northeastern Minnesota's moose population peaked around 8,840 in 2006. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.

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Hear about our Global Initiatives | Alumni Third Thursdays | Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

At this January 2023 Third Thursdays event, Janeen Bertsche Johnson, MDiv, Alumni Director, interviewed David Boshart, PhD, President; Henok Mekonin, MA, Global Leadership Collaborative Specialist; and Joe Sawatzky, PhD, Global Leadership Collaborative Project Specialist, about global initiatives at AMBS. Third Thursdays are once-a-month online conversations with AMBS faculty and staff members. Janeen Bertsche Johnson, MDiv, Alumni Director, interviews a selected member of the AMBS learning community for 35 minutes, followed by a short time of open conversation. Learn more about Third Thursdays: https://www.ambs.edu/third-thursdays/ Learn more about Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary at https://www.ambs.edu/

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Welcome to the third Thursday's conversation for January, the first of 2023. Today we are welcoming three guests to talk about the Global Anabaptist Collaborative. David Bushard, Hanuk Makonin, and Joe Sawatsky. Welcome to each of you who've joined us here. If you'd like to use the chat feature to introduce yourself to the others who are here, make sure you write that to all, not just to the panelists so that everyone can see who's joining us today. And if you have questions at any point during the webinar you can use the Q&A function at the bottom of your screen to type those questions in and then I'll be watching for those and add those to the questions that I asked earlier. So we are so glad to have the three of you come today to talk about what AMBS is doing to train leaders around the world. I'd like you to start by introducing yourselves. Normally I have an introduction but instead we're going to just have you say a bit about yourself and your role with AMBS's global leadership initiatives. David, would you start please? Sure. I'm David Bushard, president of AMBS, and I am overseeing the global leadership collaborative. I inherited some of that role from my predecessor Sarah Winger-Shank and so I give overall oversight to the strategy for this program and then work very closely in collaboration with our dean Beverly Lapp and with Joe and Hanuk. I think it's definitely a team effort and a lot of collaboration goes on on campus across departments for this program. Hello, this is Hanuk. I graduated from AMBS and then that's how I start working at AMBS. My role here is global leadership collaborative specialist. Basically, I walk with the student until they graduate. As soon as they enter the cohort program and until they graduate, I'll be with them in answering all kind of questions they might have. And also assisting if the professor is teaching a cohort from AMBS, I will be a teaching assistant for that professor and also be walking with the student as they go through that course. And hello, my name is Joe Sawatsky and I am the project manager for the global leadership collaborative. I'm also a Mennonite Mission Network employee and part of my time is seconded to AMBS to help with global and Baptist education initiatives. I'm also a 2005 MDiv graduate of AMBS, which prepared me to go to South Africa for eight years with Mennonite Mission Network working in theological education there. And out of which grew my own doctoral thesis as well. So I owe a lot of my working life to AMBS and Mennonite Mission. I'm so pleased to be a part of this team. Thanks to each of you. Let's start with the question how did our program in Ethiopia begin. This was kind of the beginning of this big initiative. So I need to back up just a little bit before the Ethiopian program to an innovative degree program that Beverly Lab designed about 2016-17 somewhere in there. That's a bit later than that. Anyway, it was it was an intention to reach students that would not be moving relocating to campus. There are more students to be studying at a distance. And so we designed the Master of Arts and Theology Global Anabaptism as a distance only program. It is AMBS is only distance graduate program. And that program very naturally became unavailable to people studying in all around the world. AMBS regularly fields invitations from international church leaders to consider doing educational programs in other parts of the world. We have alumni around the world who are wanting to stay connected to AMBS. And during the end of about the last six months of Sarah Wenger-Shank's time at AMBS, she began to explore formal partnerships with institutions that we have had historic connections with. The Maserati-Christis Seminary and the Nehemi Institute in Korea. So we began MATCA with the Maserati-Christis Seminary in the fall of 2019. We maybe were offering the MATCA program and wondering if people might just enroll in our MATCA program, but the Seminary in Ethiopia is very interested in developing their own graduate programs. And so it was determined that we would do cohorts of students about 10 a year. And we would do online classes during the year and then in-person, three in-person intensive classes on campus in Ethiopia each summer. Because of COVID, we were not able to do those in-person classes until this last summer. We did three of them last summer and it was an amazing experience for faculty and students both. We all learned so much and were changed by that experience. During our first year of the program in Ethiopia, Hanuk Makonin was a student here at AMBS. And we immediately ran into some issues around technology and expectations and all the kinds of things you run into when you're working cross-culturally, interculturally. And Hanuk jumped in and saved the day in all kinds of ways. And so before long, it was Hanuk's student employment at AMBS to provide instructional support for this program. And then toward the end of his time here at AMBS, we received a letter as did Mission Network from the national leaders of the Maserati-Christis Church saying, we want Hanuk to stay in the states. We want him to stay at AMBS and partner with Mennonite Mission Network to continue to support this program. So with the help of Mennonite Mission Network, who are paying half of Hanuk's salary and we're paying the other half, it's a wonderful collaboration between our organizations. Hanuk is now a permanent part of our staff helping us with this programming. And along the way, as we were developing the global leadership collaborative, I engaged Mennonite Mission Network and we were asking if we could partner with them to invite Joe Sawatsky to be a program manager or project manager for all of the negotiations we have all around the world to help us talk with potential partners and develop MOUs where we want to do educational development. The other important collaboration that emerged in this process was an invitation from Mennonite World Conference to enter into a formal MOU with them as an identified collaborator. Mennonite World Conference identified that on every continent around the world in a research study they did, the most urgent need that was expressed in every region of the conference was the strengthening of an Anabaptist identity for leaders and congregations. And so Mennonite World Conference asked us if we would be a collaborator with them in doing that work. And the benefit for us is that when we are entertaining invitations from potential partners, we're in conversation with Mennonite World Conference to ensure that we are in conversation with the right people, the right national leaders, and so that we're making sure the church is involved in that conversation, not just institutions and that we're not undermining the national church structures. So it's been a wonderful collaboration for us. It keeps us out of trouble, helps us doing the right things. And we're really grateful for that connection to Mennonite World Conference. We are hoping to graduate our first students from the Macca Ethiopia program this spring or summer. We had to slow down the process a little bit because of COVID and that was very frustrating, but we will be seeing our first graduations coming this year and it's very exciting. Anak, what would you like to add to the description of what's happening in Ethiopia? Just how does this work and what are some of the things that you are working with there? Just tell us more about that program. So the way it works is it's, you know, it's two institutions are involved in this, AMBS and MKS Seminary, Maserati Crystal Seminary. So they will send us a list of names, you know, so they do their own registration process, they will advertise and do all kind of stuff. There are things we require for students to have before they join the program. So they will do the, you know, the struggle show up at MKS Seminary and they do interview and check all that aspect that we ask them to do. And then our coordinator from MKS Seminary, his name is Yimanu, he will send us a list of names potential to be in one cohort. So our admission process, admission office will accept the names and that's where I will involve in and I will have like one to one Zoom call with each student just to check if they have, you know, those kind of things that we require just so that they can sustain, you know, this is three years program, and we run one course per semester, and they all put together in one course. And every summer, as David was described, we will send our AMBS box to MKS Seminary, where all students will come also there and be with together for intensive program for about like two or three months. So it's like you need to make sure who are joining the MARCA cohort, you know, because there is a long process in it and there's a frustration. So we require certain staff before we join them so that they consider as a student. So once they join and they took, they start taking courses and I will be there with them. You know, the other thing we need to realize is it's, you know, in Ethiopia, Internet is not realable. It's on and off and power electricity is not stable. So, it's just you have to find a way to work around it. And, and that also requires some kind of resilience. And a student need to have that, you know, you know, muscle to wrestle with us. But besides, I mean, more than that, I mean, like I one of the top, the challenge that I was, when I heard about this initiative when I've been invited and talked about this is like, Oh, yeah, I know. You know, in Ethiopia, there's all kind of, you know, this internet and electricity. You know, our students are living around, you know, different parts of Ethiopia, they're not in one place. So we rely on each student having their own computer, you know, having that some of them, you know, might not have the new computer and it's, you know, there's all kind of frustration that goes with that. But, you know, as you go through it and work with the student individually, that's one of my time is working with student individually and make sure that the internet like their computer is working. And they are, you know, doing what they're supposed to do within that week. So every two weeks, we ask them to join us by zoom, so that that will be a time for, you know, the instructor to, you know, open up for a question if there is any question that within the student and the thing that we have done the past two weeks. And as you go through that, you know, you will, you will have a lot of questions and problems, and that will help you to clarify and, you know, like that resolve that, and that that's how it moves the program. But the cohort program having them together helps not only the help that we give from here in BS, but also amongst others that sense of community. So, you know, sometimes they reach out to me, if whatever reason I'm busy, they call to each other and somehow whatever question they have, they will be sold there. And it's really, it's a brilliant idea to have this cohort program, so that it creates, you know, this is going to be like a group of people being together for three years until they graduate. So, yeah, I think that's pretty much what I'm going to add on to what David was just explained. And sorry, Dave and Joe, do you want to add anything to that and and maybe, maybe say a bit about how this is funded and and how what what you've seen working there. Okay. I would say that this partnership is really important, because it provides us an opportunity to accompany the seminary in Ethiopia as they are developing their capacity for their own graduate programs so MKS is actually rolling out their first master's programs this fall and we're celebrating that because you feel like we were a part of helping them providing support for them to to start doing this. Students for our program are chosen, I think we have a different kind of student in mind for our program than the graduate programs that are happening on campus I think more of the graduate programs are happening on campus will be for persons who are coming out of the undergraduate program and ready to move into a graduate program. The notion is that most of our students in the cohorts for the masters of arts and theology global and baptism are more seasoned leaders. When I was teaching there the summer I realized you know these are most of the people in the class not all of them but most of the class are 10 1520 year veterans and leadership. One of the important things our program is providing is in a church that is growing way faster than the National Church can manage in terms of leadership development. We're working with a lot of seasoned leaders who I think are well positioned or already positioned to be regional leaders who can be strengthening that an abaptist identity of other pastors that they're working with in the local congregations in their region. But we're trying to strengthen that an abaptist theology and identity for leaders who are really well positioned to help with the work of strengthening that identity in in the local congregation. How do we pay for all this has an important question. We negotiated the arrangement. We realized a couple of things one, it's very difficult for students to afford tuition. And most of them can afford to pay very little in the way of tuition. And secondly, it is very difficult to transfer American dollars from Ethiopia to the US. So in this agreement students pay a very small tuition and we're leaving that money with Maserati Christa Seminary again as a part of helping Maserati Christa Seminary to build their capacity for their own graduate programs. So our costs are all contribute contribution based. We are we are reliant on contributions in our constituency and the church to help us carry off this program and we're finding there's tremendous support for for doing this work. And I'm really grateful for that. I would also say that just lost that thought. I could add that Hennock talked a lot about how he works with students he also works with professors very well to help us. I've helped teaching the program to and help me know what to do. He developed a tip sheet of best practices and provides counsel to us and also motivates students I think and follows up with them and helps interpret us professors to students. I really want to re reaffirm what you're saying Joe and we would want to be doing these classes without Hennock, who also helps us think pedagogically about the context helps us think about source material that we're bringing to the to the context that is to these classes is contextually appropriate. We talk all the time here at MBS about how we decolonize the classroom. And you know Ethiopia is a country that has never been colonized. So we don't want to start colonizing the classroom. We're trying to be very careful and thinking pedagogically about what is the most contextually appropriate methods for teaching and source material that we're bringing to the to these classes. I think another thing that's really important in this program is the opportunity and BS has to experience the church where it is growing in ways that again outstrips the capacity to train leaders, where we are sitting in a context where the churches is in some ways disintegrating or declining. And so it gives us a wonderful opportunity to ask questions about the nature of Anabaptist leadership in these two very different experiences of the church and to say, What is effective Anabaptist leadership look like, and using the global context as a way to think about that. We're learning every bit as much as our students are learning in these cohorts. And I think we'll come back to that very question again after we hear about all the other initiatives. Any more thoughts on Ethiopia from any of you. All right. Well we can add them later if you think of something else we should include. Sure. There was an educational event for church leaders in Indonesia. What can you tell us about how that came together and what happened in that event. One of our agency partners in Indonesia came to AMBS wanting to make connections on behalf of Indonesian institutions and Indonesian Mennonite synods about partnering with North American Anabaptist educational institutions to make Anabaptist education more accessible to Indonesian leaders. And also leading up to Mennonite World Conference Assembly which was just in Indonesia. We brainstormed having a educational event for pastors from all of the Indonesian synods in conjunction with the assembly. And that the assembly was a bit up in the air due to COVID. We decided to launch out with a webinar that we held about a year ago at this time in January of 2022. We worked with Andeos Santoso who is a recent AMBS grad and Indonesian church leader. And now is also the Asia director for Mennonite Mission Network. And Andeos and I and Jewel Gennrich Langnecker and Dave and Bev and others sort of brainstormed this webinar. Each day, webinar two hours each day, 7am Eastern time in the US, 7pm Indonesian time, and two hours each day. We organized it kind of along the lines of AMBS's departmental structure we had a introduction to peace study through a biblical focus introduction to peace studies through an Anabaptist history theological focus today. We chose a practical ministry dimension or something from the broadly church and ministry kind of department and that was on Christian Muslim relations which of course is something that Indonesians. It's part of their daily reality, but we have so we had each day we had an AMBS faculty paired with an Indonesian church leader or scholar to provide input on those topics. And then we had time for questions from the participants in the second hour. And there were 75 to 100 participants each day from all of the Anabaptist Mennonite synods. There are three in Indonesia. And Andeos was our moderator for that, or MC for that event, which was partner, a partnership between AMBS, the Indonesian synods and Mennonite Mission Network. I think this was a really unusual event Joe and that that it was an occasion for all three synods in Indonesia to come together. It was a sort of a rare experience so we were really excited to see that happening was also the first time we were working I think on an educational program with simultaneous translation, where if you were an English speaker you were hearing as English as the Indonesian was speaking and if you're Indonesian you were hearing only Indonesian as the English speaker was speaking and it was happening to simultaneous and that's hard. That is really hard work, but it was it was really helpful in making an efficient lecture time. And then I'll pass off also to Chi Alice who married to Andeos and is a current MA student at AMBS who was translation translating for us in that event so a lot of the energy about what we're doing I think is fueled by alumni and current students who want to take what they're learning AMBS to benefit the leaders in their own countries as well. Thank you. And this fall there was a pilot program in South Korea. I'm wondering what you'd like to tell us about that. Before Sarah Wingershank retired. Hugh and her, some of you would know his wife Sue Parker who is who works for Mennonite Church USA Executive Board. Hugh and her and Sue have a nonprofit organization called reconciliation in Southern California, and he was happens to be on our board. To introduce Sarah took Sarah and Gerald on a trip to South Korea to introduce them to not only the Mennonite Church of South Korea but the Nehemiah Institute which is a non accredited seminary that has a number of faculty who are are anti Baptist adjacent maybe many of them trained in the West who are exposed to Mennonite scholars and the Mennonite Church of South Korea also influenced strongly by the writings of Alan Crider. And so there's a great affinity growing there and an alternative to sort of the dominant Christian perspectives there younger people who want a peace witness in their country who dream of a day for the reunification of North and South Korea. So Sarah and Gerald went there shortly before she retired. There really wasn't time to explore further on what could happen there. COVID happened and so it wasn't until last April that we were able to make another trip and with new new people involved like me and Joe and James Crabill we made a trip to visit and really explore this possibility. I often say about the global leadership collaborative I when I'm talking to faculty or trying to get their heads around how to teach in these contexts I said what we're doing is really hard. We just want to recognize that this is really hard. And one of our professors Jamie Pitts. When I said that Tim one time said yes it's hard. And it's terrifying. And it's really fun. And, and I said then back to my said and you know what it's all three of those all the time. And you just feel it you feel like you're dancing on the edge of it on a tightrope and, and you're wondering when you're going to fall off it and yet engagement with these students and faculty is just so rewarding. So energizing and so much fun. So you can imagine doing matka in in Korea is going to be even harder at harder in different ways than it is Ethiopia because we are going to have to do translation we're fortunate and we can offer the matka program in Ethiopian English. But in Korea we have to do everything by way of translation. So this fall, we said let's just do a pilot course. We offered it to students for free. He taught the course he started out online. He went for an intensive week in person, and then finished online. And it was a very powerful experience students. After the intensive class the students started meeting every Tuesday night as a study group so that the community among those students really started to emerge. The administrator of the school was attending the classes for the intensive week. And on the last day of the intensive week James had students share, sort of reflect on what they were their biggest takeaways were for the week. And to the students in their presentations just broke down and wept, because the class was. God's Shalom and the church's witness so a lot of focus and reconciliation, and to the students were just moved by a new vision for how reconciliation could happen in context they were relating to my own family and school professional educational role that person was having The administrator of the school that day on the last day of the class actually asked if he could enroll in the class for credit, because he said I have never seen students in this institution express emotion over over what they were learning and he said I need to understand what's going on here, because the administrative school actually enrolled in the class well when you have that kind of outcome. It's hard to say, oh no we're not going to do this program. So we are now offering the second course this semester. Again, it's the students are still guest students, but it is being taught by one of the faculty at the Nehemi Institute, who has spent a lot of time and spent a lot of time on this theology and church history. And so he's teaching a course this semester and we're hoping that in April May we'll start our leap program which is our orientation class and and launch the full masters program there. Hard, terrifying, and really fun. Anyone else want to speak to the Korean initiative. And the professor that Dave spoke about who's teaching right now his name is duck Monday, and he is teaching history of Christianity in Asia. For students enrolled in the Korea matka program, and that's the design of the program is that some courses will be taught by ambs professors and others will be taught by me and my faculty who are accredited by ambs to teach in our curriculum so he's teaching that course right now. And also we're hoping to bring him to campus and help card in April, so that he can maybe do some preaching and teaching here while he's in the States. I want to say a little bit about that hard, you know, terrifying and also fun part. It's really nice. It's a good mindset up that that that that kind of because each professor here at MBS. They know the subject matter they know what they're talking about, but still, even though you know everything within that subject matter, knowing that well how you need to deliver that in that context in there. It will get context in South Korea in Indonesia, that sensitivity is really, really, really good. And that's one of I think one of the things that makes me like proud working at MBS is that, you know, they know about this subject matter, you know, you know, they have read all kind of stuff they need to be read and they figure everything out. It's just that not enough and how this will work there is still terrifies them and terrifies people here at MBS, which is good. I like that. And, and this is what makes you to partner with the local people there, work with them, you know, to acknowledge the knowledge there, and how okay I have this, you have that wisdom, how you and me can collaborate and do this together. But then I have all this, I need to tell you and I will just dump on you without even that sensitivity. So I, in a way, makes me happy to hear this part terrifying and also fun part. It kind of shows your, your position, your mindset and even though you know what you're talking about is still, still, that's you know, makes you uncomfortable how you can deliver it in that context. Thank you for saying that Hennick, I, if I could just add a short story really quickly here. I think that teaching in this program is bringing a new level of humility to our faculty, not that they're not humble, but it brings it brings you as you approach these classes. It increases your humility and if it doesn't teaching in these experiences will humble you. So better to approach it from humility and being humble than letting it humble or humiliate you maybe even. But one of the, I had the wonderful experience of teaching leadership for the 21st century this summer to a group of 26 students and it was amazing time together. When I came in, I think appropriately humble and was like being very cautious about what I was sharing and I was always qualifying what I was saying and I, you know, I don't know the context here and I don't, you know, a lot of some of these thoughts about leadership are Western in my side. And on the, on about the third morning, one of the elder statesman students in the classroom pray okay and to me and he said, he said David we, we are really enjoying this class we really appreciate what you're bringing. And you are very sensitive to our context and we really appreciate that so all these platitudes right then he says, but, but the way you're talking and it gives us the feeling that you're holding back. And so we're wondering, could you trust us to sort out what's relevant here and what isn't and just go ahead and teach. And that was such a gift for the students to come to and engage me that way. And so I just let it go. And, and the engagement in the class went immediately to a whole another level. And students were free to say, you know, yep, love that idea I haven't thought of that before. Oh that idea won't work here and here's why. And then I was learning in the in the position of learning about what works here and what doesn't. It became a whole new dynamic. So part of it is like, we don't decide on our side, what's appropriate to bring to this classroom, and we need a really dynamic partnership with students to, to get to that place where we can sort of be free and and trust that our students will be ready to be willing to challenge or to push back or to say yes and. And that's been a really a significant learning for me, part of the journey of getting through the hard, terrifying and fun. And when you get to fun it's really fun. This is just so fascinating and, and we have some more questions to ask about overall, but before we do that. So if someone can just name some of the other things that are happening and being explored outside of the three countries we've identified so far. And I know Dave Miller is one of the participants in the webinar today and, and he could probably share many, many stories as well. But if someone would just kind of outline the other places where we're doing some work in this collaborative. So part of my role is to make connections for degree program as well as for non degree program and also things like webinars that we've already mentioned. And yes, he mentioned David Miller David just returned from Kenya, he was in Kenya during December teaching at the Mennonite and about this theological college in McGory. He grew out of a conversation that Dave and I and Patrick O'Bonday a recent AMBS grad had we're having about increasing Anabaptist theological education possibilities for for Kenya and East Africa. And, and Patrick's on to Patrick's on to all right. Yeah, and so Dave finally. David Miller was finally able to go at the end of last year and teach themes in the journey curriculum not the full journey curriculum, but kind of giving an entree into AMBS education. That college has their own curriculum as well. But they're interested in AMBS partnering with them. So this was kind of an exploratory visit and a chance to do some teaching and relationship building. And it was much appreciated by David and by his and by Zedekaya Lunga, who wrote to us to say how what a great time they had together. So that's one. Another one that I'll just quickly mention is that building on kind of the webinar template. Right after Thanksgiving. We did a webinar for church leaders in India that we planned with midnight Christian service and fellowship of India, which is the umbrella body for men nights in India. They requested a webinar on baptism. So we had two days baptism biblical and historical theological perspectives, again with input from AMBS professors and Indian leaders responding to the presentations in this case and then open time for q amp a. And again, that initiative was also brought to us by AMBS alums or current students Elizabeth kunjom and Prateek Bach. So, alumni again are a big part of driving or igniting what we're doing. Another one we might mention Joe that that is also connection in connection to one of our alums is David Miller's teaching of the journey program in Thailand for leader among leaders in Laos and Vietnam, and working alongside Jonah Yang one of our graduates. It's also very successful experience. Excellent. Yes, and I heard that David even has a baby named after him now. It's very cool. One of the participants in his most recent class teaching. Okay, we have a question that has come in from Benjamin Isaac Krause, who says it sounds like technology is a big obstacle, and he understood that to be true in his time at AMBS as well. Have you thought about fundraising specifically to give students adequate devices so that they are able to do what they need. Who would like to answer that. Thanks, Benny for that question. And if you want to take a stab at it or I kind of what do you prefer. I mean, I like this idea of fundraising. I can't wait to see a lot of computer going to, you know, to our student and the student having that, you know, access. But this, this another, you know, another thing that makes me humble and likes AMBS much is, you know, there's this discussion I think maybe Joe and David might say a little bit more that what, what, what does that mean if we send a computer. What, what kind of what what makes sense, you know, and I was like, you know, for me, like, I don't care, I just want the student to have access to it. I just want the student to have this really working computer with them. And so that they can access the computer, the resource that we're providing the motorcycle. But still there's this ongoing discussion, you know, at AMBS that, okay, you know, to try to make sure that we are not giving some kind of signal, you know, that we are, you know, we have all this resource among us, you know, so that we can just channel it on that. But like, still, there are times I was even taking like, you know what, I can do it by myself, I can just send a letter to people that I know, and no fundraise the money and send the computer to to Ethiopians. And especially the students who are working, you know, the in the out every day and some of the questions that come from a student, and why they are, you know, sometimes they get behind it because of a computer problem. And so I, I think I really appreciate this question and if you have any idea, please reach out to me by email. I like this question very much. I think technology is a huge question for us. And we're constantly working on what it means to purpose to work in these contexts and have adequate technology resources. I think I think it's something you're getting at hammock is, and part of our conversation is, how do we work at providing equipment in a way that has equity to it so some students can afford computers some can't. So that's providing computers to some and not others what happens then. On the other hand, we also be as we especially as we're doing in person teaching, we're finding out that we have students who we've said you need a computer to do this program and we find out that they're actually doing their courses on large cell phones or readers, and they aren't they aren't able to have a computer. The other issue is, what do we do about places where like we've been exploring the matka program for Ghana. And we have big questions about whether the country's infrastructure can even support the program and you know we start no amount of fundraising on our end is going to be able to solve that problem if the country's infrastructure isn't there. On the other hand, what I learned in Ethiopia and we came up with a pretty significant adaptation. When electricity goes down therefore internet goes down cellular service is much more constant. And so we found that we could buy cellular based hotspots with fairly affordable data plans. And that when the electricity goes off, as long as the computer batteries charged, you can stay connected to a hotspot and keep on motoring on with your, with your coursework and engagement online. And that would that seem like a really significant discovery. And I think we could do more, more to proliferate hotspots for people where internet connectivity is is inconsistent and electricity goes out. We are, we are constantly working on this. I mean another question that that our IT department really, you know, rightfully raises is when we start sending computers overseas, who services that computer. And in some cases there will be an adequate it support in the context in other cases there wouldn't be. And if all of that it support comes back to ambs that that can be a really significant load on on our it capacity here. So we're very much in the process of learning and evolving. I think we're doing better and we're making discoveries, but there's some questions we have not answered yet. I've gotten good answers for you. Okay, we have two more questions that have come in and then we'll have to end our time today. But now Serato says I see that only men have been sent abroad. Is that a male teacher or to represent ambs and is that due to cultural matters, and just wondering if, if other cultures prefer to have male teachers or not. I think that's a great question now and thank you. Well, we actually send a female instructor to Indonesia to the GITJ. That's the oldest men and I send it in Indonesia to their Bible College Slemp Seminary Jacqueline Hoover who's a core adjunct faculty member at MBS went for a two week period at the end of October to teach on Islamology which is her expertise and Christian Muslim relations. And she taught those two courses in their, the school's curriculum and then did a public lecture that was attended by more than 200 leaders men and women on women preaching the gospel and men and I perspective. And we had a zoom follow up call the other week with the leaders of the seminary and the leaders who were a part of that experience and it was obvious that they found it so inspiring to see Jacqueline, her passion and her expertise. They took a lot of encouragement from from her presence with them. So, I didn't get a chance to mention that but that was on my list. So that's great to know. We will certainly send female teachers. It's it's only been based on content. Relative to the program, why it's been only men and certainly at Miserita Chris's Seminary. There are female professors and lectures there. So this would not be an issue. In that program at war Korea, for sure. I would like us to close with a wonderful question from Randy debt while he asked, what are we learning that will encourage or strengthen the church in our North American context. Thank you Randy for that question. I feel like I've done a lot of talking Joe or how do I go first, I have some things I could say but Well, this comes more out of an experience I had last semester leading witness colloquium at AMBS where were there were four students from Africa in the core or three from Africa in the course to from Miserita Christos Church, and we students did presentations on what a peace witness looks like in their context and I was struck again by how central evangelism is in their understanding of what leads to peace. So that sense of one's personal connection to to God as being a source of peace that sustains you in the work of peace between humans, or between nations or between communities. So that kind of that emphasis there on evangelism and on like the vertical connection to God being important in the work also of the horizontal dimension, I think is something that the global church helps to magnify it for us in North America. I think this is, I feel like this is the question is more for Joe and David will stay here and knows about us culture more than I do. But what I can say is, you know, collaboration like this, you know, you, you are continuously engaged with people around the world and then there's exposure that relationship ongoing relationship. This is your project for this gift sharing, you know, sharing, you know, what works there what works here. So in a way that it changed you, it changed your perspective by the way you see things. So, I like this in Ethiopia, there's this saying that you don't go just for business, you have to have like all kind of meal, you know, all you need to have that built up the relationship built up before you do the business. You can just dump on the business and do the, let's do this thing kind of thing. So I think that's what I see here in this collaboration, seeing you know people over here with, you know, the local leaders back home in Ethiopia and Indonesia, South Korea, being friend, you know, continuously engaging with questions in, you know, but then having this interaction kind of helps you, you know, to share and to see, you know, how things work here how things work that, and through that process kind of changed you. I think that's, I've seen that a lot. That's only, I think I can say, but that relationship, you know, continue to be engaging in the conversation kind of helps you to be, you know, table continuously and have some kind of perspective on things. I think you're absolutely right, Henna, nobody, nobody participating in this program leaves it the same. It is transformational. I also think that we're not just doing academic institution at the academic institution work we are doing it with the church. And that is keeping us that is keeping our work in education really grounded in the church in the global context. It's very clear to us when we're in these doing this kind of program and BS may have a very long, deep tradition of theological education but the center of an abaptist identity is no longer in the west. And there is a great deal that we need to learn about what effective and abaptist leadership means in other contexts and how we can think about the blind spots we have in North America around what might lead us to greater levels of faithfulness and effectiveness and leadership. I also think that we want to make sure that in our work we're trying to represent a majority report on what it means to be an abaptist and carry out that witness in the world. So, I think there's just countless ways that this engagement is energizing we certainly don't want to be opportunistic about this, like, you know, using our opportunity to be in other countries to make many church USA or Canada stronger. But it's certainly as a transformational effect it also highlights for us that the the issues that we find most challenging in our church context that those issues become relativized when we realize what the significant issues are that other churches are facing for example in Ethiopia when we're engaging students who are asking questions about is peace witness realistic in a context of civil war where my family is living facing danger. That says something to us about our questions that we think are breaking up our church or or challenging us most because it isn't just one question it's many questions that are challenging the church and what it means to be faithful. Because we're engaged in the, in the global church in this way. Well thanks to each of you, Dave Joe Hennock for answering all these questions and giving us a glimpse into all of the wonderful things that are happening around the world. I want to thank also our alumni for your ongoing support of ambias. We really appreciate your financial support your prayers, and the prospective students you encouraged to consider studies at ambias. Let us know if we can help you do any of those things. Next month we will not have a third Thursday conversation because it falls during our pastors and leaders event. So we invite you to join that event if you haven't already signed up there's still a little bit of time to do that. And ask you to join us again March 16 when I talked to Melinda Barry associate professor of theology and ethics. Thanks to all of you for joining us this afternoon and thanks also to student Janet McGeary, who provided technical support for this webinar. This concludes today's third Thursday's conversation. Have a great day.

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Solution: Independence of Eigenvectors

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So what do we know about our eigenvectors once we've found them? So suppose M is a matrix with distinct eigenvalues lambda 1 through lambda k and corresponding eigenvectors v1 through vk. And let's see if we can prove an important property. If one eigenvector is a scalar multiple of another eigenvector, then it must be for the same eigenvalue. And again, part of the reason for proven mathematics is that it reinforces things that we should know or understand. And in this particular case, the important thing that we want to know and understand is what an eigenvalue eigenvector pair is. And so remember that we have an eigenvalue eigenvector pair when the matrix applied to the eigenvector gives us a scalar multiple of the eigenvector. And that means the one thing I do know about vi and vk is that since vi and vk are eigenvectors, then we know that the matrix applied to vi gives us lambda i times vi and the matrix applied to vk gives us lambda k times vk. What else do we know? We know by assumption that vi is some constant times vk. So when I apply the matrix M to vi, it's the same as applying the matrix M to constant times vk. Which means it's constant times the matrix applied to vk, and since vk is an eigenvector, that's going to be lambda k times vk. So we can put that together. Since vi is an eigenvector, we have the matrix applied to vi equals lambda i times vi. Since vi is constant times vk and vk is an eigenvector, then the matrix applied to vi is also c times lambda k times vk. And so that tells us that lambda i vi must be the same as c lambda k vk. But again, vi is some constant times vk, and comparing our coefficients of this vector vk, we see that lambda ic must be equal to c lambda k. And since c is not equal to zero, that tells us that lambda i must be equal to lambda k. Another important result emerges as follows. Suppose I have a matrix with distinct eigenvalues lambda 1 through lambda k, and corresponding eigenvectors lambda 1 through lambda k. We'll prove that if any eigenvector can be written as a linear combination of the other eigenvectors, then the remaining eigenvectors are dependent. So, let v1 be some linear combination of the other eigenvectors, where at least one of our coefficients is not equal to zero. Then if I just form the scalar multiple lambda 1 times v1, I'll just be multiplying every one of these vectors by lambda 1. But remember that the vi's are eigenvectors, and so the matrix applied to v1 is going to be lambda 1 times v1. And the matrix applied to v1 in the form of the linear combination that produces it, is going to be the same linear combination coefficients, each multiplied by the corresponding eigenvalue. And so this gives me two different expressions for lambda 1 v1. One from the scalar multiple of v1, and one from applying the matrix m to v1. So if I subtract them, I get zero as a linear combination of the vectors v2 through vk. Since at least one of the a i's is not equal to zero, and the lambda i's are distinct, then at least one of these coefficients has to be non-zero. And if we know that if we can find a non-trivial linear combination equal to the zero vector, then our set of vectors is dependent. And so, that tells us that our set of vectors v2 through vk is also a dependent set of vectors. Now this leads to an important result. Remember, if I can write one vector as a linear combination of the others, then the set of vectors is dependent. And so if any eigenvector can be written as a linear combination of the remaining eigenvectors, then the remaining eigenvectors will form a dependent set. So if I can write v1 as a linear combination of the eigenvectors v2 through vk, then what we just showed is the vectors v2 through vk are dependent. But that means I could write v2 as a linear combination of the remaining vectors v3 through vk. And the problem we just did shows that the remaining vectors v through through vk form a dependent set. And so that means I can write the vector v3 as a linear combination of the remaining vectors. And so on and so forth. Lather, rinse, repeat. But if I do that sooner or later, I run out of vectors. And what I'll end up with is the next-to-last vector as a linear combination of the last vector. And so eventually we'll find one eigenvector to be a scalar multiple of another. But this can only happen if they're eigenvectors for the same eigenvalue. And our underlying assumption is that these are eigenvectors for different eigenvalues. And what that means is that if we allow any eigenvector to be a linear combination of the other eigenvectors, our entire set of eigenvectors collapses down into nothing. And this can't be allowed to happen, so that tells us that a set of eigenvectors is independent. So if we put all of these things together, we obtain the following theorem. Let lambda1 through lambdak be distinct eigenvalues with eigenvectors v1 through vk. Then the set of eigenvectors v1 through vk is a set of independent vectors.

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2022 Immaculate Footbal FOTL Hobby Box Break for Joseph B

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AGENCY & BUSINESS - For good or for worse: making happy client relationships

DrupalCon Lille 2023 As professional service providers we often walk a fine line in delivering bespoke software to a diverse set of clients. Each with their own traits and desires. Clients want partnerships. So do agencies and service providers. Like in every human relationship, this calls for compromises and the need to give and take. From small to large, contracts and requirements are always contending with core Agile values. No methods, contracts or processes can replace nor dismiss the essential ingredients of understanding, openness, passion and creativity which are key in making software development a success and ensuring happy relationships. Which is often quite hard to achieve. This session is for business owners, sales professionals and client facing experts. It will share some lessons learned (sometimes the hard way) about: • How to do digital projects with inexperienced Agile teams • How to deliver digital services within time and budget • Prevent overpromising • Delivering bad news • Negotiating contracts that are not Agile Imre Gmelig Meijling is business owner of React Online The Netherlands. Imre worked in various roles in different agencies in Europe. He will share 25 years of lessons learned in the digital industry, sometimes the hard way. Among his clients are United Nations, Disney and Konica-Minolta. Imre has also been an active member of the Drupal community since 2006, working on the DrupalCon Europe Community Advisory Comittee. He is former chair of the Dutch Drupal Association and co creator of the Splash Awards and Drupaljam.

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Thank you for coming So my session for good or for worse making happy client relationships first-hand experiences From supplying digital services From the past 25 or so years some heartfelt lessons that I that I got Some tips that you may be useful in your day-to-day operation the day-to-day Digital services, I'm going to be standing here because there's a recording and they want they want me in the in the picture apparently so So yeah, there's it isn't as much a method or structure that I'm going to present to you as much as it is Some first-hand experiences of the things that are learned and some tips that I might want to share with you today So my name is Emmerich Meiling For those of you who don't know me I'm with a digital agency called React online from Holland together with my business partner Jean-Paul. He's here today I'm a Drupal.org for 16 years and 10 months or so Yesterday I was formally instated as a board member of the Drupal Association and I'm also at the Drupal County Europe Advisory Committee. So hi. Good morning. Welcome. Please do come in. There's plenty of spaces across the room So In this session, there's five Topics that I'd like to cover in so how to do digital projects with inexperienced agile teams That's on both sides, but in particular on the side of Agencies and service providers which I'm from So how to deliver digital services within time and budget and some things that I'll learn from there Prevent from over-promising the trick there is not to make any promises But do deliver on commitments Delivering bad news, which is not always as bad as it sounds and negotiating negotiating contracts. There are not agile So Off onto the first topic how to do digital projects with inexperienced agile team So question to the group who of you work is with a digital service provider and ICT supplier who does Supplying digital services Websites platforms, right? Okay So who is who is using Drupal in their day-to-day operations and relying on an external party for For the website so a client as we call it. That's also a few right, okay So these things are for like very insightful for both sides of the table I'll be talking to digital service providers most of the time But I've been very interested to hear from you how you experience Working with digital service providers and the things that we learned and how we can learn from from you and vice versa So Those using Drupal feel free to stay. It's very interesting to hear the first step in getting the lack of experience Sometimes bad experience which often times have happens a lot as well is to take that head on now There's a concept a psychological concept called the fight or flight response as anyone heard of this the fight or flight response. Yeah, quite a few right, okay, so This is sort of a primal thing for people that ultimately under threats, right? When there's no other option people will fight or flee so Here's the definition The reaction starts in the brain and spreads through the body to make adjustments for the best defense or flight reaction Right, so I think a lot of this is going on in the world, right? Also in our day-to-day life sometimes how we do business and it runs through everything that we do When we allow it, right? It all depends on how you look at things Fear sometimes comes from an idea that you have. We had an amazing inspiring keynote about that yesterday, right? Or from bad experiences, which is also oftentimes the case. So Obviously fear kills the basis for trust or at least is quite a big impediment for it, right? So How do you overcome that? When you start working on a business relationship together on digital projects So I'm a sci-fi fan. I watch Star Trek from time to time No worries if you're not a Trekkie, it's just an analogy to illustrate the concept But this here is the Vulcan mind meld, right? The Vulcans from Star Trek It's a race and apparently that's something that only they can do The Vulcan mind meld is a touch technique that allows a Vulcan to merge a Vulcan's mind with the essence of another one's mind So in Star Trek, apparently Vulcans, they're not supposed to show their emotions Essentially, it lets other people see the world through through their eyes the way they Experience it their emotions their memories and so forth. Oftentimes the scenes is an emotional scene in the series Because in a very short moment a lot of knowledge and everything is sort of transferred from one mind to another And that this gave me the idea for an agile mind meld and doing an agile mind meld onboarding session with with each other with her clients or kickoff if you're not into Trekk and it's a well-prepared session that allows you to Take your client and let them see the world through your eyes Right. Tell them how the game is played Be very open about the caveats and the pitfalls and everything that you will encounter But it's because that it's going that is going to happen and I always invite Like the teammates the management team to that session, right? It takes it takes a bit of time But it's incredibly rewarding and refreshing to have them to have each other at the table early on And take them through how you see the world and how we will play the game together at the very start So we talk about How we do how we work you do agile how we do back look refinements how at certain points things may not Work out as we planned how maybe we need to let go of some of the scope The risks that are involved the good and the bad, right? So we're very open about that and I encourage you all to To take on a session like this and agile kickoff Together take the time two hours or so invite management and all and talk about these things About what will happen? So let's talk about ownership for a little bit. So In particular the part that's being played by the product owner, right? The concept of a product owner in agile often needs some explaining So in many cases, it's the project manager role, right on both sides so There's a question who who actually refers to When you talk to your clients, hey, I need I need the product owner I need you and your capacity as a product owner who refers to Your client as product owner, right? So that's just a few, right? So in so who refers to the client contact as project manager, right? So is there someone Someone of you who uses Drupal relies on an external digital service provider that has a product owner in house. Is there someone There's no hands, right? So okay, so we talk about this a lot about the importance of product ownership So there's different definitions. I like this one It's it's clear and simple but not always obvious and I highlight in particular the part About the person in particular that will make decisions involving time and money and This is crucial and this is this is from the sales deck by the way We also have it in our agile mind melt And we repeat this often and here's Kim Kim is product owner with one of our clients and This is what I do at the very start when we when we pitch or what we when we meet There hasn't been signed off anything. I take the previous slide I find a photo of the the person who's going to be in charge who's going to be our contact person and say This is the product owner with face and all and I again stress the fact that she's going to be taking decisions involving time and money And in quite a few cases, there's people Two one or two people that will sit up straight and say oh, but that's not her is going to be doing that That's me and That's the point where I'll say okay, then you will be our contact and product owner because I cannot go back and forth all the time and manage your Your team as much as I like to because that will take time away of making software, right? So it's very important that we have someone That has mandate and authority to make those decisions So at one point it will most certainly come to to a stage where we have to make decisions on doing things differently Let go of some scope There's also people that will Come in and say hey, but we promised or you guys said that you would deliver this or in the contract It says this so you need to add this as well, and I'm like No, that was Kim's well thought out decision So I always tell our clients you got to become very close friends with Kim Because if you want something done, she's the boss of the wallet. She manages the backlog She tells us what to do. So if blue suddenly needs to be green talk to Kim, right? So lessons learned Recognize and appreciate the fact that there's going to be doubt sometimes that's going to be changes Things will not go out as planned, but take the time to do that agile kickoff If you're not into track law kickoff onboarding session, whatever you want to call it And be very open and explain how you work So let them see the world through your eyes The good and the bad be open and honest Talk about agile values how the things are working the sessions or whatever project management method that you employ So without product ownership, there's a little chance to get with what you want, right? It's an essential role that we need to have so you must explain that So second how to deliver digital services within time and budget. Well, the trick is Make it so it fits the budget So that sounds easier. They're said and done, right? So how do we do it? It is one of the most repeated things that we have in our projects though We say it very often. So it's in our slide decks. It's in our proposals stressed in capitals It's it's repeated during the process Nobody wants a project that will run over budget, right? So the budget is always like this rock solid thing We can mold the scope, but the but the budget is what it is. Yes, we can go back and get more budget Yes, you can go to management and say, hey, we're going to add this or this But the budget is very fixed in our in our projects But there's always tension between the project and all the stuff that people want Because it's it's the opportunity to squeeze in as many things as possible and say, okay But then we also need this and then by the way, we talked about this. So I See a lot of proposals out there That we get also where Organizations are looking for a partnership as long as they get anything they need and want and that's everything about managing expectations. So There's often this quite long list of all the things and features that need to be in there And there's two things there first is you need to ask how can you be sure you need all these features? Right, did you do your due diligence? Did you talk to people? What where's the data? Where's the business goals or the other goals? That's Justify all these features, right? So why don't let you why don't you let us help you? Figure out what features you need and what's best because that's that's our passion. That's what we do best, right? So the second thing is that your client Contact person protocol and needs to learn to say no right, so That's that's hard thing. You need to help them and might not go right right away but The person must learn to make choices based on budget business goals and you must help help them discern what's most important and so Hanzer Knickerbuck Kniberg has a wonderful video and I encourage you strongly to watch this It's about 15 minutes. I used this a couple of times in work sessions in the past I show this to people sometimes I have about 40 seconds to show you. Oh We don't have the sounds, okay Okay, we don't have the sounds so The slides will be shared. I have the link, but I strongly encourage you to look up the video so to illustrate a didn't speak about as an agency in With various offices in the Europe and the US And it's it's a quite it's a bit forward, but there's two things that stand out We work for your customers. We may have to take their side at times Which was very appealing to me and it's like yes exactly this is this is The understanding that we were trying to get when working together and we're not suppliers right partnerships get the best result So let us work together on finding out what you need instead of supplying us this whole long list of features So lessons learned is work together to find What it is that you'll actually need so that's sometimes hard so We're so happy if we can find come to that stage Where there's a mutual understanding that yes We don't know yet what we need and we need you guys to help us figure that out in a way that fits the budget It's always that line comes always second Help them say no no doesn't mean no never I always tell tell them no not now So we always talk about no not now can be next month can be in the next increment if it needs to be in there We need to look for a way to get something else out because the budget is fixed, right? We're not suppliers partnerships gets gets the best results Prevent from over promising. There's only one way to do it. Don't make any promises That sounds like an easy escape right so We have contracts often times we're contract bound, but it doesn't mean you cannot have any commitment So I always tell our clients we are committed to delivering the best possible result in a way that fits the budget but we need to figure that out yet, so Estimating is hard Right, so when we have like Sort of an outline or a backlog or design then we need to say, okay, what will fit we need to estimate What will fit in the budget? So whether it's story points or t-shirt sizes or or the good old hours? Ultimately, that's what you need Estimates become fluid or they could become off Oftentimes, you know, they're wrong I'll admit to that so You can't have it all right, it's naive to think that there is a budget set that we've signed off on And you kept and we can all keep squeezing things in right? That's that's not possible. So Things change priority shift things may be added things that we have overlooked Things that our clients have overlooked. I often say well There's gonna be a few things that you haven't thought of that we might have now, but we cannot see our all ends, right? We cannot see everything so There's a lot of mantras from the from the previous slides Another important lesson is to do those estimates together right, so when it comes down to it when it comes down to actually sharing the marbles and Defining what can we do for the budget? Here's a photo of a project that I did for the port of Rotterdam It's like multi the global quite big project took us over a year to complete the entire scope And here's what we did at that time We had like all the tables in one room in one one long row With a black tape in the end and I printed out all the user stories from Yura at that day And we laid them out in a long row and we invited all these stakeholders and the product owner to come in And work out what could be done for the remainder of the budget and this was a very refreshing session Because they were actually making the case to one another as to why their Epic or stories needed to go first, right? So it also confronts your client or or in the stakeholders from whoever is from the business or Actually going to work or need all this stuff in to look your team in the eye and understand why seeing things are sometimes hard to build So they feel the pain of your of your creative staff or your development staff and they see ah, okay So that's why it takes three days to build this. Well, I thought it was like a couple of hours, right? They don't always get it the first time or right away But to look each other in the eye and see each other's pains and gains Actually creates this this this base for taking a hit for one another also the team Gets a feel as to why certain things are so important for your client. So Estimates black backlog refinement sprint refuse do as much of them as you can together actually all of them So the very key is trust learning each other and Yeah, so for the process to go smoother and and have a feel of why things are so important or feel as to why Things are hard to make those that was very refreshing. Obviously you can do this online from the tool or in a call, right, but This is what we did at the time So the lessons learned here is commitments are not promises, right estimates are not actuals and planning is guessing Yes, we're doing an estimate. We've we've worked a day to get this estimate out, but it's an estimate This it's not gonna be reality. It might be And sometimes it is sometimes actually it's even less, but it's an estimate not an actual I Can promise you that we will do our utmost best to get everything out Inside our estimate, right? So do the estimates together back look refinements and the sessions as much as possible Yeah, and people will will more easily want to work in common success when they understand each other's needs and pains Delivering bad news is not always as bad as it sounds But it's best served early and straight up, right? So at some point something will go different Your designer might be sick project manager might be out Some technical read there's a hundred reasons, right? So the agile manifesto says responding to change overfalling a plan Well, you know what? Mistakes will occur, right? Setbacks will occur. We all know it. It's part of life. So it's part of software development, too When there is a change of plans discuss it straight up early and often It's one of our mantras that we repeat a lot as well And sometimes our people are not happy with bad news, right? You can Bob Ross and all you want They won't take no for an answer Well, you know what? I won't take no for an answer, too So when people tell me no, we can do this like it's there's a technical thing. It's well, what can we do? So you must look for no, but what we can do is this I Repeat this a lot. So no, we can't do it. It takes more time. Okay, but what can we do? All right, so no, it's not good enough. I need to hear no, but what we can do is this So a few few weeks ago. We had some adjacent panels and it couldn't be Jason So we had them stacked and by the way, it was also better for accessibility We call the client right away say, hey, it's not gonna be like in the design But we're gonna do like this in your accessibility accessibility is better too problem-solved client happy that happens a lot, right? So if you put effort into it work to know but what we can do is this So when your client puts their foot down and say, oh, well, that's all all well and nice But you said at the start this and I need this I'm gonna repeat say, hey, this is what we've been saying from the start, right setbacks will occur Because why is it when we hit a snack I need to pay for it, right? This is what we're partners for So there's three questions daily And this is sticky on top in our sprint planning and we we ask them daily In the team in the daily stand-up is anything holding you back From achieving what's in the user story under design Is anything going to be different from what's specified in the user story or the design and is anything taking up more or less time than we Estimated if either one of those is a yes We need to break out and we need to contact the client product on our project manager early and often So that's what we do the sooner the less waste So lessons learned bad news best serve up served straight up Without hesitation or twisting around changes and setbacks will occur. It's a setback of life Don't take no for an answer look for no, but what we can do is this and Do that early and often? so We're going smooth and fast so Negotiating contracts that are not agile by the way, there's a Q&A at the end. I was I was planning on doing that just as we go along to Have some of the interaction going but the room is quite big. So You can put the questions in the app But it's fine to if you can remind them if you can remember them to have them come and I'll come with the mic Whatever you want or we'll see. Yeah Negotiating contracts that are not agile while contracts in most cases aren't agile, right? So there's there's a lot of at the start These RFPs and specification documents and and briefings that will say we're looking for a partnership So do we right but when it comes to the contracts, there is no partnership to be seen anywhere So we have a saying contracts can make a friend or an enemy good contracts make good friends Well, the Agile Manifesto is talking about customer collaboration Over contract negotiation, right? It doesn't mean we don't need contracts. We don't have contracts. Of course we do It just means that we also value a lot on the partnership Now this is me at Universal Studios a few years younger I'm a huge back-to-the-future fan sci-fi fan if you haven't noticed For those who aren't no worries This is a the car is a time machine at the Lorian plays a huge part in the films So why this picture a lot of stuff that happens in contracts are About things that happen or might happen in the future or how things may play out Right. So let me explain this I have three basic rules for contracts I will not commit contractually to something I cannot control Or risks that may be all on my side in the future Right things will not always go out as planned if I need to take all the risk That's outdated. I literally I literally say that So I will not work harder if if if I get a penalty penalized with money If if you need penalties or incentives, I want them to be mutual because that's what the partnership is about But to be honest, I don't believe in if you pay me more I walk harder because we will already work hard And there are so many hours in a day, right? We're also in the effort business. So ours Are not results, right? So we will be defining the result together I will commit to helping you yours though. So a few examples This is this is contract text. So I have to actually read this in any circumstance where deliverables will not be delivered in time in accordance with the preset agreement or is different from it Contractor is neglecting the terms and conditions and is liable for Consequences including financial consequences, right? This is this can be in a contract or an agreement. That's that comes with only happy documents And this is what I send back as I walk. I have a counter proposal to that So I will say that we first and immediately get together and try to solve before we are held liable in any way Because that's what a partnership is about Contractor will uphold the application. It is a good one To the latest standards laws and regulations and requirements as stated by the law and the latest version of our security Standards and technical policies. It should always be in accordance with the latest increment. Should it change? This is a back to the future moment for me Because I don't have a time machine how I cannot we can't know What the law will be in the future or what regulations or what changes you will make to your requirements, right? So This is what I counter. I Cannot accommodate the possible future requirements if they are to be met changes will be put forward Through the product backlog by the product owner provided. They are technically legally and otherwise feasible client absorbs all costs Risks and additional consequences just as with any act addition. This is a knockout for a further participation Well, I might you know if we negotiate and it becomes a little bit different I might change my mind anyway But I will put my foot down here because I will not commit To something that may be very risky to me in the future. I'd be very interested to hear from from you Who are relying on external? Parties and I might actually be on on the side of the table writing this how you would experience this so And how you cope with with with these contract negotiations on that? so There's lots more Examples but the lessons learned is don't commit to something you can't control it will work against you sooner or later You know in many cases, you know contracts will not come out of the drawer But in some cases they do and sometimes we need to be very strict about the agreements that we make, right? So if you need to take all the risk, that's not a partnership, right? I say to clients then well We have conversations about let's okay. Let's Amp the budget with 30% because you're moving all the risks to my side, but that's outdated and old-fashioned I literally say that setbacks will occur So are we doing this for good or for worse or not at all and? Contracts are always negotiable. So name your terms. I I've had legal People call me up and say hey, I saw your counter proposal to our agreement, but that's not how it works So definitely that's how it works. It's a negotiation, right? Don't let any anyone tell you otherwise You can always talk about these things Thank you for listening. Thank you for coming I'm gonna walk over there On the on the laptop, there's going to be if there are any questions test test yes, this works, so Let me see. I think I have to And I can also come to you if you have any question Right so so okay, so there's a question from from Lucas Lucas are you here? All right. Thank you for your question What do you do if the client cannot provide a product owner? So that's a good question, right? so But can you all can you all hear me? This is working? Yeah, okay, so Yeah, so what we do is we go through this process We go through the definition and we're like, okay So we understand that you don't have a product owner, but we need a person who's going to walk this journey with us almost on a daily basis you know if we are to make software and you you have only An afternoon every three weeks then we're not your party Right, it's not gonna work. It's a recipe for disaster So whether they call them product owner or not, but we need this person that fits this criteria Another option is for them to hire a product owner, which which happens Regularly, so that's what we do. Are there any other questions anyone? Feel free tough questions are also fine Yep, I'm coming to you. Hey good my questions around Contracts and you know it always does come up, you know, I am the main person at my organization that deals with all contracts and They're tricky and I wanted to know your opinion on more specificity in a contract or more vagueness in a contract Okay. Thank thanks John. So so you mean is Like make it more vague or more explicit or details to a contract Then you're gonna be held to every detail like bullet point by bullet point, right? So and I've had that happen and so when I write my contracts I write them slightly vague so that they can be interpreted in times of question, right? Rather than like you're putting on a login form more like Login will be part of their website, right? I mean sort of like if they catch you in a knit That's what I'm trying to say is like you don't want to write too much Yes, thank you. Yes, so I don't think there's like a silver bullet answer like a one size fits all But yes, so this is what we do sometimes and happens is where we Just like you say say hey, let's leave this a little generic And we if we can both agree on that that's perfect, right? Because let's make an MVP out of the contract and don't set anything all every detail in stone So yes, that's what we do sometimes as well. Thank you. I saw two hands So the question is about your success rate How many people do you think that you're talking to are wondering off because of your way to work with them? That's a good question To be honest, I have I have had one or two That said well, you know what if we have to spend a day a week with you. We're not going to do it We're not going to be able to do that. So That's so be it. Yeah, it's always tough, especially when you need to work There might always be some molding where you get together But ultimately yes, sometimes it happens, but it's not huge what it happens Thanks. I have a smaller company. We're only with six people and our products projects are not that big but How formal is your communication with the customer? For example, if they don't deliver what they are promising they would deliver Content or whatever and they don't deliver. Do you? call them and then Write a formal email to say this is what we discussed at the phone at the phone because Afterwards if there is a problem you have something you can fall back to or how do you do that? Yeah, so so thank you for that. So the mantra is early and often so whatever it happens We call them right away and that's quite informal. So hey, we're falling behind. We need this We can give you another day or two and we always write that down in confluence or in the in the user story So hey, this is this is what we agreed on 48 48 more hours, but we need to buy then right. So that's what we do Not like really a formal email, but we put everything in it last year. That's what we use right But this this is a good example of if if if there is a contract and a client that needs to have everything Written in stone like this, which sometimes happens. So hey, we need to have everything formal Right and I get penalty if I don't deliver in time. That's when I use the example Okay, so when you don't deliver in time, I'm gonna send you an extra invoice as well And they that's that's a weird concept oftentimes, but that's like that if we make a partnership out of of that That's the example that I use but it seldom comes to that. So anyway to answer your question Coming over We have few more minutes so how much project management and Meetings time do you include in your contracts? And do you name it as such or do you pour it pour it over the other points in there? question, thank you. Yes, so We explicitly have a line that says 2025 30% project management Or scrum That's what we call it And it depends on The relationship it depends on the situation It's differs from time to time sometimes that that goes up, right? You need more time together to work things out because That's a type of relationship the type of client But we explicitly put it in there saying about well 30% or something is overhead. That's what's needed. Yeah, it's a lot Yeah, that's Yes, yes Customers are looking for that and say hey, can we can we reduce that? Why do you need three people at the table? Because if I only have one right and to explain Details will fall away. They don't feel your pain. It's kind of ultimately sometimes cost-wise as much So yeah, but it's always a tension point Any other questions? Yes? I Got a question regarding your proposals So let's say you got an RFP and how deeply you describe these Conditions in your proposals. I mean for example the penalties So do you do describe that these are your? Basically idea of proposed idea of conditions So what you mean is do we put penalties explicitly in or leave them out So if you respond to an RFP do you describe these preferred conditions? Yes, so yes, so when we get like the conditions and agreement from the client and this stuff is in it I will count to that But yes, we also have our our agreement and conditions that obviously are well how we see a partnership and These are ideal to ours. So that's what we use and They it's like a mutual thing So if we do the same thing as what I like clients do and I don't want it that's not gonna work Right, so it needs to be mutual. So yes, we have an ideal Thing what we want Okay, so I think I'm going to release the room for the next one to set up Again, thank you very much for coming and your time and

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Think development – Think WIDER | Parallel 7.1 - Sara Lowes

Parallel 7.1 | Gender equality The 2018 Think development - Think WIDER conference, held on 13-15 September in Helsinki, Finland, showcased UNU-WIDER, its work, and the many people and institutions that are engaged with it. The conference held panel discussions on all of the main themes and findings of UNU-WIDER’s research during 2009-18 — finance, food and climate change; and transformation, inclusion and sustainability. The event aimed to mobilize evidence and action around the 2030 SDG agenda and its goals. More about UNU-WIDER: http://www.wider.unu.edu More about the conference: http://www.wider.unu.edu/event/think-development-think-wider Music CC BY 3.0: Kevin MacLeod - At The Shore

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Today I'll be talking about bride price and the well-being of women. This is joint work with Nathan Nunn at Harvard University So in this book chapter that you've heard a lot about this book so far What we do is study a particular cultural practice. So the payment of bride price So this is defined as a transfer of money or goods from the groom or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage Often the amounts of the bride price paid are quite large So you should think in excess of a year's income and it's widespread throughout a lot of the world but in particular in sub-Saharan Africa and Today I'll be focusing on the Democratic Republic of Congo Just a brief sort of bit of information on bride price So it's often associated with the practice of patrilineal kinship when you trace lineage and inheritance through male members In particular when you practice patrilocal marriage Which means basically that upon marriage women leave their household and move to their husband's household And the idea then is that the bride price is meant to compensate her family for the loss of labor that she would otherwise be supplying And at least in the setting where I work in without the payment of bride price Marriages are often not considered legitimate. So you are considered married upon this transfer of money and goods For those of you who are interested in finding out how much your bride price might be there's a lot of them online bride price calculators which I've done one thing that I was alarmed to see is that You'll notice that usually you get more education than your bride price will be higher I'm in trouble because I pay a penalty for having a PhD. So I guess that means I'm a good deal now I don't know but Just for fun if you're interested in checking it out This is a photo from a bride price ceremony that I attended in Congo for one of my colleagues So basically he's here. He's looking very sullen, but I promise it was actually a very like fun event And what was happening at the time was basically his parents and extended family were meeting with representatives of her family and Negotiating the bride price. I think in actuality This had already all been discussed, but it's part of sort of the the ritual and then in the end It was a big like party. So just to give you a sense of how this is practiced So why study bride price wise is something we're interested in well There's been some growing criticism of the practice So I think Oftentimes when I talk about bride price particularly in the United States for example people focus on the transactional nature of it So the idea is that you're exchanging money for women and that that's somehow going to be bad and then sort of There's evidence at least From focus group interviews that maybe husbands feel they can mistreat their wives if they have paid for them So this is from interviews in Uganda Others argue that bride price may actually trap women into marriages because sometimes you have to repay the bride price if you Want to leave a spouse that's mistreating you So as a result then Ugandan courts have outlawed these repayment upon divorce practice and then there's some work in economics that suggests that Bride price payments may actually incentivize early marriage of your daughter So if your household faces a negative income shock then you may have your daughter get married earlier Then you might have otherwise so that you can receive the bride price payment So see there's some of the examples of why there's been some skepticism around the role of this particular practice however To date there's actually not a lot of systematic evidence on the relationship between bride price amounts and Various outcomes so there's anecdotal evidence, but there's really not a lot of data That has been analyzed and so at least for Anthropologists who describe this practice. It's really not about a transaction It's about a signal from the groom's family to the bride's family that you value your wife or your future wife And that you're thanking her family for all the investments they've made in her And then it's also just how people understand the concept of marriage at least in the place I'm working is that this is a really important part of it So without this transfer you're not married in fact So my my co-author is married and so the first question we get in focus groups is like how much bride price Did he pay for his wife and they're shocked and appalled to learn that he has not paid so All right, so what do we do in this study? We're going to use data from couples in the Democratic Republic of Congo The sample size is much less impressive than in the last presentation, but you know work with what you've got and What we'll do is just look at a bunch of simple correlations between The amount of bride price paid and then these various outcomes that we might care about so for example age of marriage number of children whether or not men and women accept domestic violence Various indicators of the quality of marriage and then one that I like in particular is just how happy are you and in general And so this is just a pretty simple exercise looking at the correlation between bride price amount and then these outcomes So historically in Congo, there's actually quite a lot of variation in the type of Payments made upon marriage So One thing to note then is that customs have changed over time. So I work in this region over here and Historically a lot of people didn't pay bride price. There was actually either Like forms of dowry, but then what happens is there's been a convergence to this payment of bride price but the size of the bride price varies as does the transfer direction so whether it's from the wife's family or to the husband's family Presently it will all be to the wife's family, but And just the work we've done suggests that it's still very important practice So one quote I like is bride price is important for African women, but for Congolese in particular It expresses the love a husband has for his wife. The bride price symbolizes a reward and an honor That's from a Congolese woman One man says the bride price is how a man honors his wife But then he also notes that it's a guarantee that prevents the woman's family from taking her back when there's a dispute So this sort of reflects some of the tensions that might be present in this practice So the data was collected in Kananga Which is in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo the capital of Kasai central province There's many different ethnic groups represented in the city This is part of a broader project looking at how structure of kinship systems so matrilineal relative to patrilineal kinship systems effects spousal cooperation But as part of that project I collected data on these bride price amounts This is to give you a sense of where individuals in the sample are from so the red dot is where I worked But people come from all over sort of the surrounding areas So you're getting quite a lot of variation and I think background and cultural practice These are the summary statistics from the sample. So a couple things to note is that Age at marriage varies in the sense that men tend to get married older Which kind of makes sense because they actually have to save money in order to pay this bride price and My sample is relatively highly educated and this is again probably a product of the fact that I'm in an urban environment And so in order to measure The amount of the bride price paid men and women were asked at the time of marriage What was the total value of cash and goods that were transferred from the wife's family to the groom's family? It's actually quite difficult to get a very precise estimate of the value of the goods because It's paid partially in cash sometimes in animals such as goats food household goods clothing and So just given that it was difficult to get precise estimates we would have people choose between various sort of categories So this gives you a sense of the distribution of how much money was paid For bride price so of the modal amount is between 250 and 500 US dollars And So the first exercise that we do in the paper is try to understand What determines the amount of money paid and the bride price? So the basic idea being are there particular characteristics of the woman that predict how much the bride price will be? and again, these are all just correlations so The most robust predictor of the amount of money paid is the years of education of the woman So women with more years of education on average are going to be receiving higher bride price amounts Are their family receives higher bride price amounts? And this is consistent with this idea of rewarding investment in the wife And there's no significant differences across rural individuals from rural areas are from the city I work in Nor was there evidence within the data inflation over time though. We were also working with these pretty blunt categories and so We don't need to spend too much time on this But here's the sort of regression that we'll be estimating for the following tables basically looking at the relationship between the amount of bride price paid and the outcomes I described earlier controlling for a set of wife-level characteristics husband-level characteristics and then couple-level characteristics like when they were married and where they were married And so the caveat here is that this is going to be correlations We don't have any sort of random variation and the amount of bride price paid so It may be that the bride price amount is capturing some other effects that we're not measuring here So it could just be that higher quality husbands for example can pay higher bride prices or women who have more supportive families more aggressively negotiate a higher bride price and then we're capturing those effects, but we can't really speak to that here So the first outcome we look at given concerns about this Incentability that it incentivizes early marriage of daughters is just agent marriage So what's the effect of the bride price amount on the age of marriage? And we we find no sort of evidence that there's a correlation between the bride price amount and age of marriage We then look at fertility so the number of children you have Again Partially because you might be getting married earlier you may also then be having more children and again We don't really find any Robust evidence of there being a strong correlation between the bride price amount and number of children I think Also quite interesting is we ask a series of questions on Domestic violence, so these are the same questions that are asked in the demographic and health surveys data On whether or not violence is justified in a variety of situations So this includes whether or not your wife goes out without the husband's permission whether she neglects the children argues with the husband refuses sex or burns the food and People ask whether or not they agree or disagree that domestic violence would be appropriate in these various situations And then we construct an index with these responses And what I think is particularly interesting is that at least for women whose husbands paid higher bride price They're much less likely to believe that domestic violence is acceptable The same doesn't hold for men So there's no real relationship between the bride price amount and men's views on domestic violence But there's some suggestion that women whose husbands paid more money are also holding views that are more consistent with having less domestic violence We also try to measure marriage quality if anyone knows how to actually measure that let me know but We ask respondents how often they engage in a variety of activities with their spouse such as laughing together discussing feelings, I guess if that was required of all partners maybe there'd be fewer divorces, but People answer from never to more than once a day and again We construct an index on how often you engage in these activities that we probably consider to be positive I personally enjoy receiving gifts. So And what we find is that higher bride price amounts are actually correlated with Participating more frequently in these different activities that we might think of as positive or signals of a higher quality of relationship But again, this isn't a causal estimate. These are just correlations and this may be capturing other sort of things that are happening in the background And then we also ask respondents how happy they are So between very happy or very unhappy and very happy Sadly sort of on average people in my sample aren't very happy But women whose husbands paid higher bride prices are happier So if we sort of take this happiness measure as capturing anything meaningful then something and These women's marriages or in their lives is on average better to them Um, finally the last sort of question that we ask in the paper is What are the effects of having to pay the bride price back if the marriage dissolves so often if They've had children then this repayment of bride price isn't required but Sometimes it still is and then certain percentage of it has to be repaid And so there's this argument that this repayment may trap women in marriages that they don't want to be in And so what we do and I won't present the table here is just look at What is the effect of having to repay on women's self-reported happiness? And how does that vary based on the size of the bride price that their husband paid and what we do find is that in general There's no effect of having to repay except for women whose husbands paid very high bride prices Then there seems to be a negative effect on women's self-reported happiness Suggesting that for these very extreme values of bride price payments. It may have an effect on Women's happiness in the marriage So Quickly summarize we find that bride price amount is correlated with the wives education level less acceptance of domestic violence for women higher quality marriage across a variety of different indicators and Greater happiness for women We don't find any evidence that the bride price is associated with earlier marriage or higher fertility But again, this is just correlations in this particular area of Congo One one interesting paper to note is there's Some causal evidence on what happens when you roll out expansion to schooling so you make schooling more available And I'll show off at all find basically that in areas where families practice bride price you get a greater response From those families and sending their girls children to school Then you do in places that don't practice bride price suggesting that it may actually really work as an incentive for sending children to school So in summary Just wanted in this chapter to give an overview of some of these basic correlations between bride price and and a variety of outcomes We might care about if we're interested in the well-being of women Certainly, there's quite a lot of work to be done to more rigorously understand what the effects of bride price are and Sort of this work is part of a broader agenda trying to understand how variation in cultural practices such as kinship system bride price age sets Matter for economic development

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What Does the Wind Do?

You can help a child learn about wind by telling them about weather and asking questions when you are outside. Teach for Life is a global movement of people sharing knowledge to better educate our children and create hope for the world. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeachforLifeICT/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/teachforlife_ Instagram: https://instagram.com/_teach4life_ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/teachforlifeICT/

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When you are outside on a windy day, you can help a child learn about the wind. You can talk about how we can't see the wind, but we can feel it and see what it does. Then you can ask, what do you see the wind moving? The child can find things like grass moving, a kite flying, or leaves blowing. Doing this helps the child learn about wind. An important part of the weather and how it affects things around them.

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'The Relationship Between the European Court of Human Rights and National Constitutional Courts?'

On Friday 15th February 2013, Judge Jean-Paul Costa, former President of the European Court of Human Rights, delivered the 2013 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "The Relationship Between the European Court of Human Rights and National Constitutional Courts?". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir_david_williams_lectures/

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Sir David Williams lecture for this year. These lectures were started in 2001 to celebrate the legal scholarship and the legal life of Sir David Williams. Sir David was a very eminent public lawyer who specialised in the control of public power. But he was one of the main founders of modern administrative law in the universities, particularly in Cambridge. He was also passionate about fundamental rights and appropriate behaviour in public administration. His energy in helping to launch administrative law in this university is being recognised by the faculty of law, which is now trying to raise funds for a Sir David Williams professorship of public law. From being the Rouseball Professor and President of Wolfson College, Sir David moved to be the first full-time vice-chancellor of this university. He led the university through quite difficult periods of various well. In his retirement he was energetic in raising funds for the university, for law and for the Squire Law Library. And he was also very energetic in his presence in the faculty supporting younger scholars. We're very glad to have today present here Lady Sally Williams and members of the family. And we're also glad to have Mr Michael Russ through whose generosity this lecture is funded and who helped to work with Sir David Williams. And we're also grateful to the other co-funder, Sir John Nolan, who unfortunately can't be with us this evening. It's my pleasure to welcome Judge Jean-Paul Coster to deliver this year's Sir David Williams lecture. He was judge of the European Court of Human Rights for 13 years and its president from January 2007 until November 2011 when he retired. As you will guess from his name, his family is by origin from Italy from Genoa. His father was a French civil servant working in Tunis where Jean-Paul Coster was born. And Judge Coster has had a very distinguished educational career, first at the lycée Henri IV before moving to the Faculty of Law at the University of Paris, then on to Sciences Po and then on to the École Nationale de l'Administration, which is, as the French would say, a parcours parfait. On leaving Ena, he chose the concedeta inspired in part by leading human rights lawyer Jean-Reverau and worked closely with Guy Breban. And it was his work with Guy Breban in the research section of the concedeta that first brought me into contact with him in 1985. He gave what he thought was a very simple task. Write a few pages on public property in English law. I learnt the lesson that comparative law can be difficult. For a start, there's no such branch of English law as public property law. And it's rather difficult to explain to a rational Frenchman used to precise legal concepts. Such arcane mysteries of English law as crown lands, defence property and local government. But the good humour and tolerance of a national lawyer trying to explain his system to that rational Frenchman demonstrated the qualities he needed for being a judge at Strasbourg. Where lawyers need to explain the national law before the judge can begin to assess how human rights apply. His ability to move effortlessly from the concedeta to Strasbourg was shown by the fact that he was elected to the highest office by his peer judges. We're fortunate that he's come today to talk about the relationship between national constitutional courts and the European Court of Human Rights. Because he's eminently placed to reflect on that process. And it's a highly topical topic for at the moment following the Brighton Declaration. He has entitled his recent book, The European Court of Human Rights, Judges for Freedom. A value which Sir David Williams would have very much appreciated. It's with great pleasure that I invite Jean-Paul Costa to deliver this year's Sir David Williams lecture. Thank you very much. I feel extremely honoured to have been invited to deliver this Sir David Williams lecture. Dear Lady Sally Williams, dear members of Williams family, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends. If I am honoured is due to many reasons. First, it's an honour to pay a thorough tribute to the memory of this prestigious lawyer and to his personality. I met David Williams only once in the context of the European group of public law, of which he had been one of the first members at the end of the 80s. And my friend Professor Spiros Fogatis, with the real funder, can testify that I say the truth. The group eventually gave him a load as you in 2004, thus acknowledging the man's eminent qualities as a lawyer, as a professor, especially for English administrative law, as an administrator too. He still is very well known, even on the continent and elsewhere in the world. Secondly, the people who in the past gave the Sir David Williams lectures are so famous that I feel shy being added to their list, which I won't enumerate. The last and not least reason is that for the first time I have an opportunity to be in Cambridge and to address here a very learned audience. I must confess that until today I have never been in this marvellous city and university. It's never too late, I believe. And I'm very grateful to David Feldman and John Bell, thanks to whom I have now here in this prestigious Faculty of Flow. As we got John Bell, he reminded me the good times, the good old times of the 80s. And when I heard you speaking about French or English properties, domain public, it reminded me also a recent case of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. I was presiding, it's a GAPI Oxford versus United Kingdom, and I must admit that to me adverse possession is still a little mysterious. The main subject of my lecture will be the relations between the European Court of Human Rights, which I will call the Court, and the National Supreme and or Constitutional Court. I admit that having, during 13 years, a judge of the Strasbourg Court, and the last five years it's president, I pretend to well know the matter. It's not at all an easy issue. One can imagine that such relationship is complex and not always harmonious. I suspect my lecture will make those aspects even more obvious. Before addressing my main topic, I would like to make a few preliminary remarks. To begin with, the European Court of Human Rights, the Court, is no longer a young court, far from that, as you all know the European Convention on Human Rights created it in 1950, and the Court started its operations in 1959. Its first judgement dates back to 1960, more than half a century ago. My purpose is evidently not to tell you the history even summarised of the growth and development of the court, not even to emphasise its outstanding achievements since that far off period. You generally know that. What is probably more interesting is to describe the current problems the Strasbourg Court is facing and will go on being confronted with in the next future. One of them, very well known, is a quantitative problem. I mean by that the unbelievable amount of new applications registered each year and consequently of pending cases which are in the registry's docket. Without entering into much detail, I simply see that for the very first time since the creation of the European system, during the year 2012, much fewer new applications have been registered than the number of cases disposed of by the court. The figure of pending cases at the end of 2012 is very significantly lower than the number at the end of 2011. It had reached the huge figure of 150,000 pending applications. It has been reduced within a year to 128,000, still a huge number, but clearly significantly decreasing. These spectacular results, the first inversion in the long-term trend, is mainly the result of the entry into force of protocol 14 to the Convention, especially due to the newly operating single judge procedure. It is also a consequence of the improvement in the organization and management of the institution, testified by a recent audit made at the request of the committee of ministers of the Council of Europe, without forgetting the help of several member states that have put many lawyers at the disposal of the registry. As regards protocol 14, I cannot hide my satisfaction since when I was presiding the court, I fought during more than three years in order to convince the Russian Federation, the country which was blocking the process, to ratify protocol 14, what they finally did on the very day of the opening of the Interlaken Conference, which I had strongly recommended the member states of the Council of Europe to convene, and Switzerland to organize what they did very well. Interlaken, I must confess, is my brainchild, and it is likely that together with other steps taken during my presidency, it has speeded up Russia's ratification of protocol 14, even if more than three years have been lost. Nevertheless, this new tendency does not at all mean that the quantitative problems encountered by the court are overcome, though the situation starts to improve. First, it will take a long time without new measures going beyond the protocol 14 provisions, before the overall number of still pending applications be reduced down to a satisfactory level. Secondly, if probably the number of inadmissible petitions, and even of repetitive, well-founded applications will go on decreasing in the next years, the same cannot say for the time being about not repetitive, well-founded cases, which often disclose serious violations of human rights. The court mainly aims at correcting and compensating serious violations, and at doing so within a reasonable delay, failing which it would miss its objective and lack credibility. Another issue that the court has to deal with is more qualitative. It consists of the lot of criticism against its rulings, which are raising, and which are sometimes contradictory. While some non-governmental organisations or members of the bar and civil society blame the court for being too shy and not going far enough in protecting and developing rights and liberties, several states, including UK, of course, strongly criticise it because of its so-called bold approach in the interpretation of the Convention and its protocols. They contain that threshold is or is becoming judicially activist with a far-stretching case law. You all know that after Interlaken in 2010, two other ministerial conferences were set up, one in Ismir in 2011, another one in Brighton last year, and that the tune has been less in favour of the court. The Brighton declaration has insisted on the introduction in the Convention or its preamble through a protocol number 15 of the subsidiarity principle and the margin of appreciation. The meaning of the message is clear to oblige the court to an increased self-restraint in its scrutiny, especially when delicate human rights issues arise or when the national parliaments are involved. I must not remind you of the very strong controversy about detainees' rights to vote and the conflict which remains not solved at least as far as Britain is concerned. Admittedly criticism of the court judgments and challenges of its very legitimacy is no new. In more than 50 years, the Strasbourg system has born many attacks coming from various parts. Currently, the attacks come mainly from countries like Russia, Ukraine or Turkey, where the human rights records are clearly poor, but also sometimes from old democracies and Britain is not the only one even if this country is a leader. One of the elements that I will try to elucidate in a few moments is precisely whether the relations with national, supreme and constitutional courts may help or to the contrary harm the court. A last preliminary remark is that the relationship between Strasbourg and Luxembourg must not be overlooked while the European Court of Justice is obviously not a national tribunal. Its role in Europe is crucial, including in the field of fundamental rights. The Morso since 2009 when the European Charter of Fundamental Rights with and through the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has acquired legal binding force. Now, if I have to classify the possible approaches to my subject, it seems to me that there are basically three rational Frenchmen. The theoretical approach, the formal or legal approach and the informal relations point of view. The theoretical aspect of the relationship between the court and the national, supreme and constitutional courts is complex. Even if the Convention is an international multilateral binding treaty which imposes on the states currently 47 strong duties and obligations, this implies no clear answer to or guidance about the crucial question of the relations between the judicial systems, European and national. It is true that under Article 46 of the Convention, the states in practice a defending state, more precisely when the court has held the state responsible for having breached the Convention, are obliged to abide by the final judgments in any case which there are parties. The consequences of a judgment finding a violation may be very various. However, as there exists the international public law principle of the state's unity, if a judgment given by the court finds that a Convention provision has been violated, the obligation to execute the court's judgment involves the necessity for the relevant national courts to modify its own interpretation and application of the Convention provision at stake if necessary. At least this is true for the future. The court has absolutely no power, neither under international law nor under the Convention itself, to quash or modify the judgment of a national tribunal which is restudicata. In its caseload, the court frequently says that it's not a forced instance tribunal which goes beyond the impossibility of quashing a judgment and includes establishment of facts and the assessment of evidence left to the national courts. Even in the hypothesis where the national legislation provides more frequently in criminal matters for the reopening of a trial as a consequence of the finding by Strasbourg of a violation, the reopening not necessarily leads to the overthrow of the previous national judgment. A very recent example can be given of such reopening. A judgment of the court decided at the end of 2012 that a criminal trial, in a case of homicide, had been unfair and contrary to Article 6. As a consequence, the criminal chamber of the French Court of Cascition decided to quash the judgment and the accused person was released on bail but he will have to face a new trial. But for the future, certainly the national judiciary, the supreme and constitutional courts included, are under the obligation to modify their caseload for the correct implementation of the court's judgment. There arises a delicate problem. What happens if the national legislation is contrary to the Strasbourg judgment? Let's suppose that a supreme court has ruled to the effect that a piece of legislation is compatible with the convention and the court has decided on the contrary. Is it up to the national court to immediately adopt the interpretation given in Strasbourg or should it wait for a change in domestic legislation? The answer is not a yes or no but more it depends. Because there are different legal patterns of relations between the convention and national legislation, in many legal systems like in Germany, for instance, or Italy, the convention is considered as being at the same level as the act of parliament. In other countries such as France, the convention being an international treaty is hierarchically superior to the legislation but inferior to the constitution. In Austria, the convention and the constitution are placed at the same level, while in the Netherlands the convention is even higher than the national constitution. Of course I will not describe the system which has existed in this country since the incorporation into national law of the convention provisions by the Human Rights Act. You know it much better than I do. The system is very similar in Ireland. Such theoretical differences have practical consequences. To give you a concrete example regarding my own country, France, in a case dealing with discrimination, France was found in violation of Article 14 of the convention in combination with Article 1 of Protocol 1 property rights, because the applicant, an adulterine child, had been discriminated against as regard his inheritance rights. Compared with a legitimate child. Such discrimination was enforced under an article of the Code Civil, drafted at the time of Napoleon, and in the domestic procedure the Court of Cascation had ruled that said provision was not contrary to the European Convention. A few weeks after the Court's judgment, a person in the same situation as the applicant brought an analogous case before a first instance tribunal, which correctly, according to me, put aside that article of the Code Civil and gave satisfaction to this person with the reasonings that the convention prevails over the civil code and that the interpretation of the European Court was decisive. It is only a year after that the Parliament abrogated the article concerned. In other words, the first instance court, instead of waiting for the Lysi Staters' intervention, had applied the constitution under which the convention is superior, as I said, to the ordinary laws. This is possible in the French constitutional system, not necessarily everywhere. Another example shows the diversity of the theoretical relations between Strasbourg and the national courts. In Turkey, there were state security courts established by the constitution in order to adjudicate cases of people charged with terrorist acts in a broad sense. They were composed of two civilian judges and a military judge. The Court decided that such composition was contrary to the principles of traditional independence and impartiality and in violation of Article 6 Paragraph 1 of the convention. To enforce the judgment further confirmed by many others, the defending state had to modify not only its legislation, but also the Turkish constitution itself, and this was done. A third example, again in a French case, may give you the impression that the logical consequences of a theoretical model are sometimes going far. A bill had been passed in Parliament in France, including retrospective provisions, to the effect to validate decisions regarding social security in the framework of a judicial conflict between employees of social security offices and those agencies. The French constitutional court, the Conseil Constitutional, before which the bill had been challenged, decided that the retrospective provisions were in conformity with the constitution. The applicants came to Strasbourg. In a grand chamber judgment, the court clearly said that even if the Conseil Constitutional had decided that the bill was constitutional, that was not sufficient to establish that it was in conformity with the convention. And the court held that Article 6 Paragraph 1 had been violated for breach of the principle of equality of arms and of the fair trial. Implicitly, by necessarily, this judgment means that the convention is superior, which is correct under international law, but not under French constitutional law. Fortunately, the Conseil Constitutional did apply afterwards the same approach about retrospective legislation, avoiding an open conflict between both jurisdictions. Now, at practical levels, the relations between the court and the domestic courts are in a simple sense. As I said, there is a clear obligation for any state, which stands from the convention, which is to execute a judgment in a case to which the state is a party. That duty has to be combined with the right to an effective remedy, Article 13 of the convention, and with the necessity to exhaust domestic remedies, Article 35, the transcription or transposition of the subsidiarity principle. This key provision is a sign equivalent condition for an application to be admissible. The result of those combined provisions is that, in most cases at least, the last domestic remedy consists of a final judgment of a supreme or constitutional court. Of course, if no effective remedy exists, the application is admissible and Article 13 of the convention is found violated by the state. But whenever that is the case, the civil court is more or less obliged on the merit of the case to check whether the domestic courts have correctly or wrongly interpreted the convention and applied it. If the judges in Strasbourg agree with the legal findings of the national court, the solution will be the rejection of the application. If they disagree, the logical solution will be to hold that the convention has been breached on the merits of the case. Any other solution would be paradoxical. It would mean that either the application would be inadmissible for lack of exhaustion of the national remedies or admissible on search grants, but then ill-funded if there were a systematic agreement between the court and the national last resort tribunal. Here come into play two important elements of the judicial review or European control exerted by Strasbourg, the proportionality principle and the doctrine of margin of appreciation. Many rights guaranteed by the convention and its protocols are not unlimited rights, obviously not prohibition of torture or slavery, for example, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, but many other rights. The wording of the relevant provisions shows that even when interference with the exercise of search rights is foreseen by law and pursues a legitimate aim, it is contrary to the convention if the interference is not necessary in a democratic society, which means proportionate to the aim pursue. Any assessment of this proportionality or disproportion leaves room for a subjective and qualitative evaluation of what the national courts have decided on the basis of the reasoning of their judgments. Again, it's not a simple matter of yes or no, like for the other conditions, the foreseeability of the law or the legitimacy of the aim. It calls for more subtle assessment. And this is widely increased by the application of the doctrine of the national margin of appreciation, which it must be noted is a purely judgment legal notion absent from the text of the convention. Anyhow, in the court's case law, the use of the margin of appreciation enables the court to restrain its control and to find in many hypotheses that the domestic court solution, not finding a violation, can be followed, especially when one talks about proportionality assessment. The margin of appreciation, which is based on the respect to be paid to national traditions, legal, cultural, religious, political and so forth, is broader or narrower depending on the matters. It may be compared to a safety valve in terms of extension or reduction of the court's scrutiny. It is also a factor that makes the relations with domestic courts easier and smoother. Indeed, the recourse to that notion has the evident effect of reducing the number of cases where the court in Strasbourg disagrees with domestic jurisdictions, usually the supreme and constitutional courts. Those who would like the court being more judicially activists frequently criticise the recourse to the margin of appreciation. But those who find the notion too flexible and vague, opening the jurisprudence to the risk of inconsistency for a case to another in a system based on the right to individual petitions, also often blame this recourse. It is certainly a domain of delicate relations of the court's judicial policy. I would like now turning to another point. What are the consequences of the divergencies when they happen between domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights? First of all, my experience makes me consider that there are not so many cases of flagrant divergencies. Or more precisely, the divergencies consist more often than not in a difference in the assessment of facts, not of real legal conflicts. Let's take the example of freedom of expression, a right clearly not unlimited, despite the strong protection offered by the Convention, Article 10, and by the court's case law. Many times, the facts that an applicant loses his or her case in the domestic trial, eventually wins it before the court, depends on a different evaluation of the proportionality of the interference, which itself depends on the different weight given by the national courts and the court to the interests in prisons. This is especially clear in the numerous cases of defamation dealt with in Strasbourg. Under paragraph 2 of article 10, one of the legitimate aims that authorize the limitation of freedom of speech is the protection of the reputation of rights of the authors. In all cases of liable or defamation, there is a balancing exercise between the principle of freedom of expression and the exception represented by the rights of the person subject to defamation. When the court finds for the applicant, contrary to the domestic courts, the conflict is more factual than really legal and usually does not raise serious objections on the part of the domestic courts, even if unsatisfied about the outcome of the case. An example can be given of a newspaper condemned to pay damages to a plastic surgeon for having reported testimonies of women complaining about the results of surgical interventions. Unlike the Supreme Court of Norway, the court found a violation of article 10 to the detriment of the newspaper. More serious is the divergence when it matters with the question of principle. In a famous case of a princess and her family having been photographed in their private activities, the court decided that the right of anyone on his or her image had to be protected under article 8, which guarantees a right to respect for private and family life. And that there had been a violation of article 8 in the material case, the famous case of Caroline von Hannover against Germany, Caroline of Monaco. The federal constitutional court of Germany had to the contrary ruled that the princess was a contemporary public figure and therefore was deprived of the protection under article 8, which could not in the circumstances prevail over freedom of quest. There is a conflict consisted of a question of legality and of principle. By not being convinced and not upholding the theory of the contemporary public figure, the Salzburg Court provoked a strong reaction from the federal constitutional court as well as from the German press and media. But I will return to this example afterwards. Another example shows a variety of possible situations. There was a provision in the French legislation about the press, according to which insulting a foreign head of state constituted a criminal offense. Upon that basis, a newspaper had been convicted and sentenced for an article about the king of Morocco. The criminal chamber of the Court of Cassation, one of the supreme French courts, had appealed that simply applying the legislation had appealed this interference simply applying the legislation. The Court found a violation of article 10. Subsequently, an act of parliament abrogated the legislation in order to comply with the court's judgment. In such hypothesis, a conflict was more about the legislation compared with a convention and it's difficult to introduce the national margin of appreciation in this case because it's difficult to understand that this kind of crime or offense could be compatible with a convention in France and maybe incompatible in Italy or Spain. Admittedly, the Court of Cassation could have itself ruled that the law was not compatible with the convention with article 10. But probably it preferred to leave the matter for Strasbourg to decide. Anyhow, there was apparently no negative reaction on the part of the Court of Cassation after the ruling of Strasbourg. Actually, in another case, the Court of Cassation themed even more than happy with the Strasbourg judgment which has decided that an article of the expropriation code was incompatible with article 6, paragraph 1 of the convention as contrary to the principle of equality of arms. The Court of Cassation had indeed expressed in its yearly administrative report the opinion that the article was unfair in its effects but did not judicially decide that it had to be set aside due to the primacy of the convention. Rather, its case law had constantly applied the article. After the Strasbourg judgment, the government issued a regulation to the effect of changing the provision. It looks like the Court of Cassation had requested to the European Court to decide and eventually was, as I said, satisfied with the subsequent changes. Now, and it will be my second series of remarks but I will be shorter, what are the legal relations between a domestic court and the court in Strasbourg as a conflictual or rather consensual? Again, it depends. In some hypothesis, the consensus prevails either because domestic courts immediately change their jurisprudence in order to draw the consequences of a European judgment or because they even anticipate in new matters what the Strasbourg court would decide in or would be likely to decide in analogous cases. In other hypothesis, the conflict remains. The domestic court refuses to follow the solution adopted by the court and there is no obvious issue to the conflict. And finally, there are cases where the traditional dialogue between the national courts and the Strasbourg court results in a sort of compromise. I try to provide you with a few examples belonging to the three categories. As regards the immediate change in domestic court's case law, fortunately many examples can be found. For instance, the Austrian constitutional court, as soon as back in 1985, changed its jurisprudence after a Strasbourg judgment finding a violation of Article 6 and decided that the provision of the food court was incompatible with the convention and also contrary to the constitution. More recently, the French Consulate d'Etat, the administrative supreme court, in several occasions has modified its case law to follow Strasbourg. One example relates to its own functioning. The members of the Consulate d'Etat were participated to the examination of a draft text, legislative text, when taking part to the consultative function of the Consulate must withdraw from the education of a petition challenging the legality of the text. This is a direct and immediate consequence of a judgment delivered by the court. The Consulate d'Etat goes further when it anticipates a possible future judgment of the European Court and delivers a judgment interpreting and applying the convention and its protocols on its own, like in an important case of discrimination in the field of pensions. The discrimination was between French former members of the army and persons having served in the French army and having lost French nationality after the decolonisation, mainly in Africa. This attitude of the Consulate d'Etat is remarkable inasmuch as during years this body has long resisted the influence of the European Court. Still in France, the Court of Cassation, also reluctant in the past, is now clearly obedient, inverted commas, to the rulings made in Strasbourg. In 2011, the main panel of the Court of Cassation solemnly decided that whenever the Strasbourg Court has issued a judgment and settled the problem, even in a case against another country, it was Turkey, it is necessary to immediately draw the consequences of that judgment without waiting for the intervention of the legislator. The stance of the Court of Cassation was in relation to an important issue, namely the presence of a lawyer to assist a person in custody since the very beginning of the custody. In United Kingdom, most of the judgments made in Strasbourg, contrary to a judgment of a domestic court, are executed and give birth to changes in the domestic case law. For instance, in the cases of people revoked from the military forces on the grounds of their sexual orientation or sexualities, the leave to appeal had been refused to the applicants. After the judgment in Strasbourg finding for them, the domestic courts changed their case law in this kind of cases. It is true that the government had changed their policy. The same applies for the so-called martial courts cases. As regards the French Constitutional Court, it expressly referred to a judgment of the court in its October 2004 opinion about the conformity to the constitution of the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe, which was eventually rejected by referendum in France and in the Netherlands. In 2010, the Conseil went further than the Court in protecting the Convention of Rights. It decided that the provision of the Court of Procedure Penal was contrary to the French Constitution, whereas the Court decided that the same provision was compatible with Article 6 of the Convention. So it's a reverse situation compared with the problem of retrospective legislation. It must also be noticed that the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights try as far as possible to modify or adapt their respective case law in order to avoid conflicts. By example, the Luxembourg Court has changed its interpretation of home under Article 8 of the Convention, extended it to business premises in order to apply the Strasbourg interpretation. Reciprocly, Strasbourg follow Luxembourg, like in a case of discrimination between men and women in a matter of pensions. In the second category, there are persisting conflicts between the Strasbourg Court and the domestic courts. Probably the most fabulous example is against the case of the rights to vote of the detainees. The story is well known. In Earth versus UK in 2005, the Court decided that a blanket disenfranchisement of the prison population was exceeding the national margin of application and was incompatible with Article 3 of Article 1, which guarantees the right to vote. These judgments was actually never enforced. In 2011, in a pilot judgment, Greens, the Court confirmed worst. And finally, in a case versus Italy, the Court paradoxically further confirmed its case law, even if finding no violation of Article 1 Article 3, the ban against the applicant was not disproportionate. In particular, due to the seriousness of the crime and the severity of the penalty. Now, the board is still on the British side. The Committee of Ministers after Greens and Scopolards, its Italian case, has given 18 months to the British authorities for enforcing Earth. But it's clear that the resistance is mainly coming from the government and parliament, even if in the case of Earth, the judiciary did not give satisfaction to the applicant. A less example is the Swiss case of Nolinger and Schuch in a sensitive case of international abduction of a child within the context of the AIDS Convention. The Swiss Federal Court had ordered a Swiss mother, what abducted her son from Israel, fearing some dangers if he stayed there with his father to return the child. A chamber of the Court in Salzburg held that there was no violation of Article 8 stemming from the order. As the request of the applicants, Mrs Nolinger and his son, the case was referred to the Green Chamber and the Green Chamber reversed the Chamber's judgment and concluded that Switzerland had breached Article 8. The Swiss Federal Court strongly reacted, arguing that the lapse of time had influenced the Green Chamber and given an unfair ruling. In a sense, this argument can be accepted, but the very possibility opened by the Convention of a re-hearing of an application by the Green Chamber would be deprived of effect if the first judgment in Salzburg should have to be always agreed. The third category of cases that I like to mention consists of a true judicial dialogue between national courts and the European Court. A good example is the British case of Alcawadra and Terry. It relates with deposition of witnesses and evidence by Hersey. In its chamber judgment, the Court found the violation of Article 6 in respect of the two applicants and established some principles about testimonies and evidence. Following that judgment, in a case called Horn Castle, the Supreme Court took into account the Strasbourg case law while calling for a review of its principles as firmly suggested by Lord Phillips in his opinion. Subsequently, the Green Chamber re-heard both cases as a request of the British government and reached the conclusion that there had been a violation as regards Mr Terry, but not in the case of Mr Alcawadra. This nuanced position is clearly taking into consideration and reflecting the Supreme Court's arguments and reaching a compromise between the Chamber's first reasoning and the Supreme Court's written position. Even in the controversial and already mentioned case of the right to one's image, a sort of compromise has been found. After a strong resistance, the German Federal Constitutional Court inflected its position. The Committee of Ministers in a 2007 resolution acknowledged that Germany had executed the first for an over case. A second for an over case was brought to Strasbourg in different circumstances, together with an Axel Springer case, and it has enabled the Court to express again a nuanced position. In the first case, the Court found the violation of Article 10, while in the second case, the application of Caroline from Anover was rejected and no violation of Article 10. It was found. Manifestly, the balance between freedom of speech and respect to private life has been shifted, in a sense, more favorable to the press. It seems that the judgments have been well received by the Court in Cowsham. Finally, a kind of more general compromise has appeared between the Conseil Constitutional and the Court for procedural and structural reasons. An amendment to the French Constitution has deeply changed and substantially increased the role of the Conseil, especially in the field of the protection of liberties. Since 1958, it has been an organ of control of the conformity to the constitution of the legislation. But now, instead of intervening merely between the vote of a bill by the Parliament and its promulgation and entry into force, the Conseil is entitled to decide whether any piece of legislation, even an old one, is constitutional and if not so to question. The new procedure called question prioritaire de constitutionale, preliminary question of constitutionality, has some similarities with the reference to the European Court of Justice for preliminary ruling and is triggered by a judgment of a French Court, which has doubts about the conformity of a law to the constitution. Indirectly, it is at the disposal of any citizen. The scope of this procedure is to check whether a legislative provision infringes the rights and liberties guaranteed by the constitution. Admittedly, such rights are not exactly the same as the rights guaranteed by the Convention on Human Rights, but they are very close and the result is that without being bound by the decision and judgments of the Strasbourg Court, the Conseil Constitutional inspired itself off the rulings of Strasbourg and there is progressive convergence between the Conseil and the Court. Finally, I would like to devote a little time to the informal relations between the European Court and domestic courts. By informal, I mean a relationship independent from the judicial activity and judicial decisions. These relations have developed relatively recently. Until 1998, when both the Court and the former European Commission of Human Rights, which disappeared with protocol 11, were not permanent and met 8 or 10 days a month, the links with other jurisdictions did exist, but they were rather rare. My predecessor as president, Lutsus Willaber, had the idea to strengthen such relations, especially but not exclusively, with the Supreme Court of the Eastern European Countries, recently entered into the Council of Europe and newly acquired to the principles of democracy and the rule of law. I personally decided when I became the Court's president to even intensify that relationship. When I paid official visits to the States, 37 or 38 in five years, my schedule was usually including at least a meeting with the Supreme or Constitutional Court of the country. From time to time, I went to special one-day working meetings with high domestic courts, or I hosted in Strasbourg the working visit of such a court. These contacts are not purely courtese meetings, and sometimes their atmosphere is frank, even controversial. In my recent book, I have given to those relations the name of judicial diplomacy. They are also called dialogue between judges or dialogue of judges. I must say that they are extremely useful and permit to overcome some misunderstandings and even to transform conflicts into compromises of the kind I already referred to. It is a part of my presidential activities, which not only I liked very much, but that I found worthwhile. Clearly, not all divergencies can be overcome when a national supreme or constitutional court is convinced that its own interpretation of the European Convention is well reasoned and funded. The European Court of Human Rights, I repeat, has no hierarchical power over domestic courts. Its authority derives from the Convention, especially from articles 1932 and 1946, which explains its role and affirms the binding force of its judgments. But such authority is more interpretative than anything else, and it is impossible for the court and even for the committee of ministers to really oblige a domestic court to change its case law as a consequence of a judgment made in Strasbourg. In fact, the judicial dialogue implies the necessity for both interlocutors to try and convince the other. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. But in the long run, periodical relations and meetings between national and international judges are useful, even fruitful and certainly indispensable. In a few cases, contacts exist with national courts out of Europe, such as with the Supreme Court of Canada, or more recently the United States Supreme Court. Admittedly, there are no direct influences, but more and more a network of courts is appearing in the world, especially in the field of fundamental rights. And beyond courtesy, it is very useful to get acquainted with extra European jurisdictions and their activity and decisions. When the first meeting with the US Supreme Court took place in March 2012, George Washington University organized a seminar with judges of Strasbourg, including myself, justices of the Supreme Court and academics and scholars. The general theme was freedom of speech, as it is protected under the American First Amendment and under the European Convention, and the debates were highly profitable to all, I think. I realize that I'm probably at the end of my presentation. Before ending this lecture, well, I wanted to say a few sentences, but this will be for questions and answers, maybe, for the specifically relationship between the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Before ending this lecture, I would like to conclude with a few words about the future of the court, which I had the honor to be a judge and the president. Are there more reasons for being optimistic or pessimistic? Speaking prudently, it seems to me that the worst has been avoided. That is clear in terms of number of new and pending applications, although we are just at the beginning of the improvement process. In terms of political image of the court and attacks against it, I also think that we have overcome the most difficult moments. Human rights are obviously less popular in times of economic and social crisis, of fight against terrorism, of increase in organized crime and traffic of all kinds. The consequences on the support to be given by the government and the public opinion to a body such as the European Court of Human Rights cannot, by any means, be neglected or underestimated. Nevertheless, a jurisdiction that has successfully protected rights and freedoms for more than 50 years, and whose influence and prestige spread beyond the borders of the continent, such a body should continue and cannot disappear. It is at least my profound conviction. I am very grateful for your attention.

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Maharishikaa | Why should I have children, in this horrible world?

'Should I have children?' - Against the idea of having children, Angeliki Karachaliou asks the Maharishikaa why she advises women to have children. A fascinating discourse with many questions being answered around this highly debated topic, as more and more women are choosing to not have children. Clarity emerges for Angeliki, as she is inspired to make the decision that's right for her. #Maharishikaa #Parenthood #TruthImpulse Aaryaa Maharishikaa Preeti Maiyaa, is a revolutionary female mystic who fearlessly dares to demystify spirituality in her unrelenting call to realize Self, and act from Source. Detailed biography: https://maharishikaa.org/biography/ If you would like to make a Dakshinaa offering directly to Maharishikaa: http://bit.ly/Dakshinaa If you wish to make a donation to charitable works inspired by Maharishikaa: http://bit.ly/Daanam Lives transformed by Maharishikaa: https://maharishikaa.org/voices/ Subscribe to our mailing list: https://bit.ly/MaharishikaaEmailList

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If she has had a child, the actual process of childbirth is perhaps the most powerful ego-breaking exercise she will experience in her life. Namaskar. My question is referring to relationships. Yes. I fully agree that we don't know how to love. Yet, we have relationships with other people. And I agree also that it's a good way to break down the ego when you're in a relationship. It's very easy. How about when we have children and ego is there? Most of the times that's the case anywhere in the world. And they have to suffer. I mean, they come, as you say, in our meditation, like pure beings, only so. And then everything is imposed. Let's say me, even to my partner or even worse to a child, out of ignorance, I make all these mistakes and then the child has to carry them out throughout the life, like I did, like all of us did. Then how to deal when someone wants to make a family and have children and it's still on the road. Like it does not know how to love because that's what children made, I think. Yes, love. That's it. But we are incapable of that. There's so much violence, so much in all kinds of violence and so much suffering from that. And it takes an entire life to get rid of that. I would like to hear what you want to share with us about this subject, especially children. Personally, I don't have children and it is a decision I made because I know, I'm incapable of giving this life what it needs, really what it needs, because I'm not there yet. I am not. That can be seen as a cop out in a way because when you have children, you also learn to love in the process of raising a child. Your statement that we don't know how to love, it's not true. We do know how to love. Many people know how to love. It is simply about keeping oneself in a state of loving from moment to moment to moment. The world isn't quite as horrible a place as it sounds sometimes. There is love in this world. When you see a mother feeding her child, even if it's for those few minutes in a day, or when she's just smiling at her child or the child is smiling at her or even fathers, there is love and love grows through the responsibility of looking after a child as well. I feel that the approach that one doesn't have children until one is perfect would mean that only, I guess, Jesus would be having children and then we would have a problem, I think. So the approach cannot be this self-believing, self-flagellation. You know what I mean? A spiritual journey is not about looking at what's wrong with oneself and what doesn't work. It's always and exclusively about the eye focusing on what is the truth of this being, the soul, the presence and how this is impulsing you to act. So it's a form of ego to say, I'm not good enough to have children. I mean, it's not just a form of ego. It's a nice, healthy, welfare ego that would say that. It is also in most cases, I mean, there are exceptions, but it's an escape from the responsibility of taking care of a life. We see that a lot now in Europe. The excuses they give themselves for it are actually all based on the same thing. I'm not ready. It's too complicated. It's not so simple. I don't feel I can give something. But if you don't feel you can give something and I'm not speaking about you now, this is a general statement. How are you supposed to learn how to give when you've decided not to give? And if we take children as an example, if a child cannot evoke the giving in you, then how is something else going to evoke that giving? You know what I mean? The child is also a part of the processes of the learning of the parents. It's not so simple, oh, I'm not going to put a child in this world now because then I'll make mistakes. But the mistakes you'll make if you don't put that child in the world are perhaps even bigger. A lot of the spiritual masters, these neo-advaithin spiritual masters, especially the Western ones, they tend to create an ecosystem around them with single people all bowing down to them and each one on their own little ego trip and refusing to make children because they want to dedicate to the sangha and to the master. This is not how spirituality works out in life. When a person is actually dedicated to a spiritual path and simply does not feel capable or able to have children, that is an exception. That is not considered to be something to support and encourage. And this is encouraged and supported because it supports the sangha. If people don't have families to deal with, they have time to invest in the sangha and bend down to the master and kiss her feet or his feet or God knows what other body parts. This is not what it's about. So the idea that you are not good enough is first ego at play. You are good enough. You are a source of love. It is simply the connect that has to be made and a child's presence will support that connect more than it won't, especially in the case of a seeker. I've seen that with students of mine who did not have children and I was very, very supportive that they have children. See some of those children and see how the parents have grown and evolved. Have any of you here seen one of the children or some of my students, anyone? What do you say about those kids? I mean, if they're not special kids? They're just unbelievable. They're very different and confident. Confident, defined, contoured, bright, present. So bright. So then how did they get the chance? How did they have that chance? So if you would have a child, that child has a better chance in this life than someone else on the street has a child who's not concerned with self-realization. You should see some of those children. They are just, I mean, they're very wild and that's how it's supposed to be. But the parents have grown tremendously because of the children. And the children have, they are, as she's saying, they're just really extra-ordinarily different. And why is that? Because the parents are conscious. They're taught to be conscious and not to spend their lives in a sort of bubble of delusion about spirituality. First step is to say, I'm good enough, I'm great, I'm wonderful and I know how to love. You have to say that even if you feel doubts about it. You are a source of love. The soul within you is the master of your being. That is the source of love to which you surrender and when you surrender to love, you are able to love in return. I've never said that you can't love or you're not able to. When I look at you to me, you look like a loving person so I don't know what you're talking about. I think I'm a very loving person, you are right. And because I took care of my brother and my father when my mother passed away for many years, I was like a mother. It was too big I think because I was 15 and I took care of them. But I'm sorry to insist. I've seen, in the Girivallam we've done, I've seen the kids of your students and they were amazing and smiling. And of course, my friends, kids also, they smile, da-da-da. Da-da-da, it's not da-da-da, it's actually, it's very, very hard to raise these kids so that they're always, you know, joyous. The thing is that most of my friends are divorced by now, their kids are suffering and even here I've spoken with women, they suffer from violence inside the house, their kids are violated by their father. You mean in the, my student? Not here, in the, in India, I mean, in India. I've now, I'm traveling and I talk with women. I must say most of them, when I hear I'm single, most of them, they say, ah, I get married. Some of them, that they are young, they say, never get married. It's a prison, it's horrible. Don't. I see suffering everywhere and the family that you described is maybe, for me, I think, beautiful, ideal. It's not what is happening in the world. If you look at the world around you and you're saying there's so much suffering, so there is, let's say, a lady out there who's not a spiritual seeker, who's making a child and there's you not making a child. You who's definitely far, far, far more sensitive and far more aware of that child than she is. So that's why the world is what it is because the spiritual seekers maybe should be making more children, don't you think? Okay, let me put it in another way. Since years I've been pushing people to have children who are seekers because of many reasons. One is, I've seen how they grow in their own self-realization processes when they are with children, when they're raising children. I've seen how children profit from parents like that. Those children are just different and not just students of mine. Even those who are not students of mine who have other gurus but have come and we've spoken about it and I've said, move, do it. It'll be all right. You'll be okay. Have faith in yourself, all of that, you know. And then they've taken the step and it's just, it's tough but it's also amazing how happy they are and how grateful they are that you pushed us to do this. Pushed, I don't push but I vigorously suggest, you know. If you are living in society and part of society and your contribution to society, especially as a spiritual seeker is to raise children because then you're raising more conscious children. Spiritual seekers, their contribution to this world is actually the children. And we can see that in our Sangha that it's a very floaty Sangha. There's no real contours to it but the children are really different. I mean, they just simply are. They are more aware of themselves. They're more conscious. They are more aware of the other because their parents are more aware. So are we supposed to now run this world with children like that or children like your child or that lady's child out there? That's the question. It is a matter of taking responsibility. The other thing is also that some people, rare individuals are not meant to have children. And as far as divorce and so is concerned, so amongst my students, the battle is always to keep them together till the child is at least 18. And it is difficult when two human beings have to live with each other. And it's a male and a female. It's not two males or two females. That would be easy. They have to, the ego has to adjust and break down and this and that and fight until they adjust to each other and they understand that it's for the children that they have to hold together and understand each other and so on. So to brush away the idea of having children as being something which you are not good enough for is actually, unless it's a very special circumstance where you really are not meant for it and you really get a clear answer from the source, not for you. Otherwise it's the ego telling you all of that, isn't it? Rhetorical question, hoping for an answer. Okay, my question in my head is still, okay, I agree. Why make children and not adapt so many that they're alone without parents? Is there a difference there? Somehow, at least in my continent, they wanna have their own. This for me sounds like ego, in a way. There are so many souls out there that they have no one. My friends so eagerly wanted around 30 something want, I wanna be a mother, I wanna be a mother. Just found someone and they did it and then they got divorced. So simple. None of them thought about adopting a child and not having their own. Is this ego? For a female, the material physical giving birth to a child in a natural childbirth is very directly connected with her spiritual awakening and I'll tell you precisely what I mean by that. When a female has not had a child, then there are another set of processes which apply to her but if she has had a child, the actual process of childbirth is perhaps the most powerful ego breaking exercise she will experience in her life. The actual childbirth when it breaks through is very similar in its impact on the system as it is for a man when his Kundalini pushes through and breaks open the skull. What is called the Kapala Bhedana which is actually an opening out into the, into the supreme consciousness or the opening of doors for merging with the man. If that happens up until the skull and doesn't pierce through completely, then it renders him very, very powerful because he has that entire energy within the system. For a female who has had that childbirth experience, it is such an ego breaking experience that she will suffer less in her life in other areas because the ego gets broken so badly over there in a natural childbirth. Because she's rendered that helpless that at one point she's basically ready to bend to anything and whatever is around as long as that pain would stop. So this is from a strictly spiritual point of view a pro reason for a female to have a child of her own. In the event of women who don't have that, they do have more challenges in breaking down the ego and surrendering. This is also surely very possible, no question about it. But that process of surrender is something which does not then have to be repeated because it does cause a permanent change in her perception of the world around her and in how she actually treats the other. Because in that moment of helplessness, it's just that extreme that she bends. For those who from an egoistic standpoint push through to have a child, it is because there is that impulse of course within that wants this system to experience those processes because they do, without a doubt, they do contribute to increased surrender in the system. For example, the patience required for breastfeeding. I mean most mothers by the time six months are over, they just want to scream every time. But the patience required to breastfeed, the patience required to even allow this body to do what it's doing is all ego-breaking exercises. So it works advantageously for a female to actually have the physical process of having a child. And if she has crossed an age where she cannot have children anymore, then she has to take up other processes to break down the ego because otherwise life will be painful. And women, for example, not just one or two but many, tell me why did you not force us to have a child? They've crossed 45 and 15 years ago I was pleading with them, find a man, bend down, surrender a little bit, it'll be fine at least. But it was like, no, no, no, no, no. And now they've crossed 45 and they are just blaming me because they feel that I have not somehow pushed them hard enough at that time. So we need to really consider if we are still in the age of childbearing, we need to rethink very, very strongly. The pain is pretty extreme afterwards. So then if one can have a child, it is all right to take that up. The question about they just find somebody, they have a child and then they get divorced. Even if they adopt a child, it'll be the same thing. So adopting or not adopting is an individual decision. The issue I think that you came here with was not so much about adopting but more about the importance at all of having a child under the circumstances that we are all in today. Isn't that more your question? It's almost. Because adopting, I mean, if you adopt a child, you still have to look after it, you still have to feed it, you still have to clothe it, you have to do everything and you still can divorce the father. And the trauma to the child is perhaps even more, we don't know. So I think that the issue here is more about the individual taking up the decision to take responsibility for another life, whether adopted or one's own. And that is the crucial discourse. Because increasing numbers of people are like, I don't know what I'm on my trip, I need to know myself. I can't raise a child if I don't know myself. And they just don't have children. And the thing is that a child also contributes to the breaking down of the ego of the parent. When you have a child, you're sitting nicely there at your laptop, it comes and pees on your laptop. And then you just have to wake up, you know. Yes, but at what cost for the child? If the parent is more coming to self-realization, and what about the child? If it is a person who is spiritually inclined, it is still better that the earth sees a child from that person than from the other person. It is also a social function. And isn't it better that you and she and she that you bring children to this world? You're sitting in a satsang. Why are you sitting in a satsang? Because you are sensitive enough and loving enough that you are ready to actually take the time to know yourself. Then isn't it better that you have a child than the one on the street who has no idea about anything. And that that child that has to take birth anyway takes birth in a home where the parents at least spent three and a half seconds a day thinking about something more than just which is the latest television they're going to buy. One has to look at that discourse relatively and seen from the point of view of the children. It is rather they take birth as her child than as a child of some strange woman who's basically just interested in getting her next refrigerator or a better car and doesn't care at all about the child. So seen from that point of view it makes more sense for a spiritual seeker to have children and more children than someone who isn't or even a religious person. You know how many people have come to satsangs and then have heard me say this and have actually taken that step and they've always come and said thank you so much for having said this because many spiritual teachers don't advise that even it's insanity for a spiritual master to advise their students not to have children unless they are really really really deeply deeply sure about it and are clearly on the path of service to Sangha without any call for procreation anywhere in their system any single cell of their body there are exceptions like that we have them here and there but not so many to give a child the chance to be mothered by you is something quite beautiful to do and sometimes it's not that important the father is like this he has to have this much money he has to be a doctor he has to have a swimming pool he has to be this we have always long lists of what we expect from the other person I'm not saying you but I'm saying in general and sometimes it's alright to bend that list a little bit and say well if it's somewhat someone kind of okay you know I'll also bend a little bit and there's no need to think of marriage and parenting for a whole lifetime think of just 18 years till the child is 18 and then after that you can see if you want to look here or there it's also okay you cannot be damned to a whole lifetime with one person it's taking the responsibility for the time that the child is not yet conceptually completed as an 18 year old after that and that too mainly the first child unless there's a big gap and then one flows with that story what happens after that what I've seen quite interesting is that those people who go into their relationship with the idea okay we'll stay together for 18 years and then we'll see about experimenting most of the time after that they don't want to experiment because they are free they have the freedom and when they have the freedom they don't want to run away because there's no prison you would be an amazing mother amazing the sheep has sailed already maybe so maybe there's a maybe there maybe it hasn't as far as I'm concerned I'm not willing to do a child without the father I would like someone to be like father yes but how will you find a father for your children if you're not open to it at all yes that's what I'm saying so that's why I say the sheep has sailed I think I have to say this because I don't want you to tell me in five years why didn't you tell me so you have not been open to a partner deep down inside because you know that if a partner turns up you would be wanting actually to have a child and you're not sure if you want that whole drama so you are not open to a partner in the first place it's not that the partner hasn't turned up that's why you're not having the child you are not open to it could be it is like that not could be that's why I'm sitting here because I can sense it and why not now you can maybe think about what I'm saying you can go and think because if you open up he will turn up and you don't open up to the partner you open up to the soul to the thing which is love within the being and you open up to that that which is meant to be with you will come it's no doubt about it but the readiness to take the responsibility for a child and to raise a child it is a very very tough challenge but it is your contribution to society because as a spiritual seeker and finder you are you're more equipped than anybody else to actually raise children let me see just be open don't be afraid so many people raise children in this world they all survive it let me see I'm not forcing you I'm just saying I don't want to take the karma of not having pushed hard with you it has nothing to do with you it's a personal responsibility to take up or not it has to do with me if I'm sitting here and you're sitting here as long as you're sitting here and I'm sitting here in this in this framework in this room it has everything to do with me so I have to say it and it is out of love that I say it I'm not pushing an agenda through it's love for you because I know that you would be an amazing mother and it would fulfill you which doesn't mean that it has to be that way any idea in your head that you might not be able to love the child and all is nonsense love is being in surrender mode I'm not trying to force you into anything but I'm trying to make it clear that if there is anything in your system which is resisting having a child that in your case for sure it's coming from the ego that much I have to tell you because that's why I'm sitting here not to be nice to you that there are other people one can go and listen but the fact is that the ego is something very very what's the English word for Haim Turkish anyone speaks German here German, no Haim Turkish English word is difficult but it's a very nice word for it means it's it's very sly the ego is very sly always convince us that what we think and we opinionate about that's the right way and this is the thing for me but it's not the thing for you if you quiet down and find out you'll find out it's not the thing unless there's a very very deep conviction born out of the impulse of truth because no you are not to have a child which I doubt very much will be the case in your case because there is that ability in you to give to love you know it's true and why refute it because you started out your question by saying I know that I'm not capable of loving that was what you said at the beginning of this talk you said I know we are not capable of loving that's what you said you said we but you were referring to yourself right but you are capable because there is fear that's why I said yes and I know that fear is ego but sometimes fear protects us from our faults indeed fear mainly protects on the physical level there is absolute material fear than we know there's something going on which we are not capable of actually sensing through the other senses but generally any kind of conceptual fear is emerging in ego when it's a conceptual fear when it's thought it's emerging in ego most of the time this is a very tough topic and a lot of women get very angry when I speak like this and I'm just saying that it is tough I will not budge on this position I will not

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This is a Witchspace news special update, I'm CMDR Buur, here we go. Frontiers community manager Will Flanagan dropped a huge bombshell in a forum post this afternoon which I've linked below, I urge you to read the full text of it but I'm going to go through the major bullet points now and then break down our feelings on it. Firstly they note that the September update introduced a huge amount of bugs into the game seriously affecting players enjoyment of the game and causing a lot of understandable frustration within the community, they then go on to apologise for that frustration. Will then states that as a result of the September update and the resulting response from the community they have reviewed their internal development process and have decided to refocus their development efforts from now and into 2020 to address recent and long standing bugs in the game including those from the issue tracker system that players use to report bugs. As a result of this refocus they are planning to roll out a series of patches to address the bugs every 3 to 4 months and importantly these will include a period of public beta testing before the patch rolls out, part of that schedule also includes dedicated time to address any major issues that appear from the beta testing. The first of these updates will have its public beta in December this year. Now here's the biggest bombshell of all, as a result of the revised schedule the release of fleet carriers is being pushed back to the second quarter of 2020. They also stated that whilst they understand there is a huge demand to know what the 2020 paid update actually contains, they don't want to talk about that content until they are sure it's at the right stage of development and not before carriers have been released. To that end they've stated that they will not be releasing details of the 2020 paid update until September next year at the earliest. So obviously there's going to be a huge amount of disappointment from this news, carriers were going to be here for Christmas, we're now looking at probably June next year. Here's our take from this, it's clear that some mistakes have been made at Frontier. In response the community barked at them, Frontier have then listened to those complaints admitted that they've made those mistakes and as a result have made a commitment to try and do better. The community barked saying it would like to see public beaters brought back, this is something we've also thought was sorely lacking from recent updates. Frontier have also heard that bark and they've brought back public beaters. The community barked, we want bugs fixed, Frontier have responded by saying okay we'll fix the bugs. The community have also been demanding a roadmap and wondering quite loudly ever since the 2020 update was announced. If we can't know details now then when will we know them? Frontier have heard those demands and we now at least have a roadmap telling us when we'll be told which is around July next year. Now the upshot of all this is that obviously Frontier are not magicians, they can't pull this stuff out of a magic bag and sadly that means the carrier delivery deadline is the cost. Obviously it's a massive disappointment, it really is a shame that FDF didn't see this coming a bit sooner when they could have set some more realistic expectations, however it has happened, they've listened and reacted. We do however really hope this is a watershed moment for the development of the game that we, all Frontier included, love so dearly. I'm personally really glad that Frontier have made a commitment to address the bugs, obviously disappointed about carriers but I'm also a realist. Bug fixes are much needed in certain areas of the game, that stuff takes time. Collating beta test feedback and recreating bugs etc is good for everyone and good for the game but it takes time. They've heard the calls to action from the community and have tasked themselves with acting upon it, that is to be commended, however this is the second time fleet carriers have been delayed so having drawn this line in the sand FDF need to ensure they deliver on these commitments, otherwise they risk further alienating large sections of the community. On the plus side, my carrier credit anxiety has been somewhat alleviated as I have much longer to now save up. That's it for now, thank you so much for watching, we'll be back later this week with more videos, until then, oh seven commanders, follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack, we very much look forward to seeing you next time.

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Nuclear and Missile Operations - 13NX - Air Force Officer Jobs

Air Force BMT Prep Guide available NOW: https://www.airmanvision.com/store/air-force-bmt-prep-guide My career field in the Air Force is 13N – Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer I am currently a Captain serving on active duty and have been in the service for 4.5 years. Missileers go the tech school training at Vandenberg Air Force Base. For our first six years we can be stationed at FE Warren AFB, Malmstrom AFB, and Minot AFB. After our ops tours we mostly go to STRATCOM at Offutt AFB, Global Strike Command at Barksdale AFB, or back to Vandenberg AFB for the school house or the test flight group. Day to day we are in charge of the operations, security, and maintenance of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System. We sit in launch control centers overseeing nuclear missile silos across Montana, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. It is a very interesting job to be sure! You will spend a lot of time underground in a hardened capsule. But being an officer in an ops squadron with 60 other officers provides a lot of opportunities to network and learn from other officers. Check me out on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/jakebroe DISCLAIMER: This video is for entertainment purposes only. I am not in any way acting as an agent or representative of the Department of Defense or United States Federal Government when presenting this information. While all the information in this video is believed to be accurate at the time of its recording, realize this channel and those in the video make no express warranty as to the completeness or accuracy, nor can it accept responsibility for errors appearing in this video. Airman Vision: https://www.airmanvision.com/directory Exclusive Videos and info: https://bit.ly/AVmember Digital BMT Prep Guide: https://bit.ly/BMTprepGuide Digital BMT Fitness Prep Guide: https://bit.ly/FitnessPrepGuide Physical BMT Prep Guide: https://amzn.to/3BvC6Fa Airman Vision Merch: https://bit.ly/AVmerch Collaborations or Business Inquiries: [email protected] Airman Vision is run by Kyle Gott. Kyle is an Air Force Veteran who served 6 years and honorably separated as an E-5 Staff Sergeant. He started making videos on this channel to document his journey joining the United States Air Force back in 2013 and continues to help set future Airmen up for success. The videos on this channel represent the individual opinions of those speaking and do not reflect thoughts of the Air Force, DOD, or US Government.

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Hey everyone, how's it going? My name is Jake and I'm a captain in the Air Force serving on active duty and in this video I'm going to talk about my job. But real quick I want to thank Kyle Gott for letting me upload this video on his channel AirmanVision. I am a YouTuber as well, you can check me out at my channel JakeBro. I mostly talk about finance and investing topics but because I am active duty Air Force I do occasionally talk about military topics. And why did I join the Air Force? Well I'm actually a little bit older, I'm currently 36 and I commissioned as an officer at age 32. And the reason why I chose to join the Air Force later in life is because I wanted to do something challenging. My father's actually also an Air Force veteran so it's something I was always considering. But the reason why I finally pulled the trigger at age 32 is because I was looking to get a job with the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer. These are people who work in consulates or embassies abroad. It's a very competitive job to get and I wanted to do something that would make me stand out. So joining the military, earning a master's while in, this is something that I wanted to do in order to become a Foreign Service Officer later in life. So I had a bachelor's degree and I applied as a non-prior through officer training school. This was a fantastic experience. I commissioned in June of 2016. So I'm currently a captain and I've been serving for four and a half years. If you want to know more about officer training school, I made two videos on this topic on my channel. And when you apply to OTS as a non-prior, they do tell you what your job will be and I was selected for 13 November, 13 N. This is nuclear and missile operations. And what is that exactly? Well, I'm in charge of the security operations and maintenance for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system. This is the land leg of the nuclear triad, the other two being bombers and subs. America used to have other ICBM systems like the Titan II or the Peacekeeper, but currently for the land leg of the triad, it's just the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system. And this is exactly what you think it is. If you've ever seen any Cold War movies of two guys opening locks on a container to pull out like a launch key, that's my job. I sit in a underground capsule about 60 feet underground. There's about 45 of these spread out across Montana, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. And we sit there waiting for an order from the president to launch nuclear weapons. That is my job. These capsules are buried underground ideally to survive a near miss hit from an adversary so that we can then launch back above ground. There's something called a missile alert facility and we have a facility manager, security forces, a missile chef and then potentially maintainers if they have to overnight in the field. Did I want the job? I didn't actually know what it was prior to being selected for it. When my recruiter asked me what do you want to be, fill out this application, select three to five jobs. I remember number one, I chose space. Number two, I chose cyber. Number three, I chose Intel. And I could have just left it at three, but I honestly didn't know anybody in the Air Force when I applied. There was nobody on my Facebook friends list that I could contact and ask questions. So I ended up putting missiles on my dream sheets, not knowing what it was. And if you put missiles, they will select you for missiles. But so far in the Air Force, I've had a fantastic experience. If you commission and you're selected for 13N, as of right now, you will be sent to Vandenberg Air Force Base for your tech school training. Usually you'll arrive and they'll give you a month or two before the next class officially starts. And then training at Vandenberg takes six months. Southern and Central California is a fantastic place to live and experience. You're very close to the Bay Area, San Francisco. You're close to Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, a lot of great federal parks. So while you're stationed here on weekends or during base holidays, you'll have lots of opportunities to explore and experience the local area. And the tech school training you'll receive at Vandenberg for six months is pretty intense. There's a lot of information coming at you and you don't really have a lot of time to dwell on each. And what the schoolhouse has to do is they have to teach you the bare minimum in order to be certified to operate the weapon system. However, when you go out into the field, you're never alone. You're always going to have a commander more senior than you, that is responsible for you. In addition, you always have the telephone. You can always call and ask questions, call and receive help from the people you work with. This is the React console that we operate. So the commander sits on the left, the deputy sits on the right, and you have identical screens. So the left side is the HA. This is where we get our emergency action messages. The right side, we call it the whiskey, and this is how you actually monitor your launch facilities. So each capsule is primarily responsible for 10 launch facilities. However, your console can interrogate and receive status from all 50 launch facilities in your squadron. And what you're seeing on these two bookshelves up here are all the documents and regs that you need to become familiar with while you're at tech school. Nobody can memorize everything. However, you are expected to be able to find the reference and then follow your checklist to respond to any kind of alarm or situation. Once you graduate from Vandenberg, you will be sent to a missile ops wing. And currently, there are only three. There is F.E. Warren in Wyoming, Malmstrom in Montana, and then Minot in North Dakota. Currently, our career structure has a three plus three system where you will go to one of these bases for three years for your initial ops crew tour. And then you will PCS to a different one of these bases for your follow on plus three ops tour. For your first three years, your primary responsibility is just to pull alerts to be out in the field on console learning as much as you can. Your job is to become an expert subject matter expert for that weapon system. Your plus three assignment, then you're still pulling alert, but ideally not as many. And then you have a support job either as an instructor, an evaluator, flight commander, or a different job in one of our support back shops. Beyond your first six years, most 13 ends wind up at one of these three bases. There's either off at Air Force Base in Nebraska. This is Stratcom. You can go back to Vandenberg either for the schoolhouse or the test flight group. And then there's Barksdale where Air Force Global Strike Command's headquarters are. There are other assignments for 13 ends that are eligible. Maybe you can also go to Europe or Asia. But most 13 ends end up at one of these three bases. Otherwise, potentially they've taken an ROTC job or a staff job like at the Pentagon. What can you expect for your work schedule? Well, for your initial crew tour under the old structure, things have been a little bit different because of the recent pandemic. But it used to be that you were expected to pull eight alerts a month and eight 24 hour alerts. How that works is you drive to base in the morning, you mission plan, you then trip out to the field. Maybe you get out to sight at around 10 o'clock. You change over the crew currently in the capsule. They then process topside and get to go home. You then close the door and you are underground in this capsule for 24 hours until your relief crew comes the next day. Once again, you change over at some point in the morning. You then drive back to base, drop off the truck, drop off any materials. You then get to go home. So a typical work day for 13 end is really a day and a half. You might get home the afternoon, the day after you leave and you do this eight times a month. Beyond pulling alert, you'll have typically two trainer rides a month and then potentially other additional academic training with your squadron. And that's how it used to be prior to the pandemic. Currently, because of COVID, we go out for one every three weeks. So we'll typically go out for a week and then the next week potentially we don't have to do anything. We might, but they're trying to give us this protected time off. The following week is then the week that we're available to get all of our training done. So when we go out for a week at a time, typically there are four crew members out at the Miss Alert facility, to our top side and rest status and then to our downstairs for a 24 hour shift. We then every 24 hours flip. And when you're down there, there's a lot that you could be doing potentially. You're in charge of daily inspections, processing paperwork, processing maintenance teams on site or processing emergency action messages. We also respond to any maintenance or security situation alarms. And when you're down there, it's you and your commander or you and your deputy. And between the two of you, as long as you're not too busy, one of you is allowed to be in rest status. So there is a bed mod with a curtain in the corner. There's also a bathroom down there, a refrigerator, a TV, a microwave, a coffee maker. And when you're down there, it's between it's a crew contract, you and the other crew member who takes what responsibility at what time. And then if the job necessitates it, you both have to be awake. Otherwise, one of you can be in rest status while down there. Do I like this job? I actually do. I like that I'm an operator. I like that I have a physical hands-on job where I'm not just sitting at a desk. I like tripping out to the field. I like interacting with security forces, maintainers, facility managers, chefs. So I think this is actually can be a very rewarding job. And I like that I am a knowledge expert on a very impressive, very important weapon system, the Minuteman 3. Because we work with nuclear weapons, there really does need to be very clear expectations, what is expected of us in this career field. And I'm just the kind of person who appreciates that. I'm told exactly what to do, how to do it, because deviating from that can have serious consequences. I also like as an operator, I'm in an ops squadron with about 50 or 60 other officers, 30 other lieutenants. So when you commission and you come up to an ops squadron, it's really nice being in an officer heavy career field where there are lots of people that you can socialize with, make friends with, collaborate with. There's a lot of camaraderie amongst the 13 ends. Additionally, there can be a lot of downtime in this career field. If you want to get other things done, lots of miscellers get their masters accomplished while they're underground in the capsule. Or if you just want to catch up on TV shows, there is a TV and the DVD player and you do have a cat computer access in the capsule to be on the internet. And what are the downsides to this job? Well, all three ops spaces are in cold weather climate. So if you're from Texas or Florida, there's nothing you can do about it, you're going to experience some really harsh winners. In my knots, it can potentially get down to negative 20 degrees and you still got to go to work. Additionally, it's not a normal nine to five job. You can't predict or count on what your work schedule will be a predictable office nine to five Monday through Friday. Nuclear deterrence is 24 seven three 65. There are always two crew capsule members downstairs in that capsule. This happens on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's. I've pulled alert on my birthday. So somewhere at all times, miscellers have to be covering these capsule shifts. The three ops spaces additionally are in small rural towns for people who like the outdoors, maybe hunting fishing. This is great. But if you're like me and you're an urbanites who's always lived in large cities, then it's an adjustment. It's a cultural adjustment. If you're married and you have kids, these are great towns to raise a family. But if you're single and you're looking for a nightlife, you're not going to find it in my knot North Dakota. What advice would I give to somebody just starting out in this career field? And I would give the advice to when you're at tech school to start forming strong relationships with your classmates, especially the people going to the other two wings. The reason why is because the 13 and community is not a very large career field. And if you plan on doing 10 15 20 years in the military, then you're going to see these people again. There's there's so much rotation happening between such a small number of bases that people that you meet and talk to today, you will see them again in the future, which is nice. But if you don't build those strong relationships in the beginning, then maybe potentially you're going to create more work for yourself down the road when you're trying to get more accomplished later in your career. And just as much as you can learn from each other, grow together. I think being an officer in the Air Force is an amazing opportunity. One that I at age 32 feel like that I have enough prior work experience to really appreciate. I think the pay and benefits for the work we do is fantastic. So no complaints there. And just the general advice I give everyone is to save and invest your money, save and invest today in order to really give yourself an advantage later in life. And would I ever consider changing career fields? 13Ns used to be eligible for cross flow. We are now a self sustaining career field. So there is no cross flow opportunities. But I don't think I would want to change jobs. I put in so much time and effort becoming an expert in the current weapon system that the idea of starting over is especially at my age, just feels kind of daunting. Do I see myself doing 20 years in the Air Force? And the honest answer is probably not. I don't know what my future holds for me at this time. But for anybody who enlists or commissions and only wants to do four or six years, you served your time. You did a great service to your nation. You don't have to explain yourself for anyone for any reason. If you don't want to do anything beyond your minimum service commitment. There you have it guys. I feel like those are the basics for the 13N career field. If you have any additional comments or questions you can reach me at my YouTube channel. Once again Jake Bro, check me out. I respond to every comment on my channel as of now. Potentially, once I get a little bit bigger, I might not be able to. But I'm more than happy to help anybody out, especially future 13Ns.

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Rohit Kapoor, CEO, Swiggy, spoke to e4m Editor Naziya Alvi Rahman at Goafest 2023

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Hello and welcome to exchangeformedia.com. With me today is CEO of Swiggy Mr. Rohit Kapoor. So welcome to the show and thanks for taking out time for us. So I know you are very short on time so I will keep it very quick. So my first question is how do you see the future of food delivery services involved in India in coming years? See I think it has a very very bright future. I think I say that because if you compare to any international market in terms of penetration we are just starting out and it's a compared to many industries it's what about 10-12 years old in India. So as India's GDP per capita grows as cities come up the curve I think we will see it's a multi-decadal growth opportunity in my mind. So how critical is the role of marketing in a delivery business? Absolutely like any other business but especially in a delivery business where you know so many emotions are involved and look we stand for you know offering unparalleled convenience to the urban consumer in India. So there marketing is absolutely critical to reach out to the consumers in a way that they can emotionally connect to. They understand what do you stand for and being consistent with it. And the other crazy thing is today marketing has so many legs. There is just so many mediums you can reach out to the consumer from. It is probably one of the most exciting times to be a marketer I guess. So yours is one of the most visible brands on television especially during the IPL season and other big property events. But there has been certain changes in your media mix. So if you can tell us about it. Look I think the changes will happen. Changes happen through the year. It depends on what the occasion is, what the season is. So for example it is a festival season or IPL. But just in terms of broad answer I think you will see a lot of media moving to digital right in addition to television. And I think even social continues to be a very strong organic platform for us. But media mix digital is going to just grow is what I think. So you will be more visible on digital now than traditional? Every brand is. Every brand is moving to digital also. And traditional media still carries a lot of benefit in terms of the reach. So if you have to really reach out to a very wide segment for a particular campaign. I do think traditional media comes into play very much. So it is a even mix. There is no standard answer. Digital is growing. But is traditional media disappearing? I don't think so. Sir are you going to increase your marketing investments in coming years? I think we are fairly well invested in marketing and my sense is that rather than say we are going to increase the constant effort is to how to utilize the marketing budgets we have far more effectively. We already do I think a good job there but there is always an opportunity to just get better and better there. So that's where we are I think. So how do you at Swiggy leverage data to enhance its offering personalised customer experiences and drive business growth? So I think if you had asked me questions like where do we not leverage data? Maybe I will. As in I don't know how to answer the question because I live it so much on a daily basis right. But every single let me give a couple of examples where you illustrate. Let's say you come and you often like a particular restaurant or a dish. How do I make sure that in your on your app. You get to see that quicker. You see that in a way that appeals to you. It makes it easy for you. Or let's say we know that a particular user is very inclined to order doing a particular time slot. Say lunch or breakfast or dinner. How to make sure that that user gets a message just before that slot to remind that you know you may want to order something like this. There are thousands of ways we use it. But just four point is that every decision we take or everything we do is actually based on it. So finally I would want to understand how do you ensure efficient and seamless delivery operations such a vast and diverse market like India. Sometimes it feels that you know even before I've ordered it's delivered. It's not easy. I think that's in my mind the most complex part of running this company. And see it's a triangle right. The consumer is a restaurant partner or and there's a delivery partner. And this entire process of ordering to somebody making the food to get getting delivered to you is what 20 30 minutes. And that requires huge and first of all what you see is a front end. What you don't see is humongous amounts of technology and investments going back to make it happen. We I think I'm genuinely very delighted by the fact that we're able to also partner with lakhs of delivery partners. And for many of them this is a first job when they can move to urban city or move to a city. And the complexity is making sure that they truly see this as something they really love to do and as a rewarding profession. If we do that we have despite all challenges which runs in running hyper local company. We are the originators of this model about seven eight years back and we continue to sort of bet big on this. So thank you so much for speaking to exchangeformedia.com. Thanks.

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Stallion Discoveries $STLNF Land Acquisitions Survey in the Athabasca Basin 🔥 RESULTS Are In! 📈

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We have some breaking news to share on stallion discoveries. Very exciting. A few months in the making they have just announced the results from their VTEM survey from last winter. That data was being poured over and just today they have released their their reaction to the survey results and I wish to jump into that press release that you can find on stalliondiscoveries.com. I encourage you to kick over there and look at what stallion is doing. Stallion is a fly under the radar company that is looking to make a big land discoveries, big uranium and gold discoveries specific to this announcement up in the Athabasca base and this western Athabasca on stallion discoveries property which is boasting one of the largest land packages in the Athabasca for uranium production which is the most prolific region in all of the world. We want to highlight some of the particulars of the survey results, what they were able to find and the results reaction from stallion discoveries that they have shared with the public-facing audience. Some things to take away from the report. I want you guys to understand that since technology has improved so much over time these reports are worth their weight in uranium. The methods by which they go to make these discoveries is much more advanced than they have ever done in the past which gives them a much clearer idea of what type of areas to strategically focus on and stallion has opted for those commencements in the fall for strategic drilling on the property itself. Really exciting news coming forward from stallion and I thought that I would share those forward with you guys. Without further ado let's jump in and take a look at the particulars of the news announcement that just hit the wire just today. News release has just hit the wires on stallion discoveries. You can find it on stalliondiscoveries.com but I thought it prudent to pay forward some of the details in their summary from their large survey on their western Athabasca basin. For those of you guys who don't know who stallion discoveries is, stallion owns one of and flirting with one of the largest land packages in the Athabasca region. They are a true player in the space. They are within neighboring distance of some of the who's who up in the Athabasca going after uranium deposits and one of the most prolific uranium deposits in the world. This is a conclusion or at least a summary that we have been waiting for on the VTEM data survey that was announced a few months ago and turned out but this is the actual release from stallion discoveries in what they are able to share through the public facing forum. Some of the results of that survey and so for you guys that are interested kick over to stallion discoveries and read the report yourself but I'm going to highlight some of what was released here on behalf of stallion. Stallion is pleased to announce the results on key projects from the 5200 line kilometer VTEM plus survey completed last winter. We've had this book on the books for a while but it needed to be interpreted and this release is the release that discusses just that. The data was provided to Condor Consulting Condor to complete advanced processing of the VTEM data in combination with compiled historical data. The results include conductor picking target prioritization and advanced magnetic processing of the new data and integrating the historical magnetic data. The company is also outlining their fall and winter exploration plans for its western Athabasca basin uranium project. Stallion is very pleased with the results which demonstrates multiple areas that are responding similarly to the F3 Uranium's junior zone and Uranium Energy Corporation's Shea Creek deposits. The regional electromagnetic survey successfully identified several several prospective areas across the stallion's projects with significant discovery potential. That's the key and that's what we were waiting for. The EM anomalies identified by Condor will be followed up on with ground EM survey this fall along with the EM data the advanced processing of the magnetic data identified multiple structural complexities as well as coincident magnetic lows which have been known to represent uranium alteration. The company will begin delineating these areas and advancing them for stallion's maiden drill program. Four target zones have been identified to be followed up with exploration in the fall and winter projects are untested with drilling and have the potential opportunity to host undiscovered uranium corridors. These additional targeted surveys will give stallion the best opportunity to intersect uranium mineralization with drilling in the winter. In addition, Stallion plans to complete a regional induceive inductive passive EM survey over the stallion Atha JV project looking to extend existing conductive corridors onto this new frontier of exploration in the western Athabasca. Quoting identifying the several highly prospective target areas across stallion's large land package gives us a strong opportunity to discover the next significant uranium deposits in the basin stated Drew Zimmerman chief executive officer. Historically our land package was largely overlooked but with the new mining methods and technologies continuing to be developed our projects are now becoming extremely relevant for future uranium exploration as the uranium market continues to strengthen tied to ongoing concerns over future uranium supply. We believe that this market provides the right conditions for uranium exploration at the scale stallion that has planned for the coming year. As a team we are incredibly excited about what lies ahead in the coming months in quote that was Drew Zimmerman the CEO of stallion discoveries. So that's his highlight and just a fantastic news release here highlighting the results of the VTEM data. We'll look to have Drew on as a guest of the channel. We just wanted to push this out through the channel and make sure folks are aware that these guys are hold a significant land package in one of the most prolific areas in all of the world in the western Athabasca basin and these results do in fact provide us some clarity on how prolific this these deposits could be actually on the stallion discoveries properties. So with that guys we will kick you back and we'll conclude the video. So we've come out of the review of the stallion discoveries press release on their western Athabasca VTEM survey results very exciting. It's going to be incredible to see how these these results actually lend itself to further identification of their strategic drill program in the fall. Drew Zimmerman he's pleased with the results as disclosed through the release and it's going to be incredible to see what stallion does with this now that they know what they're working with. So for anybody out there that is interested in the stallion discovery story please visit stalliondiscoveries.com. You'll find this latest news release and much much more on the history of the company and what they're looking to do and an under the radar company is building one of the largest land packages in all of the Athabasca basin going after uranium with the shift in energy and the shift in energy consciousness and the green push for lower carbon solutions uranium is right in everybody's radar and stallion discoveries looks to benefit from that guys I appreciate you tuning in if you enjoy the content subscribe to the channel leave your comments at the bottom of this video hit the notification bell I appreciate you holding with me for the totality of the video and good luck in your investment future.

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Tremendous progress, not even one year apart. Baller in the making right here. Follow for more content! Instagram: https://Instagram.com/fdb_soccer TikTok: https://TikTok.com/@fdb_soccer YouTube: https://YouTube.com/c/fdb_soccer Twitter: https://Twitter.com/fdb_soccer

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Contributing to Learn WordPress with code – part 1

Are you a developer looking to contribute to the WordPress project in some way? Know how to fix bugs or add features on a WordPress site, theme or plugin? Then this session might be just what you need. Join me as I walk you through the process of contributing code to the Learn.WordPress.org platform. You'll learn where to find the Learn.WordPress.org code, how to make a copy of it on your local computer, and how best to contribute bug fixes and feature enhancements. In this first session, I'll be working through all the required software needed to get the Learn.WordPress.org site set up on your computer, as well as choosing a feature to work on, and planning how to develop it.Presentation Slides » --- View this video and others on WordPress.TV: https://wordpress.tv/2023/08/17/contributing-to-learn-wordpress-with-code-part-1/

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All right, it is recording, so we can go. Welcome to Elliot and Tracy, who seem to be the only two folks joining me here today. This is a slightly different online workshop than what I normally do on a Thursday. So I'm going to leave it a few moments and see if anybody else trickles in. I see we've got a few people coming in now. While everybody's joining, if anybody would just like to let us know in the chat, but you're joining us from, as I say, we seem to have a smaller than normal group today, which is slightly to be expected, because I don't think I did a very good job of setting this up as early as I usually do. So if we don't have a lot of people here today, we can maybe do things a bit differently. It's always easier to do this with a small group, but I was thinking we could maybe even disable the focus mode and let everybody see everybody else. But yes, we're doing things slightly different today. So I'm going to do that for now, and disable focus mode. I recognize all the names in the participant list and focus mode isn't even started on this one. So focus mode isn't even enabled. So you're welcome to unmute yourself and video yourself up and maybe introduce yourself physically if you'd like to. And maybe give us a quick introduction as to who you are and where you're from. Tracy, if you'd like to go first, you are somebody I already know. I had to find all the buttons. No problem. Nothing like being put on the spot. Yeah. Hello from Reno, Nevada, USA. Excellent. So Tracy and I, Tracy has hosted quite a few of my online workshops. So Tracy and I know each other pretty well. Elliot, would you like to introduce yourself and let us know where you're joining us from? Yeah, sure. Hi, Elliot. I'm from Cheltenham in the UK. Excellent. And then Cynthia is somebody who I met recently. Cynthia, would you like to introduce yourself and let us know where you're from? Hello. I am in Ontario, Canada, halfway between Toronto and Ottawa. Excellent. And then we have Subam joining us. Subam's also somebody that I know pretty well. So Subam, would you like to introduce yourself and let us know where you're joining us from? Yeah, I don't know if Subam's having audio issues there or if he's just busy elsewhere. But if you do want to unmute and introduce yourself, you're more than welcome to. So most of you do know me. So I won't go through all the introductions like I usually do. Jonathan, WordPress contributor, sponsor, automatic, all the usual nonsense. Today's session is being recorded and the goal of today's session is really a guide to contributing to the WordPress code base. The goal for today is not to show you every single individual step, not to actually go through the process of setting up all the different pieces of software. Because depending on your operating system and depending on your development environment, what you need to install and what you need to set up might be very, very different. So I'm going to go through the requirements and I'm going to go through some of the commands and some of the things that need to be installed. But today's very much a sort of information dump if you will hopefully pointing you in the right direction showing you how to do certain things. And by the end of today, the goal is to get to a point where I've shown you everything you need to have set up to fix a bug on the Learn WordPress code base or add a feature or whatever the case may be. And then hopefully convince you to go off and do it in your own time. And for the first time in one of my online workshops, there is a homework slide. And so hopefully I'm going to convince you to go off and spend the week getting all the setup on your side if you haven't already, for two reasons. One, because it's always interesting to do interesting new things if you've never done it before. And two, if you ever do decide to want to fix a bug on Learn WordPress or add a feature, add enhancement, you will have everything set up and ready to rock and roll. Okay, before we get into it, let's just get all of the announcements out the way. I have said welcome to everybody. So welcome to anybody who has joined. I don't have a co-host today specifically because I know this is a different session than normal. So I don't have a co-host today. I didn't look, I didn't ask for one. If you have joined after the session started and you can't see my slide, so you should see a slide now that says announcements, please let me know and I'll just re-enable the screen share. We're not presenting in focus mode today. So you're welcome to enable your video if you would like to see me or see each other. We're a small group today, so I'm going to assume that everybody is acting in good faith and is not going to try and zoom bomb anybody. But if anybody does do any zoom bombing, then I will just personally kick you because there's a small enough group. As always, you're welcome to ask questions. And today I would encourage you to ask questions while we're going. Feel free to unmute your mic or a small enough group. If anything isn't clear to what I'm doing on screen, feel free to interrupt me today or share anything as we're going along. I really don't mind today. Today's very informal compared to normal. So go ahead and ask questions if you want to. The usual announcements, as I mentioned, today's more show than tell, or yeah, more tell than code. I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be asking you to do any live coding along with me. It's more just going to be showing you where all the things are and all the things that you need to do. And if you want to try and do it along with me, you're welcome to. But some of the things I already have installed and they do take a while. So hopefully you'll be able to use this as a resource to go and set this up at a later stage. Depending on your experience with some of these tools and depending on your operating system determines which ones you need to install. So I'll be more just showing you and guiding you and sharing links with you. As always, if something is not clear, if I'm going too fast, let me know. And then I will be posting this session to WordPress TV afterwards as I do with all of my workshops. All right, so the goal today is getting the WordPress, the lone WordPress local environment set up. Now, one of the reasons that we kind of need to do this session is because the WordPress, the lone WordPress local development environment uses something called WPENV, which is a Docker based environment. Docker is a virtualization tool that has become quite popular over the last few years. So if you're not running something with Docker already, you will need to install certain tools. There's other bits and pieces of software that you need to have installed. It can't just, well, let me rephrase this. I haven't yet tried to run, learn WordPress on anything else but the local development environment that it ships with. And the reason for that is there's certain pieces of it that actually require a connection to certain bits of WordPress.org. And those pieces ship with the Docker environment. So the goal today is to go through that process with you, explain what the different bits and pieces are. And hopefully by the end of today's session, I'll have a working running one on my local environment, creating a branch, cloning the repository, all these kinds of things. So we'll go through this step by step as we go along. In the resources slides, it's the slide eight and slide nine, I have linked all of the different pieces of software that we're going to be looking at. So if you are looking at this later on, if you're watching this recording on WordPress TV, it is all linked there in the slides. Okay, I don't think there are any questions. If there are questions, you're welcome to ask them now, but otherwise I'm just going to get going with all of this. And the very first thing you are going to need to be able to contribute to the learn WordPress code base. So let me take one step back. Let me explain what I mean when I talk about the learn WordPress code base. So learn WordPress.org is the website that I spend most of my time on. It's where we host our tutorials. It's where we host our lesson plans. It's where we have all of the online workshops linked. You can, for these online workshops, you can add it to your calendar. There's the calendar view. They all get linked through to meetup.com, but it's effectively the website where the training team spends most of our days. And this website is a WordPress site that is part of the WordPress.org multi-site network. But the code that powers learn WordPress is hosted on GitHub. So it's at GitHub slash WordPress slash learn. And you can take this code and you can contribute bug fixes. You can add features. You can create pull requests and all of that. And so that's going to be what we're focusing on looking at today is how this all works and how to get it set up locally. So the first thing that you're going to need if you want to work with GitHub is you're going to need a GitHub account. So I'm going to log out of my GitHub account quickly, my current one, and I'm going to log into another account that I have. But if you don't have a GitHub account and you go to github.com, it'll show you this new updated landing page that they developed a few months or a few years ago. If you don't have an account, you click on the sign up button. It will then ask you for your email address. It'll ask you to specify a password. I'm not going to go through that process now, but it'll eventually create you a GitHub account. Once you have created this account, you can then log in and I'm going to log in with a separate account that I have. It's an account linked to an email address that I use for testing and development purposes. So it's the psychotech.coza email address. And when you create your account for the first time, your dashboard will look something like this. You won't have this organization at the top here. You won't have any repositories. I've added these to a test account, but you'll have something like this and you can then create new code repositories. You can create a readme for your profile and you can do various other things. For the purposes of what we're doing today, we're going to start by forking the learn WordPress code base. So what do I mean when I speak about forking? So forking is a term in open source, which means I make a copy of the code and GitHub is great in that it gives you some user interface buttons that you can use to create this fork in the old days. You would have to have done this on the command line. You would have to have installed Git, which we're going to have to do anyway, but you would have had to install Git on your command line. You would then have to run sort of Git fork or something like that to fork some code. GitHub allows you to do this just using the user interface. If you don't know what the difference between GitHub and Git is, Git is the revision control software that allows you to manage your revisions for your code. GitHub is an online platform powered by Git that allows you to host your code somewhere. So traditionally, if you didn't have a place like GitHub, you would have had to have set up your own code, repository somewhere, installing Git on a server or something like that. GitHub basically allows you to do that. GitHub is like WordPress for Git. Like WordPress is for publishing, GitHub is to Git. So this is the code base that you will need to start with. And once you've created your account, your account, the first step is to fork this code. Now, the reason you need to fork this is because as a new contributor, you won't have access to push code changes directly to this repository. Only sort of approved contributors have access to do this. I am one of those folks. I'm one of the code reviewers. So I review what's called pull requests and I have the capabilities to push changes to this code base, but brand new contributors won't have the capability to do that. So the first step when you're generally, generally when you're working with any code on GitHub, the first step is to fork the repository to your own account. And you do that by simply clicking on this fork button over here. It will then ask you to give, you'll see it's picking up the fact that this is my account. I called my account Cycratic and I can give this repository a name. I can leave it as the default name that picks it up from the parent repository or I can give it my own name if I would prefer to. I'm just going to give it the name learn WordPress just for the sake of being different. And I'm also going to make it all underscore because I like my names in my GitHub repositories to all be underscored and hyphenated. You'll see it tells me learn WordPress is available because under my account, I don't have a project called that yet. It picks up the description from the parent repository which is great for us. And then it says to you, which branch do you want to copy? And you generally want to copy what's known as either the main or the trunk branch. And it does tell you you are creating a fork in your personal account. Once you've done that, effectively what it will do is we'll copy the entire code base and everything that's linked to the code base over to that new repository in your account. So here you will see what this has now been cloned. There is learn WordPress. It exists under my account. And it says you're forked from learn WordPress. And you will see that the branches, the branches, if there were any additional branches, they will have been cloned across as well. I see Elliot is screaming emoji to the lowercase WMP. I tend to prefer it for sort of file names and things like that. Not when I'm talking about WordPress in public spaces, but for file names and things, I tend to keep everything lowercase. So I feel like I can get away with it. So once you fork this code, now you can start working with this code. Now one way that you can start working with this code, and this is specifically if you're not working necessarily with bugs. Let's say for example, you want to update the readme file. The readme file is a file that generally sits in the root of a repository and it has some information about the project. You can actually click on this little edit icon over here and it'll take you to what's known as a markdown editor. Markdown is a style of formatting that is used for text files, generally in code repositories and you can then edit this readme. We're not gonna do that today. We're gonna be setting up the local development environment but it's an interesting little bit of information to know if you ever need to make that kind of change. All right, so that's the first step is setting up the repository in your personal account because you won't have access to create changes in the main repository. Once you've done that, you will then need to start setting up all the required software. And I put the forking the code base on the second line. It doesn't matter which way around you do it but then you will need the required software. So the first piece of software that you will need is Git itself on your local machine. Now you can go to the Git homepage, which is at git-scm.com, which I will link to you here. And then depending on your operating system, it shows a little download for Mac option and you can install it that way. You will also need, and I'm just linking the URLs now because I wanna get into an easier, I believe way to do it in a second. You will also need SVN. SVN is another type of revision control software. It's the revision control that WordPress, the core project users, primarily for managing its code. And then a lot of the WordPress projects are using Git and GitHub. And again, depending on your operating system, you will be able to install SVN using one of these options. You will also need something called a terminal, a working terminal. Now I don't have this listed here because depending on your operating system, you might already have a terminal installed. I am on a Mac and I have a built-in terminal on a Mac. I used to develop on Ubuntu. Ubuntu has a built-in terminal. Windows, these days, it does have something called a Windows PowerShell. In the old days, there was the old command prompt, which was kind of terminal-like. But I do recommend, and I'm gonna jump around a little bit here with some of these pieces of software, if you're on Windows, and I jump back here, I do recommend going and installing PowerShell for Windows. So this is a standalone piece of software. This is over and above the default one that I think ships with Windows 11 now. But it allows you to do a little bit more than just what the Windows PowerShell allows you to do. So if you're running on Windows and you want a decent terminal, PowerShell is a good option. You can also, if you're on Windows, you can use something called WSL, Windows Subsystem for Linux, where you effectively install in a Ubuntu server on your Windows machine, and then it's all the same as running on Linux. But if you're just gonna stick with Core PowerShell, I do recommend, sorry, Core Terminal, I do recommend installing PowerShell. Other things that you will need, so we've discussed GitHub, we've discussed the code. If you're on a Mac, I highly recommend installing Homebrew. So Homebrew is a software package manager for Mac. And it's basically similar to, if you're on a Linux environment, it's similar to the apt system on Ubuntu or the yam system, and I think it's Red Hat environments. And it allows you to install software quickly and easily from the command line. Now, if you go the route of, let's say, installing, Git, for example, and SVN from these downloadable packages, sometimes you end up in a situation where the pieces of software don't talk to each other. With something like Homebrew on the Mac, you can install Git and you can install SVN, and you can install the other pieces of software you need using Homebrew. And they're all kind of installed in the same place. The path thing is very, very similar. It's easier to find things when you need to work with things. It's easier to update things. So if you're on a Mac and you want to get into sort of terminal command line things, I do recommend installing Homebrew. On Windows, we've already discussed PowerShell for your terminal. Then I discovered there's this thing called Chocolatey. Now, I do find it very interesting that on Mac, these sort of what's become the default package manager is called Homebrew and it has to do with beer. And what's become the sort of package manager for Windows got to do with chocolate. So I'm guessing Mac folks like their beer and Windows folks like their chocolate. But Chocolatey allows you to do a similar thing on Windows as you can do in Mac. So once you have Chocolatey installed, you can do things like and the command is Choco. So you can go Choco install, get, Choco install SVN, Choco install PHP and go forward from there. So again, depending on your requirements, depending how you want to install things, I personally usually opt for a terminal solution because I find it easier just to run a terminal command to install software. And I like the idea of using a single package manager to install everything because then it's easy to find everything. So I recommend looking into Chocolatey as a package manager for Windows specifically for web development. I do have, I want to just find it quickly. I do have a video that I downloaded onto my machine earlier today. I'm going to find a chair quickly. Where I, and hopefully you all can see this, where I've got, there's some audio on this video. So I'm going to turn the audio off quickly. But this is a Windows 11 machine that I have sitting behind me. That's the screen you can see behind me there. I've installed PowerShell and I've installed Chocolatey for PowerShell. And with that, I have installed all the other software. So I have NVM, which we'll discuss in a second. I have NPM, I have Node. I can then run Choco install PHP to install PHP and it'll go ahead and install PHP for me. And then with that installed, I don't know why that just came up, I can then install all the other pieces of software that I need. So that's my recommendation. If you want to get into this is install Chocolatey inside of PowerShell and then use that to install everything else. All right. Once you've got, so the two things you need to begin with, as I mentioned, is GitHub set up a package manager of some kind, if you're on a Mac homebrew, if you're on Windows Chocolatey, a terminal of some kind, if you're on a Mac, there's a built-in terminal, if you're on Windows, there's PowerShell. If you want to see all the setup in action, I'm not gonna do it today, but a while back I did a video on installing NPM and Node.js on your local machine. And I'm gonna find it here for you very quickly because some of what we're doing today is included in this video as well. But this actually goes through, let me find it here. This actually goes through the process of installing Chocolatey, sorry, installing PowerShell on Windows and then installing Chocolatey on Windows as well. Tell that guy to keep quiet. So I'm gonna jump through a little bit here, but you'll see in, let me find it here for you quickly. So here's PowerShell, here's the section on PowerShell and I talk about installing PowerShell. And then further on, I talk about installing NVM, which we'll get to in a second. And then I talk about how to install PowerShell and how to install NVM. So I do recommend checking out this video. This will give you good background and all the different bits and pieces. And it's a runabout, just trying to find the Chocolatey section here. Just go back, there we go. So it's a runabout at the three-minute mark. It talks about how to install Chocolatey inside of PowerShell so that you've got Chocolatey install and then how to use Chocolatey to install everything else. All right. So once you've got your, and there is the, I actually had the link in the slides, I could have just grabbed it from there. So once you've got your terminal and your package manager installed, then you need to start installing software. So the software you need are Docker, Git, SVN, NVM, Node, Composer and Yarn, okay? Now that's a big long list. So I'm gonna go through each one of them with you and explain what the different bits and pieces do. Docker specifically is virtualization, sorry, I'm busy messing with my slides here, is virtualization software that is used by the WPENV local environment. Basically the way a Docker container works is you can pre-build what's known as a container, it's like a virtual server, and then you can tell a software product or a software package or a software code base to use a specific container. So when you run, I think it's Docker compose or Docker setup or Docker run or something like that, it'll download that container to your machine, it'll start that container up and it's like it's running a virtual server inside that Docker container. Docker for desktop does exist for Mac, Windows and Linux and you need to install it using one of these three options. You can't do it, well, I don't think you can do it through any of the package of images we spoke about. So you will need to download the installer for your environment and have it up and running. So on my Mac, I do have Docker installed, so I'm going to open it up now, that's what it looks like, it's a little whale with these little dots above it. And once it's running, it pops up here in my task bar, depending on what you're using, it might be in different places. And it does take a while, you'll see the little icon there is kind of starting up and now it's running and ready to rock and roll. It does have a dashboard that you can open up and you can see all the containers that you're using, you'll see I've got two containers that I've used in the past, so you can keep an eye on them there, but once you've got it installed, you don't have to do much more with it. The WP and V environment with the Learn WordPress code base will manage everything else, so you just need it up and running, installed and up and running, and you should be good to go. All right, Git, as I mentioned, we need Git to be able to clone the Git repository from GitHub to our local machine. The great thing with both Homebrew and Chocolatey, and I'm going to show you Chocolatey for a second first, is you can, I don't use Chocolatey, so the website is a little bit alien, oh, there we go, looking for packages, that's what I'm looking for. You can search the Chocolatey website for the specific packages you're looking for, so if I'm looking for Git, for example, I can search for Git, there is the Git package and there is the code, it tells me just run Choco install Git. The same goes for Homebrew, if I want to install Git, I can search for Git, and it'll find in Homebrew they call them formula, so I can find the Git formula and there we go, and somewhere here there it'll tell me brew install Git, we'll use Homebrew to install Git, so that is my suggested way of installing these things. If you're on a Linux system, it'll be apt install or yum install, depending on what you're using, and that's what's nice about these package managers, Chocolatey and Homebrew, they kind of replicate the Linux environment, so it tends to make things a lot easier. So I do have Git installed, and we can just check that by running, I think it's Git minus V, so there we go, I have Git version 2.3.9 installed, I don't think I actually installed this using Homebrew, actually, I think I installed this when I very first got this MacBook before I knew about Homebrew possibly, but I do have Git installed, and I can run most of these commands, you can run Git minus V from the command line, and they will tell you what version number. Right, the next thing is SVN, same as with Git I can search for SVN in Homebrew or Chocolatey, and it's usually the same thing, now let's open AI, I don't want to open AI, I want SVN, Git SVN, no, I just want SVN, what is Git SVN, that's not what I want. No, I just want SVN, I've never done this in a while, let me see, oh maybe, oh you know what it is, it's probably because it's subversion, that's probably what I'm looking for, there we go, so it's called subversion in the packages, but I know it is SVN, that's the sort of shorthand for it, but it's actually called subversion, so let me change my slides here, and let's just call it subversion. So again, in Homebrew, brew install subversion, in Chocolatey it'll probably be the same thing, let's have a look, in subversion it might be called SVN, oh there we go, subversion for Windows, okay, so in Chocolatey it's called chocker install SVN, so there's the slight differences, but most of the package managers will have it, and you'll be able to install it there. As I say, you can install it the manual method as well, generally it works, but I tend to, if I can do it with Insider Package Manager, I tend to prefer to do it there. The next thing you will need, okay, now we're getting into software required for the local environment to run. So I wanna just take a brief second here, and just check if anybody has any questions about what we've covered so far. Before we continue on, I'm gonna grab a sip of water while you do that, and then we're gonna dive into an interesting topic. Okay, we don't seem to have any questions, that's perfect. I want to show you something in the Learn WordPress code base. So if you go to either the main Learn WordPress code base, or in this case my forked version, you will see if I scroll down to the readme, it says there are some prerequisites, Docker we've covered, then it talks about node slash NPM, those two are bundled together, and you'll see that in that tutorial that I shared with you earlier. So I do recommend watching that at a later stage and understanding how the two work together, gonna pop it in there for a second. It speaks about Yarn, which we'll get to in a second, it speaks about Composure, which we'll get to in a second, SVN we've already covered, and then it talks about NVM or N, and it says they're optional. So I want to open up NVM specifically, because that's the one that I use. NVM is also known as the node version manager, and it's basically a bash script to manage multiple active Node.js versions. So let's go to the Node.js website, Node.js. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment. What that basically means in simple terms is you can run JavaScript on your computer or on your server, just like you would any other so-called server language or backend language. JavaScript traditionally was more of a front-end language, you would run it in the browser. Node.js allows you to create things using JavaScript on your server or on your computer. So what's cool about that is you can use JavaScript if you're comfortable with JavaScript to write terminal commands or terminal scripts, just like you would with something like Python or with PHP, you can use JavaScript if you have Node.js installed. When you install Node.js, if you use one of these downloads for your operating system, it also comes with something called NPM. Now NPM is two things with the same name. The one is the package manager on your machine. So it's a way to install JavaScript packages in the Node environment for your software. But it's also a repository of packages called NPM.js. Now it's a little bit confusing because they called them the same name. In PHP, they used Composer as the package manager and Packages as the list of packages. So there's a slight difference. But in JavaScript land, they called the package manager and the repository NPM. But basically NPM, the package manager and the repository allow other JavaScript developers to write packages and then distribute them so that other developers can use them in their software. So because the WPENV environment that Learn WordPress uses some NPM packages, you need to have Node.js installed to have NPM installed on your terminal. The easiest way to install that is to use NVM because what NVM allows you to do is, I see your question there, Elliot, I'll get to that in a second. What NVM allows you to do is easily switch your NPM version. And the reason that's important, I'm gonna go over to the Make Core Blog now because there was an article recently where they spoke about NPM versions. So I just wanna share that with you if I can find it here, it's gonna be down here somewhere. Interactivity, no performance, no, I'm not gonna find it, so I'll just search for it. When you build software that uses NPM packages, you often have to specify a version number that you're running with. Generally, folks will use whatever the current stable version is. Here we go, here's the article. And then as the Node and NPM software is updated, it's generally recommended for software projects to update their dependency version to use the latest stable version of Node. However, sometimes that doesn't always happen. So for example, if you look at the Node.js website, the current stable version recommended for most users is version 18 something. In WordPress Core, they've recently updated it to version 16, they were running version 14 because there were some changes to 16 and 18 that were breaking the project and they couldn't use it. And if you wanna read through this whole article, I do recommend doing it, but it explains why the changes have taken so long to happen. And so now what they're recommending folks to do is to upgrade to version 16. Now, if you had installed, for example, version 14 of the installer, you would then have to go and download version 16 and then install it over version 14, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. If you're using NPM, the Node version manager, you can just go NPM install and the new version and it'll do all that for you. But what's also great about it is if you have a working on a project that requires an older version, you can specify that you want that older version to be used and using NPM, you can switch between versions. So installing NPM is my recommended way to install Node.js and NPM. And in the installing Node.js and NPM for local WordPress development, I actually discussed this as well. So you'll see about halfway down, I'm going through the text option here. I talk about NPM and then I talk about the commands that you need to run in Mac or Linux or Windows in PowerShell to get chocolaty installed and then using chocolaty to install NPM. So again, if we go to the chocolaty website for Windows and we search for NPM, it's there and there we go and we can install it there. And then once that is installed, we can use NPM to install NPM and Node.js. The same goes for Homebrew. If we search NPM, it should come up. There it is. We can install NPM through Homebrew and then from there we can install Node.js and NPM. You don't have to do it that way. You can just install, I think you can just install Node from here. Let's just do a quick search. So I can just install Node itself. And that will then install NPM for me that I prefer to use the NPM package manager. It's a little bit of an inception kind of thing and they haven't helped themselves by making the abbreviations very similar. You've got NPM and NPM and then it's Elliot pointed out NPMX. But once you get used to the terms and what the different things are, then it starts becoming clearer in your brain. Elliot says he sees, let's talk about NPMX very quickly. So NPMX I think we'll actually find here in the documentation. Let me just do a quick search here. Yeah, there's NPMX. So NPMX is a specific NPM command, bear with me with all the NPs that allows you to install and run packages directly from the NPM package repository. So in other words, what that means is you don't download the specific package and then run a command. You just run it from this repository. And the one area that that is used in the WordPress space is you might have seen something called create block, WordPress create block. So here it is over here. And you'll see that to use create block, this is basically a command that you can run to scaffold the block on your local machine. And you'll see the command is NPMX WordPress create block and then use the latest to create a new block. So WordPress create block, let me find it for you here in NPM. Go back one step. No, we don't wanna go NPM docs. We're gonna go all the way back to NPM. So create block is a package that not that one. It'll be WordPress create block. Hang on one sec. Why is it not finding it today? There we go. So the package called at WordPress slash create block is a JavaScript package that is hosted on the NPM repository. Really, yes, as in execute. When you run NPMX and then give it the name of a package, it effectively, it downloads the files to your computer, runs any command that can be run inside that software and then clears that software from you. It's like cash basically. So it means you don't have to download it and install it as a dependency. You can just run commands. So it's like a way of creating executable commands that reside in the cloud that anybody can run from anywhere as long as they have an internet connection. And it's a very cool way of sharing code if you're a JavaScript coder and you want it to be able to do something on someone's machine without having to install additional packages and all of that. Okay. So, sorry, my screen just went weird there. There we go. Everything's back. So that's why my suggestion, once you've got Docker and so let me go back one step. Once you've got your terminal and your package manager, then install Docker, which you have to install from their website. I don't think there's a, there might be actually, there might be no, let's have a look. I don't think there's a package way of installing Docker. There is actually. I'm not sure if this is the desktop version or not though. So I've always installed Docker from the website using Docker desktop. That's always what I've installed. So that's my recommendation there. Once you've done that, then you can install Git and subversion using your package manager and you can install NVM using your package manager. Once you've got NVM installed, then you use NVM to install Node.js. So to do that, I'm gonna show you quickly over here. With NVM installed, if I go NVM minus V, I've got version 0.3.9. I can now go NVM install and I can just say, for example, 18 and that will install Node.js and NPM version 18. Or I can install 16 or 14 or whatever the case may be. I can also check which versions I have installed. So if I go NVM list, it shows me that I currently have 16 and 18 installed anyway. You see, there it is there, 16 and 18 are installed. And I can install any of these other versions as well. So my recommendation is use your package manager to install NVM and then use NVM to install Node.js and NPM. Node.js and NPM just come with one command. If you go to, let me find it here for you, where is there is? Once you've got it installed in Chocolatey, it's just Choco install NVM and then NVM install 18 and then it'll just install everything for you. If you're on Homebrew, it will be, where is it now? It'll be brew install NVM or if you're on Chocolatey, Chocolatey we've done if you're on Linux, it'll be apt install NVM or whatever the case may be. You can also, if you're on Mac OS or Linux, you can copy this command and that'll install it for you as well. There's multiple different ways of doing it. Okay. I know this is a lot to take in, which is why I don't suggest you do it now while we're busy talking. The other thing you need to install is something called Composer. Now Composer is a package manager for PHP. So again, just like folks are writing packages in JavaScript, they're also writing them in PHP and there are certain packages that the Learn WordPress code base users that are written in PHP. Now again, depending on your operating system will determine how you install Composer. Because you've hopefully already got PowerShell and Chocolatey installed, you can install Composer, sorry, you can install PHP first and then Composer, very, very easy. So you will see in the Composer documentation, I don't think it actually says it at the top here. So let's go to the home page and then let's go get started. Sorry, I'm just moving these zoom controls around. Actually, let me just hide them. You will see that system requirements very specifically are, you need to be writing PHP version 7.2.5 or above. My recommendation is run something like version eight or newer, 7.4 is a deprecate version, so I wouldn't use that. Now, if you're using, let's say you're already using a local development environment like local WP or DevKinster or MAMP or any of those, those come with their own version of PHP installed. And in some cases, if you have that installed, you can use it with Composer. When I was preparing for this, I did a very quick search for local WP and Composer and you'll see that for local WP you have to basically curl SSH. You need to open the site to SSH because I think they're using some kind of virtualization. It looks like they're running some kind of Ubuntu virtualization because they're running apt-get, which is an Ubuntu or Debian command. And then you run all of this and then you can get Composer installed. If you're using something like DevKinster, there is also a way to do that. DevKinster uses Docker. So they do talk about here about how you can Docker execs and you can do the Composer setups and all of that. And so that is possible. My recommendation, depending on your environment, if you're on Windows, I recommend using Chocolatey to install PHP. It's just gonna make your life much easier. And I'm gonna go back to that video that I was playing for you earlier because I wanna show you how that works. So I don't know if I've actually got it here. No, I don't. But actually I might have it further down. I just wanna show you a very quick window. So this is Composer. This is means... So here we go. So there. Okay, let's just pause here for a second. Let's go back a few steps. There we go. So in Windows, if you're using Chocolatey, it installs everything in a folder called Tools. This is on Windows 11. Windows 10, I think it's a folder in your program files called Choco or something like that. I can't remember exactly where. But everything's in one specific folder. Now what's great, and it also sets up all the path environments and all the environment variables. What's great about that is once you install it through Chocolatey, you can just run the commands from PowerShell. And then when you're installing Composer, it picks up and you'll see in this previous step here, and that's why I went to this location, it picks up where that executable is. So I didn't have to do any massive configuration to get this to work. All I had to do, let me go back a few steps. In PowerShell, was, let me find the check quickly. Sorry folks, meant to edit this before the video, before the workshop, but I completely forgot. Where is it now? Here we go. I literally just had to run Choco install PHP and it did everything else for me. And then once it was installed, I could just run. So I tried to run PHP minus V from the command line to check if it was installed. It says it's not recognized yet, but if you're used to running in the terminal, often once you've installed something, you just close the terminal and reopen it. So I reopened PowerShell, which we'll see over here, ran PHP minus V, and PHP is installed and ready to rock and roll. So that is my recommendation. If you're running on Windows, if you don't really have a terminal, if you don't really have a package manager, that's why I recommend Choclity. It just makes everything easier. One final tip there. When you're installing software like Choclity, like NVM, like PHP, always make sure to run PowerShell as administrator. I'm gonna see if I can find the other. I clicked on PowerShell and I went run as administrator. This is effectively the same as running a Pseudo command on a Mac or on a Linux environment. You need those administrator privileges to be able to install the software to make sure it's available system-wide. Once you've installed the software, then you don't have to be an administrator to run the PHP commands or whatever the case may be, and you can then go ahead from there. But whenever you're installing software, using the terminal, using PowerShell, always make sure you're running as administrator. Right, on a Mac, you can do the same thing in Homebrew. You can install PHP just using brew install PHP. It'll install the latest version, which is currently 8.2, which is perfect. And then from there, you can then run the Composer installer. And then on Linux or any other kind of Unix environment, you will have whatever the package manages and you'll be able to install PHP that way. Once that's done, Composer supports an executable file that you can run locally. If you're on Linux, Unix, or Mac OS, you can download the file, you can run it, you can install it, and it just works. Same for Windows. You can download the Composer setup.exe, run it, install it, and it'll just work. And this is what I was doing in this video over here. So there I am running as administrator. I'm checking that the PHP version works. It does. I then simply pop on over to the Composer website, which I'm doing here. I download the Composer setup file, install it for all users. I don't know why the screen goes blank. And then it comes up and it says, right, do you want to install? And I just literally went next, next, next, next. It picked up where the PHP executable path is, and it was just installed and ready to rock and roll. And as soon as that was installed, I could then, and I think I do have it long here in a second, I could then open up my terminal, my PowerShell, and I could just run Composer. And I think it was uppercase v, not lowercase v. Yeah, I did it there, run second, uppercase v in there, and the Composer is installed and ready to rock and roll. So again, having a solid terminal, having a package manager that installs these things for you does make life a lot easier depending on your environment. The other way that you can install Composer is you can run the certain commands that you can run. There is this local option where you can download and install things. There is a global option. Essentially, you just need to be able to run Composer commands. My recommendation, if you're on a Linux or a Mac environment, just to follow the global method. So that effectively what you end up with is in your terminal, you can just run the single word Composer minus v. And once you can run that in your terminal, then you know it's installed and you can use it. Most of the software has a minus v switch that you can run. So NVM minus v gives me the version. Node minus v gives me the version. NPM minus v gives me the version. PHP minus v gives me the version. And then Composer specifically has an uppercase v. I don't know why Composer does that. But Composer is uppercase minus v uppercase and it gives me the version. When you can do all of those things, then you know you've got everything set up, everything is correctly configured and you can then continue from there. You can also do SVN minus v usually or subversion I think it is. Subversion is not found. Hang on, maybe it's not minus v. Let's just try something. So let's go SVN help. It's probably, there isn't a version option for SVN. It's so old. But you can see SVN is installed or subversion is installed. And then get minus v as well will give me the get version number. So whenever you, as long as you can run all of those commands, get SVN, NPM, PHP Composer, as long as you can run those commands from the root of your terminal, you should be good to go with all of that. Then Yarn. Now Yarn is very specific as you can see an NPM package. So Yarn, we will install using NPM, not homebrew or chocolaty or whatever other package manager we're using. So if you go to the NPM site and you search for Yarn, you will see there it is. And to install Yarn, you simply run, they don't have it here for some reason. There's a link to the installation guide. Let's go and have a look at that. There we go, into NPM install minus, minus global Yarn. So that's using the NPM package manager to install Yarn on your software. And again, just like all the others, you can normally run something like Yarn minus v and it'll give you a version number that it is installed. So that's all the setup. That's all the software setup that is needed first. And my homework for you all today, we haven't finished with the workshop yet, but my homework for you all today is to try and get all of that software set up. So if you're interested in doing this, I would like you to give it a try based on all the links that I've shared with you today. I would also like to offer you the opportunity to reach out to me in the Making WordPress Slack in what's known as the MetaLearn channel. The MetaLearn channel is a channel where we discuss specifically the Learn WordPress platform. We run triage, we run back triage, we do PR requests and all that kind of thing. To do that, you will just need to register a WordPress profile, which many of you probably have to have signed up for these Meetup events and you will need to make WordPress Slack account. And if you want to get the setup, I'm going to suggest we do it by this time next week because I'm probably going to be running the follow up session to this session next week. So if you would like to get this all set up, I'd like to give you some homework if you're interested to try and get this all set up on your local environment. And if you get stuck, reach out to me. Once you have, I'm going to open up my Slack instance very quickly. Once you have, that's the ZA Tech Slack, there is the MetaLearn channel. Once you're inside MetaLearn, you can either just ping me by going at Jonathan and there I am there. I don't know how I managed to get my first name as my Slack name in the Make Slack because there are other Jonathan's around. But if you just go at Jonathan, I am there. I see Eric's giving us a hello there. So you can ping me that way. Or if you're really, really stuck and you need me to kind of read something and you don't want to spam this channel, you're welcome to send me a private message. The easiest way to do that is to search for me in the direct messages list. If you click on the plus there and you type in my name, Jonathan, there's my picture. You can click on that. I'm not going to send a message to myself now, but that will send a private message to me as well. What I would like to do though is encourage you to have the conversation in the MetaLearn channel because then you might be asking a question that other folks are asking as well. And then we can all kind of learn and help each other. You might be asking a question at a time that I'm not around, but somebody else might be able to help. So I would like to encourage you to use this channel to get this set up. Let people know you're busy getting it set up. You're busy struggling with whatever the software is. And I'd like to help you in getting this environment set up if you're interested. Okay. So that is the list of software that's needed. So once all of this software is installed and ready to rock and roll, now you can start thinking about cloning the repository, creating a branch, installing the dependencies and running the local environment. I'm going to go through this fairly quickly because we are running out of time, but it's not the most difficult set of steps. Before I do that, I'm going to close down this massive tabs that I've opened up here. And I'm just going to get to the core code base that I have in my local environment. I know it wasn't that one. It was this one. Okay. So the first step is to clone the repository to my local environment. In the GitHub user interface, there's this code button. If you click on it, you can either copy the HTTPS version or the SSH version of the URL. To use the SSH version, you need to set up SSH keys. For now, I just suggest working with HTTPS version. It just makes life a little bit easier. So if you copy that URL and switch to your local environment and just put it anywhere where you would typically work on things. My general place for projects is in my development projects directory. And I do already have a learn WordPress directory here. So I'm going to remove it very quickly. There we go, our learn WordPress. And that might take a while because I think it's quite big. There we go, it's done. Okay. So to then clone this repository to your local environment, you're going to run the following commands. You're going to say, get clone and you're going to paste the HTTPS URL. Now you'll notice that the name of the repository is this learn-wordpress. So what that's going to do is it's going to create a folder called learn-wordpress and put all the code in there. If I hit enter now, it says right, cloning into learn-wordpress, getting all the files, downloading all the files ready to rock and roll. If I now open up, I'm going to open up visual code studio and I go and browse to that location. So let's go development projects. I've got a whole bunch of other projects that I'm fiddling with here, learn-wordpress. There it is. And there is the code. And you'll see, if I have a look at the readme file, it talks about the prerequisites, which we've already covered. It has a package.js on file. These are all the NPM dependencies that we'll need to install. It has a composer.js on file, which is all the composer dependencies we need to install. It also has some other things that I'm not going to dive into right now. It also has a yarn lock, which is all the yarn specific stuff that we need. And then inside of the WP content directory, it has the plugins and the themes, which are the code that run learn-wordpress. I'm not going to dive into that just yet. I want to get the local environment set up. What's great about the readme is it talks you through the process of how to run this locally. And you'll see that once I have everything set up, it's literally three commands. I run yarn, I run yarn run create, and then I can visit the local environment at this address. So let's see if this works. So I'm going to switch to that cloned repository that I just created. I'm going to just list the files in here. If you're on Windows, it would be DIR, similar thing. So it's the same place. And then I'm going to run yarn. Now, depending on your internet speed and depending on what you're really having installed and set up, it's going to do some things. You'll see here, it's saying to me that the engine node is incompatible with this module. It expects 12, 14, and 16. I'm running version 18. So I've switched to version 18, but I want to use version 16. Now, because I've got NVM installed, NVM, not NPM, NVM, I can simply go NVM use 16. And it'll switch the node version to version 16 for this project. And this is what I love about NVM, and it's why I recommend installing it. Because now if I run yarn, now it shouldn't give me that error because I've switched the version of node to be used for this project to version 16. You'll see it has given me some warnings. So I'm not too worried about those just yet, but it's busy doing some things in the background. It's busy installing files, doing various other things, downloading packages. It might download the Docker environment. It might do a whole bunch of other things. That seems to be done. So we're happy with that. Let me clear this up. So that was fine. That didn't seem to have any problems. The next one is to run yarn run create. So let's copy that and let's run that. So here again, now it's done. So these are the composer packages or the PHP packages that this thing needs. So it's downloading and installing those. It's checking some things out from WordPress meta. This is what it's using SVN for this. This is why we need SVN. So it's getting some local detection plugins, some WordPress meta pub plugin, some WP.org plugin, getting some more PHP plugins. It's doing, now it's doing some yarn type things and some other things. There are some deprecation warnings, but nothing's failed just yet. And you'll see now it's running WP and VSTOT. Now, I already have the containers on my machine. So this step might take a little bit longer on your side. It might have to download the container and then run it in Docker. But because I already have them, it's already running. It'll start up some things. The theme will get activated. The plugins will get activated. So far, everything seems to be going well. It does some URL rewriting. It imports the database. It sets up some locale things, some more locale data. Then it runs this import test content script, which basically connects to learn WordPress and downloads all of the tutorials. And I think all of the lesson plans, I'm not quite sure if it's both. It might just be the tutorials, if I look at ya. They're called workshops. They used to be called workshops. They're now called tutorials. But it downloads all the tutorials so you have some data to work with. It doesn't download the courses. You'll have to add those manually. And it looks like it doesn't download the lesson plans either. But you'll see here, this one took me 78.45 seconds. I have a fairly okay internet speed. I already have those Docker containers installed, as I mentioned. So that made the process a little bit quicker. Elliot says, do we clone learn from WordPress or from no, from my account? No, you clone it from learn WordPress. So on your GitHub account, you go to github.com, wordpress.learn, slash learn WordPress, sorry, slash learn and you clone it, you fork it from there. And once you've forked it to your account, then you clone from your account. So you fork from here to your account. And then once you've forked into your account, then you switch to your account and go to your repositories and you clone from there. You can also clone from learn WordPress, but then you're not gonna be able to push that data back. Okay, cool. So theoretically now, that means everything should be working. And yes, this is my nervous voice because this is the part of the live demo where everything could go wrong. But now I should be able to go to local host 8888 or quad, eight or whatever that is. I'm going to just do one thing and I don't expect you to do this, but I'm going to turn off some of my local virtualization that I have running. The only reason I do that is because it conflicts with WPNV sometime, but this is my other local environment. And now if I open up my browser, where's my browser gone? There it is. Now if I go to local host colon 8888, I should see the learn WordPress code base up and running in my local environment. And there it is. If you do get to this point on your own, you can now log in. The username and password is simply admin and password which is documented in the README. I think it's somewhere here. Yeah, there it is under admin. So the username is admin. The password is password. Let me switch back over here. This does take a while sometimes. I have noticed that when I run it locally, it does take a while to load on my machine. I think it's got to do with the multipass virtualization that I use. So I'm going to quit that now quickly, but here it is. I'm going to type in admin and password. I'm not going to log in just yet because I want to just deal with this warning. So you'll notice here, it says warning and unexpected error code. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this service configuration. Essentially what this is trying to do is it's trying to connect to WordPress.org to do something. This has never caused me any problems when I'm running this site locally. So if you do see that message, don't stress too much about it. You may have seen it on your own WordPress sites before where it tries to run the Heartbeat API and it can't connect to the WordPress.org service for some reason. I don't know why it happens, but it sometimes happens to me. But if I log in here now, again, sometimes this takes a while, I will basically have access to a version of the Learn WordPress website. I will be able to browse the tutorials. I'll be able to create some courses, everything in my local environment, and then I can work with the code and I can try changes and test and do different types of things. As I say, this does sometimes take a while. I haven't quite figured out what it is. So just bear with it. It does eventually work. But I just have to wait a few seconds and wait for it to come up. Yeah, this is taking it longer than I'm used to. Normally by now it's pretty quick. So I don't know why this is taking so long. I don't know if it's a series of commands that are trying to connect to WordPress.org. As you can see, the front end still loads pretty fast. For some reason, the login takes a while. Sometimes navigating the dashboard takes a while. But the front end still works. So what I'm gonna try and do is I'm gonna try and see if I can get to the dashboard. Let's start this way. See if I can get through it this way quickly. Oh, there we go. It's still loading. Still trying to log in. Not sure why that's a problem. Let me just stop loading that. I could enable debugging and see what errors are happening. But there we go. Okay, so while that's happening, Elliot has a question. So to pick up tickets and issues, we need to go back to the WordPress learn repository. Correct. So if you want to fix a bug for learn WordPress, you would go back to the learn WordPress repository. You would click on the issues tab and then you would search for anything with the label bug. Because we use the issues tab for both code related problems and content. So my recommendation is to filter by bug. I will share this link with you in the chat. And then here you will see all the bugs that have been reported. And then you can see if there's any you wanna fix. The dashboard has loaded. So here it is. As you can see, there's something. Something is trying to connect somewhere and it's not very happy. So that's why it's taking a while. But here it is set up. I've got lesson plans. I've got tutorials. I've got the Sensei course plugin installed. So I can now work with this and I can now test this. Okay. Yeah, so here are the bugs. My recommendation, if you want to fix something, we're gonna dive into this a little bit more next week but it's a good idea to cover it now. So there is a bug that I actually want to work with. I'm going to give me one second while I just find the bug very quickly. It's one that I specifically highlighted for this workshop. It's this one over here. This is actually more of a feature enhancement that folks have asked for. Somebody said it might be a good idea to see when the content was either created, published or updated. So that's the issue I'm planning on working on. So what I recommend you do if you find an issue that you want to work on. Sorry, let me just search for bugs again, find it and then just leave a comment on the issue and say, I am interested in working on this. So in the comments area, just leave a comment to say I am interested in fixing this. The reason I suggest that is because every week I run something called a bug triage. But basically we sit and we look at any open bugs and we verify whether they need to be fixed or not. And we sort of assign them priority and then we go from there. During those sessions, if I see someone that's interested, I will be able to assign them to that issue and then let them work on it and sort of follow up with them and keep an eye on what's going on. So if you want to fix a bug, I don't suggest just starting to fix it because what might happen is somebody else might decide to fix it and then two of you are working it on the same time. So all I suggest is just commenting on the bug and saying, hey, I'd like to give this a fix and then somebody from the team will probably respond and either assign it to you or have a chat with you about it. But we're going to dive into that all next week. So next week, my plan is now that we've got the local environment set up I'm going to show you, I was going to show you how to create a branch. We're not going to do that this week. We're going to do that next week I'm going to take this out of here. Next week we'll create a branch locally I'll explain why we're doing that. We'll work on the bug. I'll probably code the fix before next week session and I'll just kind of show you what my intended fixes and then I'll show you how I submit that as a pull request so that somebody else can review it and then we'll go through from there. So this will probably be next week there'll be another session and I'll also allow some time for any questions about the setup process. If you get stuck on that process between now and next week and you don't get a chance to ask them to me and they're made to learn feel free to bring them there as well. And then I'll actually sit and we'll work on a bug, fix it and create the pull request so that it can be merged. Okay, that was I know a lot of information. It was me just talking just you know, rambling information out there. Hopefully I've given you some guidance on how to get started and where to go. My suggestion as I say is number one make sure you've got your GitHub account. Make sure you've cloned the loan WordPress code to your personal GitHub account. Then make sure you've got a terminal, a working terminal. So if you're on a Mac, you've got a terminal already. If you're on Windows use PowerShell and get the one from the button. So there's on Windows 11 there's something called Windows PowerShell that I think gets installed on Windows 11 but then you can also install PowerShell separately. I recommend installing PowerShell separately. It's much more powerful. You can do a lot more with it. One of the things you can do with it is install Chocolatey. So on Windows get PowerShell, get Chocolatey and then if you have some time go through this installing Node.js and NPM because if you can get through that and get those things set up you've got a lot of the prerequisites installed already. So yes, this is me promoting my own content but it's a good place to start. Once you've got all that set up then look at getting Docker installed use your package manager to install get and subversion. If you've gone through that tutorial you'll already have, sorry, I'm rushing I'm talking fast, slow down. You'll already have NVM and Node installed install composer from the composer installation instructions and install Yarn from the NPM packages. If you decide you wanna do this and if you get stuck please do reach out to me in the Metaslack. I'm not around all the time I'm around from 8 a.m to 5 p.m South Africa time but if you do ask a question I will respond when I get back but hopefully somebody else who's around will be able to respond as well. Jamie who you'll see here is somebody who's in Australia time. So he might see US time questions and be able to answer them he's already got the environment set up himself so he might be able to help and there are others in this channel that might be able to help as well. So I encourage you to give it a try see if you can get to that point where you've at least got the learn WordPress code base up and running in your local host quadruple eight and then next week we will kick off with how we fix a bug and how we submit the pull request. Okay, any other questions on all of that before we wrap up fix today? Cool, it looks like we have no further questions. I will be uploading this video to WordPress TV during the course of the day tomorrow. So if you want to watch this again and refresh your memory, use it in the different spaces feel free to let me know. All the links to all the different pieces of software are in here. So in the slides, I have linked from the meetup.com event. So you're welcome to grab them for there. I specifically linked the Google slides so that it should be easier for you to click on links and copy paste things and all of that. So they are listed here in the comments on the meetup. Thank you all for joining me. As I say, we will be running part two of this next week. So if you would like to get this all set up by next week, I encourage you to do that. Otherwise just join me next week and we'll fix a bug together. But otherwise enjoy the rest of your week, enjoy the rest of your Wednesday and I will see you either tomorrow in my workshop tomorrow or I'll see you next week. Thank you very much and goodbye.

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Northern Dental Access Center Finalist For Rural Health Award

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The Northern Dental Access Center has been selected as a finalist for the National Rural Health Award. Over 100 applications were received by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, which selected the center and two other finalists, the award honors non-profit government agencies and individuals for their work to improve rural health care and help spread the initiatives in other areas. We're always humbled when people look at what we do and appreciate it. We've got a very hardworking staff, we've got space issues as many people know, but we're doing the best we can do here and to nationally be seen as doing that well. It's very humbling. Now the trust fund will announce the winner at the end of the month in North Carolina. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.

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David hoffmeister ACIM Talk #3 A Course In Miracles

Practice and live the mystical teachings of Jesus assisted by online courses, online retreats, and an online Tribe of Christ community: https://the-christ.net  https://livingmiraclescenter.org If you enjoyed this session with David please subscribe, like, and share!!! Tilba, Australia 2009 -David's Journey to the Course * If this video has been of value to you, please make a donation so we can continue offering these free teachings: https://livingmiraclescenter.nationbuilder.com/donate Online bookstore: http://store.livingmiraclescenter.org/ Movie Watcher’s Guide to Enlightenment: http://mwge.org/ Online Mystical Mind Training Program: http://mysticalmindtraining.org/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles 😍 ————————————————————————————————————————— Follow David Hoffmeister on: Facebook ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Spreaker ▶ https://www.spreaker.com/user/davidhoffmeister Twitter ▶ https://twitter.com/ACIM_YouTube Pinterest ▶ https://www.pinterest.com/mysticspiritone Visit David's website ▶ https://davidhoffmeister.com/david-hoffmeister-the-message/metaphysics-of-a-course-in-miracles/ Read A Course In Miracles for free ▶ https://acim.biz/a-course-in-miracles-book-acim/ Discover the amazing Mystical Mind Training program ▶ https://awakening-mind.org/resources/a-course-in-miracles/ Search and Read A Course In Miracles for free ▶ https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/ Listen to David read ACIM Text, WB Lesson 1, and his commentary ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imiGL2YS2uo Watch ACIM WB Lesson 1 video with David's voice as background ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlwOZLlUGg #ACourseinMiracles #ACIM #Spirituality #Spiritual #Awakening #Enlightenment #DavidHoffmeister ———————————————————————————————————————— a course in miracles - a course in miracles audio book.. a course in miracles audio book. acim "a course in miracles" goes to the movies. If you read a course in miracles review you’ll find a variety of opinions on a course in miracles but the words of David Hoffmeister will give you a clear and uncompromising message. Learn more - introduction to “a course in miracles”: .. if you are looking for an acim audiobook that has a table of contents that is synced with the contents of the course we recommend the "a course in miracles mp3 set which is available. serenity through a course in miracles verses read. a course in miracles; coronavirus, the economy, and healing are subjects of many popular videos. a course in miracles audiobook - acim text preface through ch 8 - foundation for inner peace.

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I think I had a curiosity about this world like a lot of people do because I think I remember hearing people tell me God is all-knowing and all-loving and all-powerful. That sounds cool. That's really cool. And then like everyone I went through experiences and perceived things like my grandfather being diagnosed with cancer and kind of dwindling down to a walking skeleton from a very large happy man like Santa Claus to a walking skeleton who can hardly just feel a little bit of skin on the skeleton. I was like my perception of chemotherapy and losing his hair and pain and that's just one example among many things where I reached a point where I said to myself, there's something fishy about this world but I don't know what it is. Everybody seems to be playing the emperor has no clothes on. God is all-love, God is love, God is love, God is love, God is love. All-knowing, all-powerful, inefficent, wonderful. So there's a contradiction. Where do we go with pain and suffering and conflict and war? God is love. So I think that I kind of got taken down into my mind where I got quite stirred up when I watched my grandfather get strapped up like an animal at the end of his life. And put in like a straight jacket because he was going through so much in the hospital and it was quite an intense scene to watch. I remember I kind of went home that night and the last time I saw my grandfather and I was like the shootout at the okayed-for-route, God and David. How could you let that happen? How could you have anything to do with what my eyes saw when I perceived in the hospital when I had a real deep thing? There's really this sense of, oh my beloved, I have nothing to do with what you perceive. You're looking through a darkened glass and you've got a problem going on. And the spirit was like saying, I'll help you if you're willing. So that kind of lashed me into esoteric writings and philosophies, psychology, all kinds of deep, deep searching and ponderings. And then it seemed like during those ponderings I would have this intuitive something right in the core of my chest. It was like somebody had to tickle a little feather and they were tickling on the inside of my heart. Whenever I would read a book or hear a song or something, there was this tickling going on that I was aware wasn't intellectual at all. It wasn't a theory or anything. It was this intense experience that even though I was in ten years of university and I was very well read and did much searching, the tickle was very intense at certain times. In that sense it was like that was my touchstone, that was my inroads to spirituality. Follow the tickle. A simple, follow the tickle. And then the tickle led me through humanistic psychology and transperson psychology. It led me to that book, it's back on the table back there, the one with the sparkly reflections on it called A Course in Miracles. And when I opened up that book it was as if I had waved like a giant tsunami of love just washing over me. And it was this feeling like my life would never be the same and it was a self-study book so well that's good. It was one form of the universal curriculum that there were thousands of pathways to God. Well that's a good start. Picked up a book that doesn't say it's the only way. Thank God. There's a little bit of open-mindedness there. But it did say that it was a required course and that free will meant that I could not establish the curriculum but only the time I take it was voluntary. So I thought, well it's saying it's a pathway to God and if I'm choosing to really give myself over to it then I just might arrive at the destination. And it said the same thing that Jesus said 2000 years ago. The kingdom of heaven is within you. Don't look outside yourself to try to find the truth. You've got it. You've got the answer. It's just buried onto a bunch of judgments and grievances and so forth. And I said okay. So when I started working with the Course of Miracles the tickle, oh it would not stop. It was like I was just kind of lifted up by the tickle and it moved me so deeply that I thought well one thing's for sure I'm going to give myself over to this pathway that has dropped in my lap. Because I want to be happy. I want to know joy. I want to know happiness. I want to know everlasting life. And I was quite, I was raised in Christianity. I was very well versed in Buddhism and Hinduism and many different philosophies. But I'm ready for the experience. I'm not ready for comparative religion here or becoming a philosophy teacher. I want happiness, joy, love. So I poured myself into it for about 8 hours a day and even when I would get into ego resistance my eyelids would get real heavy. Like I had little lead weights that were on. I would read the book for hours of time and then the lead weights would come down like no more. Stop this. Stop. Shut down. Shut down. And so I would just go within and the boys would say take a nap. Have a snack. Have an apple. Go for a walk. Go for a swim. Very loving. Just ease up on yourself. Don't push it. Don't force it. Be soft. Be gentle. So I would. And then I'd come back and ask a question in my mind. I'd pop the book open. The answer was right there every time I'd pop the book open to exactly what I asked. But I was so excited with the answer I would read on until my eyes would be heavy again. So I would average about 8 hours a day. That's about a lot. I could handle. The ego could handle was about 8 hours a day. And then after about two and a half years an interesting thing started happening. I heard the voice of Jesus speaking to me in my mind in conversational tones and directing my every move. Talk about an easy life. Go here. Go there. Oh, you forgot your keys. Pump on the gasp. That's good. That'll start the car. Don't forget to pump the gasp. This is the most tiny little things. Turn around. Look over there. Call so and so. Don't forget the numbers this. No, I said 7-7-4. It was like, you can imagine if you had the voice of Jesus in your mind whispering to you and guiding and directing your every step. Well, life could get pretty easy. Especially if you had, we'll call it the master psychologist. One who had gone through the temptations of the world and come out through the keyhole and basically said, oh, really, it's all good. And be of good cheer for I've overcome the world, the ego thinking of the world. The world's your friend when you're friendly. It's just a matter of learning how to forgive and be truly friendly. Then the world becomes your friend.

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Harvey Luv on Rap-A-Lot Scarface Big Mello, Gets Boys, Bushwick Bill, UGK J Prince (Full Interview)

Harvey Luv on Rap-A-Lot Scarface Big Mello, Gets Boys, Bushwick Bill, UGK Harvey Luv Details the Journey The Music How it All Begin From DJ Days to getting in the studio with some Legends J Prince Harvey Luv Gives a Great History Lesson on H-TOWN And the Sound #ugk #rapalot #bosstalk101 Visit and Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bosstalkpodcast101 Visit Our Website and Subcribe: https://bosstalkpodcast101.com Subscribe NOW to BOSS Talk 101 its a Unique Hustle: https://youtube.com/c/ECeoUniqueFashions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/e_ceo_/?hl=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bosstalkpodcast101/?hl=en Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boss-talk-podcast-101/id1555978974 Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yD2UzYyp3Pg9JwBjgK92j

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Check it. Check it. Check it. It's a unique house. It's your boy e ceo And I'm here with the lovely amazing official mr. Mako. What's going on? Man, hey man, check it man. Look out man. We down here in H town man. Hey man We got somebody that's very very special this guy right here man. He been putting it down man Them sounds that you hear man. This guy right here is the one that'll do that for you This guy might have might even be on the wheels or still is what we used to call it man Check it man. My boy Harvey is in the building. Yes, man. Yes, man. Yes I'm Harvey love to come down King's super producer. You know, I'm saying call by many So I'm here in the county for man. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Yes, sir You know my honor and my pleasure you one of them guys man. They say I had to talk to you So that's what God did God did You know, that's what he was doing down there the God been doing it But they just all of a sudden got a handle of right. I did right now God done. You know Still doing Still doing. Yeah, you know, what if you don't do nothing else he done enough for me? Absolutely real time um, so when you When you think about the Houston sound when you think about that sound to me and look he he talked about when I was over there And he say Dallas, you know, they just never did find a sound and they and ESG told me the same thing when he came Dallas it was just we found our sound early on You also had to have a beat. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah You also had to have a beat that sounded somewhat a Houston sound, right, right? They talked about the cadence of the music But but the cadence of the voice, but I'm talking about the sound of the music. Absolutely, but I Get what he and kick you the same but at the same time Dallas was always able to come with a hit though. You could always get a hit record from Dallas, you know You know, yeah, yeah, that's how it ended in the data several times They be jigging with it. They you know, yeah, you know, you're gonna rock when you get there a lot of songs I didn't even know, you know existed, but it rock in that area and it's I mean, they be hit songs I mean, I'm sorry So so just let's go down through there a little bit with him. Let's figure out who this guy is We don't even know who this is. He could be an imposter. Maybe this ain't hard Somebody else, you know, cuz you know Harvey is a name that when I thought about him like damn I know he must really been kind of like damn Harvey. Well, then when the when the storm came it was like man You know that had to be something. Well, let me tell you what separates me from other Harvest my name is Harvey love Harvey L. U. V. And There's what reason why I say that is because it's 4,000 Harvest in the United States. I already check He didn't count it the harvest. Well the last thing you check, you know, there are more being born every day And now you know, you're right. We just embarked on eight eight billion people worldwide now So you are right about that. So it may be way more than 4,000 because that was good No, well, I guess a couple of years ago, right? Oh, yeah That's a lot more now. I just don't think that people just run around here. So you know call them sales Harvey, but A long line of Harvest already So you're born and raised in Houston. Yes. Yes. What part what part Houston? I'm in the third ward area as far as born, but I'm raised in harm club I left third wall when I was what 12 years old and I've been in harm club. You know Scott Street. What? Live off of Scott, you see what I mean? Absolutely Scott Street story. Yeah. Yeah, for sure man How was it coming up though that early on like you hear stories about the third the field? How was it on Scott Street? That's that street had a reputation. Well, it's historic You know, I mean you can get to so many different, you know institutions off of Scott Street You know, you can you I mean just so many ways. I mean Yates is off of what like Scott and Samson, okay? So, you know, it's it's very very There you go very very popular. It's for you know, that strip, you know, whatever McGowan is Emancipation is, you know, I'm saying so it's you know a lot of historic streets where a lot of things happened back in the day, but I Say that because that's where a lot of my fun going up was or whatever But I was always too young now I was able to really retro, you know, really recognize it in retrospect when I look back It's a man. It was a lot going on, you know, and all of that in third water, whatever But in harm Clark, I gotta bring that up. We have our streets as well So it seems like you like harm Clark better than the reward never, you know, I like the same Because what it is, I don't like and I don't like third one better than harm Clark either because, you know, I Was born in born in harm Clark, but like I said, you know, her third one You're born in third Ward. Yeah, third one. I was born in third Ward, but harm Clark raised me, right? And so, you know, I Hey, that's why I got my bones and they you know, they actually adopted me as one of their own So when people say, hey, where you from from harm Clark because they you know I was just regular Harvey Kelly in third Ward, you know, whatever. I was DJing and stuff like that I've been DJing since I was eight years old. Eight years old. Who turns you on to DJ? Well, my mother put me in DJing because Let me have to explain this. My mother had a cat had a club. Your mother had a club Mm-hmm. My mother had a club and had nobody to babysit. You had a hip mop. Yeah, she was on the club So I Was sleep on the pool tables or whatever. I didn't have any I didn't have Exactly what it was. I know what I do join in you box That's it. Okay. It's a joint. It was a dream running with your daddy. Oh, yes, you did She cooks them. I named it after my father. Okay. What was the name of it? Yeah, this career, but but did y'all have some with some fish and stuff in there to eat Do we have a little in there? Yeah, she served food. My mother was a professional cook, too Yeah, that's cat food. She hasn't catfished in there. She had everything. I'm getting home, Brazil She had everything and we didn't have any babysitter, you know for me, you know And so I would have to sleep on the pool tea. She had an extra pool table in the back She wasn't using whatever I had to sleep on the pool table to be out the way to grown-ups and all that After I come home from school and all that I didn't go home. I went to my mother's club, you know You must have been the oldest one. I was the only one. Oh, so you're the only child I'm an only child. I have two sisters, but they never lived with me. So I grew up the only child older older and younger Oh, I'm in the middle and I'm adopted to the mother that had the club. I'm adopted to her So where's your mom? Well my biological mom No, that's the thing that I teach other people like, you know, you biological, you know Well, the thing is she's still around me. I talk to her all the time every day So you knew her while you were growing up? I did. I actually met her later on. How old were you when you met her? Probably about I mean, I probably about what five six. Okay, not that later on I thought you were just gonna say like teenager. No, we were always all together, you know So my my deal was, you know, she she's a very good lady I mean my mother, you know had, you know, like helped us both out like brother and sister for a minute You know, so it's it would turn out it was a good situation. That's good Do that and end up adopting the kids because sometimes they'll they knew I don't know what your your biological mom situation was right, but a lot of people that I know to have Done that it was usually because the person was on drugs and couldn't get to two carols, right? The child so they went ahead and took the child right and raised him in the fall in love and then adopting that right Well in this situation in this situation, it wasn't it wasn't like that. Okay, glory be to God for that But it wasn't like that. She was young, you know, she's only 15 years old when she had you exactly exactly so my mother No story short on that my mother adopted me, you know and raised me and I feel like I mean beat me like Nobody's business. You know me like with that bill, you know, so like but I thank God for every lick because I've never been in any trouble She raised me. I mean like I mean to be, you know, just honorable respectful, you know, like right now I mean like I don't care who is who it is a man woman child Anybody I'm gonna hold the door and wait for you to get there I'm gonna hold the door and you know open the door for people to get in the car Oh, whatever because those are things that you just just things that I would talk You know, I was taught as a youngster, you know, and I used to really get real spankers for that I have a father in the house as well because you know, a lot of people absolutely don't have that statistics of a black You know man or black person is the father is not in the home is the split family. Yeah Yeah, and I mean, you know different circumstances that make that that way that is too. I know that's a whole different deal But I just I commend you man You you you you come from a Situation where God he made a way for y'all to know absolutely and you know, you said you mentioned God earlier We're always I look at that in the conversation. So even in your voice you can hear that you was raised Either around somebody that was spiritual You can hear it in your voice my mother you hear what I just say absolutely. I know it I don't have to great. I don't have to that's how I know I can try to spirit The words say you have to have a spirit of discernment. It talks about that in 1st Corinthians chapter 12 It talks about the gifts of the spirit exactly And that's something that I look at like I can tell just by the way that you know the tree by the fruits that it bear So when I'm listening to you talk and I hear your dialect, I can hear God in you Absolutely, God gives us all that but it's you know, it's up to you to pray for you know to be able to recognize that I just thank God for you brother. I mean, you know, that's what people don't understand. Everybody don't get the same Interview right God tell me what to say absolutely. I'm toned in I'm tapped in with God Yeah, so when I see if you need to hear something to say we got to get it together And he tell me what to talk about on that if he if you tell me to tell somebody to let's keep going Because you got it going on in me then I tell you that too. Oh, man, you feel Absolutely, I think God for just having the spirit of discernment, you know what I mean? So I When you think about just the music though, did you well? How did you first like start just like playing the music? Well, this is what happened like I was saying about the DJ and Back when I you know not dating myself, but you know pretty much my you know, I'm public knowledge When I started DJing I was like I said I was eight years old because I was Fascinated by the DJ see like today's in today's clubs DJs are every day. I mean, you have a DJ That's that's how the music is played in clubs and if you don't have your iPad I guess or something like that But back then it was jukebox through the week live DJs on weekends So on the weekends, I was just so fascinated by this DJ named Wild Child Okay, that would he shout out Wild Child. Yeah, he's still living. I think that Wild Child pass man And you got it. Yeah, I think this is like 40, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So my deal is Wild Child will be DJing and I was just so fascinated the way he could just make the records play Himself as opposed to just sitting back watching this this machine play the records, you know He playing them, you know, and what about requests and he talking to the crowd and they dancing and responding to what he's saying and all that I wanted that and so my mother got him to teach me Hey teach my boy that one of because it was gonna give me something to do I would be so bored after doing the homework and all that kind of stuff like that So once I got into that or whatever I used to have to stand on milk crates little square To reach the table there's all once I did that by the time I was like 1011 whatever you know, I started this because this is just before I moved time clock So I'm about ten years old They turn to me lose sometimes for our At the club my friends couldn't even come in that's why a lot of my friends never saw me DJ or whatever because they Were too young to come in the club. It's almost like this is after-school tutoring So this is I'm giving you the full circle how it made me popular and I had put me out there blew me up like that Well when I was DJing All of a sudden people start coming from far near to see this kid that knows how to play all these songs on it And I'm like come on y'all everybody get up talking to them talking to them So it everybody starts saying like man, look at this little key And how old was this? I was 11 about that time. It's hard. By the time I turned 12 I was the only DJ watch I would need you know DJ in there anymore. Hold on. Was your mama paying you? I guess I don't know She paid me but let me sleep Taking me to school feed me and all that on yeah, so She doing it at whatever and you know I see how that helped a lot too because she got more clientele because they wanted to see this This little phenom kid doing that and plus like you know like you just said, you know She wouldn't have to pay why I have to pay him And then I'm trying to cry out to Yeah, she really pulled the play on You know and I've worked in corporate America Training the new guy, you know you Place Believe that you know saying so same thing so it happened that way and then by this time, you know Cuz I'm going to Ryan. I'm going to run and I'm in talent shows and stuff like that Ryan is the middle school. Okay Like a lot of people that went to Yates. They came from Ryan middle school So I met Ryan. I'm in talent shows. I'm DJ and the party's there Graduated from Ryan went to Madison. Now this time. I moved behind Clark now I'm the main DJ even at ninth grade for all of the Madison parties the home Cummins and all this kind of stuff like that and My name is Harvey Kelly But I started, you know, like I'm DJ Harvey love DJ Harvey love whatever and so I started DJing for the The teachers or if they private parties at their own house and they would trust me I never took nobody's business back to school and all this kind of stuff like that Not that they were doing anything wrong and they wasn't doing anything wrong But they saw that man, he's like a little grown-up. He can trust him He did know how to play the right music. Yeah, all the teachers start hiring me on the weekends stuff for their own Parties at home and I never would come back to school saying hey, I did, you know, Miss Anderson's work miss You know, I just I never would do that. Yeah, I'll never you trustworthy. Yeah I'll never would say I DJ for a teacher. It never got back to school So when they did that they wouldn't know by them knowing me like that They will start calling me Harvey love my mind by my stage name versus my real name. Yeah, I'm putting it on my test papers Everything that's why a lot of people don't even know my name was Harvey Kelly Well, not that they got I got, you know, we got Facebook and all this kind of stuff like that They know it and whatever but it's been Harvey love Harvey love Harvey love and that popularity blew me up in school And that's how I got me so so you get when did you first? Start, you know Producing the tracks to tracks. This is what happened Big mellow. Yeah, okay. Okay. That's what put me in the game professionally So because he and I would you know, he was the rapper I was the DJ at all of Madison Towner shows We got together and got you know with professional Simon Rappelot after we after we graduated How are you so? 19 yeah, I was 19. I was yeah, I was 8 I graduated 17 turned 18 next month. I Was 19 years old. Okay, so yeah, I'm not signed a rapper I was on there when you're like me Scarface, you know, willy-dee all of us, you know So, you know, it was big Mike. What Mr. Lee there with y'all. He wasn't there yet No, Lee wasn't there really so that was early on it was early. I don't I don't believe it was there You was early with it. It was like, yeah, yes indeed. Yeah, yeah, so you was there when I never seen a man cry Until I've seen the man Scarface, you know me and Scarface tight tight tight He so each sung us that song I can I can tell you what we were like in his car And he was just letting us hear the demo tape of that song What up the ghetto? I mean like I remember like with my Patrick's on me That was a song that was gonna be like some solo stuff that he was doing but it fit the ghetto boys better Yeah, as a group. How did they came up with that with that little face? Meaning said that it fit the whole ghetto No, no, I don't know how they I guess they got together and that but you see what I'm saying Okay, we were at a club called boomerang Scarface let me hear that him rapping that song by himself now will you know Willie D and that's why We just heard absolutely so Willie D and Bush because it was probably involved They probably wrote all wrote the song together whatever but when face let us hear it was just him by itself And so I'm like man, that's amazing. That song was amazing. No, it was good. Oh, man I already knew about though, you know, because for me from DJ Yeah, I already knew about the war Sample that he used and everything I already knew what you know, it was just like wow wow and the eyes of haze I the eyes of haze and stuff. Yeah That's what it was that the eyes of haze. So it was like man. It was so it was amazing. Yeah, I'm saying so We you know, I'm like wow man that music break that he took that music made How did you how did you when you heard the the final version? How did you it was crazy? It was like what the hell it was what it was way above what I could have anticipated Yeah, cuz when you think about it was crazy People don't like Willie D wrote that verse for Bushwick. Yeah. Yeah, but he's a monster God it fit him. Well, he is a monster in that studio man. I never say it. Uh, then they could say it Uh Fifth Ward is his spot where niggas get shot I don't know who sell cock and every block the niggas stars if they don't start it with bill like like This man wrote this and be of what bill wasn't from here. Was he with billers from Bushwick? You from New York. He was from New York. Bushwick, Brooklyn. Yeah, but he came here and he Will it be start pushing him into this culture with the way he was right man. Well Bill was actually there, but you know with Johnny C in ready read, you know, it bill was there in jukebox Okay, bill was there before everything. So he was there all the time all the time. Yeah, he likes so he was running south really We are here. Well, he was here. Yeah, man, but bill was nice bill was nice, too I mean like he would he's just a such a such a perform RMP the video performance man was amazing I mean if you know you if you know wouldn't if you didn't see your witness These shows that the ghetto boys were doing as a you wouldn't even treat. Oh my goodness. We were we on the label with him We're on the show we opening up. We doing this, you know me and big mellow whatever mellow had a maze and roll He would be with us. Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay. He would be with us You know because it was big mellow in the bonfire productions boner production peach and big mellow Whatever that was our group. He would finish our show Go back in the dressing room change and come back out You know saying either with the ghetto boys or with Scarface, you know what he wouldn't pretty much be together But he'll be like Scarface is high man and Scarface doing a like a show by you know solo because he was so so Scarface was solo artist as well. Yeah. Yeah, so so mellow was Scarface's hype man So he was really working that. I mean that mellow got to be probably The most one of the most talented artists I've ever worked with in my life. Wow, so ever what you mean? Ever even more talented. He's coffee. He seems well Well, I'm not gonna ever say he could rap better than Scarface because Scarface is my fave. He might go Yeah, so I'm not gonna say you know him and it's two people that I have Scarface and Kay Reno. I Mean and I happen to know both of them like like this or whatever Where does pimp see fall in all of that pimp see that's different, but that's different though No, no, no, you know, I get you right But pimp see was a beast because you know all of us hung together, right? I'm seeing bond hunger rap a lot just as well You know, you injecting pimp see into something that they would be because he was but he was jibbed Oh, and he was they were that under he was he under different record label and then they was in Port Arthur, which is like what 45 50 minutes away from Houston. That's true. That's true So yet and still even though you write about that, but he still would hang out with us. Correct We were going shows and stuff like that. We did we even did shows and PA. Yeah, so Pimp see and bond they would be right there. We were cool. We did shows and Austin gather, you know And all of that kind of stuff like I mean we did a whole I'm trying to just rap a lot of spiel right now I don't know why I see an injected pimps in it cuz I'm going there with you Okay, that's right now I want to talk about this Scarface and this whole the Legendary moved at Jay because we can't leave little Jay out, you know So, you know, all of this stuff is working together and I mean like man, you see what I'm saying for me my whole career. I mean post-wrap a lot Wow, you know, how did you first meet me little Jay? Well, but I got cool with Jay through mellow, you know, man, you know, Jay and mellow was real tight Okay, mellows real tight or whatever, but that without you know with us being in the group That would always be around Jay. Jay is just 100 dude. He's just real. I mean in a lot of times They don't know they think that Jay is just the CEO putting the money behind it and you know, and he good No, Jay involved when they been in the studio Jay in there No, you know say hey, man, no, no, no bring bring that back. Come on. Just say this like this Come on, man. Look, you know, come on. You can come harder. He technical. He he in there He tell you don't get a boys again I'm ghetto boys albums and all that kind of stuff like Jay was down He wouldn't they wouldn't like he calling to the studio to see how everything went No, Jay putting in the work. Well, that's what I'm saying people just done Didn't know that part about Jay Jay in there like what time we gotta go. Oh, okay. I'll be there You could tell cuz you know what we need to say. Oh, yeah Yeah, oh, yeah, that's only in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He watching what's going on He want to know how this whole he'll listen to some songs like man, I think we can just I think I don't know man I think we can go back on that one man and I'm talking about songs that's getting ready to get wrapped up Jay listen to Love music He was in there He wouldn't know just CEO like okay y'all ready to hear the money. Okay. I mean it's okay. I wasn't here He was hands-on and so I mean like with us and everybody He wouldn't this is you know, Jay wanted here then and not that we got to just do stuff out for him But he wanted to be involved. He loved music so much. He wanted to be with it You know, he yeah, Jay was on that hip-hop. He was on his hip-hop. So what was it? We like that, you know saying we like we used to love the fact that what was the biggest like like like Thing song that you produced during that time during the 90s man Biggest one so the most okay. Well, let me tell you how it happened. I was just DJing remember. I'm a DJ So I was just DJing I idolized Crazy see who was in the group with us. Okay, he was the actual producer for the group Okay, but since I was so popular We know people know from the schools and from everything going around in the city and all that people was thinking I was doing those tracks. Okay a lot of times or whatever. Now. This is what actually happened I was so fascinated once I see people doing stuff that I like whatever I study him It's like just like in the corporate America they call it job shadowing. That's right. So I was oh, I will watch You know, you know, crazy see and he was so good. I idolized him. I was like, man I want to learn how to do whatever I loved it so much and he's such a good dude I've had my whole life behind crazy. Yeah, you know, he like he God fearing God loving them He does everything the tracks he DJ everything, you know radio station You know, that's all everything, you know, so everything you need I want to do so I Asked him, you know, not to teach me. I want to learn, you know, so he I wanted to learn so bad I wouldn't got the same exact keyboard. Yeah that he did because I want to do I didn't even know how to turn my keyboard on I didn't know the power the power cord, you know, how to connect that. I didn't know the button was in the back I didn't know it back then it was floppy. This I didn't know how to use the floppy disk Wow to show you how novice, you know, how much of a novice I was correct You know when it came in the producing he took me by the hand and taught me and taught me and taught me and two ways He was doing the things that was my he said I can teach you how to how to put it together But I can't teach you how to think, you know, so I can't teach you how to feel what you what you feel He said what you feel whatever and so I had to take what I feel and I knew a lot of stuff They would make people dance and move or whatever because I was a DJ or whatever I'm like I studied songs that make just even today like if I'm DJing in the club And I see a you know how they rock into a certain song like okay I gotta go do a do a song that's making them drums pop like that I mean you know because I know the elements of a song just like a chef when he eating something He can tell what's in it same thing with it with a producer. I can tell what kind of instruments was used Know that one up to make a hit so funny a b-king said the same thing. Yeah Exactly what he heard here songs different cause of the way his musical background exactly That's exactly right. You know I'm saying because you can you can tell what's going into it the bottom rhythm of it No, it doesn't necessarily have to be the speed of it You just speed up the hi-hats in the song and that'll make it move You know, it's just just little little little techniques and strategies that you can do with in a beat You know, it's in a lot. I like the kind of song I like 808 a lot doon doon doon, but I studied dr. Dre a lot doctor trade on the use a lot of 808s You don't hear that a lot from dr. Dre you hit knock that That's gonna hit That's like, you know, that's what dr. Dre uses because it's gonna hit it's gonna sound like gorillas in your trunk as opposed There's just your trunk vibing You're gonna hear a lot of hum bass. What did you think about because we talked about utk earlier? When when Pmc first start pushing that music and he was when you first hear Super super tight, but it was the one before that the first one. What did you think about? The you had to tell me some goods and all that I was totally amazed by Pmc It mess me up even when he was doing a lot stuff like big for Big Mike Yeah, I was sitting next to him when he when he was in the studio Yeah, I was sitting next to him in digital services at the studio when he was me say but I heard it before Big Mike You know saying and it's because I was we were in the single first So did he he was he just make the beat then he saw let me ask you this because this is a big thing Me and Bobo talk about Bobo talk Bobo Luciano. Shout out. He got super tight down in Dallas, too He named his whole podcast that When you Worked around Pmc. There's a big misconception or it may be the truth David Banner Bobo gets pretty much upset about this all the time Someone said it or said that he taught Pmc how to use a beat machine that I don't know he may I'm trying to understand. Okay, how was he making his music? That you were just talking about right without a beat machine about what I'm making beats How well how do you do that? Well, how do you make the beat? Okay? Well, I can see I don't I understand exactly what you're asking but my thing is To do okay. I'm not a pianist. Okay. I play Good enough to have my pianist My musicians to do what I need, you know, and they can take it to that next level whatever But it starts with the idea that I give them correct. So a Producer is more or less a conductor of the orchestra. Okay, that's the producer, you know, like prime example I have people that are I mean like major musicians that working in the same room You know some stuff I need to do I know all of their parts But they may not know each other's. Okay, you know, I'm saying like the bass player might not know to a certain extent What he I want the pianist to do this You know, I won't you know, even a horn player to do this part of whatever but I can hear a part for every one of them I'm like, okay in the break. I want you to come, you know, right there You make I'm gonna give it to me a little bit more busy right here Whatever just to signify that this is the break and not the normal main, you know, main You know main verse of chorus, you know stuff like that or whether this might be the bridge right there We're gonna rise up right here. You know, I know how did he make this fly hoes and he made that beat or how do you make that? Produce that sound. What did he do? Well, he did the track, you know So whatever and then he he just heard y'all get he heard what he heard to it That's what he was here. You know here into it, whatever and his the way he sang hooks was amazing the way he sang hooks was amazing and Bum, but you know bone would even tell you that like man You know bond doesn't have to tell me that he misses P.m. See you can tell now We know he missing that but I you know us. It's because bone is a phenomenal rapper. I mean phenomenal artist. He phenomenal Bond it's like making a it's like making up the I mean like the best-tasting cake you ever you know You ever taste in your life. It's missing the icing Well, you got I'm saying and that's my thing with that's real see cuz bonk and be I mean like we saw two people We just call him cameo kings Bombie and three two. Yeah, any one of them you can give bill good I give you lunch, you know, if we didn't want them on your song because they don't add down and you know, I Hear bond on anything like look at like a big tippin. Yeah, I don't care who you are Bunkin you know put did at work DJ burn one down in Atlanta said that bun showed him a lot when he come down his craft as well So my thing is but like for UG real strong UGK fans like myself You miss that pimp see coming with hook or you miss bent bun over a pimp beat, you know I'm saying you miss that Yeah, I think I can say we and you see it. You see it in his interviews I haven't got a chance to interview him yet, but you see it. I interview Steve B Lo I interview the Bobo's I and all of them say this about the fact of how The the pimp see, you know the way it affected them once pimp see passed away, you know I mean because it affected everybody and more so even when I interviewed Julia Beverly like it's like these people They they it's an empty spot there, of course Because of the impact that he brought to the game and to the music, you know what I mean right into their lives But the music was a big thing because that's their careers and right and for a bun, of course That's a that's a that's a big empty space man. Yeah, you can't replace it I mean well and because it was a sound that we were so used to man. I loved it. I loved it I Like a ball in mjg rock with both of them, you know sitting like a ball in mjg. I love them more together I know they both cold apart, but when I hear them together, it's just you wait on that one to punch They want to punch man. It's funny you funny you mentioned that cuz they had diverses down in Atlanta I was so upset about that. I wanted it to be here in Houston or somewhere in Texas could have been San Antonio I wanted that thing that cuz I know already the room and the energy and the way it was would have been different Right, absolutely. We had a lot of people. I was so I was so hurt behind because I'm a big fan of both of them That's right. I know Swabhouse was here and I know, you know, I know already the history of it You know you GK right up the street. What would it be pulled off on here? It might as well be here, right? I just think it would have been so dumb And I said I'm gonna tell you exactly what I said cuz people were saying man Because I said it should have been in Houston and they were like no man because that wouldn't have been fair That's what everybody's a PA. I say no, that's not right because bond was here You know people, you know, I know they from PA. I know a baller, you know, say mjg, you know Say it from see right, right? I know they from I know they from Memphis out there But they but Swabhouse was here. That's right. It was kind of like a home away from home for both of us That's right. That's right. That's right being Houston. And that would have been so hard I don't even know they could oh my goodness It would have been crazy easy and they would have made for a better versus shout out to Bobo The energy I'm gonna say Bobo again. You gonna tell me uh, they it was they they was so busy picking up They phones and I'm like man Nigga picked a phone up all the time the energy was off because it wasn't in Houston I was only but well my thing is you can't it's hard to if you're watching Energy that's not there. It's hard to you know, create recreate energy Yeah But if you just think about it a lot of times when you you at a concert You could be anywhere at a show or something or whatever and if they lit For some reason even whether you know the music a lot you lit because you had a place There's lit. Yeah, if you're watching something that is not really projecting energy It's hard to get crunk all by yourself Yeah And so that's why it didn't make for such a good, you know, like a crunk versus because you we wasn't we wasn't really watching energy I always tell other artists and you know, you know like artists that I'm I'm trying to mentor and things like that Whatever the crowd would never be more lit than you are So make sure you out there giving it your all when you're a thing I mean like if I'm out there just dead weight just you know You know seeing the lyrics to my song whatever now a letter whatever what they gonna get crunk for And you knew this from being a DJ you learn all of that well and I saw I've been in this 30 years too You know I'm saying so it I mean I've seen all the hits and misses. Let me ask you this I got it. I gotta ask you this like when you seen it When you seen bun trying to you know, basically show homage pay homage to pump again because it was almost like a Hummage paying event for me. You could see that if he had the shirt on but it was like man I know it's like we miss pimp this whole thing to me is about we miss Pimp see right, right? Versus Maybe I'm just a big fan, but I'm like it's paying short homage and paying homage to him But it's supposed to be a thing what ain't going back and forth with these songs But it became a thing to me where that empty spot just meant like dang man It made me feel away. Well, you'd have got the same thing if one of them was missing too That's right. You know so my thing is because you can't recreate you or you can't substitute for The attitude or whatever they would give you a you know the performance that they would give you know Pimp would have been out there acting a fool. It would have been so, you know He'd have been out there lit. It would have been there would have been crazy You know saying so that can't that can't be substituted for you know That you can put up as many pictures posters videos or whatever in the background You can do all of that you that you want it still doesn't you know, it doesn't really substitute for that You know what you mean? I want to ask you about I want to ask you about something else I want to try to talk about these youngsters for a minute. Okay. I'm gonna say youngsters cause I'm gonna start with be king. All right be king like okay When you've seen him come on the scene versus when you know the way you guys originally done it What was your thoughts on the way? He absolutely love it because it takes he was different. I love different Yeah, he said in his interview He said in his interview when he came in because he's Houston Everybody else was you know screwed down slowed up. Whatever didn't have like a whole bunch of energy Right, and that's why he did what he did to be different and bring all of that in a place that didn't know nothing else I love it. I mean he is a club killer. I'm DJing. I'm playing all his records So I love it to death. This is my motto with anything if you do what you've always done You're gonna get what you always got so my thing is, you know, even for myself, you know I wouldn't be you know, God has blessed me to be here and be relevant. I've I've paid my bills Three decades straight with music. Well, I mean like every 30 years no fall off And my thing in the reason why is because I always dare to reinvent myself I'm not trying if you know because people used to always say man, I can tell that's a little track Okay, can you tell now? You understand what I'm saying because I don't do what I used to do Wow, you know because and the only reason is because what I used to do may not work right now You know like one of the most popular songs like I produces big pokies. Who that man who they're talking down If I came out with a beat product I'm talking about using the same drums and all this kind of stuff like that the same exact beat that same track and Drop it tomorrow. It wouldn't have an impact on the industry that it would today because the whole 99 who they're talking down and I'm a T was crazy I'm a T was T was real crazy. I'm sure you how you know because I love I love Jammas, you know, I got three stages. I love jamming. We all jamming if we wouldn't jamming We wouldn't be trying to do this music anyway That the difference is you got jammers You got hits you got classics that song is a classic. I just got a what's today Friday? I just got a check for who they're talking down Wednesday. I've been getting them since 2000 Hmm, I've been getting brought to chicks every 90 days since the year 2000 It did 22 years. That's my point. It didn't been in Dark Angel. Orange is the new black Entourage, you know saying or whatever, you know, I'm sorry I have three W twos that I have to fill out for food for that song. So I mean like what the songs and songs are like, you know, so different different You know companies and stuff like that different broadcasts and stations and all this kind of stuff like that because of the publishing and all that My thing is I have songs that I've made 10 years You know Since then that the checks and feels pretty much fills it out because you know, they didn't get the push And they didn't get yet. Yeah, they didn't get the traction traction. That's what I'm trying to get the traction that that song got So my thing is I'm in I'm in this for the for the hits in the classics And that's the term, you know, they all can be jamming all they want to But the term is the hits in the classics is the success and attraction like you're saying other song I mean it for them I was just talking about something like that earlier because I was thinking about remember when I mentioned about Michael Jackson, right? I said everybody's supposed to strive to be like Michael Jackson where hits are concerned because right this generation or kids kids go still know who Michael Jackson is and it It just blows my mind that these young kids I'm like, how you know Michael Jackson when you were born he might not even be alive at that time But you know him right your kids gonna know absolutely. That's what everybody I think should right It's because of the success of his work, you know, I'm saying the word I mean that your work should I live you and I was always, you know, I This is the reason for publishing to begin with For me. I always you know, because I mentor, you know, I'm in the mentor stage now I mentor these artists I mentor these producers and all that I tell them never get out the car You never get out, you know, like don't ever and what I mean by that is never sell all your rights You know, you know, all of your rights straight up for you know, whatever because Publishing is good not only for your natural life, but it's good for 70 years after you die 1770 70 they is good for 70 years after you die and People a lot of artists that don't do their homework and don't do their research and all of that They don't know that so they just try to hit a quick lick for today But you you know, you probably You probably take care of somebody's family beyond their own life. You know, Sam What about a sauce Walker? I'm in Houston, Texas So what do you what do you think about the way that they're music and the way that they're doing things? I love the dead because I'm just talking about these guys and I'm a team of T1 I'm just sending, you know, and my my deal is I love all of the new, you know All of the new artists that data take our music, you know, whatever I know y'all get ready to talk to propane, but he's one of them Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, I love these people that that come in and just take it to that next level I'm just having fun sitting back sitting seeing it go just go to that next level, you know It's like it's crazy like man, you know Wow, things that we didn't do somebody else is doing now and they gonna do you know, and they gonna sit back and see the same thing I'm gonna ask you about DJ Chos too. I'm asking about producers because that's your line. Absolutely. Absolutely. So how was I have you ever Work with DJ Chos or man. I never have one more thing. I want to say about sauce Walker. Come on back with it. Okay. I Love also that, you know, like just like Kiki is doing or whatever I love how they they take it the entrepreneurship to the next level and get do the merch thing I love it, you know, like however we can take this and make that I'm with that, you know, because it all ties back into, you know, it's a big brand It's brand. It's brand. Exactly. That's all I was saying. You know, I'm gonna ask you about DJ Chos You know, he had a soundtrack in the fast and the furious and he's got a lot of different things That he knew in a lot of different ways then then sauce and then and then then be king But just these younger generation and them can you you got to be proud of those guys? Well, man, it's indeed. That's indeed I mean, I that's what I'm saying. I'm one of the guys that, you know, like like they say the OG's whatever that I mean, I get with the youngsters and be down with them, you know I'm like man, because I'm you know, I'm a music fan first and foremost You know, I'm DJing in the club. So I'm playing these I know what's hot out there Whatever with you know from my own people that I you know I kick it with and I'll either the circles that I'm in or whatever not and I know what's hot out there Whatever and I'm just you know, I'm just grateful that they have taken our industry to that next level Don't let it feels allowed. Don't let it die out of it because they were people before me So, you know, I wanted to be embraced. That's why I embraced, you know The youngsters didn't you know, like they pretty much say like the new Houston the new sound, you know, whatever, you know And they like man, he wanted pioneers that's used to sound. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Find it in it But it doesn't have to stay right there. Wow What you know, how y'all gonna update the new sound, man So, you know the same you know saying, you know, I don't I'm not one of those guys that say the sound had to stay Like we had it. No, man. I don't even do it do it the same way no more. Yeah You know, I'm saying why I'm not, you know, I'm trying to wear the music is okay I'm you know, I don't copy but I do compete, you know, I'm saying and that's the thing with me I don't know. Okay. What I was going to see still DJ right now. I DJ right now So, okay, you've been doing this for such a long time Mm-hmm. And we do this in this business not everybody gonna like you and you're not gonna like everybody Have you ever DJed where an artist that was gonna perform or be there? You didn't read a fool with but you had to still DJ his songs That is that that's happened a whole lot of times because my it's not even about the artists at that point if I'm DJing It's about the crowd that I'm participating. You know, I mean that I'm actually Serving, you know, it's in the crowd that I'm performing for so I've done it so many different times with that at that point it's not you know, I don't I'm not one of them guys like I don't like it I ain't playing this record because I'm not really getting you try to sabotage him by I'm not with this because I've heard different things I've heard somebody else came on our show and was like the DJ slowed it down Yeah, or the DJ sped it up instead of doing exactly how it's right. I don't like that because number one I'm an artist myself. I rap I produce. You know, I engineer I do it all whatever and I'm the last person that once You know that done to me. So I never would do a artist even if you don't like no No, it has nothing to do with that. If it's a hit song they have okay I Pretty much don't have artists that I don't like anyway, you know Because I'm the guy that's gonna pull you to the side and see what our difference is man Let's watch this especially if I got to see you all the time That's gonna make it uncomfortable for you know an awkward for both of us So let's go ahead knock that out the bud You know, I'm gonna knock that out the way because we can both probably make money together Especially if you're a hot artist. I don't you the last person I want to be you know, like like into it with anyway What's it so that's that that's the thing me because I want to I want to rock with the crowd You know, it's about playing for your audience. You know I'm saying so I'll squash that just to make sure that I'm you know I'm hot out there. What's the hottest song? 2022 the hottest song in the club when you play it He rupted the club. I know other it's so I mean, I don't want to hear that I don't want to hear that. I mean, it's You do a cup Two songs You go to the club and people are diving with whatever you playing like what's my hot record and you know that if you play this song everybody gonna turn up What is that song you pull for But that the hottest song in 2022 young doff I can always you know like that can always just You know because everybody people missing young doff like that anyway, and I can always you know like it just it just turns You know a lot of times I use preach to like change the vibe if I'm I've been the rockin I don't do it mean something like that. Don't go. Oh, yeah I just use that to flip the script because they know I'm feeling I'm about to come with some trap a drill or what? You know, I'm saying yeah, you know, I'm I'm just gonna flip the script with that You know, no matter how that song being old you say a couple of years or whatever each. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that's all Yeah, what about you know, but but I can rock. I don't I can okay on the daddy's thing I could bring that big tuck it cuz I got hold that is it to you know saying oh clip. That's my hood I can start you know, I can do do that do a set. Yeah, I got it even here in Houston while you're playing Even in Houston while you're here Yeah I can just I can just rock with that. Oh They killed it Everybody ain't your friend and all of the you know, even though he got all his other his songs, but that and what's his hottest song to you? Him and Kevin Gates I like like I like that song He got some man. He got I like a lot of mode three. I just you know his engineering is Unbelievable though his engineering is off is through the rocker. I mean out through the roof You know, it's off the rocker. I mean like yeah, he's engineering and what I mean by that his song The weight of songs is mixing master the world because I listen to everything technical because I'm an engineer myself So wow. Yeah, who else who I was mixing the master this song they going to work. Wow so The thing that really sticks out to me is that you you've been down here You've been working you work with slim and all these guys Well, I've done tracks that's never yeah, I've worked with him when I was with boss this as well, too But you don't work with everybody if there's been any people that you hadn't touched down here Well, I'm getting ready to work with him Always talk about it now. I'm like man, I got to give me a propane song man Man, I said I love I love it used to vibe what you guys do down here, man I've been grow. I grew up to it. Yeah, so I mean so thank you for everything that you done How can how do people get a hold to you if they're trying to get a hold to you Well, let me say it like this on my Instagram is at Harvey love and Harvey love is spelled h a r v e y L u v all one word Harvey love Harvey love. Yes, it's not L o v No, no, no, you see L u v V Absolutely, and you look up Harvey love you're gonna everything is gonna come up because my my number is actually public information So Harvey just you you just Google Harvey love and a lot of come up or whatever So, you know, we normally do this, you know top three Artists artists of all time dead or alive and in genre. Okay, so I'm trying to think do I want to do Do we want to do produce stuff all time or do we want to do artists of all times? Which one bae is gonna be by you sir of all time or artists of all time I would say all right. Just just give us this dude top three It's gonna be scar face. He's gonna be already gonna be our face No, cuz he said it number two It's gonna be Cabe Reno if you know, you know, we're gonna rap we're going rappers. No any genre Henry genre. Okay top three artists of all time Okay genre is it's hard to cut it under three everybody's done it Lord Okay, it's scarf is still your number one Since it's any genre. I'm just trying to put it out there. Yes. He's one but I Okay, no, no, no, he's not one. Oh, no, he's one of them. Okay No, nobody no nobody is more talented to me than Michael Jackson Okay, Michael Jackson, you know, I'm saying and you know and and my thing is it's it's I'm doing a disservice We already know I see Dancing if you give okay Who I dance who I think Michael Jackson will outdance Chris Brown in his heyday. I ain't saying like Michael Jackson was cold. He was I'm talking about like he popped you he did it all These young niggas Different kind of dances that are that come in style. Well, if you look today dancing is dancing You know, I mean because you have so much, you know, you got battle dancing you got I mean like it's so many I'm in and I'm in man. I'm so I'm just who's your number two. Okay Come on. Okay. Okay. Well faced I'm facing Michael Jackson. Okay Number three Okay, oh Because that's that's your top three. I know it's very wide your top three Whatever your reasons are that you put it all around top three all around Whatever. Oh my god, whether it brings back a childhood or whether you know, that's the person you put over the same Face Okay Exactly Exactly you I bet you already knew what I was going this man knew how to play 27 instruments. I mean self-talk You see and can sing I'm somebody had had a eight-part harmony as long as we've been doing this Everybody's done. A lot of people have done Michael Jackson, but it's always to park right behind it To park ain't better than Prince. I didn't he my feet one of my goats. He better than Prince. Oh my god This track let me see what I got here see if I got I Was vibing on it ari Zendall Neil yesterday and so we're not Man, I'm gonna do that tomorrow. What I would have did yesterday, but I was just you know busy. Oh, yeah I was busy whatever, but I just went on and did it today. Wow Thank you so much appreciate you man. It's a little bro. I love Man, hey man say man. We love you, brother Man, love y'all right back man. Say man ticket man. It's been another great segment of boss talk one-on-one Down in Houston, Texas, man. Absolutely what a boss is talk

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Shana Padgett's Patient Story

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Patient safety is critically important to me. It became a theory of being critically important when I was in college. I had a professor that told us, you know, if we made a mistake in our testing or in the reporting of the results, we could be responsible for the death of a patient. I heard that in theory when I was still in school. And then when I moved into working and managing in healthcare and laboratories, I learned how some of our processes are not as reliable as we need them to be and how easy it is to make mistakes. I made mistakes. Making a mistake that got all the way through to a patient brought patient safety to life for me early in my career. In healthcare, we really are not transparent like you would see in some other industries, like the aviation industry. They're not perfect. And you will hear every day about near misses and what the FAA learns when they do investigation. And so the work that the patient safety movement is doing to bring transparency to healthcare, not just the numbers, but the human impact, focus on the stories, the things that have gone wrong, as well as the summit where you bring people together, where we work together to learn from each other, distill best practices. And so I really love the community of people coming together, being transparent, being honest, getting to the truth about what went wrong and why it went wrong, so that everybody that's part of the community can learn from that and get better. Every single person is a consumer of healthcare at some point in time, either they themselves or their family will be a consumer of healthcare. I encourage others to learn more about patient safety movement and contribute to the patient safety movement. If you guys could play a part in making that accessible to every single person who does the work, then I think we can go a lot faster in closing the gaps.

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Interpretations Panel Part 2 - Writing descriptions in DHIS2, subscribing and notifying 2021 Q2

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And all of you have very nice discussions in the breakout rooms. Unfortunately, we did not hear any feedback from several groups about which topic they are presenting. But we hope that there won't be any overlaps of the topics right fine. So what we want to do now is we want all of you to select one person who can volunteer from your group. And that person will have to briefly, very briefly. Doesn't have to be like, I mean, like two to three minutes, you can present what you want, the particular visualization and the data to action framework that you prepared. And then we'll have a discussion around it. We will comment. And also we can open other participants to comment as well. So without wasting much time, shall we start with group one? So who is volunteering from group one to present? OK, I'll put it here for group one. Could you please share your presentation? You can share. Thank you. Let me just share now. OK, OK, thank you, everyone. We couldn't start on time in group one. I think we had a lot of discussion as to what the indicator to choose from. But although it would be fully appropriate our framework here, but I'll quickly take you through it. And I'll just probably talk about the related actions. Because now we couldn't complete the table. So let me quickly share. We chose the second and third 90 indicators here. But we focused mainly on the workload coverage in this particular example. So the objective, I think, I wonder if you can all see our, you can clearly see the visualization. But viral load coverage is the very last bar on the graph here. It is the very last bar on the graph. And so the objective here was to, I think, is to measure the viral load coverage at an initial level against the target of 90% this year, target linear. So we thought that this is the objective is to measure viral load coverage against the 90% target. But this data is shown at an initial level. And our data source here, although we didn't go back into the data sharing screen to see exactly how the forms look, we just believe that this one could be from the viral load testing data that we capture on monthly basis. Because you see here, it is on the visualization, on the last half month. So we took an assumption that this is reported on monthly basis. And here, we believe that if we break our data set into denominator and numerator, so we believe that all people living with HIV who are eligible for viral testing that should compose our denominator while our numerator should be those people who actually test it for not really for HIV. So yeah, I said test it for HIV, but it has to say test it for viral load. So our denominator are people who are eligible for viral load testing. And our numerator should be people who actually test it for viral load. And on the related actions, I think we didn't complete that because of time. But we believe that the actions should be taken for facilities that are for coverage. That is way below the target. And if we look at our visualization, we can know that for all these indicators, or if you look at viral load coverage, this at 53.5, that is way below the expected 90% viral load coverage. So I think the consent parties should take action to ensure that the coverage is good here. But again, there may be a lot of reasons related to this. But now that we didn't have time to explore that, we really tend to approach some informative discussion on that one. I think that's all for Group 1. Thank you. Right. Thank you very much. Just keep on sharing. So we will give the opportunity for other groups to come in. So any comments you have on what the Group 1 has presented or the specific visualization, anything more you can add to what they were presenting? Anything you can add? We can add programmatic implications in related actions, because the achievement is below our target. So we can recommend whether is it due to the functionality of testing facilities or is it due to access to the testing labs? So we need to add some programmatic implications, I think, in related actions. Yeah, very good. So basically, like we have to write what you can do is you can go at a detail about actions. So if it is one thing you can do is you can have a cutoff value, it's just not that 90% trend line. But in case what to do if it is more than 100 or like you can have multiple, and for each of them, you can think all possible combinations for variations based on the numerator and the denominator as well. Thank you. The comments? OK, although we were presenting it, can I have a question? Yeah. OK, thank you. I just want to know on the indicator patch, like we put a viral load coverage. So I'm just trying to come to a real-life situation where we have a test with this one here or a graph, like this one, which is composed of many indicators. Can we put all of them there? And on the data source, put all of the narrative for the indicators that we find in the graph or what is the practice here? What is the practice can we have all the indicators written and then show the graph objectives? How do we put it? Thank you. I don't know if I'm clear. It is not totally clear to me. You mean like if you have multiple data items coming from different sources, whether to mention them in data source? So yeah. Yeah, so assuming if that is the question you have, yeah, definitely like say, for example, if your numerator comprises of multiple data items which are coming from multiple forms that you mentioned and also another thing that you have to take into account is if you are just looking at, say for example, if you're looking at a coverage indicator, which is formulated based on numerator may be coming from monthly period and denominator may be just annual population count or something like that. I feel even it is important for you to make that also as a node because otherwise what will happen is whoever who's trying to interpret, that person will have to make an assumption. So that's what we want to get rid of by having this data source or what most probably I think the data source would be the place that you can mention. The periodicity if it is relevant. Saurabh, you want to add anything? No, no specific comments. Right, okay. So I guess we can, yeah, thank you very much, Groupon. Nicely done. So maybe we'll give the chance to Group2 to present. Somebody from Group2, volunteers. Good morning. Good morning. This is Larry from Group2. So I will share my screen. But it's, let me just put a disclaimer. Right now it's an incomplete presentation, but... No problem. We all know like we didn't give you enough time. So no problem, please proceed. Okay, so we had agreed to cover the HIV ad coverage rate for the whole of training land. And I'm sorry, but then the visualization, as you can see, we tried to make the picture fit in there, but then you can barely make out what is being presented. But then I will walk you through the whole presentation. Now the objective of the visualization is to measure the performance of ad services delivery. So we figured high coverage would be indicative of a good service linkage between testing and the actual initiation on ART. And our data source is the HIV ART program monthly data set. The numerator we're using is the number of people who are actually on ART and the denominator is the number of people that tested HIV positive. So the related actions, we figured that if any of those districts records a rate which would be less than 60%, the administrator would be able to do that. The administrator is to check whether there's under reporting of initiations of people on ART. Also, it will be a good idea if they were to check the causes of leakages if they are actually leakages between testing and initiation. And well, the others, as I said, it's an incomplete presentation, but then if it happens to be in the blue, it will be greater than or equals to a hundred percent and it will be always best to maintain such efforts. The other legend sits 60% to 75, 75 to 89, 90 to 100%. It's always best to check whether there's any underreporting or if there are any opportunities for improvement. Thank you. That is group two's presentation. Right. Thank you, Larry. So any comments from others, other groups? Any comments from facilitators, Saurabh, Prabhuprishnan, and the other group members who are on ART, any comments from facilitators, Saurabh, Pramil? So while they prepare a few things, first thing is if it is more than a hundred for the actions, I mean, if it is a hundred percent, you can maintain the efforts, but if it is more than a hundred, then can you do something else? So in fact, this is why it may be, if you are thinking of some issue with data, if it is more than a hundred percent, then I feel it would be better if you put that under a separate legend, like I mean, more than a hundred, so that you don't touch the hundred mark because a hundred is okay, right? I mean, we are fine with it, but if it is a hundred and one, or maybe like you can even think, because in real life scenario, what happens is there may be some occasional discrepancies of data, like you may get, you may notice a hundred and one, a hundred and five things like that for a short span of time until your data is ready, like completed. So maybe some countries, like what they do is they tend to give some allowance for that and that's why they sometimes keep it, if it is more than a hundred, they know a hundred and twenty percent, then please, you need to check whether something is wrong. So that's one thing. And also like when you are commenting about the actions, you should always comment on the indicator and denominator both, right? Say for example, you can check whether ART initiation, there are issues, and also you can also check again whether there is some issue with the denominator, right? So that also is something that you can comment. Okay. The comments, yeah. Saurabh or Pramil or any other facilitators who's there? Okay, looks like there are no more comments. So thank you very much Larry and the group too for that presentation. So please stop sharing group three. Any volunteers? Hello, I will be presenting for... Yes, please share your screen. I'll just share my screen. Okay, so here you go. Yeah, we can see. The indicator that we have chosen is the HIV test possibility theory. So this is a bit straightforward. That's why I decided to use tables to visualize this. So the table is visualizing the HIV test possibility theory between two regions, the animal region and the protein region for the last 12 months. So the objective of visualization is first to compare the HIV test possibility theory in the two districts within the last 12 months. Here, measure the overall HIV test performance for you to be able to monitor HIV test progress in training line. So this is where we were able to get the data. The data source is HIV test group. The indicator is the HIV test possibility theory. The numerator HIV test positive denominator HIV test performed the period is the last 12 months. So regarding the related actions, we were not able to finish it, but this is what we were able to... This is what our group was able to identify. First one is if HIV positive, our positivity rate is greater than or equal to 50%. Review the numerator. If there are any anti-errors or outliers for the denominator, so target population plausible or it's the selected target population. Also, if the HIV positive case is greater than or equal to HIV test performed, we will divide the data with the source. So these are the action steps that we were able to identify. We are done in two months, we are done in two months. Right, thank you very much, Chan. Anybody who wants to comment on what was presented by group three? Are there groups? Yes, Chan. Yes, please proceed up. Are you? Yeah. Yes, please proceed, yes. Related actions are here, only data validation. So here, many parameters can be used. For example, the reader here shown, 16.5 and 12.5. Is it expected rate or it is higher than expected? It's just my observation, observation. Yes, so he was suggesting in case the test positivity, positive cases is more than test performed other than validating the data source. There are a few other actions you have to do. So yes, do it up. That's correct. Chanra, you wanted to comment? No. Yeah, sorry, okay. Anybody else? Right, so if not, I have some questions. Like first of all, what was the reason why you selected a pivot table for this visualization as opposed to maybe a chart or a map? Any reason why you decided on a pivot table? I think our group decided to make it more straight for instance, the previous team. So I think that's the reason why we selected a pivot table as a chart. Right, so okay, yeah, that's fair enough. But like, are there any inherent disadvantages of using pivot tables for visualization? So are there like major advantages? What do you think? Oh, like, I mean, I'm asking from the entire group three. My idea, I think if we present the visualize the event report, we can be the exact numerator and denominator and we can see and we can cross check that number on that. And we didn't show all categories, just only a few categories, region, animal, region, food region, so it's easy to visualize the table, I think. Yeah. Yeah, so you partly answered the next question I was going to ask. Like why you just selected test positives and test performed and not anything else? Yeah, so maybe what I understood is you wanted to give a better idea to the person who was seeing about the proper, I mean, like what constitutes this indicator. So they don't have to drill or maybe have a look at another visualization to understand how the numerators and denominators are performing because you can give the entire summary in one visualization. So that's the advantage of using the tabular visualization. But is there a disadvantage also by doing this visualization? Yeah, usually, as I saw, we can show as a column chart plus line, meaning that combine, combine together. But the default I saw your exercise visualize is the tab also that why we didn't change any of your format. We just copy and interpret of that visualize. OK. No, in case if you're just, I mean, not using a chart or map, we just want to proceed with the table. What additional modifications would you like to do in a table to make it more visually striking? Anything? I mean, anyone, any of you can think of a better some modification you can do this table? Hello. Yes, yes, Joe. I think another modification which can be done maybe to apply some more lenses which can make it a bit of eye catching. Yeah, exactly. I mean, rather than eye catching, it will be like it just strikes out the message. So maybe group three, another thing you could have done is you can apply a legend as he suggested to the table so that the background color changes, right? So if it is really less, you can make it red so that people I mean like because you don't have to just focus on the figures if you just put that. So that's the enhancement that you can do when you select a pivot table. Of course, you can take the advantages of pivot table and you can make it better by doing those site modifications. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. So it's good that you took this visualization so that I could highlight this point. Any further comments, facilitators, participants, anyone? And one more thing like about the actions, always rather than data, I mean, I totally agree. You have to mention about actions related to data. You don't have to check whether there has been some any data entry errors or outliers. And target populations are correct. Like some public health interventions also you can mention, right? Assuming if these values, the data is correct. Then you also need to mention some public health interventions that you have to do if HIV test positive rate is really high, right? Because then you need to strengthen your preventive measures, right? And community awareness and things like that. So you can even categorize your actions based on what to do for data related or what to do as public health interventions, right? That's also something that you can think of. All right, thank you so much. Group 4. Thank you. Group 4, any volunteers? Yeah, good for our presentation on behalf of the audience. Please share your screen, yes. Sure, let me share my screen. Right, we can see. Good, please proceed. Yeah, for Group 4, we looked at the indicator HIV cascaded by gender last 12 months. We picked the charts on the column charts to the visualization using the column charts was what we picked. And for the objective of the visualization is for us to monitor and for monitoring HIV program effectiveness to test and then the treat policy. So in terms of the number of persons tested and number of persons that have been treated and as well as a number of people that have been retained in terms of them from those who are already been who are already on the air and see over a period of time and then in terms of the gender male female our source of data came from one. The HIV those who tested positive for HIV and persons who are living with HIV that are being enrolled newly on the ART and those also being retained over time. I mean, over the last 12 months within the within the treatment regime then also the gender because we needed to with the data for in terms of gender male female to be able to different get that visualization than the related action for us. What we looked at is if any gender HIV we're also looking at in terms of if any gender any of the gender that's tested positive is higher than so what we did within the group is that we kind of looked at and said, can we agree on them? A threshold, so okay, a threshold of one 25 within the last 12 months. So if any of the gender HIV positive is above one 25 and probably check for reasons why this is happening and then review the interventions that is ongoing in terms of treatments then also to monitor we also looked at monitoring the retention of persons living with HIV around the ART. If there is a retention, if there is a retention the number of persons who are being retained drops below a certain number within them within a month. In any of the gender we also looked at a situation where there needs to be an intervention there needs to be sorry, not intervene there needs to be like check within that why that is happening and see if there is anything that needs to be done in terms of looking at if on the public health perspective and also if those who are new on ART are less than 50% of those who tested positive will also feel that there needs to be a check on this to check for a medication and adherence if people are really adherent that if you test positive you need to be an ART so to check if people are actually adhering and all of that. Thank you. All right, thank you. So any comments from the participants, any groups, any other groups want to comment? Anything from the facilitators? Right, I have a few comments. The first thing is like now when you're just looking at this table, the data source maybe you can label it because like people may get confused like, okay like whether these are data elements or indicators because it all depends on how you configure your instance in general. So if your end users are mostly used to seeing you know like indicators more, they will always look at data elements indicator labels. So maybe you can just mention these are all data elements. So you can just put a header and mention these are data elements so that they know. And the other thing is like now this is an example where you have used data elements as opposed to indicators. So I mean, do you prefer this visualization of data element? Does it really highlight the message that you want to convey or the particular objective that you want to attain? Is a data element a better visualization or you would prefer to have an indicator instance? So like instead of like, what are your thoughts about that? Because I'm not saying which one, I mean, it is wrong or right, but what do you think about it, Rufo? I think indicators are better for the data source than the elements. I think you better describe, visualize what we want to, what we want to see. Yeah, the thing, I mean, it really depends on what you want to show. Say for example, if comparison of numbers between regions or like orders, if you just want to show it at national level, just like here in training land, you just want to show the numbers at national level, then it is perfectly fine. But if your objective is to go for a comparison, then you might have an issue. We were actually doing national and gender disaggregation. Yeah, exactly. So that's like, this is fine because like, you are just giving a national level figure of each of the values. Yeah. Then my next question is like, would you have opted for a map over visually, over a chart or a chart is just fine for the objective that you want to cater? For the gender disaggregation, which was our focus, I think the chart based column chart visualization, we picked it, we decide it was better because it clearly shows the disaggregation of people on HIV living with HIV on ART in respect to, with respect to gender disaggregation, like we can see the green and we can see people living with HIV tested positive. We can see that the females are more than the males. And then those who retain on ART females are also more. And we can be able to clearly see that females, the increasing rate in female positivity and the increasing adherence to female has a related to their drug and also initiation, drug initiation. So with respect to gender females, the values are hard in all cases. Right. So based on what you want to convey to the end user, right, gender disaggregation and the values at national level you try to highlight, this may be a better visualization as opposed to a map because then you may have troubles. I mean, like you are trying to convey multiple parameters here, right? But in maps, it's usually when you just highlight one factor, map may be a better thing. And also want to make a comparison across the areas, then maps are much suited. So for this one, yes, I agree with you. And then as a third action point, you mentioned PLHIV in your own ART less than 50%. So this less than 50% value can you interpret from this chart? Because what I mostly see is the, I mean, the Y-axis is data elements, right? The raw values. So the 50%. Okay. The 50% was something we actually just formulated to create a scenario. We created a 50% as a threshold that for instance, if people living with HIV knew on ART, it's less than 50%, then we should check for adherence or initiation. That means that we have a high number of positivity, but then we have far less people that have been initiated on the drug and even far less that are adhering to the drug. So the 50% was something we assumed we formulated just to make a conclusion. Right, so what I was actually saying is because from this visualization, obtaining that 50% is not straightforward, right? Here we have the Y-axis is numbers and not the percentage. No, no, no. Yeah. It wasn't based on the numbers on the Y and the X-axis. Like for instance, now we have a female positivity test in 137,000 plus. So we are saying 50% of that number. Okay. So yeah. Yeah, what I was actually trying to highlight is there is some calculation the end user will have to do, right? By looking at the visualizer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We never had a sound or two. No, no, that's okay. So this is something you can think about, like are we allowing the end users to interpret it that way just by having a visual look at the chart or maybe we can be a bit more specific. I mean, something for you to think about. Right. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Shall we move to the group number five? Group five. Anybody from group five? Saurav, we assigned people to group five, right? Was there nobody? Yeah, the members were there, but then I tried asking the topic or the indicator and did not get a response. So I assume they were, I mean, the members were too silent. Yeah. But we don't mind if you can share the screen so that we can interpret. Here we go. Yes, please. Okay, I guess Anupam shared the screen. Are you preferring to stay silent or you can unmute and present? You are currently muted, Anupam, right? So anybody else from the group mind presenting what you have? Yes. Yes, now we can hear. Please. Hello, is my screen visible? Yes, it is visible. But it's not visible to me now actually. Yeah. Is it visible? Yeah, for us it's visible. I think... Yeah, okay, okay. So I just use a indicator for our RMLCHA. That is the skill delivery coverage for the last quarter. So I prefer it to be presented as a map. So the objective is to measure the number of deliveries being attended by the skilled manpower. And because we want to, I mean, because the coverage is indicative of access of trained manpower to the pregnant mothers and higher the coverage by skilled manpower, the lower will be the maternal neonatal deaths. So that is why it is important to measure this indicator. And the sources will be the RMLCHA quarterly DHS2 dataset and the numerator will be number of deliveries attended by skilled birth attendants and denominator will be number of live births. And related actions, according to the map, which is... So if the grid is red there, less than 40% is... We'll review whether the... I mean, numerator, if there is... I mean, different errors are the entry errors are there or we'll review denominator. If there is target population is correct or is the target population either correctly enrolled or are the districts enrolled under the RMLCHA program, maybe the districts which are having less than 40% coverage, they are enrolled in the RMLCHA program. And if the skilled delivery coverage is green, the darker portion, it was showing more than 75%. So we need to sustain the efforts and we need to strengthen them further. If it is light, green, light yellow or dark yellow, it means the coverage is less than, still less than 75%. But then we have to check whether there is underreporting or is skilled attendants available, are there skilled attendants available in the area? Are traditional birth attendants been trained in that area? And are people ready to get their deliveries from the newly trained birth attendants? Because many of the time people prefer deliveries from their traditional attendants only and they don't prefer the newly trained birth tender. So we would like to look into these points. Thank you. All right, thank you very much. It's, that's really complete. Any comments from others? So I don't know Pramil, you want to comment? No, I think to me this, this looks quite complete, yeah. From this visualization. Yeah. And I see the skilled delivery covering. So, there is the only indicator skilled delivery covering. What is the other one indicator? But what are the parameters? I cannot understand it, so. You were breaking. I couldn't get it. I couldn't get it. Can you explain what, what was he trying to complain? And what are the others, what are the other? I couldn't get it. What are the other? What are the other? What are you saying? But what are the other parameters? Field delivery covering and which are not, that means that are not field delivery coverage, right? Or other? Yes. Okay. Actually when we see deliveries, actually we see whether it is institutional or it is home-based. So many of the time in home-based deliveries we look for skilled delivery coverages. And because in institution, we obviously are getting skilled manpower is there. But in home deliveries and sometimes in the rural areas, so people don't get to go to the institutions for the delivery. So we would like to see what are the deliveries which are being conducted by the skilled birth attendance. So that is what we want to see in the area. In the presence. Hello. Yeah, okay. Just, I have just two comments. First thing is about the objective because this is the good coverage which is an indicator. So I was just wondering like, because you mentioned to measure the number of deliveries being attended by the skilled manpower. Maybe, I don't know whether you can revert to, because we are not showing the, because we may have another visualization which may be only show the deliveries, the data element. So I'm not sure whether you can rename it so that it's not the numbers that you are seeing. So you want me to write the proportion of deliveries being attended by skilled? No, no, no. Yeah, I'm just suggesting... Or the percentage. Yeah, I mean, maybe you can, I'm just mentioning few areas you can modify if it is written. So maybe you can mention proportion rather than numbers because we may have another visualization where you're actually showing the data element value. That is one. And the other thing... Maybe, maybe, maybe. Yeah. And also about coverage if it is less than 40, just like, I mean, some of the actions that you have suggested for this third category, I mean, between 75 to 40, those may still be a number, right? So right now it's about data related parameters which are there. So you can also add this public health related parameters also to that section. So those two things I had. Yes, yes. And then it's a very complete framework. Nicely done. Thank you, thank you. Right. Shall we move on to the last group, group six? Yes, please. I will be sharing my screen, just a minute. Please do, yes. Is it visible now? Yes, it is visible. Okay. For our indicator, we selected MR1 coverage. So our objective of the visualization was to measure the overall performance of delivering the MR1 vaccine. Here we felt that the MR1 vaccine coverage is indicative of the utilization of immunization services by the community. And so a high coverage indicates high utilization, whereas a low coverage indicates that there are a lot of dropout children. And hence that there is a low utilization of health services by the population. So that's why it is important. For the data source, it was the immunization program monthly DHIS2 data set. The numerator is the number of MR1 doses given to children less than one year. And the denominator is the total population of children less than one year of age. Because this first dose is typically given at nine months of age. That is why in both the numerator and denominator, we have the less than one year present. Then for the related actions, if MR1 coverage is greater than 125%, then the actions would be to review the numerator as well as to review the denominator and cross-check the data. If MR1 coverage is green, that is greater than 90%, then everything is great. And the directive would be to sustain the efforts. And now if MR1 coverage was less than 90%, then we would need to check for various aspects, whether there was underreporting, whether the community is aware of the importance of vaccination, whether any recent AFI has occurred in the community. And hence there is a resistance or reluctance in the community for vaccination. If there have been any significant stockout of the vaccine, that's leading to the low coverage. And then we would also have some programmatic actions for the immunization teams and the staff in the respective district's facilities. It would be to identify all the dropout children in their respective catchment areas and mobilize them for the next immunization session. And where necessary, they would be allowed to plan additional sessions for selected areas in a campaign mode in order to improve the MR1 coverage rapidly. That's all, thank you. Right, thank you very much. And I especially like the actions part where you have been really going into details. So it's really good group six. And obviously I know like all of you, in some of the groups who presented initially, they didn't have that much of time to prepare also. So I'm just being fair by all the groups. But this is really nice, the actions component. I have just one comment, but before that, anybody else who want to comment? Looks like no comments from participants. Yeah, because this is really complete nicely done. Just one comment I have, maybe in the objective, you can mention that you're trying to achieve a cross-district comparison, maybe delivering MR1 vaccine across district. Because otherwise, I mean, if we don't include one query I have is like, why we select a map? So maybe we even selected another type of visualization. So one reason maybe so that we can show this geographic comparison, because the map is really valid here because you are just only selecting one parameter, which is one indicator. So what you're trying to do, the map is the ideal. But maybe you can also, you try to do a cross-district. Sure, sure, thank you. I can modify the objective accordingly to measure the overall performance of delivering MR1 vaccine and to compare the MR1 coverage across districts. Or there's MR1 vaccine across district, something like that. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. No problem, right? Any more comments from anyone? Right. Okay then, so thank you very much everyone. It was a really good effort from all the groups. I mean, I was initially thinking like we might not be able to do all these presentations given the short span of time we have. But like I suppose today we had really good collaboration between the years, between participants in your groups as well as the facilitators. So I hope it was a worthy effort. And I think we can conclude the section on interpretations. So the plan from here onwards, of course I have to tell the word of the day, but other than that, we have one other section that is remaining for the day, which is implementation considerations, which of course is a bit of a, I mean, sharing experience, which I can share the generic recommendation where we can also go for a brief discussion about issues that you have and your experience. And also we have one ungraded assignment, MCQ type assignment also for the interpretations. So what we can do now is like, we can take a short break and we can also give you some time to do the ungraded exercise. Whereas we can have maybe five, 10 minutes short break and start the presentation on the implementation considerations. Finish it often, give you time to do the ungraded exercise later. Anybody who opposed the latter idea that is like anyone who doesn't like the idea of doing the ungraded assignment last after my next presentation, just let me know. If not, I will do the presentation next on implementation considerations and we'll do the ungraded assignment last. Please let me know if anybody doesn't like that idea. All right, okay. Yeah, I know like most of you like that idea, but if anyone doesn't like it, fine, right, okay. So I guess the majority likes the idea of doing the implementation considerations so that you can do the ungraded exercise leisurely. But still, I think we need to take a small break. So what we will do is we will meet in exactly 10 minutes at 335 local time in Indian Street, we will meet again. And then at that time, I will mention the word of the day. Thank you.

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Obviously you have good actors. And so that's a plus. Yep. And I think it could be something that is similar to like a commercial family success of like an amusement film with like a strong message of some sort. Yeah. I do find it funny that anytime she was doing anything remotely, not normal. She's like, she's from America. She's American. She's American. Don't worry. Yeah. Yeah, it looks very cute. Yeah. Looks like it's going to be fun. I like the twist because I, I mean, obviously there's been robots, but I don't know if there's been something similar to being in love with the robot. I know. Yeah. Her, her is the only one I can think of. There's been movies where people have been in love with. There was a film Jeff Bridges did back in the, in the 80s, I think it was where he plays an alien and she falls in love with an alien. But as far as, and there's obviously the conundrums of the Blade Runner series dealing with clones, but this is, this isn't a common, a common story. Indian cinema. Yeah. I'm happy to see Shahid back in the kind of commercial realm. One dancing. Yeah. Because I'm looking forward to all those dance numbers because obviously he's going to, he kicks ass at that. Yep. And then to have him and Creedie, who I think is one of the best young actresses is in Hindi cinema. I agree. I think she's absolutely fantastic. And you got Dimple in there. You got Dharmendra. A whole bunch of other, it's directed by Amit Joshi, who don't bounce her bubbly. No, we didn't see that one. Did he direct trapped or was he just part of trapped? It was just, he was the writer of trapped. Okay. Yeah. It looks fun. This is one that would be just, it looks like a great date movie. It looks like a great movie to just go have a fun night out, be entertained. And maybe like you said, have an Ayushman kind of heart message at the end. Yeah. And it's, I think it's coming out. It's in February 9th. So it's right around Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day. Smart. I don't know how, I know in America that's a thing. So you guys have to tell us like how normal is that in terms of, do they release romance films around Valentine's Day in India as well? I don't recall. I don't recall that being a, yeah. Because I don't know how prevalent Valentine's Day is in India to release your film around something like that. This should get US distribution. Oh, it easily. Yeah. It's easily. Yeah. It's a Hindi film. So we'll definitely get it. And I did get word that the LGP film is going to get a wide distribution. We'll see what that means though. We'll see what that means. Holding out hope. But that could be a wide distribution for Malayalam. And which is, we'll see. Just give it to me a little closer than little India. That'd be great. Yes, please. That'd be great. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the trailer if you're excited for it and anything else we need to know down below.

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Ampareya isi lelewa na akili Rapudu ni tajiri Ampareya lasi ma pesa emutunze Nani, ya bina isi tunza ampareya na ya gariya kia lipum dogum dogum Mimina ima ni ojiata ni o Yes Hei ma musi ako ma toke o ya kesho Amuave ma upata Aote ni watoto Kiti ya kwanza aote ni watoto Mili waduna jo kitambo Yo relationshipo it is not 20 anywhere Jo adu kia angali aeji ni se Mata andru kibeni prophetu edu al shatabiri Kitambo sidi lukotu nangoji isi kia kwa chana What's up good people and welcome back to SPM Bars My name is Shika Gita We are right here Siju inu apiku demo Facebooka metu leta Laki ni aida wei lamu himu treze kuske kutuka kwa ke demo Facebook Uku ni Karen Uku ni Karen Karen ni nye me omoka Ono kwa kuna ma kelele ni mazitu tu na mageru wana pita Uko salama Nendelea vizu Ah siendelei Nime sota kwa na empesiangi me poteka mama bebeda diswen uko inji Yes Nime sota si na boyfriend niko singo niko vaji Nende aji shida iku apimbo na una boyfriend it's 2012 Lack of assets, lack of matters affecting society Nyumambaya, bedepieni, inner beauty Yes, wana na takawa nitaiki Ucho apali boku nyemi tandao Okise mawakati ati wana na takawa kuchaki Juzi nasimekana kombo uliongea Yes Ukanena Nani kama nasimekana sasawewewe sababu oga obina Once ambare Sasawewewe ni kama unataka nawe uchkwe rapudo Yes, because rapudo is the richest person in Kenya Richest artist Ambareya izilelewa na akili Rapudo ni tajiri Ambareya nazima pese yemutunze Nani habina izitunza Ambareya na yo gari aki alipam dogum dogum Yes Ok Mina li piya si mumbawomba obina nalipia gari umutum dogum doga Adatawa apitai miya kutunza Ambareya Ambareya na desafu tuma nauma pese Mina takara rapudo juwani zani geusa ni kuwa na makaldio na pese aki Ako geusa Pesandi odawia surambaya pesandi odawia figambaya Mimi figa siya anguni umaskinidi yonafanya na kaka usifi na sinafi Gawacha ni shike peseandi umraju na autofauti angu na saizet in location 2 Yes Now, maybe talking about our history ote Kwa ni kulenda je Because most of the time to kiske ukiongelilewa Kusua crush or someone you love Una kwangu ukiongelilewa oji Yes, oji is my future husband Na juo saia na kote nyuma ime Oji na juo atakuja kunio Na juo kwa moli ake kuna one room for improvement My room Hey, oji must marry me Uya na nipenda tu Nila na shindwa rase maja na nipenda Na kwa na mzungu Yes, oji na nipenda na nipenda tu Na na juo na one day oji will marry me Ni kuna hopes Ni kuna imani Vila niwa tu engini na muna seman Ni na imani mungu wa na nipenda kazi Mimi na imani oji atani o Yes Nime jituza mzono bikira Preparing the My virginity for call graph use Yes Now talking about that Laki ni kuna siku Niliu na kone Facebook pejako I hope it wasn't like a fake account But nadani ni ako Ulu kumendi ka ati wewa soko Labda wa lete lunch Hey, niliu andi kifu juu nimeka Soko mpa kani mechoka Sasi mi na juo ni kuna call graph Wata call graph ni anana na sumbu Aki na rapudu Na shangaga toro ni naka sumbu So mahali mi mefika ima mua tu ni settle Kamani ku trafuta sura na makaliwa Chani trafuta same time call graph Wani chuku e Yes Uta zita futa vipi Pesa tu Pesa aki aki Pesa aki ita kataku Hey Si ako Yango na kuja mudogo Mudogo bados Yango kia dili kubo Yes But me my heart loves call graph Jonas He is the international Singer Ini Kenya Ebus tangaza msima mua ko Nikali graph Ni rapudu Rapudu ni attachment Waisi convince rapudu a toke Kwa ambareya kuja kwangu Si oni kama kwekia chill sketch Yo ni kichapo mua na Rapudu azi acha milima na mabonda Akuja kwa nje nye bamba Dakin na kwa ambia rapudu Vipile na semai Nje akuenda binguni ni nye bamba Na kwa demoa Facebook Ndi o kuna nje akuenda binguni Toka kwa ambareya cia o gobina Yes Siji ui hiswali nta uliza je But ona serious na utkuna utuengi Onatikanga kuja sabuna Jitanga the only virgin Is this true amatuni lie? Yes, very true Kama kuna monau Kama kuna monau me maeli Nisha hinda naia kwa jokum tanda aze Mimis yazi peyana tu iwiwi Mimi ni, ni gldi ni kunae na mungu Nipati elazi wamiata lipa maria lipie Yes Miya lipie fizi go Si anali piya iu virginity na nali piya tana mahari Iwi na maana kwa mba akupe Kesa ama aende oni oza ziwa A mi na e maari anguni lipo Mimi ni oni decided kama na piwa Na jumendi oni na kwa na beba Wato otu kwa kwantoa Waza ziwa ikdu edu dina moja Osafi wa piwa Teni kei, teni kei mi ni piwa Izule millions Are you serious? Yes Ima mbe akupe leki Waza ziwa mga mba elafu midi Oni kei uzuwa kama ugali Ni kiza otu rukumi na tana Pa na iupesa ni pewa mimi Iya Hapo evo juzi tulieza kuna Kwenye show ya oga Obina Na suali amalu me kwa kwenye mi tanda Opi ani E Obina ni kuklau Tana club Chesna amba Nyukweli anampenda Nyukweli Nyukweli Obina ezi kabila jina ambarei Anampenda Lage ni shida si Obina anapenda Shida ni ambarei anapenda Nani Nani Obina Hapo ni o shida nanziya Pa na jo anani Uyo ambarei ezi acha Rapudo akuja kwa Obina Yo ni gumu Yo ni gumu Iya Pi ambarei tulieza kuna Pa liwa kwenye Instagram Maksima rohoyake ni am tu moja Nani Rapudo Nani Nani Obina Zasia Dapila dumutu akusetul Nani duwa saen Nani Obina aka na douto Obina Isasa kwa ambarei Kwa ngei kwa umweli Ya t⇂ahiko ambarei Hallo Obina Osa ni Obina Obina eni muzas Ni maambana nyuma na sura ya ni viti ya dunia, bingunu tapi wa mule mupi ya niza kwa panakaivi kumpe bingunu ni mekua mule yambara ekuji oni pende, kufa 200 bingunu pata na yo mule My lord, okay, now, uh, twa chene na story ya kina rapodo o bina, probably that's your like, your private life Twingi e kumamba mba uleza kuzu ngumzi ya waseni wa kenya, kwa hanzo kusimu komba wa waseni wa kenya and not real Because iphones in our side, dears, juma mba mba Eyyy, s'iiphones nubu ulezi, juma wa sani wa kenya, wana fanya sisi ya waseni wa kina, tu li kwa ma relationship ya Ndi omana nga kila suikunasiki ya muna mtu na mendika waka, kaka karta siya kwa po CBD Adi ya, mi fisha crush, na ni mi fisha crush, rikitla nia poko Jui ya filter, yes, tawa sani filter ni wana fanya waseni wa naka, o naka demon Ukuja wana padana wa kwa ground ni omosh wana wa hasa wana du changanya, de wana tu mix. Hei, wambia wasani wa jaribu kutumi wa takinu wana wana wana fana. Let me ask you something. Labda hi kuchen kut discovery wali jua lini. Hei, si mimi na miti na wasani wana we? Bahani li miti na hei jamuri dei. Edi buti na nika padana hei, tao, street. Milamoni maibradi na kanga na hei 24-7, 24-7, 22 alafu, 2 yo, 2 na kana besti. Nili padana mila mawa. Wili poli nili mpiti apo waka efsakidans. Aroboi nimulu ya na na jua lulu ya tu kona suratu ya kipeke. So unapata muntukama aroboi ya kipeji apicho na shanga, wini dei mo dei maroboi kijana akimi li li. Yes. Nani ali kushanga za zaidi probabili because of the picture you had in mind or rather whatever you say. Okay. Wadi wadi ni shanga za juki henda 2 ko ime postiwa. Hei, my friend. Hata mini kansaku krase wa sana wei. Hei. Na kali grafu. A kali grafu sura ya ke apicha. Ni yo sura ya ke. Kali grafu even dei hako apendi filta. Sana ni mga ni mungi na labdao na jua apendi filta. Nani, ya kia ariji. Nani ya kia ariji ni jua wana kona yo sura ya umama already. Ya kia kia filta siata kali bino. So kia ariji piya na hei ni maelifu bili na kwa kwa simundi hako kwa. Kwa hei ni person. Yes, there is. There is. Akina waga wabina. Filter. Ewa na jua singe muchamba juni li kwa kwa. Kali kini hei piya kwa manguni wana tumia filter. Ewa ngedu fukusa wu kwa na li kwa siya kula badu. So ni kwa sema na ficha waiti na jua maelita sema hei piya filter. Kwa piya ta butita semei video skwa uploade? Eh, butita siya ribu ku semei video skwa eh, te uploade. Na hei na kujwa butita sumemi miit na hei several time. Buti miit na hei ni butita. Kido kuku komplanda wana kama na heizasemi wana changanikuwa. Na piya butita kwa na iPhone. Kwa na iPhone 16 pro? 16 hijatokia. Na butita ni taji ribu. Butita kiki kutungoza. Yani butita na te maningi hei na some time wakua tu sa edichiki. Jubu butita kiki kutungoza na tembele kwan tegi. Ani na chukuwa kantegi kadogo. Kana itu anka ni ni? Eh, kandegi kana ka robot. Yanyali anta na hei kwa makua rusia kote. Eh, sasa kikutungoza na hiya na kutempesa. Na hiya ni kukuwa na edibu tita piya tunia advantage. Eh. Kwa ii po wewe uku inji u me sema? Lemi ask you first of all, sabu ha wa te labdo meza kutuna na wao. Me sema mulamua muna kutuna nga, sana mnongia. Waka tu li sema hii story? I don't know. Naya me reach out kuako. Anani. Mulamua hei zi sinili kwan hei jana. Mulamua ni mai brother. Nini anaka hei piya. Nini ambi usi anta hii wana pote ui anta hii piya. Mulamua hei zi sema kitubu. Eh. Kuchuwa nangoja labda piya. Bata ni ni kuwami piya. Ono na mulamua hei zi sema filto na simu ni tofu uti. Jini zi aken tani ni kala safi. Anga li amtotroa ke dem wili ni mali. Aka tu zali amtotro boi. Mulamua kuna jini zi yawadotroa mali safi. Kijana bada tu jamun. Bata ni mali safi. Ono na kuwa komustiyana wili kuwa mali. Kijana piya ni mali safi. Yes. Kwa ii po ni mstiyana ni mulamua ma ni mstiyananda? Mulamua. Yo jini zi nia wa luya. Luya tu na kuwa nga na ina beauty. Yani kama ni kisema ina beauty mutu aki zana. Mimi sa ina. Sasa yo ina beauty na toki ya kwa mutoto. Yes. Yo manna rito awa alaistan. Ono kuwa nga wa rempona very strong. Ovestan. Ehe. Kusumu metu kapa eviku sema labda kule sura ni kidogo personal. Sii sura personal. Nime sema wali tu na kuwa na. Ina beauty na wali tu na kuwa na sura zetu za kipeke. Luya people they are serious. Ujai julizu wa mbonana Nairobi sa nasana wali tu na kuwa nga security. Kusabu tu kona sura ya kusukia wa tu. Wali mutu wali mulu ya niki ni ojima. Wali zi bwana. Jua kona ina energy. Wali zi kuwa mukikui umpeleke ya kuwa security. Suwa adwa kikunja kumia na fein. Amo kuwa mukikui umpeleke jimata. Jien kumil na tu ias. Di umpe kazi ya wani. Yasa mulu ya na tokanga evo western. Ana inga ya kazi. Ehe. Ebu ni kuliza de ma Facebook. Kauzio inbox like. Haa ma inbox. Small boys they are sliding. I don't want them. I don't deal with below 30. That years? Yes. How old are you? I'm there below 30. But yes, they don't want me below 30. You jingana utoto. Uyo bada aja juwata kuji usha. Uyo bada aja juwata kuji luku. Uyo bada aja juwata kuji ma jukumi andawa. So yes, the risk. Wali ma kuwa zi 29 years kutere. Muka wani ma best friends. Yawani mi na wai fuza marriage. But for me, maimia kama ni ku debt. Ni 32 and above. 32 and above. 32 years and above. People are age difference here. Mutua mba unge penda ku debt na wai wai. Nafakwa na arrange ya. How many years have you been? Kwanzea 35 mbaka 70. Yes. Atere ni kai na muze. Una jio muze, maimia choka sana na bi rumengi na kuna. Udi zawa bi jana. Ma roko api. Una fanya ni ni. Una nichit. Muze ana yaw time ya. Fikiria bi lada sign ni ni. Debt certificate ya ku kufama na fikiria bi lada. Kibiza na bi jana. Do go in the box. Una was the last time we debted. Eh, kitambo. Tango ni ingenda sila na ni mkana boi friendi ku el. Apana. Sigumbuki. Mistake kuwa. Niko tu gafla bini wu. Niko na feeling za calligraph. Awa tu ingina mbo na kucheze mo. Isi iru kai. Na ni zenda kupiji woku mistake. Ni patreka mimba ni zeka. Toto apani yandze ku kafunga, na mango zangu ku kama daipa. Staki. Demo Facebook for the longest time too. Watu wa mikuwa mbia you make peace with the fact that calligraph is married. I know it's married. But what else do you want? Sini mese ma ni kuji sayidi chiki ama tucheze chini yama mati kama siru. Wana mwangapi kenyo wana chit. So demo Facebook achen kulise sua limoja. You would quote and quote, data married man. Ikama ni calligraph. Ata ni kuwa bibi na ambasitada. Amo oke. Kwa calligraph peki ya. Kwa apani amo oke. Biko siya ya ya. Kuna wana umiwa di serve one lady. Calligraph di serve more than five ladies. Biko siya kuna boarding, na pesa, kuna mansion. Kwa mansion ya calligraph, kuna bedrum karubu kuminatano. Yes. Kando na uji na ni, which other man do you think doesn't serve one man? One woman. Kudo doesn't serve one lady. Kenya rapudo adi serve one lady. Eh eh. Calligraph adi serve one lady. Nani mungi na na kata jiru na kuna bodi serve. Aki kareji ya na di serve one lady na ni underage. Eighteen years. Duen ichiwa wa. Eki kareji ya sii pati ya ni mungiwa. Yama siya na munga ya 35 years, yata mpua. Karejia na stili kama 15 years. Tia mungiwa 15 years, tuia wa kwa ya esse bibiya, keju kareji na smoothie body. Apoko. Apoko na di serve, mungiwa nama mungiwa run ya kidru fortiffive years. Yes. Berington. Sheada. Kiyongo zia na mhanu kusiya na mungiwa. Nani teni tajiru ba eiteweya. So ni si na manu siya piya na di serve more than woman? Apoko na di serve more than four women. Yes, kuna tu wa naweke, kuna tu wa naume wezi ambia mudu stay away from my man Kuna wa naume de serve more than two ladies Yeah, sharing is caring Na kenya wa naume ni wa chacha, wa naweke tu limo aga kama diet pa tu, na share Yes Now, talking about relationships, miwa na wa tu engi piwa wakitra e kukua Kukutak, wakise mo nangoja statementia kwa On whatever that has been going on between content creators, monga even travel Hey ma, muzi ako ma toke o ya kensho Ha muave ma upate, ha wa tenu wa toto Kitiyo kwanza ha wa tenu wa toto Mi li wadu na jwa kitampo, yo relationship, it is not ending anywhere Jwa doki angali e je ni same, matanda ruki beni profetwera Shata biri kitampo, situ li wadu na nangoja e siku ya kwa chana kama siku ya leo Kwa tenu wa toto, mu tu kama ifu monga ya na desabu kama kukua na ringtonia poko Ya ni atili su ma naume ako eji ako Mu tu kama travel, atami travel siyes debt because it is too young U yo ni mutu badia na fkiri ya mo wa naweke wengini na ma kaliwa na sura Niki ya na mudo ako So, yo ni li juo iti Kizako wale Na I know there are my friends, I can li juo ita Ita ndi kwa sabu ote, aguna siku eji metu wa ta debt Apa aguna mu tu machuwa between them Yes Ya ifu monga li kwa na desabu ma naume kama kina dadio eni Ani wa naume wengini wa shatanguli ya kwa interstri wa kona akili Ya atili su ma ni tu kama ifu monga ya kama ako kwa atibure Ya chiku yo gabi na, o gabi na kereda kumgoja mba rei kwa na toto Ya ono juo aoni eji metu Aguna siku mi mi na mutu maetu na estroshana eji na body Tu tawaii bwa kuna mutu muku, bwa po evo 2 sikus wole tu na shintana Let me ask you If na travel ni marafkiza ako Soali mi, umesema komba you knew That probably their relationship wasn't ending anywhere Uluwai wambia, uluwai yende Ya yuna sikia isewa komitanda Waka sema mi mi na yadu yo mainda Uso ma juo sisu wambia tu na juo anga lafu na nyama za tu na setu standard Kwa wambia wa wawenia like off camera A tu esu wambia Tuna kuja na tu chinia maji Tuna nyama za wakia chana na tu na kuja kupe janduru But mi li ku juo ya yende maa li popote Tawaii sikia kwandoa wani ya na wajai Weka da li li amutoto Soona na mula moa li inkiwa kwandoa If it popo asya peana Iga juo ya mula moa ita ita ka Traver na ifu mungai wana ka Bradna na sista Wame kaya miaka yote loving down Mbona suftem todo na ako na mali Ni li juo atu apu evo There is something wrong Yes With the whole story that is happening online We all know what Traver did Nenasi mekana ni komba Traver Yuna ako na machungu Hei Traver ako na machungu Lakin ni sasa Taku nyanganya ifu mungai Yume tandao But yata mi na ona Kama tandao na apu adifanya Mokosa moa wana wami Duna kambia wana wami machua Aki kulipia rende na kuwacha Nenele kulipia rende na anda Kwa demungina Eo ni machua Lakin na dream wana wami Umesahidi ya nga demo na moa Chera na muyanganya kitu mekana Umesahidi ya Ea apu Traver na wakuna utoto Yone utoto waha ria juu Wana waki wangapi kenya Mema acho na maa range rover Boja jajenda kumunyanganya Anadyo ni limbaya na nika muhachi So, Traver kama ni wakumuboni Ange kana moa achana na ifu mungai Hivo, akai ifu, yes Do you think ifu on the other side Anakua heart with whatever Traver is doing? Very Anakua heart broken by the way Ifu mungai ni musiyanu abidi san Kusimu kule ni musiyanu abidi Mi na ona do itraver Yata kama achana achi Ifu mungai tu platform zake Na Wendegia zake Kumunyangai tu platform Na rupisha musiyanu nyuma Na yana musiyanu abidi san What do you think probably is The future of The new face Of the channels that we knew Haa, iu chaneli yao Asitu asitu yao jeena boan Agitu yao ifu mungai kuwansa Ineanda ikeru di jeeni Kwa sabuki ni musimu rubesia Ifu mungai, ifu mungai Asitu change yo jeena When you are already Usha and subscribe Apana mi na penda ifu mungai san Mi mi niliyanda raku koni farm Bone mi change yua Mi nifu kubu aifu mungai So, ina ni uma ni kiwana Kama na ume kana reta ifu mungai umchezu Una jua, driver na chezu na ifu mungai Aji maal demon ti anakanda Semani ki pati o demon Mi pati amtoto apili kenya Hei, ifu mungai ni maal safi Anakunyo kina raiva ni chinia maji Na driver kana chezu na gold Driver Pa na reku chezu na gold Dukusha potesa kitu ifi Doro nangamana Siku atoleo na adaya Munti amtoto ame Tresa sama shangasa gold Dwa chana isosa kosa Yuna piangasa 150 Yora jua evil kuwa man Hei neza wambia ni nila Kwa Rudia ne Kwa chana mua chia watoto high school Ma pensia skuizimu kechoka Kumjuana jidu rengi muna Rudia na E ma Facebook umesema tu sa It's a little hard For watu amao wakona age the same Kuwaka utina relationship Ningumu mua saana Kila mutu a move on saasa Kila mutu a move on tu buwana To focus aina Na kuzika chambion Na president na ya kama jengia kibanda Hei, hei umbe ita ni uwa Eleni kibanda Presidents jengia da mu jengia Ta mansion Kenya wela reda le jengia waka kibanda Na ni miyana mahali Sija confirm whether whatever I read was actually From a Atrasted source But ina se me kana kumbe ile nyumba badu Na waka eza kweka picture Ya the finished product Wene ita kuwa Haa kwa niyumba Na, hei niyumba ni pde What you order for us What you get Aguna chen yumba kali Yumba ime inuliva Hime inuliva kama kibanda eski Hei, ni na kusema labda ni sabu Aguna cha raka buwana Erikomondiya me jengia yumba Juzy 4 days Diwana mi mi na sema Kusema kwe li kwa sa erikomondi Maali mi, enda ampi erikomondi As kwe, as kwe kitindoga TMP ama gavan A kwe president 2027 Ju erikomondiya na sa idea Sa isera kali musim Erikomondiya na sa idea Westa Ane enda ku jenga kisi Erikomondiya chikwe kiti buwan Ya, a kwe 2027 A kwe president Erikomondiya na sa idea ij E, ju kwa ni erikomondina A kwe kiputumanga jengia yumba Sii kibanda Iluna ita kibanda Yoni kibanda, hei Koteev A koteev Tukingia pale Tukingoja ekimali zika Probabli kesho Sabun miyona Part of the team The recent ground Wana sema labda Be kesho Wata kua kari bia wana Maali zia kila kitu Kwa tif Kwa tif Ile nyumba itokeze Sii venye tuliyona Wacha tungoji itokeze Ie na juj na kwe Erikomondiya ni kwa Ankushapu mansion Erikomondiya na juwa Yunga kitu yamaana Kwa yunga pa reisame Ankushapu Ah, reisia titu kwa Ie na wele Ie na titu nomba 227 Mungu atu sa idea Erikomondi gama depres then Jumi maisha jengia ni ngumu Na bire sii wada ita Tafuta pasupo Tu toroke kenya Miyona kana pia ni kuna Taka toroka A miyona na toroka Miyona tafuta muzungu Miyona tata America Ni tafuta muzungu Moja ni kaya Uko kama ni kwa moka Na muzungu wacha Nde ni omoke Kenya maisha ni ngumu Hai, atkimalizi It's 2024 Demo Facebook siju me pangiawa Kenya ni ni E 224 Umbe na ni Hali aju kama kwa ita Umbe na ni Siwa chindi omana Mungu ali ni nima Nyuma kani femudu Umbe na ni ile ile E 224 Na pija stage Baiti uitu kuna Shoya MC Tricky After every 2 weeks Saratisa tu kuna Shoa Apu Express Wailons Kwa ni yantak Wana ni ki perform live Kujaini wata tu na wakarubisha Hei, VIP tu na li Fyanga 2K 1500 na 1000 Natu na wachekesha propa Demo Facebook rite teya Of course hako sangi lakuse Wanyi fawlu kila maali Wanyi fawlu YouTube everywhere Adresi bidiwa kini ona Yes Demo Facebook kila maali Yes Thank you so much guys for watching this video Mekona Demo Facebook Meza kuske kutuka kwa ke Thank you so much Until next time I've been a host Shiko Gita Remember you can follow us on all platforms Kee you can find me too at i underscore I'm Shiko Gita

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"Legacy of God's Word"

"Legacy of God's Word" was taught by Kathy Namahoe at Calvary Chapel Chino Valley's 2014 Women's Conference on Saturday 10/4/14. Visit us at www.calvaryccv.org

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I heard recently these words the world may be falling apart but God's plans are falling in place. It is really a treat when people when women get together because estrogen meets up with estrogen and we get it. We understand each other and we see eye to eye and it is so important for us to meet with sisters in Christ and be recharged and revitalized through fellowship and most importantly through God's Word and His Holy Spirit. And so for a little while forget about the laundry that's piling up, the grocery list, the doctor visits that you have scheduled for next week, the homework, the housework, the heartbreak. God has set apart this day for us to meet and hear from Him in a special way and I so appreciate this church and those who serve it with such love and diligence. I thank God for Marie and for Connie and for all the staff who has prayed together and worked together to provide such a day as this. Today's conference is focused upon the word legacy, a legacy of the word of God, a legacy of family, and a legacy of hope. What does that word legacy mean? Simply put it means that it is it's a continuation of your influence, of my influence after our lives are over. It's about making a lasting impact for generations to come. So ladies, what do you want your children, your grandchildren, your nieces, nephews, co-workers, friends to you to remember you for? Your tamales. Do you want them to remember how successful you were in business, in your finances, and the fact that your closet has all of these Prada shoes and purses? Do you want them to remember you that you grew the best tomatoes on the block? You know all of those things are good things but above all you want them to remember you for the way you live for Jesus Christ and how you put him first so that they can say when you are gone, my mom, my grandma, my auntie, she was always reading her Bible. She always prayed for me. She was a servant of the Lord and when things got rough in her life, she was strong in her faith. And so are you determined, am I determined, even intentional, even strategic about leaving a legacy of faith of the Word of God behind? And because you lived and because I lived, will others exalt the name of the Lord Jesus and speak about him? Serve him 30, 40 years from now. The thing is we have a limited opportunity to develop a legacy like that. The Bible says you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. And ladies, you can see that demonstrate it when you get out your hairspray in the morning and and mist it. It is gone, right? Gone. But as one person put it, our lifetime is limited, but our legacy can be limitless. In other words, our godly influence can continue beyond the grave, beyond Chino and even into the uttermost parts of the world. We live in an age of the internet ladies, of smartphones, Twitter, Facebook, Jet Plains. The words of faith, of truth can fly across this planet. So what can we do today, today to build a legacy that's worth leaving behind? What can we do today to build a legacy of the Word of God? Well, like all building projects, it starts with a strong foundation and the Word of God is a strong foundation for all spiritually impactful legacies. Before I can impress and embed God's truth deep down in the hearts and minds of the next generation, it has to be impressed and embedded deep down in my heart and my mind first. So our conference theme is based on Deuteronomy 6, 4 to 9. And so we're going to start to unpack that. And I have a slide that shows where I'm going on this. It begins with lasting words for all generations. The background information of this text is the nation of Israel is now finally, finally on the borders of the Promised Land. And it is a new generation. The old generation that came out of Egypt had been wandering in the wilderness for 40 years. And it wasn't because Moses refused to ask for directions. It was because of the sin of disobedience and unbelief that kept them out. And therefore a whole nation suffered. A whole generation suffered. And that generation that began with Moses perished in the desert, they never entered into God's rest. And the truth is a walk of disobedience and unbelief is a walk of utility and unrest. And are we not seeing that in our nation today? Unrest. Always looking for the next smartphone. The next thing down the line that's hopefully across my fingers is going to fill the emptiness in me. It will never work apart from Christ. Never. So it is no wonder that Moses sees the need before they take one step into the Promised Land to hear again what is most important to God and to them. The word Deuteronomy is a compound word which means second law. And Moses was not going to give this nation a second set of laws. But he was going to repeat for a second time the law and commands God had already given the nation. Those who came out of Egypt had all died except for Joshua, Caleb and Moses. And these men saw with eyes of faith and the rest saw their future with eyes of fear and unbelief. Ladies what are we conveying to our children who are watching us when bad things happen? Is it fear and unbelief? Or do they see a strong faith, a future of glory that's coming that God is with us and for us? Is that what they are seeing? You don't want to ever think that your grandchildren or great-grandchildren who know you today would say about you, oh my mom, she worried all the time. She rocked and worried. Or I love my grandma, but she rocked for Christ. What a difference. What a difference. So in the book of Deuteronomy Moses passionately reinstates God's commandments to the new generation of Israelites because he wanted them to know and remember God and his word and to live by every word that proceeds from his mouth. Moses said in Deuteronomy 8.3 man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. These are the very words that Jesus spoke when tempted by Satan. And let's think about God's word. God's word is perfect food. It's organic. You know how you're all in the supermarket now ladies, okay let's we have to get organic food now, right? Because you don't want any pollutants. You don't want any GMOs. God's word doesn't have GMOs, no pollutants. It doesn't even have a price tag on it. It is perfectly prepared. Don't you like that ladies? You don't have to cook it up. No calories, satisfying, nourishes, body, soul, and spirit. Steak cannot do that. A daily need, a daily feast. So do you sit down long enough to eat it, digest it, savor it? Or is it your habit to eat on the run? Ladies, it can happen to us, right? Eating on the run, eating God's word on the run. Oh if you only knew Kathy and I schedule every day. God is the God of your schedule and we need to trust him to make time to savor and eat his word. It is spirit and it is life. And maybe that's why when you skip the meal of God's word, you just are what is wrong with me? Let's look now at Deuteronomy 6.4. Moses says, here, oh Israel, open up your ears. The Lord our God is one. This is called the shema, shema, Israel, here Israel, here church. And this is a clarion call to the nation to have a jealous devotion and faith in Yahweh, the one God. There is no other God. And they are never, never to love another, never to replace God with another thing or person. Verse 5, love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. So we see the words, the word your three times here, personal. It has to be a personal love. You cannot bank on your grandma's love for God to apply to you. Jesus said, this is the first and greatest commandment. And so ladies, it's all about love. God's love for His children is all consuming. It is complete. It is unquestionable and it is everlasting. Who can give you such a love like that? And that is how we are to love God. It should be a consuming thing, complete, unquestionable and everlasting. And the only way we can even begin to do that is to have a new heart, a new birth by faith in Jesus Christ and to be sealed with the Holy Spirit. Perhaps you were dragged today to this woman's conference. Perhaps you were bribed today to come to this conference because you don't want to hear about this, this God, the Bible, this born again thing and you keep turning a deaf ear to it thinking, I'm good. I'm good. I'm religious. I did come to this woman's conference. That should come for something. Or you say, I'm not ready. Oh, how Satan loves to put those words in your ears. I'm not ready. Tomorrow. Who is guaranteed tomorrow? May the Holy Spirit who is hovering right now here, hovering, the one who quickens us to new life. Might he quicken you to make that decision today? This is the day the Lord has made for you. He wants you. He wants to love you and give you a love that is incomparable and give you a life that is incomparable. The world cannot give that to you. Verse six, these commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts and press them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up, tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads, write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates. Simply put, live it out. Live out this life of love for all to see, for all to know throughout your day, morning, noon and night. Live it out. And moms, a lot of you, you spend a lot, a lot of time taking your children to and fro, right? To school, to baseball practice, soccer practice, to dentist appointments. You have a captive audience and you won't have them for long. Seize, seize those times for prayer, to memorize scripture together. I did not do that and I wish I did. I, I, I thought, oh, you know, the Bible study fellowship children's leaders can do that and the Sunday school teachers can do that and I should have done that. I'm old now. You know, compared to some of you. But really, God is saying, Kathy, you could have used that time a lot better. And so I want to tell you young, young moms, do it now. Take advantage of the time you have with your children because I will tell you they will be gone and you, you're just not going to believe it, right? It's like, what? My, my daughter is, is 18. She's graduating from high school. How did that happen? Now, I want to, I want to point out something very important here. The words of Deuteronomy are Moses' final words to the nation of Israel. He knew that he was not going to enter the promised land. He was going to die and be taken to glory. So in a sense, the book of Deuteronomy, it's like, this is it. This is his last words. And that reality underscores the fact that, you know, if you, if you know you're going, you're leaving this earth. You choose your words. You know, what do I want to convey to my, my child on my deathbed? And the bottom line message for Moses in his final words was not peace out. You know, don't worry, be happy. It was love and obey God. Love and obey God. It's the most important thing. And his ancient plea is a lasting plea for all generations, for this generation and beyond. And we have a sacred obligation to do as Moses did, to leave behind a legacy of the word of God. For it is the word of God that we need and we need all of it. So what does it take to be faithful in this charge? How do we begin? We live such busy lives. Am I going to do this? Let's turn to Luke chapter six, verse 46, building a legacy upon a solid foundation, building a legacy upon a solid foundation, Luke six, 46 to 49. Jesus is teaching his disciples kingdom principles. How a subject who is in the kingdom of God lives out his or her life. And Jesus says, why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me. And here's my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house, but could not shake it because it was well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete. My friends, this is such a vivid, straightforward, easily understood teaching. We get this. The foundation is everything. So let me show you a picture of a collapsed house battered and destroyed in the storm. Unusable. No longer can you go in that. And I mean it's just gone. Your life, my life, may have the appearance of being all together, but the proof will be revealed in the storms of life, in the sufferings of life. And so are we living in a house of cards or a house built on the rock, the word of God? It's as simple as that. The songwriter penned these words how firm a foundation you saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word. It starts there. It continues there. It ends there. You can't skip this part. You can't ignore this part. You can't skimp on this part. And there are no substitute foundations. And let me say that again. There are no substitute foundation. All other ground is sinking sand. It's not too late to build a rebuild. Building a legacy of the word of God begins now, not later. So Kathy, I still want to know, how am I going to do this in a practical, give me some practical tools. How do I do this? How do I get started? What do I do? You can start by signing up for a Bible study class at your church, at this church, at Bible study fellowship, online, in your neighborhood, getting with a neighbor, a friend, so that you will be in community with others, holding each other accountable, learning together. But then, you must always come face to face with the God, just you and him, to have that personal time of Bible study. Just take a chapter from your Bible, a book, work your way through it just as Pastor David does for us. It doesn't have to be a whole chapter. It can be one verse that speaks to your heart, that nourishes you for that day. Look for an attribute of God. Write it down. Oh, God, I just learned you are holy. Look for a lesson. Write it down. Oh, Lord, I am not always holy. I wasn't holy 10 minutes ago when I yelled at my kids changes you to be like Jesus. And the thing is we are to read the Bible more. As one person said, we are to read the Bible more and other people less. What is your go to book? Facebook? What is your go to website? Pinterest? Oh, how Pinterest can get you down a deep hole? Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, looking recipes, styles. You know, things that I can get for my home. It becomes a trap. Is it are these things keeping you from the Bible? Oh, how easily ladies we can get distracted. We are multitaskers. We are. We have to be careful. Our go to book every day must be the Bible. And when we go there, God speaks to us tenderly. Sometimes, sometimes, you know, process, corrects us, disciplines us so that he will. We would be kept from sin and the terrible consequences of it. He will give us words of love, of encouragement, of faith. And sometimes you don't have to say any word to him, but you know, he's, he's speaking to you. I think of our brother Sa'id in a Tehran prison cell as, as I speak. And others like him who have been persecuted for their faith who would love to freely hold the Bible in their hands and set their eyes upon the word of God. May God forgive us for the way in which we live in America take this book for granted. May God help us to treasure his word and to build our lives upon it. The third part I want to share with you today is writing down your legacy, writing down your legacy. You know, God is amazing. When he wants to get your attention, he'll repeat himself. Don't you find that to be true? You know, the pastor just talked about a message about loving your and obeying your husband. And wouldn't you know it? You hear it again and again. He loves us. The recent message that I have been hearing more than once from God is write it down. Write what down? Your legacy, the facts about your conversion to Christ, your ministry, your walk with God, the storms that you have weathered. Write down words that will put a spotlight on God and put them into the hearts and minds of your children and their children. You know, I was thinking about the tremendous interest today in genealogy. You know, Ancestry.com shows on TV. Who do you think you are? Celebrities wanting to find out all about grandma and grandpa. And for myself, I was born and raised in beautiful Hawaii. And I am the oldest of eight children. Yes, eight. Yes, lots of lots of kids. My grandmother lived with us. So it was a full house, one bathroom. But we had the beach. But all of us kids, we dearly love grandma. But I knew very little about her past, her family history. And of course, you know, when you're younger, you don't care about family history. Really? You care about maybe boys or I want to pass the SAT test or I mean, there's so many things when you're young, but family history. And I regret that today. So for you who are young and your grandmas are still with you, talk to them, find out about their faith. My grandma's gone. And so is my mother. The one thing I remember about grandma was that she liked going to church. She went to this little country church on the windward side of the island of Oahu. Her church was about 12 miles from our house. And to local people, if you know any Hawaiians, that's too far. That's far 12 miles. Oh, and so my dad, who was not a Christian then praise God, he's in glory now. He wasn't a Christian then. He was never really, you know, boy, I get to take grandma to church today. So about once a month, just once a month, ladies, my grandma went to church. And ladies, here's the sad part. That's all I know about my grandmother's spiritual side. All I know. What did she know about Jesus? What did she know about the Bible, about the gospel? I don't know. If only she had told me, if only she had written down these important things. Remember, I told you that when God wants to get you attention, he'll repeat himself. Well, let's look at Deuteronomy 6.9. Moses said, write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates. Write them. Imagine how precious it will be for your children, your children's children to read about your love for God, your love for his word, what your favorite verse is, or the favorite go to scripture passage when you are suffering and in pain, how you came to faith in Jesus Christ, how encouraging for them to read, how you weathered a particular storm of life, and how God caused you to stand and to stand strong because you had built your foundation upon the rock of the Word of God. Now for some of you, you're thinking, write them down. Listen, you don't have to have a degree in journalism to do this. Look, if you can text, I have a dear friend who is single, never married, no children, 72 years old, and she became acutely aware of the need for her to pass on to her nieces and nephews, her spiritual legacy. Throughout the photos and the family stories she wrote down Bible verses, she described her mother's faith and hers, and I got permission from her to share one of the God stories that she wrote down just before her brother Dale passed away. She writes, Dale was the last one of our family to go home. Many wonderful moments were shared during his hospital stay and nursing home period, despite the less than desirable atmosphere of those places. The experience I most want to share is the day before Dale died. Others in the room had left for a little while, but we're going to be returning later. I sat beside his bed and we were listening to old hymns by the Gaithers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, some of you know him, or not. Before we had started listening to the music, Dale said, there is something I want to tell you, but he wasn't ready to say anything yet, and later he said, later I said, I bet you decided not to tell me. He said, no, no, and he waited. And then as a Gaither number with being sung, he heard the words. If we never meet again, this side of heaven, we will meet on that beautiful shore. He squeezed my hand and said, that's it. She writes, the Lord has truly blessed me through the laughter and through the tears. I have no doubt that we will meet on those beautiful shores. Please plan to meet us there. My friend is leaving a legacy of the word of God and what Christ means to her and has done in her life for future generations. What a treasure that you and I could put together now before we leave. You know women, we are really good about taking family pictures and making photo albums. And today we have Shutterfly. We can have a book made of all of these wonderful things we have done and seen in our family, our friends. We are so good at recording our children's birthdays. Their first step, first day at school, graduations, weddings, vacations. But is there ever any mention of God? Are there any of his words to be found in those albums? If we say we love God above all, then he will be evident in all. Psalm 89.1 says, with my mouth, I will make your faithfulness known through all generations. Our mouth can speak even when we are long gone. Our words can speak even when we are long gone. Imagine 40 years from now if the Lord tarries your great grandchild, your great nephew picks up what you have written down about your relationship with Christ and that experience prompts faith in them, prompts courage and perseverance in them. It will all be worth it. All right, the next section, Leaving Behind Successors. Leaving Behind Successors. It has been said that there is a crisis for successors. You have the baton of faith in your hand, but so few want it. Few are willing or ready to carry on the race. How much more critical when this is true in your own family? I mean, my goodness, if we can't even get the baton passed in our own family to one person, passing the baton to our church, in our ministry. If the legacy of the Word of God is going to move forward beyond our lifetime, we need to leave behind successors. We need to invest in the teaching and mentoring of the young, the next generation. Moses did that. He invested his time and energy in the teaching and mentoring of Joshua. So when it was his time for him to climb Mount Nebo and depart from this earth, there was a strong, courageous, sold out for God leader to carry on the work and take the Israelites into the promised land and conquer it in the might of God. So how soon should we start investing in another person's life in the life of the next generation? I think of the words of the apostle Paul, who was a teacher and mentor to Timothy. And I have a slide for that. He said in 1st Timothy 314, as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you have learned it and how from infancy, and how from infancy. You have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 1st Timothy 1.5, I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded now lives in you also. Ladies, we need to thank women who invest their lives in teaching children at this church, at your church for the hours they spend to do that. Thank you. If any of you are teachers of God's word from the nursery on up, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. But we are not to just leave it in their hands. We must be the first on that battlefield to do it. The shaping and molding of a successor who will carry on the legacy of the word of God starts at infancy. In Timothy's case, it began with mom and grandma and then continued on with Paul. And I just read this in my B.S.F. notes, Bible Study Fellowship notes. I'm sorry, I have to say that. That's who I am. Moses, it says this, Moses received the best secular education possible. However, it was in his home and from a slave mother that he received the most important lessons. The influence of a golly parent's life in teaching cannot be underestimated even when the parents do not see the results in their own lifetime. You may not see the results of your prayers for your son who is out there immersed in sin, lost. You keep praying. You keep living out the life of faith in Christ. Those words were followed up by the story of John Newton, a slave trader turned believer in Christ who wrote Amazing Grace. And it was his mother who filled his mind with Scripture. When he was young, she died when he was seven. But she left behind a legacy of the word of God which made an impact in his adult life. Moses' legacy of the word of God has been passed on to us, to me, to you. And we dare not fail to do the same. We dare not be that missing link. When the next generation looks back at our lives, we want them to be able to say well done by good and faithful mom. A good and faithful grandma, good and faithful auntie, good and faithful sister. I have learned and seen the truth lived out in you. And now it's mine. And I will make sure I do the same for the next generation until Jesus comes.

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U.S military aircraft and personnel conducted a full Air Show as part of the 2022 Kaneohe Bay Air Show, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Aug. 13th, 2022. The air show provided an opportunity for MCBH to foster positive relationships with the local community, while providing a unique experience to the public. Defense Now - August 2022 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe95fdmDwNk_925HVJnSu-yGERQmf3Ta- Checkout for more Latest Defense & Technology News Updates. www.defenseflashnews.com 2022 Kaneohe Bay Air Show B-roll MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, HI, UNITED STATES 08.13.2022 The Kaneohe Bir Show, which contained aerial performances, static displays, demonstrations and vendors, was to express MCBH’s appreciation to the residents of Hawaii and their continued support of the installation.(U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jerry Edlin) Film Credits: Video by Cpl. Jerry Edlin Marine Corps Base Hawaii

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THE LIFE CYCLE OF JUDAISM: From Cradle to Grave - Rabbi Michael Skobac - Jews for Judaism

Rabbi Michael Skobac, Director of Education of Jews for Judaism presents Part 4 of JUDAISM 101, an entry level seminar series for Jews to explore the essential ideas and practices of Judaism and Jewish thought. http://www.jewsforjudaism.ca • Donate https://www.canadahelps.org/dn/24741 •JEWS FOR JUDAISM is an international organization dedicated to countering the growing multi-million dollar efforts of Christian missionary groups that target Jews, the impact of cults and eastern religions, assimilation and other challenges to Jewish continuity. JEWS FOR JUDAISM's goals are to strengthen Jewish pride and identity and to win back Jews who have been influenced by missionaries and cults. We achieve our goals through FREE educational programs, materials and counseling services that connect Jewish people to the spiritual depth, beauty and wisdom of Judaism and keep Jews Jewish. Please contact us if we can help you. Questions should be directed to [email protected] VISIT+LEARN: http://www.jewsforjudaism.ca FACEBOOK+LIKE: http://www.facebook.com/jewsforjudaismcanada YOUTUBE+SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/JewsforJudaismCanada TWITTER+TWEET: https://twitter.com/JewsforJudaism1 DONATE+HELP: https://www.canadahelps.org/dn/24741

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We'll see that Judaism actually has various rhythms. There are various rhythms to the life of a Jew. As part of the nation, for example, we are all part of the history of the Jewish people that is moving inexorably towards its destiny to its prophetic destiny that we've described in the past few sessions. But we are not just here in the present. We are part of a nation that has a future and we're heading towards that future. So that's part of our rhythm of life. There's also the rhythm that Jewish experience that's tied into the Jewish calendar. So for example, each day, there's a rhythm of the day that revolves around the three different times for prayer. The morning prayer, afternoon prayer, evening prayer, then of course there's the rhythm of the weekly cycle. The six work days followed by the Sabbath is a great part of the consciousness, the rhythm consciousness of Jewish people. Then there's the monthly cycle, where every month we celebrate the new moon. Each month has its own character. The lunar month, approximately 30 days long, but that's part of again, the cycle of rhythms that we go through. We're conscious of the fact that we're now in a particular month and in a few days or a few weeks, the new month is going to begin. And then during the course of the year, there's the rhythm of all the different Jewish holidays. For example, one rhythm of the year are the three pilgrim festivals. There were three festivals when the Jewish people lived in Israel and there was a temple where it was an obligation to go to Jerusalem and be there for the festivals, the Passover of the Feast of Week, Shavuot, and the Feast of Tabernacles. And there were other holidays during the year. Every year there are the high holidays that revolve around the beginning of the Jewish calendar year, the new year, Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement after that. There were the minor holidays like Purim and Hanukkah. So we have a rhythm to our lives that revolves around the holidays that come out during the year. If you're living in Israel during the time when there was a temple, even now a bit, there is the cycle of the sabbatical years where there's every seventh year, the Shemitah, the sabbatical year, actually even a longer cycle, which is every 50 years, the Jubilee year. But Jewish life is a life of rhythm based upon the calendar. Then there is the rhythm of the life cycle events that we each go through as individuals when we experience these events in our own unique personal timing. So tonight we'll try to explore some of the major features of Judaism's life cycle from cradle to grave. So the very first commandments in the Bible, the very first commandment in the Torah is when God commands Adam and Eve to be fruitful and to multiply. Now aside from the personal blessings that come from having children, Judaism is also concerned with the importance of having descendants to carry on the national mission of the Jewish people. So for example, we see throughout the book of Genesis, we're not patriarchs and matriarchs, we're having difficulty having children, and conceiving their concern was not just a personal concern that they wanna have pleasure from their children, they were concerned about who is going to carry on their legacy, who's gonna carry on the mission of the Jewish people. And Jewish law teaches that a man and a woman fulfill their obligation of having children when they have one son and one daughter, just like God created initially a man and a woman. So even though a couple fulfills their obligation of being fruitful and multiplying when they have a son and a daughter, Judaism encourages families to go beyond this minimum and to actually aim for larger families. However, we have to be cognizant to the fact that there are many factors that have to be considered when considering how many children a couple is going to have, including the physical and psychological well-being of the mother. And so when warranted, family planning is certainly permitted. Now, one of the things that expectant parents deal with is choosing a name for their child. Names in the Bible and names in Judaism are extremely significant and important. They have a strong relationship to the person and the person's nature. There's a correspondence between who a person is and what their name is. And even though according to Jewish teaching, prophecy came to an end around 2,400 years ago, there is among other remnants of prophecy that we still have. For example, our sages teach that often dreams are a 60th of prophecy, but our sages teach that when parents are naming their child, they're also gifted with an infusion of divine inspiration when choosing the name for their children. Usually Jews of European descent, we call these Ashkenazic Jews, will name their children after deceased relatives. So if there's a relative, a grandfather, or an aunt, or some person in the family who has not been named yet, a child has not been named after this deceased person in the family. So when Ashkenazic family is very common to name a new child after a deceased relative, either with the exact same name of that relative or a similar sounding name. Among spartic Jews, these are Jews that come from places like Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Iran, Iraq, and Africa, they will often name their children after living relatives. Now the names that are given traditionally in Jewish families are often names from the Bible, usually good people from the Bible, not usually evil people from the Bible, and also special righteous people from the Talmud. But we have a reservoir, a bank of names of people from the times of the Bible and Talmud, and it's very traditional to name Jewish children after these people. However, today it's not uncommon for Jewish parents to also give their children a non-Hebrew name, especially in societies outside the land of Israel, where for many reasons it's just convenient to have a non-Hebrew name. For example, many people that live in the United States or Canada cannot pronounce easily Hebrew names. So for example, Boruch might get the English name Brian, or Chaim might get the name Charles, but it's often given not just a Hebrew name to a child, which by the way becomes their official Hebrew name that's used in all official spiritual events, like when they get married or when they get called to the Torah, any official religious event, they're called by their Hebrew name, but often people will use their English or non-Hebrew name as well, although it's increasingly popular for many Jewish people to use their Hebrew name only. So you'll find many people who will not use any name other than the Hebrew name. Our sages teach us that one of the merits that we were able to leave Egypt when we were slaves in Egypt over 3,000 years ago, one of the things our sages say that we did that was meritorious was that people did not change their names. We kept to our traditional Jewish names so people will often use their Hebrew names exclusively. Now tonight, there are going to be many, many variations in the practices I'll be looking at tonight. We're covering a huge, vast amount of material and I won't be able to cover all the different variations of customs that exist. I'll be sharing what is genuinely speaking normative. Now the naming of girls usually takes place on the Shabbat on the Sabbath after they're born. Normally what happens is their father of the child, the baby girl is called up to the public reading of the Torah in synagogues on the Sabbath, the scriptures the Torah is read, there's a weekly Torah portion, they divide up the entire five books of Moses into 52 sections basically, so each Shabbat they're reading about 150th of the Torah and seven men are called up to recite blessings before the different readings so the father of the baby girl is called up and that is when the girl will be given her name publicly, the father will announce the name of the girl at that time. There will also be at that time special blessings that are recited for the health of the mother and for the newborn baby. In some communities is also a reception, a party that's held in honor of the birth of the baby girl. Baby boys are named when they're circumcised which takes place generally eight days after they're born and in many communities from European descent, Ashkenazic Jews, there's a custom to first have a small celebration on the first Friday night after the birth of a baby boy which is called a Shalom Zachar, welcoming the boy and again it's informal celebration held in the home usually on a Friday night after the Friday night Sabbath meal and there are words of Torah that are spoken, songs are sung and songs of thanksgiving, light refreshments is served, it's a nice little reception that the family has but then the major event for the boy is the circumcision again taking place eight days after the child is born. Some people have the custom of having little children come to the house on the night before the circumcision for the little children to recite the words of the Shema Yisrael, the famous prayer from the Hebrew Bible, the declaration of Jewish faith. Hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Little children will recite that prayer in the presence of the little baby about to be circumcised. The Bible tells us that when God entered into a covenant with Abraham, when God first established his covenant with Abraham and Abraham's descendants, God decreed that there should be a sign of this relationship that would be marked on Abraham and his male descendants. The word in Hebrew for covenant is a breed or we say bris and this is also the word used for the sign of the covenant. So the word breed is both a covenant itself and it's also used for the physical sign of the covenant that takes place on the eighth day. There's a general attempt to perform all Jewish religious obligations as soon as possible without delay and so therefore the bris ceremony, the circumcision is normally done right after the morning prayer services on the eighth day which takes place usually seven, eight o'clock in the morning and unless the boy is underweighed or jaundiced or is unwell on some other way, they stick to that eighth day timeframe. What happens is a baby is usually placed on a pillow. Sometimes the pillow is specially decorated. Normally what happens is the mother of the baby will hand the baby on the pillow to a friend, the mother, married woman. She then hands the baby off to her husband and then someone is then honored to take the baby and place the baby on what is called the Kisei Eliyahu, the chair of Elijah. Elijah was the Jewish prophet who encouraged the Jewish people to keep the covenant and keep the covenant of circumcision so we have a special chair at the circumcision ceremony to honor Elijah the prophet but also we know that Elijah was a very critical prophet and he criticized the Jewish people in front of God for not observing the Torah and not observing the covenant. So according to Jewish tradition, the Bible actually says that Elijah the prophet never died. He went straight to heaven after he died and he is constantly around, he visits every generation and so he actually is made to come to every circumcision where God chose him. You see, these people thousands of years after you are still observing the covenant of circumcision. After the child is placed on the chair of Elijah, he's taken by someone else who hands him over to someone that's called the Sandek. Sandek is often a grandparent, grandfather or some other honored person who holds the baby on their knees during the circumcision itself. It's very rare for a father to circumcise their own child. It's very difficult to do to your own child. Most fathers are not trained anyway. Even if the father is trained, it's just not the kind of thing fathers can easily do. So they have a specially trained person to do the circumcision that's called a mohel. Sometimes a mohel will also be a doctor but doesn't have to be a medical doctor. The mohel is trained to an extent where actually they do a much better job than circumcisions performed in a hospital. After the mohel performs the circumcision, the people assembled bless the boy and they all say together just as he, the boy, has entered into the covenant, into the covenant of circumcision, so may he enter into the study of Torah, marriage and the performance of good deeds. And after this, the baby is given its name, the baby boy is given its name and the ceremony is followed by a celebratory festive meal. Now the number eight in Jewish thought is very symbolic and very meaningful. Seven is often seen as the number that describes the completion of something in the natural realm. There are seven days of the week, there are seven colors in the rainbow, in the western hemisphere, there are seven notes in the musical scale, but eight is seen as the number of going beyond the physical to the metaphysical, going beyond the physical realm to the spiritual realm. And so the eighth day is a very significant and meaningful day for the circumcision because God's covenant with Abraham was that he would ensure that the Jewish people will exist forever. Now when you think about that, that the Jewish people should exist forever, totally defies the laws of nature. We have many mighty empires from thousands of years ago that totally disappear, they no longer exist. And yet the fact that a small people, the people of Israel are still here is quite miraculous. So circumcision on the eighth day where eight symbolizes the idea of supernatural is a very appropriate time for the circumcision to take place because it symbolizes the idea that the Jewish survival is not a natural phenomenon. This is one reason that's given for why the mark of circumcision is made on the reproductive organ. Because again, it's speaking about the continuity of the Jewish people. But another reason that the circumcision takes place on the reproductive organ is to teach us the lesson that we have to always be in control of our passions and our desires and we have to strive for purity and holiness in our relationships, especially in our intimate relationships. Now this significance between the circumcision and purity in relationships was not lost on one of the greatest evil people in the history of the world. Adolf Hitler said the following. He said, it is true that we are barbarians. It is an honor title to us. I free humanity from the shackles of the soul, from the degrading suffering caused by the false vision called conscience and ethics. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on mankind, circumcision on the body and conscience on the soul. These are Jewish inventions. The war for domination of the world is waged only between the two of us, between these two camps alone, Germany and the Jews. Now if a woman's child, if a woman's first child is a baby boy, there may be another life cycle event that takes place 31 days after he's born. We know among the people of Israel, among the Jewish people, there are three groups. We have what is known as the priests, the Kohanim, the Levites, the Levium and everyone else who are referred to as Yisra'elim Israelites. Now originally, the original plan that God had was that the role of all first born children, all first born males, would be that they would be the ones to serve in both the Tabernacle in the desert and later in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. That was supposed to be the role of the first born male children. However, after the debacle of the golden calf, after the Torah was given, the first born children lost that privilege and it was transferred to the tribe of Levi who did not participate in the sin of the golden calf and they therefore then assumed the role and privilege of responsibility of the temple service. Now in the tribe of Levi itself, Levi was one of the 12 tribes, there was a smaller group within the tribe of Levi. These were the descendants of Aaron. Aaron was the brother of Moses and the descendants of Aaron among the rest of the Levi and the Levites, they became the actual priesthood and the priests were the ones that actually performed the sacrificial services in the temple. The rest of the tribe, the rest of the Levites had secondary responsibilities associated with the temple like singing the psalm, singing the songs in the temple during the services and assisting the priests in various ways. But that was the tribe that was gonna be serving in the temple. The first born lost that privilege. However, there was still a connection, an ongoing connection between every first born child and God and that traces itself back to the 10th plague in Egypt. We know that the 10th plague in Egypt was a plague when all the first born in Egypt were supposed to be killed, every first born were supposed to die. God, however, saved the first born of the Jewish nation and that saving of the Jewish first born basically connected the Jewish first born to God. We as first born became gods. He in a sense, we are his. And therefore, what happened in the Torah was that once the responsibility of serving God was given to the tribe of Levi, a commandment was given to redeem the rest of the first born, first born male children to any mother who herself was not a daughter of a priest or a Levite. So if a mother who herself is a daughter of a priest or a Levite, she doesn't do this, but any other mother that has a first born when their first born child is a male, the Torah requires that that male child, male first born child be redeemed. And what happens is the father on the 31st day after the birth of the child gives about 100 grams of silver, usually in the equivalent of five coins, it's given to any priest. And this celebration, this ceremony of giving this money to the priest to redeem their first born child is again usually celebrated with family and friends coming to a informal reception. Some people have beyond this another life cycle milestone for young boys. Some people have the custom of not cutting a boy's hair for the first three years. Now this is sometimes connected to the biblical prohibition against using, not using any of the fruits that grow from a tree for the first three years after the tree is planted. So after three years, the baby's hair is cut for the first time. And again, some families make a special party for their child when their hair is first cut. Some little baby boys begin wearing a kippah, a skull cap at that time if they're able to. It's not easy for a three year old to keep it on its head. And then we will go about 10 years into the future for the next life cycle event, which is called bar or bat mitzvah. According to Jewish law, a girl reaches adulthood at the age of 12 years and one day. For a baby, for a boy, their adulthood takes place at the age of 13 years and one day. And it's at this time when the boy and the girl become fully obligated to observe the commandments of the Torah. Until this age, the parents are deeply involved in trying to educate and train their children to follow the ways of the Torah at appropriate stages. So for example, every Jewish family is gonna only feed their children, even babies, kosher food. But little babies are not going to be trained to recite blessings before and after they eat food. That will only kick in when a child is able to do that. So at the appropriate ages, parents will begin training the children to do the appropriate religious observances. Bar mitzvah means son of a commandment, son of the commandments. Bat mitzvah means daughter of the commandments. And again, it's at this age when they become responsible for their behavior and it shifts the responsibility, shifts from their parents. Until this age, their parents are responsible for them. What happens at this age, again, 12 years and a day for a girl, 13 years and a day for a boy, is that they begin to become more sensitive to the callings of their soul. Until this time, basically, children only are attentive to their bodies. They're totally selfish. But the ability to begin thinking beyond their own physical selfish needs begins at this age. And it's because of this that they now have more free will to decide right from wrong, and therefore they become responsible and accountable for their behavior. It's customary for families to celebrate their children becoming bar about mitzvah with a festive meal. At the meal, they're usually speeches given about the significance of the event. Sometimes the child will speak at the event as well. Sometimes these receptions will be held at home. Sometimes at a synagogue or some other kind of reception hall. There is absolutely no obligation to make a lavish, expensive affair as is very common today. These are often actually not really even in the proper spirit of what a bar about mitzvah should be. What is often more appropriate than making one of these lavish, sometimes not in good taste parties, which are really basically big birthday parties, is to possibly some families will take their children to Israel to mark their bar about mitzvah. Now in traditional Jewish communities where a boy can be counted into the necessary quorum for public prayer when they become bar mitzvah, you need 10 adult men to have a prayer service. It's customary for a bar mitzvah boy to be called up to recite the blessings for the public reading of the Torah on the first available time it happens after they turn 13. It could be on a Monday morning when the Torah is read, a Thursday morning, or a Shabbat morning. In some places they'll throw little candies at the boy when he concludes saying the blessings to help celebrate. Some boys will not just recite the blessings, they'll actually read the Torah itself and they'll lead part of the prayer services in non-orthodox communities when women are included in the quorum for public prayer. So bar mitzvah girls will often be given some role as a full participant in the prayer services there. The next major milestone in Jewish life is marriage. Bar and bat mitzvah is a time when we come into a more spiritual maturity, but marriage is the time when we reach another level in personal development. According to our mystical teachings, the Bible itself hints at the fact that the initial human being was formed as a combination of both male and female. The original model off the assembly line was hermaforditic, both male and female together. And in a later point in the creation story, God separated the male from the female and they became two separate beings. But when people get married, what they really are doing is they are coming together with the original half. That's why the Bible says, therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they will become one flesh. In marriage, we reunite with our other half to really achieve the original state we were meant to be in. And because finding the right marriage partner is such an incredibly important and weighty decision, Judaism discourages the kind of casual and recreational dating that is prevalent in our Western societies. Young adults are encouraged to focus primarily on maturation, maturing into integrated spiritual and ethical individuals that develop clarity in terms of who they are and what their values and aspirations are. Dating usually only begins once someone is ready to get married and wants to find a suitable life partner. The dating process is geared to exploring whether the other person is compatible in terms of values, goals and personalities. They also meet to determine whether or not there's physical attraction and chemistry between them. But in traditional societies, there is no physical contact between the young man and the young woman until after marriage. Once a couple decides they want to get married, they'll announce their engagement. Often their families will make a public reception in one of their homes to celebrate the engagement. The couple continues to refrain from physical contact in traditional communities and it's custom for them to try and therefore arrange a wedding date that's not too far in the future. You don't usually find in traditional societies people getting engaged and getting married a year and a half later. They will try to get married soon after their engagement. It's also customary for the bride and groom, the soon to be bride and groom, not to see each other at all during the week before their wedding. Now in Ashkenazah communities, again these are from European communities, the groom is given the honor of being called up to the Torah on the Shabbat before their wedding for a public reading during the public reading of the Torah and it's customary again for congregants to shower him with candies after he says the blessings and there's often a special celebration with refreshments after the services are over. Some communities have a custom where the bride's friends spend the Shabbat before the wedding with her for informal celebrating this is called the Shabbat Kala, the Sabbath of the bride and it's customary for a bride and groom to fast on the day of their wedding. This fasting is in recognition of the fact that they're beginning a new life together, they wanna begin this new life in purity, in seriousness and it's a day where they're both seeking spiritual renewal. So the fasting of a wedding day is somewhat similar to the fasting of Yom Kippur the day of Atonement. At traditional weddings the bride and groom begin the wedding day in separate rooms. The bride is in one area and receives her guests and greets her friends and family, the groom is in another room, usually there's music and refreshments and singing and the groom is greeting his guests. Sometimes the guests obviously go back and forth between the different rooms. What happens is in the groom's room the marriage document which is called the Katuba is finalized, usually the Katuba which outlines the obligations of the husband to his bride it's normally prepared before the wedding. Now it could be a standard printed document that you buy in a store, it's often a handmade decorated illuminated work of art but at the reception before the wedding actually takes place this document is signed by witnesses. In an Ashkenazic wedding before everyone proceeds to the actual wedding ceremony itself the custom is that the two mothers of the bride and the groom come together and they break a plate to symbolize the seriousness of the day and to symbolize the fact that just as the plate when it's broken is broken forever it really can never be put back together. So the prayer is that the relationship between this couple will be permanent and will never be broken. Before the actual wedding ceremony the groom's friends and family dance him accompany to music to where the bride is seated and he places the bride's veil over her face. This is actually based upon a story in the Bible where Rebecca is veiled. It's a sign both of modesty and the fact that what's truly important about the bride is not her external physical beauty but her internal beauty and the presiding rabbis and parents will often bless the bride at this time. Everyone then proceeds together to the chuppah the chuppah is the marriage canopy which symbolizes the new home that the couple will build together. This chuppah the canopy is basically open on all four sides like a tent. Sometimes the chuppah is set up under the stars outside and sometimes it is set up indoors in the synagogue or reception hall. The groom and the bride will each be marched down to the chuppah by their parents usually at Ashkenazik weddings. The bride will walk around encircling her groom seven times at a Svartik wedding a prayer shawl will be draped over the bride and groomed together and held by their friends. Often at the wedding ceremony a groom will wear a white robe called a kitil. It's a very significant garment. It's a kitil is a garment that is worn on the high holidays to symbolize purity. It's worn at a press over Seder. It's also ironically the garment that a person is buried in. And yet it's worn under the chuppah because of the solemnity of the occasion. The person conducting the wedding will recite a blessing over a cup of wine and then the bride and groom will each be given a sip of wine from that cup. A simple gold ring is then taken by the groom and put on the forefinger of the bride as the groom declares that they are now betrothed together. It's customary by the way for the bride not to give her groom a ring under the chuppah but she can do so later if she wants to. Next what happens is the katuba, the wedding document is read publicly and it becomes the property of the bride. This is followed by honored guests at the wedding being called up to recite seven special blessings for the marriage of the new couple. Afterward the bride and the groom each sip again from a glass of wine and next a clean glass is placed on the floor wrapped in a napkin and the groom smashes it with his foot. This symbolizes the fact that even at our most joyous moments in life we express our sadness over the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, the fact that we don't have our temple today standing in Jerusalem. All the guests then congratulate the couple and they are marched off to company by music to a private room where they left alone together for about 10 minutes to spend time together for the first time in their relationship. They have not been allowed to be together in a locked room before. Since they've been fasting all day there's often food for them to eat. They can also express their physical affection for each other at this time. And while the couple is in this private room the guests all sit down and they begin a festive meal and when the couple enters later on everyone rushes to dance around them and the entire wedding basically moves back and forth between courses of the meal and dancing around the bride and groom entertaining them with dancing, with juggling, with skits, with acrobatics and with rousing music. Again the purpose of the wedding is not for people that are going there to have a good time for themselves it's to make sure the bride and groom have a wonderfully joyous day. At the end of the wedding meal everyone recites the grace after meals together and another seven special guests are honored to recite the seven special blessings for the bride and groom again at the end of the wedding meal. During the first week of their marriage friends and family will arrange special festive meals each day for those first seven days for the bride and groom and again at each of these festive meals they recite these special seven blessings at the end of the grace after meals. The first year of marriage is an incredibly special one where the husband is really supposed to be especially attentive to rejoicing with his bride making her happy. For example, there's a custom that the groom does not travel without her away from home during that first year unless there's a huge need and she gives permission but the year should be focused on building together a solid foundation of love and respect for their life together. Now it's been said that people often live their lives in the same way that they write a postcard to someone. When you start writing a postcard you begin writing with nice big words and then you realize later on that you're running out of space and you haven't said all the things that you want to say so people begin writing very very tiny letters they turn the card over and they start writing on the front of the postcard they turn it all inside and they write around the stamp but it's very tough after you begin writing a postcard with very large letters when you run out of room it's very hard to get everything in that you want to say and people often live their lives in the same way we often waste so much time and only wake up much later and realize there are so many things in life that we really never accomplished. The same thing is really happening here in our class tonight. We don't really have that much time together and there's still a huge topic ahead of us but I'm going to have to try to squeeze it in. The essence of who we are as human beings is not so much our body but our souls but the body is important because the soul is housed in the body and therefore we have to treat our bodies with respect and with dignity and therefore when a person dies autopsies and embalming and cremation are considered to be desecrations of the body the only exception to these prohibitions is when there is an emergency need in order to save one's life so for example if an autopsy will help save someone's life or the donation of an organ there's someone immediately that needs an organ those are the only times when anything can be done to the body the Bible says in the beginning of Genesis to Adam and Eve to Adam by the sweat of your brow you will eat bread until you return from the ground from where you were taken for you are dust and you will return to the dust so in the same way that our souls return to their spiritual source in the spiritual realm after death the body is returned to its place of origin which is the earth it's considered disrespectful to the body to delay a burial and so normally burial is not delayed unless it's for the dignity of the corpse so for example a burial might be delayed for a day or two to allow for relatives who are living far away to be able to attend the funeral the body is never left alone from the moment of death until the burial there's always at least one person who is watching the body guarding the body, reciting psalms it's called a showmare but it's a way again of paying respect and honoring this body which was housing a soul for its entire life prior to the burial the body is washed in a special way prepared for burial it's wrapped in plain white linen shrouds and this is normally done by the local Jewish Burial Society almost all Jewish communities have what is called a chevre kadisha which is a special burial society that tends to the needs of those who have died and prepare them for burial it's a great, great merit for people to become part of a burial society the body is supposed to be buried in a plain wooden coffin that can return the body to the ground quickly and easily in order for the body to decompose quickly and easily we don't bury a body in fancy metal or other materials a plain wooden coffin is all that is done in Israel actually they put the body straight into the ground at least in Jerusalem that's the custom is to put a body directly into the ground that cannot be done in North America there has to be some kind of a coffin before the burial the community gathers with friends and relatives and the deceased is eulogized the eulogy is especially serious time to reflect on who the person was it's not a time for necessarily entertaining anyone people are supposed to actually come to tears when they hear a eulogy the body is then taken to the cemetery and buried it's customary for those present to take turns shoveling dirt onto the coffin after it's been lowered into the ground psalms and special prayers for the dead are then recited and then people will return to the home of the mourners now for the mourners themselves there are several stages in the process where they deal with the death of a close loved one the first stage is when they hear about the death itself our tradition says that when you find out that someone has died you recite the blessing blessed is God king of the universe who is the true judge we accept the fact that people die and we accept the fact that God knows what he's doing and we bless God even upon the death of someone that we love when a close relative dies which is again a parent a spouse, a child or a sibling one tears their garment when hearing the news some people will tear the garment only at the funeral service itself but the garment that you're wearing should be torn the next stage is called aninut the person has lost a close relative is called an onain an onain is someone between the death of their loved one and the burial this is a time when they're supposed to be preparing for the burial and therefore they have no obligations to perform any positive religious practices for example an onain does not pray does not recite blessings, does not study Torah an onain is supposed to be basically focused on the needs at hand which is preparing for the burial of their loved one after the funeral itself begins seven days that are called shiva shiva is the number meaning seven it begins after the funeral where during that seven day period the mourner basically does not leave their house they don't attend to their external appearances so for example men don't shave no one takes haircuts, mirrors in the house are covered they wear the torn clothing that they tore at the time when they heard of the death no one puts on cosmetics no one bathes or showers unless it's for hygienic reasons we don't wear leather shoes during that seven day period we don't sit on a regular chair we only sit on a low stool prayer services are held in the home and during the shiva period guests come, relatives and friends come to pay their respect and to console the mourners the purpose of coming to the house of a mourner is not to take their mind off of their loss the purpose of coming to the house of the mourner is to help the person through the bereavement process which is basically to encourage them to speak about the person that passed away their relationship to the person it's not a time for people to tell stories and take the minds of the mourners off of their loved ones after the seven days there is a less intense period of mourning that lasts for 30 days that's called shloshim shloshim is the word for 30 and still no shaving or haircuts takes place people do not go to parties or social events joyous occasions during the shloshim but during this period they are able to leave their house they can go to work they can wear normal clothing and except for parents the mourning process ends after these 30 days for parents however the mourning period lasts for a whole year and during this year a mourner is allowed to shave get their hair cut but they don't attend festive events they don't attend social gatherings pleasure trips, they don't listen to music and a special prayer is recited during the entire first 11 months which is called a kadesh kadesh is a prayer that we say that is associated with someone dying it's a prayer we basically praise the existence of God and we pray for the expansion of God's presence and reality in the world every human being is created in the image of God so when someone dies God's image so to speak is diminished so kadesh is a prayer where we ask God's presence to be magnified in the world and it's a time for the mourner to demonstrate that the loved one that passed away had a positive spiritual influence on them they are now the kind of person that's getting up in front of a group of people and praising God and magnifying God's name for parents there is a custom to celebrate to mark the yurt site which is the anniversary of their death every year after they die people will say kadesh on that day the light of candle on that day is a custom to again mark the passing of relatives during special prayers during the year called yuskor prayers of remembrance which are held on certain of the holidays during the year there's also a custom to visit the graves of people that have passed away at least once a year but the entire system of the laws of mourning is geared toward maintaining the dignity and respect to the person that's passed away and secondly to help the bereaved people process the loss one of the most difficult things is for people to confront the loss of a loved one we know that psychologists tell us that the first stage in mourning is often denial people deny the fact that someone has died and the jewish tradition asks us to do the exact opposite we do everything possible not to deny what's happened we try to confront what's happened and to become very real 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Abo ria kol un metu lحach kaniisa? you are a fan and do skating kikiwa kwa kila mahalik but you are keeping us entertained Ya Ya Ya At the end of the day without getting so chatty but to be a church remember this story of the parable of the talents and different people The other guys were given 2 to 3 4 to whatever Lets think of whatever talent God has given you You can sing and do comedy Kuwa wajana ni haуjana kumada yakusushu fasa kama. Dhuja wajana ni wajana ni wajana ni wajana ni kumada yungu kikawizu wed Deere. So kwa kuharingi yungu kikawiku yungu kikawizu kioshwe kufu, wajana kwa kuwanya ya hana huwa niniu. So kwa kuharingi yungu kikawizu kustu Aki ni maanwa wa niwa. Kirudi, yoce wa ya uchin roadi, knani ya uchini yungu kikawizu kukawizu, kwa kuharingi ya uchini wajana ni mwa nini? Niniu miru. Wajana ni ambutututu. Di kasih, ngнийFirst message that comes from being raised by the youth and students is that, they bac쁜irbe another generation of the Everyone One of the teachers to SBACK who know the different people's gender, which has given them no strength in fact aremons that should be raised and should be in a controlled opinion. So sometimes there is a lot of discussion about, It's just that we can mention this a lot in the tiki hуля bina di yute. wikiよ ki watom no shui hini yo the movement of kwa kutukumia uki maida yetife. Naumalde mi, naunable birkwa, young-kwen farmers, Basketin corrections have been incomowych for me, We do have mido consciousness but for me we are not stronger. So you being a solo artist sort of gave you some independence to do things your own way? Of course maze, of course. Kwa kwa kru he, upendo spende. Ata sayu mu kichu kwa namuse, bestia kofilenda ta hao. Mu kifika ta hao mu muski enjani ote. Kablama mu hemu emali muta diishi. Utsas kia, tu kulaa pa skulangi fudi aki sumali. Tu nefali skulangi fishi. Oh, kablama mu. So mu kifika suwa wili, na kwa sometimes fitu zingini na kwa too much. So independence ilikam kubu asana. One thing you've maintained is being a good spell artist. Aw jai to kwa gamu jai to kwa hi industry. What is that one thing enye me kukipu grounded for all these years? I think one is first is knowing your purpose and your vision and all those things, knowing what you want to do. And then two, having enough people who are for you and who can keep reminding you and keep you grounded. So onajiwa first of all, kenye unajiwa ni inu ataka na unajiwa what God kuita kudu. And then onajiwa na enough people around you, good people, a community, a church, people who can hold you down and tell you apu na potea, apu unafanya, whatever. So I think those are some of the things enye zemenis idea miimi. That and of course just kuku kuku kumiksu watu just on a strike a balance. I feel like you've been in all the faces of the gospel industry. What is different now? Vile watu ako e gospel ime kufa, gospel ikoivi. I feel like you've been through your transition. What can you tell us is different now as from what you are doing mulkwam na fanya kitambo? Well, I can say that whole story. I think different people are really focused on that whole story more than they are focused on like is there a good gospel music, are there new gospel artists and whatever. So I think it's that whole story really like somehow tries to overshadow the whole, like there is gospel music, how is gospel music doing, are there good gospel artists, is there good gospel music that everybody is just focused on gospel music is dead, gospel music is whatever. I keep being asked every other time when are you going to the secular, you ever going, you know, like that question always creeps up like even now we're talking about it. So I think that one story that's from that time there was a time it was just who is the new gospel artist, you know, hook me up with some new gospel music. Onaji ulu kwa nasia 2kila time even guys say e ni haji buni ambiongo baga ni za gospels ime tokia poa neza skiza and stuff like that. E sayitu ni man nani ananda it's like guys are watching nani ananda secular, nani anana fanya ni. So that's the whole different story that I know as gospel music dying and whatever this is nothing that's really dying, but there are things that can happen in an industry or in a ministry or whatever that can really shake it. Right. And would be pretending if we said that whatever is happening and whatever all these things have happened having somehow shook the industry or caused some some turbulence, but it's not to say that that's the only thing that's happening there. You know, I think these stories have really like zinikama zina be kwa juice anana that's what I'm saying. And have you ever got to a point where you in the gospel industry umians anama boys then unona awa to ingine kwa industry ingine wana prepare, they are making it and you felt really stuck. Have you had maybe those times? People in the other industry like what are they? Or generally what to ulku umians anawao. Then unona wana kwa successful and maybe you're thinking ah am I really in the right in the right path Ushi kwa na iso moments. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember when we started um when we started we started in music kitambo. We started wasi wengis anana altogether. So kwa kele takatifu wa kina gadi an angel tinga kina hope kid bahati, willi poil and the likes. And you see how it works is that we could all be in the same generation of like artists, artistry but wasi wu make it differently. Wunine wu make i muaka wunine whatever stuff like that for in the first big song first and whatever. So yes, there's a time we were really like stressed because all your friends maybe all the guys that will come to them on the same level they make it it's anatoa wimbo man everything blows up the day whatever and when we started music this is we started very young like 19 or 20. So ele time at him say mori waka ame make it communist ame kwa music ame hamata kwao. Um kwa like man minta hamali ni bana. ele jia zia dami zia kwishipo and stuff like that. So yeah there's a time we were like eh man am I really for this thing and I think that's what now really now brings in the purpose and then whatever thing because if you're not doing it yes you're praying to God that whatever you're doing is a kukulete ado but if money is money and making it is your only motivation wungi give up kitambo right because truly kwao long before wu se meata wunna make it same wunna do it for the money or anything like that. So the purpose part and why am I doing it I think yu ilu kwa solved a long time ago yu otai menye some other guys kept making it and you are there just waiting. Yeah because it's it really has a pamoja I think seriously music come at 2011, 2012 and we only got our breakthrough ila kubua in 2015 when we did it at Kwangori. So it was like almost like three to four years in yetu na every year I'm saying wungi na na make it wukutu wa po. So your breakthrough song ilu kwa ita Kwangori how was that song na wunu kuna feel at that moment? bai doa chan kumektu mawa I remember I think kama inge make it wungi acham zigi kus it was you see again wuna zukiwa yang so kia na zukiwa yang kuna na noma like wukuhom na nalaga kumizazi and stuff like that so by the time ili kwa ina fuka 2015 so many things had happened away from the music in like in our personal lives kumisha kwa toto like na wumia zaku fuka wuko 23, 24 and stuff like that like wumia zaku kuliza e niaji what are you doing about what are you are you making some money are you whatever are you like this thing this thing needs to work now so me I think mawa kwa 2014 I lost my mom so kwa za me myself my life ili kwa isha change kabisa so I needed things needed to work or things needed to look certain things are needed to look a certain way so by the time your song in a kam it was really God's doing and we didn't expect it kwa zile videos to kwa tumafanya in that period that was the cheapest video cheap because cheap not because it was a bad video cheap because a friend offered to to like I'll shoot this this thing for you guys later need to do flyin yaku yaku kava certain costs so and it was a simplest video because it was a one take it was complex for the video director to do but it was it was simple because I go on logistics mob but when it came out like this I think in a month or so it was a big song and it changed a lot changed a lot a lot a lot talking about logistics e periode ne the music had not started paying ulu kwa tumafanya musici pekea ke o you were doing ulu kwa na mabia sharazako afanya tumziki una survive tu hand to mouth una survive tu like mabia stay up alidhi like ula jaw nai shiki boys ula jaw boys nai robi wana jwa how it is I remember there's a time mabia stayze tu wali kwa kampo so wali kwa wasazwa wana wapia pesa yaku get hostile so wana shikana wana shikua kitri bedroom so sana sisi utu kwa ukotuna masilipo wana ukotuna lali liya walu kwa na wi-fi tu na katu wukotuna pambana so wali kwa like some of the guys they have actually like everybody have me make it in their own way kwa zi the guys that tu kwa nakana wana kina bensaiko wana kina dapa brother nani and wutul kwa na survive tuki brother wua kyu wana do wana itchina wua kyu wana uyu wana sa itiana ivo ivo ivo so tu kwa na survive asem tani wuna get pesa kidogo evi wuna shutu wimbo wuna get pesa kidogo wana fanya evi tu kwa tu na survive na i think go dali na i think atu kwa trachik i think that's a whole different thing in naha pensai ya ati social media mineta so much pressure iyo time matu kwa na pressure sani wutu panda matu na uwe show iyo story wapa na matu na kuru na nana tige show na panda matu na rudi na ilu kwa tu inna have na tu kwa na survive wacha sa satu inge moji ame kwa solo artist iyo on your own iyo break through song or that moment where you felt like this was going right for you ilu kwa lini so by the time ilu kwa na enda solo ilu kwa na a bit of understanding of how the music industry worked so I knew that a big song really sometimes you don't you can't really tell I don't know if you can't really tell just like in spiambas you never really know what's gonna be a big story sometimes when you tell a story you can't really tell what's gonna be a big story but you realize that when you do in a week if you do ten or twenty stories you're like maybe those stories are a certain number of views because of the little successes together so when I went solo I knew that I'm not looking for a big song I'm looking to release as much music as I can and create a fan base and to be able just to put out music and just create a fan base for moji like six months I called me to I don't know seven songs so when I talk to a TV, I talk to her I tell her stories I tell her stories I thank her and then she blows up like crazy so that was like it was a very big defining moment for my music but you see the advantage was all these other songs because I created a catalogue for me Vimba Daes is a big song but it's not the only song I have all these other songs and as a solo artist that's what I do now I'm not looking for a big song if it comes to Shkoro I'm just looking to be able to bless people music that can uplift people a big song will come and it happens so it's my job and my purpose so that's what I'm looking for what was the American tour when you were a gospel artist how was that for you and what was the experience it was a different time when we went to Katifu and Mimi and we did a different kind of tour and it was very nice kupatra just reception mostly Kenyans my hope is that we can be able to do music in a way that presents even different nationalities but for us gospel music mostly churches Kenyans were doing parties and stuff like that it was amazing just to see people who are experiencing my music so far from home but yet they are like we like this music it was a time we went and performed for an American crowd white Americans it was nice we liked the African beats oh my god and I think we saw kuna video li shoot uko how was that experience and what is different while shooting a music video were there restrictions so that's a big difference uko sika uko uko mazejo ya ni kilambu kato kakitu uchi ya na ta kakitu sanse ni ni kichutu mbele kakeja kuna getoflanituli shoot staitaja ilu kwa normal enu kitu akai melango wende uchune uko what they have they just have signs anywhere else if you're not obstructing you're not doing anything crazy kuna noma and I think that's the one advantage me nilpenda kushutuko so me shutuko a couple of songs mi tumba, wacha story niniu song with you ni snijeri me shutuko na inaga noma as long as ufa ni una noma yote na ma view ma venue safi safi ilu kwa super nice kwa benachi ni donatikatu ingi how instrumental was he kwa I think siyuka kuna video atwele we ni air li shoot amakuli enda jebutu eleze benachi a kuna company ni tuwa Lieutenant Films kwa kuna equipment a kuna ni ni so na niki enu kukuda na time li enu kutu kuna besti rei tuwa director Dambiz benachi a naisyuko so pia na jwa ma area benachi has been very instrumental I am shooting my videos in America I think all of the videos I have shot in America benachi has been involved one way or the other Is it his company Lieutenant Films shooting, is it him connecting me with a friend, amakitukayo ni e mone kuna pili kaiso venue and stuff like that I am in Saidi asana So after this so that you got married and how was that for you and what did it did it define your career and what did it add, what did it subtract how was that for you I think in life, I think as much as sometimes if it was me katu e sabu inaka ni kama sa ni kua ni e sabu I know, it's like a good career move kumari but it's not really for usani for my life, man mi kuna maisha ango apart from usani and of course one affects the other maisha ango nes affect miziki ango namiziki ango nes affect life yango if I don't balance it for me it was I met a girl we dated and ma pensi kwaapo, ma pensi tight kama si ma linsi but that's how ili kwa tu poa na tukako ika fika upointia we can spend all the rest of our lives together tukochach we know that means to go through whatever needs to be gone whatever we need to go through so it's really nice man it may impact her career wise asma ni kua serious na kenyanafanya because now I'm with her family also asma ni kua wise in all that I do now if I mess up na affect there's a person who's directly attached to me so ni ki kwa mjinga ma ni kua leta wufala apa there's a person who's directly affected by my foolishness if I decide to be foolish so asma ni kua imjanja jo we've seen that you're doing a project na ituwa chesa gospel could you please tell us what is it about is this your second edition na imekuwaji? ataka wa tuwa chesa gospel ataka SPM boss last year I released an EP kwa chesa gospel 6 tracks so it was nice kwa poa tracks of danwell kame shika ni ni it's actually something I'm advocating for because I'm a strong believer that true gospel music na panya unaskeym say na kumbia yo onyaji and it's the things I testimonies I get from my music naku yon na yukunuwa sta on ambiya na piyana nasaku thing really is you're going to be somewhere dancing I'd rather you be dancing to a gospel song giving praise to God na gaisu tlmio onyaji was going through a tough moment and I listened to this song Allot kungutia m Ukileduta kwa mу y Com tyut Two Kel ehm Gigni half and 17th of April, Easter Sunday, at Nairobi Cinema, tickets are star 223, star 229, star 621, and my M tickets. So, nukona gadi anejo masimasi ka na hawa sayote, darada wu wata kwa performing alongside me. Um, uneza tuwambia, mibi utu eleze kuza, story za kuza mi tumba? Mi tumba. Ochen kumbiae, sasa, mi mamangu na shoshuongu nukonoza mandizi na mi tumba. Kaonguare market. So, mi nmigruwa punkyon, asa zwangu wa kyiza, shoshuongu na mamangu wa kyiza mi tumba. Nami piya nisha yuza mi tumba kiasi na didi tukonoza yo bradzake. Did it inspire ele mi tumba? Do you kona message? Yeah, it inspired. Mi migruwa paraon mi tumba, mi mani yuza kuza mi tumba, asa zi kuza mi tumba. So, mi kwa tu, mani isi ngozi na kwa gazi mi wazamu ya. So, ziki kuja uku, tunazi piga pasi, wadi nini. Na jwa kido anejo, isi fituza wadi imbaya. Niki wapale wadi. Uki tiga pasi wangi yuza jini. Wadwa na jwa ikitu ii look ni imbaya. Niki tuba na ikitu ime shuka. Ikitu ime shuka na dege. Of course, tu wazamu te piya zi u shuka na dege ma meili. Tukia mi amu tu ini mele tewa na jwa ma zi ini imbaya. So, I know, yuza reala, yuza ku interakna yuza ni piya, yuza idea, yuza kusama na that. Sisi, watu ini, ami yuza koka, is that one or the other na kwa tu me pitiya, so many things, kwa tu me pitiya, addictions, me pitiya, wateva, weaknesses. Naba doi nini wei tu na pitiya. Ma just like the way mtu ma ina kokeme pi gwa na mzunku kuka na ina kutu na iwa tena. Ion do inspiration, nia wei jali shu me fae nini, jali shu me do nini, kumbrei shu me fanya nina, kresa na kukama na kupia a second chance, kama mtu ma. Unezatomemi mi kwa industry challenges ume pitiya. Ushai koniwa na producer, ushai tokoa? Eh, sindio. Atasai kuniwa na kata na doa. Sa ai. Eh, tu muka niwa na ase. Ushai, muka niwa. Mia, I think the only place in Yachostranded nia, I think, tokiangali east west, north south of Kenya, kuna mtu ida me nirusha, ama me traiku nirusha. Siyo naks, siyo mombasa, siyo kisu mu, siyo api, kisu mu, naks maka tu shipe lekam, say stay in jei bana. Shipe lekama bana na promota, maka polisi. Promota? Eh, tu kampelika polisi yuko, kabidi api gie pastawakia kama. Aksot. But because, kama yosi yuko yana aksa, sometimes umetumia logistik kufika uko. So you're like, okirudi sasata, you're time to kutumia, ata gari, kusatu kua na gari, kumia haia bestie tuotu pelika. Siyo kitu rusha, tu na fadfanya ni ni, tu na fadfanya tu rikonfuku, tu sotu jama, siyo tu kasemasi siya, tu taku piga, siya kupelika kwa. Kwa sere kali. So tu me piti api tumingizana, tu me rusha, tu me achostranded, tu me fayanini, so many things. Yani, kuru kwa na kila mitu yani, old source of people. So yo yu me happen. Kaku na msa ni ajiya kwa, niwa itaun. Ainu emukono, eh, tum pungesa. Alia on, you mentioned that you had lost your mum, Ukianza, the kuspele industry. What has kept you strong me kwa na, naitoje, support system, yu me kwa je? Yu kwa crazy, kwa crazy losing my mum, kwa I lost my mum in 2014. So yu kwa crazy because that's when I was trying to make it and then when she died back in her siblings, yu kwa very young. So it was very tough, still is very tough. Losing a mum is like something, I don't think it's something you'll ever recover from, but I think God gives you the strength for John. So for me, I think that was one of the most craziest things I've ever gone through. Kwa even now, every other time anything happens, good or bad, it's always to be like man, or jo niki pitiya, niki pata successa kwa I wish my mum was here. I got through at half time like I wish my mum was here kuhu niku niche pia. But I thank God that God is always there to like and God has also brought people who can be there for me and who can help me kwa kichiki. So it was very tough yu time because Enimut给太in za utuliti komioka Mesitw加juliru Te mwakwa pw markingu Kanakwani njана Anyu so mewa nikili Yaweza, natu n Strength Miwa nifu nas democrasi Yaweza, fimu Ayaweza ui ambas Raibu. 6-10a Geta reduces kwa wajile skuli kwa shuwa leo na toko wukuna awa, then it didn't go as you expected. Ya, the first time nile kwa nominated for grove, the first time nominated was four times. Anika toka patupu, bure. Na, hiu li kwa 2012. Anika nominated 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. I think li shinda 2016, the first time. That's when I won my first grove award, group of the year. I'll go to like... Once I won a machine, I don't know how to realize it, I'll go to hype. But the awards, there's so much glamour, so much prestige, what was it for? But I think it's good because celebrating people is good because it encourages people. So I think awards are poor. What I don't think is good is everything enough on yo'wa for the awards. Kwa zuki fukireyo ni awa, kwa zata secular people, kwa chatu na Gospel. Uki fokasa na onawaz, if you don't win so, where's him sa ni? Kuna wa sa ni wakubo zana kwa hii dunia wajai shinda Grammy. Una jwebo? American artist. So many, so many big artists wajai shinda Grammy. That doesn't nullify the career. But of course it's a good thing to say to your Grammy award winning artist. But if you don't win, that doesn't mean that you're not an artist. So awards are good, but sometimes kama awards, especially kwa Gospel, aizu awards li kwa zina leta piya shida. Personally, I'm actually happy that it took a break. So I think it's a good thing to say to your award winning artist. So do you think it costs some fracas kwa Gospel industry? It's a cause. Cause na fukireya mi, I'm deserving kwa shinda guli kwa ule jama. Na fukireya ule jama na shinda. Konu ule jama na mishina na misi mishina. And because we're all human, that's one of the weaknesses, kuna wa tu ingine wanata kayo validation sana. O ingine,ata mimo nyuho zili niya effect for a while until first of all ni kazuya kutoshiinda. And then na fukireya mi mishina, niko kwa kwa kisa ni mishina so what now. So I'm like, awards are not bad. They're very good. But if they are not managed very well, ama we mo nyuho spoji manage we mo nye we, zine za kwa effect wibah sana. The same thing ataka, nikama usha pi ga luku, siste alafu akunam tuwa kwa miko kwa smart. Unakim. Kwa kwa liki ni shuwa liya wat water. Akunam tuwa muna niko pwa bako nairudia the next day. It's the same thing now. So I'm like, ma zimi na hibapoha, ma ziengu, angu ni kubu anini, muna nia yaw mi mishina na angu hijashinda. So spoji manage poa, wasana yaw spoji manage poa. Na pe ulemi se mo nye na waj, ama nye jawad aspoku wa fair enough, e na leta, na leta tuno oma. To make one appear, you've been in the film industry, ki acts pale pale. Like, iu me kwa tupashoni ako, is this something you good at na unaipenda? How is that? Is ya, unu nyuho zi wakunafitu tuwa, tuwa na kwa nga letua fana sema. Jo ma zi, unu neza acte, unu neza acte, so wakum tupegei shugli. So, jo mi na jo unu neza acte, but ni kwa na acto music. Mi ata high school si kwingia gata drama, festival, imagine. Ni kwa misha e, shiii, kwa misha e mbae. Chua tu li kwa mixed. So kwa li kwa na rainbow. O li kwa na ningeza baridim bae. Si nanda sema, ni ni, ta umbiya ni ni ya wasana. So, jutu li kwa na drama, li kwa na mixi ewa. So, katini li ni ya kwa mzi kini kwa fana fana mbae angu na kumuka kuna time li li, tru tu kwa fana fana mbae angu, I think Abel Muntua kani mbe ni aje bro, I think kuna, kuna kitua pa, e bukama. Abel Muntua kani organize, kwa kani kwa script, so na jo ni ni kwa acte jo. E, e, e, e, lisa idea sana. So, I think Apoli li enjoy acting and I can't wait to act again kwa, like, to get like a bigger role or something like that. It's something now, kwa tu just Abel Muntua and the team at Philly to kwa tu, like, e, mojikam. And through them ni kani li tu kwa depend, ni ka learn how to how to like handle, like acting and stuff like that. So it was tough, but ni li learn and I enjoyed it so much. So, neza taka kwa acte tena e, maali tu mani. Um, then something else I wanted to ask you, music is inakwa gana message ime, ime, ime, ime andi kwa visuri, kama tu yo ya mutumba. So I want to know, kwa gana magadze yuflani, kwa dago reti, zi ni mimi tu, ni mimi na tika ziki. I think, wata samanga kwa kila mutusu, kwa kila mimi na your strength, zake. So mi kwa, kwa music industry, think, one of my strengths ni songwriting and I really put a lot of emphasis on that. So, emphasis on songwriting ina manisha, I really work on the skill and also being a gospel artist. Also also make sure that I, what do I do? Like I, my personal work na God na kwa enda church na pia kwa kana wase. So I really put emphasis on that. So I'm the song, mi nimi andi kwa kwa usani wengine, na ime kwa poa and I love that. I enjoyed it. Nilo, nili samanga, nesata kwa kwa dikeya umsani, nio neveli nesa kwa. So, nipatao puchini de kwa dikeya wase kada, apart from songs angu, ime kwa poa. Adjo, the next question. Ngomagani. Aya, siyata ngomagani, usani dikeya umsani, kwa kwa kubo kozileza, aya, I wish ningeimba. I even hit. Uta tu ambi ama utatu fichatu. Aya, ningeimba Mr. Seed kumbi kumbi. I don't know what song. You wrote kumbi kumbi? Yeah, I love it. But yeah, I was like, hey man, ni song. In fact, a friend of mine dika mianda home. Jusid ni besti angu for a long time. So, a friend of mine dikeya song. Jusufu kutuna Seed. Jusufu kongi angatu wei man. So, ni dekeya song. Sister Seed man. So, twun want dikeya song. What do you want dikeya song? What do you want to do family with? What he wants is to come Nan past to my studio? immediately I came home. Jusufu kutera Seed. Eh think ya kaka for a while a month later kata wa. Ni wendi kwa Corporemi so ni wendi ni we cerca estoy so рinjo ekwu na injo tu wendi or porque zurranku Oso kwa na vila neza i-execute kwa na vila neza i-do kwa na vila neza i-toa and I think she'd na baali ito wa poa sana Tukimali zena taku kumbu shawatu kwa usu Festival Details maali wa neza buy tickets Festival ni 17th of April Nairobi Sinema Tickets inu patikada mtickets.com amu neza dial star 229 star 6 2 hash amu neza ni follow up u pati details zote amu neza follow SPM birth nauda vada all the load down when it comes to the event so towa na ni wukitakwa crazy kutakwa na so many amazing artists from across the board di anu wana fanyahipo kutakwa na David Wanja kutakwa na Muhangji Masima Sika Ben Psycho Ben Archie so many guys Thank you so much for talking to us to mefraya kwangana Sisi to takuja Festival guys that was buzzed with stars with the one and only Moji Shot Baba and my good name is Liz Jackson

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Bari Weiss Resigns from New York Times Cancel Culture

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where do we start with this with you know with Barry Weiss well it's there's a couple of things with Barry Weiss we'll keep kind of circling back to Barry Weiss because there's a lot going on there but Barry Weiss was one of the authors of the Hopper's magazine letter and it was a letter signed by I think 150 different intellectuals mainly writers and professors at university that basically was against cancel culture and it was against the idea that people have been fired people have been people have been attacked on Twitter have been ganged up against on Twitter reputations have been destroyed you know there's really this attitude of going after people who whose ideas don't agree with the nutty left and you know Jackie Wallins is a good example she's written some essays about transgender which the nutty left does not like they've organized boycotts of her books they go after her on Twitter they attack her they they do all the stuff you know I don't know if it's come to physical threats I think I think threats are being made I don't know if it's come to physical violence but they have been in speech they have attacked ridiculed shunned her and and encouraged others to do the same and they've encouraged people of course to boycotts to boycott her books so this was a this was a I had I had it here I've got too many windows open and I had the there it is the letter it's called a a letter on justice and open debate good for them they didn't make it a about free speech because it's open debate and and they write in this in this letter the stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time the restrictions and debate whether by repressive government or an intolerant society invariably hurts those who lack power and make everyone less capable of democratic participation the way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure argument and persuasion not by trying to silence or wish them away we refuse any false choice between justice and freedom which cannot exist without each other that's right that's good not that I think they understand what justice or freedom really means as writers we need a culture that leaves us the room for experimentation risk taking and even mistakes we need to preserve the possibility of good faith disagreement without dire professional consequences if we don't defend the very thing on which our work depends we shouldn't expect the public or state to defend it for us all right so there's a lot of good there's a lot of good there and and that's kind of the letter and as I said people from a wide diversity of points of view a fairly wide diversity of points of view mainly centrist I'd say but some conservatives and libertarians and some leftists signed this letter and then there was a a flowy of of letters following it and and and one of the things that was interesting was that let me find this this little story you know a friend of a friend of Barry Weiss's a friend of Barry Weiss's who organized Barry Weiss I don't know if you guys know who Barry Weiss was because I certainly really didn't know Barry Weiss that well right it's uh one second let me just find this thing yeah okay so a friend of Barry Weiss is it was a New York Times columnist she was she was part of the editorial board of the op-ed page she was brought in after 2016 to increase the diversity of ideas and to encourage to bring in kind of other points of view other than the traditional leftist points of view that the New York Times editorial page had covered um Barry Weiss is is a centrist you know that she came to my attention when she wrote um I think a pretty famous story for the New York Times about the intellectual dark web and she kind of named them and there were pictures they have Eric Weinstein and and Dave Rubin and she criticized Dave Rubin a little bit but she she generally brought to the forefront the intellectual dark web and into kind of the mainstream media and uh the uh so she so she's kind of a little old she's not a conservative she's not under right in any kind of sense she's probably uh pretty traditionally what would be considered left on social issues and and you know more conservative maybe on on issues of economics so kind of a traditional centrist and she signed this letter at Hopper magazine and then a few days later resigned from the New York Times and her letter resignation is is really is really interesting because what she articulates in the letter resignation is the atmosphere that exists in the New York Times not for some rabid pro-capitalist not for some you know objectivist or or free market type or or even a conservative but no but for for somebody like Barry Weiss who is generally pro-Israel so maybe a little to the right on issues of Israel anti anti-Semitism but generally again nothing radical nothing radical pretty pretty much centrist right and the kind of treatment she got at the New York Times and first of all she says what happens in the New York Times is that Twitter Twitter actually plays a role in editing articles in the New York Times because Twitter the response on Twitter to any New York Times article is what editors have on their minds during the tutorial process the paper basically customizes and changes its articles so that not to offend the nutty left on Twitter she says stories she quotes stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and enjoy their own conclusions this is the New York Times and then she says she was brought into office some diversity of ideas but that during her time at the paper and this has gotten worse several colleagues she quote quote several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by co-workers my work and my character are openly demeaned on company white slack channels some co-workers insist I need to be rooted out if the company is to be truly inclusive while others post axe emojis next to my name still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot and twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate actions now she writes that these are that she gets through the paper theoretically she doesn't she doesn't threaten us but she says this is unlawful discrimination hostile working environment and and and you know the fact is that the publisher the owners the bosses of the New York Times do nothing about this indeed the opposite she says they stand they they would um actually praise her in private for her courage and that let her co-workers harass her constantly they would never speak out they would not defend her at least this is her story she says at some point quote showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery that's how bad things are at the New York Times she says it's getting worse significantly worse our beds that would have been published two years ago would not be published today the internal backlash is immense of course we talked about on the show a few weeks ago about the op-ed the Tom Cotton wrote that caused a firing of of the edit of the the guy responsible for the op-ed page and they fawn over anybody from the wacky left no matter what their views are so you could be as wacky as you want to be to the left but the center is unacceptable and why she says you know because people want to be perceived as righteous people want to go along people are afraid people are afraid of losing their jobs people are afraid of of the masses of the of being ridiculed of being quote canceled on twitter people are afraid of their future jobs of their career she says standing up for your principle at the paper does not win plaudits nobody's going to support you so nobody right now nobody is standing up on principle everybody is just cowering and following the party line she says the real damage and this i think is quite powerful the real damage is the young writers young writers now follow these rules quote rule one speak your mind at your own peril rule two never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative rule three never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain eventually the publisher will cave to the mob the editor will get fired or reassigned and you'll be hung out to dry for these young writers and editors there's one conclusion there's places like the the time the new york times and other once great journalistic institutions betray their standards and lose sight of their principles yep just follow you know just just don't walk the boat don't walk the boat so it's tragic but we all know this to some extent about the new york times but that somebody like her would be harassed in the way she has that is really new i mean to remind you the new york times used to be the paper of record even though it was just responsible for for example we talked about just this week the the durante in the 1930s it was responsible for communist propaganda it's been left wing for pretty much ever on the other hand it also published henry haslett for many years he was the economic writer henry haslett the the writer of economics in one lesson a great free market economist it used to be at least the temp to be present the facts and present a wide array of opinion in 1896 adolf urse i'm not sure who adolf was described the paper as quote to make of the columns of the new york times a forum for the consideration of our questions of public importance and to that end to invite intelligent discussion for more shades of opinion obviously that is no longer than new york times it hasn't been for a long time and it's still sad to see somebody who's trying like barry weiss was to see them have to leave to see them have to kind of cow in a sense give up retreat fail i know there are a lot of super chat questions we're not going to get to them i've got to i will get to them at the end there's a huge amount of huge amount of content that i need to get through before we get to them so if you want your super chat question to be addressed sooner rather than later then they're going to have to be on the topic i mean i'm not going to get housing prices until the end of the show after i finished the topics i preserved as i said andrew sullivan is leaving the new york magazine will know more about the details of why he's leaving um on tomorrow actually he's publishing his last column andrew sullivan for those of you don't know somebody i debated recently i debated in march actually my last public event was in march at clemson university with me and andrew sullivan on the stage debating and um you know he's a good man but he's he's a he's he's a statist he's a religionist a statist religionist who wants the government to impose you know the philosopher kings in government to impose their set of values on all of us whether it's religious values whether it's how you know how industry should be constructed whether it's central planning uh economically he's anti-capitalist anti-freedom he's an excellent writer and an excellent critic of the left and and uh it's a very powerful writer i learned a lot from him particularly on things like intersectionality he's written some of the best stuff on intersectionality and i think at the end that's what got him fired also some stuff i guess he wrote about the bell curve uh in the past uh he wrote something um he wrote something favorable about uh charles marie's bell curve so we'll see tomorrow it's going to be interesting uh but you can find the debate if you go to uh youtube type in your on book andrew sullivan you will find it it's actually a really good conversation and i think you'll find it really interesting and you'll find what you'll find interesting is the state of conservatism and this is one of the better conservatives you know we agree on things like we both dislike trump immensely and think he's a disaster for for the conservative movement but his perspective on what conservatism is is i mean it's true to conservatism but it's very very distant from my views of what the truth is what we need today what i called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the spare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brought all right before we go on reminder please like the show we've got 163 live listeners right now 30 likes that should be at least 100 i figure at least 100 of you actually like the show maybe they're like 60 of the matthews out there who hate it but but at least the people who like it you know i want to see i want to see a thumbs up there you go start liking it i want to see that go to 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TCP Universal Meeting - Session 2

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Oh, good morning to those who are still here, which is quite a few, but I hope you had a good evening yesterday in Paris that you were able to enjoy a good restaurant and after what was a very busy day. We certainly had a debrief here on our end and we were very happy with how the discussions went yesterday at the first day of the TCP Universal Meeting. I hope you feel the same way. It was a new unique gathering in many ways with both the TCP as well as the third committee here being present. For the second part of the TCP Universal Meeting it's now time to focus a bit more on some of the technical aspects if you want, which is the TCP Coordination Group and the request for extension process. This first session or session five in total will focus on the TCP Coordination Group functions. We will have a very strict schedule this morning because our executive director scheduled to join us at 11 o'clock for addressing the TCP Universal Meeting. So in the interest of time I'll hand over to Pair who will kick off the discussion on the renewed TCP Coordination Group and then we'll have a couple of colleagues intervening to present their initial proposals that they have come up with. Yeah, over to you. Thanks a lot Timor and good morning to everyone and thanks everyone for yesterday. And maybe also as an additional point before I start the presentation on this item to pick up one of the comments received yesterday in one of the coffee breaks from a colleague of the importance moving forward with implementation of the review and separating the administrative processes from the substantive processes. So when we're looking at the reorganization of these things we have one part of the organization which of course are there for making sure that we the request for extensions coming back to later this afternoon but also to ensuring that in this process to review but also come up with the proposals and mechanisms that can help cross TCP collaboration and also solve some of the challenges we had heard about yesterday about communication. As David said yesterday it's important to continue looking at these mechanics but with the TCP coordination groups or the renewed TCP coordination groups is the first steps trying to look at how these collaborations across the TCP and with ISEC could be working in practice. Okay, the slides please. So the purpose of this first session is both our TCP colleagues but of course also other colleagues around the table including IA desk officers which are here today as well to discuss the new TCP coordination group mechanism but also in the first part now as Timor said we will hear a first list of proposals and then later this morning after the coffee break and the visits from the executive director we're gonna move downstairs to have a more interactive part where you have the chance to discuss the proposals but also coming up with new additional proposals but I'll get back to that in a moment. So just coming back to the CERC review again and just to recap the discussions and again we're building this on many, many, many interviews and discussions over the last months or beginning of this year. So of course the coordination groups as they've been working today under the end use working party has have a good function. I understand from speaking with some colleagues have been around for a while that the coordination groups were set up 10 years ago to try to solve some of the challenges the end use working party had back then with what we discussed yesterday too with the very broad mandate. So one way to solve that was to have a number of coordination groups around certain topics or buildings, industry, transport and electricity to find better easier ways for TCPs to talk to each other. This has been appreciated. We have seen a value from the secretary too. However, in the CERC review we did get some feedback that sometimes these are too static so there's a wish to move something to format that is a bit more dynamic and could help actually to be beyond just exchanging information to also help facilitate joint projects between TCPs, between the TCPs and the IA but also to solve this issue of how to communicate the work of the TCPs to CERC and working parties. Furthermore, in the new mechanics and the discussion, the idea here to let my last point so it will be up to CERC to approve the coordination groups but it could be either CERC but it can also be then of course a working party or a minimum of three TCPs or the IA secretary to initiate a coordination group. So in the case of CERC doing it that would be as I gave you an example a CERC delegate can raise say we would like to know a bit more what's happening on let's say critical minerals across the TCPs. Then we at the secretary in this case if we have the resources as we did last year to start looking at what different TCPs are doing on critical minerals and then feeding that information back to CERC just to give you an example and this could be in many other areas and this comes back to the question we'll quite often gets from CERC that I guess that I won't understand a bit better what happens not only in single individual TCPs but also across the TCPs on certain technologies or on different aspects. So not to create a new heavy process but rather have something but still we'll be very clear there's still an informal body that is not intended here to start developing separate processes but rather something that's a bit more output oriented just to use for TCPs who work with annex as those tasks similar to here it should be a timely limited you can call it a project but with a clear output which can then be approved by CERC but then also there is of course an expectation from CERC to also receive the final output presented to self at the later stage and I'll show you in a moment we have developed a template for this to make it a slight well something to start on but also of course make it uniform and something that will be easy for CERC to review and approve. So as I said we are following the discussions with the CERC task force the proposal is to have something which is time limited clearly tied to an output and preferably not longer than two years and this is of course to a certain extent sometimes a mismatch with how TCPs are organized with how long different annexes are going on but we see at some time what we can expect or what we here we expect from the CERC delegates that might be something that is more time limited and not go on for more than two years but again if there are a justification for some of these projects to go on for longer those should be of course be put forward but again I can say there are ways there can be different steps as well of course in a project where something is presented as first step and then there's a second part of the TCP coordination groups project. That's coming on the last point here. Okay, very important one as well. There are lots of ideas out there we know that and the important thing here and this has also been very clearly stated for the CERC review but any new initiatives or working parties but also TCP coordination groups moving forward it's important from the get code that is actually secured resources and this is something as well that will be of course in the proposal put forward to CERC clear as I will show you now in this next almost next slide. There's a few last points on the modalities of the TCP coordination groups in the name of course it's first and foremost a mechanism within the TCP network between the IAEA secretariat of course and the TCP's but it could also be an opportunity if appropriate of course to engage and work with other initiatives and platforms outside of the network such as initiatives under clean energy misterial or mission innovation and again just a single signal the importance of the TCP network also being driving force and improving overall coordination in the international landscape and then the last point also to be very clear and I get back to this as well on the next slide but this is just one example of how to collaborate between the TCP's that doesn't prevent the existing mechanisms we have in the structure from TCP's to meet each other and agree to have joint annexes or joint projects but it's a new mechanism to do what I said to facilitate cross-cutting collaboration but also linking up to CERC and then yes on the process side we will we have started as we you have seen a few weeks ago we sent out an early interest invitation to TCP's to come up with projects coordination groups today we have plenty of time to discuss those initial ideas but we also give you a chance as I'll explain in a moment to also provide other ideas to check with colleagues if there's any interest and then we will continue the process our intention is to finalize that on the 14th of December so still seven weeks or so and again saying this is the first round of TCP coordination groups that could then be put forward to cert at the beginning of next year for approval was very important to think about when you're putting these proposals together so besides ensuring that you have resources to actually deliver what you want to deliver is to have a clear output what do you want to achieve and also have clear timers in the proposal and this is on the right side here you see the templates have been put together and sent out and again we'll send it out after this meeting as well and yes want to be very clear as I said one thing of course this is not replacing other automated mechanisms for TCP's to collaborate with each other it's also very important to signal that this is not we don't want it to be perceived or I'm speaking on behalf of the cert task force too to be perceived that this is now forcing TCP's to find and join collaborative coordination groups because it's the only way to communicate what TCP's are doing this is a mechanism of course where there is many TCP's working in the same area that could be or the cross cutting topics where there's an interest to have these coordinated exercises but by no means this should also be seen as the only thing we do when it comes to communicating the efforts of TCP's so in linking back to the discussion we had yesterday on communication this is one pillar of many that we will consider to how we can improve our communication so also what we do as individual TCP's but also other joint projects etc so this should be just to make sure you understand this at level with those efforts so we're now coming to the point where we can see there are initial ideas put on the table and my impression is that in many of these at least when we have the discussions within the US Secretariat that they seem these topics themselves we see there is an interest from our side from our analytical side they seem often to be an interest from the political side from a policy side as we discussed yesterday but also in some of these areas we know there's also an interest from the TCP's so that's kind of golden triangle could be part of success when a TCP Coordination Group is set up and actually manage to deliver a clear output so yes two more slides oops sorry okay there you go just quickly I'll come back to this slide later but just to explain a little bit to you what will happen after the coffee break and the executive director presentation so I said we're going to go downstairs there will be a number of whiteboards we put up there around topics that have we see there are proposals on the table carbon management being one heat pumps but also thermal networks another one flexibility for the carbon as energy system we received a proposal from the energy storage but we also heard yesterday that there's an interest around digitalization resilience issues so we have one whiteboard around those topics on hydrogen critical minerals we have received one on sustainable fuels for combustion engines but I know also yesterday or today before yesterday there was a transport Coordination Group meeting here in Paris so also Luca to read out write out some of the discussions being had there and then also coming back to what we discussed yesterday and what we heard from colleagues about areas of interest we now framed it around people-centered but also social aspects or social economic aspects or gender or other aspects which is more linked to behaviors could be centered around a people-centered whiteboard and then also we're trying to find whiteboards here where you know each and every one of you will see it could be one or two that could be interesting but also of course allowing for other ideas so in room two there's one whiteboard on TCP Coordination Groups that's if you have other ideas but then also if you don't see any which could be the case you don't see there is any TCP Coordination Group that fits what we are doing we also allow you to write down any other ideas you have or feedback to the Secretary it could be about the TCP Universal Meeting yesterday and today but it could also be any other ideas that you want us to consider moving ahead so maybe then going through these presentations and I'll start to hand over to my colleague Casey Michaels of course who many of you know on the idea of TCP Coordination Group on critical minerals that really interesting or excellent introduction hopefully that gives a lot of food for thought for people so just a very quick report on the critical minerals Coordination Group so we did on the request of CERT an effort of mapping the critical minerals activities across TCP's in 2022 and following that the CERT asked us to put together a first Coordination Group on the topic which we did in December as an initial scoping meeting that took place last year so now in this context of this revised concept we're putting together kind of a first real active phase of this Coordination Group and we've identified two concrete outputs that would be of potential value for the secretariat and hopefully also for the TCP's and the first is on trying to validate some of our key demand and supply assumptions based on what and also expected development over the next 10-15 years for some of the important demands technologies like electric vehicles PVPS and buildings technologies so the idea will be we will gather some of the most important inputs to the to our larger models and then ask TCP's to help us develop and improve the basis we have for some of those assumptions. The second area is that we're exploring kind of a technology roadmap kind of approach where we would have a maybe a report that the IEA would coordinate that would have individual chapters led by TCP's on specific demand technologies this is something that we'd potentially explore later this year and would be great to hear anybody's ideas for that in the whiteboard session and final point just to note this is not directly related to the it's connected to the Coordination Group but not part of the Coordination Group we have discussions with across different cert delegates about the possibility of a new TCP focusing on supply side technologies because one of the outcomes is that while the demand side for minerals is quite well covered in the TCP network the supply side is not so the kind of mining technologies some of the secondary recycling technologies that might go a bit beyond what the TCP's currently cover so that's also something we're exploring. Thanks. Thank you very much Casey. The high end TCP will be Paul. Have some slack. Yes, thank you. So we propose Coordination Group on Hydrogen of course the main reason is because Hydrogen is a very transversal activities so we can find a lot of activities not only in the Hydrogen TCP but likely on maybe 10 TCP. I don't know exactly and the idea is also to map and to align the Hydrogen activity or at least to coordinate in order to promote some new collaboration. Of course we have some current collaboration we don't wait the Coordination Group to establish some connection with other TCP with my colleagues we have many many existing collaboration or at least discussion with other TCP but I think it will be very useful to have this Coordination Group and what we can achieve in the next two years I will say first is detail and update mapping on the current Hydrogen activities across all TCP's so I think it will be very useful to have a very global overview of what we are doing in the TCP network and maybe it could lead to a joint report on Hydrogen work in the TCP network I think it could be very useful at the end maybe some an annual report after this initial work of course this discussion will facilitate to propose joint activities more than existing collaboration of course and yes I said the same thing and probably also we can be able to publish some possible technology briefs and recommendations to IA first because you have a very big work on Hydrogen and to Government including the identification of knowledge and technology gaps I think it's very important because there is many questions about the technology readiness level about what are the technology mature not mature etc and what type of effort we need to accelerate R&D on innovation and my dream could be also to have I put the last line why not but it will be not now but at the end why not join exposition things about some big conference like COP or SMMI presenting all the hydrogen work achieved in the TCP network so just to give an example we for example the TRL assessment lead by IA Secretariat is a good example of what we started with the other TCP because there is many technologies to assess and a lot of them are not in our field of expertise so we have this exercise so we have many TCPs collaborating with this strategic activity and I think it will be a permanent effort from our side to coordinate and to make the interface with you to coordinate the TRL assessment like you publish every year and for example there is 30 TRL groups identified you can see some TCPs involved in this in this exercise I think it's a very good example of what we can achieve in the TCP network yes thank you I think for the breakout session we will discuss in detail and other ideas thank you thank you very much Paul and as you said as well we had discussions internally and Paul Paolo Frankl mentioned yesterday too that the support from the secretariat side here is even if the hydrogen TCP is under root there is still a support also from across the agency where also of course in energy technology policy division where we have much of the hydrogen analysis so we see from this in a very positive way as well to have an opportunity of mobilizing expertise on hiding across the TCP network so next I'll turn to my colleague Carl Greenfield who is the secretary for the working part of fossil energy but also the TCP desk officer for many of the TCPs under the working party Carl over to you thanks Pao as mentioned my name is Carl Greenfield and I am the desk officer for the four of the five TCPs that sit underneath that before jumping into the coordination group just a little bit of context maybe for the fossil energy working party so over the past few years there's been some engagement challenges from working party delegates and we've had a lack of leadership at the working party level for almost two years now and as CERT has been conducting its review and as we've been having discussions with the working party delegates as well as with the TCPs a core theme has emerged as an area to continue to focus on and that theme is carbon management and we heard from CERT earlier this week that CERT will discuss with the delegates and the TCPs over the coming months of the future of the fossil energy working party and what to do and so part of this effort with the carbon management coordination group will be to help inform CERT what exactly what theme should be covered moving forward and what exactly we should be working on with regards to carbon management carbon management can touch on a lot of different areas industrial decarbonization power transport to some extent not buildings necessarily but there's a lot of different areas where carbon management can touch and really we don't have a lot of visibility into this from the TCP network side as well as from the CERT interest side and so essentially what we want to do with this coordination group is find that sweet spot in the middle which maps the existing needs and areas of expertise from CERT and the TCPs and the IEA secretariat standpoint as you can see graphic design is not my background but that sweet spot would be right there in the middle and part of this mapping exercise would be to ask questions such as are there common areas of interest from CERT secretariat from TCPs are there any knowledge gaps that could potentially be filled can these gaps be addressed through a subsequent coordination group for instance looking at a specific thematic area like carbon dioxide removal or specific aspects of utilization or is the creation or establishment of a working party on carbon management required to answer some of these larger questions and we also want to ask how do these areas interact with existing platforms international platforms and initiatives on CCUS we don't want to repeat anything that's going on and so we have the clean energy ministerial CCUS initiative, mission innovation CDR mission, the greenhouse gas R&D TCP has a cost network so what we really want to do is just map the existing activities out there and see how best we can move forward and so the idea of this coordination group would be a rather short timeline and so to help CERT and its review of these different activities and so we already know what some of the TCPs are working on but there's a lot of TCPs out there that may be interested or may be touching on carbon management aspects that we don't know so I invite you to attend the white board after these sessions and if not I'll find you in the coming months and I'll send a polite email and ask you to participate in this group Thank you so much Carl turn to Chiara my colleague Chiara for the presentation the proposal on heat pumps Yeah thanks Per and I think Karla summarized well the purpose of the coordination group we would like to propose one on heat pumps last year we identified heat pumps as the central technologies for heat decarbonization being deployed in industry buildings or energy networks we know that several TCPs are working around these technologies from different angles so we think that coordination group on heat pumps can be beneficial both for the IA secretariat but also for TCPs how do we see the group working together and with which objectives first we would like to have periodic TCP coordination group to have TCPs exchanging relevant research topics and also identify innovation gaps for TCPs to work together but we would also like to organize workshops to exchange among TCPs and relevant external association and initiatives to provide larger visibility of TCP work but also to discuss key teams related to heat pump deployments which can inform the research around heat pumps and third objective is the one of establishing a working group to harmonize data collection and reporting about heat pumps at the moment data are quite heterogeneous for these technologies and we think it's really critical to have good data to ensure inform the policy decision making as outcomes of a group what do we see first yearly brief report on ongoing TCPs activities around heat pumps summarizing the key messages about TCP work and also mapping innovation gaps that can lead to short term collaboration opportunities and second outcomes are guidelines to improve and harmonize data collection related to heat pumps also with some test case for some countries we are estimating a timeline of two years for this activity and use working partying vice chair for buildings is available to lead the proposal heat pumping technology TCPs also supporting the proposal and we hope that many of you will be interested in this and we look forward to exchange in the whiteboard section feedbacks to improve the proposal thanks thank you very much Chiara and thanks to you and Rafa and other colleagues and Asila of course who is not here, the vice chair of buildings for the great work you did on the report that Timor mentioned yesterday when gathering all the TCPs on the report on NetZero buildings building upon our NetZero roadmap it inspired as well the ideas of the coordination groups and something that is a bit more output oriented so many thanks for also coming now with this new proposal together with the SILDA and the heat pump TCP also building upon a collaboration of the buildings coordination group I would like now to turn the floor to Robin from the district heating cooling sorry go ahead Robin your microphone Robin, your microphone yes so we felt the IEA roadmap cites district heating and cooling but its key enabling role needs to be highlighted more vigorously so we would like to engage with the IEA secretariat so that district heating and cooling as an accelerator for renewable waste heat is clear in future messaging for decision makers as such we would really like to engage with the renewable heat technology TCPs so for example including solar heating and cooling geothermal bioenergy but also as we want to make use of available waste heat and I use the term waste with her parenthesis because it's not sure shouldn't really be waste but there the the relevant TCPs could for example include nuclear and industrial related TCPs whose business cases will benefit from heat sales we would like to engage with HPT heat pumps energy storage and ISGAN because we feel that in putting together the district heating and cooling networks of the future with the best enabling role those technologies are part of that scenario so in summary we want to articulate the strategic role of district heating and cooling including its part in what a future integrated energy system might look like and how it will be delivered and how it will be managed this is very much along the lines of a bit of a vision and I would like to achieve it pretty quickly so I initially put down six months probably that's a little bit optimistic but let's say within one calendar year thanks thank you very much Robin so anyone who wants to discuss this proposal and a heat pump proposal it's a perfect title for these two different proposals but at least since they're coming back to some of the discussions we had in the current buildings coordination group we put them together and Keata and Rafa will be there to help facilitate the discussions now another topic of course that we do have coordination group under the energy working part integrated electricity systems related to those discussions we have talking about flexibility resilience digitalization and under this slide we have also now a whiteboard but we did as I said receive one proposal on flexibility for the carbonized energy system from the energy storage GCP so I turned to Bert to say a few words about what he had ideas behind this proposal thank you Per so indeed we had a proposal on flexibility so I think if you want to go for flexibility carbonized energy system that can be achieved by of course also energy efficiency stays important and then of course also renewable energy sources and flexibility if you have to deal with renewable energy source you have to deal with flexibility so because you need energy somewhere in time somewhere at a certain place and there are different approaches you can talk about storage you can talk about demand management you can talk about sector coupling and everything will be needed in a future energy system so flexibility as such means different DCP so that's also why we think that this one is a perfect topic for a coordination group we haven't discussed it yet in the Exco of course so that will take place in November but we also in my opinion the output we have to focus on certain use cases because flexibility is so broad that yeah everyone can join but what will be the outcome so I think the main goal should be to have clear use cases so that they can present later on to the search and to everyone in the outside world thank you very much Bert, indeed it's a very broad topic you get the biggest whiteboard down there and I'm sure there are many other colleagues that also are interested in this area as well so again see this later this morning as the first brainstorm but we're happy from the Secretary too with our colleagues in other parts of the Secretary that also work on this on a daily basis to assist in those discussions and what could be concrete outputs moving forward then before handing back to Timor I will just give the floor to Paul Miles from the Combustion TCP to prevent the proposal on Sustainable Thanks Pair we don't have a strictly defined proposal put together yet we've been talking primarily with the advanced motor fuels group and Dina isn't here to defend herself so please blame me for any inappropriate directions you might see what we are thinking is that we need to recognize that even on terrestrial applications there's a lot of areas that are going to be very difficult to electrify and we're going to see potentially different fuels in many different sectors we could see potentially alcohols in regional agriculture applications we could see hydrogen in on-road applications we're seeing a very strong emphasis from both the energy companies as well as the OEMs looking and dropping fuels methanol to gasoline ethanol to gasoline there's a lot of chaos in the area and we just have limited resources and understanding what the end use applications are going to look like how we need to adapt the powertrains for different fuels and the objective here is to try to get some clarity and understand regionally and application specific what fuels are most appropriate where we should focus our efforts outputs would be reports identifying these and potentially clarifying market sizes trying to understand how the OEMs can make some money on these alternative fuels also looking from a self-interest perspective trying to understand how to focus technical research on end use applications to solve specific applications to solve specific problems that would be important so that's the general idea we're also of course the hydrogen TCP we're in discussions with as well as bioenergy they're clearly linked to this effort we'd be very glad to get your input at the whiteboard meeting whiteboard session and help us try and define this better thank you very much Paul and thanks to all of you for those introductions to the proposals for the transport we had a transport coordination group here in Paris on Tuesday as well and I've asked look at the vice chair for transport also in that together with so they have transport whiteboard and on that whiteboard also write down the discussions you had not all of course necessarily linked to TCP coordination groups but it's also examples of what type of discussions there are in the current coordination groups I mean we see this marriage as a pilot phase the proposals you hear are quite different from each other but I could also help conceptualize that this mechanism is quite nimble, flexible responding to needs and interest and of course resources but the first step at least and we really welcome these first proposals and when you go down to the whiteboards later we'll instruct the initiators to also have a quick recap again on the initial ideas but I'll get back to Leitron again before we go down there exactly how it will work out so thank you very much and I turn it back to Timor yeah thank you very much Pierre and thanks everyone for the for the first initial suggestions we now have what is it, 17 minutes until the coffee break so anyone who would like to intervene ask questions for clarifications if you already have excellent new ideas for possible TCP coordination groups such as Brian which is wonderful or otherwise initial reactions to the proposals that have been made then now is a good time we will use the session before lunch to discuss the proposals around the whiteboards as he already said that have been set up and in the way he presented it on one of his slides so Brian first and then Hans thank you the question is about cloning in the sense that I think Getzap could contribute usefully to all of those coordinating groups but we have limited bandwidth and for the purposes of today I'm one person when I look at what's proposed and I compare it with our current work program as a way of kind of trying to distill down the the options for us and also reflect on recent collaboration we've had a very successful collaboration with the hydrogen TCP looking at hydrogen within the system and from our perspective energy system modeling drawing on the research developments from the hydrogen TCP and similarly we've had a very good engagement with other TCP's on the issue of flexibility, resilience and digitalization more so flexibility and resilience I suppose in the first instance so those two jump out at me in our current work program the societal aspects is a very important part so too is critical minerals so that reduces it to four but it doesn't address my challenge for today which is what I was coming to what's your suggestions in terms of how we do we kind of move around to a particular whiteboard do we pick one or is there an option to engage beyond just one and I'm also I suppose thinking in terms of the broader question of with these coordination groups that question of limited bandwidth I'm not sure how you've considered that thank you thanks a lot I suggest we collect a couple of interventions first and then we react and answer our recovery thank you season actually from enhanced group we have been talking about to suggest a coordination group related to energy security as some countries still are quite far away from moving towards to renewable also to hydrogen hydrogen or electric so coming with the energy security will be a chance to keep the coal the coal TCP the working party fossil energy options as well to be working on this type of scenario so a coordination group related to energy security we'll be interested to see how this can evolve and see how to keep it as we mentioned yesterday international energy agency phones was related to how energy security related to oil was and today still some countries and society is still required for a baseline or the fossil fuels so energy security can be a strategic coordination group to suggest that thank you thank you excellent idea I guess there's also broadening of the energy security concepts or in that in case that comes forward maybe also useful to include TCP is related to renewables or working on critical minerals there are various different angles energy storage might have a say on the way it was not my remark here so now I want to come back to the beginning of this meeting where Per said that the time limited mandate no longer than two years because I have a small problem with that not a problem but isn't that too short especially if SP want to work around certain use cases then maybe the two years timeline is too short to come with results I'll let Per comment on that later timelines are always a challenge I acknowledge that working at the IA secretariat all the colleagues who presented earlier will know what I mean I have Italy on the list next thank you very much I would also have a comment not really from the Italian point of view but from the coordination group on the integrated electricity system of course very I acknowledge the interest on flexibility digitalization I think this is a very very important point about which we already had some work in the coordination group I would also bring another priority I think in the integrated electricity system coordination group that is resilience so how are we going to manage an energy system so not only an electricity system but an energy system in these scenarios of higher than 1.5 degrees so let us imagine a scenario 3 degrees or more this is going to have potential implications not only on the electricity system in terms of transmission and distribution but also on the generation part on the storage part on the end-use part and I think it could be another important issue to be considered as a potential coordination group thank you thank you thank you I have next users on my list thank you this is a flip back to a question around process so three key guiding principles clear outputs, clear timelines secured resources I'm just trying to think through the mechanics of approval processes presumably the template to CERT is quite short so are you imagining that there is sort of some in principle approval of CERT and then a stage gated approval once resources are secured or are you imagining a more detailed template where we actually outline a program of work and how resources have been secured for this before that goes to CERT so it's kind of that sequencing process is a very good point, thank you David I have Japan next good morning colleagues Japan very much welcome a lot of proposal on coordination groups I haven't talked with Japanese contracting parties of relevant TTPs covering this wide range of proposal on coordination group but I had a chance to talk with Japanese stakeholder relevant to carbon management in many ministry of economy trade and industry created a new division carbon management division this summer this clearly indicates Japanese government interest in this particular area and I talked with the head of this new division carbon management as well as one of the Japanese contracting parties of the TTPs under working party proposal energy they are very much interested in supportive for coordination group on carbon management that's just one example on the way forward we will be the coordination group will be approved by the end of this year even though some stages approval process could be taken as just suggested in February the ministry will get together here in Paris I think secretariat should somehow report this new initiative to ministers that element could be reflected in the ministerial communication as discussed yesterday the strength of TTP community is stability continuity and consistency but at the same time we can change as needed I think a coordination group is a good indicator of that thank you thank you very much Toshia I have heat pump technologies please thanks I have just a short comment regarding this two years limited time first of all I have had the same thoughts like word that's too short but on the other hand I think we have to do it now because the transformation HGC system happens now and if we have the support from my air secretary I think we can achieve it and however if we see still that we are have remaining topics to address I guess then the extension should be possible so I would stick to this two years thank you I have hydro now thank you I have a bit of a process question so we're already having some discussions with other TCPs on some collaborative activities like the wind and energy storage TCP and these activities could be rolled into some of the coordination the new coordination groups that are being suggested like the flexibility or the energy security ones so what is their suggestion should we carry on with these activities as planned or roll them into a group thank you for Australia thanks just wanted to start with agreeing with David about the simplifying the implementation of this we do need to make sure that so the coordination element is really important but it does increase the complexity of the relationships that we already have between certain working parties and TCPs we just need to make sure that the information that we get from this process is really commensurate with the added layer of bureaucracy that goes into it and I think a two-stage pass into getting in principle agreement to get things in motion so that we don't kind of tie ourselves in knots trying to agree and to move forward really also just wanted to emphasise the need to think about the TCP coordination groups as a way to link in better with those other initiatives and to get more buy-in on research so not just to think about the TCP coordination groups as between yourselves but also as a way to hook in better with some of those initiatives and it was really great to hear some of those thinking that has already occurred with the 101 and others from Australia's perspective I think we'd have interest in being part of or helping support what are critical minerals coordination groups coordination group looks like also hydrogen and the power systems and just to put the idea out there around industry decarbonisation and where that might fit amongst the various TCPs thanks thanks a lot I see no further flex so Per, you want to go through the long list of questions with pleasure, thank you very much everyone maybe starting with Brian so we will when we're coming back from well after the EDS midis intervention we again come back here and we'll explain to you exactly how it will work down at the whiteboards but indeed it will be a bit floating as you start at one whiteboard but we definitely also feel free when you're done with that one to move to the next one or other one that's that on time and resources I think this is a critical graphic designer either but I think Carl you showed it in that slide too that there should be an interest and interest comes with resources as well so I think this is an essential issue and it will be the same for the secretariat especially on some of you just because the topic you're working on if it's modelling or or hydrogen it might be that there's an interest from many other TCPs to work with you I think team also knows that with having much of the modelling capacity for this team and how valuable that is for colleagues across the agency but of course everyone's time is limited so here in the process and that's why we keep repeating the importance of resources available so it's obviously fine for TCP to say no and in the way we phrase it it should be phrased in the template as anyone who's supporting is always ready as well to put down resources and then if it doesn't work now I mean then at least there may become future opportunities in the future as well and maybe going to that process issue as well I think that was thanks for raising that it's worth maybe saying now this is a pilot so we're starting with the first round of proposals again trying to make the process as simple as possible with submission date deadline in December and then we will work and prepare those for cert in January for approval written approval we need to speak with the cert cabinet as well what's the most best way forward also for that written approval and then I would say that we take it from there as well to think about how do we alluding to PET as well make sure it doesn't add a heavy burden on either TCP or the cert but also seeing it this could be something that's relatively flexible so if it's not once per year but maybe a few times per year there is this rounds of approvals but again it needs to be discussed obviously with the cert cabinet as well was the most feasible way forward but thanks for raising important point on the timelines we actually used the word preferably two years so there's some flexibility at the same time it will be as I said up to cert to approve and having trying to create a mechanism that can be like allowing collaboration between TCP in a more flexible way we understand some of your challenges but then it might also as I think heat pump TCP alluded to maybe can be at different stages or get an extension so there are also options but it's preferably two years but coming with proposal next year with delivering 2028 that's a very long time away so maybe we need some mid-stage interim report or something but again this is the pilot I think we learn as well we see what type of projects and ideas come through and again with those resources available to put together so how time intensive will the TCP collaboration group project be as another thing we curious to see as well on topic wise so Michaela thanks for mentioning resilience so on the whiteboard we prepared this also the word resilience in the topic so please feel free to add any ideas of concrete outputs to that topic on industrial decarbonization we have a new working part of course on that topic and we had a chat with the industry TCP with yesterday but here as well as of course an area to see knowing yes it's one TCP focusing in the industry R&D but of course many of you are relevant for industrial decarbonization as such topics too so it would be interesting to see and talk with you what could be potential activities there as well on the good point raised by CESA I mean it's also making me think and I didn't present that but it's part of the package that CERT agreed to the TCP coordination group is an elevated mechanism in the same time CERT decided to elevate what we call thematic discussions so it's not always that you need to have a coordination group it might be that some topics can first start as a thematic discussion and that could also be the case if you don't gather at a time to actually start a coordination group that the starting point is just to organize with CERT a discussion on a certain topic and I think what you brought up is a good example that also came up in the discussions with the CERT how to address some of these challenges linked to energy security I think also is of interest to CERT so something definitely will come back to as well but maybe as a first point if you want to put the TCP coordination group proposal together that could be a starting point as well to see how this could be channeled and what topics to raise and thanks Toshi for also reflecting back on how this matches priorities in your government and thanks for the input for the preparations of the ministerial meeting we'll take that with us as well I think that's it and sorry if I missed something but again thank you very much and continue to looking forward to getting more feedback and ideas and the session will have before lunch back to you Timur Thank you very much Per and thank you very much to all of you for the engaged discussion from my perspective just to say I think Paul said it earlier there is already collaboration taking place between TCPs in general and I think this mechanism and this goes to the two years question or not and preferably or however we frame it but it's also a vehicle to form a task force if you want to know on a specific topic that is particularly important for the CERT or for the TCP community in a way that in some ways it feels to me that we'd want that to be in a way nimble both in process terms but also in the way we bring it together but that's just my perspective and of course up to discussion everyone I don't know David do you want to, did you just raise the flag again or okay then I'll hand it over to you but then we break It was just a request could we have a whiteboard space for concrete suggestions for the mechanisms of collaboration that might prove a useful mechanism whether people have concerns around time or resourcing or anything like that just a space we can park those ideas I think that's a great idea and just on resourcing you know this is very much on my mind as well so we'll do what we can to help on that front but we'll need to break now partly at 10.55 we come back 11.00 is our executive director intervening who's just calling me so I break now so everyone is so well on time that we have three minutes left very good I'm very impressed very very impressed should be next time just say for every session that the executive director is coming I think it's probably a good idea we'll introduce that in what do you think Amanda? Actually I do that with my kids all the time it usually doesn't work as well though you tell him the executive director is coming I should actually during the pandemic in the first few times I had international meetings and the kids were around because they weren't at school and I would say look I'm representing Prime Minister Trudeau at this meeting and you can't say anything in the background it worked for like the first two and then they were like wait you're not alright colleagues so as you can see we're joined by the executive director Fatih Birol so wonderful to have you join us here for this meeting we've been having a really excellent day and a bit so far and promise of more interesting things to be discussed today I know that you are always so busy but let me say congratulations on the launch of the World Energy Outlook we were chatting with Laura yesterday and I know that you have many things on the go and that you just hosted a very successful critical mineral summit so without further ado I'm going to hand it over to you to address some remarks and we'll take some questions after thank you great pleasure Amanda and good morning dear colleagues it is great to see so many colleagues from the different TCP's and members of the search and other colleagues I just came here in fact I have two reasons to come here one is to thank all of you we are making use from your expertise from your cooperation from your contribution different parts of our work we are reports our statements I know that my colleagues give a call here and there to learn more from you on different topics which is an extremely important source of information source of inspiration for us in the agency first of all I just wanted to thank you in person to come here it is the second pardon fifth addition if I am not wrong of this TCP is coming together believe it or not when I became the head of this agency in the year 2015 one of the first things I did is to call having a universal TCP meeting it was 2015 this decision was made I don't know if the meeting took place in 2015 or 16 do you remember 2015 okay so at that time my the idea was why I asked for that meeting I thought it was the TCP's are so important and there is so much potential that we are not making use of it compared to the potential and we should try to between the TCP's there were silos try to try to bring those silos down and what I see after five years see and hear from my colleagues and talking with several representatives of the TCP's we made a lot of progress in that direction if you ask me if we made enough progress that I would like to see I would like to see five years ago my answer is perhaps not necessarily so but I think we made a lot of progress here so the second reason why I came here is in addition to thanking to you what as we can do as agency in order to make use of this great great potential that the TCP serve I understand Amanda we had a discussion we had a discussion yesterday and this I am looking forward to hear from you from Timur and from other colleagues and look at those suggestions but if you have any other suggestions directly writing to me please just do write to me this is a very simple email address just write to me if you have any ideas to do that one of the reasons why in my view I as I think many people agree show a lot of success is one important word nimbleness this is our character we are very quick in many areas I give a couple of examples in the last few years after Covid when everybody went home we were working from home and the global economy and many of the countries economies almost collapsed and the governments were thinking of coming up with some recovery packages to give a stimulus to the economies we came up with the sustainable recovery plans what kind of economic packages governments need to put in place so that they have some sustainability item sustainability considerations in it so that it not only leads to a rebound of the economy it can be hydrogen it can be anything and how we can see that the economy is rebounded but at the same time the clean energy gets boost and we are very happy to see that the many many governments use those ideas in terms of sustainability recovery packages the second one is 24th of February the Russia invaded Ukraine had a lot of impact on the energy markets especially for Europe and one week later first of March we came up with a 10 point plan what Europe should do in order to in order to go through this winter respond to Russia's challenge and at the same time be in line with its climate targets 10 point plan efficiency renewables we also said some very tough things for some countries for example Germany and Belgium extend the lifetime of the nuclear power plants I don't know if we have anybody from Germany I hear my right I don't know so it has not an easy thing but both Bundeskanzl shorts and the Prime Minister crew agree with that and Germany one year Belgium will longer so this is another example of the nimbleness and we are thanked again and again by the leaders of the governments with the collection dresses for our nimbleness I can give you many examples maybe one last example again more than the nimbleness it is how the IES knows is a strong one I don't know if many of you have seen we made the report on the grits how important the grits are if you want to bring the renewables in the consumers and how come that it is a major blunt spot in the many governments energy agenda so you can beat as much as you can but as long as you don't have the grits to bring to the consumers they just wait there and our numbers show that the 1500 gigabytes of renewables are just waiting in the queue to be connected to the grid because of the lack of capacity of grits is a huge amount of renewables so we also chose a few areas that there was not enough attention two years ago we made a report on for example for Europe it was very important the heat pumps so why heat pumps are so important in order to on one hand reduce the reliance on Russian gas and on the other hand for reaching our climate course so I'm giving you these examples to hope to see that this nimbleness the recent character the trait of the IEA getting developed day by day is also going to determine the relationship between the IEA secretariat and the TCP's so this is something that I would like to see and the IEA for us innovation is a very important topic I don't know if you have discussed but next year is our 50th anniversary we will have a major event several countries ministers but even in maybe some other guests and we would like to make a innovation a key topic during our ministerial meeting forum we want to organize and we would like to see as much as possible the TCP's around the table together with some leading innovators in the world to show the IEA's ministers there so this is what I would like to say and just to show you that how much importance we give I give to technology innovation I have recently appointed Timur as our chief technology officer for the first time we have such a responsibility and I couldn't think anybody better than Timur who is going to serve under this new capacity and Madam Chair we thank you very much for able leadership for cert at least I have understood the changes in cert you are introducing which is very helpful for us it is one of our most important committees to give us feedback on many fronts so once again thank you this was the first season I came here and second piece if you have other suggestions thoughts how we can even improve our relationship between the TCP's and the IEA secretary in a nimble way we are ready to look at your suggestions closely and if you have any questions I will try to answer them as well thank you thank you so much if there are questions or comments for Dr Birol please raise your flag just go ahead Brian from our TCP thank you very much and I suppose firstly to congratulate you on that response to both COVID and to the Russian invasion in Ukraine were hugely evident I think around the world as you mentioned the nimbleness but it's nimbleness that's grounded in really solid evidence and being able to bring that evidence quickly to bear was hugely impressive and you could see the impacts and I noticed in the WIO report this year it kind of quantified how Europe did meet the challenge and it was interesting how much of it was on the demand side the prediction was maybe two thirds on the supply side two thirds were actually on the demand side which also shows the importance I think of the societal mobilization in all of these things my question relates to the because with COVID and the Russian invasion they were two crises and now we see we're at a real dangerous point I think in terms of what's happening currently in the Middle East and I suppose this begs the question how do we then respond to that in terms of what your own thoughts are and then if the TCP's can help the IAA in response to what's happening there thank you I don't see any other flags up at the moment so just now go ahead Cesar thank you Amanda thank you it's a pleasure to meet you as part of my generation we aspire our job with you so thank you for all what you are doing and the International Energy Agency I come from Latin America and Latin America today is implementing a lot of the new options on technology like renewables, like hydro sources, like hydrogen source for the worldwide market how Latin America can become more visible on this type of scenario is just my question are these options as we can provide knowledge technology collaboration and innovation thank you thank you very much Cesar any other questions before I hand it over to Fatih to answer alright thank you maybe I start with the question from Brian it's extremely important what you mentioned Brian this is can be amazingly important for energy climate and everything I was just yesterday in Brussels I had many meetings including one with the NATO Secretary General and with others so what I say I told them I have three concerns looking at the current situation one if one of the major oil exporters is directly involved in the crisis this with the major implications so one third of the global oil exports come from that region and the big chunk of the oil and gas especially to Asia transported through almost straight straight and if a country it can be easily blocked by a country which is in the region this would have devastating effects for the global economy so my number one concern is this if the it escalates and if we see a crisis similar to what we hit 50 years ago and there is a lot of potential to turn into crisis this is number one number two concern the world's attention is so much legitimately so on what is going on in the Middle East now and this is very legitimate because a very hot issue I am concerned that the attention that the intention community is paying to Ukraine can be weakened as a result of that because we are focusing suddenly on a new topic and another topic which is still very important which is still very valid that we have to pay attention to may lose priority this is the second concern I have the third concern I have is if the a major escalation happens there and even before the escalation we and many others were trying to channel the world's attention to COP28 and the climate issues whether we will be able to present the world that this is another crisis and peace consider this are we going to lose some some attention there so these are my three concerns what is happening in Middle East we are following it very close I can say minute by minute basis and as you may know in many similar occasions there was problem with the oil security oil supply disruption and we have our plans both on the supply side and the demand side how to deal with that issue but I hope that our plans stay in our dossiers don't go out but I see there is a I'm sure you all follow the developments I see there is a real risk that it can escalate with implications under energy markets having said that Brian if I may I know there are many colleagues working on all the fuels as the IEA we work on all the fuels on technologies oil gas, coal, renewables solar hydropower systems but looking at what happened two years ago on natural gas with Russia looking at what is happening with oil in Middle East this risks always price volatility risk geopolitics the claims that the oil and gas represent a safe and secure part of the energy sector is weakening I just wanted to tell you and this is not expert view this is in the streets if you go in the streets of Delhi in the streets of Jakarta you are seeing and on top of that if you link this with the very fact that the climate crisis is today being born out of using a lot of fossil fuels so they think that the oil and gas they represent the safe and secure choices for the consumers around the world that claim is weakening by David every this crisis we are seeing Latin America this is a very important part of our work in fact only is it next week we are releasing we have a word energy outlook we publish every year and this year we have a special edition called Latin America energy outlook it is coming next next week we are publishing this report and we country profiles of all key Latin American countries and the region itself and I myself going to make starting from January Brazil invited by President Lula a Latin America tour to talk with the countries in the region these countries are extremely important for us and we see the reason why we have decided to make the energy outlook one is you rightly mentioned the energy plants and strategies in the countries for many reasons come to crossroads now solar, wind, green hydrogen, electric cars and critical minerals they are all there is a huge potential there but how to have a potential on the country base and also regional bases is important it is one reason why we make this report and the second in many Latin American countries there are new governments they are coming with new ideas new suggestions we wanted to provide some guidance to those and we have an excellent relationship with Brazil who is going to chair the G20 next year but also with Chile I am having a meeting tomorrow with the Colombian minister with Argentina and many others so we are very keen to make even closer to a year so Madame Chair these are some words from me but again if you have questions, thoughts, suggestions we are very nimble and simple organization we don't have so much hierarchy we don't know just send me an email suggesting critics we love critics don't say better words but critics are okay you made it wrong please use this we are very happy to get this and we pay attention to that because we think we are students of energy and climate we are trying to do our work without fear and favor this is what the IEA is all about but once again many things to TCPs, many things to all of you in person over to you Madame Chair Thank you very much that was very insightful we really appreciate you coming to speak with us being generous with your time I understand you have to get to another meeting but we really really appreciate it I think it's very clear that you see the value potential in this energy technology network and I'm sure that colleagues will take you up on your kind offer to reach out with any suggestions and nicely phrased criticism if there is such a thing so thank you I think I am handing it back over to you Thank you very much Amanda so as I promised we'll come back now to the second part of session 5 which will be we'll go down to the whiteboards and showing an example of nimbleness we have a follow up on David's suggestion as well to have a special whiteboard also on let's see where it is sorry okay so again start from the beginning in I think you all remember where room 2 is it's just on the right side by the next entrance when we came into the building we of course will all escort you down there but then in the front of the room 2 we have the whiteboard on carbon management and there will be Carl standing also in that space we have on the built environmental ones so heat pumps and thermal networks we have Chiara and Rafa there but of course also Robin we have behind the room so he has continued in the corridor straight and there you have three white boards one which will be a big one as well on flexibility resilience digitalization my colleagues Amy and Silver will be there holding the pens then we have in that space too on hydrogen on critical minerals to separate whiteboards where you also have colleagues Amalia from the Secretariat together with Paul and Olmar but please feel free to share the pens with each other as well so it's not since this is a brainstorm as well we have hopefully a number enough of pens around also critical minerals we have KC standing there as well and then if you continue well in room 2 which is then just next to that in between that and the front of the room there we have put two flip charts this is where you can add other ideas for coordination groups again maybe just add a name of the coordination group and then some initial ideas of potential outputs and you can also write your TCP name and then others can go there as well to add their names if they find this could be an interesting topic but again it might be the case as we don't want to feel anyone forced into these TCP coordination groups there's also an opportunity of course to share other ideas or feedback to us from these two days of meetings and things we should focus more on again we don't have to you've already sent it don't have to send it again let's just make sure that you keep yourself busy and then in the last space which should also be a door on the back of room 2 I hope it's open but we'll make sure it's open there we have three white boards of flip charts one which we'll be looking at sustainable fuels for combustion engines but also other transport related topics they have pull miles from combustion TCP and look at standing we have one which we can now call people centered using IE language here but associated social changed aspects gender diversity and other aspects was raised yesterday could also be an opportunity there and similar to what we say in room 2 you can also just put down ideas and then in a simple way find who's interested what could be potential outputs and then come back to David's point we also have then a white board on coordination group process and please feel free to name the title of that one as you prefer and David will give you a pen to start off on the discussions there again we haven't done this before but they're trying to challenge the spaces we have in the headquarters here and but we see with the engagement we had in the discussions yesterday and also learning from the past experience that this is the kind of hopefully the stage we can provide to you and our colleagues from the secretary to start brainstorm ideas on future TCP coordination groups the last thing to say before handing back to you chairs just to say that we will make lunch available around 12.15 12.30 will be up here again back in room 1 outside of room 1 and then start here at 2 o'clock in the afternoon alright let's go so dear colleagues welcome back to this last session of the TCP universal meeting it's been really 10s one and a half days thanks a lot to all of your active engagement I hope the breakout sessions were useful before lunch and I hope the lunch was good as well of course now what we're going to deal with in the last session here is the review of the TCP request for extension mechanism I've said that before in any organization you need to reinvent yourself from time to time and think about whether what we are doing is still the right approach towards present day challenges and whether the opportunities to improve things reduce the administrative burden if that is possible at all so from our perspective the request for extension process being integrated into the technology collaboration program is a strength but there are a couple of weaknesses of course that the SIRT review revealed and therefore the SIRT agreed earlier this week to revise this mechanism for seeking a decision at its March meeting Per will now run you through the process and yeah and then we'll take it from there Per thank you very much Timur last but not least I know you all waited for a session on request for extension but SIRT Timur is right, this is something we know as well it's an important part of the network and in the interviews we had with many of you I didn't hear from anyone who said it's not important it's not for different reasons as well and additional reasons to what Timur mentioned it's also a way for maybe larger TCP's to gather all the tasks and annexes to have those discussions as well so certainly something that we here is very valuable so it's not about and this is also recognized of course by the SIRT delegates as we talked to as well so for this last session and you have also received in the pre-read material the annex or the text that comes out from the process and the discussions with the SIRT task force with a few proposals of how to further improve both the process itself because there we received some feedback from mainly TCP's on how it's planned but also of course it's always good from time to time to also look at the on substance as well and this comes back to the discussions we had with the SIRT particular in the different meetings in the spring where there was also a wish coming back again to the ministerial mandates of Taiye to also ensure that the work and the wish of the ministers is also channeled down and also helps to guide the work of the TCP's so yes today we very much welcome to hear from you as well based on this list what you want to see yourself as we move forward to improving this process and starting here today but similar to the work on communication aiming to have a decision by SIRT at this March meeting so indeed as to repeat we had indeed a very useful self-assessment and on the questions whether there's too much burden through this process yes a few of you have expressed that there is quite a lengthy process but we also heard from many of you that it's not and it's not right to say it would be either so we take that as a balance when it comes to the amount of work amount of you have to report I mean one comment and I was discussed with the Andrews Working Party that maybe there's a bit too much focus on the end of term reporting rather on the strategic vision for the next five years so that's one comment we received that should also be and think about as we moving forward in this from now to the March meeting one of the main issues and that's what I said about maybe it's not the documentation ask that is the thing that needs to be fixed is more looking at the process itself how to ensure that the TCPs themselves yourself feel like you get strategic feedback by senior government officials either from CERT or from the Working Parties and one of the issues have been also the timing of this we know this is dealt with slightly differently in the different Working Parties but in some of the Working Parties there's an impression or an impression it's the feeling that the feedback often comes too late so you start the process with the TCPs and the Excos and then you get the chance to present early thoughts at the meeting but then the finalization of the documentation comes to the end when there's the verdict and sometimes the feedback then is a bit too late especially since it will be the decision so here that's why we would like to use today but of course also the process forward to think about how can this process be further improved so it's coming to the as I mentioned there are the recommendations from the governments from the CERT discussion was to have a better alignment with the IA ministerial mandates and this of course has changed over time as we heard yesterday but certainly aligning it to the most recent or relevant IA ministerial mandates and they have of course been strengthened the strength and focus especially in the last month of 2022 for us to work on attaining necessary missions but of course also continue to support global energy security we of course there are also issues that have been discussed in the past about ensuring there's a critical mass behind the work currently there's a minimum expectations of two contracting projects but there's now a discussion there's been a discussion among the CERT delegates to raise this to five to ensure that there's actually that critical mass so ensuring that those are hopefully active members too to ensure there's enough activities happening and results then there are a few more aspects that have been discussed with the CERT delegates that would also be important when the CERT and the working parties review the TCP's request for extensions that's linked to the funding model again of course making sure that there is transparency but also enough resources behind the activities if it's task share or cost share but at least knowing that there is enough resource communication has been on the issue which has been addressed by many of the CERT delegates to ensure that there is a communication plan or a website where it's easy for CERT delegates or government officials or other interested to learn more about the TCP's and its activities and then the second last thing is also a proven record of coordination collaboration with other initiatives and TCP's of course not to always stretch the TCP's this should not be symbolic collaboration just for the sake of it but making sure there is functional collaboration but of course in some instances and I think where this comes from what every now and then happens in big networks that you start an activity, you forget to inform others that should have been informed as well in other parts of the system that might work on something similar ensuring that you have that approach to at least when there are potential overlaps to keep each other informed when you start new activities and then it's also important to acknowledge that TCP's are using the right graphic design and branding in relation to what that provided from the secretariat on the technology collaboration program then other important guiding principles and this is what we're going to discuss maybe not so much today but also how to further suggest improvements in the documentation for the RFE process as I said I didn't mention that specifically but in 2016 there was a big review of the documentation needed for the request for extension which has slimmed down a lot of the requirements and requests still however we from the secretariat is keen to take another look at this together with the interested party to make sure that these are useful and to make sure that as I mentioned before maybe the comment from the news working party is right that maybe it's too much focus on end of term reporting when there should be more thinking about the strategic plan moving ahead also here we acknowledge that different working parties are just slightly different feedback forms so here's also a question back to us of the secretariat if we should initiate also looking how we can harmonize some of these forms one of the coming back to the point on the process so there has been and there are exceptions but an example is the ROOP the renewable energy working party to check in with the TCP and the CERT task force recommended to the CERT to also look into where this should be for any working party that is responsible for TCP so if halfway you can and have a check if the working party has made the feet the progress is promised and then you can get that kind of guidance early much early in the process then just a few months before you're actually coming up to the meeting representing your documentation one idea is we also wanted to well it came up in a CERT workshop we had in February or May whether it would make sense to also offer TCP's what's called a peer review group or friends of the TCP can have another name for it that could come in maybe after the midterm report as a sounding board that could also help the TCP react on some of those recommendations from the working party how it can further improve so in the survey we sent out before today's meeting we did ask you what kind of expertise would be useful that you might not have in your networks and it gave us a good idea of what expertise we could help with as well so that could be someone who's worked on communication as we discussed yesterday that could be someone who's been engaged with outreach, engaging with other countries, having those networks but it could also be other things for making sure that you either on substance but maybe more important you can think about how you actually organize your TCP this is voluntary of course and we will start with the pilot and the idea here is that it could be four or five individuals we from the secretariat both in the core group but also together with the desk officers we can work with the chair and the secretary to think about a good group of four or five individuals that could come and help again just as a proposal to also make sure that feedback to the TCP for improving its activity can also be something that is not just coming back to the end of the term as it's worked in some of the working parties so far so today we want to hear again your views on the request for extension proposals moving ahead you feel free as well we didn't manage to speak with all of you what's the value of the RFE process what's useful what's not is there anything essential missing and how could it be improved to really make sure it brings value to the TCP and the governments so I spoke about some of sure there will be a few more top-down criteria but in the end of the day this tool this process is to help the TCP's and my understanding from the interviews is by many seen as helpful as well just to answer before I'll get the question I'm sure it's going to come what's going to happen with the TCP's that are now in the process we of course will say we're waiting to see a little bit what happened at the universal meeting but we will work with those TCP's to see how it can be helpful as well but not if you already came quite far in the process we of course from the secretariat will not ask you to start from from going back and start from the first step again but we can have those individual conversations with each and every of the TCP okay go back so I stop here and then turn back to Timor thank you very much Per and before we go into your thoughts on these questions I would like to invite three colleagues to share their reflections from the TCP's point of view on what was just presented the first intervention will be from Torra from the 4U TCP thank you for the floor thank you well I will present the 4U experience on behalf of Hans Polziderius who is not with us anymore but from our point of view the RFE request for extension process in principle is okay as it is now the only point being that the feedback that comes from the UVP comes at a very late stage so giving feedback at a midterm review could mitigate that and here we could have in this review include clear suggestions that the TCP would need to consider in the upcoming RFE the problem with more involvement at the start of the RFE process is that there is very little to reflect on so even though I do not have a chart to show you the reporting to the UVP and EIS it could look like that you have on year one and two standard yearly reporting on the third year you have a midterm review including a standard yearly reporting on the fourth year standard yearly reporting and the fifth year you have the RFE process that could be included so we will be very open to the idea of a midterm reporting thank you thank you very much Torra now over to Azadeh from the equality TCP thank you so as a disclaimer we joined the TCP network in 2017 so we have only gone through one request for extension and so for us the process was quite heavy as it actually happened in parallel with the modernization of the implementing agreement so we had to invest a lot of efforts into that I think overall it took us around eight months three different working group meetings but we were fortunate to have multiple internal and external rounds of feedback so that was really helpful for us to complete the process but it certainly was a very positive experience for us to go for this process because it allowed us to actually rethink our objectives and strategies and it energized our TCP because we really started to take up more work and make sure that we are moving forward for instance it was during the request for extension process that we decided to actually rebrand our TCP to quality TCP and realize that we would benefit from this rebranding to make sure that we are recognized on an international level the only so I think we are quite in support of your new proposals and it would have certainly helped us if we knew about the request for extension process before we started the process at that point because we also needed to have a systematic documentation of our activities I think as we are one of the social TCP's we do not have a lot of reports or different type of publications that some of the colleagues are doing here so with some of the webinars or different networking we really had to collect them by contacting all of our ex-commembers and asking them to remember all this that would have been helpful to know exactly what is needed from the get go to make sure that we have all of them documented and I think the other issue that we had was that every year we decide about the budget and how we are going to allocate the resources we were not really aware of how much effort needs to go into the request for extension so if there is an idea of how extensive you have to work on this that would have also been beneficial for us but we are very happy with the new suggestions thank you thank you very much as a day now Joanna from IETS yes and IETS is industrial energy related technologies and systems and we have been around I will be new share as of next year so I haven't been around but IETS has been around for quite a while as a TCP and when we reflect on this it's easy to reflect on that it's usually as when you do the strategic platform for business planning you do a new extension for a TCP you do a strategic plan and an operative plan and then when you start a year or you start a strategic year and you have your extension you kind of tend not to look at that until it's the end of the term and it's up for new request or a new strategic platform so we can say that and I think also that if you have done your work for quite a while it's easy that you tend to do the same going forward and I think that when you have this process you suggest the midterm review you suggest the peer reviewing process I think that's rather good because it eases up it makes it easier to revisit the strategic plan more frequently and it's not if I interpret it correctly it's not that you want to add an administrative burden but rather to reduce the administrative burden and replace it with a more proactive and continuous revisiting of what are we doing contemporary as Australia said if we want to be relevant we need to make those revisiting of our strategic plans more frequently than once every five years so I think that in general those suggestions for changes in the process are good since they do not seek to increase control and administration but to support and to revisit the plans and make adjustments proactively rather and reactively and I also think that it can facilitate changes in the TCP plans easier when you have the midterms and so on that you can make smaller changes instead of that to go five years and then you discover that you need to make larger changes and it becomes a barrier so that we applaud and we also appreciate that you strive to make the administrative burden less because it's the utility of the extension process to the TCP but also to the CFT and the IA that is the important part not how many pages we have filled in so we appreciate that, thank you thank you very much I hear some general support to the medium-term review and we are certainly I'm not a big fan of bureaucracy myself so I'm all for this type of notion now I have three noted three colleagues who want to intervene right away just to remind everyone of the general thrust of questions that we have where do you see the value of the RFE process, what is useful, what is not anything missing, how could it be improved to bring more value to both the TCP and the governments I had wind TCP first yeah, thank you so we are at the end of the process right now, hopefully get the next extension approved in two weeks time at the group meeting absolute valuable process to rethink about the strategy we don't find it to come with some to do it in the current format the things you had on the communication that is usually there's not really guidance how to do that and I'm referring here to the website because our colleague yesterday from Japan made that example that this template is really useful and necessary because then the information is in a structured way and yet sometimes trouble finding this information on the respective website so getting guidance what should be on every TCP's website for server or group members to find that in place where they expect that that will be helpful what I'm a bit puzzled by is by the bitterm review or intermediate process because we do send these annual briefs what happens with that information it's a good question maybe one of the colleagues can answer but before that I'll turn to the next one AFC thank you so I think the request for extension process is very important to also look at what we have done and how to improve our work I also think that the suggestions one thing that I'm kind of missing is like one thing the midterm report I don't think it's necessary what is necessary is that we involve the working party that we increase the involvement of the working party in the final year of the request for extension so what happened to us was that we fulfilled the requirements in the request for extension process so we sent in the notion of activities in the spring meeting to the UWP we got some feedback we implemented or drafted our strategic work plan with the EXCO members in an EXCO meeting which took a lot of effort and time of the EXCO meeting to finalize it then we sent it into the IAA so for me this was a pair review group so we got feedback from the IAA secretary we got feedback from the chair of the transport coordination group and we implemented the feedback into the final draft of the request for extension documentation and then at the fall NQ's working party meeting we kind of got blown off away because the recommendation didn't actually align with the picture we received during the request for extension process by the IAA secretary or by the desk officer so the pair review group I think it's very good but it should also implement the participation of the respective working party in the final year and between the two working party meetings so that's the recommendation, the final recommendation from the working party has not the end for us with not a five year extension of the technology collaboration program but only a two year prolongation which actually adds again the whole work in preparation of the documents in the next couple of EXCO meetings so actually we want to go forward but the focus in the future EXCO meetings will again be the report on how to tackle the issues that are questioned in the recognition by the UWP as well as how to prepare the documentations again so maybe there's a lack of strategic advisement of the working party during the process which could have been adopted earlier and not at the final step where we are now in the situation where I only have a verbal feedback I can't even reach out to the EXCO members because I don't know what is written in the recommendations and the meeting was already more than four weeks ago the next EXCO meeting is coming up and we have to prepare this meeting so when we hear about the bureaucratical burden this is a burden right now for us to handle it so I would suggest that this process is improved by all the things we just seen but also that the NGOs working party or the respective working parties taking their position and also going with us through the process and not being at the beginning and at the end maybe critical comments should be in the first meeting and not in the last meeting where we can't add anything anymore to the strategic work plan that's my call thank you very much, I now have HPT thanks first of all I would like to support my colleague from ETS said us that the midterm report that is of high relevance and who even extend it to a midterm evaluation we did it before the last request for extension and it was very helpful as a preparation tool for the request for extension and on the other hand I think the strategic work plan that is the most important leading document to operate the TCP and we have always to be aware what is written in this strategic work plan we have to reflect what is going on around us and if you have to adapt it yes or no and when it comes to evaluation of new proposals, new projects then I think the strategic work plan that's a document that you have to reflect to but I'm a little bit missing in this regard is what is the strategic work plan of our company so I guess we are just the department of the company so what is the strategic work plan of maybe the end user or is it the search that is clear in which direction and what adaption, what evaluation you see usually we have very good help from the IEA desk officers to support us in the evaluation with new information what is going on what is of relevance to adapt the strategic work plan thanks thank you any other views, thoughts everyone else is happy with the request for extension process I see Bioenergy TCP thank you maybe one concrete suggestion would be in relation to the five years the duration of the term because ideally I mean every TCP works a bit differently but ideally you would have one or two planning cycles for the TCP fit under the same term which provides certainty and it's also a way to ensure that those programs of work for the tasks and with the TCP as a whole are a way and a means to implement the strategic plan and the related objectives so as of now with five years, five years is way too long for a program of work no government would commit to five years of work especially in a task and but two and a half years it's not really administratively feasible because you need either two years, three years so if you had an even number, if it was four or six it would be much easier to have then because when we do then our planning for the triennium so some TCPs I think two years we have three years we always say subject to renewal of the TCP term we never quite can align and refer in the plans to the strategic objectives because then they will change and so if you had either four years or six years it would be easier to have programs of work either two or three years and they can again have two fit under the same cycle under the same within the same term, thank you thanks a lot thanks Timo we find the process echoing what others have said very useful and it works well for us just one suggestion I have on the criteria that might be a bit cheeky but it talks about the alignment of the TCPs with the IEA ministerial mandates but of course the ministerial mandates should lean on the TCP analysis and results in determining and defining their mandate so it's again I see these processes as iterative and I think that can be sometimes lost in how we articulate them because of course we report and should and get useful advice but when it's expressed just in that way it kind of misses that flow of information analysis in the other direction that's good thank you sounds good any other views we'll probably be able to react to some but I'm hearing if I'm understanding correctly a bit of mixed views on the midterm review I mean is that a question of the working party everyone is working with or is it are there other points I wonder yeah wind again I understand that so again back to the annual briefs is that only something we do in the group and other working parties don't have that I do not understand so yes we can take the same brief and put it a different format but information should be available already if I'm understanding this correctly then it's group specific to and so that might be one of the reasons in that case I can't see is that you Dennis thank you so I have to confess that the process is not entirely clear to me how this information flows from the TCP's to the and I'm also unclear as to what information is supposed to get had our way so maybe some kind of standardization of what our expectations are I think that's something that is on us to communicate down like what do we need to know about your work in order to give you a proper assessment of the request is worthwhile endeavor that we could take up between now and March just as a suggestion thanks make sense there are no further comments maybe Pedro you want to react to some of the points that we raised thanks thanks a lot and I don't hesitate to come after the meeting as well of course and what we will do is take this feedback also other feedback we have received and within the next week start looking at the process from now until up to the March meeting and looking at the documents closely to see how some of these top-down criteria etc that now cert has put on the table can be integrated in a proper way without of course adding that means to burden but rather helping the guidance and expectations from cert on the question or the comment about the annual briefing I think yeah who reads this I mean this goes through the working parties and we have provided this information as well to cert but that was one of the reasons why we wanted to have the discussion yesterday as well on communication that there is something here that UTCPs do a very good job on putting this information together yes we have slightly different procedures from the different working parties something to take a look at but we from the secret I mean want to do two things one of course is to see how we can use the delegates hub or any communication with the certain working party delegates also remind them that this information that we do store is always available on the on the delegates hub but then the second question is which we discussed yesterday which is also okay what information are cert government officials asking for so that's why we will take a look as well on the annual the template for the annual briefings we haven't started sorry we haven't started that process yet so I can't say too much about it here now but if we might come back to this as well and consult with the TCP's because of course on one hand won't tell something that's useful for the government officials that's supposed to read it but also we want to make sure that the information we're asking for is also something that could be easily provided on the midterm review add a comment on that I think it was good to hear different views on that in this group as well I think we take another thought about that we will speak with our colleagues Paolo Frankel and others on the operation for in Roup I think what I've heard from him but also other TCP's in Roup is that this is something that's been quite useful and to be honest I don't know exactly how this is done in practice but we'll definitely look into that as a starting point for the thinking around the midterm review and it could also be one of the reasons why the different views can also be with the experience with the working party but I can also assume it has something to do with the size of the TCP so for a smaller TCP maybe it's more difficult to have it well for large TCP in an area where the technology is changing a lot and government priorities are changing maybe there's a greater need for having those activities but certainly we'll think more about that and to mention it as well at the beginning it's when you start it at the start of the review process you are a bit you know what I shouldn't say where it's going but at least it's very hard to maybe come in with the feedback or ask the TCP to provide an update so as to think about what timing is and as for the first years as you said it could start with having just the annual briefings but then at the midterm review after that you add out a process where you ensure that you get the right expertise if it's from the working party or from another group just making sure that things are vetted in the way that they should be before they're coming up for the decision or the review by the working party or the cert to avoid situations of course where decisions feedback comes as surprises and I think that also comes back to some of your intervention Mikael as well on the process for the AFC TCP and we have now a separate discussion on that too so we'll let's continue that and making sure that the process is clear for you and also for the way you go to the members for the next meeting as well so certainly something we from the secretary follow up with any other comments reactions to what passage this storage as far as I know we don't have a midterm report than our TCP so just a reflection if I have to deliver it for me it would be more useful if my last annual report for the fourth year if that can be transferred then to some kind of midterm report that having the same content and the request for extension because then we can work during that last year because I will not start working on the request for extension two and a half years before date so just a remark thanks Bert that's a very good idea and I would encourage others if you have similar ideas because we are not having that much experience seeing this from a TCP site so it's very good for us to think about how to make sure that this process we will set up or try to set up to support you can also be as effective and useful as well so it's not about only additional reporting as to look at the reporting requirements from a full perspective over the five years to see how it can be make sure it's not double reporting or specific reporting but making sure that you have the right forms for the right times. Okay any other such creative ideas important perspectives don't think we know everything here as Padres said you are the TCP's you know the process much better than we do so yeah. I was just sort of rifling through dates trying to search exactly when our last request for extension was approved and it seems to me that our halfway point occurs literally in about three months time and I note that you said that the CERT meeting is in March but would you be expecting a halfway report from us no you're off the hook this time okay I see again maybe I have a suggestion so after the four meeting with a working party and if the strategic work plan is not in line with the working party or the recommendations that they have maybe you give the TCP a chance to adjust the strategic work plan until the end of the year or in two months because this would lower the burden of all the future work we have to do in the next meetings again because actually we want to work we have work to do but the next meetings now will focus on the revision of the strategic work plan which have been done by all the members and to align it again to the recommendation of the working party so if you have a chance within like a two or three months because the CERT meeting is in March it's already after the end of term of the TCP so it must be a written procedure so why don't give the ACT or the TCP a chance to adjust again to the recommendations of the working party and then see okay they take they took the chance of implementing the recommendations or yeah they don't take it and then it's a limited prolongation because right now I feel like I can't do anything anymore I don't have the recommendations in writing but time is running out the next X meeting is coming up a suggestion to think about it okay well noted Stefan? I would like to come back to what I mentioned before I think this midterm evaluation that is quite important for the TCP to do it or on the other hand what you can do is that this annual status report that is not just the report we have met this and this and we have done this that but that is the reflection where we stay regarding the strategy work line if you are on track in the next five years if you need already some changes whatever it's an ongoing document that we update on an annual basis where we stay and I guess that's I think that's of relevance for the third to know if the TCP's are on track or not and for this it's not relevant if we meet twice or three times a year for example and on the other hand I think if we need some feedback not on our reports but what is the strategy what is the development of the third so what is the strategy of the whole company that I have to do in my department thanks good point just the IA company will turn out when over to Simona thanks Simona I don't know how up to now works within the end-use working party but at least the procedure within the group I think it's helping the process as it was up to now which means that one year before that you have the request for extension we have a strategic discussion from the TCP's so we asked each TCP to present what's the plan and what they have done and what they would like to do in the the other five years whatever now depends on the time that we choose this is maybe helped a lot so we had discussion one year before the request for extension so this is can go through the maybe to try to help in this case what happened to you that's what we try to do if there is something that they need to fix it happened believe me it happened something that we asked to clarify or to put on track they did it so maybe this helped so we had what we call strategic discussion and that helped that's my experience within the group that does not seem to be common practice let me put it that way I don't know if I don't think that's the case everywhere but it sounds very plausible to me I mean a bit common sense because it's one year before so you have time to discuss maybe something for us to pick up throughout March that's still the old flag no Stefano I think any other thoughts ah yeah maybe one thought in the spring meeting working group we have strategic communication plan maybe we have to adjust this just presenting the notional list of activities is obviously not enough to get a feedback that is useful to finalize the strategic work plan because maybe the delegates were I don't mean it in a bad way but maybe not able to comment on the notional list of activities to see what the TCP wants to do in the next term because this is for me this case why right now the strategic work plan is not innovative enough as the sorry to jump in there that seems to be I mean of course the end use working party is quite broad and it's a remit and that might explain one of I mean would speak to what you were just saying in terms of expertise there was renewable and I mean renewables is a big space as well but probably a bit more obvious in the way it's confined I should say is a good point and it you know resonates to some of the discussions we have in the search know about the working parties etc their structure and you know what could be ways forward following this initial search review any other points it's now or never no not never you can still write us afterwards to Fatih exactly by the way my request for extension process forget the Middle East any other points Casey wants to come in he wants to explain us everything no he doesn't okay then I guess the next step is on us in a way all that home with us we'll take a closer look as we're moving forward to the next third meeting because that's the type of information that we need so we want to do something that is helpful here with this search review when it comes to the coordination groups when it comes to the request for extension process but also when it comes to the way the working parties are operating etc etc so all this is extremely valuable information for us because of course we talk to the delegates we hear many things but this sharing of experiences not what you experience in one working party versus another working party is exactly what we need to hear and what we need to know in order to discuss with assert what could be ways to improve things probably standardized best practices in a way so that it's helpful either way for the search as well as the TCP and make the whole process more useful for both sites in a way so if there's nobody else who wants to share frustrations with their request for extension or praise if you wish then we are we are coming to a very early end of the meeting Stefan has something to say very good sorry again I just want to say something positive to request for extension again so in the past I thought well that's a burden to do it but the last request for extension I learned that it's an opportunity for us to see what we do, why we do it, in which direction we do this and what is important is that to know the request for extension we do it not for the end user learning party we do it for us and it should be reflected by the ex-co-members as well and ex-co-members often they are people from the administration from certain countries and if they bring the content of the strategic plan in this specific technology in their environment and say that's the leading document where the technologies should be developed in the future then you have done a great job and for this I really am happy with this maybe we can discuss about the format etc but I think this document is very important so I am very supportive thanks excellent glad to hear that very good in that case we have reached the end of that session we have a bit more time I was just wondering I mean Amanda is now used to all my spontaneous type of things if it would make sense that we used the time that we just gained by one quick round of feedback perhaps that each of you tells us a bit spontaneously what he or she thought about the two days what was useful what was not so useful I am not talking about five minutes intervention each because then we are going to lose again the time that we just gained but the one thought that comes to your mind in a way about the last one and a half almost two days what went well what didn't go well and yeah does that make sense Amanda would you exactly what you want to see more of in future discussions if everyone agrees then I would probably focus on the TCP's here if that's okay not necessarily on the certain members if they agree with me now where do I start everyone is looking down so not to start but I have the impression that when TCP yeah voila I'm happy to start first of all I'm happy I came here and did not participate online great space for communication in the breaks what was really valuable having communication with colleagues of TCP's outside group I would never have been in contact with those colleagues or had those discussions so absolutely valuable having that meeting in person here what could have been shorter to me personally is the exercise we did on communication and all the online selection there so that half an hour would have done okay thanks I suggest we just take the round now from here thanks yeah broadly agree I think that the opportunity to again meet in person with colleagues is always very valuable and is actually one of the key requirements for I think building cross TCP collaboration I likewise felt that the communication session could have been more concise and possibly the feedback could have been more tailored to the particular circumstances of TCP's and their their challenges and identifying their audiences the one thing I would say is that if we want to make the cross TCP collaboration challenge we still need more of a focus on just the mechanics of how that works and thinking that through in detail so thank you yeah I second that this being my first universal TCP meeting and fairly new to being a vice chair as well I think this meeting as well made me much more clever on the part on how this big machine operates so thank you very much for that and really the collaboration is going to be more easy now that you've met face to face so that has great value thank you so on behalf of PVPS I really appreciated these two or maybe three days with the third committee meeting included like what has been said I think when it comes to TCP's collaborating together it's very good from a theoretic point of view but I think what really helps is personal context and I think kudos to the secretary I think that the agenda setting was on one hand very much respected time wise but it also provided for ample coffee breaks and those are very very necessary so that worked very well I noticed some thought on when and for how long to organize the next universal meeting as far as I'm concerned I think it could be next year I'm not sure if it should be two days maybe a day and a half would do as well and thank you for the comments on my right hand side I hope there will be some comments on the left hand side on the communication session that's an ongoing processes looking forward to hearing your comments thank you Hello on behalf of the technology systems TCP I'm glad that I had the chance to attend this meeting I had very fruitful conversations at the coffee breaks and lunch and I also appreciated to see the efforts of the IEA on improving communication with TCP's external and also giving some insights how we can improve our communication externally I think I will bring some good ideas to improve also our strategic plan of communication for the next years thank you thank you I've really enjoyed this last couple of days had some great conversations with people in the breaks as everybody said and I've also learned more about the workings of the IEA which is really useful and really appreciate all the efforts you've put in to organising and running this meeting a highlight for me was the breakout sessions downstairs thought they were really stimulating and I hope you get a TCP going on critical minerals thank you I think these meetings are always very valuable this is my fourth one and it's so much better on-site than online so I hope we can have that in the future and working for the ITS secretariat the communications session was very good for me since I work with communications and got some valuable input to work further yes I can just second that and say that I very much appreciate the opportunity to meet in person I think that that is very valuable and that also gives a dimension of collaboration that we aim for but in a much less informal way I would also second that I think that to meet once a year would be good but then maybe not two full days that would be a little bit too much but I think that to have a frequency because you change people and to continue dialogues I think that yearly would be nice this was my first time attending this meeting so I got a lot about the IEA insert and all the different acronyms we hear and how they relate to each other I think the highlight for me was all the conversations outside and the breakout groups and talking about collaboration across the TCP's on feedback I don't know if it's feasible or not but getting a quick overview like two to three minutes maybe five minutes from each of the TCP's to learn what they've been doing over the last year a couple years that would maybe even help foster even more collaboration by understanding what activities are going on it's not my first universal meeting I was there in 15 not as a chair it was to replace the chair no I think I want to thank you very much for the organization first because the organization was very good and of course like the others the exchange during the coffee break are very important and I think there is more time than last time for the exchange and I appreciate a lot because I have some contact with TCP I didn't know before a lot and the fact that we have some certain delegates is also very important I think to have a dialogue I will be in favor to have a meeting one meeting per year if possible and what else I think it's a very good very good thing and I appreciate a lot this meeting thank you very much and I remember one thing maybe it will be useful to have an explanation for all of us about what's happened in international initiative we need sometimes explanation about because the COP the SEM the MI a lot of things to clarify a little I know but I'm sure that there is some demand for that so maybe where IA is involved or not etc the landscape of international initiative great so thank you for the organization it has been a very good opportunity to meet everyone and it has been a very good exercise and I joined my colleague saying that we should do this yearly and let's wait for the next steps for the 100 TCP coordination group so thank you good afternoon I think this is my second in-person universal TCP meeting and I like this one much better than the previous one I attended so I thank kudos to you for that making it more interesting, more engaging not a one-way street of learning what IA is doing so I really appreciate that providing input to the breakout sessions I look forward to hearing some feedback from what you've heard in breakout sessions I'm not sure how you're going to do that I also agree with Paul in that it would be nice to have a part of the session because IA encouraged us to work with the other multilateral organizations is to have a session that includes them as well thank you I too would second the value of an in-person meeting in that regard I think the scheduling and the timing of this meeting was just about right I've heard some comments about possibly making it only a one-day meeting in the future and I would say that that is difficult for those who are traveling a long distance to justify coming for just a one-day meeting so that's my comment I agree with the previous speakers about the organization the meeting in presence the value of exchanges ideas and the time of coffee break and it's my first meeting and yes I take a lot of IA to make more communication or better communication in TCP and also to have a wider vision of the technology and possible application possible collaboration but also for everyday TCP live and the challenge is to implement all of this with the resources we have in the TCP I want to start with thank you I think I have been in several of these meetings and I think this is the best meeting and I it's because that it has been a balance between breakout session the agenda and also that everyone has said the possibility to make these contacts if I should add something because I think people have said many clever things I think to make it also efficient to continue this building relation after this meeting it would be very helpful for us if you can find the system so we can find the contacts with emails because I think it has been two very good days and very efficient day thank you so from my point of view on the micro scale I had a lot of good contacts during the breaks and the long to do list on the mid scale I think we had very fruitful breakout session and the now come at least when it comes to the collaboration groups and on the micro scale I appreciated the discussion around this big big table to learn about from the other TCP to see their point of view etc and on my wish list this probably for the next time that we learn more about we talked about strategy what is the strategy of the IEA where we stay and especially what is the strategy of SIRT to go to thanks yes from my view the GHE TCP it's been a very useful two days I think two days every couple of years but it gives us opportunity to get together it's particularly useful to get all the TCP's together to have the SIRT gets around the table and strong secretariat engagement makes it really helpful to have more useful discussions around the table the highlight from particularly from this TCP is probably the discussion on the coordination groups and the broader context in which we can operate in the future another first time we're here so thank you so much for the organization of this meeting I'm very happy that I'm also here on site and connecting with other colleagues here I must say that I'm also very pleased that more people know that the Equality TCP exists so we are here and just connect with us anytime we can and we can think about different collaborations I have learned a lot about how the IEA and different TCP's and the whole coordination works but I also really appreciate the presence of SIRT I've had really useful conversations with them during the coffee breaks especially and I think I'm leaving Paris with some really good ideas about further collaborations so I'm really thankful to you all for also being super open about talking about gender issues and what it means to your TCP's I'm also really interested about the collaboration breakout session and look forward to the feedback thank you thank you good afternoon everyone and say thank you to all of you we meet here because I think being person leave us touch us very more friendly we can see commonalities on language on things like humans as we are more than the technical work one suggestion will be maybe as all TCP's come related to innovation and technology maybe we can put a hot topic and see what the different TCP's are working for example in carbon management or one of the suggestions like everybody can talk about what they are doing so like this we start to go inside the different task forces and how we can go align it and there are some administration and management about the TCP's as most of us are the beginners first time as well here but it will be a suggestion as well to how we can build together on the technology pathway and how the technology readiness level are on the TCP's to create projects and collaboration from these type of scenarios and as well good opportunity this morning I have a question about Latin America so for me it was opportunity as well to meet at the coffee break a person who is doing the Latin America a new review that is coming soon this week so we have time to chat with the delegate or the person who is working here about the topic so it's very important to have these type of connections here when we are in the office so happy to be here happy to be part of the international agency the new collaboration programs thank you just three quick reflections for me first it echoes what I have said the in-person meetings are hugely valuable and it's the outside of agenda stuff is where we really realise as you have said in terms of the opportunities it brings the second thing is to congratulate IEA on the evolution of these universal meetings and gatherings they are going from strength to strength and I think what has come across is this additional time for coffee in discussion the coffee is not great but the time is great it's perfect and probably because it's great it's not great it kind of gets more conversation going so it's perfect the breakout sessions were a particular innovation in this one that was very welcome the meeting of certs because the first one we had we didn't have certs I think it was from the second one on and one of them I think we did have the MI and an input from MI and SEM and I think that's a good recommendation to maybe reintroduce that and essentially the final point is just to keep that sense of thinking in terms of innovation obviously not for the sake of it the bits that are working very well keep them but introducing new things I think each time is beneficial and it's good to try these things out, thank you first of all congratulations I know it's not easy to have fruitful meetings with so many people you succeeded so thanks for that it was my first time so I can not compare with the previous one but I really wanted to be here in person and I don't regret it I wanted to meet people of course I had the opportunity to do I even now met the cert delegate from Belgium so I'm very happy for that so now for me it was a quite good also the breakouts that was a nice thing to talk to everyone so thanks good afternoon and thank you very much IA it was really very nice two days I have been in this TCP universal the first one 2015 I think and this is my second time and I can say that it is much much better and it's also so valuable to have the cert delegates but why is it much better I think it's because IA is looking at TCP has evolved during that time very much so and you call it TCP modernization I think and it's modernization and also giving the feeling of working together like being around the table together but also working together like this Fertone TCP coordination groups is something I hope will show that in the future and also the coffee was not great but the cookies were great and the food was great thank you so much first of all I'd like to thank you for great meeting I used the word very balanced which is very very important if you have these great meetings this should be balanced in time that you can talk to colleagues and you also have the breakout rooms which are new methods in order to get people to collaborate so thank you for that one thing though I would suggest it was suggested that we might have only one day meetings I would not suggest this because then the balance would be ruined because everything has to be crammed into to one session and second of all I'm not that positive about having them every year because we are stressed on resources already now and maybe it could be difficult to have it every year in order to obtain new resources and work within the different TCOs but in general thank you very much yeah I'm running out of things to say actually because I agree with the positive sentiments that have been expressed I think it's been a super meeting and thank you very much for it I agree it's been great to have both the CERT members and TCPs here actually any one suggestion I would make I was kind of running under the TCP coordination group positions downstairs so I didn't really get a chance to look at the others so I wonder if we do it again maybe it would be valuable to have a plenary where people sort of report back briefly on what's taking place other than that so all the sessions were really good thank you first of all I would like to thank the organization for the excellent organization for the opportunity to meet in person and this is my first time I am Italian delegate for the combustion TCP just for one year so my feeling is really good and it was a really interesting meeting and in particular I would like to underline the discussion of the possible solutions in order to improve the communication between the TCP CERT and the working parties so thanks again for all okay thanks for organizing the meeting first I enjoyed it very much I would like to second the idea of keeping it a two day meeting those of us who get on a nine hour flight to get here or ten hours it's nice to have a little longer than a day I want to second the idea of getting a global strategic overview from the IEA and your view of how the headwinds and tailwinds are changing and maybe how we couldn't use that view and information to impact our own programs that would be helpful to us I really appreciated as well all of the meeting breaks but it would be helpful to have an introduction like almost a speed dating lightning round one minute per TCP on the first day to say what do you do I had no idea what users did for example what do you do what are your objectives what are some of your key projects and that would be very helpful and it would stimulate the networking so thank you yes I also appreciate very much these meetings for two reasons one thing or one reason is the meeting of people from TCPs chairs and the third members and also IEA I just missed our desk officer there was a change and I missed her there would be nice opportunity to meet her in person and the second reason why I appreciate it was to have this exchange to link to new persons we are new TCPs link to persons on one hand side in the coffee breaks but also in these interactive sections because then he can understand a little bit more what TCPs are thinking which way of thinking is in TCP which culture is in behind and I think that was very impressive and good to learn besides the outcomes of these sessions just one impression maybe I'm allowed to say that because I'm new when there was a process on the formats and improving the formats within the IEA structure I'm somehow wondering why do I do a step back and think about the demand Fatih Birol told about acceleration we need to speed up we have a lot of expertise in this group and my impression was we'll stick a little bit too much maybe on existing formats and to improve existing formats maybe a step back thinking about what are demands to utilize the existing expertise here and then talk about the formats and that would be my impression that would have been helpful for the next time maybe. Thanks and very thanks for organizations very great. Good idea totally agree with you but I'm also from CITIS a brand new TCP what was my first time here in this universal meeting and thank you and I like to talk with almost all of you and to get to know each other and also the breakout sessions I think were very wordful thank you well seconding a lot of the things that were that were said including relation to the quality of the coffee and thanks for a very well organized meeting I think the agenda was well structured and the two days helped with that so compressing any one day maybe wouldn't have allowed for so much interaction also during the breaks I found the discussions during the coordination groups and the brainstorming of the coordination groups very very useful maybe a couple of suggestions would be to not only to allow as was already said each TCP to really forcing them to one slide or maximum to maybe with the help of a graphic designer in that case but also maybe to have your colleagues from the SAM and MI give a presentation on initiatives and campaigns that are of relevance to these topics because there are a lot and there are a lot of overlaps and possible synergies so that would be beautiful and maybe in terms of frequency of these meetings maybe once a year would be too much but I wonder whether there is a chance to use some of the working party meetings that chairs and representatives from the TCPs attend to give presentations maybe a half day back to back those meetings allowing the TCPs or for instance the coordination groups to meet and discuss things and finally a word of appreciation for your effort to kind of streamline a little bit the TCP framework and also to help the TCPs systematize and better disseminate their work because I think again there's a lot of wealth of information that is produced by the TCPs that could be better channeled to the to the higher level so thank you. I'll be quick being from the same TCP so as a vice chair this is a very valuable exercise and it was my second all TCP meeting and would echo what others have said about the interactivity and the program being more useful to myself really good opportunity to get an oversight of what the broader TCP network looks like and how we can improve what we do in our TCP from experiences from others and certainly feel much more better placed to explore inner TCP collaboration moving forward. Yeah also thanks for organizing this fruitful meeting I think the coffee was okay but guys the view is amazing and I'm sorry for you sir delegates because behind you is the Eiffel tower so I don't know if you saw it but yeah the balance of the agenda is I think this is one of the best meeting I've ever been to in the IA so the balance of the agenda between the topics the breakout sessions and the coffee breaks are very useful I never had so many conversations and I did so much networking during the last two days which I couldn't have done in a digital meeting so I'm very so for everyone that is taking part here via Zoom so please consider coming in person next time and I also think that a two-day meeting is necessary one and a half maybe if you want to break it down because if you have a full day meeting I mean we are all not going home the same day so the next day is a travel day so you can also spend a half day here with regard to the introduction of the TCPs I would not suggest to have a one-minute presentation of every TCP because it always takes longer than this and then a half a day is gone and maybe we can share posters on the wall with three main subjects and a picture of the secretariat or the chair that is available during the TCP meeting to give every TCP or every third delegate the opportunity to look at the poster and inform themselves about the TCP you don't have to do this in this broader session I think that's too much time that we're losing so I'm the last one so thank you very much this is my first universal meeting representing the TCP I think that everything I heard all the comments and I agree with everybody so I really appreciate that this was not a passive meeting but a really active so we really were asked to also to think and to discuss also in front of a white wall I think that this is very important I really appreciate that it's very very valid also for us so we can keep this idea I have a comment also for me this is the best meeting because the first one so I can compare next time so I can say that my suggestion is to try to be more flexible within the working party try to analyse really what we are doing if it's really needed if it's something should be updated move from a working party to another one and I think that only I can have this kind of view from high level that we don't have and I think that it's needed in person meeting and also I agree with the comment to have poster of all the TCPs or we can not give the possibility to all the chairs representing because otherwise we can stay here more than one day thank you very much many thanks for all this great feedback and before passing on to Amanda perhaps given the really anonymous positive feedback on the organisation of this meeting that we just thank the team the organising team here Per, Lotte, Anna Charlotte, Mao and Caroline who did put together this together with KC this excellent two days for giving them a hand then back to you Amanda all right so I won't be too long that was a really great idea Teamwork may I say to do the round and hear feedback and not just because it was so positive I'm glad that overall there seems to be consensus that there was value in this meeting and in coming here in person I know it can be a long trip for some of us and it's always nice to know that it's worth it. I think the feedback on the things that worked well has been noted particularly incorporating in the breakout sessions ample time for networking and I think we've also noted here some of the suggestions that you've had for how we can make it even better the next time around so I'm not going to belabor this other than to say we'll talk here with me, with the Secretariat and CERT members around what the next steps are I heard you loud and clear Carol on wanting you know I think it makes sense to provide some sort of readout on what was heard and what is going to be done with that information certainly as we continue along through the next steps of the CERT review it will only work if we have your continued engagement and support and if you continue to provide us with input and feedback because you know what it is that you do you need to help us continue to understand what that is clearly so that we can communicate that up and beyond to support you do your work even better and with even more impact than you do now so thank you all for coming here it's been a pleasure to spend the past couple of days with you the past three days with my remaining CERT colleagues and I echo the thanks to the IEA Secretariat for putting this meeting on so thank you, safe travels home if you need to travel to get there and I look forward to connecting with you all again soon thank you so yeah just before closing just to add my thanks to all of you you know that's okay but Per told me I have to say a couple of things so it's not you know I have this secret chat here that pops up with windows and Timor don't forget to say this and that just to say really big thanks again for all the valuable recommendations you've given us all the useful ideas we got from you also with a view to the IEA ministerial meeting the great discussions we had around the TCP coordination group the engagement that all of you showed I heard of course I would say 80% view that this should be an annual meeting I can't promise this at this point what our intention is is to see how the ministerial meeting goes the energy innovation forum how that goes this is our plan for the next couple of months of course we want to see where the third review lands in March and the next third meeting and then hopefully we can come forward with yeah a great plan on our end we will send a follow-up email with next steps the highlights from the TCP universal meeting the TCP coordination group with information on who are the leads who are the IEA contact points etc and a survey and yeah I hope that this meeting was not only useful for you but also showed that what the ED said the executive director said earlier today is actually really what we all believe that we put a lot of value we place a lot of value in all of you the TCP network to the extent that we give you the prime places and with a view to the Eiffel tower and not our member governments also don't prove on the coffee I'm very sorry for that I went to the coffee bar so anyway see you soon next time I bring coffee for Colombia for everyone

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Al Burgio, DigitalBits.io | Blockchain Unbound 2018

Al Burgio, Founder, DigitalBits.io, sits down with John Furrier at Blockchain Unbound 2018 #BlockChainUnbound #theCUBE @siliconangle @Paymium

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Live from San Juan, Puerto Rico, it's theCUBE. Covering Blockchain Unbound, brought to you by Blockchain Industries. Okay, welcome back everyone live here at theCUBE in Puerto Rico for our extended coverage, exclusive coverage, two days, wall to wall, I'm John Furrier, the co-host of theCUBE, co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media Inc. We're here at Albergio, founder of DigitalBits.io. Two days out, we're just rocking here in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. Great to see you. Thanks for having me guys. CUBE alumni, you're like my wingman on the crypto. We both were at Polycon 18. You were the only CUBE alumni there, first show in crypto as we start our tour. Now we have a mass, probably like 40 interviews. So now we have 40 new CUBE alumni's, but a great community growing. A new level of interesting dynamics I want to get your reaction to. In any wave, there's always a start. Entrepreneurs make things happen, then the promoters. The promoters and the entrepreneurs cheerlead each other. They cheerlead, but it gets up to the point where there's a lot of growth. And then the next level is a new set of stakeholders, investors, global players, new stakeholders, governments, it's happening now. For me, this is the moment I start to see the ecosystem going to that next level. Blockchain unbound the event we're here in Puerto Rico is a combination of developer conference, industry conference, investor conference, economic world forum rolled into one. So it's kind of a unique thing. You've been doing a lot of presentations. You're a sponsor here, even though you're a startup. A lot of conversations. Do you agree with that? Your thoughts, your reaction? Yeah, there's definitely, the topics throughout the presentations, both yesterday and today, we've covered all those areas that you've discussed. With, in addition to that, I would say, there's a focus on Puerto Rico itself. I mean, this particular event that we chose to sponsor, which, you know, I'd like to point out that everyone is promoting our logo simply by wearing the lanyard for the event. But your product's not even out yet. No, we actually, we had an announcement this week. So we issued a press release, basically articulating for everyone to understand the vision for our blockchain, and also announcing that it's going to be launched on Monday. So we're really excited about that. The team's been working really hard over the past, you know, number of months working away. And we have more exciting news that obviously will be coming out very shortly in terms of what we've done and so forth. But our actual blockchain network is going live on Monday. I noticed Lottery's also a sponsor. They had a hot deal, you have a hot deal. Your product's not out yet. It's coming out on Monday. You have an announcement. What is the product? The digital bits. It's an open source project. Yeah, so what's it going to end up doing? Blockchain infrastructure protocol. It's our own blockchain network that we've launched. But anybody can tokenize on this blockchain. However, the specific vision for our project is to support the loyalty and rewards industry. We see a huge, I mean, a third of points every year that it gets you go on redeemed. In the United States alone there's over $100 billion in perceived value points sitting on the balance sheets of these issuers from retailers, airlines, so on and so forth. It's a huge liquidity issue. That number grows every year. And so that's 1.0. And blockchain has the opportunity to bring loyalty rewards, obviously many other things, into 2.0 and change that game a bit and eliminate tremendous amount of friction and challenges that traditionally have been experienced by consumers, businesses, and so forth in the space. And so on our blockchain, businesses, whether it's their existing loyalty program or new loyalty program, can tokenize that program on our blockchain. And so we're not ourselves operating loyalty program, but we are very much supporting that industry. And in addition to that, these various points that are tokenized on our blockchain consumers could trade points A for points B and so on. That's awesome. Also Al, you've been also active in the community here in Puerto Rico. I've noticed that you've been involved in a lot of activities here on site. Puerto Rico, since the hurricane, sideways, big problems, aid, now getting back on its feet. This community has been doing a lot of stuff. You've been very active in that. What's going on? Explain to the people, what is the vibe in Puerto Rico? Is it rebounding? Is it rebounded? Rebounding coming back, the roll of tech, the tax breaks. There's a lot of things going on here. And there's a number of events, obviously, this week and going into early next week under this theme called Restart Week. What we've all learned is that there's still a lot of parts of this island without power and so forth. What's really great, I think, about this event, among other things, is that all of the proceeds from this event, so it's a nonprofit, go to the people of Puerto Rico. And beyond that, there is a community here, whether it's early in the morning, for the course of the day and so forth, they've arranged initiatives and what have you to do things here to help get back. And I don't think it's just isolated this week. There's obviously been a lot of news in terms of things that have been happening, leading up to now and things happening in the future. Blockchain and the Blockchain community, cryptocurrency communities and so forth, are really focused on wanting to help this island. And I think it's a wonderful island. I mean, it's my first visit here, but it's not hard to fall in love with Puerto Rico. Well, theCUBE has landed here for two days. We're wrapping up, two days of coverage. What's your observation in the hallways? I hear a lot of things happening. I heard one VC, or investor, not VC, but now token investor, seven deals, MOUs, a lot of smart people here. So the block tower guy earlier, I see all the legacy, whales are here. So the entrepreneurs are here, a lot of money flowing around. You know, so there's obviously a lot of news in terms of how regulation is evolving, some jurisdictions faster than others in terms of the introduction of clarity and what have you. But that clearly doesn't appear to be stopping the enthusiasm in Blockchain. I mean, and it's just further validation in terms of how powerful this technology really is and will continue to find its way into society and so forth. I think people have faith that in some of these jurisdictions that aren't necessarily moving as quickly, that they'll get there. And so, you know, as a result of that, people just continue to stay in the game because it's great to be early. So I got to ask you about the, just overall activities, on-site, off-site, coin agendas around the corner tomorrow. Yes, we're sponsored there as well, by the way. Well, you're flush with cash. Why sponsoring, just curious. So, because you're a startup, you don't have a product yet. No, that's right, but you funded the company. Yes, yeah. And so we're getting our brand out there now. We're coming out of stealth mode. This was the first event that we chose to sponsor. Coin Agenda obviously being the second. And so, very important, we want to let consumers, businesses, the community know what we're doing with blockchain. And we have, again, of course, in the next few weeks, traditional announcements we'll be making in terms of the great people that are involved, great partners, and so forth. So we're really excited to get that out in the open. And, you know, at the end of the day, when you build a product, marketing is important. All right, and so this is a great community to support. Proceeds are going to this particular event. Proceeds go to a great cause, and a lot of great people here. So, you know, among the people on the planet that we would love to have know what we were up to, and so that's why we made the decision. So, you're doing an ICO. We're not doing an ICO. You're not doing an ICO, okay. What are you doing? So we have a lot of interest, obviously, in our project. And, you know, we basically are taking alternative, compliant approach to this, and we'll be announcing that, obviously, at some point in the future, but we're not doing an ICO. I was saying, well said, legal statement. Yeah, I practiced that one. You practiced that one? I'll try to knock you off your game. Okay, we'll go back and rephrase the question. So, how are you financing this? So, the great thing is that we've done nothing crypto in terms of creating, you know, having capital to build this. So... Meaning your own capital? Yeah, we had our own capital. So, Digital Bits was born in a company called Fuse Chain. So, Fuse Chain raised traditional equity to go do what it wanted to do. And among those things was to give birth to this open source project called the Digital Bits Project. And so, you know, we didn't need to prematurely create a token just for the sake of having a funding event so we would have capital to build this. We did not need to do anything crypto-related to be able to have capital to build our blockchain. But now you are doing crypto-related. Well, so, what's happening with us is that, again, the network goes live on Monday. We'll be clearly demonstrating for the market the utility and, you know, organically you'll see use of what we've done. And obviously during stealth mode, we've evangelized with key partners or prospective partners at the time. Who's going to be on your launch? Who's going to be using your chain? So, it will be obviously businesses that are looking to tokenize. But in addition to that... But you have names. We have names. You know, unfortunately, I can't say who they are at this time. Are you going to announce them on Monday? We will be announcing in the future. Yeah, so not on Monday. Okay. On Monday. We will be announcing the launch. We'll announce who are amongst the new additions to the team as well on Monday. Following the launch, we'll announce who some of the partners are as well. Well, rumor has it you got a hot deal. I can tell by your body language, you're trying not to reveal it. What's been the reaction for this project? It's been phenomenal. I mean, it's, you know, obviously as an entrepreneur to see a vision become a reality and for others to share that enthusiasm is, you know, it's humbling. And so, but, you know, we're very focused. We know it's still... You know, that's a saying that I like. You know, in the early days, it's not necessarily the time to, you know, crack open the champagne. You still have to demonstrate product market fit. You have to help build a market in our particular case. And so there's a lot of hard work. Launching is a start line, not the finished line. It's only a step along the whole process. So a lot more steps ahead, but we're very focused. We know, we believe we know what we need to do and it's going to be a phenomenal year for us. All right, what's the coolest thing you heard this week and the weirdest thing you heard this week? No comment. No comment. No comment was the weirdest thing you heard. Okay, we know there's some weird things going on. Now, CUBE alumni, wingman on the crypto for theCUBE. Great to see you, great to have you back on. Thank you very much, John. Good stuff. Albergio, entrepreneur, founder of digitalbits.io. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. More coverage here in Puerto Rico, blockchain unbound after this short break.

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KEVIN GATES: MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 257

Kevin Gates is back on MDWOG to share more wisdom with the people! Kevin Gates is a rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the founder of Bread Winners' Association, a record label and management company. He has released four studio albums, including his latest, The Ceremony, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. His raw and honest lyrics, his versatile flow, and his spiritual journey has contributed to his mass appeal and a cult fanbase. Join us and get to know the one and only, Kevin Gates.

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Million dollars worth of game we love all our supporters out there for rockin with us for so many years We got everything going on review like gillion sports wears while low adventures, whatever it is what you need to do right now I need you to push the subscribe button, but also share like go down below get some merch Share like get some merch subscribe. We got more to come subscribe right now. Million dollars worth of game You're now tuned into me me me me me me me me me me me me Million dollars worth of game. We got a brother on here today. Kevin Gates, man It's going down man new album coming out just in great spirit out here doing some good stuff, man. How you feeling brother? I feel good What's been going on? How you been how you been living man? Um, I just had a listening party. Okay. I'm still kind of speechless from the listening party because they surprised me Okay, and um I guess when you come from not being celebrated When somebody do try to celebrate you you shun it So this is my first time allowing myself to be celebrated And it was it was beautiful like I was surrounded by the people that really love me for real And that that appreciate my growth and that support my growth and Just they salute my transition. It was it was beautiful It got emotional for me because I ain't never had experience that kind of love and then Like the gifts that I have received like I had somebody give me something that was That words can't describe. So it was It was beautiful Did you think you was going to be here today meaning? Not not on the interview not on that, you know coming out of Louisiana Coming up in the struggle the streets the ups and downs of everything that we go through in the hood Did you think you'll be here today? No, sir Okay No, I had accepted it. I was just gonna run the money up and I kind of took a gladiator approach Which in our lives we kind of look at it as heroic in nature Because y'all just live off the money of it and I'm gonna sacrifice myself Either I'm gonna die do a life sentence Because it's not really that many options coming from where we come from And I ain't just speaking of louisa. I'm speaking of Impivished environments When you come up out of poverty, that's And that's a beautiful thing and I had to overcome survivor's guilt also Because you want to take everybody with you And sometimes you feel like you only as good as your ability your ability to provide or your ability to do especially being a man Like Sometimes you feel guilty even doing something for yourself When reality is everybody can't go man Somebody's gonna have to get thrown off the ship and um, it's painful because You know, you sit in prison I'm like we both sit in prison and you had these ideas of who you want to become and when that the light come on in yourself You say i'm done with this You know, you you be like, you know what? I'm done all eating off these trees. I'm done sleeping in the cell This hard-ass bunk. I'm done having to call my peoples and can't be there for them And your light come on you say when I go home It's on I'ma turn it up You do that, but sometimes it's not enough for everybody And you know, uh Me personally, you know, because I know you them with everybody to see success go to it come to a part where it'd be like You can't even celebrate you without somebody asking for something No You can't even celebrate you and the people that you might love or the people that might be on your team That's really putting the work in you want to see how somebody you love really feel about you Tell them no I know Tell them no, that's that's gonna bring it out of my that's like spitting this in my face. We from You know, it's equivalent to that So, you know, you get the success and it just be like damn like they'll kill you About no They'll kill you Y'all stay well and it's not that it's not when they look at you They're not looking at you seeing everything you went through and what you became when they look at you They see everything that they're not Hmm when I look at you I see everything that I'm not Everything that I'm not I don't have nothing to live for nothing to lose and if you tell me no, it's like it's like because It's because it's like if if I know you If you if you know me you owe me Titan If you know me you owe me and because I look at you and see that you everything that I'm not I kill you They start looking at everything that you got as well though I kill you so they say like man He could give me that that ain't nothing to him Oh, they count in your pocket. Yeah, they owe what they what they I deal with that a lot too And it's the point of you know getting you out the way are you falling? I don't have to be accountability for my lack of or my lack of discipline or my lack of hustle Or you know or my lack of accountability. See that accountability It's deep It's extremely deep, you know, so it'll be just that and it's in the sad man You know, it's real sad because sometimes we gotta let go of people that we really love and we thought loved us You know, that's what's so deep about it. You know Yeah, when'd you become the workout junkie man? You be going in I worked out before I came here You be going you just showed me some or I gotta start learning how to breathe That's my drug of choice because It made me feel good it made me cognitive before I go do anything and It it allowed me to raise my frequency Like I got a frequency chart on my phone and it showed like the different levels of frequency that you operate not of Like on on my frequency chart desire is a lower frequency than anger Like we was just talking about wanting what somebody else have desire That's a vibrating at a lower frequency than even anger even getting mad And every day I get up and I raise my frequency because it makes me feel good Because I used to do drugs. I used to drink lean. I used to smoke. We used to do those things But I don't believe in rehab rehab is for quarters. I don't do rehab. I just replace those habits with healthier habits And how was it? How was it hard? Was it hard for you to kick that or was No, you just you know, who made me? Um Who made me really stop drinking sir? Oh, I ain't never told nobody this It's my first time saying is Gucci man. Shout out to Gucci He told me Kevin if you think about it, there ain't nothing but cough, sir That's what he told me. He looked Gucci man made me stop drinking sir. And I say you right You said I'm addicted to knife will That's that's who that's who made me stop drinking sir, which I was in the studio just No, I used to call him every morning. I used to be like a morning CEO here. Be like a morning CEO and And I used to we used to like share like health tips with each other But he was already together, you know, I'm saying he had already been on his fitness journey before me So he was like, I don't drink sir. I don't do none of that. No more. I was like, all right He said if you think about it, it ain't nothing but cough, sir. Damn. And I was like, damn You right Let me ask you a question because because you know Like your whole aura is that you know, you always been a confident You always been a new who knew who you was. Did the weightlifting journey add any confidence to your I'm through the roof now, but I'm still kind of shy when I get on stage Like the first two three songs I'll be kind of shy and I think it's beautiful because if I look at them I look at myself. I'll be like He vulnerable and other people see it too And I get on like before I sing my first song I'll be like, y'all give me a minute. Let me gather myself I'm so nervous because I'll be nervous And it's not nervous how to feel it's just nervous because I care. I don't want to make a mistake I want whatever I deliver you to be perfect. Right. So I'll be kind of nervous a little bit Now I ask that because you know from a person From the outside looking in there. Look at somebody like you and be like Feel like, you know, you always had all the confidence you always Just getting in shape. I ain't do nothing for your confidence. It just just got you in shape But they all know that you're human too. You got you you got all ripped up on them and now you're coming I'm gonna be honest I see when I walk in the room, it's a different type of confidence. Yeah, it's a different type of level of self-respect because I know I did what other people didn't do before I walked in the room You know, I honor the commitments that I made to myself And discipline and self-restraint equal self-respect and self-respect equal self-confidence So if I don't work out and I walk in the room, I'ma feel a little off Because I didn't honor the commitments I made to myself But when I honor the commitments I made to myself, I'm confident I'm through the roof because I did what I was supposed to do How long it took you before you got addicted to it? Uh So I know it first when you started off it was like I have my legs My arms that should be killing you No, I was I had a I had a frustration I was angry when I went in there because I don't know if you ever heard me tell you when I was fat and I had titties I was holding that baby and that baby was trying to suck my titties and everybody laughed at me Okay, I needed that and when they laughed at me. I was able to be naked They saw I was able to I was able for I couldn't have I couldn't have behind the Fuck working out, but I'm trap house sexy I'm on the block sexy Or I used to walk in the room and point out everybody else flaws So couldn't nobody see me. I fucked you up Man when everybody because you know Especially when you're a gangster, you know when everybody laugh and they trying to like Secretly laugh, but you seeing everything and they peeped at you like oh, and then I'm like man He'll take the back the one I said take the baby everybody bust all laughing like And I felt so small. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah I was like I can't secretly laugh. No, but see this the twist though. This the thing I needed that though. Yeah, but you know in our culture, it's a monster. They touch it to a buster That day the baby tried to suck a titties 32 In our in our culture We're tort My bad, right? He begging me laugh You know how you be in the class and he making me laugh. I ain't trying to laugh. He begging me laugh No So what's crazy is that One of in the ghetto We're taught not to feel we we we taught the you know, we dehumanize ourselves by not feeling not being trans not being vulnerable When did you get to the stage? We you know to the point of I'ma just be me I'm express how I'm feeling wherever I'm hurt wherever I'm sad because you you you put that out there You know and we see you always doing that. When did you become comfortable with? 2020 I think it was 2022 Like right before I had did uh, when we was in Puerto Rico 2021 2021 That's when I made the song fairytale and I talked about what I had been through And I think I cried after I did the song my my manager who is not my manager was my engineer After I made that song I cried for like Maybe two weeks straight just uncontrollably in front of everybody and Then I went on the Mike Tyson interview and I talked about what I had been through and kind of fine And I love my shout out to Mike Tyson. I love that bro And then kind of find out he had been through the same thing I had been through when he was like this will turn me into a monster and then I noticed when I started going to gyms after that interview People just walk up to me and hug me and tell me thank you for your transparency Like I've been like so many men walk up and say I've been through the same thing. This was this would turn me into a monster and I was like It really do take more courage to be vulnerable than it do to walk around being a tough guy because we can all see Through the tougher side that you're really hurting on the inside. Yeah, you're really hurting Really need to stop pretending like we all can see you And I noticed that once I let the world really see me like People had a greater level of love and respect and admiration for me And I say that's one of the only things I ever really wanted as an artist To be appreciated in my entirety and not just you rap good. You sing good. You make good songs, but Like people love me more than my music now and that's a beautiful thing and is I'm helping other people here by helping myself here That's what the album was really about the ceremony It was about reconnecting with myself because nothing external adds value And I did learn to love again the stranger that was once myself Because it started I could I had to go back to when I was in my childhood Like if I wanted the girl I had to get the money in the car You know, why did you want to money? I told everybody how long I ever wanted was money A car a girlfriend and a gun Because that's what the dude that had the pretty girl had I never saw his house I don't even know if he got a house. I just want the money the car a girlfriend and a gun And that's what we see when we're younger And it's always something external once I get this I'm gonna go to I'm gonna attract this Once I do this to myself. I'm gonna go to this level and once I do this I'm gonna go to that level as I was external things But those things don't have value It's what's internal. It's what has value and that's why I'm mad with it right now How did you get to the point of You know when we from the ghetto, you know people pop some stuff or they say something we don't like we want to fuck them up We want to go right at it. We want to be aggressive when the deer, you know, you was able to transform and say, you know what it ain't that deep Like I got to see above this situation I had to realize what what what was I operating from I'm operating out of fear I come in jail. We fight till the police come break it up Because you ain't gonna let this man recover for fear of him recovering and getting the upper hand How come in the streets if When when when fighting was out to wonder how come I'm up when I put it on him. I'm gonna make sure I dog him. I'm gonna do him dirty Why because you have a fear of him shaking shaking back and getting his leg back. All that's fear We operate out of fear Like that's just That's how I was operating out of fear. I wasn't operating out of love now when I look at somebody I could see myself in that person. I could see different versions of myself. So I'm not threatened by Nobody really to be honest with you because I look at them with love It's it's just It's just different. It's the level that we operate out of like I know this we can go stand in the trenches right now As soon as we see some people we don't know our face gonna get straight stiff Because we just trying to be that way We trying to be that way and it's kind of it's kind of like with us You know where we go everywhere, you know what I mean? I was just at the mgm in detroit and all all the niggas in the casino saying me killing in here He ain't got no security with him and respect respect respect. I mean I mean with respect You don't never have no security with you. I leave with respect So if I'm leaving with respect then what we talking about And then I only fear god So if something I gotta go down then it gotta go down, but I don't leave with disrespect. I leave with respect. I'm a respectful So so most of the times when you're not scary And you're respectful Motherfucker, I'm gonna show you the same respect that you're giving out Welcome to another episode of million dollars worth of games in this spotlight. Listen right here This is what we highlight people that's giving you information So you get up off their couch So you get up off your ass you can stop playing games because a lot of people is out here playing games They're blaming the man they blame the society they're blaming a x they blame it everybody except they self They're not looking in the mirror stop lying in the mirror when you're gonna stop lying in the mirror and start getting your blessings Because today blessing gonna give you some blessings Yeah, I'm talking to you right here. I'm talking to the person right here. You keep playing games Get up off your ass and get this game middle room warrior Yeah, all in your middle all in your mama middle room today We're gonna take you out of the middle room and we're gonna connect you with the middle man Because you're gonna connect you with some game. I'm talking about what blessings gonna do here today She's gonna give you a free ebook from the rip You ain't never got to talk to again. You ain't never got to do nothing. All you want to do is text her She's gonna get your free. You ain't got to spend no money with it. You ain't got to say nothing to it You understand you would take the information give it to somebody else do whatever you want to do with it Listen, I'm talking about some real life blessings the day is your day to get some blessings If you want some blessing from blessing, that's the game. You know, I mean we talking about today Wait hold on. Don't say that's something that sounds a little different. You know niggas is freaky man I ain't got I ain't worry about it You tell me you want some blessings from blessings Yeah, but it's you bend over you did like she ready give up some blessings You know, I mean, so we talking about blessing McCoy Thompson and listen what's important today is She's going to take you from being a middle room warrior and give you the game of how she's doing some middleman working You could be a middleman to get some game too. And what you need to do first I'm telling you first is all you need to do is text middleman at 833-232-9941-833-232-9941 And she's going to give you the free how to make 10k in 30 days with accident referrals What you're doing all you're doing is like for instance like Every day I deal with him. He's just an accident waiting to happen I could make money off him every day referring him to a loyal weapon Just referring him to the people that need to be referred to so he gets him because he's just an accident He had trip and fall. He might be going to the bathroom pee on this. I don't know He's just always doing some stuff that's accident worthy. So she's gonna she's gonna get you a lot of money I already hooked it up What I'm gonna get 50% of whatever you get because you know what she's gonna do now What you need to do right now, like I said, you want text that and she's gonna give you that that free e-book How to make 10k in 30 days with accident referrals now. Tell me how do we do this? How do we do this blessing? So this is can I introduce myself do your thing jump in jump in okay? So I just want to say hey billionaires i'm blessing your accident blessing What I do is help out car accident victims when they are in a car accident I do connect them to attorneys. I do connect them to Medical providers and I love what I do because I am the middleman and I've did my research And I actually do make more money than most attorneys do now I just wanted to put that out there because I have been kind of Timid about teaching what it is that I do I've been doing this now for 15 years and on my own for five And I've made millions of dollars by doing so So I just want to show other people that is simple and that they can also do it too So that's why we're here today. I just want to give a brief introduction to myself And how I do this is number one by telling everybody what it is that I do I live in Georgia. So in Georgia, we have 20 more accidents than the whole united states. Why? Because we're distracted niggas on niggas is niggas on niggas and we're distracted And we're not paying attention and we're texting while we're driving and accidents are just happening all of the time And I speak to accident victims that were never going to call anybody They were going they were going to never pursue their personal injury settlement If a accident blessing did not call them and let them know what their rights and options were Those people would have just stayed hurt and got no money for that And so we've spent thousands of dollars on car insurance. Like I'm 36 years old I've been paying for car insurance since I was 19 years old And they're just keeping my money. So whenever I'm in an accident It's my due diligence to file that claim and get my money back. That's what I pay my insurance for So I'm just showing people get your money back. That's what you pay your insurance for So so the whole thing is like at the end of the day You're saying All these accidents happen they happen now an accident happened today You're going to find this person that might walk away that don't even look at it. Like they could be getting some money from Yeah, this is really a blessing. I didn't cause the accident But since you were in it you need to be blessed by this and you and you're going to help people find the people That was in it even though they like they don't even know what's going on But you could help them find them Yeah, so even so what I do is I pay people for referrals, right? So if you got in a car accident and you called a television attorney They're not giving you a dime for using their service If you call me and tell me you've been in an accident The minimum i'm giving you is 300 dollars for sharing that information with me So i'm telling people your cousin wasn't an accident your mama wasn't an accident your daddy wasn't an accident Why are they calling those people call me? Let me provide them with the quality care that they actually deserve They're going to get their settlement and i'm going to pay you for referring that to me So everybody wins damn everybody So being so he's accident waiting to happen I got about like 10 accidents from last so that's that's three thousand hours. Yeah, let's go And i'm doing something special for everyone that's coming to me through your platform million dollars worth of gain Off the rip. We're going to start them off at five hundred dollars a referral So anybody referral anybody to you five hundred dollars five hundred dollars I just got to get the e-book and everything they need to be in there about how to receive five hundred dollars Let me make sure you get this e-book because you ain't get this 500 sockets in your pocket because you got a lot of You know, middle room warriors is going to turn into middlemen. We got a lot of basement warriors You know what i'm saying? I know the basement warrior game I'm going to do a study on that because I used to be one But listen at the end of the day you want to get your blessings What you need to do is to get this free e-book right now So you get all the information in this e-book of how to do what you need to do how to make 10 k In 30 days with accident referral. I need you to text middleman to 833 232 99 41 833 232 99 41 right now get this so you get that 500 You know she's giving them five hundred dollars referrals. You come from here. I mean type that middleman now Let me ask you a question because see a lot of people in the hood, right? They get in the car accidents and they be like man He ripped my bumper off man Fuck my back up a little bit, but it's cool I'm just gonna go in and get my bumper fixed for the little 480 because I don't want my mom fucking insurance to go up Man, I ain't fucking my little back man. My back be all right Get a little massage or something give my little tender massage my lower back work it out for me They really should have just called you and they could have just I'm so glad you asked that question So that's what most of us do when we're in a car accident Our number one thing that we won't resolve is our car being repaired recalling the at fault insurance company We're setting that claim up. They're paying us. That's black and white That's why you don't hire an attorney for property damage because that's a black and white situation You hire an attorney for bodily injury because that's not black and white But once that property damage claim is opened you might as well maximize the claim You're not doing any more damage to the person or their insurance policy by going after the bodily injury portion of that claim So you're literally leaving money on the table. You have the wrong mindset about how this even works in the first place So and the insurance company wants you to do that because that leaves more money in their pockets when they don't do that But when you open that claim Against the person that hits you their policy is going up. So if you are for the property damage So if we now go after the bodily injury The policy the policy was going up regardless the same amount No matter what we might as well maximize this Yeah, because we do that in the community like his guilt said that man We always just like man, I could just pay a little hundred dollars get that new bump That five you go right there everybody whole thing be mad. I don't mind sure it should go up But if they cause the accident The other person's going to call your insurance company your insurance is going up If you didn't cause the accident your insurance is not involved. No, see how I'm just saying how I'm working the hood to be like You got my bumper you Yeah, we're here to educate the hood that stops today Y'all need to get your money. I'm looking at you right in the camera hood Let's get this money because even if you're in the hood, you can't ride around with no insurance You are paying for your car insurance. I mean, I ain't gonna lie because you Most of you should should have car everybody should have it It's probably some people ride around uninsured. You educate me because I hear the nigga want to boom Oh, shit my fuck don't hold on wait. Oh, this is saucy wait. Hold on dog You know, you ain't got calling What's that what they're called about They be like, yeah, that's well honey And they go Okay We got you before the ones who are calling to get their property damage taken care of yes That's not running into you who's going to pay them directly and doing it the right way Because you know what also when you're in an accident a lot of times you don't feel any pain right away So now you've paid me 1200 to get my car fixed next week. My back is really hurting It took a couple of minutes for a couple of days for it to like work I can't do anything further I could but realistically you like I paid you off already now you're untrustworthy So if my back starts hurting I can't even call your insurance company to do anything different because you don't pay me that way So that's dumb and we ain't gonna do that No, we ain't gonna do that not no more not no more I mean when I did that that was back in the day that was back in the day But you know what else so say for instance if you did hit somebody right Is that a good example? So say for an example you are at fault for the car accident That person nine times out of ten is going to call your insurance company to file a claim You might as well refer them To pursue their personal injury settlement to me because of the claim is going to be filed anyway That's the easiest way to refer somebody because the damage is already done Man, that's major So at the end of the day, um, yeah, because I remember the time you backed up to that white man He was about to tune you the fuck up. Oh, yeah He snapped on me. He flipped out. I said come on. We're gonna get our body You know, he did 20 years in jail. So when he first come home, right, he didn't know how to drive But he drove like he was still 17 He got in the car and put that shit in reverse ain't look out new mirrors. Boom. Do like what the fuck are you doing? He tapped right. I'm sorry, dude. I'm I apologize. It's my fault Yo, they went up, but I listen. What car was I driving? Yeah, you're being niggas. Yeah, it ain't messes car up when we just got beat with our way You tapped this shit out that drink was loud. Boom. I was oh, shit. I ain't even want to turn around See what he hit him. He ain't no palmies. He peeps his car You know, because everybody they don't think about the physical part. Yeah, nobody because a lot of time a lot of accidents It don't even be no damage for everybody. Like we cool. Nobody be like damn. Did it snap my back? This this happening my lady, you know, I mean, that's why I'm here to educate the people I've been there at 19 years old. I was in my own car accident I've been watching I tell people my fondant night my fondest my earliest memory of any kind of marketing Is a personal injury attorney. I'm like four years old I'm watching the prices right with my grandmother and every other commercial is this personal injury like personal injury attorneys go hard No, they do is a lot of marketing, right? And for me to be 19 years old and it's still not dawn on me I should have called this attorney. I've been seeing since I was four years old is crazy So when I got into the industry at 23 I was like, it's really my job to tell folks like what they're entitled to like we're We're in the accident. You should get your money like and it doesn't have to be any major injury It doesn't have to be a broken bone. It doesn't have to be a hospital stay Any type of minor discomfort any type of soreness any type of stiffness any headache anything you feel now that you never felt before that accident Is worth thousands of dollars So I offer a free class every thursday where I go over things like this and that's also included with the free book that they can tap in But they really don't understand the process of our personal injury even work So that's why I'm your personal injury lesson This ebook once they text middleman at 833 they get their ebook for free And they can tap it with and with me on thursdays for my free class So so all you got to do is text middleman at 833-232 99 41 833-232 99 41 and they're going to give you the free how to make 10k in 30 days will ask the referral So you telling me that These people is going to be able to read this ebook and become you yeah They well, that's $10,000. I'll make a little bit more than that. No, I'm just saying but still But what I'm saying is But they can become me. So this is the introduction Yes, once you get a little taste because that's how I started it was just a little taste And I was like, hmm This is paying me way more than my jobs are paying me jobs. You got multiple jobs. What were you working at? I was working at the mat counter. Um, I did makeup I was literally driving back and forth from savannah georgia to atlanta until they transferred me And then how I got started in this I was working for a marketing firm that printed club flyers, literally I was passing out flyers that promoted If you're in the car accident, let me know for $11 an hour is how I even found out this was a possibility And then one of the chiropractors that we were passing these flyers out for had a referral process for his patients So whenever his patients referred him to someone he would pay them $200 for those referrals So I was like, can I refer them to you even though I'm not a patient? And he was like sure and it's been it's 15 years later. This is all I do She's been she like a tow truck. She acts and then she's You heard come on. Get you in. Yes. So I've been Right Pull up out of nowhere Shoot the hit card And you know what I really learned they sense my yes, you were talking about crela bitter credibility So this is my first million dollar year I could have been teaching this but I wanted to be secure in my messaging and that I could really help the people I consider myself. I'm a Sagittarius if I know anything about zodiacs. We're one of the realest and bluntest of them all I'm like a jz on the low like my mindset and how he moves. I feel like we like the same people So I said all of that to say like I ain't got to sell you like I ain't got to fluff you I ain't got a lot of you like I'm I'm good But I'm confident now and what I've done over the last five years when I quit my job at six months pregnant So I got to figure this out That I can help you do the same thing now when you say when you say your first million year I want to clarify that for them as you say a million after taxes Are reaching a million mark. I reached the million mark. So it's gross. Yes Okay, it doesn't mean because you from just talking to people letting them know what I do use in my social media So that that couch potato that you refer to it's perfect couch warrior Couch warrior This is a perfect opportunity for you to get off of the couch Get a little taste all I wanted was five referrals a week when I first got it started That was a thousand dollars from me back then and that was a lot for what I needed to do in my life And so a little bit goes a long way with accident referrals So we even for you guys going to do the 500 but we have other tiers So once they referred me seven at 500 then it goes to 750 per referral Then after you hit that 750 mark it goes to $1,000 per referral forever Let's get this money. So blessings is giving you all these blessings. Then she feel like I'm trying to give to y'all Right And she giving you blessings at the blessings and people didn't even know this was a thing because I didn't that's why I didn't teach If I'm like I made this up But it's if anybody can make a million dollars from what they're doing is shareable Now what you need to do right now I just want to say this and blessings is she's giving you all these blessings and like she said she feel like jay-z hold She feel like Beyonce All right, listen, but listen what y'all need to do right now. So y'all get these blessings y'all need to text Y'all need to text middleman at 8 3 3 2 3 2 99 41 and you're going to get the free e-book how to make 10k in 30 days We're asking to referral check out also on instagram that acts i'm talking about right I'm talking about this right now on instagram You got to check out if you don't do nothing follow instagram But if me i'm following instagram and i'm getting a free e-book at the blessings attitude on ig man Go check out man blessings McCoy thompson. Listen, we respect you. We love what you're doing. Keep doing your thing And this is another episode of million dollars river game business spotlight and it's just like that, right? Mm-hmm. Everybody love me I don't have no problems when you say everybody love you. What do you mean by that? Everybody love me. Mm-hmm. I don't have no problems They look at my growth. They can see the difference now Mm-hmm. They proud of me. Mm-hmm even the streets proud of me That's right And you and you're a person that I could say you got a cult following out here Like you you I don't I don't I don't know nothing you associated with other than Bwa I don't know no record labels. I don't know nothing. It's just like oh no He just do him. He won't be associated with the rappers. He ain't really I ain't seen him on a whole bunch of features You a bunch of lists come out old rappers that fell off Rappers that ain't doing it no more rather than he ain't never on that motherfucking list because And you just keep and you just keep going up anytime. I see you on stage Your fans is in tune with what you got going on. They they they channeled in The slow you go the further you get Mm-hmm. The slow you go the further you get Anything fast don't last. I like going slow I love it. It's crazy because every time I see as soon as I see that uh That tour schedule come out Sold out sold out. So yeah, but that might be heavy. It'd be a long list city Be heavy and you just and you got diehard. I'm talking about since you came home. It's just been Bwa it was just like you got diehard people that come that was one of the toughest transitions For me once I came home In 2018 I had to find myself again. Mm-hmm. I had to find what really did it for me Because before it was it was strong feeling any motion attached to the hurt and the pain I had been through But I noticed that Even my children proud of me now And that's really what led me to my healing journey was I wanted to I didn't want to pass on any past traumatic Like traumas on to my children I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be a greater father for my children And that's really what speared me in the self healing. It was very very difficult and I'm still healing It's Not even done yet. We just scratching the surface Back the layers day by day. You're still doing seeming retention manners. You finally letting it go, man I've been on a like a five-year seeming retention journey Now see what most people don't you gonna release every nine days Like you're gonna have a wet dream here and there you're gonna release But you don't beat yourself up about it because anything that's in your body that need to come out Gonna naturally come out but I don't watch porn and masturbate and even when I'm with a woman once she get off. I'm done Yeah Because I ain't gonna please my partner. That's it. That's all and the reason I had stopped even having sexual conversations Especially with women because they was using like what I was talking about like the wow factor of it and Using it for clickbait then when you go look at the whole interview like man, dude really makes sense But it makes a man more cognitive in his life Yo, yo, yo life force is sacred. I tell me and everybody laughed at me when I first talked about it on y'all On y'all podcast not everybody's talking about they do it now. So I've been seeing that Man, y'all know what y'all got it from y'all know, I'm dead that y'all know what y'all got it from I've been seeing a lot of people talk about you had never heard of that You look at me and that release a lot. They skin don't glow They don't have no glow. They be they they they skin almost look great But it's your life My dark gray It's your life force now now great I'm gonna say this um Last time you was here you said You got people that you want to work with that you like but you're afraid to ask me like man I don't want to get denied. I don't want nobody to reject me. I said I had a fear of rejection But I'm rejected out of that. Oh, so did you step to something like you hit some people up like yo, come on. Let's get it Yeah, I got an everybody DM and what happened all the response was good nothing Oh, no, nobody responded. They responded, but I guess they might have been too busy for a little old me damn So so so we get we hype him up to say yo colony. It's not a bad thing It's just see we look at it like a negative thing not not saying that it just wasn't the right Time we wasn't in alignment or we wasn't in alignment at that time We may be in alignment in the future. We may never be in alignment. It doesn't matter But I tried and I could live with myself knowing that I tried I did all I could do and then I've been uh going to concerts lately What concerts you went to I want the trade concert. Yeah, I want the usher concert Okay, like I just been going like watch the greats And it's been cool because I got to be like a fan again We asked you questions. Did you learn anything at them concerts? I learned all kind of what you learn all kind of I just be steady. Yeah I just be steady because I ain't seen us should perform, but I heard he got a hell of a show. Oh my god performance is a hell of a performance Hey, he the truth that drake concert was crazy too. Yeah. Yeah. It was crazy. It was cool I went twice. I went two nights in a row. I seen drake straight up. It was crazy 21 He was there. That was a good ass show. Yeah, I like I like their presentation I like their presentation and everything and then I seen um usher concert And his stage performance. It was I liked it. So you learned some things that you want to take an ad to your ad to your approach I gotta put it with our program Ain't nothing wrong with bar on some gang, baby Who do you listen to outside? I've been listening to like a lot of african music lately. Okay Like afro beats and all that. Okay. I've been listening to a lot of that. It made me feel good in the morning Just playing at the energy. Yeah. Yeah. I like I like that energy like on my way to the gym I listen to that It's like uplifting. He'd be doing 800 push-off. It's done stop. Don't stop everybody comes out I love I love That veto to the veto. Yeah veto both and uh tims. Yep. Tim. Yeah. Yeah, I like all of them Yeah But uh, like who do you like? Who do you want to work with if you could do a song with somebody who you want to do a song with? Anybody who want to do a song with me? I swear to god. I know that somebody when you say anybody the greats The greats. Yeah, the greats all the greats. Okay. I want to work with all the greats Mm-hmm. Why not? That's that's your dream as an artist to work with the greats that you one of them Oh, yeah, I work with Kevin Gays all the time I love him. He's a great guy Now approaching this album. What was on your mind when you was creating a new album? Nothing I just put everything on the table all the hurt all the pain And even the celebration like celebrate myself like one of my lines when I say um Purpose driven. I'm developing riches. Pleasure driven. You develop addictions Elevated and ranking my dick is not friendly. I would not be distracted by women. I was just How you get that I just want to know how you get that stern like Like I ain't gonna be I'm not gonna be distracted. I know this I notice if you ever had a nine or five or you ever was hustling as soon as you made some money That's when your phone started ringing It's an energy money. Not really real. It's an energy Soon as you make some money people from out the woodworks go to calling you And I noticed I was like whenever I'm doing something I'm supposed to do. That's when all the distractions come You ain't never got time for me When I've got free time, but when I'm doing what I'm supposed to do The universal law which got universal law governs all events. It tests me Man, I'm gonna stay on my pivot That's when all the distractions come whenever I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing Now y'all got all the time in the world That money pile in there Making things happen. I'm uh, hey, I'm uh, I'm gonna chase me That's why I'm here with it. I made a vow like I never miss a workout For nobody or anything I'm always put raising my frequency first and I notice the days that I don't want to work out Be the days I get my best workout and the best things happen I say oh, it's raining ain't nobody's gonna be another day And that's when I get the best like results the days. I don't want to do it. So And shout out to my mama She didn't like got me to start being comfortable in uncomfortable situations. So that's just when I'm it with it right now If adversity is what bill's character Mm-hmm If it ain't rough it ain't us Talk of it. That's why I'm here right now Yeah, now I need to get in the gym man. You inspire me Man, you already be in the gym. You be playing basketball and boxing and man, but I need to I need to really Get my breathing and northern because that's what you did with the behind your back You saw you got better results when you breathe. Yeah, but I can't do it. I got to get that right You could do it You could do it Because my little back be hurting and I realized they every way I go they say because Your hamstrings and so tight yoga and it's all it might be your hips I used to have a little back pain until I started Strengthening and stretching my hip flexors. So yoga really helped you like that. That's what a god I use one of the first presented it to them. I told you when I was in prison Man, I ain't about to do that shit. That's pussy I don't know yoga Yeah But then once I once I and that's really what started my journey Like I got I got off it though, but I got back on it out here in the free world and I was like, yeah This was up. I do it every morning. I don't feel right if I don't do yoga But light is the truth too because it's resistance and it's stretching It's the truth. Yeah What was it like, you know, I a lot I run into a lot of brothers coming home from the joint What was your mindset when you first came home because no matter how much money you got in the bank Okay, break that down I'll have a resentment because out of sight really mean out of mind And the people I felt like they were supposed to be there Wasn't there how I felt like they should have been there and I do a lot for everybody So I'll have a resentment. I came home with a vengeance. I was mad. I was upset I'll have a resentment. My my first thing was I'ma show you I'ma shit on you That was my first thing My mind said I gotta be honest. How long do you how long did it take for you to get about it at mine? I still ain't out of that mind said to be honest, beloved I just make it look good. And and let me just say this and I reinforce positivity in my life. I still be like I still be like, yeah It was meant to happen because if that wouldn't happen all of this wouldn't happen But no, I was nominated for the Grammys. I had that shit taken from me Everybody took my whole swag and ran off with it and made millions and ain't salute where it came from I'll have a resentment toward it. Y'all know where y'all got this from. Y'all know I'm young Who the first person to ever say his imperial majesty? I am h. I am his imperial majesty being driver big time a breadwinner anatomy So, yeah, I love when he talked that I'll have a resentment. I still have a resentment But I take that resentment and I put it into something that's going You know bring productivity A lot of times you don't see like you build your own thing bwa. I see you I see that you build your own we're in the dictionary. Yeah, okay All right I see you got one who earns money one who earns income to support a household So I seen you build that and I see you didn't deal with a lot of people Like you was just like i'ma just build my house. He wasn't bouncing all around What kept you disciplined enough to say i'm just gonna bleed in the streets Okay, give me the game on that like you know when you You notice like When you go kicking with other dudes that be doing that thing you start getting caught up in the shit that they got going You get caught up in a rapture you get caught up when I say rapture you get caught up in their indictments They beef be your beef. You know when you do that hanging So I just keep it like this ill and then prison also because you know, I don't do no I'm not social really. I'm kind of antisocial in a sense because I don't watch tv I badly get on the phone. You know, I read a lot, but you got six phones. Yeah I got six phone But you only say two like you broke it down for me in the video that time He said two and I seen him when I seen him. I'm like, hold up. Okay. You got more than two Like this is like he broke down when he's in two phones. He broke down how many it was misinterpreted And why was that misinterpreted because I said I need I got two phones one for the plug one for the load I got two phones one for the bitches one for the dope. I got need two more Okay, that's six phones. All right, but That was crazy He didn't say that he said I don't even talk to him. I don't even it's just handling business Handle business with different people different. Is it a different phone for different people for different crap? Different things ain't that wrong with that different strokes for different folks Yeah, different numbers. You got the phone that you don't answer like that because they just be blowing it up my um My primary phone is this little bit of smartphone right here. I don't have no social media apps nothing on the Just my music and my immediate family could get in touch with me This is my gym phone. It's the phone that I always have with me all of that other stuff. I don't want to ever be um I like to stay mentally cognitive I put them phones on the charger and in the other room on airplane mode because Like I told you when you sleep with the phone in the room and disrupt your melatonin cycles And Like that's what we need to heal. I buy to produce serotonin in the daytime melatonin at night, especially women Don't need to have no electromagnetic devices in the room with them when they sleep Because do you know they are governed by the moon They spiritual because they know all this I'll be reading a lot. They spiritual they could turn something liquid into something physical Especially when they got your child and they stomach turn transforming liquid into something physical You know, I'm saying they don't need to have no phones or nothing in the room Would you around the og's when you was in prison? All my partners like in they 70s. Mm-hmm And what wisdom what was the most wisdom? That you know, who gave you the most wisdom when you was in the penitentiary Who gave me the most wisdom in life my grandfather your grandfather All right now when you was in the penitentiary, was there some og's there? Yeah, they had a couple og's and that I kicked the whip But but but what is it about your grandfather? What did he instill in you? He let me see it He was hands on with me And the stuff he said back then they make sense Now I wish it make all the sense in the world now, right Like when he say hey when somebody paint you a picture don't let them paint you another picture Or like my nickname dick. He'll put me to the side. They listen to me dick Hey when hey what you see with your eyes your heart must believe And you don't make sense back then like what the fuck you talking about you see with your eyes And a person show you who they believe it. Absolutely Absolutely, I think the most the most beautiful thing I ever heard though Um g wrong told me he said uh Suspect evil of no one until see it want to see it forget it not for once the enemy could never be a friend And a lot of times we have a overly forgiving heart It's cool to forgive, but I'm not going to forget what you did me ever I forgive you because I'm releasing it. I'm forgiving you for me But I'm not about to be silly and not even forget And I can't forget you fuck me over. No Yeah I can't I can't forget that Me going for that. No at all See, I didn't even know that freeze, but I know that I know Now I'm going to give everybody a chance because I'm not going to operate out of fear So I suspect evil of no one until see it Go on see it forget it not for once the enemy could never be a friend You showing me you're not a friend. You showed me Now it's my whole thing. We're going to make mistakes and I'm big enough to admit if I'm I'm a man. I'm wrong I hey forgive me. I'm wrong I I tell you if I'm wrong and you know, but my heart genuine though I'm not going to steal from you. I'm not going to do no bitch ass shit to you I ain't only want to fuck your side bitch. I'm just not that type of nigga. Mm-hmm And you know what's crazy a prime example of what he's saying. Remember, I had a cameraman Had altercation with him Several years later, he tried to come back. Oh, man. I'm sorry. I can't I could never have you back, man All right, I just had a similar situation. That's had to put hands on you man. I could I So once your enemy I can never We can never be friends again I ain't mad at you. I'll forgive you, but we ain't gonna be friends. We can't do this. Can't do that no more man I can never trust you man That's wrong. So the album You don't even know who featured on there. It's not dead. It's um Do you have any features? I think I got do I have a feature? To who oh 60 red on the yonsei 60 red and bg on the yonsei freestyle. That's it. Okay, and that's it But I ain't even know that song was going to be on the album to be honest I hate to shout out to bg. Don't kill me big brother. Yeah, shout out to 60 don't shoot, please Didn't even know it wasn't intentional I'm so used to dropping albums without features to where it just It didn't even register that I had a feature. Yeah, how many tracks on it? I don't even know You don't even know how many oh He's still adding tracks I don't know Don't don't shoot. I just want to see man. It's a lot of it's a lot of rappers out here. I made a I done it made over 60 songs Well, what is your formula because you be you I went in that one day to a guitar beat and I was like That was confused all the trust again with all my horse been through been miss you was the not the one you choose I fall back from you and it just it's like I'm watching myself become something different in the in the studio There's a lot of niggas out here rappers man. I look at you like a brand. Yeah, it was it was a guitar beat playing and I was like damn And that's what happened And then and then it had went somewhere and then I was like Then I did another song where I was like, uh mistakes make us great. I'm proud of you I think you doing amazing, but I was talking to myself Because I was like I need to celebrate myself. I said, I think you doing amazing Hmm Step inside this vocal booth releasing all my pain the things I did with on the daily driving normal person insane I could relate I gave my love and then exchanged. I got shitted on that happens on the daily Hmm And I just it just it just it just how it was mistakes make us great. I'm proud of you I think you're doing amazing And it just did you uh go somewhere in a different location to record? No, sir You just but you got I went to a different state of mind. Okay. I was in a different state of mind because I was like, um I was this time I was celebrating myself more Because I make music that I could work out to and when I be playing my music on live people be like Man, why you don't release that? I say, you know what? I'm gonna start putting that type of music out then because I like to play shit That's gonna turn me up in a gym. Yeah, is it ever a time where it's though? Um, I said I said some one time and the artists wind up calling us And I wrote like a letter to rappers like artists and I was like I basically told them somebody best it is already on the hard drive Right, and they're afraid to put it out. I said stay over tiktoks They're looking at abye and put your stuff out because you'll be chasing something and what you're chasing You already got on your engineer got on that hard drives. You did a year and a half ago. That's a banker your authentic self Yeah, but you look at no one else. We're achieving greatness and he called gill like yo, man Wow, look that's your mic call me out the young blue. Yeah young blues. You know what he was like He was like shout out the young blue. He was like, man, what the I've been needing here That ain't nobody telling me that and I got all these bangers. He I'm looking at the The song me and him deal was a classic though that ice on my big remix. Yeah, that was a classic now Now have you ever had a time Where's though social media had you messed up and your approach or anything or like No, sir, but I had a time where I was chasing fame Break that down like in 20 When I came home and like 2019 I was like, man, why they not salute me how they supposed to And I was just chasing fame like chasing it chasing it chasing it and I wasn't getting over Like why they not like why they not salute me I'm putting out mixtape at the mixtape at the mixtape. They not salute me how they supposed who you want to To salute you the world. Mm-hmm Y'all y'all do everything I do y'all emulate everything I do Like from when I was in jail like every rapper that came I was kevin gay's jr To be honest Y'all y'all ran off with y'all ran off with the material, but y'all ain't salute where y'all got it from I came I often first one came in a game with that penitentiary sway gold mouth dog. I came in a game with it I came in a game talking rigors Yes, he did moving around solo by myself paying second two pair draws on Yeah, in case I got to go back in the game gotta go back in I came in a game with this way Any day nigga I'm saying though, but we got we got We got a color spade of spade though I came in the game with that because I was really thugging. I was in and out of jail my whole career I came in the game with that sway Like people and I watched it get emulated and taken and I watched it get commercialized and I watched nobody saluted where it came from. Well with all your success You still it's still a chip on your shoulder about that. Yes, sir Yes, sir. I still harbor resentment toward that and then we're doing and then you know, like like when I said in one song I was like and I I shouldn't have said that but I meant what I said You know fake rappers acting like they rocking how I'm rocking saluted me in private, but a free to stand on sad me Publicly you was afraid to stand on sad me because you know the public the public not stupid. They know where you got this from You'd be a lot of that too. Yeah Self-made stand up if you ain't got two heads under your belt and pick your pants up You know, I'm the one who started it that sway that luke abrasion I mean it's crazy that I'm even speaking about this right now because I usually be trying to keep it positive Which I am I'm being very positive, but you did start it But yeah, I harbor resentment toward that still and that's that's that's what gave me my competitive drive to keep going in the gym I take that energy and that anger and I put it all in the gym and make me better How many songs you got on hard drives right now? millions And what you gonna do with them and what you gonna do with them and what you gonna do with them I'm about to start releasing everything when you say releasing this is my last album When you say the last album break that down. This is my last album with my label Oh, so you doing totally independent. No, I'm gonna do on distribution a distribution deal Yeah, because I love I love how everything's going right now But I'm gonna do distribution after this in Charlotte. I love Shella because you know nothing's promised. Yeah, but you won't do distribution And you say when you say you're releasing everything as you packaging it up for albums or I don't know um I make so many different genres of music like I make reggaetong. I make african music. I make all of that So I might just do I might just do like different groups. It's gonna all be me But it's just gonna be different titles of groups. I don't know. I'm gonna do something I haven't figured it out yet because I'm still on my journey. I'm just scratching the surface But I even do soft rock rock and roll country a lot of the country music that you hear now that Like rappers be doing, you know, kevin started it That ain't come from y'all. I've been doing it To be honest though, let's if we just being honest, like I'm not hating on nobody. I'm not shooting no shots at nobody You know what I'm saying? But all of that come from me The soft rock and roll all of that all that come from me Big big if you want to go back if you like like if you think like go back to 2012 Naco terrific country when I put out naco terrific country Naco terrific country the song I did speak in Spanish on a lat on a trap beat They didn't have a a Latin trap genre then Take a call at all and he was making music like talking about street shit But it wasn't no just now you got now you got rappers that's doing like Latin trap And that was 2012 when you did that They didn't have that genre. Yeah, I ain't saying I invented it, but I started it They told me I was crazy my Spanish wasn't even that good then You just like I feel this I'm doing it. Yeah, I'm doing it Because my like my cousin they was like man, you got to talk that Spanish don't know Naco terrific, you know, we was just in the studio going crazy My cousin P. He was in the studio with me How do you feel? Seeing how powerful and how legendary Louisiana has become for the rap industry It's a beautiful thing. It's it's bittersweet It's bittersweet. It's beautiful It's something I really really want to say so bad, but I'm just leave it alone. But it's very beautiful But like I've been trying to Unite you know I'm saying I'm gonna leave it alone though Yeah, I feel like it could be I could Louisiana could be united a little bit more You know what I mean? I've been had that that been my vision. I remember I remember back Years ago you you was connecting with NBA and shit. I thought y'all was going, you know what I mean? We still we still communicate. Yeah, I love him. Yeah, but my wish for him is the wish of a law. Absolutely We still communicate though and I love him This man ain't no ain't no need to be beefing everybody getting money man I wouldn't ever be with him The internet made that like that the answer and I ain't you know, like I ain't I ain't about to get on the And go against the internet you can't win with the internet. Y'all say what y'all want to say That's like they just said that man, uh, drick was uncomfortable when you kissed her and she put I said, okay, cool Fuck it. She was People people that don't know you get they they've put these opinions don't bother me I ain't worry about the internet. Yeah, see because I don't base life and my results of that I know that's just bullshit. You you just talking behind a keyboard. I catch you on the street, man Come on, you know what's down with me, but on that black top That's how I gauge it. Like when I'm in new york, new york love me to death Love me. Mm-hmm. These people love me here. I'm talking about in the streets on the black top walking around, right He talking about the people sitting by and this is getting on phone It could be a little kid 10 years old in the middle of America I don't judge my results in life based on what I see on social media because The like I'm seeing real life the killer of our joy is making comparisons People make it look good You comparing your real life to somebody else highlight for real That's that's you're gonna kill yourself making comparisons But when you step out in the streets on that black top, that's how I know when I'm moving Like that song birds calling. I know that song moving because they it's in the streets They pulling up blue cool birds calling. It's in the trap for me new low back on the road coming there work for me That's all they playing right now in the streets So so you your whole thing is The black top that's where it's at all this other shit is that yeah, that's social media One thing I would say I was talking to a young artist Of these from Detroit. We was talking the other day and I told him he's like wow, you know What is hot I said everybody got a different form or was hot and I believe when you hot the people going to tell you you hot It ain't it ain't got nothing to do with me telling you I'm hot. It ain't got nothing what you tell I'm nothing You gotta find yourself with this And I had to find myself a lot of times with this But I found myself and one thing I am in the conversation led to this I said, uh, I said one thing about it v's. I said what makes you hot is that Them ticket sales don't lie You know how long I've been doing this big brother talk to me 20 years Okay, I've been doing this 20 years and where do you feel that you at right now? I love it You know when I like when all the artists was going to clubs I was doing hard ticketed venues only making a thousand two thousand dollars I built my touring fan base How important is that? It's the most important in the world hard tickets You know who the first people that showed me love and put me on the front of that tool Who who people try to who people they they say whatever they want about them, but that's my brother Wiz Khalifa He the truth He put you he put you on the on the front of he put me on the front of his tour It was me him snoop janea eco Shout out the wiz shout out the way before I went to prison And that took you that put you in a ticketing game when that when that when it's when the satellites came I had already built a core fan base, but just him exposing me to that Sun me up through the roof. What was different for you to say? Them clubs that's that's cool But I'm going this way. I'm gonna take this lesson money Touring yeah, we'll made you just say man that that 30 look good right now that 20 look good I didn't wonder like that and on one off. I still do one off But when it came time to tour I made sure I dedicated my hustle to the touring because that's really where is that hard ticket It's hard ticketed venues and I stayed small even though I could have sold out I stayed small to make sure when I got to a bigger venue. I was ready to do a ring Well, you say small what is small how many people I stayed in a small I stayed in the small venues Like like what was what was the count like here count 2000 Just smaller just smaller than the ringers anything smaller than the ringers. Yeah, then b-markets I wanted the first orders doing b-markets. I got that game from tech name for them That don't know what a b-market is break a b-market and shout out to tech nine Candice city our family tech nine the truth What is the real truth? Yeah, he the real you say his name and people act like they don't know who he is He got more money in all these n****s. He he wanted to age He the riches in the game homie real talk. They got my f***ing factories down in kansas. See that I've been him and travis Him and travis you walking they got shot out to them. They got harley davisons hanging from the muff Sealings for decorations. They they really that's who really had speared me into really touring and merch and Things of that nature like and what I love about tech nine. He gave me that he gave you the knowledge if you want He give it to you do Tech what's going on? We right here right now kevin gay. Which is just giving you your props But before we get it before we get into that kansas city ain't shit the chiefs ain't shit That's for me. Hold on. Hold on the only superbowl. They won hold up. Hold on You remember when they let me come work out with the team? Yeah, and I said, hey I'm gonna leave my energy here because y'all bless me and let me work out. They want a superbowl there you Hey, listen a tech listen We I'm gonna be we had to get the chief stuff out of there But kevin gill and me we were just here saluting you for the extraordinary person You are the extraordinary business man You are in a game that you and travis shared will share with people and me and gill We trying to figure out as we come into the we come into the headquarters to do this interview when we gonna do this Bro, I'm posted for a minute too because I just got off a tour So, um, we just got to hook it up bro. I can't wait. All right. Let's get let's get it done You always on tour when you not on tour I know man. That's my dude Hey big brother this gates. Oh, oh, let me fake. Oh, he ain't got no face now. You got the android, man Listen, I'm all right. I got I got an iphone too. Just gates. Listen. I'm all equal All day like my son, but I want to go out like What's that a big brother? I was just in here talking about when y'all here let us come by the um By the factory and I was telling my us show me about the touring game They asked me like what was it that speared me to just focus on touring. I was like Take nine in travis Like they gave me the game Hold on. Did you say this is the father? This kevin Oh, what's up, brother? I ain't gonna sit down Yes, sir, we just did the show together. I didn't get to see you because I had to get out of there after a while I know. I know. I know But they they was they was just talking about like what what made me focus on touring. I was like take nine in travis That's big bro, bro. That's big man Love and respect to you. I love you more. You know that papa Yes, sir, man. I'll see you soon, man. I can't wait. I'm about to get a phone back Yes, sir. Tell him we coming down. All right, travis. I mean, all right, uh tech we coming down there, man With your brother All right, but now his brother's like him with so much knowledge and they're really doing on a big scale that merch I think I think a lot of a lot of people don't know how important the merch is Is that merch real important that merch money series? Yeah, I have a uh I do I do well for myself Yeah I do well for myself but But the bottom line was Kev got the game early about hard ticket sales over club because I really come from hustling Yeah, when you really come from hustling Like I got the flip a dollar I got the flip a dollar man like Another thing, you know, what I'll do respect gill, you know who came in the game and said I'ma jug it out and just Nike tech suits Who started that Without due respect Every day every day. I had on nike tech suits every day I had like three gray and three black because I read this book with his dude saying I don't wake up in the morning and think about I ain't got to worry about that and see my time. I'm either gonna wear gray or black and mark uh I did like a did a billion dollars in ticks. She got and I'm just playing I never He turned it up in nike tech shoes And the reality of it is you turned it up in a dita sweatpants You came home from jail when every fucking day for four years straight Little two dollar black t-shirt every day every day with the black seat off. Yeah Yes, yes, sir Because it was about like just getting focused man about hustling. That's it. We hustling and I want to make I want to make the money. I don't want the money that just come right now I want to bill it. I want to make the money that's going to come, you know, forever I want to be able to hand my legacy down to my children like that's like I never sold my catalog I never did none of those things. You know why? Because I never had to I never had to and I ain't saying that to shake my dick and nobody to face or nothing I never had to though Talk heavy So I do well for myself. They often they come at you don't of course. I've been off of stupid money That's kevin geats man. I've been off of stupid money, but that's intellectual property. It's like real estate But I didn't I didn't make those type of decisions because I never had to I don't live beyond my means I live below my means because I'm not the more depressed or the more psychologically unfit you are The more you spend money on entertainment and the more you spend money on vices I don't spend money on vices and things of that nature. I can go work out and feel good and put on some sweats and feel like You know a billion dollars I got land I grow my own food. I got I heard goats. I heard camels. I heard cattle got a meat processing plant I'm a country boy. I go fishing hunting I do things like that I just got some more land and i'm wrong with that To do that old farm with the river You know man, we would congratulate you man because I've seen your journey, bro I've seen you come up. I watched it. I admired it and I said, uh He him Yes, that's him right there. I always told you that that's my only that's my only thing No, I never thought I would speak on it. But I don't know. Thank you. Thank you like I needed to I needed to release that that's something that I held on for a long time That I never spoke on I needed that this was healing. This was therapy for me Today, so thank y'all. I didn't even think that it was going to go like this I did not Oh, shit. I need I needed today though because I feel Like clear now. I feel lighter now that I got that off my chest. Yeah. It's real with the album I'll make sure you're on it. Huh? Ceremony make sure y'all Download it stream it purchase it tick tock it. Please Instagram. I need all the support I could get everything Watching on youtube by stick all the cover videos everything. I needed get everything everything kev, man We appreciate you always just for being you brother him When the album him coming Down it came out 2019. Oh it did. Yeah I've been him I've been saying this since 2000 and uh 2008 Yeah, I am h. I am his imperial majesty Bench drive a big time a breadwinner anatomy. Like Not everybody's him now Timothy It's a cover trend. That's him. He butler. It's just like that You

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All right, three randoms, bro. Three randoms. Bears, Browns, Texans. Who we pickin' boys? Browns? I'm goin' Browns. I would still say more people play regs than mutt without a doubt. And to get rid of that whole, now it's not like those guys will win a tournament, but you know, I feel like you should always have a regs tournament just so people, just like, there's no money involved, there's no pay to play, none of that shit. There's no, you gotta put time in the game, you gotta grind, no. If you want a ball, you can show up in ball. All right, three randoms, bro. Three randoms. You guys ready? Startin' on, startin' on the cheese. One, Bears, Browns, Texans. Who we goin' with? Bears, Browns, Texans. Who we pickin' boys? Browns? I'm goin' Browns. End their playbooks, let's go. Now I'll be honest, boys, let's talk about the Browns. I got any Ohio guys in here, any Browns fans? I'm gonna be honest, these Browns have a couple years here to impress me enough to let my son watch them. Cause I can't be mad at my son. Cause if you guys know, I live in Cleveland now. I can't like, I can't be mad if my son likes the Browns. Cause you know what I'm sayin'? Like, I can't be mad about that. But if they're, I'm sorry, dude. We're gonna force them to go with Eagles. I really don't have no hate for Michigan, but yeah. I'm tryin' to make this fake hit hate for Michigan like Ohio has, but you know, for me, I don't think it'll be possible for my son to hate football. Grant Sr., is this your Keem Grant? Okay, this is the smallest male I've ever seen. All right, what do we got here? What do we got here? I like X shallow dig here. I mean, we gotta give the ball to, what's your call it? All these pass plays when I have, all right, quick base. I'm not gonna let that. I'm sayin', who knows? The Browns could pop up this year. Where the fuck is Chubb? Why isn't it clottin' in my third green pot in the backfield? What are we doin' here? Third down running back, power, half back, slot receiver, left and right end. Get that fuck outta here. All right, the end, running back, corner back. All right, enough of that shit. Okay, oh, he shifted his line. He's old school, he's old school. Don't overcommit, don't overcommit. Just nicked Chubb, baby. Browns' call would be to throw shorter than third and five, right? A little three-yard pass here, huh boys? Looks like man blitz here, I'ma be honest. God, I just know ball so much and you just let this guy wide open. It's called Schwartz. Bro, I'm not feelin', I'm not, that was a bad run by me. I really just don't have enough reps at running as I compared to how to do his passing. Wow, we'll take that. Then I'm gonna go with Emotion Brown here. I don't think all of these shifts, okay. Let's go Chubb, let's go Chubb. What I like to see, that's some real Joe Mix and shit about you Chubb. I'm playin' Browns football here, boys, I'ma be honest. We're playin' Browns football. God, I might be a trick-titan demon next year. Oh my God, this dude is different. Chubb got some, what ability does Chubb have? Like arm bar or something? I'll read option Watson, this is where we eat, this is where we eat. Patience, Kareem Hunt, whole first quarter gone, whole first, this is Browns football, dude. Efficiency, not overthinking things, you feel what I'm sayin'? Oh my God, look at my numbers, look at my numbers. These guys, oh he shifts, oh my God, we should just go crib here. And we get low cut by damn Justin Reed, good blockin' boys, don't know how. Third and three, now this is a running down. Now, I will tell you, now listen, being in Cleveland, I listen to a lot of Cleveland radio, Stephansky, they're a big analytical team here, the Cleveland Browns. They believe in going for fourth down. So much that the radio has gone ahead and said they shouldn't go for fourth down as much. I don't really like this inside zone here. I don't like it, boys. I don't like it, but we have Nick Chubb, so like, nevermind, do I know ball? Oh, oh, oh, oh! Mm, we're flippin', we're flippin', does he flip with me? We got numbers, alert, alert, alert, alert, alert, double team right, double team right. Set this edge, set this edge, bro, set this edge. Set this edge. Chubb, chubb, chubb, that skill gap. That is absolute run game skill gap right there, boys. Let's go, man. That's a drive, boys, that's an absolute drive. It's 12 play drive, 83 yards, took almost six minutes off the clock. Let's see what going buckets does to respond here. Of course he has 99 speed, why wouldn't he? Why wouldn't he have 99 speed, nice. John Johnson, Grant Delpit. We got J.O.K., who won't be able to jump because of the linebacker. We got Kelsey here, let's get Kelsey a little pop. Oh, he goes run. Oh no, good stop, boys. I'm going cover three press here. I'm doing it, I'm doing it for the ones in the back. I mean, as much as the cheats are good, Miles Garry should have a day here, boys, he should. Oh, he might have seen here at a hard man. I gotta guard seam a little bit. Of course he runs again, why wouldn't he run again? Why would you run this much with my homes? Playing regs against the chat, randoms in the chat, or we're playing regs. We're going with one of my favorite coverages here, cover three cloud. We're gonna shade down and play the sticks here. Come on, this is you, Miles Garry, you're in a wide nine. Go get them, Miles, go get them. Gotta go here so he can't double team Miles Garry here. Get right over the center. No double team on Miles right here. Oh, that's a good PI right there. Fourth and five for going buckets, what does he got? What does he know, what does he say? What does he know, what does he say right here? This is for your tournament life here, going buckets. Gun flex, Y off week, oh man. I think he likes streak to Kelsey here. I think he likes quick slants, streak to Kelsey. So I'm gonna carry Kelsey up into the deep third. Oh no, auto motion play, damn it. I don't know what this could be now. Oh no, it wasn't auto motion play. Why would you motion that guy in if it wasn't? Streak to Kelsey, oh no, corner out Kelsey. I'm all over it. Limebackers just suck. Limebackers suck, they suck. I was all over it, I was all over it, dude. I'm not gonna actually, I'm like Luke Keekley out here. I am Luke Keekley out here, dude. And it, good, let's go with number five. He's running out of time. Oh, he goes with a quick no huddle here. Oh, he snaps fast. Get there, get there, get there. Good tackles, good tackles. Time is of the essence right now. Oh, he goes no huddle again. I'm in shambles, I'm in shambles. Oh, this is good defense. He's gonna try me. We get a pressure, let's go 41, another fourth and five here for the Browns. Our spread, I'm gonna go cover four quarters here for spread. Move these guys down. He's got Kelsey over here. Oh, he quick snaps. He's looking for angle round, I'm all over it. He's gonna throw it at me. When in doubt, go to Kelsey. When in doubt, you go to Kelsey, dude. Like, I, you know, I could have anticipated it. I could put a zone right there, but you know why you got Kelsey. We're gonna go a little cover six here because it has six zones. I like it, honestly. I'm gonna put this guy over the middle and the third here. Where's Kelsey in the slot here? I'm gonna carry Kelsey, Michael, corner around here. I gotta be careful. Oh, he goes run. Not the best play call here with two timeouts and 30 seconds left. Does he know huddle it? A little bit of runoff, could be less. Go get a mouse, go get a mouse. I mean, that's not gonna get it done before you could. Just, just, I mean, when you look back at this last couple plays, not the way you wanna manage the clock here, dude. Not the way you wanna manage the clock here if you're going buckets. You could've went in a multitude of other options for you, but you decided to go, you know, our auto flip we got here. Put it, we're gonna put an extra D blue here in the middle. We're gonna pass, commit Miles Garrett. Get after the fucking quarterback here, dude. I'm gonna pinch the line. You need to get home. Back this guy up. He's in the cloud flat. I'm still, I'm still running to the corner here. We're on Kelsey. Okay, Jesus, respect. You wanted to get that in there. I know, I know, I know you wanted to get that in there. Here we go. And we're gonna go cover two. We're gonna shade up right here. We gotta put some extra coverage here on Kelsey. We're gonna double team Kelsey here. I just feel like I'm just lacking a lot of girth here. We got an extra person on Kelsey. I'm a user in clowning. You know why? Cause why wouldn't I use their clowning? Miles Garrett, can we get after the quarterback here? Okay, smart move, smart move by buckets here. Does he take his three? Okay, okay. That's a good outcome defensively when you're playing against my homes. Not a bad outcome, not a bad outcome. How are we gonna get a stop, dude? We had two big fourth downs. We literally had two big fourth downs. We had two big fourth downs. Couldn't get off the field. Automotion, automation. Sess, sess, sess. Oh, it's a fake. Pimp it. Oh, let's go. Wow. Gunbunch tight end. Here we go. Here we go. Let's go a little cover six here. I like cover six. Yup, exactly. That's what I like right here, boys. That's what I like. I'm gonna press this. We're gonna use it to cocky. Uh-oh, PA boot over. Oh no. Oh, good knockout. Maybe I shouldn't have pressed. Big play by the Browns out here. Bunch wide flex. They're giving me a lot of cover six options. And honestly, I'm not mad at it, but the problem is they keep giving me like four, three cover six. I keep using J-OK and this other guy. All right, we're not pressing that anymore. We're double teaming, Kelsey. Don't care. Don't care. Kelsey's got a man up. We're gonna put a fat guy here in a yellow zone too. Like if Kelsey catches the football here, he just deserves to catch it. That's how I feel about my adjustments. Three man rush. Miles Garrett, can we get involved a little bit here? Miles Garrett, I need you off the edge to beat 57. You got it. Miles is, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Exactly what we needed. Fourth and 10 here. Let's go, Miles. I wanna heat him up. We got a double team, Kelsey, though. We really do. We're gonna put a purple zone here. We're gonna hope he blocks the running back here. Please, God. He blocks the running back good. Kelsey, Denzel Ward, there's no way. Thank you. You attacked my best corner. Come on, man. Defense, let's go. Now let's end this game right here. We got numbers. We got numbers here. Is that hot? Oh my God, you run him over. Oh, oh, you stiff arm him too. Let's go, Chub. Finish this game, Chub. Okay, come on. This is the Sean Watson carry right here. Okay, what type of read option was that? I like this right here. Zone weak, I like this. I like this. Set hut. Bro, he's stream sniping. Why would he shift his line left? Chub, there's just no way we fumbled with the game on a line. Literally no way we fumbled with the game on a line. Browns fans, what would the Browns fans do right here? What would the Browns do right here? Fourth and one, you're up by four. You can go up by 10. I feel like you got Chub. You got to go power L. You got to go power L right here. Set hut. Hut hut. Let's go hunt. Somehow hunt was in the game. Let's go back to that read option that didn't work. Right, boys? I lost two yards, but this is what the runners do. Even if they lose two yards, they will cycle back to this read option. See, now me, I would remove it from the playbook, but now I know that's what totalers do, right? Damn, I lost two yards. We're going to come back to that. We're going to come back to that one later. Chub is getting it done right now. Chub is absolutely getting it done, boys. Chub is absolutely getting it done. How does he have a head still? No, this is a member of the chat. He asked to play. So I said, all right, let's go. If you send the game, we'll play. You run the ball here down by 11 here and late in the game, you got it. Let's go. Let's go, Miles. I'm getting this drag. It's mine. Let's go. All right, once again, we're double team in Kelsey. Seen enough of that. What did he do? Oh, no, I'm confused. He flipped. Nice. I got the whole middle, but I like having the middle here. He blocks Kelsey, so that's always a W. Not where you, oh, this guy got, he got the juice. Wham! Oh, he ran jet, chip, wasp, but that's the chiefs playing the Super Bowl there. Trey Wyflex here. We're going to cover through Cloud again. Honestly, Clowney, you're on Kelsey. Let's go. I can't main him up on the running bit, on the wide receiver. All right, we got a double team on Kelsey here. Delpit, Delpit, just like Mutt, just like Mutt. Grant gets it done. Oh, get a block. Oh, Grant, Grant, Grant, Grant. Oh, Miles Garrett getting home again, Miles Garrett. We like the left run here. We're going to motion here. Oh yeah, we're getting extra blockers over here. Right off the edge. We're going to stand for him. Who did that, like number 32 is the, that's the guy that returned the fumble in the Super Bowl. So he's an actual linebacker, but he sheds so fast right there, boys. Questionable time out there by going buckets. I mean, I like this. I like this to people's Jones right here. I like people's Jones right here. I don't know what he's putting me. Oh no, what would the Browns do here? Would they kick or would they go for two here? I think they'd kick here or would they go for a touchdown? Touchdown ends the game, but if we were fourth and goal at the one maybe, yeah, they'd kick right here. And we're just, we're just stymie and my home is in the boys. We really are. Literally every coach in the history of football would kick. Literally every coach in the history of football would kick right there. Good, this is the most you've run all day, kid. So glad that was the most you've run with the football all day. So glad you brand the end zone right there and wasted my life as a 36 year old man. Thank you, buddy, for doing that. So glad. Out back to the struggle bus that is you. Uh-oh, is Miles dialed? Is Miles dialed? We got a double team. And he's in a contain. How do I fix this? Blitz, adjustments, adjustments, adjustments. I don't know, he's got dots. I definitely hit stick my own man right there, but you know, I let somebody know that, you know, we're getting physical. Oh yeah, Miles, just loop right around them. Why be, why not? You're, oh, we can go three deep here. I like three deep. That's my call. I do. I like three deep. Miles is not blinking now. What a wasted X factor. How do we blink? Give up two yards, get a sack and now we're not blinking. Once again, oh, he went corner out. Last time he motioned, he went corner out to Kelsey. Yup, yup. Dude, I play Madden for a living, dude. This is why I'm great, like that. And of course we don't have anything. Let's go Delta. Oh, let's go Miles, good hustle. Three deep was not the move. Prevent, prevent you from winning. They've told me this before. Prevent, prevent you from winning. Uh-oh, 20 yard line here, bunch tight end. We're gonna bring, listen. We're gonna bring some heat here, boys. Respect it or not, we're bringing some heat. He goes PA boot over. He's gonna throw the ball at my face. I'm sure of it. Good job right there. Good job, good job. Had hella bad adjustments. What do you want to draw here? Gets inside the end. Uh-oh, he's gonna know how to go here. He's gonna throw something to Kelsey. I don't know where to be, but it'll be something. Come on, Miles, get after the quarterback. Maybe I should have done a double team Kelsey when he's gonna block them. I don't know how you block Kelsey first thing goal on the six. I don't know how you do it. Am I wrong, boys? Like how do you double team Kelsey there? How do you block Kelsey there? Just elite coaching from Butters. Absolutely elite coaching. Just when I put my whole defense on Kelsey, we block them. So I don't have any deep blues back there. Does he go onside here for buckets? Does he do it? He's thinking about it. He's in the huddle right now with the special teams coach, the head coach and the quarterback. Are we going onside kick here or not, bucket? What are we doing, boys? What are you guys doing in the chat? Two timeouts left, it's a 42nd play clock. I'll be honest, I think you have to go. I think you have to go onside kick here. If you had three timeouts, maybe not, but you know, using that timeout to end the third quarter comes back to bite them a little bit here. Men would love to have three burners in the pocket there. We'll see what we can do here with Grant Sr. Can Grant Sr. just return this kick and end the game for him? Whoop, whoop, I don't know, okay. Now I tell people all the time, man, you have to come to the huddle with an idea right here. Are we going for the first down or we just want to take his timeouts and punt him the ball? That is completely the decision you have to make before the whole series of downs goes. What do you want to do? You know, do we want to take the clock and just punt or do we want to get the first down? And if you want to get the first down, I've always felt like it's easier to pass on first and second down than it is on third down. But we're going to mix in a little read option here. The Sean Watson hasn't carried the ball all day. We'll see if he crashes down. He doesn't, shove is free, doesn't get a stiff arm right there. Let's see if he uses the first timeout here. They don't want me to pass here, the coaches. So they've decided that we're going to punt him the ball back here if we don't get this first down. I just feel like the left side run is just wide open. You know, I really do. We're going to motion in here, Cooper. We get no reaction from the defense. It tells me it's zone coverage. I'm going to get a little done. Dog, 50, oh no, a 15 yard face mask. He puts on aggressive tackling and ends the game on a penalty. Oh my gosh, that's unfortunate. Just literally just not the ending you want to see there. We all play Madden to be like the coach of our team. You got to question this guy's game management. You just have to. You just have to question his game management. Like what was going through his head with his timeout usage, with his aggression on defense, blocking Kelsey at the goal line. You know, just really not what you want to see out of the chiefs right there. You really don't. I don't really want to pump the ball. He did his best. You got to learn that. You have to learn that that was a mistake at the end of the game. You have to, boys. Can't give him a chance after that. You never lose you learn, baby. And I'll tell you what, he learned a lesson here. I want to run the ball again, but I might fumble. I could take a knee here, but I'm risking it because I have this guy with nasty streaking post up. Oh, he gets a hit. No, that'll be GGs. That'll be GGs for the boys. GGs, oh, we're gonna run off sides. Okay. We're angry. I took time out of my busy night to play you and Reggs and you're running off sides. What am I doing? I messed up. Oh, he's got a chance now. All right. All righty. Can we get some three deep now? We're gonna go two man under here. How many isn't coming? Let's see what we got here. This is bad. I didn't really see that. I thought I could just run the clock out. I don't know what happened there. He cheesed, he cheesed glitched me right there. He cheesed glitched me. Let's go Miles Garrett. Let's go Miles Garrett. You gotta eat here. GGs, let's go, man. I mean, I'll be honest, absolute terrible game for butters. Like, you have one shot for the end zone and you put Kelsey on a corner out. What are we doing? You know what I'm saying? What are we really doing? What do we gotta reevaluate our lives? Oh, all in all, we have to reevaluate our entire thought process. If you're not gonna use your personnel the right way, why play mad?

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Photoshop 2022 - How to Share and Comment

Sharing and commenting on a photoshop document is easy in Adobe Photoshop 2022. First step is to go to windows and then click on the comments window. Now go down and click on the blue share button. Add your colleagues into the document or send out an email invite. Next, click on add comment to make a new comment and resolve comment to address a colleagues comment.

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Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop tutorial and this one we're in Photoshop 2022 it just launched recently and I want to show you some great new features and functions inside of it and this one I'm going to show you the new comments window and in particular how you can have yourself or someone else comment on images shared images that you're let's say you're on a team and you're sharing your document with someone else on the team and you want their feedback uh traditionally it wasn't possible and then one of the later releases it's been possible through the creative cloud website but now it could be done inside the document I just hit the wrong button there let's go ahead and show you how it's done first off you've got an image in here and I've made a nice little adjustment layer so I just changed the brightness and I want to get some feedback so what I do is I go up here to window and I'm going to drop down and you're going to see comments this is brand new the comments window left click on it and it's going to open up the comments the first thing you need to do in order to unlock commenting like it says here and invitations and versioning and all that good stuff is you got to hit continue and you got to save a file into the creative cloud so I'm going to call this uh creative one whatever it doesn't really matter I'm just going to go ahead and save it yeah you like the picture of that puppy dog there yeah I know that's what happens when I start drawing just kidding I'm going to left click on save and this is step one so we've created we've saved it now to the creative cloud should take a quick second the next step is we want to now share this document for commenting and versioning and all that stuff so it does take a few seconds to save but it should be done in about one second there all right good enough now here we go you'll see that we have the nice blue share button I'm going to left click on that and we're going to share it for feedback and comments I'm going to share it with uh Curtis at mvn.tv that's my other email so I will hit invite to edit and presto it will ship it off and it will now allow me to go into my email and accept that invite also keep in mind that you can go ahead and make changes to this so right now you can go ahead here and click change and if you want it so that other people with the link can save a copy you can simply turn that on do note that that does cause potential versioning issues but depending on what your use case is it might be useful to you from there theoretically someone else could come into the version they could load it up themselves and they'll write great work Curtis please make brighter and then hit submit and presto they're going to have a comment and then I can now go ahead go in there and read this and if you really want to go down the rabbit hole you can go in there and edit the comment you can say resolve so that you uh seen the feedback and it has been adjusted accordingly but that is how you go ahead and collaborate comment version invite all that good stuff inside it'll be photoshop 22 2022 a lot more content coming up soon stay tuned be back soon

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Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A n... | RTCL.TV

### Keywords ### #preanalyticcontamination #Mixedflora #urinecultures #occurdue #Mixed #flora #contamination #RTCLTV #shorts ### Article Attribution ### Title: Investigating risk factors for urine culture contamination in outpatient clinics: A new avenue for diagnostic stewardship Authors: Patrick S. Whelan, Alicia Nelson, Christopher J. Kim, Christian Tabib, Glenn M. Preminger, Nicholas A. Turner, Michael Lipkin ,and Sonali D. Advani Publisher: Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.1017/ash.2021.260 DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/7194f7f1d24140e3919cb7e7ff7e9bcb Source URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2732494X21002606/type/journal_article ### Image Attribution ### Background images were sampled from the source article ### Channels ### YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@medicinertcltv Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@medicine_rtcl_tv ### Video Timestamps ### 0:00:00 - Summary 0:00:24 - Title 0:00:30 - End

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Mixed flora in urine cultures usually occur due to pre-analytic contamination. In our outpatient urology clinic, we detected a high prevalence of mixed flora, 46.2%, which was associated with female sex and older age. Patient education did not influence the rate of mixed flora. Future efforts should target high-risk patients. This article was offered by Patrick S. Whelan, Alicia Nelson, Christopher J. Kim, and others.

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[Figure Fantasy] Hyun Cha Review, Build Guide & Discussion

Episode 546: Hyun Cha Review, Build Guide & Discussion Like this video and subscribe to my channel https://www.youtube.com/c/WardenMobileGaming?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook Groups (Figure Fantasy) https://www.facebook.com/groups/429651612142990 Follow and Like my Facebook Page and ask me for some game tips: https://www.facebook.com/wardenmobilegaming #WardenMobileGaming #FigureFantasy Share this video: https://youtu.be/3KUPioT8UJI

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Hey everyone, hope you are having a great weekend and welcome to Figure Fantasy. Yuncha has arrived but the hype is a bit low. So we're gonna do a review, a more comprehensive review on his kit. We're gonna do also a suggestions on his what parts badge and on team composition and my final thoughts on him because he's a collab character and there are certain implications in the game if we don't get him now so let's I'm just gonna show you guys the survey that I put out yesterday because I was so curious whether you guys are into pulling for him or not so 43% said yes but no is 32 the rest are either still thinking about it or waiting for a review so this part here the no going down this definitely is going to be a no if this trend continues so majority of the players do not think that they're gonna pull for Yuncha so let's discuss him review him let's see on what to equip him to keep him more competitive versus Ayane which is an existing defender for Galatea okay let's go back to Yuncha here let's discuss his skills okay so attack is extreme piercing range is one slot enemy attacks enemies starts from the first enemy in the same line attack speed is intermediate regular 1-4 defender upgrade effect to level 2 adds a percentage of your max health as bonus damage to your basic attack so definitely is going to be built through his HP and level 3 is your basic attacks healed you for a percentage of your max health again max health is important so we'll discuss later the the parts that he's gonna need once we're done with discussing the skills okay so next is his ultimate despair piercing spear initial energy is 50 attacks the current target to deal damage and infect the target for five seconds boost ignite and frost damage taken by the target while infected so he's gonna be doing a buff for for ignite and frost Yuncha recovers health each time he lands a basic attack on an infected target or when they are hit by a passive electric current strike boost the damage and healing amount based on his own max health so again another key to max health upgrade effect level 1 Yuncha additionally heals the ally with the lowest health each time he lands a basic attack on an infected target when they are hit by his passive electric current strike so he has healing for his allies lowest HP level 3 is going to be each time an ally deals basic attack damage to an infected target gains inspire for three seconds so what is inspire well inspire is here so moving on to his passive electric electric current strike when taking damage he has 15% chance to stab the attacker where the spear wants to deal damage boosts his damage reduction by 40% so 40% self heal healing with allies and inspires all front row allies for three seconds this one inspire is immune to silence well under the inspired state so unless if you're doing pvp inspire is going to play a part but this is going to be very short for three seconds only so i don't think this is going to be helpful for his kit i just hope that they just change this or they increase the number the duration instead of three seconds probably five or more so the change of stabbing with his spear will be adjusted by his accuracy bonus so take note his accuracy should also be increased while damage will be increased based on his max health so max health and accuracy upgrade effect is grand 20 reduction while inspired electric strike recovers health when his health falls below 50 and this is the definition of inspire and lastly is your special super vigilance has a 25% chance of reducing damage taken by 50% when attacked so upgrade effect bonus max health by 5% and defense by tim he has a 33 35% chance of reducing damage taken by 50% when attacked so that is the gist of his kit so nothing too special about his kit so hp healing self heal ally heal damage reduction and supposedly buff for front row but again it's a very small or short buff which doesn't you know have any bearing so that is his skills guys let's move on to what you should equip him with okay so let's just imagine that this is that this is your chaff for a while so he has to be built with all hp at most i would rather have him all hp because most of his skills are anchored on hp if you have a preference put one you know one set hero defense but again hp is my recommended one for him okay so as far as badge is concerned we need to equip him with external mid summer badge which boosts his accuracy or if you don't have this one you should be able to equip this one the end time ambition badge okay so team composition going back to what we have i'm just gonna be filtering this for galatea if you really want to to maximize him you really need to bring Ayane with him you also need to bring Zayun with him as your frontline the rest would be damage dealers at the back um namely would be lubu if you take out Zayun you could put in Erixia for for shared health that's it but you can splash him basically with any team if you don't have him you can mix and match him with any you know any other team components if you have other figures from other teams so he's he's he's he's actually splashable as well not only limited to team galatea okay guys so final thoughts i'm gonna tell you why i'm not pulling for him obviously i have i have Ayane so i like Ayane's kit better than him in terms of overall defender what he brings he's a decent one don't get me wrong he's good if you don't have Ayane then definitely you pull for him if you have Ayane then definitely should hold back on pulling for this figure because we have a lot of things needed for galatea especially a dps we need a dps badly for galatea so i would rather you save for that figure rather than getting him unless you want two defenders in your galatea team be my guest you can pull for him we might need him in the future or in future content so i propose a solution for you guys for those who are who are not pulling but might still pull okay so if you're backing on pulling him here you cannot pull him here because you need you must own yunxia before you can buy this limited piece so that's the problem so if you're still convinced that you still need him in the future pull for him once then buy copies of him here so that you won't have to pull there and save those for you know future banners that we may need currency for but that's it okay guys so that is it so basically right now my mindset is i'm not pulling for him but i'm still in defense i still have time to pull for him so thinking about it uh while i'm thinking about it minors will save currency but definitely i'm leaning towards not pulling for him kind of let's say 70 to 80 percent not pulling versus 20 to 30 percent pulling okay guys so thank you very much for staying this far so hopefully this video was informative and this could help you decide whether you're gonna pull for him or not and you know comment down in the comment section if you're going to pull for him or not so thank you guys stay safe take care this is the warden and i'm out of here

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Marc Talluto, DXC | ServiceNow Knowledge18

Dave Vellante & Rebecca Knight join Marc Talluto, DXC Fruition Global PRactive Lead, DXC, at ServiceNow Knowledge18 in Las Vegas, NV. #Know18 #theCUBE @siliconangle @servicenow

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Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering ServiceNow Knowledge 2018. Brought to you by ServiceNow. Welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of ServiceNow Knowledge 18. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Dave Vellante, the biggest conference of ServiceNow, 18,000 people here at the Venetian. We're joined now by Mark Toludo. He is the DXC fruition global practice lead at DXC. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. So let's start up by telling our viewers a little bit about what you do in your role within the organization. Sure, just brief history. So I was one of the co-founders and CEO of fruition partners. So we were acquired by CSC, now DXC, about almost three years ago. And within DXC, DXC made a very conscious decision to use ServiceNow as kind of a pivot point to digital transformations for the customers. So by acquiring fruition, and then further investments, so we've done acquisitions in Australia, mainland Europe, the Netherlands. We've really consolidated a lot of the best regional partners inside one DXC fruition practice. So within this practice, that's where we do a lot of our transformation work with customers that are starting or continuing there, their ServiceNow journey. And Mark, you and I met in the early, early part of this decade, when this show was a lot smaller. I mean, it was well under, I mean, maybe around 5,000, probably even a little bit smaller than that. And it was companies like fruition that got in early. You didn't see the CSC slash DXCs and the other big systems integrators. And this thing has just exploded. What's your perspective on the last five, six years? Oh boy. Well, I will say, you know, it's, a lot of this is driven, a lot of the growth, not just from ServiceNow, but from the GSIs, the global system integrators, that really sees ServiceNow how it can really be applied to their customer base. And so in the last five years, you went from people that were interested, but really didn't understand what it could mean. Cause you know, if it's perceived only as a ticketing tool, it's like, well, that's not important, but as it's now seen as a, really a service management platform, that getting in and servicing IT is just a way to go help HR, to go help SecOps, all these other venues. So what we're seeing is really an explosion in the GSI community, either trying to do acquisitions like we've done. So there's been about in the last five years, 17 different acquisitions of all those regional players into those various global SIs. But then those global SIs themselves, as we've seen in some of the presentations here, and DXC ourselves, we're now using ServiceNow internally as a way to automate a lot of our internal processes, to be what we call customer zero, or the lighthouse account, is now the GSI themselves. So I think they've really embraced the message we've been kind of saying all along, which is, yes, it's good for IT, but it's really good for how you operate all your shared services businesses. So that's been, and it's been just accelerating every year. Now remind me, so when you started fruition, did you start with ServiceNow? Did you have, had you had experience with other platforms before that? Oh yeah, so we actually started in 2003, so about five years before we ever met ServiceNow. There was no ServiceNow, really. No, yeah, so we were used to using the remedies of the world, I mean the other kind of various tools that were out there, but we also weren't a system integrator when we started. We were, it's funny, because you hear the messaging now, organizational change is more important, customer success is more important. Those are really the roots of our company. We were like, listen, the process needs to be better. You know, reporting, governance, all these things. We could use remedy, we could use other tools, but we need to really figure out why people are choosing to engage to do service management, or they just kind of go off and do their own thing. So for those five years, that's all we did, was talk to organizations about crawl, walk, run. How are you maturing from fragmented service offerings, fragmented support to really kind of being able to centralize those operations, and then extend outside of IT. And when we met ServiceNow, it was like, it's like they were telling us what we've been telling customers for years. It sounds like that's great. And the lack of a tool, a platform, and it really does what ServiceNow does, you know, in a way, it might have been a tailwind for your business, because complexity, but on the other hand, you had to respond and you jumped on it early. I mean, I would think a lot of SIs might have said, oh no, that takes complexity out. Complexity is cash for us. You guys had a different philosophy. You said we're going to get in early. Talk about that journey, that decision. You know, well, we first met ServiceNow, like I said, 2008, when they were about 40 people, total, you know, the entire company. And I think we were 10. So we were almost, you know, similar sizes. But you know what we were able to provide ServiceNow was explaining the customer journey that the technology was very important and it was very lightweight and nimble, but that customer journey, the customer need to understand, well, what should I do first? What should I do next? What should my one year, two year, three year look like? And that's something that we've always kind of held that we saw ServiceNow also as being this platform, we believed in the GlideFast story, which was ServiceNow before ServiceNow. And we were, maybe we were one of the first ones to say, there's IT service management, but let's just talk about cloud service management, enterprise service management. So I feel like their story and our story, we've kind of been maturing together as we've seen customers really adopt the platform. And some of the great case studies that we've seen over the years, those have been our customers that we've helped encourage to say, what's the difference between an asset that's in IT and an asset that's in manufacturing, right? These are the same disciplines. So let's help them go out there and do that. So it's been, it's obviously been a tidal wave of work. It's been very interesting expanding globally. And you know, this is just a result of a lot of hard work on everybody's parts, too. We're sort of, at this conference, we're hearing that this is a real moment in time. And you were describing talking to companies, trying to understand those who were sort of happy to operate in this fragmented way, versus those that were truly committed to technological change and bringing things together. Do we, is that true in your mind? That there really is a recognition on the part of companies and employers. That this is, we need to get better at this. You know what we're hearing? We're hearing from very large enterprises, some of them in even aerospace and defense that are like, we have to recruit younger talent. You know, they do have aging populations that will be exiting their workforce. I've seen this from universities that recruit obviously students, but then it's then the workforce. The expectation is now so much higher that their experience with IT inside their employer is much closer to their experience as a consumer. We've been saying it for years, but now it's really become a business imperative. As customers, I should say as our customers, but they are trying to make their workforce happier, not only just more productive, more engaged, but also, you know, retention. It's, I feel like it's the moment of the worker themselves and look at other economic factors. Unemployments at a historic level, finding people. You're competing for your own workforce to come work for you. They can't show up and you give them a Windows 95 machine and like an Office 2001 product suite, it's a reflection of how you as a company actually operate. So all of those are kind of coming together into this consumer-like experience for the employees of our customers. And a lot of talk about new ways to work, the future of work. So what's your expectation going forward for how that affects business, affects your business, organizations. It sounds like they're closing the gap between consumer experiences and enterprise experiences. What's next? So you know, a big word, friction and frictionless, right? Like where's the efficiency? What is the friction in the different departments working together? I think as people really do adopt this, called the service management platform, that system of engagement, once those silos start to come down, once they start to share that data, we see it in like individual customers, they kind of go through this aha moment, they've cleaned up their data sources, they realize everything's on one platform, and then they're like, well, couldn't I build this? Can I build that? Yeah, you can, and it really starts to accelerate. So I think we'll see the barriers of these business units really fall. I think IT's role is going to shift to be almost a, you know, we talk about a service management office, not a project management office. So the service management office is, how well are all of my services, that whether it's HR, whether it's finance, how are those services being consumed by my employees? So I think we'll see that pivot. It gets away from IT being more T, the technology and more the I, like what information services am I providing? But I think really we are at that catalyst, that as people start to adopt that, it moves much more quickly from here. What's next? What is, going forward, what do you see as the DXC Service Now strategy? Boy. So, you know, this is something that, you know, we've been working, so DXC's only been in existence for one year, right? But it came from HPES, came from CSC, right, 26 billion dollar company, 180,000 people. DXC is putting all of their investment strategy around digital transformation behind Service Now. So we have another team here that focuses completely on building Service Now offerings that are behind all of the other DXC offerings. So what do I mean by that? The difference is, whereas fruition will go into a customer and say, we'll help you do Service Now work, the platform DXC team says, we want to deliver cloud orchestration. We want to deliver desktop and mobility, workforce, you know, call centers, but all of those are empowered, powered by Service Now in the backend, all of our analytics. So we do a lot of other things as DXC, obviously billions of dollars worth, but we're switching that all to be standardized on Service Now. So we're actually breaking down the silos in our own company of how our different departments work together. So if a customer buys a cloud orchestration platform, and they're also a workplace and mobility customer, and they also have maybe HR, BPO, that's all on Service Now, the DXC platform DXC built on Service Now. So that's, I mean, that's everything DXC is throwing at it, is to be that player. And do you see Service Now as that platform of platforms? Yes. And I mean, you guys really are technology agnostic, but if it fits, you'll use it. Well, we say we're an independent software provider. We don't create our own products like an IBM might or somebody else might and basically put those products in front of a customer when they're really not the right fit. So, I mean, we had John Donahoe on earlier, he said, look, this work day and there's Salesforce and there's SAP, et cetera, et cetera, we want to be the connective tissue to those platforms. Software companies are funny though. They all want to be the connective tissue, but this is what Service Now does. So, do you feel like they are in a unique position to be that platform of platforms? I really do. And we've worked with a lot of other software companies that want to connect into that Service Now ecosystem, because what we find is other software products are like, listen, I might be really good at security, intrusion detection, but do I want to create a workflow and I want to create the CMDB? That means that I have to go build an entire almost secondary product to my core competency. So, if I'm really good at antivirus, if I'm really good at intrusion detection, even if I'm really good at reporting, I still need people to act on the information I'm providing them. But I don't want to build that action engine, so that's what they're almost setting up their own boundaries, saying, let Service Now be the action engine for me and we'll just plug into them. They're becoming the standard for how customers work between silos. Great. Well, Mark, thank you so much for coming on the show. This has been really fun talking to you. It's been a pleasure, thank you. Great to see you again. I'm Rebecca Knight for Dave Vellante. We will have more from Service Now Knowledge 18 just after this.

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Medal of Honor: Colonel Ralph Puckett Jr. (For his bravery in the face of danger)

Checkout for more Latest Defense & Technology News Updates. www.defenseflashnews.com Medal of Honor: Colonel Ralph Puckett Jr. UNITED STATES 05.13.2021 For his bravery in the face of danger, Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr. has been awarded the Medal of Honor. Film Credits: Video by Harry Lockley Defense Media Activity - Army Medal of Honor U.S. Army Serve with Honor Puckett -------------------------------------------------- The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. Video created under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ---------------------------------------------------- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKBNaxsFV4hpGVc8QOUmsFg https://www.youtube.com/c/DefenseFlashNewsToday Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MilitaryTrendingNews/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/defenseflashnews Twitter https://twitter.com/defenseflashnew Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/DefenseFlashNewsToday/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/defense-flash-news-6236a01b3/detail/recent-activity/ Thanks for watching & Subscribe. COPYRIGHT: Copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976, allowance is made for 'fair use' for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statue that might otherwise be infriging. Nonprofit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

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One of the best things he grew about was the influence of my dad on it and the influence of dad on by standing up to bullies and other people. And he was very insistent on me being a man, being what a man should be, and trying to live a moral life, a good life, a life that would be worthwhile for my children if I have any children. When I got to Japan, I was told how to report to an office in the headquarters of the fort there, and when I reported there to a very dignified Lieutenant Colonel, later Colonel, later Brigadier General, he said, not only have I decided to take you into the Ranger Company, but I'm going to make you the company commander. I had a stab right there in the stomach, I didn't have one inch, one ounce of experience. So Ralph graduated from West Point, was assigned to Eighth Army in Japan, and was selected to be the company commander of the Eighth Army Ranger Company, the only Ranger Company at the time. He was told he could not have any infantry soldiers, all the infantry units were short and he'd have to take his soldiers from special troops. He had two West Point buddies who were his other officers in the command. So Ralph took command of truck drivers, clerks, food service personnel, and turned them into Rangers. He did it in a relatively short time, a couple of months, and then they deployed over into theater. I remember that day very well. We were in North Korea at the time, about 20 miles south of the Alley. As far north as the U.S. Eighth Army or the Eighth Army had gotten during the war. The Eighth Army was getting ready to start its end the war campaign against the Chinese who we knew had come into the war at that time, come in with great strength. It was bitter cold end of November weather and Ralph was at the spot that the commander needed to be, at the front with his men. There were several waves of Chinese that attacked and he defended them and in order to find where the machine guns were and some snipers, Ralph exposed himself to enemy fire, ran across the front of his command several times so that his men could shoot and kill those who were trying to kill them. He was wounded in a mortar barrage and there were several Chinese barrages that took place. Ralph continued to fight even after he was wounded, never caring for himself, always caring for his men. It's always interesting to me that his prayer before he went to combat was, God, please let me take care of these men and don't get them killed and he obviously was wounded again during the fight, was attempted to be dragged off the battlefield by one of his men. They got him behind cover and he was still conscious and said, just leave me here and you guys withdraw the rest of the way and they disobeyed his order and carried him out of the combat situation. And my typing teacher had a photograph of him that had been in the paper cut out and I noticed it because I had noticed his photograph earlier that morning in the morning paper and I thought, oh, that's a cute young man. My father said, Jeannie, that's not a cute young man, that's a wounded soldier. And as we left class got out, the teacher said, would some of you girls please go out and visit this young man? I know him. I know his family. I taught him in the seventh grade in his hometown. And she visited with me that afternoon and then began to come more often two afternoons a week and then on the weekends and finally it got to be a steady thing. And 20, 23 weeks after we met, we were married there in Columbus, Georgia. And I will always say to this day, he never asked me to marry him. But he gave me a litany of why I should not marry him. He said, I will take you away from your family. You will be living by yourself, you'll be raising children by yourself, I may be killed in action, you'll have to take over everything. And I, of course, was so in love, I said, that doesn't matter. I can do it. I can do it. But indeed he did that, exactly what he said. I didn't mind at all. The impact that Ralph had after he retired was as much as he had on active duty. His goal was to make every infantry soldier, every infantry leader the best they could be. My overwhelming philosophy always when I was working with troops was be there, suffer the same hardships, get soaked in the rain just like they do. Be cold just like they are cold. Be there. He's the living embodiment of the army values, our soldiers' creed, and the Ranger creed. It can't be that. He's that quiet leader, that quiet professional, who is an absolute torrent in combat, both in the Korean War and Vietnam. Doesn't ever expect praise, doesn't ever want to be known, will always give all of the credit to his men and his sergeants, but he is a true warrior, and that's why we're recognizing him with a Medal of Honor. My life as an Army Ranger in Korea has been one of the most exciting and interesting things I could have ever done. I'm glad that I was a participant. I'm glad that I had the assignments that I had. It was a good experience for me, a growth experience for me. I wish I could do it again.

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Transmission of Signals in the Nervous System | Physiology (Theory) | ZOO519T_Topic017

ZOO519T - Physiology (Theory), Topic017: Transmission of Signals in the Nervous System, By Dr. Ateeq ul Jaleel @thevirtualuniversityofpakistan

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Dear students, in this module we shall discuss the methods of transmission of signals in the nervous system. The neuronal signals are transmitted in the nervous system in two forms. The first method is the graded, electrotonically conducted potentials and the second form is in the form of action potentials. Dear students, a signal is coded alternately in these two forms that is graded potentials and action potentials. The graded potentials are produced for short distance conduction at the sensory and post synaptic membranes, while action potentials are generated for long distance conduction along the axons. This coding also involves interconversion of electrical and chemical methods at synapses. We shall take an example in which a stimulus is received by a receptor organ at its sensory neuron as a result a signal is generated which is transmitted through the neuron into the other components of nervous system. When a stimulus is received at the receptor endings of sensory neuron, a depolarization that is a change in membrane potential occurs. This change happens in proportion to the strength of the stimulus. This potential change at the receptor side is known as receptor potential. This receptor potential is graded potential because it varies in a continuous fashion. Dear students, the time course and amplitude of a receptor potential are closely related to the time course and intensity of the stimulus. So the receptor potential is an electrical neuronal analog of the stimulus. After receiving the signal, the signal spreads away from the receptor side passively through electronic conduction to the cell body part of the neuron. However, this signal decays over a relatively shorter distance. The decay happens because of the resistance of cytoplasm faced in the cell body as well as due to the reason that this part of the neuron does not contain voltage gated ion channels. So action potentials cannot be propagated or produced in this part of the sensory neuron. For distant transmission, if this signal has to be transmitted for a long time, then there are not many graded potentials for it. For this reason, regenerative action potentials are produced, which are produced at the spike initiating zone, that is the axon-heloc. Axon-heloc contains voltage-gated ion channels and this is the reason that action potentials can be initiated here. These action potentials can conduct signals without decrement for long distances when the signal reaches the axon terminals. It is transformed from electrically encoded signals into chemical signals in the form of neurotransmitter molecules. This chemical signal is then transmitted across the synapse to the next neuron. When the neurotransmitter reaches the next neuron, that is the post-synaptic neuron, it causes potential change in the post-synaptic cell. The change in membrane potential happens when the chemical signal is converted back into the electrical signal. This membrane potential generated in the post-synaptic neuron is known as post-synaptic potential. The post-synaptic signal or post-synaptic potential produces a graded signal that reflects the properties of the original stimulus, which initiated this process, which the receptor had received on the site and which generated the potential, post-synaptic potential is a potential change, which is graded. This graded post-synaptic potential again brings the spike initiating zone of post-synaptic cell to threshold, thereby triggering an action potential in the post-synaptic cell. In this way, if we look at it, the signal initiated from one cell has been transferred to another cell and during that time, it has moved on to electrical and chemical, both forms and in addition to this, the graded and regenerative action potential has moved on to both patterns. In this way, these signals move from the peripheral nervous system to the central nervous system.

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Prosecution wrapping up case in Williamson murder trial

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Appalachian Wireless is Appalachian Advantage. Unlimited text talk and two gigs of data for as low as $45 a month. Or if you like, get five lines on eight gigs of data for just $145 a month. See store for details. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless and East Kentucky Network Company. The murder trial for 22-year-old Anthony Raheem Ariaga continued today in Mingo County Circuit Court. Ariaga is accused of killing former coal company executive Bennett Hatfield. Hatfield was allegedly shot in the back while cleaning his wife's grave at Mountain View Memory Gardens in Mayer Memorial Day weekend last year. Today in court jurors heard testimony from officers from the Mingo County Sheriff's Office and experts from the West Virginia State Police Forensics Lab in Charleston. Each person who testified in court today dealt with evidence from the case in some way or another. The first to testify was the lead investigator with the Mingo County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Patrick Allen Mounts. He collected evidence from the scene and sent it to the lab in Charleston. He also reviewed evidence he didn't specifically handle himself. Calisa Carper, David Miller and Crystal Workman also testified today in court and were considered experts in their field. Carper examined the firearms and bullets. Her results were inconclusive. Miller examined clothing and other materials. He found a stain on a hoodie collected from the scene and sent it to Workman for further testing. She explained to the jury that the stain on the hooded sweatshirt contained Anthony Ariaga's DNA. However, Ben Hatfield's DNA was excluded. Chief field Deputy Joe Smith with the Mingo County Sheriff's Office is the last witness the prosecution will bring forward. He explained his part in the investigation to those in the courtroom today. After Smith testifies, it will be turned over to the defense. The trial will continue throughout the week. In Williamson, Shelby Porter, EKB News.

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2015 Pardee Lecture V1

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Good evening everyone. It's a pleasure to be here. What I really wanted to do is give an overview of specifically what are the the most impactful Gynecologic cancers and really what's changing, you know What are the things that people should know about or should be watching for for future changes? Gynecologic cancer is a pretty focused area and yet within that it's complex There are six different sites where cancers can occur in the female reproductive tract So you can see it on my drawing here ovary uterus cervix, vagina, vulva and dimetrium And there's even one more that's not on the illustration there and that is gestational trophoblastic disease Which is unique in all of cancer in that it's a cancer of placenta And so unlike most cancers which arise in an individual a placental cancer is Essentially a transplant tumor. It's a tumor that has the father's genetics and that makes it quite unique with respect to any other cancer Given the constraints of time, I'm sure you all didn't want a full day seminar on this So I'm going to limit my talk today about the most common three of the gynecologic cancers So this would include endometrial cancers cervical cancers and ovarian cancers The others are quite a bit more rare on the other hand the endometrial cancers are fairly common about one out of every 30 to one out of every 40 women will be affected in her lifetime So I will begin with cervical cancer This is the third most common gynecologic cancer of women in the United States today but historically in 1940 if I were to give this talk it would have been the most common cancer of women in the United States and Notice that I didn't say the most common gynecologic cancer. I said the most common cancer of women It was more common than breast cancer. It was more common than lung cancer Colorectal cancers it is by far the most common cancer of women and a lot has changed now It's down about number 12 on the list for how common this cancer is among women in the United States We're pretty fortunate though because it's not that way around the world if we look around the world Cervical cancers are still the second most common cancer of women Worldwide and the burden of the disease is huge It's about a half million women per year in the world develop cervical cancer and about a quarter of a million die of this disease in The United States and in Canada and in Western Europe Where we have the advantage of robust health care systems and good screening infrastructure This is a relatively rare disease It's tragic when it does occur because it's so very preventable, which we'll talk about more today So we owe a lot in this reduction of cervical cancer over the last 60 or 70 years to George Pappinicholo He was the developer of what has been called the pap test or the pap smear over many years And this was first put into use in the 1940s Although his publications Occurred when he was at Cornell I would point out that he was at University of Michigan briefly for a part of his early faculty career So what the pap test has done is has allowed us to identify cervical cancer Before it becomes a cancer when there's a lot we can do to reduce the chance of it progressing to cancer And if it is a cancer to try and detect it as early as possible So we know a lot about what causes cervical cancer and this is fairly unique with respect to most cancers This is a cancer caused by the human papilloma virus. It's a very common virus It's passed primarily through sexual contact But can be passed through other means for example a mother who has the HPV virus when pregnant Can cause that virus to be passed through vertical transmission to her fetus and this can occur even prior to labor So although we think of it as a sexually transmitted disease. It's more complex than just that Smoking is a co-factor. We know that the more a woman smokes or if she's exposed to secondhand smoke The higher her lifetime risk that cervical cancer will develop The virus itself is interesting There are about a hundred different kinds of HPV virus and not all of them are predisposed to causing cancer So plantar warts for example, which many people have on hands or feet are caused by a human papilloma virus But they're typically caused by a different strain of the virus and not related to cancer production But types 16 and 18 most commonly do have a high chance of causing cancers not only in the cervix but also the vagina and the vulva and also in the Oral pharyngeal tract tonsillor cancers and even some lung cancers So the burden of disease affects women and men Particularly given that it affects the oral pharyngeal areas Now how common is the virus? Well, it turns out it's very common this graph comes from a study done at University of Washington and it Was a group of gracious women who allowed themselves to be tested for HPV every three months all the way through college So that was a pretty big commitment But it helped us to learn a lot about HPV and if we just monitored those women through their college years Those who had never been sexually active who started college Over the course of that four years about 60 percent were exposed to HPV virus Now if we look at that in terms of public health data available to us from around the world about 80% of all people men and women worldwide are exposed to HPV at some point in our lifetimes So this is a hugely common virus. It's not something that's very limited in its scope It's not something that's specifically one element of our society or one group of people at risk. It's all of us Now when that virus is Transmitted or if we are exposed to it in most of us The virus will run its course and our body's immune system will clear the virus this takes time It usually takes as you can see on the graph here a year a year and a half sometimes two years But it doesn't mean that every woman for example who gets HPV will go on to develop cancer In fact, it couldn't be farther from the truth most will clear this virus So what does clearing mean clearing doesn't necessarily mean that the virus is cured But it means that it's no longer detectable and in that non detectable state is not capable of causing disease Now if a woman is stressed physiologically So let's say she has a bad asthma flare and she's put on steroids or she's had a major life trauma or stressor in her life Sometimes this virus can reactivate or cause a new problem with the lower genital tract Very similar to what happens with chicken pox virus in people who get shingles Where people have had that viral exposure and then many years later It activates again for various reasons Now another important thing to know about HPV is it's very common in its overall prevalence But especially in adolescents and in young adults if we look at prevalence or detectability of HPV virus It rises very steeply in young women's teenage years Typically peaking around the age of 30 and then it usually falls Now this is population-based studies and it really tells us an interesting story about the virus And that is that cumulatively we as a population Develop this immunity and this ability to clear the HPV virus, but it takes time Now what that means is that in women under the age of 30 if we were to do screening tests for cervical cancer Based on prevalence of HPV We would get a lot of false positives Because these are women who have the virus. It's detectable and yet it's destined to go away. It's not destined to cause cancer It turns out that the women who go on to develop cervical cancer get it because the virus persists It persists past the age of 30 And so when we look at current recommendations with modern pap test screening of how we screen for people You'll notice in a few minutes when I show you that there's a difference in how we screen women Below the age of 30 and above the age of 30 because of this particular data So what are those recommendations for screening? Not all cancers have a good screening test But cervical cancer has a great screening test and that's the pap test Cervical cytology So the rules though for how often and when we should do pap testing have changed a lot because the technology is better Than it once was We used to say when a woman who became sexually active regardless of age. She should start doing pap testing now We say over the age of 21 a woman should start doing cervical cancer screening Why that difference because as we learned more about the HPV virus We recognize that even if a woman is 16 and sexually active and acquires that HPV virus It doesn't cause cancer right away. It only causes cancer if it persists for time And if we look nationwide at the incidence of cervical cancer in women under the age of 21 It's very close to zero statistically So we no longer recommend starting screening at young ages, but we do recommend starting by age 21 And this is a strong consensus Among all of these professional societies you see here the American Cancer Society the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Our pathology societies the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. It's unanimous If we look at some of the other rules about screening We also used to do pap tests forever But we know now that most cervical cancers happen around the age of 55 And once a woman has gotten well past that if she's never had abnormal pap The chance of her developing or dying of a cervical cancer late in life is very minimal So now we have a stop rule and that is that when a woman gets the age of 65 If she's had normal screens for the preceding decade, she no longer needs to do that pap test So we're starting at age 21. We're stopping at age 65 Now if a woman has had a hysterectomy, so hysterectomy is a hugely common operations about 600,000 cases per year in the US the majority of which are done for non cancer indications So let's say a woman has a hysterectomy for fibroids Well, she's had that hysterectomy. She no longer needs pap tests ever because the chance of developing a vaginal cancer Is only seven per million woman years of screened Patients that's less than the risk of a man developing a male breast cancer Even if there's no genetic abnormality in his history And so we don't test with pap tests anymore once that hysterectomy is done Now what if a young woman has been vaccinated against HPV with one of the vaccines? Do we do anything differently about paps? The answer is no She still needs to have the same screening as a woman who did not have vaccination As to how often we do this test If a woman is under the age of 30 and remember that graph I showed you where HPV is rising until the age of 30 In that group, we will now do pap testing every three years Now this is different from what used to be taught. We used to say let's do it every year But now we do liquid-based cytology the methods of interpretation are better So we do it every three years up to the age of 30 and Then once she is past the age of 30 the recommendations change to be every five years With what's called a co-test a co-test is a pap test But it also adds an HPV test and so the two together as a combined test are called a co-test If both components of that co-test are normal normal cytology That's the pap and normal HPV in other words no HPV of the high risk is present Then the risk of that woman developing a cervical cancer within five years is statistically close to zero It's about 0.016 per hundred thousand women and so that's about as close to zero as it can get and in fact If you followed that population even out to ten years the risk of cervical cancer is very minimum But we feel uncomfortable recommending screening every ten years and so we still recommend every five years with that co-test in Some communities the access to the HPV testing is not present And so in that group of women over the age of 30 where HPV tests cannot be done We still recommend the regular cytology test every three years Now what we would hope what we would wish for is that in a screened population We would drive the risk of cervical cancer to zero if we look at this historical data of the risk of a woman dying of Cervical cancer the curve is essentially logarithmic It fell very fast and very dramatically from the age from the 1940s on to the present However, you'll notice around 1985 to 1990 We saw a plateau Why didn't we drive cervical cancer all the way to the extinction? Point that we would have liked well turns out there are reasons for failure. Some of these we could Manage if we had the consensus to do so or the will to do so We know that most women who get cervical cancer in this country Are unscreened patients? They've never been to see a doctor. They've never had a pap test This is really an indictment of access to care and the more Regularly a woman has been screened the less likely she is to develop cervical cancer or its precursors In some women who've been screened previously, but now it's been more than five years That also accounts for about 10% of cervical cancers So you can see that 60% of cervical cancers happen just because they weren't getting the screening that they needed to get the minority of Cases occur because of technical errors like the pap was wrong or the doctor got an abnormal pap test result and Filed it without acting on it. This is a minority of cases So what if a pap test is abnormal? What do we do? Well number one is we get on our soapbox and encourage women to stop smoking and in fact We should all be doing that at every visit every time But we also do coposcopy where we look at the cervix with a binocular microscope Inspecting the dotted line that you see my red arrow pointing to which is the squamo-clumnar junction This is where two different skin types join on the cervix That's where the HPB likes to grow and in fact of all the places on the cervix where a cancer could occur 95% happen right at that junction. And so we look with the microscope We can biopsy under microscopic guidance and if we find a pre cancer What we can then do is in the office numb the cervix use a little loop that has Radiofrequency energy and essentially scoop off that pre cancer lesion. This does not affect fertility It's very well tolerated has a very high success rate This is what happens with screened populations of patients We stop cancers by removing the pre cancer before it turns into a cancer Now the other way that we deal with cervical cancer to try and prevent is vaccination So we know that it's a sexually transmitted disease. It's passed with the human papilloma virus Well, there are other papilloma viruses out there. For example, there's a canine oral papilloma virus that's present in many dogs Jensen and Schlegel studied beagle dogs. Hence the cute puppy here And developed a vaccine that could prevent almost 100 it was 99 plus percent At preventing the transmission of this canine oral papilloma virus This work later went on to be the Fundamental supporting work that led to the development of the FDA approved vaccines against HPV for human use So the first of the HPV vaccines was approved in 2006. There are now three FDA approved vaccines The first one was Gardasil 4 that prevented Transmission of four of the key HPV types types 6 and 11 which caused warts genital warts And types 16 and 18 which caused cervical cancer. They also cause Vaginal cancer vulvar cancer tonsillar cancer oral pharyngeal cancer and some lung cancers uh Second to be approved was Cervarix, which is against both 16 and 18 the virus types And then very recently within the last year Gardasil 9 was approved now this one is a vaccine effective against the nine most common HPV types This is a world vaccine The two the first two that were approved were really approved for vaccine Use or clinical use in the united states canada and western europe But there are other HPV types that predominate in other parts of the world like south america china africa That can be very deadly and yet were not really adequately prevented with the first two types of vaccines The Gardasil 9 now covers for the majority of them worldwide. And so this is now available for clinical use Current recommendation is that girls and boys should be vaccinated Ideally starting around the age of nine to 11 The goal here is to do it before people become sexually active And so one of the big misconceptions in the united states is that people will say oh my child is 10 He or she is not sexually active. I'll think about it later And so people tend to table this and think about it when their child is now a junior or a senior in high school But guess what it's too late because in many cases they may already be sexually active Once that virus has been transmitted the vaccine is no longer effective It's effective before exposure to the virus but not after And so we really need to change our thinking to say this is about prevention of an infection that can cause cancer in adults And it's effective when given as children I have two sons that are now both vaccinated But we had to essentially argue with our pediatrician to get them vaccinated Because the pediatrician was falling into the same trap of saying well, let's do it later And my wife who's also an oncologist and I said no we're doing it now And had to essentially force the issue But from my standpoint it as a cancer specialist when I take care of a 30 year old woman who has a cervical cancer That could have been prevented 100 with the vaccine. It's nothing short of a tragedy And so I really would love to see people get much more active in this arena of trying to prevent the diseases that can be prevented The vaccine is a safe vaccine. It's called a virus-like particle It's made out of proteins that the virus makes but it has no DNA in it So it cannot transmit an infection. It's a very safe vaccine in that regard It's been tested now in Actually several million women and men It has an extremely safe profile. It can cause local Pain or tenderness at the site of the injection. There have been some fainting episodes But there have never been any serious adverse effects that are reliably reported Now one other aspect of cervical cancer to talk about in terms of the what's new Is that yes, we can prevent with screening and with vaccination But if a cervical cancer occurs, we can also do some new fertility sparing options Now the schematic here shows you the uterus and those little yellow lines to the side represent ligaments Every woman has ligaments that go from the cervix to the side of the pelvis Essentially attaching to the bones to hold these structures in One of the difficulties with cervical cancers that tends to get in those ligaments So historically when we were going to treat this cancer, we had to remove everything within that yellow dotted line The uterus the ligaments the upper vagina cervix Well that of course would eliminate fertility But now we can do what's called a radical trachelectomy Where we remove the cervix the upper vagina and the ligaments, but we leave the top of the uterus in place This is a procedure that was developed in france by danielle d'argent in the early 1990s It's done in a limited number of centers around the united states including an arbor And it gives us an opportunity to treat cervical cancers while still preserving fertility that otherwise would have been lost Cervical cancers are treated based on the extent of disease For example, if a small cervical cancer is present, we can do that fertility sparing operation I just showed you But once the cancer gets off into the side tissues outside of the cervix An operation is no longer feasible. We have to treat with radiation and chemotherapy So as is true of most cancers early detection makes all the difference in the world I'd like to next talk about endometrial cancer This cancer is much more common than cervical cancer It is currently the most common gynecologic cancer in the united states And overall it's the fourth most common cancer of women So that's behind breast colorectal and lung cancers. So pretty common If we look at who gets this cancer It's very strongly linked to estrogen production And what many of you may or may not know is that fat cells in the body produce estrogen So we know that if a woman is overweight her risk for endometrial cancer goes up substantially If a woman is somewhere between 10 and 50 pounds over her ideal body weight The risk of endometrial cancer goes up three times Well to put that in absolute terms that's about a one in 10 risk lifetime. That's a pretty substantial risk Now if a woman is more than 50 pounds over ideal body weight and these are pretty stringent numbers So what do I mean by that? So if we had a woman who's five foot three By the insurance tables that calculate these risks she should weigh about 120 pounds Well, that's a pretty skinny person by our modern standards Overweight and even obesity is a very common thing in our society and in fact around the world So if a woman is 170 pounds and she's five foot three, she's now 50 pounds over ideal body weight Her lifetime risk for developing endometrial cancer is 10 times higher And put in absolute terms that's about a one in three risk So, you know, I'm a people watcher I Look at people when I'm flying and going through the airport and that sort of thing and I look around and I think oh my gosh I'm going to be busy forever Because obesity is a big big problem in the United States pun intended And these are patients who get endometrial cancer We also know that hormones given as medication can increase the risk So tamoxifen which is very frequently used as a hormonal treatment to prevent or to treat breast cancer Can increase the risk of this type of cancer I Unopposed astrogens which were given many years ago in the 1960s to treat menopausal symptoms caused endometrial cancer Now some of you might wonder about oral contraceptives. It turns out oral contraceptives are actually protective There are two hormones and birth control pills One of them being a progestin and that actually reduces the risk of endometrial cancer Some endometrial cancers are hereditary Now in the talk following mine today, you'll hear more about some of the genetics of cancers like ovarian cancers and endometrial cancers So I won't steal your thunder Other than to say that endometrial cancers can be hereditary. They can be acquired By genes that are passed from generation to generation within a family So how is this cancer detected? In the case of cervical cancers It's usually the pap test and a woman never really knows she has it other than that test In the case of endometrial cancer, this is a different disease. This is a disease that declares itself usually with abnormal pleading Most commonly bleeding after the age of menopause about 90 percent of women who develop endometrial cancer will present with that symptom The good news for all of us is that usually is a symptom that occurs when the cancer has not yet spread And that bodes well for this being a cancer caught early in most cases and therefore with good outcomes in most cases Now if that occurs, we typically will investigate With a biopsy and so the schematic here shows a little plastic tube That's an endometrial biopsy instrument. This can be done in an office setting. It's crampy like a menstrual cramp It typically takes less than 30 seconds to do Generally well tolerated and gives us a high Accuracy biopsy that allows the diagnosis to be made Sometimes the diagnosis will elude us and we will occasionally do what's called hysteroscopy Now this is most commonly done in the operating room And involves placing a very small telescope inside of the uterus to actually look and do directed biopsies This is a little bit more invasive, but if that office biopsy doesn't give us a diagnosis, this is the next step Now once an endometrial cancer is diagnosed, how do we treat it? This is a cancer that's treated in most settings with surgery So we do hysterectomy including removal of the uterus which you see in that initial circle But also the lymph nodes which are the glands to the side Lymph nodes are important because when cancers spread, this is true of cervical cancers and endometrial cancers The first site of spread is usually those nearby lymph nodes. And so in both cancer types, we remove those lymph nodes I Chemotherapy and radiation are not usually needed if the cancer has not spread But if it has spread, then we have to add additional treatment beyond the surgery The surgery itself has changed a lot in the last 20 or 30 years This used to mean a big incision But now most endometrial cancer operations around the united states are done laparoscopically So very small minimally invasive incisions You can see the four letters a b c d or a b I guess it's just a b up there in my drawing to show little band-aid size incisions where we can do the operations We started doing laparoscopic operations for endometrial cancer in the early 1990s and then around 2001 started doing robotic surgery Now there have been some misconceptions. I've had many patients come in saying well, I don't want the robot I heard that that breaks up the cancer. Well, that's actually not true. It's a misunderstanding This is what a da Vinci robot looks like the robot is on the far right You're seeing a surgery in progress These are very little instruments the instrument itself the shaft of it is smaller than a pencil the tip is very delicate The surgery is done by a surgeon at the console So one misconception is people think that a machine is thinking and doing the operation That's not true. It's the surgeon doing the operation But we are using very small mechanical hands to operate through little incisions Now what a robotic surgery is not is morselation Morselation means to cut up the uterus to remove it There had been a lot of press about this initially published by the well street journal and then the new york times in the last year About a woman who was an anesthesiologist in boston Who had a sarcoma of the uterus cut up with morselation and that caused dissemination of the cancer We as cancer specialists never morselate and never have morselated Morselation is completely different from robotic surgery and is never indicated if there might be a cancer present So how do we reduce the risk of endometrial cancer? Well, the best thing is to keep weight at the ideal body weight range So if the biggest Underlying risk is obesity then we need to focus very hard on trying to minimize that overweight tendency in our population Secondly, every woman should be aware that she should report abnormal uterine bleeding Especially after menopause, but even before menopause irregular or unusually heavy menses can be a warning sign Now birth control pills I mentioned reduced the risk and also intra uterine devices that contain hormones There is one called a marina that has a progestin hormone within it These are very effective for birth control, but actually very effective at reducing the risk for cancer of this type And in fact in some of our patients who come to us And so you might imagine, you know with this population of patients They are very heavy and often come in with diabetes and high blood pressure Sometimes aren't in the healthiest shape for me to do an operation Sometimes if that patient is too sick to operate on we actually put in an iud as treatment for the cancer And so these are effective strategies The last cancer I'll talk about is ovarian cancer. This is the one I think that people Are kind of aware is the worst of the lot and that's definitely true It's the deadliest gynecologic cancer But it's not as common as endometrial cancer. This is something that affects about one out of every 60 women in their lifetime It's something that people don't realize are actually many types of ovarian cancer There are three major categories The red line you see there is epithelial ovarian cancer. This is what most people are thinking about when they say ovarian cancer This is what gilda radner had. This is what president obama's mother had These are cancers that occur in women around the age of menopause tend to be very deadly often caught very late in the disease There are different types of ovarian cancer though the yellow line here germ cell cancers Are cancers that occur in young women almost never after the age of 30 And they usually affect only one ovary They're usually treatable with the intent to cure in other words We can usually cure them and even help that woman retain her fertility So it's important to realize that ovarian cancer is not one disease, but in fact a group of many diseases As to what causes ovarian cancer Most of what we know about ovarian cancer and its risks comes from the epithelial type the type that's the deadly type We know that Link to ovulations in a woman's lifetime increases the risk. Now, what do I mean by that? So if we had a woman who had mences every 28 days For 40 years from the age of 15 to the age of 55 And she never has been pregnant She has higher risk than a woman who had several children Or a woman who's been on oral contraceptives or a woman who for various reasons didn't ovulate So the number of ovulations increases risk We also know that there are some environmental factors that may increase risk Although this is still an area that's hotly debated and then Additionally, some of them run in family histories so the Most interesting and newest thing about our understanding of ovarian cancer Is that many ovarian cancers in fact most epithelial cancers probably don't start in the ovary at all They start in the fallopian tube And fall off the tips of the fallopian tube onto the ovary essentially seeding to that organ and then growing Now, what do I mean by the environmental impact? We've known for a number of years that if a woman has a tubal ligation So she's had her children. She's ready to have her tubes tied that actually reduces the risk of ovarian cancer In that woman's lifetime by about 40 percent No one understood this for many years But now that we understand that many if not most ovarian cancers are starting in the fallopian tubes It starts to make more sense when we ligate the tube we prevent passage of materials through the tube possibly including malignant cells But we also change the blood supply to the fallopian tube Which may make it more hostile to the development of a cancer And so we don't typically tie tubes just to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer But it is well known that if the tubes are tied it does reduce the risk The family history you'll hear more about in the next hour or so And so again, I won't dwell on that other than to realize that maybe up to a quarter of all ovarian cancers are hereditary And so we think a lot more about family history now than we once did So how do we diagnose ovarian cancers? You heard about cervical cancer where we have good pap testing with endometrial cancer We have abnormal bleeding with ovary. Sometimes we don't have very good symptoms Many ovarian cancers are asymptomatic where it's sort of a silent disease process But what we used to think of as a silent disease we now know really isn't there are some clues But what people don't realize is that those clues are usually Intestinal in nature not gynecologic in nature So a woman might present with bloating constipation nausea gas Well, she goes into her primary physician and says those symptoms her primary physician might say well I think you have constipation or you have Gastrosophageal reflux or you have irritable bowel syndrome Ovarian cancer is often very low on the list of possibilities But the data on this show that our previous understanding of a silent disease isn't really true Barbara Goff published some interesting material that showed that about 89 percent of women with early stage ovarian cancer have these symptoms So yes, these symptoms do occur with late stage ovarian cancer But almost 90 percent with early stage These are the patients who are potentially Savable with early surgical intervention the earlier we find the disease the better the outcomes for treatment So several professional societies Issued a set of consensus recommendations that were targeted both to the public But also to primary care physicians Because a woman who's developing these symptoms. She doesn't come see me first She goes to see her family medicine physician or she sees her internist Or she sees the physician assistant or the nurse practitioner in one of those practices And so what she comes in complaining of is bloating pelvic or abdominal pain difficulty eating feeling fall urinary urgency Well, those are symptoms that are common the key here is that if the symptoms persist that is cause for alarm So if any of us had bloating for a day or two or three, we wouldn't think much of it But if that symptom persists for two weeks She should be seeing someone for evaluation And on the physician side of this we should be thinking about the fact that those are not always irritable bowel syndrome And can be the only warning sign that we will get for ovarian cancer Now what about tests can't we do some test to find ovarian cancer and the answer is no not reliably Uh people have looked for many years about whether ultrasound Blood tests for tumor markers including markers like ca 125. Why don't we just do this on everyone? Well, the fact is that it's very unreliable If we use ca 125, which is a blood test many of you may have heard of it If we use that on all women and say is this going to help us find ovarian cancer It will be elevated in many women So women with endometriosis women with an infection in the tubes women who have a diarrheal illness Bad arthritis flare recent surgery all of those things can elevate the test Which can be many false alarms On the other hand if a woman has ovarian cancer And it's still an early cancer half the time the ca 125 is not elevated at all So the blood test has proven very ineffective all of these blood tests as Detection that can be used as a screening test for the population at large Ultrasound has similar weaknesses cat scans and pet scans have not been utilized for screening They're very costly. There's a fair amount of radiation involved Bottom line is we still don't have a good screening test none that any of the professional societies are advocating based on evidence Now what about a woman who comes in and she's got that bloating Sensation she's full Her physician does an exam and finds an enlarged ovary Well, now we can start doing tests to evaluate that enlarged ovary one of the most effective is ultrasound Ultrasound is a low-cost test doesn't involve radiation. It allows us to morphologically classify the ovary as to whether it looks like a thin walled fluid filled cyst which would be low risk Or a cyst that's got solid components within it, which is the patterns 9 10 11 12 on the bottom of this slide Those have a high likelihood of being malignant So here we're using the ultrasound not to screen the mass population at large But rather to triage a mass that has been identified and for that it's very good Now I mentioned the ca 125 blood test It turns out there about 13 different markers that we use For evaluating ovarian cancers and so this is again one of the reasons why it's impractical to do for everyone You know if a woman comes in and gets her one mammogram and then she's good for a while or she gets her pap test And she's good for a while. This is 13 tests and they have Sort of questionable reliability is a screen But if we have a mass Then they're very useful at helping us to know if cancer is likely That can also help of getting the patient into the right person's office In other words, should a subspecialist be doing the surgery if there is a high probability of a cancer Cat scans can be useful This is what a cat scan looks like in an advanced ovarian cancer But cat scans are also high cost tests and in most women who have a mass It's not an indicated test We don't need to spend that health care money In order to get a good answer ultrasound is much more directed and much lower cost Now what about needle biopsies? You know if a woman has a mass in her breast, it's very common to do a needle biopsy. We do them all the time But in the case of an ovarian cancer No, we don't want to do that And that's because in the breast the breast is a solid organ If we place a needle in it and if there is a cancer The worst case scenario is we might drag some cancer cells out along the path of the needle as it is withdrawn But if we then find a cancer the breast surgeon can go in and remove that needle track with high reliability In the case of an ovarian cancer, it's sitting within a very big abdominal compartment If you put a needle in it, it's like popping a water balloon It explodes and it explodes into the abdomen and spreads cancer cells throughout So we never biopsy ovaries with needles But we always biopsy breasts with needles and so there's a reason why it's okay in one area and not okay in another Now if we suspect an ovarian cancer Then it's time for a surgery and these can be very big surgeries The surgeries have multiple purposes one is called staging where we in essence Explore the entire abdomen to map the extent of disease The other is that we I use the information Of where the disease is to then do deep bulking where we remove as much of the cancer as can be removed Ovarian cancer is unique in this regard If for example a person develops colon cancer and that colon cancer has spread If a surgeon opens the abdomen and finds colon cancer all over the place There's really no Benefit of taking that colon cancer out. That's a bad situation ovary cancer is very different And an ovarian cancer if we find that if we find that there are 4 000 implants through the abdomen if I can remove the bulk of them She will do better. She will respond better to chemotherapy. She will live longer And so debulking operations can sometimes be very big long laborious surgeries Sometimes five or six hours in length Focused on getting every bit of cancer out that we can safely remove and that sometimes means we are removing the spleen or parts of the intestine or Peritoneum which is the sac that lines the abdomen because the more we get out the better people do And it's also been shown that the expertise of the surgeon matters here So a high volume surgeon in a high volume hospital has better outcomes Than someone who doesn't see ovarian cancer very much And so this is why it's important to use tests like the ultrasound and the ca 125 before the surgery In order to have our patient in the hands of the right surgeon for that operation Fertility sparing which is the last Line on this slide is sometimes possible with some ovarian cancers So it depends on the type and it depends on the stage in other words has that cancer spread when we're talking about could we or could we not preserve fertility another important concept with ovarian cancers is Are we going to be able to cure this disease or not? So the intent of treatment curative versus palliative is important If a woman has An epithelial ovarian cancer. This is the type that occurs around the age of menopause and if that cancer is spread Frequently we cannot cure that cancer Now we can often control that cancer for years So I have patients who've been through chemo Five or six times over the course of five six eight ten years And yet they're still alive even though i've never been able to say this disease is cured That's unusual many cancers don't act that way a colon cancer that has spread never acts that way A pancreas cancer that has spread never acts that way But ovarian cancers do So that's called palliative intent I'm going to control it to help give her quality of life So she can be out there living her life even though I can't cure the disease outright on the other hand The germ cell tumors that I mentioned occur in young women Those can usually be treated with curative intent meaning that they respond differently to chemotherapy And so I can leave in the other ovary I can treat her aggressively and I have a realistic chance that she will be cured for the rest of her life And so how we treat and the concept of what we will or won't do surgically is very different depending on which cancer type We're actually dealing with So where is the future of ovarian cancer headed? Well, there are several issues one is detection We know that ovarian cancers even the epithelial types that tend to be so bad If they are caught at stage one before they've spread We have a very good likelihood of long-term response long-term cures even in the mid 90% range The trouble is that we don't have the equivalent of a mammogram We don't have the equivalent of a pap test And until that happens We're really stuck with the fact that most women who get ovarian cancer come in with a stage three disease when I find them Because they didn't know they had it until it got pretty far along So a big focus for the future is whether new tumor markers might change Our ability to detect the disease early There have been some new markers approved by the FDA in the last couple of years One is called HE4, which we're finding very useful as a test to discriminate between cancer and endometriosis Endometriosis is not a cancer condition But it can mimic cancer And so in order to prevent a lot of unnecessary surgeries HE4 has been very useful OVA1 was also recently FDA approved This is a test that was designed to help the community-based physician know When to send his or her patient to the subspecialist And so it's an imperfect test But it is one that's at least designed to try and get the patient into the right person's hands to help her the most So we hope for more change here in the future, but it's still a very Uh dicey game of not having good tests Now another is risk assessment, which again you'll hear more about in the next hour But I would like to make one point and that is that publicity about risk reduction has improved a lot in recent years And for this as a cancer specialist, I really thank people who has started to talk publicly about risk reduction like Angelina Jolie As many of you probably know She has a brca mutation. She's been very public about it She went through a risk reducing mastectomy and had her ovaries and tubes removed for risk reduction Well the fact that she did that but she did did that publicly so that people would start thinking about it and talking about it I think has benefited many people And so the real trick here is learning to recognize who's at risk And that's what you'll be hearing about more in this next talk Other things that our Goals for us in the future for ovarian cancer include targeted therapies So right now if a woman has advanced stage ovarian cancer She'll go through this big debulking surgery that I mentioned and then as soon as she's adequately recovered moves on to chemotherapy And our current standard of care is we use two chemo therapy drugs carboplatin and taxol They're good drugs about 70 to 80 of our patients will respond to them But it doesn't cure their cancer. It's essentially a shotgun approach We're giving potent drugs that kill many cancer cells But not all of them and they are in no way targeted to each person uniquely based on the properties of their tumor So the concept of targeted therapies is to say well, could we Start analyzing each individual woman's cancer and start targeting what it is that's unique about her cancer In a way that might benefit her In the ovarian cancer world the first FDA approved targeted therapy is what are called PARP inhibitors PARP inhibitors are enzymes that we all have PARP enzymes we all have They have a job in life of repairing damaged DNA If a woman has a BRCA gene mutation hereditary cancer She can't fix her own damaged DNA very well, and that's probably why BRCA mutations promote cancers Well, if we inhibit PARP Then we inhibit the ability of that cancer cell to repair in response to chemotherapy or even self-destruct And we can take a woman who has BRCA gene mutation and improve the likelihood of her remaining disease free for longer That's a targeted therapy And this is the very first drug that's been approved by the FDA to target A specific group of women with a specific gene mutation In order to try and improve outcomes We hope there will be many many more in this category Now what's really driving this is there is a lot of improved technology and now some private companies offering as services genomic sequencing of ovarian cancers The challenge here is we're getting these huge reports. So if I have a patient who goes through sequencing analysis I may get back a 90 or 100 page genetic report of her tumor That's great, except I don't really know what to do with that information yet In the long run what I'd like to be able to say is okay if I see this mutation Then here's the drug that's going to treat that mutation That is what targeted therapy means. That's what the future. I think is really pointing toward but it's A process that is in its very infancy with ovarian cancer Now when you talk about breast cancers Targeted therapy and breast cancers is much farther along in its development Why is that? Well, there are about a quarter of a million women who develop breast cancer in this country per year There are about 25,000 women who develop ovarian cancer in this country per year And if you think about how clinical trials are done, you need people to participate Breast cancers are 10 times more common And so the studies are getting done 10 times faster in Essence and so we'll get there But it's very early on in development and this is what we really need to improve outcomes with ovarian cancer Clinical trials of course drive our change And so a big part of how we hope to have a better future a better Set of treatments to offer our ovarian cancer patients is to strongly encourage participation in clinical trials I have many many patients who will look me in the eye after I've talked about a clinical trial and say But doesn't this mean I'm being a guinea pig? And so we have to do a lot of careful education To really show the value of that and also the precautions and safeties that are built into clinical trials And yes, in in essence people are allowing themselves to participate in something with an uncertain outcome But then our standards of care that our FDA approved They don't cure everybody and so we have to keep trying to push those clinical trial accruals in order to do any better in the future And this would be how we develop new drugs, but also vaccines and immunotherapies In the immunotherapy categories, some of you may have heard about what are called checkpoint inhibitors that have Started to greatly improve the ability of tumors like melanoma to respond to treatment Well, this is an example of an immune modulatory therapy where you're changing the ability of the body's immune system to see and fight back On on a cancer and so there's quite a lot of clinical trial work being done right now in ovarian cancer On developing vaccine trials or checkpoint inhibitors that stimulate immune response And so these are exciting times in terms of saying what might happen with ovarian cancer But we are not nearly as far along in our successes here as we are with cervix where we can prevent the disease or Endometrial cancer where we find it early and we can intervene successfully This is a cancer that's much tougher and we have a lot longer and harder fight ahead of us And i'll close by saying what if a gynecologic cancer is detected, you know, what should you do? And this would be true for both patients and clinicians I would consult with refer involve a gynecologic oncologist. That's my discipline now. It's a bit self-serving of course But if I say well, what evidence do I have there is a lot of evidence in the literature That if you have an expert someone who's a subspecialist who does high volume surgeries high volume hospitals the outcomes are better It's very clearly been published Bristow published a wonderful study on ovarian cancer That said if you have a patient in that setting Survivals are substantially longer and this isn't unique to my own specialty You know if you needed a liver transplant or a kidney transplant or a major heart procedure The data very clearly show that if you go to a transplant center that does high volume transplants Your outcomes for that kidney transplant are much better And so it does mean That we all of us patients primary care physicians subspecialists Need to do the best we can to get patients into the right place for that Optimized care especially for diseases like ovarian cancer that are such a tough battle anyway And on that I will close. Thank you all for your attention And so as jones said part of my lecture will actually be explaining what it is that I actually do because genetic counseling is a growing profession and so it's something that People outside of the healthcare field may not be as familiar with But we'll be going over some things that dr. Reynolds touched on as well specifically talking about um specific gynecologic cancers and breast cancer and the concerns that we have for genetics What it actually means to have a predisposition for cancer Indications why you would go to a genetic counselor and what this can do for us And so these are the main types of gynecologic cancer. Dr. Reynolds already talked about he focused on the three most common gynecologic cancer. I'm going to focus on ovarian cancer and uterine cancer in addition to breast cancer because those are the most likely to have an inherited predisposition with them This is just a general list of all the population risks for um the gynecologic cancer is including breast cancer And this just shows you again. We can go from Fairly common about a one in eight risk specifically for breast cancer to one in 200 something thousand now Excuse me now breast cancer is Inherently the cancer that women are at highest risk for because we have breast tissue Men have breast tissue as well, but because they don't have as much their risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime is less than One in 100 or less than 1 percent for women. It's much higher. It's about one in eight women or 12 percent And so that's one of the reasons that we Focus a lot on breast cancer and some of these cancers don't get quite as much attention such as ovarian cancer because this is the one that Everybody is at a significant risk for just because we're women It is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths specifically for women and that's behind lung cancer And the biggest risk factors for breast cancer are having already had A breast cancer in your lifetime and also includes a history a family history of breast cancer Dense breast tissue, which I think some of the government agencies are still trying to figure out what to do with that information And then benign breast conditions and then as well birth control like dr. Reynolds touched on One of the other big risks for uh, the couple of cancers that we're going to be talking about right now is diethyl bestial It is a drug that was commonly used in the 40s 50s and 60s To treat a number of different conditions specifically to help prevent premature birth or prevent miscarriage And unfortunately we have found out After the fact that it does give us a significant increased risk of specific cancers And this also extends to women who are considered des daughters Des daughters are the women who were exposed while they were in utero when their mom was actually taking this drug now It does give us a 30 increased risk of breast cancer It also significantly increases our chance of vaginal and cervical cancer And the breast cancer risk is specifically after age 40 This is something that while I don't deal with from a genetic perspective is something that in family histories is very important for me Kind of trying to parse out What might be more related to a family history and what might be related to this des exposure Unfortunately des has many many brand names And so there are many women I see that I'm sure don't even know that their mom had a high chance of being Of taking this when she was pregnant with them So again, it's something that I think about a lot, but I don't bring up with a lot of patients Ovarian cancer one of the other ones I will be talking about today is most common in Caucasian women As opposed to african-american women or native american women As dr. Reynolds suggested it is One of the harder ones to catch and so from a genetic perspective That's why the brc one and two mutations which I'll be talking about can be so important For helping us identify those women who are at an increased risk for ovarian cancer There are other populations that or risk factors that we consider Although these things don't mean that much to women who have already had cancers But it can give us hints Especially in their family who might also be at increased risk such as having an ashkenazi jewish background Again talking about obesity Trouble getting pregnant or having never had a child Primary peritoneal cancer is the film that's in the cavity of In in your abdominal cavity. It's also considered an ovarian cancer in many purposes Fallopian cancer like dr. Reynolds touched on again is Usually how an ovarian cancer actually starts for genetic purposes in particular We consider fallopian cancer and ovarian cancer to essentially be the same thing Again another risk factor It's really interesting having a family history of breast and ovarian cancer because we group those two things together Having an ovarian cancer in the family in particular increases our risk for developing one of these in our lifetime these screening tools for fallopian cancer that dr. Reynolds touched on again all have their Detriments or their lack of sensitivity which we wish we could change but That's part of the concern that we have again for those women that have increased risks for ovarian or fallopian cancer Is knowing that our screening tools aren't as good as they are for breast cancer And finally uterine cancer is the other gynecologic cancer that has a large That can have a large genetic component There are many other things that can lead to uterine cancer besides just a Just an increased risk from family history including all of those things that Dr. Reynolds touched on For the rest of my talk we're going to go over a genetics basis so that we're all kind of all on the same page For what genetics really means for us, especially when it comes to a cancer When we're talking about genetics, we're talking about our DNA and um, I know I have A couple of people in the office in the audience who have already seen me who have heard the spiel a lot before But our DNA is essentially our recipe book for what makes us us and what makes us human And so that is also when we share so much DNA with our mom and half of our DNA with our dad That's why we look so much like them sometimes, but we still look unique is that mixed together And so what our DNA really does is it codes for all of the things in our body that make up our body And what make us us and those proteins so those proteins that make your eye color and your hair color When we have changes to the DNA they change the way that protein works And that's where our risk for cancer can come in now throughout our lifetime if we're going to Talk about the cell cycle We have our cells have to make many copies of themselves over our lifetime We have billions and billions of cells in our body And what happens is throughout that process it's like copying a recipe book by hand You're going to make some mistakes somewhere probably a couple So what normally happens is this blue x up there represents a mutation or a change in the way The DNA is supposed to be written And so when this happens in our lifetime Our body has many proofreading mechanisms for picking that up and fixing it as you can see here It doesn't persist throughout that replication process One of the other things that our body can do is identify a mutation and say this is too hard to fix So we're just going to actually eliminate the cell for This you know the function of or the greater good However, every once in a while These can be mutations caused by smoking exposure caused by sun exposure or again Just through our body making many copies of itself throughout its lifetime For reasons that are not very well understood the A mutation can occasionally slip by and you can see in this diagram as opposed to being done It persists through That first cell The next problem is is once you start with that cell Once it's permanently in that cell's DNA Every time it makes a copy of itself that new cell is going to have that same gene change Eventually over our lifetime we can accumulate these gene changes all in the same cell So we have multiple gene changes that are changing the way that our Cell is functioning. It's probably making more copies of itself than it's supposed to It's making copies of itself faster It's taking up more of our nutrients than it's supposed to and that's really when it becomes a problem We actually will end up with a cluster of these cells that all have these mutations in them that are Taking nutrients from places. They're not supposed to and that's really what a tumor or a cancer is Is a clump of cells that are just not doing what they're supposed to This can show you The general progression again that I lined out you start with one cell That kind of starts this clump of cells that has a couple of gene changes Probably not doing too much damage in such a small area one or two gene changes isn't going to change anything too much But that's when we get that hyperplasia. Sometimes we talk about that with cervical cancer We'll say a hyperplasia is there. It's not a cancer, but it's something that we're going to keep an eye on But then you can see we get to a dysplasia where things are actually now really not working the way They're supposed to and progress to a cancer and then an invasive cancer A predisposition to cancer a genetic predisposition to cancer is when Every single cell Of a person's body or from the moment they're born somebody has a gene change And it's the same gene change in every single cell of their bodies And what this means is they have leapt that much farther Unfortunately along the path to developing cancer than somebody who is at the same age as them who doesn't have that mutation in every single cell of their body This is an example of a karyotype This shows all of the pieces of our DNA in one cell and this can just show us for example where that gene changes And again, this would be in a situation that it's in every single cell of their body The problem really occurs if we're talking about the brca one gene change for example, which is on The 13th chromosome Is if we get in our lifetime a second Gene change a second mutation in our other copy of brca one. That's when things can really start to go wrong The indications that we have so we can't really look at everybody at a cellular level So unfortunately what happens is we get people who have personal or family histories of cancer and clinic And then we kind of try and work backwards We look at their family history based on what cancers they have Who has them how old they are when they get this cancer is when we start looking at Does it look like a pattern that might suggest that somebody has a familial cancer predisposition? And there are multiple things that can indicate this the rare more rare a cancer is When we're talking about breast cancer versus ovarian cancer We're more concerned about ovarian cancer in general a single case of ovarian cancer in a family versus one case in Of breast cancer in a family because it's so much less common People who get multiple cancers in their lifetime People who get them at younger ages are a big indication too And then sometimes just the sheer number of people in the family who have the same kind or same family of cancers Going back to this chart when I when we talk about Predisposition to cancers it sounds very scary and for those people that have it it really is Or can be but when we're talking about the group of everybody who's ever been diagnosed with a cancer or specifically a breast cancer 85 percent or so Of those people do not have a genetic predisposition Then we have a smaller group of people that might have a familial cancer somebody We can't identify a specific gene change in but we recognize that There are more people in this family than typical who have breast cancer or breast and ovarian cancer Sometimes this is really hard to tell if it's actually Familiar or if it's an environmental thing where the family is maybe One mom was exposed to DES when she had six children And so all six of these girls have an increased risk for certain cancers Those things are really hard to parse out. So that's kind of why we label them that way And then we have that much smaller group of people five to ten percent of breast cancer as we would consider genetic From a genetic predisposition where we can find that one big gene change that we think is the reason that they were much More likely to get that breast cancer The question about this is why do we care? Why do we care if we can find this predisposition to breast cancer or ovarian cancer? And this is particularly a question that I get from people who already have cancer What does it matter what my increased chances were those numbers don't mean anything to me anymore? So again, I'm just bringing up the population risks and we are talking about Based on specific gene changes that we have we talk about the brc one and two gene changes We can actually have other cancers that we are at increased risk for besides the one that we already have For the braca genes when a woman has breast cancer and we identify a braca gene for her Braca mutation she has a significantly increased chance of developing ovarian cancer as well in her lifetime So that's one of the big things we look for for her And something that's very common with the people that I see and something that I find very touching is that most people are more concerned about their children than they are for themselves They want to know I have breast cancer. How does that affect my daughter's chances of getting breast cancer? Here is the name of a couple of different genetic predisposition syndromes These are probably things you're not going to hear about too much Except the hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, which is what it is actually called when somebody has a brca one or brca two mutation these other ones lynch syndrome has to do with Colon cancer and uterine cancer. So again, that one's a little bit more common But some of these are a little bit more rare, but they can demonstrate that point for why do we want to know this information in the first place When it comes to cowden syndrome, you can see over there on the right hand side That breast cancer is the highest cancer that these people are at risk for and that's how these people usually come to clinic But they also have this increased chance of thyroid cancer and uterine cancer and renal cancer And then a moderately increased risk of melanoma and colon cancer If we can identify this patient we can recommend screening for those other things or Identify children before they get a breast cancer Interestingly, this is one of the few cancer predisposition Position syndromes that actually has a clinical presentation Most people especially if you have a brc one or two gene change by looking at them, you'd never know Even for these people Most people who would give them a glance over would have no idea what they're looking at But if you find a medical geneticist, they might they might know what's going on But they can have larger than normal head size. They can have what looks like pimples But it's actually a different kind of benign tumor Um, and then they have a risk for more vascular tumors or even some developmental delay So these are clues that can provide us information for which genes to test Or tell us we need to look at everybody in the family When we talk about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, this is the most common genetic predisposition syndrome that's out there it encompasses mutations in brca one and brca two Most people who have this are only going to have a mutation in one not both, although it is possible The ovarian cancer risk is higher in women who have a brc one mutation than for women who have a brc two mutation This is another Knowing the specific gene that is affected tells us specific information We might be more concerned for somebody who has a brc one mutation About her ovaries and keeping them or not keeping them than for somebody who has a brca two gene change This also includes risks for male breast cancer And that's something that is very surprising to most people that I talk to is they don't realize that their sons are at risk They're so concerned about their daughters that we need to make sure we're taking care of everybody including their sons Again, this can be more common in people who have a jewish ancestry Lea fraumini syndrome is another one that's very uncommon This does not have a clinical presentation But gives us significantly increased chance for multiple cancers and multiple rare cancers And the people that are identified as having these changes go under much more intensive screening and surveillance than even somebody who has a Brc one or two gene change We're talking about full body MRIs every couple of years those kinds of things. It can be very intense for these families Which brings up another point being able to find those people if we find a woman such as myself who has a Lea fraumini syndrome and we test my children and they're negative We can save them from having to do all of that intensive screening. We can actually take a An emotional or a mental burden off of me and off of those children So that's another reason we want to identify those families Um, this can show us the example of how we would Why we want to test children as well? So when we have an affected father and an unaffected mom So if dad is diagnosed with something like lea fraumini syndrome One of his copies of that gene is affected has that mutation in it that causes it not to work The other one is just fine When he has a child One of his sperm either has one copy the copy that's working or the copy that's not working So each child has a relative 50% or coin toss chance of having inherited that gene or not inheriting that gene and That leads to the point of there's a very, you know, it's not uh, oh your dad had Diabetes so you have an increased risk for having diabetes This is a case where you either have it or you don't but it's 50 50 And the only way we can find out is by doing genetic testing Uh, the ncc and screening guidelines these are the ones for the average population This is just to kind of give you a baseline of where Everybody should be and then what increased surveillance can mean from here So if we're talking about breast exams when we talk about having a yearly mammogram If we're talking about somebody who has a brc one mutation We would probably as long as she's above the age of 20 probably start giving her mammogram Immediately upon diagnosis as opposed to waiting until that age of 40 Or even for women who are identified as having a higher risk of breast cancer and don't have a gene change We will recommend mammograms starting 10 years before their mom was diagnosed for example I listed some of the screenings that we have for the specific cancers that were mentioned Including mammograms breast MRIs can be a little more diagnostic than screening But these are things that we can increase the frequency of or add on to somebody's clinical regimen or management For somebody who's identified at having an increased risk for these cancers For brca one and two we talk about having your mammogram every year like you normally do But then six months later having an MRI so every six months Some things looking at your breast tissue to catch a cancer as early as possible in its development And again, dr. Reynolds touched on some of the limitations of the ca 125 or the vaginal ultrasound But then the pap smear is again something that all women are recommended for and then colonoscopies And that's as opposed to prevention one of the biggest things One of the biggest personal decisions that somebody can make when it comes to preventing versus reducing their risk for breast cancer Or ovarian cancer When we talk about having a mastectomy having a prophylactic mastectomy So before somebody is diagnosed with cancer can reduce the risk of breast cancer up to 98 percent It's not perfect that 2 percent accounts for a couple of different things including Perhaps missing a little bit of breast tissue because our breast tissue kind of spreads up into our sternum It's a little bit hard to guarantee that we removed everything As opposed to if we were talking about a discrete organ like the uterus Um, but even removing our ovaries and our fallopian tubes can reduce our risk of breast cancer by up to 50 Now these are things that we don't recommend for every single woman to do You know, I can't just walk in and say today I feel like I want a prophylactic mastectomy because I just don't want to get breast cancer, which Has its pluses and minuses But these for women who have a brc1 mutation who have up to a 70% risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime It's a Better chance than not that they're going to get breast cancer. This can be something very significant for them Touching on what dr. Reynolds said again having a salpingo ophorectomy that means removing the ovarian Removing the ovaries and the fallopian tubes is what gives you that reduced risk Having your ovaries removed alone because so many ovarian cancers start as fallopian tube cancer Does not give us that protection that we're estimating for here When we talk about uterine cancer, we talk about doing things like a hysterectomy Or based on the specific cancers that are indicated based on our gene change Um one i'm thinking of which is very rare gives us an increased chance of developing gastric cancer And for those very few specific patients, we actually recommend getting their stomach removed as soon as they're diagnosed But those drastic measures is what can save people's lives When it comes to breast cancer doing more surveillance or choosing to do a lumpectomy or only a mastectomy once a breast cancer is detected Those are much more Personal or individualized decisions because we can prolong life and quality of life either way When we talk about genetic counselors, we're the ones who actually Um, I mean other professionals do this too, but we're the ones who specialize in Parsing apart family histories and figure out who can be tested based on Our clinical guidelines who's most likely to get covered for testing based on their family history and what insurance will or will not pay for Because they won't pay for testing for everybody um We're also the ones who try and sort out the difference between some environmental exposures Or maybe you do have an environmental exposure, but we still need to do genetic testing And helping everybody in the family understand what's going on based on test results that we have Identifying other family members who need to be tested whether it's a positive result or negative results And helping them understand where they're at based on where they're at with their cancer Are we talking about prevention and screening because this is somebody who hasn't had cancer yet Are we talking about additional screening for somebody who's already had a cancer? Or even in the very rare cases that in the future are probably going to pop up We actually have one FDA approved test for um ovarian cancer for brca one and two um if individuals are identified with this FDA approved test they qualify for um A third line medication, but you have to have a brc one or two gene change And hopefully things are going more in that direction so that as time goes on We have those FDA approved tests that we say based on your gene change We also know what's better for your cancer or for your treatment What we ask during appointments we ask lots of questions during our appointments Or you get a wonderful 10 page packet from me in the mail that I ask you to fill out beforehand But we ask about pathology of tumors if we can find them We know that we don't always know everything about our family history We might know that mom got breast cancer when she was 45 But we don't know if it was an invasive ductal cancer or a lobular cancer any of those kinds of things But we do the best we can to track those answers down whenever we can And if somebody knows that we're going to take that information and we're going to use it Um, we also talk about cancer treatment and follow up what people are doing What screening family members are already doing is your 50 year old uncle? Did he already have his colonoscopy or is he not looking that can be really important when we find out Oh, we haven't identified any colon cancer in anybody on In anybody of mom's cousins, but none of them are doing the screening They're supposed to so we don't really know what's going on with them But we also talk about the type how frequently How frequently people are following these recommendations and guidelines And that's again to help us interpret that family history Genetic testing and this is something That a lot of my patients asked me about and I didn't realize they didn't know Genetic testing is usually a blood draw. It's nothing more traumatic than that Although it depends on how traumatic you think a blood draw is and I'm a pretty big baby when it comes to needles But the genetic testing actually looks at in your blood sample looks at your white blood cells Looks at your DNA and actually reads them like a sentence It's a pretty unclear sentence. They don't actually look like words They look like these a t g's and c's that you see up here But with our technology, we know we can compare them to reference sequences This is what an unaffected gene looks like and we figure out what's going on here But that can lead to those variants of uncertain significance that dr. Reynolds touched on in that Just because we find a result doesn't mean we know If that gene changes significant if it changes the way that protein works or not This is a this is from myriad genetics. It's one of the labs that does a lot of testing We have lots of different options now. We can test just brca one and two or we can test 25 different genes at once It's just to give you an example of what it kind of looks like when i'm trying to figure out what kinds of tests i'm ordering This is another lab. This is a much smaller test, but it focuses on endometrial cancer So we can kind of cast a wide wide net or we can cast a little bit more of a narrow net And some of that is up to patient preference based on what we talk about what they want to find out What amount of information they can handle The last thing that I wanted to touch on was gene of the genetic information non-discrimination act It was passed in 2008 I believe and it is something that's very important for most of my patients and that's because This act protects us against Our genetic information being used against us. This means that somebody who's identified is having a brca one gene change Their insurance company can't drop them from ensuring them for that reason. They can't hike up their prices because of this reason And this is Especially important for women who don't already have cancer For women who already have a diagnosis of cancer Usually we're discriminated against or men usually the discriminating factors that you already have cancer Um Gina specifically does not address life insurance, which is something that can come into play with me sometimes for especially my younger patients who don't have a history of breast cancer I have counseled a 17 year old girl before who whose mom had a brc one gene change And so we had to talk about specifically setting up a life insurance policy for the girl Before she could go through with testing because if she had that life insurance policy in place beforehand they couldn't Take it away from her or jack up her prices After the fact, but that's something else that we talk about and consider when doing genetic counseling and testing um There are specific individuals that this does not apply to Um, and that's on the next slide, but this again covers things like our eligibility our discrimination Um They can't require you to have a genetic test, which is something really important I don't think that's been so much of a problem But um, you can submit your genetic information for proof, but they can't make you have it and they can't Do anything about that information except understanding For example, saying that this woman needs to have breast MRIs every single year Using that as proof that that's why she needed needs it is her genetic test result Some of the limitations of gina unfortunately do not cover any military families Don't cover native american tribe associated families and doesn't apply to individuals who work with Who work under a company that has 15 or less employees, so it's not perfect But it does Cast a wide net and hopefully i'm hoping in the future will be expanded a little bit to cover some more of these people But that is it for my presentation. 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मेरा नाम सीम्र है। और में जो पैसेंट है दिपू नके में भभी लगती हो। और में प्रवासर मारवादो सुध्र में काम करती हो। जि में गर में आइत ती तो दिपू हमें सब चेष्ट्टी की शिकाइत करती दे जे भभीजी में यां से दार्थ कर रहा है, विक्रम सर ने एक और काडे कमराई देख कर वोला था की, ये उप्रेस में बोथ हाईरिक्स है, इस में हम कुछ भी गारन्टी नहीं लेक सकते कि अपका पैसेंट बच्चा बच्च हैगा, यह नहीं बच्चेगा तो एक बर आप गर्वालो सी बात कर लो, फिर बाद में दिसीजन लेना जोभी लेना है, बाट में, इसकी वारे में कुछ भी नहीं कै सकता है, कि यह करोडो लोगो में से एक इनसान के होती एक विम्मारे, तो इसके बारे में, कुछ बी नहीं के थागते हैं, इसके बच्च चाएगा. बोज़ सार यो अश्पिकलो में फ़ाई क्या था के खोई अप्रेसन् करेए तो तोसब डोख्रों ने अप्रेसन् के लेव ना कर दिया था के अप्रेसन् नहींगे, बोज़ हाईरिक्स पेर, तो विक्रम सर ने हाई भ्रीती, बट में यस कोई भी जमदारे ने लेटा के ये � तो उसे भी तीख हो जाएगा, तो पंडरा दियो तक अईब्रे दिक लिए तो उसे जादा प्रोब्लम होने लगगे, उल्टिया होने लगगे, तो देद मेंने तक फिर यसे चलतारा, फिर मेंने ससुर जी से बात की ती, मेंने उनको समजाए ता है कि कुछ चिसाए अनका स तो इनकी साहा स अच्छे से निक लेगी, इसे निक तर फेंगे वो, फिर बापस निया लेक आए ते, राम सर से बात होई पहले, मिर सब सुर जी तो उसे मिलवायता, उनो ने काता पहले इको गरके देखेंगे, कि क्या कंडिषने देद मिना हो चुका है, तो पहले देखें जो उसको ता जिन्दिगी यात रहते है, अच्छे ही कुछ एक वाक्या, और अच्छे ही कोई मरीज पिष्लिक, विगत कुछ तिनो पहले ही हमारे पास आया, उसे बात करते समें मैं असकी जाचो को अद्दियन कर रहा था, उसकी जाचो के अद्दियन करने पे मुझे पता जला, कि यह तो एक अद्दिंत, दूलब और विक्रत बिमारी से गरसित मरीज है, मरीज की उमर जिसकी केवल 20 साल है, उसका नाम दीपु है, उसको एक प्रेरेस्ट तो रेया दिजीज, जिसे हम सब मीट्रल औन्विशम, वित सीविर मीट्र दीगर जितेचन, वित सीविर त्रीकस्पिट रीगर जितेचन, प्लस सीविर अब दिस फुंक्षन कैते है, मैटिकर की बाशा में, उसके मरीज प्रभीट था गसिख ता, इसका टाएकनोसिस भी बहुत मुष्किल है, जैसे गयम समस चते है, कि हमुमन यह बिमारी नहीं पहे जाती, तो कई जगे पे सामाने जाच, इको काडिगर अपी, जो हमारे हरजे की जाच कि लिए द्मुक जाच है, करने के बाओजुद भी जाच में रिजाल्ट नहीं आया, इसकी बिमारी के बारे में पता नहीं चला, तो इसी अन्ने डाउक्टर ने दीपू की काडिय केमराई कराई, और काडिय केमराई के साभित हुए, की दीपू को यह आमुक बिमारी, यह में ली सब मीटल अनुलिजम है, वो है, इस बिमारी में सब से बडी समस्स्या होती है, की यह इतने रेए दीजीजेजेज है, की हमारा पास कोई बैक्राउन्ट इस तरेके का लंबे तोडा नहीं होता, जिसके चलते हम उसको पडके यह उस से नोलेज लेके, तो मुझे आत्मु विश्वास था, मुझे अंदाजा था, की जिस तरेके की मैटीकल इक्विप्मेंट, तो सब इन्फ्रैस्टक्चर मेरी उनिट में है, यह उसके चलते हम इसको एक सफलता पुर्वक अटेम तो करी सकते है, कापी सारी समजाइशो के बाद, हमें पता चला, की मरीच की, को जो सब समजाने वाली, यो समहलने वाली एक भाभी है, और जो पूरे मरीच की यात्रा में, उसके साथ रही है, उनो ने हमें, केटेगरी कली का, की डोक्तर साहा, की यात्रा में, उसके साथ रही है, उनो ने, हमें, केटेगरी कली का, की डोक्तर साहा, चाए मरीच बचे, यान ना बचे, मैं इसकी सवस्ता में, अप और जादा तडप नहीं देख से, क्यों कि मैं, इसको रोस तिल तिल के मरतिव है, मेरे इसाप से, मैं जब सोती हूँ, या जब ये सोता है, मुझे, हमें नहीं लगता है, कि एकल जग पाएगा, कि नहीं जग पाएगा. अप रेशन के दोरान, जैसे की, हम ने, प्रटिट क्या ता, हमें कई तरीके के चलिंज जादा है, ये सब माइटल अनीडिजम में, हाट बहुत टी कमजोर हो जाता है, उस में, हाट फूल के, रिकल उसके, फूंट्चन्स, पंद्रा से, भीस परसें से भी कम रहा जाते है, साथ में, उसके वोनो वाल भी खराब थे, हम को जो साँन्टिफिकली, अनीडिजम को रिपेर किया, माइटल वाल को बदला, और त्रीके स्विट वाल को रिपेर किया, इन सब करने के बात, हम अप बाईपास, या हाट प्लंग मशीन से बहार वापस आपाए, और हम ने मरीज को, आइस यू में लेजाने में, और आज, विद ग्रेस अगाट, दीपू भिलक्ल ठीक है, उगर जाने की पून तयारी में है, और हम इस बात का, बहुत-बहुत, परम पिता को दन्निवाद देते हैं, कि दीपू की जंदकी उनो ने प्रदान की, और, दीपू को बहुत-बहुत शुक्कामना देते हैं, उसके उज्जिवल और अच्छे जीवल की लें,

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STRATEGIC SERVICE TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER NUMBER I (SSTR-1)

STRATEGIC SERVICE TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER NUMBER I (SSTR-1) - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 40119, LI 226-B-6121 - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Office of Strategic Services. Field Photographic Branch. (01/04/1943 - 10/01/1945). Instructional Film: Describes the radio transmitter-receiver unit used during World War II. Explains compactness and ease of concealment, and outlines operations in detail: selection of electrical outlet, battery, or combination of both as power unit; antenna, assembly parts, installation, frequency determination and receiver operation; parts installation, attachment of crystal equipment and transmitter operation.

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This man is carrying a complete SSTR-1 outfit while preserving a perfectly normal appearance. The transmitter and receiver are under his coat in front, and the power supply is inside a loaf of bread in the package under his arm. The set is used the world over, so the power supply units are made in three types, necessary in a world with such widely varying electrical systems. Generally, a man needs only one kind of power supply, but the instructors in the classrooms show the student operators how all of the units work. This is the power supply that was concealed in the loaf of bread. It is designed for an alternating current of from 25 to 60 cycles and of 110 or 220 volts. The 110 and 220 are only approximate as the unit will operate with as much as a 20 volt variation on either side of these markings. 90 to 130 volts on the 110 volt tap and 200 to 240 volts on the 220 volt tap. The line voltage is easy to determine by looking at the voltage marked on an electric light globe. If there are no light globes around, push the voltage selector switch to 220 volts and turn the set on. If the set won't work or the tube will not light up, push the selector switch over to 110 volts. It won't hurt the set or blow a fuse if you plug into a 110 volt line with a switch set on 220 volts. If the tube doesn't light up on either voltage, the fuse under this cap is probably blown. Unscrew the fuse cap by turning it in the direction of the arrow and take the fuse out to see if the link is broken. If it looks okay, your trouble is probably the tube. Try a new one from the spare parts kit, which always has a spare tube and a spare fuse in it. Should you run across a voltage outside these ranges, say 150 volts, try to operate with the selector on 220. If this doesn't work, go to the 110 volt tap and providing the fuses don't blow, get the message out before the set burns up. On the power cord, the plug is the standard U.S. type. But because so many countries have a different kind of electrical outlet, you have an adapter plug that will fit into many of them. If neither of these plugs fit, you will have to rely on your own ingenuity to make a connection work. Sets that are going to be used where there is no commercial AC power, get this second type of power supply. It works from any 6 volt storage battery or from dry cells and has a rectifier tube and a vibrator to convert the battery current for use in the set. Attach these two clips to the battery terminals, making sure that the clip with the positive sign goes to the positive terminal and the other clip to the negative terminal. The third type of power supply is a combination of the AC and the battery types just seen. In addition, it has a charging unit built into it so a storage battery may be recharged when commercial power is available. A selector switch recessed into the lid will set it to operate from 110 or 220 volts AC current or from a 6-volt battery. The leads from the unit to the battery are two rubber-covered wires stored in the bottom compartment. Put the positive clip that has the positive sign cut in it to the positive battery terminal and the negative clip to the negative terminal. When the power supply is being run from a battery, the selector is in the 6-volt position, but when the power supply is being used to charge the battery, the power cord is plugged into an outlet and the selector goes on the charging side to the correct 220 or 110 volts. The transmitter or receiver is plugged into the 5-hole power socket just like on the other two types. The AC part of the unit has a fuse holder for a two or three ampere fuse which protects both the power and the charger circuits. Decided is a second fuse holder with a 10 ampere fuse to protect the set when using a 6-volt battery. This rear view shows the regular rectifier tube that converts the AC current and alongside of it the vibrator that converts the battery current. This vibrator plugs into a socket almost like a tube and if the fuses blow, it's a good idea to change the tube and the vibrator at the same time as you renew the fuses. If the fuses are okay but the set won't work, changing the vibrator and the tube are the first things to try. By removing the lid on the front side, you can see the small battery charging unit that has been built in. A fully charged auto storage battery will run the outfit for about 10 hours before it needs recharging. But the small portable storage battery you will most often use will only operate the set for about one and three-quarter hours before it needs recharging. This charger works at such a low rate that the batteries must be recharged for five to seven times as long as their period of operation. After learning about the three power supplies, the AC, the battery and the combination type, the receiver and transmitter remain to be mastered. In common operating practice, our man would have the three units hooked together when sending or receiving. The transmitter plugged into the power supply and the receiver into the socket on the transmitter. The antenna for such a small room would be a simple wire strung along the wall over a picture frame perhaps. Then to get around the corners as you come to them. Then the transmitter is operated simply by pushing this switch to trans or the receiver by pushing it to RCVR. But for study purposes, it is easier to take the unit separately. This receiver is the first type made. But except for a modification of the tuning dial and the placement of the controls, all the models are the same. It can be operated alone by plugging its extension into the five-hole socket of the power unit. For an antenna, any ordinary straight piece of wire of 25 feet or more can be used. And while a ground connection is not necessary, it may sometimes help. Only headphones are used with any of the TR1s. And the phone plug goes in here behind the beef frequency oscillator switch marked BFO. The receiver tunes on two bands, one which covers from 2.7 to 6.6 mega cycles with a white dot on the band selector switch thrown to the left. The other from 6.6 to 16 mega cycles with a white dot thrown to the right. Set the band switch to the range which includes the frequency shown in the operation schedule. To find the frequency setting on the present tuning dial which is graduated in degrees from zero to 100, you'll have to consult the receiver tuning chart in the rear box lid. There is one chart for the 2.7 to 6.6 mega cycle band and another chart above it for the 6.6 to 16 mega cycle band. For example, for which to receive code signals on a frequency of 10.2 mega cycles which is on the 6 to 16 mega cycle chart. Follow the line from the top of this square horizontally across the chart until it crosses the curved tuning line here. The vertical line running through this point, we follow down to the base of the chart where the degrees on the tuning dial are marked off. The number at this point is 60, the number to which we set the dial for the frequency of 10.2 mega cycles. Turn on the power supply. Put on the headphones and adjust the volume knob to a comfortable level. Push the BFO switch toward the phone jack to turn on the beat frequency that will enable you to hear the code signals. Inasmuch as the signal frequency or dial setting may vary slightly, it is necessary to sweep a couple of divisions on each side of the number found on the dial calibration chart in order to locate the signal. Turn the dial slowly and with a light touch. Once the signal is tuned in, don't jar the receiver or push on the dial as the receiver tuning may be thrown off. The BFO switch pushed away from the phone jack to the off position allows you to receive voice messages. This is seldom used however as the base stations always send their messages by CW signal except in cases of rare emergency. The weak links in the receiver are certainly the tubes. If the receiver should quit working and you're sure the power supply is all right, the first thing to do is to install your replacement tubes when trying to get it back in operation. Each of the three models of the receiver has a different complement of tubes which is not interchangeable. The sockets have the proper tube numbers marked beside them and while the tubes themselves will fit into different ones, the sets won't work unless the sockets and their respective tubes have the same number. Experience in the field has also shown that set failure is sometimes due to one or more of the connections to the five-hole female socket working loose. This happens after the five-prong plugs from the receiver or transmitter have been put in and out of the socket a number of times. So much for your ears. The set is good and you know how to listen. Now you learn how to talk. To help destroy the enemy word by word over a thousand miles that's the range your news can travel. But due to the behavior of the frequencies used there is a zone about 140 miles wide between the 15 and 150 mile distances where your signals may not be received. Plug the transmitter into the power supply the same way you did the receiver. The antenna is connected to the terminal having the white porcelain ring around it and a wire from a good ground connection is attached to the other terminal marked GND. The crystal that controls the signal frequency goes into two of the many holes in this special socket where the receiver has two bands the transmitter has three. The ranges covered are from three to five mega cycles with a switch over to the left from five to eight mega cycles with a switch pointing straight up and from eight to 14 mega cycles with a switch turned to the right. These are a few of the crystals for the frequencies you ought to work on. They may all be within one band limit or scattered through the three ranges depending on your particular schedule of operations. They are marked in kilo cycles instead of mega cycles but it's easy to convert kilo cycles into mega cycles. Simply divide the kilo cycles by one thousand dividing by a thousand is the same as moving the decimal point three figures to the left and the crystal frequency of 6,180 kilo cycles and become 6.180 mega cycles. This crystal of 6,180 kilo cycles or 6.18 mega cycles rubs into its proper socket holes and the band change switch goes in the five to eight mega cycle position since 6.18 mega cycles lies in the five to eight mega cycle range. The seven holes in the crystal socket are there to accommodate the many kinds of pins found on the crystals made by different manufacturers. The four holes at the bottom are wired together to make a connection for one of the crystal pins. The other three holes at the top are also wired together to make the connection for the other pin. Plug the crystal in one pin in the top group and the other pin in the bottom group using only the holes that fit snugly around the pins. There's a trap here to look out for. Some crystals can be plugged crosswise into the socket which is wrong. You can do it with the two small pins putting them into this medium and this large hole and the two medium pins can go crosswise too into this medium and this large hole. Doing this is the same as putting both pins in one hole. The crystal circuit is not completed and the set won't work. One pin must be in the top group and the other pin in the bottom, don't forget. In common practice the receiver, transmitter and power supply are all hooked up together and receiver operation only requires the switch to be thrown to the RCVR position. In this position the transmitter antenna and ground are automatically connected to the receiver thus saving you the time and trouble of rigging a separate receiver antenna. There are only a few points to running a transmitter. Put in the right crystal, tune the tank tuning knob and adjust the antenna coupling switch. Of course the band selector switch has to be on the right frequency and the trans received switch pushed to trans. The strength of the signal for the antenna is regulated by the antenna coupling switch and the passage of this strength into the antenna is made possible by adjusting the tank tuning knob to resonance. The antenna strength of the signal is shown by the brightness of the flashlight bulb or the deflection of the needle in the RF meter whichever the set is equipped with. The brighter the bulb or the more the needle is deflected, the stronger the signal. Many of the sets have the bulb built into them instead of the meter because the bulb will stand more rough handling than the meter will and give just as good an indication for operating purposes. However after the bulb reaches a certain brightness it's impossible to tell if further adjustments would make it any brighter. For this reason a dimming knob for the bulb has been built into the set. Turn it to the right to full on position when starting to tune and if the bulb becomes too bright dim it down by turning this knob to the left so the results of further adjustments can be seen. You can't send a message with the tank tuning knob at its brightest position as the crystal may not follow all the key movements. It'd follow on the dashes but some or all of the dots might be missing. Correct this by turning the tank tuning knob off slightly from the brightest bulb position. Work the key in normal dot and dash fashion and see if the bulb lights up at each key. If it doesn't we check the tuning until it does light up at every operation of the key. When detuning slightly we'll find that turning the knob in one direction will make the bulb go out almost instantly but turning in the opposite direction will gradually dim it down. Always detune in the direction of gradual dimming. Now you're ready to send. Here's our man again making a last check before tuning up. Dimming switch full on. Land switch on the 5 to 8 range. Crystal 618. Coupling switch to the left on number one. Hold the key down and turn the tank tuning knob for brightest bulb. That's no good. The bulb won't even light. Try the next tap and tune the tank again. Well the bulb lights but it's very weak. Try the next one number three. Oh too bright. Dim the bulb with the dimming switch and tune some more. That's it. There. Now the next tap. Tune the tank. That's better. That's brighter than three. Maybe the next will be brighter yet. No. It's weaker. Backer point is best. Tune it up. Right. Right. There. Now detune a little bit and try the key. Dots and dashes. The bulb lights every time. Not a single miss. We're ready to go. To send another bit of information back. The set has none of the refinements and luxuries of a larger modern radio with this complicated precision machinery. It has been cut down to the bare essentials. But the base stations that follow your schedules have a larger model of finest most powerful receiving and transmitting equipment that can be produced and they have the personnel to back it up to maintain 24 hour radio watches for weeks on end listening for your signals. Trying to contact you should circumstances disrupt the schedule you had planned upon. Their power their number and their personnel are all there for the one purpose of connecting you at all times to your operations base.

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Panel Discussion - Does Bitcoin outperform gold?

"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." - F.A. Hayek in 1984 Did gold as money fail and did it lead to the emergence of FIAT? Is Bitcoin the final piece to be able to perform "some sly roundabout" which can not be stopped? These are the questions the panel was discussing about. Panelists: Prof Dr. Thorsten Polleit is Chief Economist of Degussa, Europe’s largest precious metal trading firm, since April 2012. From 1998 to 2012, he worked as an economist in the international investment banking business. In 2012, he co-founded an Alternative Investment Fund. In September 2014 he was appointed Honorary Professor for economics at the University of Bayreuth. Thorsten Polleit is an Adjunct Scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, US Alabama, and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland. His research interests are monetary economics, capital market theory and, in particular, the Austrian School of Economics. His latest books are “Mit Geld zur Weltherrschaft” (2020), “Vom Intelligenten Investieren” (2018) and “Ludwig von Mises – der kompromisslose Liberale” (2018). Mark Valek is partner of Incrementum AG and responsible for Portfolio Management and Research. His passion is to apply interdisciplinary thinking to investment. He is particularly fascinated with the Austrian School of Economics, monetary history, and the foreseeable paradigm shift in the monetary system. While working full time, Mark studied Business Administration at the Vienna University of Business Administration and has continuously worked in financial markets and asset management since 1999. Manuel Andersch works as Economist and FX Analyst in the research team of BayernLB, where he has also been covering Bitcoin for many years. He completed his degree in economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, before receiving his master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh. He was ranked as best FX analyst worldwide by Bloomberg in 2015, as best Sterling forecaster in 2019 (Bloomberg) and as best forecaster for Scandinavian currencies in 2018 & 2019 (Refinitiv). Sven Schnieders is a writer and autodidact with a focus on Bitcoin, Economics, Physics, Math and Philosophy. His thinking about economics is strongly influenced by the writings of Hayek, Mises, and Hazlitt. He is also the organizer of the BitcoinVienna meetup. The panel was moderated by Keyvan Davani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/keyvandavani/) This panel discussion was performed during the Value of Bitcoin Symposium on March 5th 2020 in Vienna - more information: https://vob-conference.com Follow the Value of Bitcoin Conference on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/ValueOfBitcoin Thank you to our sponsors! -------- https://www.bayernlb.com - The Bavarian bank for the German economy. http://coinfinity.co/ - The Austrian Bitcoin broker with services for consumers and businesses.

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Good evening. My name is Kevin Davani, total podcast, total Bitcoin podcast. I'm going to introduce, even though you already been introduced except Sven. I'm gonna do a brief interview, brief introduction. Sven, I'm gonna start with you with the youngest one, 23-year-old Sven Schneeters, who has a spectrum of research interests and is a writer of really fascinating articles and essays, partially also based on Austin Economics, limitless curiosity.com and his organizer of the Bitcoin Vienna meet-ups. Mr. Mark, Justin Wallek from Liechtenstein, you are from incrementum, wealth management and investment funds and you bring out also, you know, you publish serious reports in gold with trust and crypto research. Um, Manuel Anders is is one of the senior economists, FX analyst of Bayern, Landesbank. His research interests is Bitcoin metrics or Bitcoin metrics and he has a degree in economics, master's degree and also ranked as one of the best FX analysts worldwide by Bloomberg several times. Torsten Paulait is one of my favorite authors and and scholars and researchers. He is his latest book, which I really can recommend is Mit Geld zu Weltherrschaft with money to world dominance and yeah, you're the chief economist of the GUSA, the largest precious metal company in Europe and yeah, so what I want to start off is we've been we've been having, you know, great presentations on Bitcoin and gold. So I would love to start off with the with a quote from the Austin Economist Hayek, which he said a couple of decades ago, I do not believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government. That is we cannot take it violently out of the hands of government. All we can do is by some slight roundabout way introduce something that they cannot stop. So that was Hayek and just demonstrate his comprehension of the root problems, the structural problems, which also your book with money to world dominance with razor-sharp arguments really demonstrates and with logical and rational arguments. Would you like, Mr. Pollet, maybe start off, what what kind of monetary properties, fundamental properties, should a money have in order in a free market society? Well, I think most people would prefer a kind of money that is scarce, that is homogenous, so it's of the same quality, each unit is comparable and it is transportable, it's durable, it's transportable, mintable, so divisible in small units, and it also has to have a relatively high exchange value per unit. That is at least what we can learn from monetary history. Whenever people had the freedom to choose their money, they were looking for these kinds of properties and in the competition among goods for serving as money, people decided on gold or silver or even copper because these precious metals in comparison with available other goods back then obviously were the preferred means of payment. And now we live in a world where we have lots of technological innovations and for instance Bitcoin has to to some degree all these properties as well like precious metals and gold, for instance we have a constant supply soon or later as far as the output of Bitcoin is concerned. The thing is beyond government reach like gold, you know, you have to produce it, it's costly, governments cannot increase the supply of gold at will and so there are strong similarities. The big difference is of course gold is a physically available unit whereas Bitcoin is a digital unit and from my point of view, I think the matter can only be decided by a free market in money to give people the free choice what kind of money they would like to use in their daily transactions for storing of value purposes for the means of deferred payments. So free market in money should, for my point of view, decide the matter and the free market in money is nothing fancy so to speak and I try to outline that in my talk because a free market in money is basically what I call monetary enlightenment where people are free to decide what they would like to do with their financial assets, with their lives and I think exactly the concept of a free market in money should settle the issue. Do you think the fundamental problems with gold, maybe some other participant can contribute to this discussion when it comes to divisibility, fungibility, transferring via electronic mediums such as the internet, can I do this with gold? So maybe one of you could compliment this discussion. Mr. Walli. So I do think that the transferability and the divisibility is not such a big issue. It sometimes is brought up, but gold can be divided into very small increments in reality. So I think that's not a huge edge relative to Bitcoin. But what I do think is it leans itself and also again that I think one can learn from monetary history. It leans itself more to centralization. So it is generally or it always was more centralized going back to a bimetal standard, which then was, for instance, the US, there was a movement during the turn of last century to actually go to the gold standard. But not because there were such hard-money guys, but I think that people and banks and influential people wanted to have basically the hands on the gold and it was also the time when they started to make this huge 12.5 kilobars. Nobody can carry this thing around. So that I think would be an advantage of, for instance, a digital gold. But other than that, I think technically speaking, gold has no disadvantage in that on that end. Mr. Anders or Mr. Schneiders, what do you think would be the fundamental problems with when we look at the commonalities and differences, fundamental properties, monetary properties? Yeah, I think I agree with all what has been said already, but I think the decentralization aspect is extremely underrated. So if you look at monetary history and you see the current system, the fear system we have right now is at least in my view and many others, the result of the failure of the gold system. Because you cannot verify gold, as we've heard already in some great talks, you cannot verify gold by yourself cheaply. You have to trust a third party to do it and if you want to sell large amounts of gold, you have to trust the bank. So these two really big problems, which I don't see how gold can overcome because it's just because of the physical need to have gold, these two problems lead to decentralization, as we've heard, and that's where the government comes in and just can pressure these central points, these few central points and then the gold standard basically ended and we cannot get this control back as we've heard with this great probe. There is no, we don't have the means violently to take it out of the hands of government. That's a really naive view and obviously the government won't adapt the great monetary policy, so that's also not an option. So I think the only option, as has been argued, to get this free market and to really have this awesome economics world we want is with Bitcoin because only with Bitcoin you can secure your coins by yourself and you also can verify everything by yourself with your own note really cheaply and that's the major difference. I haven't seen anyone basically argue against it or bring up any innovation in gold which would basically like make it on par with Bitcoin, let's say. Thank you. Mr. Anders, do you have any comment? Yeah, I agree with that and actually what you see with gold that it's the technology, the innovation is going in the direction that it's getting easy and easy to fake gold, so it's not even getting better, it's actually getting worse. So and as I said in my talk, I mean the only real way to validate whether you have real gold is with smelting furnace and I don't know whether you have a smelting furnace for your gold or whether whoever does this but yeah, but if you want to compare full validation, you have to compare apples with apples. So if you want to validate or if you compare it with the full validation of a full note in the Bitcoin network the only analogy is smelting furnace, there is the full validation. If you're talking not probabilistic, saying okay, this method for like a few hundred euros or something with electricity and stuff like this is 90% correct, 100%. So it's about the real-time validation that everybody, anybody who has a full note can verify validate compared to gold. I mean the question is how do I say how to validate the purity, authenticity of gold every time? Maybe next time you're in Frankfurt, I'm going to invite you to our people who make sure that the gold that is being bought from customers and is being sold to customers has the right fineness and it's pure gold. It's a relatively easy undertaking and you don't have to smelt all the bars and coins to prove whether it's 100% quality of gold that you would expect. And on top of that, I said I'm not going to talk about my book, you did it. I love it. Ten years ago, roundabout ten years ago, I did a book, it's called Monetary Reform and in that book, I tried to outline how a free market banking industry would look like where you would have credit banks on the one hand and deposit banks on the other hand. In a world where we would have, let's assume people would decide to go for gold then you would have gold deposit banks. You would just deposit your gold in the form of bars or coins or whatever and then you would get on your iPhone or your Android Sony system an application where you can actually see how many ounces or grams of gold you have in your account and then you can easily bank without moving any physical gold. That's basically the underlying idea. Of course you have a counterparty risk but then you have competition and these deposit banks would compete for reputation, for best quality like it is in the case of, let's say, holiday traveling and aircraft producers, etc. The point I think you raised is a very important one and that is the role of government. You know, it's very unlikely that we get sound money if we don't roll back the state. If you support Bitcoin, you may know or you may not know that you actually have to advocate the rolling back of the state. The state is the territorial monopolist of coercion. It is the final decision maker about conflicts which occur amongst his people and the conflicts between the people and the state itself can be decided by the state and you can imagine what the outcome will be the state will become ever more powerful and that is, I think, an aspect that we shouldn't ignore if we really want to advocate for sound money whether it's Bitcoin or gold or silver or whatever we have to roll back the state. In the format we know it today as a territorial monopolist. I think that is basically the real challenge of the issue we discuss. Can I just add something? I will invite gladly Professor Paul Aitunumbak who is doing the validation of gold and we are doing it like this. I know we are not supposed to shield any business but the binary is also one of the biggest gold dealer in Europe so I didn't get this information from random sources but from those people who are really into it. Perhaps we will talk about this later but the point is full validation 100% is the only way, there is no other way then you don't have 100%. What are you doing? If you want to have 100% validation of gold what are you doing at Degusta? We sell bars with the imprint of Degusta and they get the best prices. When you come and sell a bar to Degusta the imprint is Degusta, you are fine. If you come with a bar with the imprint of Comerzbank or UBS or Bayern Elbe we are going to smelt it. But not because we don't trust the fineness or the weight of the bar but just because we cannot resell it. It is like branding. I am sure UBS will do the same. They are going to smelt our bars. They are ways to test the quality of the bar. We buy for instance Krugerans and Philharmonics from Austria and we don't smelt them. We buy from the German Kaiser Reich lots of coins, thousands of them, we don't smelt them because our numismatic experts can exactly tell you about the quality of these coins. Yes, they can approximately, it is probabilistic. We are talking about 100%, if you want to compare it to the full node you probably don't know the full validation process of the full node. I don't know, but we are talking about 100%. And of course you are not doing this probably Bayern Elbe is also not doing it only on demand because it is not economically viable to do this. If you have an imprint and you are trusting in it of course you are not doing it. But his point was that this is the major advantage between gold and bitcoin that you have a way for 150 euros to have 100%, certainly 100% and with gold it costs 700,000 to have 100%, probably less for 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%. I think you are not an expert at the end of the day in terms of proving the quality of a certain piece of personal metals nor I am. We are going to settle that. I come to your place and you come to my place. You don't want to talk with our gold dealer. He is not a nice guy, I have a lot of discussion with him that is the only thing that we agree on because he is unhappy with our bitcoin research. But he is going to love to talk to me, I am sure. But be that as it may I mean there are various qualities a good must have to become money. The quality and the fineness and the weight of a certain piece of gold or silver is one issue. The other issue is for instance the time-tested qualities. For instance gold is with us for more than 5,000 years. There were many innovations as far as the monitor system was concerned and is concerned. We simply don't know. I take the position of advocating a free market and money. You would never find me in a talk or presentation calling for a gold standard. You wouldn't as far as I remember and I am over 50 now. Maybe when I was young I did it but I don't do it anymore. I think that issue should be decided by the free market. I cannot give you the answer but I think it is important to have a free market. Personally I have a certain inclination and that is towards precious metals. We are all biased somehow so I am a bitcoin biased. This is why I wanted to go through the fundamental monitor properties because if it is a free market the people will then be attracted towards the best money which has the best monetary properties and that is definitely finite scarcity or in gold's case relative scarcity fungibility, divisibility, portability, recognizability. There is a list of that is actually you listed also in your book and what I find interesting is that Mr. Pollet you say in your book you mention sort of cryptic in this case Bitcoin is something revolutionary and it could mean the end of the state which the opposite would be a feared world currency and a feared world government and the potential is there if there is not a spontaneous emergence of a free market would it be gold and or bitcoin? Maybe one more aspect you talked about the validation of the quality of underlying precious metal that is one issue certainly from the point of view of money users another important aspect is of course the increase in the quantity of money there might be people who would love to have a money that increases at relatively small rates over time like gold for instance the gold supply on this world increases by around about 2% on average in the last 100 years it may be that people decide on having a money that increases slightly a quantity of money that increases slightly that they would prefer such a money over a constant supply like bitcoin I don't know I'm just saying that is another aspect which will decide about what money will be in the market and yes, I think if bitcoin would really get its breakthrough and people would flock to bitcoin and all transactions would be would become anonymous the state would no longer have the possibility to tax turnovers incomes and whatever the state as we know it today as a tax receiver would basically come to an end that would be a private contractual society a private society then a completely new system would be put in place that's for sure I would agree and I wanted to add what has been said before that we won't have a new monetary system let's say a gold standard without rolling back the state as was said here but I don't I think it's naive to think this is possible with let's say the conventional mechanisms we have so we cannot vote to make the state smaller we can try but it's really difficult and I think naive to think it's going to happen this way that's why people who are advocating for bitcoin are basically saying the state doesn't have any more money to finance itself and then it's going to shrink by itself because no money is going to be given to the state and thinking it's going to be the reverse order that we can shrink the state and then implement a new monetary sound money system I don't think it's feasible and to the raised point that some people might prefer is that it might be true obviously and everyone is advocating for free market money competition is great but as we've seen I don't understand why someone would hold an asset over a long time which has an inflation rate of 1 or 2% if you could hold an asset which doesn't have an inflation rate at all which will be bitcoin when all the 21 million will be mined for even 1 or 2% inflation rate but that's probably going to be proven if we have this free market which I'm obviously advocating also for right I have a bunch of questions myself but I think we should maybe transition to the questions from the audience I'm just going to take the first one get it out of the way how does mining of gold how does mining of gold compare to mining of bitcoin in terms of negative ecological impact actually I with the presentation concerning this and there are estimates that the mining currently of gold takes around 3 times the energy compared to the mining the energy that is spent to mine but obviously this could change and also rough estimates but just think that gold is just mined like this for me the more interesting point here is the difference that with gold you have the case that you need to carry your energy to the mining facilities to the mines and with bitcoin you are actually mining where the energy is the cheapest the excessive energy that is actually used in mining cases right so the also what kind of energy is used also very important so it's first amount is less much less and also what types of energy are used it's more in favour of bitcoin because of the last reason that I mentioned I agree and I would add you have to not only look at mining mining gold and mining bitcoin you also have to look at transactions and transactions obviously cause a lot of energy in bitcoin and it costs to really take the physical gold and ship it somewhere that's really costly and this is also something that is often forgotten if you look at the impact of mining only I think it took three years to get gold back from that I'm told it could have been made possible in three months but now Mr. Wing I realise you know to put in these bitcoin propaganda people you know just facts you know I think it's very naive to come up with numbers about what does it cost to produce a certain good I mean we live in an economy where people have a certain demand and producers try to serve the customers you know like people love to go for holidays to South America and we have airlines who offers flights from Frankfurt and London to Buenos Aires for the enjoyment of the people and you may well say okay you do not like people travelling from Frankfurt and London for making holidays in what was that Argentina you know but if you come up with such a statement you come up with a dictatorial statement because I don't like that you travel there and therefore it is bad what you are doing I mean if sound money has a certain price you know if you dig gold you would do that only if your return on investment is at least as high as investing in whatever Apple stocks or production sites in China it competes the production of gold competes in a free market with the production of all other things and just as a return to your provocative statement I mean do you know how many people how many families make their living in working in mines earning incomes earning incomes to sustain their families and if you I don't know I couldn't answer that question as well and I don't know about the toxic exposure what I am saying is we are talking about a free market product so to speak and there are people who love to demand gold and there are people who love to produce gold and mine gold and make a living from it and this is the fair situation as far as I can see I think if you point out it is a certain bill to be paid for producing gold that leads us into a completely wrong direction I mean I don't know why this just stating the facts is I didn't so the point is for me if you have two sound money technologies and you have one which uses a different set of energies which are more beneficial less risks then why don't you choose the one with I mean not on a personal level I think society or humankind will converge anyway towards the more efficient one but I found it extremely interesting because I was actually expecting when looking at the numbers there that Bitcoin would use much more energy than gold so I think generally speaking you don't actually need new gold mine to actually sustain a gold standard because the fact that the new gold which is mine is only so small and relatively speaking to the already existing gold you're not dependent to have this gold but it will be a byproduct if you reinstate theoretically whatever if the market if we ever have such a thing for free money chooses gold then the monetary premium will rise and then these activities will be here obviously I guess but to your point and I think it is a valid one or an interesting one I think it's good to state in regard to Bitcoin mining that is excess energy which is consumed so the total number of what so whatever the energy consumption is in my view not the relevant number the relevant thing to look is what kind of energy is consumed and energy cannot be transported electricity cannot be transported easily through long distance it cannot be stored and so on so one can see Bitcoin also to some extent as like a global energy arbitrage so if some at some places there is a very cheap energy which cannot be transferred to urban places you mine it and you have a monetary value which is basically like energy I think and you can transfer this energy very easily via the Bitcoin network and this is I think interesting thought which I just wanted to also stress here but on the other hand I agree with Thorsten this is something which is overlooked I know somebody who wrote the so-called Schwarzbuch Gold so very critical analysis on the mining situation and even she the author said the situations aren't fun there but a lot of countries who are dependent on that that if you would take that away from them you wouldn't actually enhance the situation of the local people so these are quite complex questions I think one shouldn't look at this too simplistically and again I mean there are many things we consume we produce where I'm inclined to say well is that really necessary is the energy we use up for producing these stuff really necessary this is my personal point of view but I would never ever come up with prohibiting these things in a free market society the question is what kind of consequent damage is this the fiat system it's the right of the consumer and the producer to come up with the production of this good this is what the free market is all about and if Bitcoin causes a lot of energy and people love to get hold of ever more of Bitcoin so we have to agree to machines taking up a lot of electricity that's it I wouldn't come up with a moral judgment about it this is the result of a free market society and if you don't want a free market society then you go for communism and in communism you can go for prohibitions you can put people on campus who would love to get hold of Bitcoin that's the alternative this argumentation this is just my purpose to lay bare the underlying principles but back to the money thing again we don't know the technological properties people would prefer and getting a free market and money is really desirable and if you say we cannot roll back the government then we are in deep trouble and you are a young guy and I was a young guy many years ago and there was still the Berlin Wall and my teachers in school told me oh this wall you know will never come down of course he was a communist teacher I realized that many years later and then I was in Portugal and then on the 9th of November 1989 I was looking I was on the beach, you know cafe bar and there was a TV and I saw many people on this Berlin Wall hammering down the plugging holes into the wall and I couldn't really understand what was happening and sometimes things happen because they cannot be sustained and it catches most people by surprise when it occurs and all I am saying is I cannot promise you that this is going to happen but if we adhere to the idea of enlightenment like the Prussian philosopher Emanuel told us and if we want to improve the living conditions on this planet if we want higher living standards for many people fewer wars better health for the people then we have to get rid of the state as much as possible and so I encourage you all of you to embrace this idea that this might be possible someday and hand in hand the opportunity for better money would arise I completely agree I think my argument just was Bitcoin is actually fulfilling this role Bitcoin is actually trying to trying to shrink the state trying to get some freedom back for the people I don't see I mean I hope there is but I don't see any other way to do it I don't see people in power giving up their power voluntarily because they think it's such a great thing that people should have more liberty I think Bitcoin is the only way and this is I'm not obviously against shrinking the government I think my root is different let's say if I may add something also I agree but I think from a practical point of view we are nowhere close to getting rid of the state and I also am not 100% convinced if that is actually the right way to put it and I would I guess you would agree but I would say I would emphasize on decentralizing governance which is probably a similar thing but I think it's less radical for a lot of people who cannot imagine that there is no state but you actually want to localize governance and that's why I'm more sympathetic to Bitcoin from that point of view because it's obviously a decentralized system and that's what you want to have on a monetary view and that's what you also want to have on a government point of view Well let me just add something because there's a question maybe I want to tie this in with my personal question because your book Mr. Paulett lays out the real structural problems without euphorism it doesn't circumvent it there's no, you know, there's like rational logical deductions and facts so it's a waste of energy fighting against the established system so we create new structures and systems so the old ones become obsolete so we have principles of aggression, violence and coercion committed by the state and the government in collusion I don't know who owns what whom is it the central bank in control of the governments or the governments in control of the so it's a holy grail or the holiest grail of all taboos so the fastest way to defund the state by Alex Vetsky, thank you for the question what is the fastest way to defund the state peacefully Well if you guys come up with a perfect Bitcoin for instance, we have it already we have it when we are close when we are close, fasten your seatbelts well I would say you know an economist which influenced my thinking very much comes from Vienna from your city Ludwig von Mises and often I'm asked, you know what did this guy do what impressed you most and I'm inclined to say well he understood that our actions that human actions are basically driven by ideas we do things because we have a certain idea of how it plays out you know, we embrace socialism once we get convinced that it creates a better world a more social world then people go for socialism and if they have the idea that a free market system capitalism brings peace and prosperity they will go for it so at the heart of human action at the heart of human development on this globe are ideas that would be the answer given by Ludwig von Mises and I think he is right for logical reasons and we have to change the ideas and what you guys do at your conference is hammering home better ideas you are in the business of spreading and making spreading better ideas making people familiar that there are other solutions better solutions for the problems they would love to solve and I think that's the way forward if we don't succeed I think we are going to end up with a world currency and a world totalitarian state I think this is pretty obvious and this is not a gloomy scenario it's just a logical deduction if we continue on this planet the way we handle political issues the monetary system, the banking industry we are going to end up in deep, deep trouble and so more than ever it's important to come up with good ideas and that's one reason I think it's very important to support the Bitcoin community or the crypto unit community because I think they play an essential role in providing good ideas to spreading good ideas and it doesn't matter whether I'm a gold fan or a silver fan or Mark Warlech is a determined gold bug it's all about changing ideas changing ideas I think that's the most powerful instrument and tool we have and from little what I gathered in the panel discussion this morning it seems to me that central banks and government representatives don't have convincing answers they have certain phrases they repeat and they do it greatly and effectively but they don't live up to the to our convincing argumentation and that is something I realize so we are in a stronger position and if we succeed in getting better ideas making the greater public aware that there are better ideas we're going to succeed and you are a young guy what Mark Warlech said is the first step towards getting rid of the governments that we see secessions like we see in the European Union Great Britain gets out and maybe we see something similar in Spain maybe the Scots I don't know maybe Bavaria in Germany for instance in the United States in the Sessionary Development Burglian in Austria maybe that is the step towards rolling back to the state I agree I share the same hopes and I do think with events like this we can convince more people our ideas are better our arguments are better that's obviously what I think but the beauty behind Bitcoin is that you don't have to convince everyone you can build this alternative monetary system and even if all of the central bankers come here and listen to all of these beautiful arguments and they don't believe it they are not convinced it doesn't matter that's the beautiful thing it cannot be stopped even if all of those great people think it should be stopped it's the wrong idea it doesn't really matter thank you so much to all the panel discussion participants I think we have really empowered and educated our audience and the general public on the principles of Bitcoin and Gold thank you so much

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Summa Theologica - 13 Tertia Pars, The Saviour: His Incarnation and His Salvific Acts | 13/23

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Question 32 of Summa Theologica Terziapars, Triatis on the Saviour. This is the LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Summa Theologica Terziapars, Triatis on the Saviour, by Saint Thomas Aquinas. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Question 32 of the Act of Principle in Christ's Conception in four articles. We shall now consider the Act of Principle in Christ's Conception, concerning which there are four points of inquiry. First, whether the Holy Ghost was the Act of Principle of Christ's Conception. Second, whether it can be said that Christ was conceived of the Holy Ghost. Third, whether it can be said that the Holy Ghost is Christ's Father according to the flesh. Fourth, whether the Blessed Virgin cooperated actively in Christ's Conception. First article, whether the accomplishment of Christ's Conception should be attributed to the Holy Ghost. Objection one, it would seem that the accomplishment of Christ's Conception should not be attributed to the Holy Ghost. Because, as Augustine says in On the Trinity I, the works of the Trinity are indivisible, just as the essence of the Trinity is indivisible. But the accomplishment of Christ's Conception was the work of God. Therefore, it seems that it should not be attributed to the Holy Ghost any more than to the Father or to the Son. Objection two further, the Apostle says in Galatians 4-4, when the fullness of time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman. Which words Augustine expounds by saying in On the Trinity 4, sent insofar as made of a woman. But the sending of the Son is especially attributed to the Father, as stated in the first part, Question 43, Article 8. Therefore, his Conception also, by reason of which he was made of a woman, should be attributed principally to the Father. Objection three further, it is written in Proverbs 9-1, Wisdom hath built herself a house. Now Christ is himself the Wisdom of God, according to 1 Corinthians 1-24. Christ the power of God and the Wisdom of God. And the house of this Wisdom is Christ's body, which is also called his temple according to John 2-21. But he spoke of the temple of his body. Therefore, it seems that the accomplishment of Christ's Conception should be attributed principally to the Son and not therefore to the Holy Ghost. On the contrary, it is written in Luke 1, verse 35, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee. I answer that, the whole Trinity affected the Conception of Christ's body. Nevertheless, this is attributed to the Holy Ghost for three reasons. First, because this is befitting to the cause of the Incarnation, considered on the part of God. For the Holy Ghost is the love of Father and Son, as stated in the first part, question 37, article 1. Now, that the Son of God took to himself flesh from the Virgin's womb was due to the exceeding love of God, wherefore it is said in John 3-16, God so loved the world as to give his only begotten Son. Secondly, this is befitting to the cause of the Incarnation. On the part of the nature assumed. Because we are thus given to understand that human nature was assumed by the Son of God into the unity of person, not by reason of its merits, but through grace alone, which is attributed to the Holy Ghost according to 1 Corinthians 12-4. There are diversities of graces, but the same spirit. Wherefore Augustine says in his N. Caridian 40, the manner in which Christ was born of the Holy Ghost suggests to us the grace of God, whereby man, without any merits going before, in the very beginning of his nature when he began to exist, was joined to God the Word into so great unity of person that he himself should be the Son of God. Thirdly, because this is befitting the term of the Incarnation. For the term of the Incarnation was that that man who was conceived should be the Holy One and the Son of God. Now both of these are attributed to the Holy Ghost. For by him men are made to be sons of God according to Galatians 4-6. Because you are sons, God hath sent the spirit of his son into your hearts crying, Abba, Father. Again, he is the spirit of sanctification according to Romans 1-4. Therefore, just as other men are sanctified spiritually by the Holy Ghost, so as to be adopted sons of God, so was Christ conceived in sanctity by the Holy Ghost, so as to be the natural Son of God. Hence, according to a gloss on Romans 1-4, the words who was predestinated the Son of God in power are explained by what immediately follows. According to the spirit of sanctification, that is, through being conceived of the Holy Ghost, and the angel of the Annunciation himself after saying, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, draws the conclusion, therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Reply to Objection 1. The work of the conception is indeed common to the whole Trinity, yet in some way it is attributed to each of the persons. For to the Father is attributed authority in regard to the person of the Son, who by this conception took to himself human nature. The taking itself of human nature is attributed to the Son, but the formation of the body taken by the Son is attributed to the Holy Ghost. For the Holy Ghost is the spirit of the Son, according to Galatians 4-6. God sent the spirit of his Son, for just as the power of the soul which is in the semen through the spirit enclosed therein, fashions the body in the generation of other men, so the power of God which is the Son himself, according to 1 Corinthians 124, Christ the power of God, through the Holy Ghost formed the body which he assumed. This is also shown by the words of the angel, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, as it were, in order to prepare and fashion the matter of Christ's body. And the power of the Most High, that is Christ, shall overshadow thee, as Christ to say, the incorporeal light of the Godhead shall in thee take the corporeal substance of human nature, for a shadow is formed by light and body, as Gregory says in his commentary on Job 18. The Most High is the Father whose power is the Son. Reply to Objection 2. The mission refers to the person assuming who is sent by the Father, but the conception refers to the body assumed, which is formed by the operation of the Holy Ghost. And therefore, though mission and conception are in the same subject, since they differ in our consideration of them, mission is attributed to the Father, but the accomplishment of the conception to the Holy Ghost, whereas the assumption of flesh is attributed to the Son. Reply to Objection 3. As Augustine says in his questions on the Old and New Testament, Question 52. This may be understood in two ways. For first, Christ's house is the church, which he built with his blood. Secondly, his body may be called his house just as it is called his temple, and what is done by the Holy Ghost is done by the Son of God, because theirs is one nature and one will. Second article. Whether it should be said that Christ was conceived of the Holy Ghost, where the word of comes from the Latin preposition, day. Objection 1. You would seem that we should not say that Christ was conceived of, day, the Holy Ghost, because on Romans 11.36, for of him, ex ipso, and by him and in him are all things. The Gloss of Augustine says, Notice that he does not say of him, day ipso, but of him, ex ipso, for of him, ex ipso, are heaven and earth, since he made them, but not of him, day ipso, since they are not made of his substance. But the Holy Ghost did not form Christ's body of, day, his own substance. Therefore we should not say that Christ was conceived of, day, the Holy Ghost. Objection 2 further. The active principle of, day, which something is conceived is as the seed and generation. But the Holy Ghost did not take the place of seed and Christ's conception. For Jerome says in his exposition on the Catholic faith, We do not say, as some wicked wretches hold, that the Holy Ghost took the place of seed, but we say that Christ's body was wrought, that is formed, by the power and might of the Creator. Therefore we should not say that Christ's body was conceived of, day, the Holy Ghost. Objection 3 further. No one thing is made of two, except they be in some way mingled. But Christ's body was formed of, day, the Virgin Mary. If therefore we say that Christ was conceived of, day, the Holy Ghost, it seems that a mingling took place of the Holy Ghost and was supplied by the Virgin, and this is clearly false. Therefore we should not say that Christ was conceived of, day, the Holy Ghost. On the contrary, it is written in Matthew 1.18. Before they came together she was found with child of, day, the Holy Ghost. I answer that conception is not attributed to Christ's body alone, but also to Christ Himself by reason of His body. Now in the Holy Ghost we may observe a twofold habitude to Christ. For to the Son of God Himself who has said to have been conceived, He has the habitude of consubstantiality, while to His body He has the habitude of efficient cause. And this preposition of, day, signifies both habitudes. Thus we say that a certain man is of, day, his father. And therefore we can fittingly say that Christ was conceived of the Holy Ghost in such a way that the efficiency of the Holy Ghost be referred to the body assumed and the consubstantiality to the person assuming. Reply to Objection 1. Christ's body, through not being consubstantial with the Holy Ghost, cannot properly be said to be conceived of, day, the Holy Ghost, but rather from, ex, the Holy Ghost as Ambrose says in On the Holy Spirit 2. What is from someone is either from his substance or from his power. From his substance as the Son who is from the Father, from his power as all things are from God, just as Mary conceived from the Holy Ghost. Reply to Objection 2. It seems that on this point there is a difference of opinion between Jerome and certain other doctors, who assert that the Holy Ghost took the place of seed in this conception. For Chrysostom says in a homily on the Gospel of Matthew, When God's only begotten Son was about to enter into the Virgin, the Holy Ghost preceded him, that by the previous entrance of the Holy Ghost, Christ might be born unto sanctification according to his body, the Godhead entering instead of the seed. And Amesin says in On the True Faith 3, God's wisdom and power overshadowed her like unto a divine seed. But these expressions are easily explained, because Chrysostom and Amesin compare the Holy Ghost, or also the Son, who is the power of the Most High, to seed by reason of the active power therein, while Jerome denies that the Holy Ghost took the place of seed considered as a corporeal substance which is transformed in conception. Reply to Objection 3. As Augustine says in his N. Caridian 40, Christ is said to be conceived or born of the Holy Ghost in one sense, of the Virgin Mary in another. Of the Virgin Mary materially. Of the Holy Ghost efficiently. Therefore there was no mingling here. Third article. Whether the Holy Ghost should be called Christ's father in respect of his humanity. Objection 1. It would seem that the Holy Ghost should be called Christ's father in respect of his humanity, because according to the philosopher in On the Generation of Animals 1, the father is the active principle in generation, the mother supplies the matter. But the Blessed Virgin is called Christ's mother by reason of the matter which she supplied in his conception. Therefore it seems that the Holy Ghost can be called his father through being the active principle in his conception. Objection 2 further. As the minds of other holy men are fashioned by the Holy Ghost, so also was Christ's body fashioned by the Holy Ghost. But other holy men on account of the aforesaid fashioning are called the children of the whole Trinity and consequently of the Holy Ghost. Therefore it seems that Christ should be called the son of the Holy Ghost for as much as his body was fashioned by the Holy Ghost. Objection 3 further. God is called our father by reason of his having made us according to Deuteronomy 32.6. Is not he thy father that hath possessed thee and made thee and created thee? But the Holy Ghost made Christ's body as stated above in Articles 1 and 2. Therefore the Holy Ghost should be called Christ's father in respect of the body fashioned in him. On the contrary, Augustine says in his Enchiridion 40, Christ was born of the Holy Ghost not as a son and of the Virgin Mary as a son. I answer that the words fatherhood, motherhood, and sonship result from generation. Yet not from any generation, but from that of living things, especially animals. For we do not say that fire generated is the son of the fire generating it, except perhaps metaphorically. We speak thus only of animals in whom generation is more perfect. Nevertheless the word son is not applied to everything generated in animals, but only to that which is generated into likeness of the generator. Therefore, as Augustine says, again in his Enchiridion 39, we do not say that a hare which is generated in a man is his son, nor do we say that a man who is born is the son of the seed. For neither is the hare like the man, nor is the man born like the seed, but like the man who begot him. And if the likeness be perfect, the sonship is perfect, whether in God or in man. But if the likeness be imperfect, the sonship is imperfect. Thus in man there is a certain imperfect likeness to God, both as regards his being created to God's image, and as regards his being created unto the likeness of grace. Therefore in both ways man can be called his son, both because he is created to his image and because he is likened to him by grace. Now it must be observed that what is said in its perfect sense of a thing should not be said thereof in its imperfect sense. Thus because Socrates is said to be naturally a man in the proper sense of man, never is he called to be man in the sense in which the portrait of a man is called a man, although perhaps he may resemble another man. Now Christ is the Son of God in the perfect sense of sonship. Therefore although in his human nature he was created and justified, he ought not to be called the Son of God either in respect of his being created or of his being justified, but only in respect of his eternal generation by reason of which he is the Son of the Father alone. Therefore no wise should Christ be called the Son of the Holy Ghost nor even of the whole Trinity. Reply to Objection 1 Christ was conceived of the Virgin Mary who supplied the matter of his conception unto likeness of species. For this reason he is called her Son. But as man he was conceived of the Holy Ghost as the active principle of his conception, but not unto likeness of species as a man is born of his Father. Therefore Christ is not called the Son of the Holy Ghost. Reply to Objection 2 Men who are fashioned spiritually by the Holy Ghost cannot be called Sons of God in the perfect sense of sonship. And therefore they are called Sons of God in respect of imperfect sonship, which is by reason of the likeness of grace which flows from the whole Trinity. But with Christ it is different, as stated above. The same reply avails for the Third Objection. Fourth Article Whether the Blessed Virgin cooperated actively in the conception of Christ's body. Objection 1 It would seem that the Blessed Virgin cooperated actively in the conception of Christ's body. For Damascene says in On the True Faith 3 that the Holy Ghost came upon the Virgin, purifying her, and bestowing on her the power to receive and to bring forth the Word of God. But she had from nature the passive power of generation like any other woman. Therefore he bestowed on her an active power of generation. And thus she cooperated actively in Christ's conception. Objection 2 Further All the powers of the vegetative soul are active as the commentator says in On the Soul 2. But the generative power in both man and woman belongs to the vegetative soul. Therefore both in man and woman it cooperates actively in the conception of the child. Objection 3 further In the conception of a child the woman supplies the matter from which the child's body is naturally formed. But nature is an intrinsic principle of movement. Therefore it seems that in the very matter supplied by the Blessed Virgin there was an active principle. On the contrary, the active principle in generation is called the Seminal Virtue. But as Augustine says in On the Literal Meaning of Genesis 10 Christ's body was taken from the Virgin only as to corporeal matter by the divine power of conception and formation but not by any human Seminal Virtue. Therefore the Blessed Virgin did not cooperate actively in the conception of Christ's body. I answer that some say that the Blessed Virgin cooperated actively in Christ's conception both by natural and by a supernatural power. By natural power because they hold that in all natural matter there is an active principle. Otherwise they believe that there would be no such thing as natural transformation. But in this they are deceived because a transformation is said to be natural by reason not only of an active but also of a passive intrinsic principle. For the philosopher says expressly in Physics 8 that in heavy and light things are passive and not an active principle of natural movement. Nor is it possible for matter to be active in its own formation since it is not in act. Nor again is it possible for anything to put itself in motion except it be divided into two parts one being the mover the other being moved which happens in animate things only as is proved in Physics 8. By a supernatural power because they say that the mother requires not only to supply the matter which is the menstrual blood but also the semen which being mingled with that of the male has an active power in generation. And since in the Blessed Virgin there was no resolution of semen by reason of her inviolate virginity they say that the Holy Ghost supernaturally bestowed on her an active power in the conception of Christ's body that others have by reason of the semen resolved but this cannot stand because since each thing is on account of its operation according to On the Heavens too nature would not for the purpose of the active generation distinguish the male and female sexes unless the action of the male were distinct from that of the female. Now in generation there are two distinct operations that of the agent and that of the patient where for it follows that the entire active operation is on the part of the male and the passive on the part of the female for this reason in plants where both forces are mingled there is no distinction of male and female since therefore the Blessed Virgin was not Christ's father but his mother it follows that it was not given to her to exercise an active power in his conception whether to cooperate actively so as to be his father or not to cooperate at all as some say once it would follow that this active power was bestowed on her to no purpose we must therefore say that in Christ's conception itself she did not cooperate actively but merely supplied the matter thereof nevertheless before the conception she cooperated actively in the preparation of the matter so that it should be apt for the conception reply to Objection 1 this conception had three privileges namely that it was without original sin that it was not that of a man only but of God and man and that it was a virginal conception and all three were affected by the Holy Ghost therefore Damascene says as to the first that the Holy Ghost came upon the virgin purifying her that is preserving her from conceiving with original sin as to the second he says and bestowing on her the power to receive that is to conceive the word of God as to the third he says and to give birth to him that is that she might while remaining a virgin bring him forth not actively but passively just as other mothers achieve this through the action of the male seed reply to Objection 2 the generative power of the female is imperfect compared to that of the male and therefore just as in the arts the inferior art gives a disposition to the matter to which the higher art gives the form as is stated in physics 2 so also the generative power of the female prepares the matter which is then fashioned by the active power of the male reply to Objection 3 in order for a transformation to be natural there is no need for an active principle in matter but only for a passive principle as stated above End of Question 32 read by Michael Shane Craig Lambert LC Question 33 of Summa Theologica Terzia Parz Triatis on the Saviour This is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Summa Theologica Terzia Parz Triatis on the Saviour by Saint Thomas Aquinas translated by the fathers of the English Dominican province Question 33 of the mode and order of Christ's conception in 4 articles We have now to consider the mode and order of Christ's conception concerning which there are 4 points of inquiry First, whether Christ's body was formed in the first instant of its conception Second, whether it was animated in the first instant of its conception Third, whether it was assumed by the word in the first instant of its conception Fourth, whether this conception was natural or miraculous First article whether Christ's body was formed in the first instant of its conception Objection 1 It would seem that Christ's body was not formed in the first instant of its conception for it is written in John 2.20 6 and 40 years was this temple in building or which words Augustine comments as follows in On the Trinity 4 This number applies manifestly to the perfection of our Lord's body He says further in his 83 Questions, Question 56 It is not without reason that the temple, which was a type of his body, is said to have been 46 years in building so that as many years as it took to build the temple in so many days was our Lord's body perfected Therefore Christ's body was not perfectly formed in the first instant of its conception Objection 2 further There was need of local movement for the formation of Christ's body in order that the purest blood of the virgin's body might be brought where generation might aptly take place Now no body can be moved locally in an instant Since the time taken and movement is divided according to the division of the thing moved as is proved in Physics 6 Therefore Christ's body was not formed in an instant Objection 3 further Christ's body was formed of the purest blood of the virgin as stated above in Question 31 Article 5 But that matter could not be in the same instant both blood and flesh because thus matter would have been at the same time the subject of two forms Therefore the last instant in which it was blood was distinct from the first instant in which it was flesh But between any two instance there is an interval of time Therefore Christ's body was not formed in an instant but during a space of time Objection 4 further As the augmentative power requires a fixed time for its act so also does the generative power for both are natural powers belonging to the vegetative soul But Christ's body took a fixed time to grow like the bodies of other men for it is written in Luke 252 that he advanced in wisdom and in age Therefore it seems for the same reason that the formation of his body since that too belongs to the generative power was not instantaneous but took a fixed time like the bodies of other men On the contrary Gregory says in his commentary on Job 18 as soon as the angel announced it as soon as the spirit came down the word was in the womb within the womb the word was made flesh I answer that in the conception of Christ's body points may be considered First the local movement of the blood to the place of generation Secondly the formation of the body from that matter Thirdly the development whereby it was brought to perfection of quantity Of these the second is the conception itself The first is a preamble The third a result of the conception Now the first could not be instantaneous since this would be contrary to the very nature of the local movement of any body whatever the parts of which come into a place successively The third also requires a succession of time both because there is no increase without local movement and because increase is affected by the power of the soul already informing the body the operation of which power is subject to time is very formation in which conception principally consists was instantaneous for two reasons First because of the infinite power of the agent notably the Holy Ghost by whom Christ's body was formed as stated above in question 32 article 1 For the greater the power of an agent the more quickly can it dispose matter and consequently infinite power can dispose matter instantaneously to its due form Secondly on the part of the person of the son whose body was being formed for it was unbecoming that he should take to himself a body as yet unformed While if the conception had been going on for any time before the perfect formation of the body the whole conception could not be attributed to the Son of God since it is not attributed to him except by reason of the assumption of that body Therefore in the first instant in which the various parts of the matter were united together in the place of generation Christ's body was both perfectly formed and assumed and thus is the Son of God said to have been conceived nor could it be said otherwise Reply to Objection 1 Neither quotation from Augustine refers to formation alone of Christ's body but to its formation together with a fixed development up to the time of his birth Therefore in the aforesaid number are foreshadowed the number of months during which Christ was in the virgin's womb Reply to Objection 2 This local movement is not comprised within the conception itself but is a preamble there too. Reply to Objection 3 It is not possible to fix the last instant in which that matter was blood but it is possible to fix the last period of time which continued without any interval up to the first instant in which Christ's body was formed and this instant was the terminus of the time occupied by the local movement of the matter towards the place of generation Reply to Objection 4 Increase is caused by the augmentative power of that which is the subject of increase but the formation of the body is caused by the generative power not of that which is generated but of the Father generating from seed in which the formative power derived from the Father's soul had its operation but Christ's body was not formed by the seed of man as stated above in Question 31 Article 5, Third Reply but by the operation of the Holy Ghost therefore the formation thereof should be such as to be worthy of the Holy Ghost but the development of Christ's body was the effect of the augmentative power in Christ's soul and since this was of the same species as ours it behooved his body to develop in the same way as the bodies of other men so as to prove the reality of his human nature Second Article whether Christ's body was animated in the first instant of its conception Objection 1 it would seem that Christ's body was not animated in the first instant of its conception for Pope Leo says in his letter to Julian Christ's flesh was not of another nature than ours nor was the beginning of his animation different from that of other men but the soul is not infused into other men at the first instant of their conception therefore neither should Christ's soul should have been infused into his body in the first instant of its conception Objection 2 further the soul like any natural form requires determinate quantity in its matter but in the first instant of its conception Christ's body was not of the same quantity as the bodies of other men when they were animated otherwise if afterwards the development had been continuous either its birth would have occurred sooner or at the time of birth he would have been a bigger child than others the former alternative is contrary to what Augustine says and on the Trinity 4 where he proves that Christ was in the virgin's womb for the space of nine months while the latter is contrary to what Pope Leo says in his homily on the epiphany they found the child Jesus no wise differing from the generality of infants therefore Christ's body was not animated in the first instant of its conception Objection 3 further whenever there is before and after there must be several instance but according to the philosopher and on the generation of animals to in the generation of man there must needs be before and after for he is first of all a living thing and afterwards an animal and after that a man therefore the animation of Christ could not be affected in the first instant of his conception on the contrary Damacine says in on the true faith 3 at the very instant that there was flesh it was the flesh of the word of God it was flesh animated with a rational and intellectual soul I answer that for the conception to be attributed to the very son of God as we confess in the creed when we say who was conceived by the Holy Ghost we must needs say that the body itself in being conceived was assumed by the word of God now it has been shown above in question 6 articles 1 and 2 that the word of God assumed the body by means of the soul and the soul by means of the spirit that is the intellect where for in the first instant of its conception Christ's body must needs have been animated by the rational soul reply to objection 1 the beginning of the infusion of the soul may be considered in two ways first in regard to the disposition of the body and thus the beginning of the infusion of the soul into Christ's body was the same as in other men's bodies for just as the soul is infused into another man's body as soon as it is formed so was it with Christ secondly this beginning may be considered merely in regard to time and thus because Christ's body was perfectly formed in a shorter space of time so after a shorter space of time it was animated reply to objection 2 the soul requires the quantity in the matter into which it is infused but this quantity allows of a certain latitude because it is not fixed to a certain amount now the quantity that a body has when the soul is first infused into it is in proportion to the perfect quantity to which it will attain by development that is to say men of greater stature have greater bodies at the time of first animation but Christ the perfect age was of becoming and middle stature in proportion to which was the quantity of his body at the time when other men's bodies are animated though it was less than theirs at the first instant of his conception nevertheless that quantity was not too small to safeguard the nature of an animated body since it would have sufficed for the animation of a small man's body reply to objection 3 what the philosopher says is true for the generation of other men because the body is successively formed and disposed for the soul whence first as being imperfectly disposed it receives an imperfect soul and afterwards when it is perfectly disposed it receives a perfect soul but Christ's body on account of the infinite power of the agent was perfectly disposed instantaneously wherefore at once and in the first instant it received a perfect form that is the rational soul third article whether Christ's flesh was first of all conceived and afterwards assumed objection one it would seem that Christ's flesh was first of all conceived and afterwards assumed because what is not cannot be assumed Christ's flesh began to exist when it was conceived therefore it seems that it was assumed by the word of God after it was conceived objection two further Christ's flesh was assumed by the word of God by means of the rational soul but it received the rational soul at the term of the conception therefore it was assumed at the term of the conception but at the term of the conception it was already conceived therefore it was first of all conceived and afterwards assumed objection three further in everything generated that which is imperfect precedes in time that which is perfect which is made clear by the philosopher in metaphysics nine but Christ's body is something generated therefore it did not attain this ultimate perfection which consisted in the union with the word of God at the first instant of its conception but first of all the flesh was conceived and afterwards assumed on the contrary Augustine says hold steadfastly and doubt not for a moment that Christ's flesh was not conceived in the virgin's womb before being assumed by the word as he says in on faith to Peter 18 I answer that as stated above we may properly say that God was made man but not that man was made God because God took to himself that which belongs to man and that which belongs to man did not pre-exist as subsisting in itself before being assumed by the word but if Christ's flesh had been conceived before being assumed by the word it would have at some time and hypothesis other than that of the word of God and this is against the very nature of the incarnation which we hold to consist in this that the word of God was united to human nature and to all its parts in the unity of hypothesis nor was it becoming that the word of God should by assuming human nature destroy a pre-existing hypothesis of human nature or of any part thereof it is consequently contrary to faith to assert that Christ's flesh was first of all conceived and afterwards assumed by the word of God reply to objection one if Christ's flesh had been formed or conceived not instantaneously but successively one of two things would follow either that what was assumed was not yet flesh so that the flesh was conceived before it was assumed but since we hold that the conception was affected instantaneously it follows that in that flesh the beginning and the completion of its conception were in the same instant so that as Augustine says we say that the very word of God was conceived in taking flesh and that his very flesh was conceived by the word taking flesh from the above reply to the second objection is clear for in the same moment that this flesh began to be conceived its conception and animation were completed reply to objection three the mystery of the incarnation is not to be looked upon as an ascent as it were of a man already existing and mounting up to the dignity of the union as the heretic fortiness maintained rather is it to be considered as a descent by reason of the perfect word of God taking unto himself the imperfection of our nature according to John 638 I came down from heaven fourth article whether Christ's conception was natural objection one it would seem that Christ's conception was natural for Christ is called the son of man by reason of his conception flesh but he is a true and natural son of man as also is he the true and natural son of God therefore his conception was natural objection two further no creature can be the cause of a miraculous effect but Christ's conception is attributed to the Blessed Virgin who is a mere creature for we say that the virgin was a natural therefore it seems that his conception was not miraculous but natural objection three further for a transformation to be natural it is enough that the passive principle be natural as stated above in question 32 article 4 but in Christ's conception the passive principle on the part of his mother was natural as we have shown in question 32 article 4 therefore Christ's conception was natural on the contrary Dionysius says in his letter to the monk Caius Christ does in a superhuman way those things that pertain to man this is shown in the miraculous virginal conception I answer that as Ambrose says in On the Incarnation 6 in this mystery thou shalt find many things that are natural and many that are supernatural for if we consider in this conception anything connected with the matter thereof which was supplied by the mother it was in all such things natural but if we consider it on the part of the active power thus it was entirely miraculous and since judgment of a thing should be pronounced in respect of its form rather than of its matter and likewise in respect of its activity rather than of its passiveness therefore is it that Christ's conception should be described simply as miraculous and supernatural although in a certain respect it was natural replied to Objection 1 Christ is said to be a natural son of man by reason of his having a true human nature through which he is a son of man although he had it miraculously thus too the blind man to whom sight had been restored sees naturally by sight miraculously received replied to Objection 2 the conception is attributed to the blessed virgin not as the active principal thereof but because she supplied the matter and because the conception took place in her womb replied to Objection 3 a natural passive principal suffices for a transformation to be natural it is moved by its proper active principal in a natural and wanted way but this is not so in the case in point therefore this conception cannot be called simply natural questions 34 of the perfection of the child conceived in four articles we must now consider the perfection of the child conceived in four articles we must now consider the perfection of the child conceived and concerning this there are four points of inquiry first whether Christ was sanctified by grace in the first instant of his conception second whether in that same instant he had the use of free will third whether in that same instant he could merit fourth whether in that same instant he was a perfect comprehensive first article whether Christ was sanctified in the first instant of his conception Objection 1 it would seem that Christ was not sanctified in the first instant of his conception for it is written in 1 Corinthians 1546 that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural afterwards that which is spiritual but sanctification by grace is something spiritual therefore Christ received the grace of sanctification not at the very beginning of his conception but after a space of time Objection 2 further sanctification seems to be a cleansing from sin according to 1 Corinthians 6 1 and such some of you were namely sinners but you are washed but you are sanctified but sin was never in Christ therefore it was not becoming that he should be sanctified by grace Objection 3 further as by the word of God all things were made so from the word incarnate all men who are made holy receive holiness according to Hebrews 2 11 both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one but the word of God by whom all things were made was not himself made as Augustine says in on the Trinity 1 therefore Christ by whom all are made holy was not himself made holy on the contrary it is written in Luke 1 verse 35 the holy which shall be born of the shall be called the Son of God and in John 10 verse 36 whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world I answer that as stated above in question 7 articles 9 10 and 12 the abundance of grace sanctifying Christ's soul flows from the very union of the word according to John 1 verse 14 we saw his glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth for it has been shown above in question 33 articles 2 and 3 that in the first instant of conception Christ's body was both animated and assumed by the word of God consequently in the first instant of his conception Christ had the fullness of grace sanctifying his body and his soul reply to objection 1 the order set down by the apostle in this passage refers to those who by advancing attain to the spiritual state but the mystery of the incarnation is considered as a condescension of the fullness of the Godhead into human nature rather than as the promotion of human nature already existing in the Godhead therefore in the man Christ there was perfection of spiritual life from the very beginning reply to objection 2 to be sanctified is to be made holy now something is made not only from its contrary but also from that which is opposite to it either by negation or by privation thus white is made either from black or white we indeed from being sinners are made holy so that our sanctification is a cleansing from sin whereas Christ as man was made holy because he was not always thus sanctified by grace yet he was not made holy from being a sinner because he never sinned but he was made holy from not holy as man not indeed by privation as though he were at some time a man and not holy but by negation that is when he was not man he had not human sanctity therefore at the same time he was made man and a holy man for this reason the angel said in luke 1 verse 35 the holy which shall be born of thee which words Gregory expounds as follows the commentary on Job 18 in order to show the distinction between his holiness and ours it is declared that he shall be born holy for we though we are made holy yet are not born holy because by the mere condition of a corruptible nature we are tied but he alone is truly born holy who was not conceived by the combining of carnal union reply to objection 3 the father creates things through the son and the whole trinity sanctifies men through the man christ but not in the same way for the word of god has the same power and operation as god the father hence the father does not work through the son as an instrument which is both mover and moved whereas the humanity of christ is as the instrument of the god head as stated above in question 7 article 1 third reply and in question 8 article 1 first reply therefore christ's humanity is both sanctified and sanctifier second article whether christ as man had the use of free will in the first instant of his conception objection 1 it would seem that christ as man had not the use of his free will in the first instant of his conception for a thing is before it acts or operates now the use of free will is an operation since therefore christ's soul began to exist in the first instant of his conception as was made clear above in question 33 article 2 it seems impossible that he should have use of free will in the first instant of his conception objection 2 further the use of free will consists in choice but choice presupposes the deliberation of counsel for the philosopher says in ethics 3 that choices the desire of what has been previously the object of deliberation therefore it seems impossible that christ should have the use of free will in the first instant of his conception objection 3 further the free will is a faculty of the will and reason as stated in the first part question 83 article 2 objection 2 consequently the use of free will is an act of the will and the reason or intellect but the act of the intellect presupposes an act of the senses and this cannot exist without proper disposition of the organs a condition which would seem impossible in the first instant of christ's conception therefore it seems that christ could not have the use of free will at the first instant of his conception on the contrary augustin says in his book on the trinity as soon as the word entered the womb while retaining the reality of his nature he was made flesh and a perfect man but a perfect man has the use of free will therefore christ christ had the use of free will in the first instant of his conception i answer that as stated above in article 1 spiritual perfection was becoming to the human nature which christ took which perfection he attained not by making progress but by receiving it from the very first now ultimate perfection does not consist in power or habit but in operation therefore it is said in on the soul to five that operation is a second act we must therefore say in the first instant of his conception christ had that operation of the soul which can be had in an instant and such is the operation of the will and intellect in which the use of free will consists for the operation of the intellect and will is sudden instantaneous much more indeed than corporeal vision in as much as to understand to will and to feel are not movements that may be described as acts of an imperfect being which attains perfection successively but are the acts of an already perfect being as is said in on the soul 328 we must therefore say that christ had the use of free will in the first instant of his conception reply to objection one existence precedes action by nature but not in time but at the same time the agent has perfect existence and begins to act unless it is hindered thus fire as soon as it is generated begins to give heat and light the action of heating however is not terminated in an instant but continues for a time whereas the action of giving light is perfected in an instant and such an operation is the use of free will as stated above reply to objection two as soon as council or deliberation is ended there may be choice but those who need the deliberation of council as soon as this comes to an end are certain of what ought to be chosen and consequently they choose at once from this it is clear that the deliberation of council does not of necessity precede choice save for the purpose of inquiring into what is uncertain but christ in the first instant of his conception had the fullness of sanctifying grace and in like manner the fullness of known truth according to john one fourteen full of grace and truth wherefore as being possessed of certainty about all things he could choose at once in an instant reply to objection three christ's intellect in regard to his infused knowledge could understand without turning to phantasms as stated above in question eleven article two consequently his intellect and will could act without any action of the senses nevertheless it was possible for him in the first instant of his conception to have an operation of the senses especially as to the sense of touch which the infant can exercise in the womb even before it has received the rational soul as is said in on the generation of animals to three and four wherefore since christ had the rational soul in the first instant of his conception through his body being already fashioned and endowed with sensible organs much more was it possible for him to exercise the sense of touch in that same instant third article whether christ could merit in the first instant of his conception objection one it would seem that christ could not merit in the first instant of his conception for the free will bears the same relation to merit as to demerit but the devil could not sin in the first instant of his creation as was shown in the first part question sixty three article five therefore neither could christ's soul merit in the first instant of its creation that is in the first instant of christ's conception objection two further that which man has in the first instant of his conception seems to be natural to him for it is in this that his natural generation is terminated but we do not merit by what is natural to us as is clear from what has been said in the second part in the past premise a kundek question one hundred and nine article five and in question one hundred and fourteen article two therefore it seems that the use of free will which christ as man had in the first instant of his conception was not meritorious objection three further that which a man has once merited he makes in a way his own consequently it seems that he cannot merit the same thing again for no one merits what is already his if therefore christ merited in the first instant of his conception it follows that afterwards he merited nothing but this is evidently untrue therefore christ did not merit in the first instant of his conception on the contrary augustin says increase of merit was absolutely impossible to the soul of christ but increase of merit would have been possible had he not merited in the first instant of his conception therefore christ merited in the first instant of his conception i answer that as stated above in article one christ was sanctified by grace in the first instant of his conception now sanctification is two fold that of adults who are sanctified in consideration of their own act and that of infants who are sanctified in consideration of not their own act of faith but that of their parents or of the church the former sanctification is more perfect than the latter just as act is more perfect than habit and that which is by itself than that which is by another as Aristotle states in the physics 8 since therefore the sanctification of christ was most perfect because he was so sanctified that he might sanctify others consequently he was sanctified by reason of his own movement of the free will towards god which movement indeed of the free will is meritorious consequently christ did merit in the first instant of his conception reply to objection one free will does not bear the same relation to good as to evil for to good it is related of itself and naturally whereas to evil it is related as to a defect and beside nature now as the philosopher says in on the heavens 2 18 that which is beside nature is subsequent to that which is according to nature because that which is beside nature is an exception to nature therefore the free will of a creature can be moved to good meritoriously in the first instant of its creation but not to evil sinfully provided however its nature be unimpaired reply to objection 2 that which man has at the first moment of his creation in the ordinary course of nature is natural to him but nothing hinders a creature from receiving from god a gift of grace at the very beginning of its creation in this way did Christ's soul in the first instant of his creation receive grace by which it could merit and for this reason is that grace by way of a certain likeness said to be natural to this man as explained by Augustine in his N. Caridian 40 reply to objection 3 nothing prevents the same thing belonging to someone from several causes and thus it is that Christ was able by subsequent actions and sufferings to merit the glory of immortality which he also merited in the first instant of his conception not indeed so that it became there by more due to him than before but so that it was due to him from more causes than before fourth article whether Christ was a perfect comprehensor in the first instant of his conception objection 1 it would seem that Christ was not a perfect comprehensor in the first instant of his conception for merit precedes reward as fault precedes punishment but Christ merited in the first instant of his conception is stated above in article 3 since therefore the state of comprehension is the principle reward it seems that Christ was not a comprehensor in the first instant of his conception objection 2 further our lord said in Luke 24 verse 26 ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so to enter into his glory but glory belongs to the state of comprehension therefore Christ was not in the state of comprehension in the first instant of his conception when as yet he had not suffered objection 3 further what befits neither man nor angel seems proper to God and therefore it is not becoming to Christ as man but to be always in the state of Beatitude befits neither man nor angel for if they had been created in Beatitude they would not have sinned afterwards therefore Christ as man was not in the state of Beatitude in the first instant of his conception on the contrary it is written in Psalm 64 verse 5 blessed is he whom thou has chosen and taken to thee which words according to the gloss refer to Christ's human nature which was taken by the word of God unto the unity of person but human nature was taken by the word of God in the first instant of his conception therefore in the first instant of his conception Christ as man was in the state of Beatitude which is to be a comprehensor I answer that as appears from what has been said above in article 3 it was unbecoming that in his conception Christ should receive merely habitual grace without the act now he received grace according to John 3 34 not by measure as stated above in question 7 article 11 but the grace of the wayfarer being short of that of the comprehensor is in less measure than that of the comprehensor therefore it is manifest that in the first instant of his conception Christ received not only as much grace as comprehensors have but also greater than that which they all have and because that grace was not without its act it follows that he was a comprehensor in act seeing God in his essence more clearly than other creatures reply to objection 1 as stated above in question 19 article 3 Christ did not merit the glory of the soul in respect of which he is said to have been a comprehensor but the glory of the body to which he came through his passion where for the reply to the second objection is clear reply to objection 3 since Christ was both God and man he had even in his humanity something more than other creatures namely that he was in the state of beatitude from the very beginning end of question 34 read by Michael Shane Greg Lambert L.C.

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Unizor - Citizen Law - Principles of Criminal Law

Unizor - Principles of Criminal Law by Jesse Brogan Under the theory of government as a sovereign authority over citizens, American Criminal Law has been largely codified, and citizens required to submit − often putting citizen rights in conflict with authorized procedures. Instead of a Common Law that serves the sovereign citizen, we have a criminal law that is only limited by the many specific limitations that got written into the Constitution; and even those are often misread or effectively denied.

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Criminal law is the negative regulation of society and operates on the application of punishment to prevent unwanted behaviors. One question that provides immediate contention among people is, who is benefited by criminal law? The challenge is inherent in the high rate of recidivism with the current approach that supposedly serves society. Our centers of incarceration, where public punishment is applied, seem to serve as educational facilities for the more effective criminal. That separation of purpose and result is just the tip of the iceberg. We have challenges that go all the way back to the American Revolution from the English rule. It goes back to that great American experiment in self-governance. It is a question of whether criminal law is to serve the nation as an operating entity, or the public as represented by a sovereign government, or to serve we the people as a self-governing sovereign. We do not have ready answers. Only the vague understanding that we have a historical system that does seem to work with many limitations and exceptions. Agreement among we the people on how criminal law and punishment should work is just not there. Application of punishment is the common law technique for addressing criminal behavior. It follows from the feudal times upon the use of punishment by parents in a household, where it does seem to affect a reasonable result. What parents forbid to their children on pain of punishment is generally avoided by their children. In feudal times, with the aristocracy caring for the common people as a source of their wealth and power, there was that same family-like sense of protection and care for the commoners. But then, if a parent sees a child wandering into traffic, and in fear of plies punishment with strict admonition never to do that again, does a child learn from the punishment? It is more likely that the fear in the parent's voice and the sense of panic and reaction to their taking on such a threat is what teaches the lesson. It is the threat of causing that most unwanted attention from someone who is the source of much of what the child receives, that is, the drive to learn. Such lessons almost never need to be repeated. A single admonition, even without punishment, is wonderfully effective in promoting learning. Punishment does not work for the career criminal. Since the early decades of the 20th century, we know that punishment does not work to extinguish an established behavior. It does give rise to new behaviors to continue past actions while avoiding further punishment. Punishment also does not work for those who have no inclination to be criminals. They have no established behavior to interrupt. So who does a criminal punishment benefit? It is not a benefit to the people who are punished. It adds no benefit to we the people who are still threatened by career criminals and not threatened by those who were not inclined to crime in the first place. It is not some benefit to the judge or a prosecutor who authorized the punishment. This has been a matter of discussion for a long time, but only in terms of recidivism, increasing the impact of applied punishment through addressing some of the causes of career criminals continuing their harmful behaviors. We do not have any ready answers, but the ancient concept of criminal punishment has proven to be of questionable value. Breaking criminals away from the rest of the public they would harm has been effective during the time of incarceration, even if quite expensive. Simply destroying people as incorrigible is effective, but any mistakes are beyond recovery. It tends to offend our sense of justice. Quite simply, the variability of people is not going to be resolved, and there will always be criminals no matter what definition is used to define crime. The level of crime we act to prevent and the way we address aberrant behaviors is not going to be settled. It is going to be a question that mankind as a society is going to have to handle as it can. A best fit solution is probably as good as we are going to get. Passing criminal punishment laws to those who offend the laws is not a solution. It is an attempt at a solution that has been accepted as a basis for government action. It will have to do until we have another and better direction upon which we can come to agreement. The very concept of criminal prosecution, the us and them approach to criminal behavior, is written into our Constitution with special protection for citizens who are threatened with prosecution for crimes. It is part of our self-government experiment. It is going to be applied as best people can apply it. The basis for British law crimes is the sovereign's right to rule over people. To murder or maim another person is to lessen their value to the sovereign. To disturb the peace is to distract the common people from the productive efforts which are the source of wealth for the privileged. The sovereign protects the source of wealth and this is how much of our criminal law has been addressed in the United States that engaging in crime is an offense against the state, a violation of sovereign directives or bans. The common law basis in the American experiment would redefine crime to be an offense against other people. The rights of one citizen end only where the rights of others begin. An act that upset this are an offense to we the people. Acts against government laws that protect the benefit to people are acts against we the people in whose name these protections were put in place. Offences against the people and offenses against the state are competing approaches to criminal law. The modern approach has largely favored sovereignty in government which serves first those who are in public authority before it serves the common person. A crime is a wrongdoing recognized by government. It can be an act or a failure to act where there is a recognized public duty to act. A crime is a public offense even if perpetrated against just another person. It can include even acts of violence against a person in the privacy of the home if engaging in the act is considered so antisocial as to rise to the level of public reaction. The source of common law was feudalism, a means of keeping the peace and prosperity of common people who were the source of privilege. It was a benefit to all people recognizing and banning acts that caused public damage and avoiding personal responsibilities that would not be avoided without threatening public welfare of the common people. These have effect especially in recognition of that representative government it is to serve the people who are represented and the codification, quiet questions of what will and will not be so antisocial as to be officially banned. Justice and public welfare are served in this where such negative regulation is not handled properly where it is used to punish unwanted behaviors by some people that might be engaged in by others. This approach to criminal law can become political regulation of the public, a violation of the sovereignty of citizens. Legislation has been used to corrupt the concept of wrongdoing defining crimes in terms of popularity or special interest supports. For example, there are corporate protections for officers and investors whose dealings with government defy the concept of representation of citizens. There are laws that criminalize acts such as growing marijuana plants because others are likely to abuse themselves by smoking it. Can you imagine banning licensed raising of corn and wheat because others might use it to manufacture liquor without a license? The plants banned by these laws is also basic material for hemp rope and canvas. In the common law, the offense was government notice and the wrong accomplished through personal action. Crimes went to the individual, not to the corporate or created beings. Crimes could refer to the office holder rather than the government or corporate organization that contained the offices. Prosecution addresses the official recognition of wrongdoing. Official recognition of crime is a government action with intent of preventing further offense even to the point of assessing fines and punishments upon the perpetrator. American prosecutions are in the name of the people and under the sovereign authority of the state. The aspect of representation is generally respected but not officially required or tested during the process of prosecution. Prosecution includes an official accusation and a court taking jurisdiction over the accused for the purpose of determining whether official punishment is appropriate. The next challenge is that criminal punishment is being applied to citizens and citizens have recognized rights. Conditional rights, rights that are actually privileges rather than rights, arise when a citizen is accused of crime or subject to prosecution. These rights are commonly raised to prevent or resist prosecution. In addressing crimes we have the concept of men's ray or guilty mind. The concept is built on the capacity of a citizen who engages in crime to understand or prevent the results of the actions they take or duties they avoid. Infants, for example, cannot be prosecuted for criminal offense as they lack capacity. A person who throws up their supper in public, potentially spreading disease, is not to be prosecuted for that threat as it was not by their own choice that they did so. Mentally deficient people may be excused for what they do as lacking capacity to decide on their own actions. It is not some excuse for engaging in crime as the crime is still the same in either case. The excuse of incompetence in mental state is a protection for the perpetrator of the crime from criminal prosecution and punishment. Even where there is recognized act or failure of duty that was intentional, prosecution and punishment can be denied due to incompetence of the accused to understand the error or to accept the duty that was the basis for prosecution. We have a foundation for criminal law in recognition of common law systems, but crimes were more a matter of governmental authority over the person than of right and wrong. With the rejection of government sovereignty, we had the challenge of personal sovereignty over the law and how to apply criminal concepts of we the people acting as sovereign towards sovereign citizens. The change was never really made in the court and they continued enforcing legislation as the basis for criminal law but accepted enhancements to jury applications as a matter of process rather than legal necessity. Over the many decades, this has allowed the government to declare that common law was no longer to be followed as it had been effectively replaced by legislated criminal codes. Instead of personal justice, the driver was justice in a bottle that arose from good legislation. The courts with their disrespect for the sovereignty of citizens just implemented.

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WRITERS MEDICAL DOCTORS Audiobook Sample By Oliver Wendell Holmes ISBN9789629548469

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Selected Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Peter Moringer The Height of the Ridiculous I wrote some lines once on a time in wondrous merry mood, and thought, as usual, men would say they were exceeding good. They were so queer, so very queer, I laughed as I would die, albeit in the general way, a sober man am I. I called my servant, and he came. How kind it was of him to mind a slender man like me, he of the mighty limb. These to the printer, I exclaimed, and in my humorous way I added, as a trifling jest, they'll be the devil to pay. He took the paper, and I watched and saw him peep within. At the first line he read, his face was all upon the grin. He read the next, the grin grew broad and shot from ear to ear. He read the third, a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth he broke into a roar. The fifth his waistband split. The sixth he burst five buttons off and tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights with sleepless eye I watched that wretched man. And since I never dared to write, as funny as I can, the last leaf. I saw him once before, as he passed by the door, and again the pavement stones resound as he totters o'er the ground with his cane. They say that in his prime, ere the pruning knife of time cut him down, not a better man was found by the crier on his round through the town. But now he walks the streets, and he looks at all he meets, sad and worn. And he shakes his feeble head, that it seems as if he said, they are gone. The mossy marbles rest on the lips that he has pressed in their bloom, and the names he loved to hear have been carved for many a year on the tomb. My grandmama has said, poor old lady, she is dead long ago, that he had a Roman nose and his cheek was like a rose in the snow. But now his nose is thin, and it rests upon his chin like a staff, and a crook is in his back and a melancholy crack in his laugh. I know. Sample complete. Ready to continue?

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#ENOUGH presents The Inciting Incident: Playwriting in a Moment of Change - Panel Discussion on Tue

Join #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence and a panel comprised of award-winning and nationally recognized playwrights Idris Goodwin, Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, Robert Schenkkan, and Karen Zacarías, for a discussion on what it means to be a playwright in this unprecedented moment, and the intersection of playwriting, arts activism, and engaging the next generation. Our series takes its name from Idris Goodwin’s column for the American Theatre website at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In it, Goodwin grappled with what it means to be a playwright right now, writing: “[T]his ain’t the intermission. It’s the show. On this stage, in this world, we, the men and women who are merely players, in our various roles, are waking daily in different plays all together. This is the moment where everything changes. We are in the inciting incident.” In our conversation we will discuss... What does it mean to create in a moment of change? How can playwriting and live theatre be an agent of change? And how do we encourage the next generation to embrace activism through making art, especially through the theatre? ABOUT #ENOUGH: PLAYS TO END GUN VIOLENCE #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence puts America's young people at the center of the conversation on gun violence through the transformative power of storytelling. Part one of the project is a playwriting competition for middle and high school students (grades 6-12) to write and submit 10-minute plays on the topic of gun violence by June 20, 2020. The top plays will be selected by playwrights Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Robert Schenkkan, and Karen Zacarías, and #ENOUGH culminates in an evening of simultaneous staged readings across the country of these plays on December 14, 2020 - the 8th anniversary of Sandy Hook. To date over 100 plays have been submitted with over 40 readings confirmed for Dec 14, including readings at partner theatres across the country, including Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Alliance Theatre, and Atlantic Theatre, among others. For more information: www.enoughplays.com For more information on how to submit a play by June 20th: www.enoughplays.com/writing Moderator: Michael Cotey (Producer, #ENOUGH)

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Hey everybody out there. Thank you so much for joining with us today. I'm going to start with introducing myself My name is Michael Cody. I'm the producer of a project called hashtag enough plays to end gun violence And that's how I've been able to gather all of these wonderful individuals with us today Just a brief introduction about the project and what we're talking about and who's going to be talking today Hashtag enough started nine months ago as a platform to give young people six of 12th grade To write short plays on the issue of gun violence our deadlines are on the corner on June 20th and a selection of those plays are going to be used to Be a part of this nationwide reading on December 14th later this year the 8th anniversary of Sandy Hook and the playwrights that are joining us today have been so gracious in Volunteering the time and their passion to supporting this project and getting young people Writing and fueling their writing through their passion and a topic that really Has impacted them and that they want to write about so Today what we are talking about we had put this talk in the motion a few weeks ago Based on an article that Idris Goodwin had written for the American theater website talking about the inciting incident playwriting in a moment of change How how it can play writing in theater be an agent for change how to get young people involved in that process how to Get them interested in using their voice as part of their arts activism. So to introduce the the panelists we have today I won't go through all their accolades You can read that on the website because if I do we will have no time for this discussion But we have Idris Goodwin David Henry Guang Lauren Gundersen Robert Schenkin and Karen Zacharias. Thank you so much all of you guys for getting together today to be a part of this conversation and to share Your perspective and your knowledge with us Where I wanted to begin was where the title of this topic really came from Idris at the top of the pandemic you wrote this article for American theater magazine And you wrote in this you said this ain't the intermission. It's the show on this stage in this world We the men and women who are merely players in our various roles are waking daily in different plays all together This is the moment where everything changes. We are in the inciting incident Now you wrote this at the top of the pandemic about our shot and the sudden shift out of what we consider to be normal But in light of the fallout and just the global Reckoning that's come out of the death of George Floyd your words feel more prophetic than ever really That what a lot of what we considered was normal really never was to begin with So I wanted to start by asking you like what what were you grappling with? When you wrote that article and now how do those words resonate back a few weeks Later, you know, what does it mean to be a playwright for you in this moment? Well, hi, and that's That's an unfair very large very complex But this is what we're doing nobody said it'd be easy You know, I just I Had a feeling that the impact of this I mean, there's many ways I can answer this question I mean, basically I will say that when when this administration began I think we all knew we all had a feeling that the end like as we got towards the end of this administration It was not going to be pretty That there are there is a certain level of vigilance That one must have when they're Managing people when they're in charge of people when they're responsible for a nation and you have to Kind of be looking ahead looking very far down the road and the person that is currently occupying the White House Did not prove himself to be that sort of person So I was very not surprised when something that could have been Maybe not avoid it with a capital a but certainly we could we would be in a different situation Had that person been more vigilant and reading the signs and basically doing the homework So I knew that once this started that it was going to be on us the electorate to Managing to really deal with it. We were gonna have to step up We were gonna have to and that's what what's happening. It's like we're having to do a lot more research We're having to find a mask. We're having to learn how to teach at home We'll learn how to work at home We trying to learn zoom and what zoom could do an old breakout groups to zoom and and where that gets us to Because we look into ourselves and was like, how can I be a lot more capable? I got to step it up every day When something threatens us when there's something we don't like We will take you know, many of us will take to the streets. Many of us will donate We will support we will share information We will you know, and so that drone shot that's going through downtown LA and you see all those people You see all those people in front of us 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Sure, this is Pennsylvania Avenue. One of the one of the avenues Yeah, yeah, now it's Black Lives Matter Plaza. So that's what I heard a legend And so and so for me all that to say that to me, this is this is the end of act one perhaps And that's because there's a different version of the pandemic kicking off There's a version of the pandemic kicking off, you know, that that's very different than this but of course, you know, because This is a that you cannot avoid race in this country You know, Kairis one says that you can never have justice on there can never really be justice on stolen land Which means that it Every day we're in this country. We are not having the conversation about race genocide all of these isms because and and so all I knew that all this crisis was going to do was was reveal the places where we're vulnerable and And so it is it is it is not I'll stop there Yeah, I feel like I didn't ask you a question, but I got my shots and against 45. I'm good. That's great It's great in terms of like In terms of moving forward as a playwright in terms of moving forward as a playwright and You know, are it that do you find? Do you find this to be a moment that is opening yourself up to a lot of writing or do you find this to be a different Different part of your creative process that you need that you're stepping back and and And not feeling like you want to engage in your writing at this moment How is how are you responding creatively to everything that's going on? I mean, honestly, yo, like this is the stuff I've been writing about so this thing I've been in crisis I come from enslaved people You know my parents, you know, my my grandparents left the south because of jim crow You know, I came up in Detroit, michigan. I left Detroit, michigan because of the crack epidemic You know, I lived in Chicago. I bounced her, you know, I'm saying like this is this is Full that's it. I'm a writer in crisis trying to make sense of this crazy train called the united states of america and It's a different bit. You know, I'm having to get more creative in terms of like what my stage is but The writing is the writing is the writing, you know How about for the rest of you, you know, moving forward from the pandemic to where we are today In terms of being sort of thrust into a really uncertain world almost all at once how how You know, what does that mean for you to be a playwright in this moment? How have you responded to what idris is calling, you know, the inciting incidents? um, I'll I guess I'll go so I mean I also feel like I've been pretty comfortable throughout my career responding to things in kind of real time um, and I've been consistently interested in engaging stories that have um, uh, a political dimension and that have something to do with the The environment we live in socially and politically um and so I'm very interested in trying to figure out how to characterize this moment, but in a way like to pull back from it at the same time to try to understand it as a moment in history and What is that going to mean? um, because we are I mean, we're always living in some sort of a historical moment, but I think that it has been a particularly acute historical moment, um I would say since 2016 in especially and actually what Idris said knowing that we're in a kind of democratic crisis um, and then these two Pandemics, uh the pandemic of coveted and the pandemic of racism uh, suddenly get thrust into the into the foreground And so this is for me a really exciting moment It's hard and it's heartbreaking and it's terrible and it requires a lot of courage, but it is potentially um an inciting incident also transitional time And there's a part of me as an artist that wants to already start to look back on this and try to understand of what, um How is the country changing? How are we changing? um, is this a critical moment in the progress and hopefully the reparations That this country needs to perform To in order to have a future Just to explain the popping in head. This is Simone. Emma. She's a program associate on uh enough and when we get to the end of this discussion Hopefully, uh, we'll be able to field some questions and answers from folks walking watching. Yeah, I have some questions from from folks on our instagram, um, who wanted to chime into and sorry I was having issues with the video So I was just a black screen earlier, but now I'm back. So hello everybody. Thank you for being here. We're so glad that you're here Thanks, Simone Karen, how about you? What what what has it been your response in terms of you know since the onset of um, the pandemic to now what what has it been like for you as an artist? um It's been interesting in the sense of of and uh, it's made me try to go uh, look at history in a different way like I My children and I are in my head. We always say oh my god history is in the making right now We're in the historical moment, but the truth is every day is a historical moment It's something gets passed and moved on but this the pandemic everyone's slowing down having time to focus And having some of the systemic problems that have been there for a very long time kind of Bubba, you know bubble to the surface in a way that everyone can now see has been Fascinating I had just written a play about a child separation that was done at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Called the Copper Children, but it was set in 1905 because the truth is There there's these patterns of behavior and and uh and waves of of things that happen and so I've been really interested in finding and exploring that because Um, it's helping me make sense of this moment right now and I've also started writing uh, vignettes about my family history in order to examine some of the the behaviors and thoughts and things that have happened over 100, you know 150 years of a family of things and legends that you're told or things and I've been examining that in order to kind of grow and and think It's really interesting that children or babies are born with only two fears the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises Um, everything else is a learned fear And so I've been interested in the the politics of fear Um, examining my own fears and when you know And also the idea of what it means to be brave I think I think since I think a lot of people are making the decision to be brave to change things To come over that and I think in a weird sense The pandemic has made it so that none of us really have our normal jobs anymore We have more time to suddenly sit and and sit With the injustice that is happening around us And to us and four people and all of that So it's been a real time of of philosophical Thought for me and research and examining Um, you know the other point of the inciting incident is the moment when characters make choices Right, who are you? What's your character and what choices are you going to make? And I think that's a big part of what's going on in, you know, the republic And I think in everyone's personal life where where where is the change that you want to make? What are you going to do about it? Lauren, how about you? I mean practically every single project that I've been working on since after the initial freeze of what the hell is this What the hell's going on and not being able to write after a week or so of that kind of feeling of wrapping my head around this new world plus Raising children and in a pandemic plus my husband is a virologist in a pandemic. So there's a lot going on But after after I kind of found my my voice in that spirit again, every project has been in collaboration so that that has been a singular change for me Written a new play with my colleague Reggie D. White. My colleague Margot Melconan are working on one of our third Pemberley plays we have But then everything is either there's a project with Aurora Theatre here in the Bay Area where there's three writers and it is plus these classes that I've been offering on facebook and bringing as Karen and uh and Idris have been a part of this Just bringing just talking tons of talking and I I think something about this moment where As Karen said, we don't have our jobs as Idris noted Like this is there's a lot of stuff that is being exposed now that has been there this whole time There's a lot to talk about and there's a lot of this weird zoom face-to-face thing It feels like we're having a lot of face-to-face conversations, which in some way we kind of are Even though it's not face-to-face, but it is but we're all looking at each other and we're we're seeing um Seeing each other react in real time And I so I will say collaboration is a big deal Part of why I love this project that that you've created is this chance to have all of these young writers out there be a part of that collaboration be a part of This this reckoning this writing this creative space this strange intimacy we have with zoom like we're in each other's homes All of us are in each other's homes Maybe we're knowing each other better than when we met at the coffee shop to have these conversations and it's a blank space so so I'm I'm I'm reckoning with all of that and of course the the the new the new moment again long coming Of a conversation and this This Unflinching reality that certainly white america is is coming to find new language and for language people I think it's incredibly important for us to use what we're good at Which is words to say like let's find the best and biggest and proudest and most profound words To describe this moment to admit the things we need to admit to talk about the things we need to talk about and to say You know white supremacy is a very important word to be able to use confidently and understand what it means but also I love you is the same profound thing and to be able to to Examine what those words mean in real time. Um, and I think part of what made me Dig in to this metaphor that Idris brought with this inciting incident is The inciting incident that midpoint and our climax will differ depending on who the plays about So for me as as a white woman raising to Half white half jewish boys My midpoint where things change so much that they can't go back to the way we were in act one It might be different. Um, certainly certainly is different To my colleagues who are Black indigenous people of color. So I I think honoring that is an important thing too And I think that's part of why I've been reaching out for collaborations so much so that there is duality or That there's not just one voice I um I think the thing I feel Most keenly is the sense of responsibility as an artist citizen to be active alive And listening in this moment what I'm trying to pay attention to Very very closely are the stories that are being told the stories that are being Constructed or deconstructed of being offered Um, and the language that is being used the words as as large reference the potency of storytelling Is of course what all of us deal in and In the civic political sphere. It is critical and I think that's why writers and particularly playwrights have such a Responsibility and and an ability To be useful in this moment and that's that's the thing I want to be Is to be useful and A good part of that for me right now Is uh, quite honestly shutting up and listening. I do a lot of that You know Lauren one of the one of the things that you you've talked about in some of your videos on facebook and And some of the things that we've done with hashtag enough is that you you approach plays sort of as as thought experiments and you talk about That plays are these chances to Um, imagine what the future is going to be and keep asking the question like what if Well, what if what if we were able to look at the world this way, right? um And remind me like recently in the Tribune. There was an article about Kind of along this lines like if if Hollywood were to take this moment of pause And to look at like cop shows that are stuck in this cycle of reinforcing the status quo You know, what if networks and streaming services services thought bigger? What if the green light fictional shows from an activist point of view and showed what the Benefits and challenges of some of the things that are being talked about in the public sphere Um, would be what what it would mean to defund the police and what what a show about that What a story about that might look like So, you know, what about the theater, you know, we're we're in this moment We're regional theater and broadway are on pause and definitely And is this is a chance for everyone to step back and think about what they would do differently by painting different Visions of something new. I mean, how can playwrights in theater use this moment to ask valuable what if questions And to you guys, what might those what if questions be? Well, the timing is very Your question is right on time because a major Document went out yesterday I think it's called dear dear white american theater or something like that And it was signed by, you know A significant number of of uh, theater artists some of them whom are on this college right now And and folk are doing just that folk are folk are using in this moment of Where things are forced to slow down Which which in a lot of ways was the reason that you know, i'm a firm believer that like Yes, like some there's a lot of people who just have an agenda and it doesn't include You know certain individuals in that I think some people were just victims of the machinery and fear of Turning off the machinery, right? And so now that you're forced there isn't, you know, everybody's been humbled a bit, right? You know, you came out you came out swinging To the first three rounds and george foreman was beating that ass Like, okay, maybe I gotta switch my game up. Maybe maybe maybe I do that rope though But I've been thinking about you know what I mean, maybe I gotta just like take this punishment and just pace myself um, so That that is what's happening. I think people are like I I know I I have this conversation with myself all the time I can tell you right now That there are things I do not want to go back to I also think there is no back to so but I can tell you right now. There are certain things that I'm like, I'm not doing that anymore You know, I mean like there's not not because I'm just selling to the machinery I'm like lucy on the conveyor belt like stuff and all the chopsticks everywhere. You know what I mean? Like That's how old chill night is a little bit Anyway, let's let some smart people get in there. I'm just talking Yeah, David and Karen both of you signed that the document the the one that Idris is mentioning So, you know, let me toss the question to either of you, you know, we're in this moment where we can where we're maybe Stopping the machinery long enough To really investigate these what if questions I'm gonna talk a little bit about what the what that was for people who are watching that may not I'm not sure what theater person doesn't know about this document at this point But if you want to talk a little bit about that And and and other things that you you hope we start asking or posing the question. What if about moving forward? I think I think David's passing the ball to you Karen Okay Well the document it just uh, it's it's a it's just a moment of witnessing It's a moment of of gathering Um A lot of theater artists. I mean inequity exists in all lines of work, but it it's kind of in a sense And supposedly these liberal bastions that is a theater and you know Selling tickets to people who probably all vote as most of them vote a certain way There's some there's some real room and necessity for self-examination and The the things that all I'm sure David and Idris and I could spend a lot of time those things that are said to us and of In passing many times that completely That can completely Unmour you in a sense as a writer About who wants to see your work or why you can't your work can't exist in this space or why certain ideas are too scary or And so I think it's it's a it's a moment. I mean I I still it's you the black lives matters movement is the president here But it's also it's also supporting all our our black artists and also saying white america is not just We all have an iu. We all have to see what's happening In a sense and there's I mean Idris brought up the word fear fear Fears what makes people want to buy guns and you know People saying antifa is coming to certain places and it's it's crazy this manifestation of fear In order to stop change And the truth is one thing that's always fascinated me since I was a kid Is like why do we build up social constructs that really hurt everybody like in the long run? It sucks There's some people who've had more advantages of it But in the long run it really really hurts everybody and everybody's like oh But government has to work like this or this has to be like this And I understand there's certain people have power and they keep it But it really really at the work at the end of the day it dehumanizes everybody um and diet, you know theater People and this is what robert was saying We need new stories to understand new points of view and I cannot tell you how many times people Have because they've seen a brown or black character on stage have then said oh well Then I decided to say hello I saw my you know co-worker in a different light and I was like really you have a live person In the bathroom next to you and you don't think of them as a person But you saw a story on stage that made you rethink that it's Happened to me more than once so uh The the theater has a responsibility Um, and we're holding the people who have the power accountable the the statement for Because maybe there are people um who are watching this who aren't aware of it just Is you can find it at we see you Like you know just spell that out those three words out. We see you W at wide american theater. We see you w at dot com and you know, it's it's uh Really, I think an initial uh statement One step forward to say okay. These are things that we have seen And we haven't talked about them or we haven't been honest about them or we've been code switching to be safe or to um fit in um to You know, basically a white theatrical power structure and if you look at the statistics um Even you know, there's an organization apac that has been compiling Say casting statistics over the past 12 years and at least in um On broadway and the I think it's the 12 major not-for-profits in new york um casting has been You know An average of 75 to 80 white. Um, it's better now I think it's the most recent report which was maybe the hamilton year was 66 But you know, you look at those numbers and I think people are surprised because people want to think That we're doing better than that and then I think like 89 percent of the plays were written by White authors, you know that sort of thing. So if you look at the statistics, the theater is not doing as well By far as we would like it to so I think this initial letter is a statement about that and then and that's important and the next step is to begin to Think about actual concrete proposals Like to the extent that you really do care about this and it's not just in your mission statement, but you want to um address the sort of structural um Racism that exists in the theater. What would be what would be begin to do about that? You know, what kind of programs can we devise and um Some of us are fortunate enough to be You know have some positions of some influence And you know, we have to examine ourselves as well for that and So it's potentially again, uh a great transitional moment When because everything got disrupted we can begin to say We don't want to go back to normal. We can rethink some of these Uh paradigms some of what we assumed Uh was always going to Have to happen I think it's also this is why what's so exciting about this project is I think I I I think it's critical to get more young people Engaged in in what this is because Can I say this a lot? the The industry it is the industry it is the money making mechanism of theater as we as interpreted by some That is threatened like theater as an art form theater as a human need theater as the scene place Fine it's gonna live forever. It's like the roaches will be doing theater like there is no You know what I'm saying like that's fine. So let's let's talk about what we're really talking about We're talking about like y'all can't make no more money right now, you know and so for me I'm excited about the part two of the indictment which is Here here's here's how we need to rebuild this thing Here's how we want to be positioned and integral and centered in the reopening in the rebuilding We're in in a remixing moment as far as I'm concerned like the future is the remix the art of the remix somebody needs to get diddy on the phone And we got to talk about the remix because that's what it is It's like how do we just take what was hot? And just leave all the rest on the cutting room floor and then just hotten it up and just make it more funky and just look more like What this country really looks like and sounds like and I think young people's voices Especially should be key in that and that should not be relegated to the sub genres of like Youth theater or like educational outreach like no they're in this world too. They have a voice too We definitely need to be listening to our young people because of all the crap that they're inheriting so You know and and to me the irony of the beautiful spirit of this whole thing is to me like one of the ways you combat gun violence is you change the culture and If you're involved in engaging young people and finding and helping them find other ways To resolve conflict to express to look out for one another to empathize Art being one of those tools. That's that's that's one of the ways. You know what I mean And all these things are related, you know, oh, sorry Robert. No, no, go ahead well So much of what I was pondering and thinking about before pandemic before mr. Floyd Were things about domestic abuse and domestic violence violence against women and girls all over the world I was thinking about poverty and hunger and education. I was thinking about Certainly everything related to this administration, but that is draining very quickly. So But all of the things that that comes up And gun violence And the truth is that all these things are related guns are related to anti-black violence and guns are related to police brutality guns And mass violence are related to domestic abuse and that is related to education And so all of these things what part of what excites me about this project in particular But this moment in time as well is we can talk about a lot of things by talking about one thing We can find the theater can be that door To start engaging your mind and your heart to look at all the other doors that led to the same room Um, so I think everyone has a part to play in this and part of the what-if that I always play is And I was a young younger writer. It was like, well, what if women were the center of I don't know all the stories Let's just see what happens So my career has been built on playing that premise out over and over again and the sciences and history and politics and this and that um But somebody else may go. Well, what if What if young black women were the center of every single every single story and that theater told I don't know right that What is that like? What if this were the center of the story? So it's it's less about what if the world looked exactly like this vision I'm going to paint and more what if we listened So if somebody else was telling the story if somebody else was the hero Somebody else was the protagonist and we give all of our empathy and time to that person How would that change us? That's the what-if that I think is most exciting and most Um accessible and usable right now to young writers watching this Change who the story is about or tell your tell the story that you know to be true that you haven't seen on stage I think You know, one of the things that all playwrights do Is imagine the other And and I think that's a fundamental ask right now In order to move past as Karen says the fear That has been constructed or addressed the machine Is to imagine In a feeling way What your fellow citizens are experiencing at a human level It it is the opposite Of the kind of tribalism That's currently being touted and and I think it's essential to moving forward As david suggests into into a new and better place and I think theater Really, that's the heart of what theater does and I think to engage young people In this empath empathetic Art form early on Um can be extraordinary in terms of opening them up and empowering them And having an impact To speak to that robert and what everyone's saying like how how then can You know thinking a little bit more forward, you know, how how can theater support the kind of urgency that young people bring? I mean they You know in all of these topics whether it's gun violence climate change equality and justice They're the ones primarily asking the big what if questions And doing action to get to that You know to get the answers on those questions But theater isn't usually the go-to place nor maybe it's the process or the machine of theater Lend itself to an urgent or or or quick response, right? So what can you know, what can mainstream theater be doing to find Ways to harness this activist energy that that these young people have and then to help cultivate their voices As they grow and continue to become Artists and activists in the world get off their ass Give these people a platform now You know this you've got to break the mechanism here, which is all about this onerous lengthy process of development fuck that Yeah, you know, you've got young people who are excited They want to say something give them a platform let them say them let them make mistakes let them fall on their face It doesn't matter the important thing is that you empower them to speak and they will learn from that That's how anybody learns from I don't care what age you are you have to do you have to fail So if you ask what could theater do in this moment to be relevant It would be to make theater happen now make it happen quickly. It is possible to do that It doesn't necessarily demand the big institution the big physical plant the big expensive grant from the fort It can be done much More expeditiously and it must be if it is to remain relevant. That's what I think theater should do I mean Michael you said you were bringing up. It's very hard for theater. It's very hard for american theater To respond quickly because that is you know, Czechoslovakia when there's a revolution going on I mean playwriting was a big form if you look at latin america the way that many of our country's Indigenous reform it said or were people putting on plays and taking them to plazas and doing that It's this idea of a large heavy season a subscriber base The the the holding together the whole institution versus the inside the heart the whole the soul and the content Is what we're talking about and so what I am hoping that you know a lot of these, you know, it's hard to turn the titanic But there's a lot of nimble smart theater companies, you know, I started a theater company 25 years ago All we do is plays written by young people And it's fast. It's nimble. It goes up young playwrights there There's a number of theaters that address this but I think the mechanism and it's a it's a capitalistic System that says that oh, we have to do this like this But you know Subscribers aren't even subscribing anymore because people want something people are waiting for the time So I really think this moment where theaters had to pause where everyone's unemployed is a moment to say How can we how can we do this kind of pop-up? Situation that that how do we fund that how do we give that support? But that's about american theater I think and I think it's time to not just say oh we can't change it This is an opportunity to really look at it and say, you know, it's kind of not been working really well For a long time. Maybe this is an opportunity to rebuild just like we're talking about rebuilding police You know police policing systems and other things like that. This might be a chance to Rebuild and redistribute and give chances to voices that have been unheard to make us a stronger and better democracy Sorry, there's my revolutionary talk I don't need to apologize for that. That was awesome And you know the cumbersome-ness of american theater is actually kind of a historical too I mean it's yeah, it's been that way for this way for the last 20 or 30 years But that's not even true Let's you just go back to say the 70s And you know, joe papp at the public theater just sort of putting stuff up and a lot of it didn't work but you know A lot of it did or people starting to find They want to say something so they just find Storefront and Start putting on their shows. Um that kind of stuff can still Certainly still happen today Um, and I would say to young people, you know, yes, of course It's great to get an institution to produce your play But the most important thing is that you hear your play and that you put it up However, you can do it my first play I put up in the lounge of my dorm And then it did get to the public theater about a year later But it was because I just wanted to hear it I wanted to see it on its feet and you can reach people that way um, and so And in that way you do respond to the moment And especially now that the walls are down Um make an audio play out of it do it on Some zoomy thing or on your instagram I mean a play doesn't necessarily have to be two and a half hours of the 15 minute intermission It could be 30 seconds. It could be 15 minutes. It could be Of two hours again on audio theater or something I think we're all reinventing what theater is now which whether that lasts which I hope some version of it does because I think it makes it Incredibly democratic and accessible to a lot of people for which theater has not been But it also means that you're flexing your muscles. You're writing you're making a thing You're reaching out you're building community a story kind of doesn't work in in a vacuum So let's make it put it out there. Um, tell us about it. I want to hear it I'll I'll I'll listen to your podcast So, um, yeah I'll start to cut you off on I just got like I'm in the conversation zone now because just something you said As soon as you said that I'm like I really hope that for a long time theater is just outside Like, you know what I mean? It's either like in very very small spaces Or like outside and just free for like thousands, you know what I mean? Like I hope I hope that's what's in the pipeline, you know, I mean, it's just a return to big grand outdoor Come one come all to the scene place And and let me tell you a tale Of two families. I don't know whatever That you know that the doing of that in that way Is very much about taking back your power. It's it's very much about the power that Um Over the last 25 years as david suggests has gotten Centrified and calcified In this mechanical system and it's not until you step back as an artist and begin to look at how You are in that and how much of your power you have given away to other people and when you begin to demand that back Amazing things can happen. So I think for for young people who are so Thankfully blessedly gifted with this Sense of endless boundary You know, this is the moment to encourage the habit of Living within your power and not giving that power away not being so quick to give it away But to express it. I I think that's so critical And I think that's one of the more exciting things about this project that we're all supporting And I don't think I want to give a shout out to community theater because You know for for a long time because our theater has gotten so professionalized We've come to look down on community theater and you know, sometimes brilliantly in movies like waiting for gothman But actually, you know community is at the heart of theater and if I think about When I was getting started and you know, we there's a theater called the asian-american theater company in san francisco And it was sort of some professional people and some people who Just kind of wandered in And you know, it's kind of chaotic But we ended up starting of you know playing a big role to starting a genre and so We could we all are in communities And to write from those communities and to write for those communities I think harnesses some of the inherent power of theater You know one of the one of the things that we're trying to do with this project in particular You know with hashtag enough is asking You know young people teen six to 12th grade to write about a difficult topic to write about gun violence and confronting that And it's just one of those topics that unfortunately, you know The the blowback from certain individuals can be can be harsh and it can be vicious like people take real Um ridge with the fact that you even want to discuss gun violence as a topic at all And um, you know, I'm sure A handful of you maybe all of you had to withstand criticism or Harsh remarks from people about the plays that you've written So like what advice can you give young people on this topic or any topic? You know to stand by their voice in the story. They want to tell you know, just how how You know, what kind of advice can you give young people to sort of fortify them to stand by what they believe? um, okay I mean, I think it's I think it's part of the Of what we do we put things out there and yes It would be great if everybody liked them, but that's not the point the point is Um, everybody's going to have their own opinion about it And that's how we engage with an audience If you just think about anything that you go to see if you just if you go to see a marvel movie And you and your friends are arguing about it Some of some people are going to like it some people aren't and that's the nature of what it is that we do So yeah, we've all gotten criticized and we've all mostly get bad reviews and occasionally get good reviews and all that And that is um, that's the life we chose I I also want I want to like tell a lot of the young people who might be watching this that It's really fun to be subversive How do you write a play about guns that doesn't have a gun on stage? How do you write a play about guns that has animals? How do you write a play about violence without, you know, they're they're so I there's so many ways to get around this To to to to get from different points of view and I really really hope that people aren't just worried about the criticism But they actually find a way to really really plummet. What what does gun violence? What does violence mean? What does it mean if it yours in the 1800s? What does it mean today? What does it mean a hundred years from now? Um, that To use your imagination your creativity Well, well Then the story will really really feel like yours Because only you could have thought of this this angle into it that way And so when sometimes it's subject subject is given It actually gives you such freedom to reimagine and play with form and all sorts of other things I mean, I hope there's a musical And and what and what is undeniable? What is human about even people you might imagine that would be the antagonist the antagonist in a play They're fighting for their family. They're Trying to protect themselves. They want the best for their kids. They They love their grandmother, you know, like there's a lot of things we share When it comes to policy those things get very Specified and and delineated, but there's so much about the lived human condition that is universal So what what are those things? So that if somebody comes to see it and they You know have a second amendment bumper sticker on their car What can they walk away and say, you know, I I You know, love my mom the same way that character loves loved her mom I I reckon I was scared like that when I was a kid as well And have that be the place that you start building the bridge of I know this and you know this We both know these things to be true Now let's try to imagine our what ifs about what would change in our end policy that would Bring us even even closer to the same mindset So there's so much about the human condition that is common That you can perhaps start that as a way to as a way to relate to people that And I've practiced that and what I do too because I am I'm quick to judge people who Might have voted for somebody different or I think a different thing or use a word with a connotation, you know But how can we In part of our practice is calling it out and part of it is saying all right, but who are they really Who who are they that we could actually get together over? A cup of coffee and and laugh about the laugh about the same thing. What's that? I became a playwright at 10 years old when I moved to this country And there was a very mean boy who said some awful things about where I came from That I could not think of how to respond to him and I went home and wrote dialogue So I was ready for him the next time that I encountered him And then I started wondering why he was saying these things and I started Building a backstory and I grew such a compassion for this kid that by the next time I met him I was like, oh, I I understand you. Let's have a conversation. So That was the impetus for starting young playwrights theater And that's what the impetus of why I'm so excited by enough is what dialogue Would you like to have with anybody in the world? Yeah, I I think what Karen is that the the notion of You're not writing a play to wave a magic wand and change everybody's opinion. That's that's just not going to happen But what you are trying to do I think is create a conversation um is to begin to is to model and practice empathy in a way that might elicit a more human response to the subject at hand as opposed to the fear machine response Um, you may very well as as a young writer, you know be be told that this is not your place to do this Um, and you know the question is well, what is my place? Isn't it to be an active citizen? Isn't that what you want for me? Don't you want me to be engaged in the life of my country? um Don't you want me to be a good student and doesn't a good student ask good questions. Isn't that what you want from me? um I think that um I have found in moments tense moments With audience members that to reflect back To the individual that i'm in conversation what I have heard them say to me just as a tactic as a way of making them Feel that they have been heard clearly Helps to diffuse the situation and allows us to begin to move a little deeper And more towards an actual conversation as opposed to two defended positions But I don't think you should ever ever Be afraid to have your opinion that that is the point of this Yeah, and I'll just uh say I mean church tabernacle preach seconds on all that round of seconds. Um There's a reason that the first amendment is first and second amendment second Speeches speech is more important. It's more powerful We don't you know marlith king jr i'm aghandi Malcolm X Nina Simone list goes on and on these people are more their words are immortal. You know what I mean? Um, so it's like you know This is this is who we are like our right to have a gun is not who we are who we are Is our thoughts ideas our discourse and I I contend that if You're a young person who's drawn to this in any way You were brought to this for a reason like you you know what I mean? Like you've got something to say and like don't let anyone else pull you away from that because that's your job And also just remember people are often wrong Especially adults You know I'm saying we we see that right now. We see that right now You just open anything you see the the the bumbling foolishness Of the adult world, you know, and so You know stick stick here stick here. You're supposed to do this and just sometimes people just wrong This is like I mean when I got started You know critics were slapping me around all kind of stuff and I just was like I disagree. I think i'm the shit It didn't mean it didn't hurt. It didn't mean it didn't hurt, but it's just also like I disagree And you can always tell the people who tell you not to write a play that you can write a play too Why don't you go write a play and I'll come watch your play I think it also is important to remember that You may not know in fact more likely than not you won't know in the moment the impact You have actually had on someone Occasionally as a as a writer and these are real miracles. They're real moments of gift when When you learn from an audience member How something you wrote a character or a line? Really Opened their world up or impacted them or changed them So but but that's very rare But it doesn't mean it isn't happening all the time in what you do in what you say And and you need to you need to hold on to that truth To your truth and express it as clearly as you can Knowing that even though you may not be privileged to hear that gratitude or that response. It's real It's there. It is happening. It is happening And it doesn't happen without you the word is where it all starts We you've gathered all of these working playwrights and Michael We're all sitting here in anticipation for what you are going to write And your words will employ actors and directors and you know do a web I mean you will start a web of communication that starts with whatever word you're putting on a piece of paper You they will get transferred and it has like an exponential growth out of that And so i'm really excited for all the young writers out there to be brave To write what's in your heart to write more than one thing be I mean it just figure out what What is scary for you and share it with us because we're all sitting here Waiting to be your audience and there's people and actors waiting there to say your words But we can't do it without you And I also want to add a special invitation to um some of you young people who are thinking of writing who may come from communities that or families that are They're very gun owning that are interested in guns because that any type of of character, you know, there's a wide range of humanity and types and points of view within any group and it's easy for someone who's not in that group to Kind of believe that everybody in that the other group is a monolith when in fact everybody in The other group is a human being also And so I think those of you who come from gun gun communities probably have something very important to bring to this conversation Agreed. Yeah. Thank you. David. Thank thank you all everyone here. Um, I we we have really Run out that was a quick hour. We really hit our time Simone and I will collect the questions that we've received And we'll try to do our best to see if we can field them out to some of our esteemed panelists here to get So that they don't just don't go into the void that we have some a way of responding to you because that's what this is about It's about You being able to share your voice and that someone is listening And that you know that it's being heard So I want to thank Idris and David and Karen and Lauren and Robert And Simone and thank you to uh hall around who's making this platform so necessary in this time where we're all Um stuck at home and figuring out how to engage with the world So really appreciate it if you're thinking about writing to play or if you know a young person who's interested in writing to play The deadline's right around the corner. It's june 20th, but they're only 10 minute plays So there's plenty of time to write one. Um, you can find out more information at our website at www.enoughplays.com Thanks everybody. Thanks for tuning in Thanks

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AMAZING SPRING BASS FISHING with Legendary Jimmy Houston

Today I'm bass fishing with @TwinEagleRanch on one of his amazing lakes on his very own ranch! We are catching bass in the shallows during the spawn season for an episodes on Jimmy Houston's TV show and go behind the scenes for fishing tips and laughs with the Legend himself. This was a special fishing trip for me given that I grew up watching Jimmy on TV. SUBSCRIBE TO THE LEGEND JIMMY HOUSTON @Jimmy Houston Outdoors WATCH MORE FISHING TIPS @Googan lab GET LATEST FISHING GEAR & SWAG https://googansquad.com SUBSCRIBE - http://bit.ly/SubLFG WATCH MORE FISHING - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp4iAE2LClKZ4EIyrUb0xHjuF3St__-CQ FOLLOW LakeForkGuy: INSTAGRAM https://instagram.com/lakeforkguy SNAPCHAT - http://snapchat.com/add/LakeForkGuy FACEBOOK https://facebook.com/lakeforkguy Watch More LakeForkGuy: Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp4iAE2LClKbV1r78_VVTgIdxbpXxoorU Fishing & Outdoor Life Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF43D57E0A9B443B3 Bass Fishing Instructional Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5BA28EBDE3790478 When Wife Goes Fishing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp4iAE2LClKa41BFWFYfFUmPgbr4WT3Bb ABOUT LFG Justin Rackley, known as Lakeforkguy in the fishing world, creates fishing and outdoor videos on youtube and other social platforms. LFG provides fishing tips and techniques for mostly largemouth bass fisheries but also travels to other freshwater and saltwater fishing spots to explore new fish species and fishing techniques to help you catch more fish. Lakeforkguy likes to hang out on any fishing vessel or go bank fishing with his other YouTube Fishing friends and vlog with his Wife Stephanie AKA Ocean Spoon Girl and french bulldog Winston. ------------------------------------VIDEO CREATION GEAR-------------------------------------- CAMERAS DSLR Camera (Panasonic GH5) - http://go.magik.ly/ml/5tf5/ Metabones Speedbooster 4/3 EF Mount - http://go.magik.ly/ml/5tf7/ Chesty Cam (Gopro Hero 4 Black) - https://goo.gl/GaZfjV Underwater Shots (Gopro Hero 5) - https://goo.gl/efzJmM CAMERA GOPRO MOUNTS FOR FISHING Essential Chesty Mount - https://goo.gl/kAyLtg BEST Suction Cup RAM Mount - https://goo.gl/sVtZCN Clamp mount for rails, rods, and vehicles - https://goo.gl/LH2jQH CASES and PACKS Cheap Gopro Tavel Case - https://goo.gl/jR5WvW Case for my DSLRs on the boat & traveling - https://goo.gl/EMwzBE Favorite all in one film pack - http://go.magik.ly/ml/5tfg/ LENSES Overall best fishing lens (Canon 24-105mm) http://go.magik.ly/ml/5tfl/ SAVE AROUND $300 with White Box Version - https://goo.gl/voMNBZ My Vlogging Lens (Rokinon 14mm WIDE) - http://go.magik.ly/ml/5tfm/ My ULTIMATE Mid Range Lens $$$ - http://go.magik.ly/ml/5tfn/ AUDIO CHEAP but GOOD Gopro Mic - https://goo.gl/gHrKqJ Wireless Mics for Clean Audio in WIND - http://go.magik.ly/ml/5tfo/ BEST Camera Mic for the Money - https://goo.gl/wk1UTu

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It smelled like they had been sniffed. Ha ha ha! So good! Welcome back to the channel, y'all. We are here in Paradise, Jimmy Land. We don't have the rain today, so it's gonna be fun time and hopefully be able to catch some big bass with Jimmy Houston. That doesn't sound very bad at all, does it? Yeah, I think it's gonna be a fun day. Check out the water from the rain. All the rain we had, I figured it might murk it up, but no, it's not murky because it has gorgeous grass in it. And I was also looking for Lucy. She's the star deer around here and she sleeps on the back deck and I just found her. So she just, she's just waking up for the morning. So before we get to fishing, let's go say hi to Lucy. Good morning. Good morning, Lucy. How are you? Good morning. So she sleeps out here on this little bedding scenario where deer can come and sleep and feel safe. How are you doing this morning? Are you doing good? Are you doing good? Yeah, you're shedding. You're shedding, girl. She'll literally just go up to the windows. Jimmy makes her breakfast, feeds it to her in a bowl. It is incredible. And she had a little mishap. She got caught in a fence or something. And so she's got a, she's got a couple of battle scars, but y'all petting a deer is just a weird feeling. Okay, Lucy, you wanna go fishing? You wanna go fishing today? Yeah? She's all about it. Look at that tongue action. I'm gonna go get some tackle ready. Whenever you're ready, you just hoof up and come on over, okay? Is this the horse we're riding in on right here? Yeah. Yeah, we'll go ahead and take this mule here. Okay. Goin' fishing with the man himself, Jimmy Houston. We're going catching. We're not just going fishing. We're going catching. Now that's pretty brazen to say something like that. When we've got big rain come in here, now we got bluebirds skies. Everybody says it's the worst kind of day. We're gonna take the worst kind of day and make it the best kind of day. I love that. Exactly what we're gonna do. He is a positive all the time. Every day is gonna be a great one. Every day. Did you feed Lucy this morning? I fed Lucy this morning. She got her Cheerios and carrots and grapes and bread and vanilla cookies. I walk in the woods and I don't see her around. I just go start walkin' in the woods and pretty soon she shows up. She's right there with me. Oh, I'm not buckled up. That's why I'm dingin'. Yeah, you're dingin'. I just thought you was a little dingy. No, I'm not. It's kind of like going fishing. We're going fishing a little dingy. These are Ranch Road Laws, people. Ranch Road Laws. You have this lake out here that one of them, the dam busted on. Right, back in 2015, so it was five or six years past that. That one's coming back. We caught some good fish out of that yesterday. This one we're going to today is a bit older. There's some bigger fish in it. I built, it does have, I caught 11 pounder out of it this year and we might catch a really giant fish today, obviously. But I built this lake in 2003, 2005. It was actually 2007 before we finally got full of water. It's pretty low right now. We haven't had much rain yet for this year's rain. We got about an inch lower than an inch, an inch three yesterday. But the lake will come up, we get these rain rains. But it's down kind of low, but one of the things that I've always liked about fishing lakes when they're a little bit low is the fish didn't have new, new swimming places to hide. Some of their hidey places is dry land, so they got to be in the water. This is a dream come true, y'all. I know that's a cliche, but literally me and my dad growing up watching Jimmy on TV and, you know, hey, Sugar Booga, man, y'all, me, all that. And now I'm going fishing with Jimmy today. You know, we've been doing that show for 45 years and you'll remember this sometime down the road. You'll remember me telling you this, but it just seems like that we just started this television show yesterday and I can remember some of the early deals and all the early trials and tribulations and getting the television show started. Of course, that was way back before things like YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and all the stuff that is a big part of media today. And unfortunately, television is still a big part of media, but you know, if somebody would have said, do you think there's any possibility that you'll be doing this 45 years from now and you're going, not a chance, not a chance. But it happens, it happens in a hurry, but you know, when you spend 45 years running around the country fishing and meeting all the great people you get to meet and fish with, it's just like a blessing. You talk about attitude, it's like a blessing every single day, every single day. Well, you've had one pack of a life in the fishing industry. Oh, here they are. One on the outside, he's visiting over here saying, why don't y'all open that gate, let me in there. And the one on the outside might be the opposite. All those on the inside might be, look how big they are, isn't it? They're just such huge animals. They're horses. Look at this big cow right here, this second one, she is so big. And yet they can run through the woods with the big racks, these are all cows. I saw a young bull the other day, a five by five. I still had his horns left over from last year. You see the baby over there on the other side, you can just barely see the baby. Oh, listen, listen, okay. He's bare, he's bare. Get out of dodge. Floating away. I mean, starting the morning off with some elk. There's some white tail over there. I saw a turkey this morning. Yeah. Oh, I thought you just talked about me. You're talking about a wild one. Okay. You are a wild turkey. Yeah, sometimes. This is the Jimmy Rig right here. We are ready to rock and roll. Got a very good rain. Everything's wet and everything will dry out in this wind, I promise you. We can get across on that wall over on that other side and get out of a lot of this wind. One of the reasons we get out of a lot of the wind is pretty chilly. That wind's cold this morning. It doesn't sound good when it starts. Does that spinning and cranks up? She's telling the fish, I'm here. I'm here to play. You can swim, but you can't hide, especially with life's scope. All right, go see if we can find a bunch of crappie right off the bat. I wanna go look in one little place. I love it. I know you love crappies. Excellent eating. Yeah, that too. Nobody gets bad at you if you play a bunch of them. I know. Golden crispies. Friends. Look at that beautiful sugar bogey, Jimmy. Back in the boat, big YouTube guy. I'm a big YouTube guy, gotta be. Oh man. That fish on the jig looks like. Gotta love it. Ah, yes sir. Oh, can I give it a sniff, Jimmy? You can sniff that when I look. Okay. I don't know, I've been kissing a few that smelled like they had been sniffed. So good. That is a good fish right there, man. Beautiful. Beautiful bass. That one picked it up kinda funny. It started swimming towards the boat and I had to catch up to it. Black and blue jig. I might have to. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty baby doll. Pretty baby doll. Yeah. I think they smell like honeysuckle. Oh. That one was getting up on the bank. This is a tasty one. You thought he was, didn't you? No. When I first hooked it, it loaded up real nice and I was like, oh. Yeah. I ate it. He ate it, had it down deep in it. Well, that's not the 11-pounder I told you was right here in this spot. There is a 11-pounder in this spot. Not quite. That's her little boyfriend. Yeah, that was on the same one. Oh, God. Monkey, huh? They pulled it and baited him. They did, they're doing that every time on the crawls. You know, Jimmy said there's 11-pounder in there and I gotta buy it. I put the full hook set on it. All right, Sugar-Bugger, I'm coming for you. Got him. That's a big one. That's a big one, I'm serious. Well, no, it ain't no 11-pounder. Oh, I thought that was the one, Jimmy. Yeah, I'm a-going. It's a nice fish, but you've got me dreaming. Jimmy's got a tendency to do that. Get you hyped up, love it. Not quite an 11. He could have been well, he might be something. But, Jimmy's on her. A lot of people have caught 11-pounders in his kitchen before they got there. Yeah, if it would have got off, you know, 10 feet from the boat, I would have told you. Definitely that 11-pounder. Oh, my gosh, they're doing it again. I mean, just, there's another one. He's got it. Man, they're doing, he's got it again. Got him that time. Got him that time. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Technically caught at this point, but. I like to sniff them. I like to get a little closer. That fish, and Jimmy might be right. There might be a few. There might be a few more in there. But it was a, bam, hit my bait. Nothing. And then it swimming it back to make another cast that hit it. Hit it again, so. Beautiful. See ya. All right, little update here. Well, Pat, he's getting in the other boat. He's gonna get some other wide shots. We got the Tucker boys over there and the old tracker. All right, dude. Yeah, but just in case he fell in, but yeah. Yeah, exactly. So tell it, tell me what we got going on here. What's the bite so far? We got a good situation going on right here. He just got in that tree back here and got three bites on one cast. Finally caught the fish on the third bite. And then I told him, I said, that could be a big, big bunch of fish right there since you got three bites. Could've been the same fish. And now we've caught about, what, seven or eight out of that one tree? Or right here in this area. I've got a big football head jig on and I'm dropping it, but it's three quarters. So it gets, you know, we're only at 12 or 14 foot of water. So it gets to the bottom pretty quickly. So I'm mostly swimming that thing. And, you know, just kind of jigging it and swimming it. And most of them are biting that bait swimming as opposed to fishing it on the bottom or dropping like we do a normal jig. We're kind of switching fishing a bait, a jig that you fish on the bottom. We're kind of fishing it like a swim jig. Looks like a bluegill or crawfish. Yeah, it just looks like a bluegill or crawfish or shad. Had that one. They had gum. And they keep doing that little pincher bite thing. Yeah. And that's crazy right there. So there's like a wad of fish out here, y'all. There's, and of course, what's happened and what happens when you have, when you have multiple fish at a big school like that is when you catch them, they're like chickens. They follow the other ones and they end up a lot of times, they end up a lot of times being out here around your boat, close to your boat. Look at that. Woo hoo. That's a catch. Got it. I like it. I like the Jimmy rule. I love the Jimmy rule. So we're just going to smash your barb down. That's a barbless hook rule. So true. Can't do it if you've got live hooks. I'm just getting kind of miserably low. Oh. You're right back there, son of a man. My trigger went off. Wait, you go. I was going to try to snipe that one from you. Oh, he's still following it. He's still following it. That's the bees, that's the bees. Figurate it. He ought to eat your swim bones. He ought to eat it. There you go. No. There you go. Oh man, I wonder, I wonder if that one's on a bed or something. Yeah. That one in that tree. Yeah, there was another one about that size that chased my jig just a second ago. I missed that one. I was earlier. Nope. Nope. There was a single. That's just beautiful hook right in the schnoz right there. That's a good fish. Perfect. Perfect right in the top of the hand. Just perfect fat belly. Got to love it. Man, Jimmy, you got some healthy ones. Very healthy. Beautiful. It's been a long time since I've watched fish hit it in clear water. Little flat runners. 42. Close enough. Close enough. I think we're going to cross. Maybe not. Got him. That's a good one. Man, they're all up on this flat. That one's got a little black spot on it's lip. Little dot. OK, I see the edge of the pond here. Oh, there. Runner. Oh, that's a fighter. He aimed for that. Oh, yeah. He aimed for that. There he was. He was trying to get there. We caught 41, 42. I think it was 43. That's another one, a black spot on it's lip. Well, I like the idea that it's a healthy fish, so that's a healthy fish. That is super healthy. That one that was caught that you had up there on that tree with your baby was on that tree, that fish just came up and caught it from behind. Oh, there he is. Up there in the dirt. That was in the dirt, man. That's a decent one. Pretty fish. Look at that. He's like he's sitting with his mouth open. Yes, boom. I mean, up there in like a foot of water. I don't know if I can lift you, you've got a big belly. Yeah. There we go. Yeah, that's nice. Mm, thick. Love to see it. Woo, gotta love it. Man, this is so much fun, Jimmy. Oh my gosh, y'all. We've got on a little bite here. And then it's just fun, fun, fun. Can't stop Jimmy, though. Can't stop Jimmy. He's energized or bunny. He won't quit fishing. Everybody's trying to go in for lunch. He's like, no, I'm going to catch a big one here on this point. I have a feeling he does that every day, Pat. Probably knows. Incredible day. We're going to go in, get a little bite to eat, then we're going to come back out here. I think these big fish are going to move up in this shallower water. And we'll catch a real nice one. But can't complain. We'll catch three, four pounders, just giving them sniffs and kisses out here on Jimmy's big old lake. Parker right here, come back after we have a little bite to eat, little locale bluebell. Like a style. So far, all the action has been really good. And it seems like these fish are wanting it on the swim. And I can't remember the last time I've caught so many fish, both this lake and the lake we're fishing today. Swimming the jig, it's not like they're hitting it as it's on the bottom. We're having to crawl it. They're wanting it kind of moving. But there's one more thing we need in this video today. And this is just a personal, awesome thing for me to remember forever. I want to sniff a bass with Jimmy while he's kissing a bass. That is just a dream come true type stuff. Get a photo on the wall. Get him to sign it sort of thing. So got to go do that. And that is the ultimate like button smash. It has already been awesome just being here. But oh, man, if we can do that, let's go see what old Lucy thinks about it so far. See what she thinks the weather conditions are going to bring. Judging by the deer's actions right now, the ones I've seen, they're all bedded up. So I hope the bass aren't doing the same. We're going to go catch some more bass, OK, Lucy? You good with that? OK, round two with Jimmy. After lunch. The after lunch special. There's something we got to do. I need this photo for my house. We have to keep a couple of five pounders. Five pounders sounds good. A couple of five pounders and take a nice photo. A sniff and a kiss. Sniff and a kiss. Oh, my. I'll put that over the nightstand, you know? Put it in your bedroom. Yeah. Can't get any better than that. When you get 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, which is very soon. It's not too far away. We're a little bit over 90,000 right now. And when we have 100,000 on YouTube, we're going to draw a coupon out. And we've got a name and number for everybody's coupon in a big golden hopper. I always wanted a golden hopper. I have a golden hopper. And we're going to draw that out. We're going to draw of our people, one for YouTube and one for our Facebook followers. And they will win a trip here to fish with me on this lake. They can bring a friend. They can bring their wife, their kids, their boyfriend, their girlfriend, whatever. They can bring one person with them. And we'll fish here on the ranch. They need to send their name and city and state. We don't need their address. Like Joe Jones, Muskogee, Oklahoma, text that to our Pocon phone number, which is the order we take our Pocon orders on in November. He also has a Pocon farm here. Yeah, 580-618-7260. And if you have an email address and you want to give it to us, you can put that email address down. And then when we hit 100,000, we're going to draw the winner out. And a red coupon, one of them for YouTube and a blue coupon, one for Facebook, and then win a fishing trip right here. Chance of a lifetime. I already saw the, what did you call it, the golden? The golden hopper. The golden hopper. The golden hopper. I already saw it. It's a real thing. I need to subscribe. So subscribe. Link down below. You can go check out Jimmy's channel and subscribe and sign up. And you can come out here, too. You can come and fish, right, Ace? With Jimmy. Get on. You got one. Oh, what have you got? The healthy one. Yeah, nice one. Nice one, Dave. Oh, that's not being big of a day. First one of the afternoon. Yeah. Healthy, healthy, healthy. That's right. Start the afternoon off out here. First bite of the afternoon. Yeah. Dandy. Oh, that was a crappy. That was a crappy. That was a crappy. I was like, what do you want? I want a good one. I want a good one. I want a good one. I want a good one. Oh, that was a crappy. A crappy. Yeah, black crappy. See, this is what I like about Jimmy Houston. I fish with other people. I get a crappy bite. They're like, ah. Me? Jimmy? We're turning the boat around. You can get the crappie jig for a second. Oh, oh, yep. Crappie bite. Little crappie nibble right there. Yep. Oh, come off. Getting a little snippy. Got that one. There we go. There we go. Beautiful. Now that is one of the best ways in the world to find and catch a messy crappie. Get one to hit a bass bait. Get one to hit a bass bait. And looky there. Look at that pair. Get that pair with you. Look at that. Yeehaw. There you go. All right, little crappies. There you go. See you later. Beautiful crappies. Pretty good job. Oh, yeah. Nice one. Oh, my gosh. Eat it on top. Oh, come off. Oh, Jimmy, no. Eat it on top. Burning that swim jig. That was a good one. I bet it could have been the same one. Oh, yeah. Man, it ran. Halfway across the pond. Lose the big one. Fun nonetheless. On top, too, in the dirt. Pretty good fish, too. I think so. Oh, yeah. Nice fish. Oh, yeah. In the dirt, baby. Oh, it's down. Down the hatch. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. That's one of them sugarbuggers. Dang, you got him. Maybe not. Swim jig bass. Man. That is cool. That is cool. That's it. That eat was just like the ones on your spinnerbait. It was up on the top and it was just so exciting. And you just wanted it fast. Oh, he pulled off right there. I saw him. I saw him. I saw him. Cops. Cops. That was a little one. All right, so I just switched up my jig trailer to a little chartreuse color. Chartreuse pepper. And I'm just swimming this like a spinnerbait. I saw Jimmy catch him waking his spinnerbait on the surface and they were eating it like a topwater. So I just put on a little bit bigger trailer on this quarter ounce. I started reeling it on top and I've had two topwater strikes on it. One being a really good one. So that's just five dimes. Reeling it in and getting bopped. Oh, gosh. Big one ate it right there. Oh, man. Oh, goodness. Ah, it's a good one. Oh, man. Oh, goodness. See if I can... I'll take some more of that. What was that order number? So I'm rigging this swim jig. Extremely simple. But there's two plastic keepers on this hook shank right here. And for the cracking craw, which puts out a ton of vibe, it's going to lift your jig a lot. So just be mindful of that. If you want to get it down a little deeper, you could put a more subtle plastic on there. But taking that top section off, feeding it through, coming straight out the top, get it on both plastic keepers. Make sure to separate those tails. And this is just black and blue, which I really just throw black and blue or some sort of like green pumpkin color, usually white in the fall. But usually a darker color in the springtime. And then I just had a wild here and threw a little chartreuse on there. It actually looks really, really good in the water. It pops. Those tails kicking. So these fish are just coming up on top of the water, eating it like they would on a, you know, topwater buzzbait or something like that. Wait, Jimmy, he's waking that spinnerbait. Oh, gosh. Oh, geez, look at that streamer. Little one. He had me all over. Loose spot. We're going to stop at a little hump here real quick. Break out a jig. Give it a dangle. Yup. Nope, not a begging. Dragging the jig back there. I thought that was how that big one was going to latch on. Got him. It's a good one. He's coming out of here in the open. Oh, yeah. That's a begging. I'm waiting on that one. Oh, it's a fat one. Ooh. Marcy. Sugar bugger. Look at that belly, man. That's a gorgeous one. That's a fiber. Nice. On that jig, finally. As long as that's okay. Oh, no. Don't line. Don't break. That's a good one. Put away in the day. Woo-hoo, Jimmy. Keep it. Oh, look at that big mouth. Ooh. That big body. Won't that be sweet? Those are about the same size. That one is just all belly. Belly on that crater. Woo-hoo. Getting late in the day, folks. We've got a couple of juices in the well. You know, we're going to get that legendary picture. I caught a big one on the jig. I don't know what to say, y'all. A dream come true out here. Fishing with Jimmy. Being on the boat with Pat, the man behind the whole entire masterpiece. 27 years. Just honored. Truly honored. All right, look at these pigs, y'all. Those are some beauties. Look at the bellies on those boogers. Another fat one. Sugar boogers. And we're going to let them go here. I thought it would be an amazing shot just to get a sniff and a kiss. Jimmy, I got to take my hand off. I got to get a little Jimmy going on here. There we go. There we go. All right. I love it. All right, here we go. Little tongue. All right, let's put these baby dolls back. You got it, dude. Good play. Jimmy, I owe you a huge thank you not just for today, but for leading the way in the industry and paving a path for guys like me that just want to try to be like you. You're doing an awful good job at it. Been a lot of fun out here today and we will do this some more. We fish pretty well together. You didn't get hung up too much today and I didn't get hung up today because he appreciated that. I know I appreciate him. I know how it is. We caught 44 this morning. I think we're at 38. So what would it be, 82? You got to catch more in your old. I did that before. If we were fishing with Roland we'd have to catch a few more in Bill. Lord, I apologize. Got to love it. Thank you so much for tuning in today. Make sure to go subscribe to Jimmy and you got to smash that like button for greatness. God bless. We'll see you.

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Webinar: The Unknowns in Product Development by Spotify Director of Product, Flavia Neves

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Hello, everyone, my name is Flavia and I'm currently Director of Product at Spotify. Right now, I'm based in sunny Barcelona, but before landing here, I worked in Portugal, Ireland, Silicon Valley, and spent most of my career between product growth and product management. I worked in startups, scale-ups, and in larger orgs, which I think helps with this conversation, both as a full-time employee as well as an advisor. At Spotify, I'm part of the experience mission, which is responsible for the whole mobile and other platforms' experience and where most innovation happens. And today, I want to share some thoughts with you around the unknowns in product management. I think you'd be surprised with the number of people I come across, product people, that want or expect predictability. And this always scares the heck out of me because, in my opinion, product management is everything but predictable. The environments, the variables that we play with are rarely controllable, and there's always an almost infinite amount of known and unknown unknowns that we have to deal with. So being a product manager, or a good one for that matter, means accepting that uncertainty comes with a role and also learning how to navigate it. We only have 20 to 30 minutes today, so it's impossible to explore every dimension of this topic. So instead, I'll share the recommendations I find most useful that I think are less talked about and that can be applied in various different settings. So let me start by defining uncertainty and the tools we as product people can leverage to chart our way into building impactful products. I define dealing with uncertainty as being in a situation that requires a decision for which you have considerably less information than you need for the decision to be obvious to everybody involved. No results are guaranteed for sure with any product decision because users and markets have way too many moving PCs for anybody to be able to kind of express the logic of all the dynamics at play. And unfortunately, there's no one plan that fits all the challenges or that can guarantee good outcomes. But I do believe, though, that there are some strategies that can improve the odds of building great tech products. So let's start from the beginning. You don't have your product yet or you're fundamentally reimagining it. These situations and especially the prioritization process are like charting your path in a heavy fog, right? How many times have you found yourselves in a situation where you were asked to make a decision with limited to no information? I think the majority of us have been there. And there's a great deal of uncertainty that we have to deal with. So let me talk about some tips overlooked most of the time on how to navigate this. The first one is frequently talked about, but I'm putting a spin on it. One, move quickly to get a first rough iteration in front of users to start getting high quality data back. This is the old question, should we explore to build or build to explore? Well, first and foremost, you need to know what your problem is. What you're trying to solve and what goal you want to achieve. This is where research, qual and quant is essential. So start by using data to frame the problem, define your goals, create the hypothesis to test, but then pedal to the metal. Don't spend your time doing very complex analysis, planning all the details and working out a perfect plan just built to explore. And the reason why I say this is because it is key to move quickly and get that first iteration in front of your users so that you get a flow of high quality inputs that will then help you refine, redesign your strategy and or your roadmap. And now you ask, but aren't we all doing that? Isn't that the like the most important thing in product management? Yes, a lot of people talk about this. And I think we've come a long way implementing this advice when it comes to delivery. We no longer or a lot of companies no longer think and work six months on something and then put it in front of users. But that's primarily thought for the delivery process, the delivery track, not so much beforehand. And I still see in a lot of companies, teams spending an awful lot of time planning and re-planning and analyzing everything before actually committing to do something. Whereas I think that it's much easier to build something and then explore. What did you get from that experiment or whatever you put in front of users? What are users telling you and how can you refine work? How can you set the next goal? Obviously, by saying this, I'm not saying don't plan. Don't think ahead of time. We have to think ahead of time. But our thinking should go into creating the right hypothesis, should be into creating the goal, making it abundantly clear to everybody around us. Let me tell you a quick story. A few years ago, I was asked in an interview process to define a long-term roadmap in what I think was an awful lot of detail. And to be very transparent, I knew very early on that there was no cultural fit whatsoever, but I decided to use that process as an opportunity to see how set companies were on this way of thinking. And also if I could change them or change their minds, I couldn't. And so I challenged them and explained how doing back of the envelope calculations supported by either an existing data or way too many shaky assumptions would be useless. Think about it. If you come up with a plan that relies on 20 different assumptions and the 20th relies on the first, 5th, 10th, and then you start your process and the first one is not true, then what happens to the 20th? You kind of have to revisit your plan. So you might as well put all your effort into creating that first assumption or hypothesis or first couple of hypothesis, having very clear what the goal is and then take it step by step. At the end of the day, we're not supposed to be futurologists, right? We're product managers. So to sum up by moving quickly and creating a flow of high quality inputs will help you pave the path forward. It doesn't, however, make the path 100% clear. It just helps you kind of navigate and create the path step by step. So the best advice that I can give you is to accept from day one the uncertainty and the long odds. Is it easy? It's not humans have been using categorization and classification as ways of understanding something unfamiliar and also making decisions for centuries. So you can see that it's very easy to fall into the temptation of organizing, planning, classifying, to feel safe and in control. However, endless hours of that planning will unlikely change the odds. But what it will do is give you probably less time to iterate. So going back to the role of research and bear in mind that when I talk about research here, I'm referring to both qual and quant. It should never be used to soothe our fears, right? Or internal fears, but to advance the discovery to help us generate realistic hypotheses and a plan to test them. So make sure that you intentionally recognize and accept that most of the time the path isn't clear and the path to a successful product comes from standing on a pile of failed tests and iterations that hopefully will help you move forward. So if you are desperate because you have ran 10 different tests and neither of them yielded the results you were expecting, don't be discouraged because you can learn so much from those and it will help you if you look at them the right way to actually move forward. So you shouldn't fear failure, but instead embrace it, accept that the path isn't clear that you will only be able to see one feet ahead of the time. So be humble, nimble, learn as you go, iterate based on your learnings and take one step at the time. Lastly, I know that the unknown is very scary, but and that the majority of the time we don't feel like we can be cheerleaders, but it is part of our job to keep everybody motivated and with their way their eyes on the future. It's certainly daunting to look at the odds, especially if you work in a startup. You know what I'm talking about. And it's also daunting to look at the decisions that need to be made in the midst of so much uncertainty. But the truth is, and I hope that this helps you, most great tech products started from a similar position. They all have their own unique, incredible stories. But I think what unites them all was having one, a capable team, two, being very relentless in their pursuit and third, iterating just long enough to have to get an incredible product out the door. And as product people, junior or senior, we play an outsized role in keeping everybody motivated, aligned with the goals, knowing exactly what their role is to get to where we set ourselves to go so I can't stress enough how important it is to keep the team motivated through these difficult times of uncertainty. And I'll tell you a story. A while back, I was working with a team that was fundamentally broken. They were not broken, the whole setup was. And I'm not going to lie, I had my doubts. I could turn things around, but never for a second, I let others see it. After we went through that transformation, a lot of people, I had this conversation with a lot of people, but I specifically remember an engineer that came to me and said that oftentimes he was 100 percent sure, convinced that there was no solution to the problem that I was giving them. But he saw me so confident, he saw that I was looking 100 percent convinced that there was a solution that he'd never gave up. He was trying, going to try and find it out. Was I convinced? No, absolutely not. Most of the time, I didn't even know if it was possible, but I didn't let them know that because I wanted to instill confidence so that they would believe they could find a solution and to that difficult problem. So long story short, a happy and a motivated team can move mountains, but a paralyzed team could be the end of your product or your company. I've seen it. Trust me, you want to motivate your team. OK, so we talked about the importance of moving fast, accepting uncertainty and also motivating those around us. What else? Let's talk about data, which is something I think we usually turn to when we don't know what the future holds. I'm sure you've heard before that good product managers have to be data driven. Well, as somebody highly analytical who loves your data and uses it to make decisions on a daily basis, if I'm honest, I'm not going to tell you otherwise, it's incredibly important. Now, the art is one, knowing when and how to use it and two, to strike the right balance between the two extremes of 100 percent intuition driven decision making and the other polar opposite of fear induced paralysis, because for whatever reason, there's no solid data to go to work with. So I'll share now some pitfalls. I often see PMs falling into first one, proving assumptions. When we start recognizing familiar patterns and we can tell what seems like a reasonable story, it's easy to get complacent. And the reason why I say this is because sometimes something feels familiar. We write a narrative that sounds plausible. And before we know it, we are unintentionally planning our tests to make sure that it holds true. So while most product managers work to prove their hypothesis, I recommend that you focus your efforts on disproving them instead. After all, after all, if even what is a stable user behavior or a trend today might not hold true in a couple of quarters, COVID being an extreme example of that, shouldn't we challenge our deeply held beliefs, our assumptions, whenever possible to make sure that we're still chasing the right thing? I think so. So when we're prioritizing writing our hypothesis or planning our testing phases or anything related to the whole planning process, our goal should always be to prove that our assumptions are wrong. I know it might sound weird, but think about it for a second. If after trying to disprove your hypothesis, it still holds true. Shouldn't you have a better chance of being in the right path than if you had invested everything you had to prove the plan? I think you do. So in my daily practice, not only do I ask all the squads to plan experiments that can prove their assumptions wrong, but I also ask everybody to poke holes in my strategies or plans. These days, I don't spend as much time planning experiments or those sorts of things, but I do spend a lot of time thinking about the next big thing or putting together a strategy. And the one thing I do is ask everybody to poke holes in my thought process. And the more I believe in it, the more I want others to find potential problems because I know my bias and my will to make it work can make me blind. So I want them to go read the document and then based on what they know or even instinct tell me I don't think this is going to hold true or I don't think this is going to work out because I know this data point and I know that happened in that experiment or I know that in this specific step of the funnel, this is happening. And yes, is it tough in the early days to do this? It is. I remember feeling it's thing a little bit when I started doing this and asking people to criticize the work that I fundamentally believed in. But then I realized a few things. One, I might as well fail now than later on. The result is the same. Somebody saying that something doesn't end up now or me finding out made me go through the delivery process or even after we put it in front of users. The result is the same. I just I just learned earlier, which allows me to kind of plan differently. And second, our job is not to be right all the time. I know that it feels like we should be, but we're not supposed to be right all the time. So if somebody can poke holes, it doesn't say anything about your quality as a product manager. Actually, if the way you react to that says a lot about who you are and as a professional and how far you're going to come. So stay humble and question everything and learning and giving up on strongly held beliefs takes humility. I know that, but it will make you a much better product manager. And your journey will be a lot easier because you can anticipate problems. You can start the delivery knowing with the better chances of actually succeeding. OK, so now imagine your experiments disproved your hypothesis or that the experiment just didn't give you any meaningful information. And now you don't know what to do next. Please do not stretch the numbers to tell a beautiful story and don't jump to conclusions who here has looked at the data of a fail experiment and felt tempted to slice and dice the data a hundred different ways and come up with a convoluted narrative of what users were telling us through the data. I sure have the majority of us have, but data snooping while it can be a useful tool to iterate and define next steps. If it's it's flawed, right? If the data points are not coherent or even sometimes when they are, you might just be looking at noise. There's no there's no narrative. There's nobody's telling you anything. So the solution to deal with uncertainty is to do more discovery, to dig deeper, to chart a path to the learnings that will drive the strategic decision ahead, not find patterns where they don't exist or jump to conclusions just because it makes our lives easier. So it's key to have a good sense for when you need to repeat the experiment or when to continue to experiment to make decisions that ultimately stand the test of time. Finally, Phil Carthagoras saying that you don't have enough answer to answer. You don't have enough data to answer the question. While it might not make you popular, been there done that, I'll tell you a story in a second. I assure you that you will read the benefits down the line. So let me tell you this story. In my previous company, there was a time where when we started seeing our KPIs declining quite aggressively, PENIC was installed, my peers all got together. And in a matter of hours, they came up with a list of actions to fix the problem, to solve everything that was happening. And I got everybody nervous because every time they asked me, I would say, I don't have enough information about the problem to design a plan of action. So I had colleagues reaching out to me privately, showing concern about my ability to do my job and asking if I wanted help, if I wanted them to do it for me, because somehow I wasn't able to do it. And I thankfully declined and explained that I just needed a few hours to dig through the data to really understand what was going on. If you ask me, everybody looked really smart, except for me. I looked like this idiot who didn't know what she was doing. I kept hearing comments and people talking behind my back about whether or not I was going to keep I was I was going to be capable of doing that. And why wasn't I capable of doing that? If I was running the whole show in a specific area, so I should be able to know what levers to pull in order to achieve what we wanted to achieve. So it was it was it was hard. It was I didn't like it, but truth is it was the best decision that I made because there was a plan for each person in the leadership team. There were squads being asked left and right to do certain things. Whereas I had nothing. But the answer gave me a couple of days to really understand what's going on here. And that was tough. That was a tough period. But by the end of that exercise, not only those initial plans that my colleagues put together were not used, not because they don't know how to do their jobs, but because they didn't really understand the problem. And therefore those solutions were were not usable for that specific situation. But I had to sit with them and explain what was going on for them to then go their way and figure out, OK, I know what the problem is. This is my area of action. This is how I how I can contribute to fixing this particular situation. So my message to you is the loss of trust by stating something that is demonstrably false is really hard to learn back. So try answering the queries you don't feel comfortable answering with. I will look into it. I'll come back to you with with an answer or a plan on how I'm going to get that answer, or I don't think we have data for that yet. Here's why and how I'm going to go about fixing it. And when you feel pressured, because there will be a situation where you're pressured to express your opinion, be careful and state it as a hypothesis and how you would test it. So instead of saying, this is what's happening, say, hey, based on what I know, which is kind of limited right now because of A, B and C, this is my hypothesis. And this is how I'm going to go about proving or disproving it. So intuition has its value. You have to develop product intuition. You have to use your intuition throughout your career. But it's usually a lot less valuable than most people give it credit for. Bear with me, we're almost there. Last section, dancing to the tune. So product management is a dance between paradigm breaking changes and optimization or expansion of existing offerings. What we do and which side we invest more or less on depends on the end goal. What we're trying to achieve, what is it that we need to do for our business? So let's talk a little bit about strategy, optimization, how to identify the need for a paradigm shift and how to innovate without building a Frankenstein product in the process. So there are many tactics that I use to navigate the unknown. But if I had to choose the one thing that makes the process easier other than first accepting that there is uncertainty, there are long odds, it's tough, is that is having a North Star and a strategy. No matter how unclear the path is, if you have one North Star or a good strategy guiding you, you'll probably make better decisions or more good decisions than bad ones. And because, you know, you know at all times that regardless of the situation or how you want to what you want to achieve, what is it that you're striving for? And by knowing that, you can see how the several options that you have. So you have A, B and C, you know what the North Star is. You can better gauge what impact that the several hypotheses that you have will have on your North Star objective you have. So if there's one thing that I recommend that you do is having that guiding goal that you can always fall back on in case of doubt. Now, assuming you have that, you know what you're trying to achieve, you know what the business is for, you know what the business is trying to do. Generally speaking, then you're probably faced with probably one of these two scenarios, either you're in a zero mode, so conversion rate optimization, you're looking for an uplift or in innovation mode. So let's start with the first. You're chasing an uplift and you're not sure where to invest because it's unclear, it's unclear where you can actually optimize. The most likely place to find the next positive outcome is in an area where you just succeeded and certain needs usually lower. The potential is a lot higher where past iterations generated a significant uplift. So if you find if you found an underutilized area where there are multiple opportunities to explore and you have already some learnings that can help you make better decisions, double down. This will help you with prioritization, even if and it will make you partially blind to new opportunities because it steers your attention only to small marginal improvements. So don't be afraid to invest further in an area that you know is under optimized. Just make sure that you keep your eyes on the overall goal and that you don't go on, you don't go down the rabbit hole of going overboard in the attempt of squeezing that last point zero one percent in that little step of the funnel that you've been working on for four months. So if it's very unclear, your objective is to optimize. If you know that there's an under optimized area, that's probably going to be your best investment because you already have data. You already have some information to guide you. Just make sure that you don't be that you're not completely blind and just obsess about one single thing that you need to improve to the max. But at times it's not about optimization, right? Sometimes it's about innovation or it's a mix of both. So one thing to pay attention to are the signs that a paradigm shift or change in focus is needed. So I collected the most three, the three most common signs I've seen in my practice. One, your positive impacts become less and less frequent and or margin marginal increments reduce over time. Second one is the majority of experiments that you run actually return significant negative impacts. This normally means that you have arrived at a close to optimal stage in the current paradigm and three, it becomes very difficult to do discovery and come up with hypotheses that do not require a large rewrite of the user experience. This usually means that your current paradigm is kind of locking you in and you need to look elsewhere. And finally, if you're shifting your focus or planning a more fundamental change to your product, you also have to be careful not to build a Frankenstein in the agile world we live in. It's super easy to think that any hypothesis that needs more than two sprints to be put in an experiment should either be deprioritized or broken in chunks. However, this does not apply to larger changes in EWECS as a Frankenstein mix of the current state and the proposed state are not usable. I'm sure you've either been in a situation where you were you had to make this decision or you use the product that was in this process of completely reimagining how the entire functionality and you had a mix of the old and the new and nothing adds up together. So that's what you need to be careful of. And then obviously, small iterations are always preferable, but ultimately, the new proposed state needs to be super functional. So we need to be realistic that changes in paradigm carry uncertainty and risk, not only because you disrupt the value that you are delivering right now, but also because you need to invest more than you would for a couple of small tweaks to the UI, so you have the experimentation cost and the opportunity cost together and you and your teams need to go in cognizant of the challenges and determined to be dead. So just be aware of this and then you're set for success. So to summarize what we discussed today, first and foremost, accept the uncertainty can't stress this enough. You won't change it so you might as well embrace it. Also, build to explore and not the other way around because you'll learn more and faster, make sure everybody is motivated and might feel difficult at times, but it's crucial for success. And then data is very important, will always be very important so long as you know when and how to use it. Don't overestimate what you know and always challenge your strongly held beliefs and don't stretch the numbers to tell a story. Don't jump to conclusions. Don't try to find patterns that don't exist. Might feel easier, but long term, it won't do you any good. So feel comfortable saying that you don't know yet that you're going to have to explore because earning trust once lost is really hard work. Have a North Star that can guide you through the toughest decisions you'll have to make. And if you're in an optimization mode, double down your investment in areas that you know are under optimized and where you already have some knowledge. Watch out for signs that a paradigm shift is needed. So get the product in front of users as soon as possible, but avoid building a Frankenstein product. That's the last one. And I know that being a PM in the more modern days isn't easy, isn't an easy job, but it's incredibly helpful feeling when you know how to navigate these challenges. So have fun more than anything else. You know all of this if you're starting your career, if you're in the middle of your career or you're very, very senior. I think the best advice of all is just have fun. Building products is amazing. I think it comes down to how we approach the problem. I've been in situations where it was hard. The setup was not in my favor. And I found a way of seeing light at the end of the tunnel. So have a lot of fun. Make sure that you bring people along with you in this journey and just build crazy things because that's amazing. That's an amazing opportunity that all of us have as product managers. I hope this was useful and that you can implement some of these tips in your daily practices around. So if you have any questions, feel free to drop them in the in the chat or reach out by email, you have it in the in the presentation. So reach out if you have any questions. And thank you so much for listening. It was a pleasure being here and I hope to see you soon in the chat. Bye.

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That was wow That was that was insane Number 21 live Morgan jumps off a 15 foot structure 20 Cody Rhodes torn pectoral muscle, of course That was number 19 Santos Escobar flips solo Sakao off a ladder. Oh Number 18 people been saying I need to watch that ladder match I may actually go back and just watch that. I heard that was a pretty good ladder match from NXT I may need to go check that out. I've seen so many clips of it Well, it's just look it's just like a train wreck that oh that spot was ridiculous Matt Riddle RKO Seth Rollins off a ladder That was cool Amazing an unbelievable super RKO from the top of the ladder. Oh my god Number 17 Grayson Waller does an elbow drop through the announcer's table I Ain't gonna lie to you that was it the extra arm movement really does nothing It's just for flair at the at that point, but it still look cool as hell Number 16 I just want to go back and see that because we gotta we gotta give my man some some some extra points off the styles Off the style of that that that the style points alone Deserves some extra extra or rewind. Well, it does an elbow drop through the announcer's table Number 16 Montez Ford jumps out of the ring and lands perfectly I Number 14 the Viking Readers powerbomb Xavier Woods through two tables. This is cool, too. Oh my god Number 13 Edge Spears AJ Styles midair I Think a lot of us expected this match to be a little bit better than what it was not to say that it was bad I think it I think a lot of us expected this match to steal the show and it really didn't it was It was okay, and it got better towards the end And especially start setting up stuff with the judgment day, you know And in all that falling into place, but I think a lot of us was really expecting Oh, this is gonna be the match to steal the show and then unfortunately didn't it was it was good though But it wasn't I think I guess maybe our expectations as fans was a little bit too high But it was still it was still a solid match Number 12 Ilya Dragunov suplex is joining Devlin onto a pile of chairs I think I've seen this by you up. Oh Number 11 RKO from out of nowhere Number 10 Ole Moskets thrown through a table Oh Number nine Matt Riddle jumps from atop the pit Number eight Nathan Frazier does a cross body through a ladder Number seven Drew McIntyre suplexes Sami Zayn from the top of the cage Oh Number six Logan Paul hits Ramon Reigns with a frog splash. This definitely deserves to be high on the list He had his phone in the in his hand and the frog He hit the frog splash with a phone in his hand and the CD camera view was Insane Like bro, I know he's kind of in some controversy right now So I know a lot of people are not really rocking with him once again Logan Paul finds himself in some controversy But you can't deny this was a cool spot by him He'd be killing them from the top rope to the Nonstable frog splashes he'd be killing them through a table That was such a cool look at this. Oh My god, that was insane Number five Kevin Owens to Centon from the railing Number four Kofi kicks and cross bodies Sheamus through the barricade Number three Brock Lesnar flips the ring That was such a cool moment Number two never seen never lost your turns for one more match. Of course, this is an OMG moment This is so great man. This is so this is so fun, bro Like I I just I returned to a kid During night one at WrestleMania. I just turned into a kid again to see Stone Cold out there have a match I was just like and I know I was wondering if he was I don't want to see Stone Cold in a ring And I think you know, it's you know It's best to you know, leave it where it's at But you know what I stand corrected and I was glad I was able to see that I was I stand corrected I am glad I was able to see that and he looked good out there It wasn't a traditional, you know wrestling match, you know, it was more so kind of you know Anything goes to kind of you know, I guess I guess, you know saying help with him and you know That ring rooster he probably has gotten from not really just being in a ring like that And especially in front of a WrestleMania crowd, but either way it was still fun If you're if you grew up in the attitude there, there's no way you can't like this, you know If you want Stone Cold Steve Austin to compete in the match tonight against his second shit And number one Cody Rhodes return Tell us so Fucking crazy, bro to see the best. Oh, that was such a great moment. Oh, I got goose bumps Just I was shaking. That was so fucking cool. So fucking cool. Hey, man But comment down below. Let me know what some of y'all favorite OMG moments from this year in WWE let me know down below man. What was your favorite omg moment from this year, man? It's it Cody rose coming back. I know the you know, it was speculations and you know people saying was coming back But to just see it I think people knew but to see it happen and the way it happened and the reaction to it It was such a great moments. It's just on OMG. He's really back This is really a thing and him and self-help Rawlins had a fantastic match WrestleMania this year was fantastic looking forward to the next year being even better Hopefully triple H can make that happen, man, but I am still you're Undisputed YouTube wrestling champ of the world And I appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all in the next one. Peace

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Council 2019-04-15

26th Regular Sheboygan Common Council Meeting April 15, 2019

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And is off in the beginning very much. Could the clerk please call the roll there are nine present And I understand Marcus of Aglio is on his way, so we should see him shortly Next is the Pledge of Allegiance. We have a special guest tonight Boy Scout Connor Miller is from troop 801 at Grace Episcopal Church Connor, please come up to the front and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand Allegiance to the play of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Connor, thank you very much Next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from our last Common Council meeting all the person will thank you Mayor I make a motion to approve Thank you for that motion in support Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none all those in favor of the minutes, please signify by saying aye. Aye anyone opposed Seeing none most passes Next item is confirmation of mayor's appointments city attorney We just have one the mayor submits the following appointment for your consideration John Matiska to be considered for appointment to the library Board to fill the unexpired term of Amanda Salazar whose term expires April 19 2021 Thank you very much all the person wolf. Thank you mayor. I make a motion to confirm Thank you for that motion in support All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed motion passes Next we'll move on to a presentation of the 2017 GFO a certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting by city administrator Darryl Hoffland The award is a certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting the document that was submitted for consideration Is the popular annual financial report which I think you all received as an attachment? The award reflects the city's commitment Not only of its common council, but its staff to meeting the highest principles of government finance reporting in order to receive the award The city had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines The document in this award reinforces the city's strategic plans focus areas of governing and fiscal management and Communication it is the city's goal to provide open and transparent financial documents to empower its residents Staff and officials to make informed decisions regarding the future needs of the city This is the first year GFO a has bestowed the city with this recognition The city is only one of six municipalities in Wisconsin to receive this award I want to thank Darryl for very generously presenting this to me, but Darryl Carry the finance department our new finance director They all really deserve You know the credit for this as well as all of our department heads who gave them the information that they needed so Darryl Thank you very much Yeah, and I'll let you put it in a proper spot. Okay At this time I'd like to call up Wendy Schmitz Today, it's my pleasure to recognize Wendy Schmitz who has served as the director of the senior activity Center for the past 13 years During this time Wednesday Wendy supervised the senior activity Center renovation project in 2009 to make a former elementary school Much more functional as a senior Center. This renovations was funded entirely through the Friends of the senior Center Wendy also worked to change the image of the senior activity Center to build membership and attendance and Create an agency that relies heavily on the expertise of retirees The programming has changed from a more sedentary activities to very active offerings for our community The senior activity center became vibrant dynamic community center encouraging wellness learning and recreation for Sheboygan's diverse semi-retired and retired citizens Together with the seniors Wendy has planted flower beds raised bed gardens She's created a haven in a rundown neighborhood She escorted hundreds of people on 12 trips from Branson to New York City and also Facilitated trips from Cuba to cruising on the Danube in 2018 over 47,000 visits were made to the senior center with an average daily attendance of 200 the most important But immeasurable numbers are the activities events and friendships that spilled out into the wider community Due to the social connections that were made at the senior activity Center Wendy also Facilitated the work of the Sheboygan for all task group as they work with AARP to develop an action plan and work to make Sheboygan a more livable community. I don't know if this is going to be a just a small way of saying Thank you to Wendy for all the great work that she's done You know I talked to many of the people who that deal with her every day and work and help and volunteer with her Many of them are in the back of the room and they just said some some great things about the time and the effort that Wendy has put forward So Wendy and we want to issue this certificate of appreciation from the city of Sheboygan to Wendy Schmitz for 13 years of dedicated service from July 25th of 2005 till April 19th of 2019 signed by Daryl Hoffland and myself Congratulations, and I hope you have plenty of time now to do all those extra things on your bucket list I normally have a lot to say I don't I couldn't have done it without those great people at the back and and some of the Fantastic department heads and many of the older people who've been very supportive I think the best thing that's happened to me is Daryl Hoffland because when I first came here I was charged with saving the senior center along the way the council has often Wanted to hand us over to the nonprofit organization But Daryl gave me his full support, and I think that that has been shown in the fact that you've now elevated the position to be a director of senior services and I just think that there's a great future, and I thank you for that. Thank you Welcome This is also a time when we have to say a few goodbyes at the last council meeting of this year And I'd like to give a certificate of appreciation to all the person Ron Renfleisch for two years of dedicated service during this short period of time He served as the finance and personnel committee chairman He served on the law and licensing committee the licensing hearings and public safety committee the board of license Examiners which he was chairing the capital improvements commission the senior activity center commission and the Sheboygan transit commission We were really able to take advantage of all the experiences that Ron has had in his past in his volunteer life and his work life And Ron, thank you so much for the time you gave us And this year we also said goodbye to all the person rosemary trust her rosemary served for three years of Dedicated service and she served on the licensing hearings and public safety committee the law and licensing committee public protection and safety The library board the historic preservation and housing rehab loan commission and the Sheboygan county emergency medical services council Rosemary was not able to be with us today because her husband had to take a trip to the hospital out of town And I'll get this to her tomorrow A few other announcements coming up on Friday, May 3rd is the national day of prayer the Sheboygan Group will gather at noon at Fountain Park United Methodist Church We also are conducting the mayor's challenge for water conservation that's including April 1st through April 30th We challenge our residents to conserve water energy and other natural resources on behalf of the city through a series of Informing it easy to use pledges online Just do your part this earth month by going to mywaterpledge.com to participate Our police department is offering Free violent intruder active shooter training on April 26th from rather April 24th From 6 p.m. To 9 p.m. At Sheboygan South High School You can contact Sergeant Andy Kudniger to make an arrest reservation. We need to know how many people will participate This training is called Alice alert lockdown inform counter and escape It's an effort to help educate more community members the Sheboygan Police Department is now offering this free Alice training program and Then Arbor Day is coming up on April 26th At 1030 at JC Park will have a Sheboygan celebration the city will be receiving its 41st year of Continuous tree city recognitions that means that Sheboygan was the first Community to meet the guidelines set up by the Arbor Day foundation and has met those guidelines for every year since April 27th will be drug take-back day and it'll be available all day 24 7 At Walgreens on 14th and Erie in the Sheboygan Police Department And then winter parking rules the alternate side parking will end on April 30th and You all saw the announcement about our new fire chief Eric Montanello and he should be starting around mid-May and For the council members. I just want to give you a reminder that tomorrow We'll be meeting in the lobby at 7 o'clock for a photo and then we should be able to start our meeting at 7 30 And it's just 49 more days until we plan to move back into City Hall for a common council meeting on June 3rd Thank you Next we'll have the public forum We have one person this evening Jennifer Lurkey You state your name and address for us, please Jennifer Lurkey 111 Highland Drive glambula, Wisconsin. Thank you. You'll have five minutes. Thank you I'm here today regarding resolution 204 1819, which is on the agenda for tonight's common council meeting To voice the Armory Community Projects concerns with that resolution One we feel that it's premature to enter into such a contract right now as demolition can't proceed until mid-June To we're aware that somebody else is interested in the building and I can confirm this as well as I'll be touring the building with them on April 24th, it's a reputable developer with a proven record not only in this city, but across the country There are looking to turn it into an event center with a restaurant and a hotel in the rear of the site They've done two similar projects in Wisconsin Three the city would be bound under contract if this developer made an offer to purchase or expressed an interest in pursuing a redevelopment Agreement based on how the contract is written the city would be allowed to break the contract But the city would incur a financial penalty Why enter into a contract that may need to be broken? Why approve a contract that could incur a financial penalty? Why approve a contract without quantifying how much that penalty would be? Best enterprises will likely be ordering equipment materials Placing deposits and down payments on them in a mobilization effort so that they can begin in mid-June Why waste their time and taxpayer money? For the resolution says city officials are authorized to enter into a contract The resolution was not amended to say that the mayor had to wait until the developer completed his due diligence If the resolution is approved he would be allowed to enter into the contract whenever he wants the resolution should be amended Five the resolution says demolition shall not begin until the city attorney provides a written opinion to the city administrator Confirming that a review by the state historic preservation officer Has been completed and be demolition may occur in compliance with the historic preservation regulations contained in section 15 916 of the Schwoigen zoning ordinance on Such a contentious issue the city attorney should have to provide a written opinion to common counsel before demolition can begin not the city administrator Six there are several portions of section 15 916 that we believe the city is not in compliance with and They'll be more to that more to come on that on a later date Seven because more than one acre of land will be disturbed The city needs a permit from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources before demolition can begin However, this is missing from the resolution and the resolution should be amended to include it and Also again There is the larger discussion of the public trust doctrine We have brought the public trust doctrine to the city's attention at numerous meetings over the last six months and we're continually Dismissed a letter from our attorney regarding the public trust doctrine was included as a communication in your common counsel agenda tonight And I hope you had the time to read it on page four number nine on page four of that letter There's a reference to a survey can be commissioned by the city The survey is entirely consistent with documents which we've provided to common counsel in November of 18 and also the historic Preservation Commission in March of 19 10 it's concerning to know that this survey which is dated February 27th of 19 nearly seven weeks ago to the best of our knowledge Has not been Shared with the Historic Preservation Commission for their March 19th meeting Finance committee in preparation of their meeting last week nor common counsel for your meeting tonight And we feel that it is a critically important piece of information to have while discussing the future fate of the Armory number 11 our arguments Are dismissed saying it has no effect on demolition and that is true to an extent However, why tear a building down if it's unclear if the site will ever be allowed to be sold or used for private Private development to be anything other than empty parkland that generates no tax revenue for the city Why not keep the building so it can be an asset to the community and generate pilot Property tax personal property tax sales tax and associated visitors spending sales tax and hotel room tax revenue We urge the common counsel to step forward and re-enter negotiations with the Armory community project and number 12 You're likely to hear arguments that the demolition bids went up and the city needs to lock the price in right now a 2017 discussion with city staff indicated that the 2017 demolition bids only Included removal of the building and filling of the hole to avoid disturbing more than an acre and avoid the aforementioned DNR permit the new 2019 demolition bids not only include demolition of the building and filling the hole But also removal of all the interior sidewalks ramps driveways, whatever yada yada topsoil grass two acres of land will be disturbed That's the cause for the increase for all the above reasons. We urge that you vote in a tonight. Thank you Thank you Thank you next move on to the consent agenda that'll include items 2.2 through 2.18 All the person will Thank you mayor. I make a motion to accept and file all our O's Accept and adopt all our C's and pass all resolutions and ordinances Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on any of those items in the consent agenda? See none. Will the clerk, please call the roll ten eyes motion passes under reports of officers item 3.1 will be referred to the finance and personnel committee of the new council Under resolutions Resolution 4.1 is resolution number 209 of 1819 by Alder person's Reinflash and borne authorizing the release of funds to the harbour center business improvement district Alder person will Thank you mayor and make a motion to suspend. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none all the person Reinflash Thank you for that motion in support. The resolution is before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll ten eyes Motion passes item 4.2 and 4.3 will be referred to the finance and personnel committee and the public works committee of the new council Under reports of committees item 5.1 is RC number 305 of 1819 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred resolution number 187 of 1819 by Alder person's Reinflash and borne Authorizing the city of Sheboygan to enter into a contract with municipal property insurance company for building property insurance Coverage and recommends approving the resolution Alder person Reinflash Thank for that motion in support. Is there any discussion Alder person borne. Is there any other discussion? With a clerk, please call the roll ten eyes Motion passes item 5.2 is RC number 306 of 1819 by the committee of the whole to whom was referred RC number 289 of 1819 by the public works committee in resolution number 190 of 1819 by Alder person's wolf and sorenson expressing the sense the council That transitioning to an automated garbage and recycling collection program is in the best interest of the city and recommends approving the resolution Alder person sorenson Second thank you for that motion in support under discussion Alder person borne Support this tonight Think it's a good idea, but I did have one question on the on the four dollar fee that were that goes along with this What are going to be the parameters as we go forward as far as an increase of the fee keeping it the same Possibly lowering it if maybe if director Bebel could maybe address that for us Director Bebel the plan is during the 2020 Budget process we will be getting gathering further detail one of the big key factors is going to be our contract for tipping and transfer of our recyclables for processing That is due at the end of this year. We will be going out for new proposals Very shortly to get some better pricing so we'd have that in advance already of for the for the budget process So we can work on that figure what it would actually would be however in today's news we'd heard that Waste management is now in the process of acquiring advanced disposal Therefore leaving really just one vendor in our entire area to really negotiate with moving forward So that will play a key factor as we continue to deliberate and figure out what this final cost will be Thank you Any other discussion? See none will the clerk please call the roll Ten night motion passes Item 5.3 is RC number 307 of 1819 by the committee the whole two minutes referred RC number 290 of 1819 by the public works committee in resolution number 191 of 1819 by Alderperson Wilf and Sorenson Authorizing the Department of Public Works to purchase seven new way auto car automated garbage and recycling collection trucks Recommends approving the resolution Alderperson Sorenson second Thank you for that motion in support under discussion Seeing no discussion with a clerk, please call the roll Ten eyes motion passes Item 5.4 is RC number 308 of 1819 by the committee the whole to humans referred RC number 284 of 1819 by the public works committee and resolution number 192 of 1819 by Alderperson's Wilf and Sorenson Authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with Sun graphics media for the creation of materials for public education and outreach Related to the automated garbage and recycling program and recommends approving the substitute Resolution Alderperson Sorenson Second thank you for that motion in support under discussion Alderperson Savaglio Thank You mr. Mayor I Recently received an email from another vendor interested in bidding on this project I am still very frustrated that we did not put this project out for bid and this bidder is also a local marketing firm I would Respectfully like to request that this be amended to go back to committee Okay, we have an amendment. Is there a second? We have an amendment on the floor Discussion on the amendment Alderperson Donahue I'm an attorney Adams with respect to items that are typically bid and items that are typically not bid This is a service contract. I don't know that I can say typically or atypically It is not required to be bid under our Statutes or our ordinances I'd like to ask DPW director David Bevel to tell us the process he went through on this Yeah, again as I reiterated at the committee of the whole meeting Typically professional service contracts like the one is presented this evening. They're a negotiated type of contract We work with vendors that we have Relationships with that have past experience with Sun graphics and some experience that we've dealt with with our stormwater Education information education program that we partnered with the county with so typically This is not uncommon. We we did inter negotiations with with vendors like this We do it routinely with engineering contracts Just for instance, we entered into contract with Excel engineering for engineering around the the arm run that the armory the The tannery site for instance that that development the Badger lofts of department Complex so again, that was just entered into a contract with them. It's a routine I think that we've met with Sun graphics a couple of times and in terms of the scope and the deliverables on this We've gone back and forth with some of the terms and conditions I have all the confidence that this is of a contract that will provide value to the department as well to the city as a whole And again, it's it's it's under the fifty thousand threat threshold and even that threshold in a lot of cases for our professional service contracts We we don't and it's in the processes. It's not a bid We would never go out for a bid for a professional services contract when we go out for for For what we call is a it's a request for proposal and then we use a process called quality based selection So it's not even based on price. It's based on The staff's you know prior work their resumes What what are their deliverables? What is their timeline on some of so there's there's many factors that go into? Consultant type of selection It's not where we're bidding a construction project and we're going to select a little bitter to build this project for it So there's a lot of intangibles that go into it You know today we just had an interview with the shaboying impress We had some talking points and you know, this is where we're talking We want to get some frequently asked questions already developed so that we really want to engage the services So we can get this up and running because we know this is going to impact the entire community Thank you for those comments any other discussion all the person down here Against the referral back to committee. I understand that all the person's values concerns But here's the situation we need as a city to do business on a wide variety of Business concerns we enter into agreements on a regular basis with all sorts of providers and and that Entering into those contracts is often predicated on the relationship that we've had in the past with those with those providers It's a concern to me that We not complicate relatively straightforward service contracts over much the My concern is that the contract that Sun graphics is entering into It's very complicated It's really it's a great big hammer hitting a pretty tiny nail and If we put these kinds of matters out for A request for proposals and so forth It's my concern that contracts not be so complicated and requiring The person who wants to enter into the contract to retain legal counsel to review provisions such as indemnification and so forth What we're doing with the garbage Trucks and the garbage collection is a big big big deal and I think that there's going to be a fair amount of If not controversy a lot of concern on the part of city residents about what this means and how they're going to be able to Get carts out to the street or into the garage or whatever I Reviewed I Reviewed the contract. I I Appreciate and I think as council people we need to appreciate our skilled staff who assess these things and say You know, we've worked with Sun graphics before we know their work We know this is an important project and we know we need to get going on it right away so if we put this off and Set it out for I would say if we're going to send out requests for proposals. It should be very broad-based and And spend considerable time Evaluating those proposals and if it's another company that ultimately we decide on There's a very complicated contract to negotiate and there'll be a need to hire into that Prevair will have to hire an attorney to review the contract and so forth. So Well, I understand You know, sometimes when you're in business You have a reputation and that's how you get business and I think that this is a Sensible approach right now based on our past Experience with this particular firm. I think we need to get moving quickly and so for that reason I'm going to oppose the the amendment but appreciating what Alder Savalios have his thought process here Alder person boring Thank You mayor I'm I agree with Alder person so big leave on this one forty forty two thousand dollar Forty two thousand five hundred dollars is a lot of money. We have some very talented ad agencies in Sheboygan besides Sun graphics media that have very very good reputations and I just think It's a good idea on something like this It's very creative on their part and I'm sure I would like to see what other Whether what other ad agencies in Sheboygan or maybe even outside of Sheboygan have to offer us What kind of a program they can come up with? There may be some ad agencies that have already done this type of thing for other communities and I just don't think it hurts to see what's out there and and You know come up with a very innovative program not saying that Sun graphics isn't but this is forty two thousand five hundred Dollars and I think it it doesn't hurt to go out and see what's available. Thank you Thank you for your comments Alder person Wolff. Thank you mayor Although I don't I don't want to keep chewing on this on this bone until everybody wants to go home already But anyway, I disagree with with the situation I understand in the in a broad stroke of the brush that We we want to be competitive and we want to send things out for bid But I agree with Mary Lynn that this is this is something that we shouldn't we as as alders are supposed to be Helping the city grow helping our our management team Move forward in positive direction. We should not be telling them how to do certain things and who to be working with To some degree. I agree forty two thousand dollars is a lot of money but in the in the big picture of the project it's not and I guess my concern is here. We are at the twelfth hour again We have a big program that we're looking to roll out a lot of communication This company has worked with the city for many many years as mr. Bebel had taught had explained They have history. They have understanding. They know our inner workings. They know the community. They are local the other thing is that I do want to point out is that it's also the responsibility of Said competition that if they want to be involved then they should be reaching out to the city We we don't want to have to send out Publications for every little thing because then it's going to take Months and years to get anything done and then to review contracts and to dig into that We're just adding You know the proverbial red tape that we all hate with government So let's let's let our great management team do what they need to do Let's vote this down. We can always improve things later, but we are on a timeline and I respect The overall concern, but we have a lot to do and we have to get things going. So thank you Thank you for those comments any other discussion. I Just like to say that my office is responsible for a lot of the communication in the city and Right after our committee of the whole meeting We started to see a lot of things popping up on social networks and things like that And one of the worst things we can do is let that fester because then those things that are set on those social networks become The facts that people believe and so I challenged the department right away to try to get something together And they said they're waiting for this so that they can get some professional help to do a good job and and prepare You know the website that they need the brochures that they need And so I really don't want to see this held up because we're just going to create a problem for ourselves All the person down here. I'm sorry. You had two kicks at the can anybody else need to speak Okay with that there's no other discussion Sure So the shortest process that I could see here if it were referred to the FNP committee of the new council Would be first of all it would get referred back. I think Referring it back would be a signal that the sense of the council is they want to Go out for some kind of requests That would probably it would probably be who for the public works department at that point hearing that vote to probably begin on that And I suppose if they were to run through that process because there is not a There's not a particular process in place They could probably run the RFP process without coming to the committee and then direct refer the The final response of that, you know the final decision To you another contract or maybe the same one if the same Company wins it But that would still likely mean that it would have to come to the committee would look at it At their next meeting which isn't going to be for three weeks probably and then come back to the council in four So that's probably the shortest timeline is four weeks Okay, any other discussion on the amendment David I Guess I would be concerned with starting any RFP process without I guess parameters from this body Since they're the ones asking for it again when we go out for RFPs. It's Qualification based selection. So the selections that I would consider high importance for this project may be different than those in this chamber I Use that criterion when we started the negotiations with Sun graphics in terms of rolling out the automated garbage Selection pro collection program for the city. We have you know timelines. We want to meet we have Specific criteria and audiences that we want to meet so that would be my only concern of drafting a type of document and then having it rejected because It again, it might not meet the selection or who who who they might choose in the end Okay, any other discussion? Would the clerk please call the roll on the amendment I Can go now For eyes six nose Motion fails But then we're going back to the motion to accept and adopt and pass the substitute resolution That's before us for further discussion Any other discussion seen none will the clerk please call the roll on the main motion Eight eyes to nose motion passes Item 5.5 is RC number 309 of 1819 by the Finance and Personnel Committee to must referred resolution number 203 of 1819 by all the persons Wolf and Sarnsson Authorizing a transfer of appropriations in the 2019 budget recommends approving the resolution All the person rent flesh Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll Ten eyes motion passes item 5.6 is RC number 3 10 of 1819 by the Finance and Personnel Committee to must referred resolution number 204 of 1819 by all the persons Wolf and Reinflesh and Born authorizing the demolition of the Armory contingent upon completion of legal requirements and recommends approving the resolution with an amended contract All the person Reinflesh Thank you for your motion in support under discussion All the persons of Aglio got it you mr. Mayor I would just like some clarification if we do end up going the other route that was referred to in In public forum. Is there a penalty for signing this contract and then backing out and how much is that? City Attorney Well, you haven't approved the contract yet So so if you vote it down the contract isn't isn't in place understood But if we were to approve this contract, what would be the penalty for backing out? Moving forward. I'll take a look at the document. I Think the other thing that's kind of inferred here that That we would sign this contract Before all the work is done and the evaluation of this other party that wants to come to Shaboy again And I was the one that took the call from the other party And what they described to me is that they wanted to come in and see the Armory which will happen I believe next week Then they wanted to put their final put their final plans together and then make another meeting to sit down with city staff explain those plans and They wanted to be ready to try to claim some tax credits New market tax credits that would be awarded in May and they assured me that they would have all their requests and everything ready So that we would know whether or not they had a project well before the end of the 90 days was up So I don't see this happening and what I pledged to do at the Finance and personnel committee meeting was to not sign that contract until we knew that all the requirements were finished and And the other party had made their Presentation to staff and we made a decision or brought it back to council for your approval Thank you Article 12 just to answer your question all the persons of ugly all the Article 12 indicates that If there is a termination the city would pay the contractor for the services that were performed up to that date That written services receive plus reasonable termination or suspension expenses. So there's no termination fee However, expenses that would reasonably be incurred by the contractor as a result of our terminating or suspending at the time We would have to pay those it's not specifically set forth in this contract simply because the timing of that is going to determine that is it Possible that litigation would occur or we'd have to negotiate those things most likely in that circumstance Thank you all their person. Sorry sir Thank You mr. Mayor. I'm gonna be voting no against this today. I think that this This honestly doesn't really show that we're kind of open for business I think it's been indicated that we have a serious developer that is interested in the lot and the property as well, too For me, I think we need to show good faith and give them a fair opportunity Not show what the city administration's priority is with this property as well, too Again, I don't know why we're still in such a rush. We're still within the 90-day hold period even if we did approve this And then we got back a phenomenal Proposal, which we don't know yet from the beginning of this discussion with the armory since I've been on the council I kept saying and I still have hope that we need to give a chance and show good faith and be open for business when folks come Forward with a good plan and quite frankly. I don't feel like this is fiscally responsible For us approving a contract without knowing what the other options are moving forward So I'll be voting no and I encourage my colleagues to do as well. Thank you Thank you. All the person boring. Thank you, Mayor Attorney Adams what you were just describing about any possible financial liability That would that assume that the contract is signed because the mayor indicated that he's not going to sign the contract until we've exhausted Everything that he just that he just said Exactly that was it appeared to be all the person savaglio's question Based on my initial response. He wanted to know what would happen after it were signed if it's not signed It doesn't apply to anybody. It only becomes a contract once it's signed and there's Consideration, etc. And I was glad to hear there was some there was some concern about this expressed that the finance and personnel committee and when the mayor assured the committee that He was not going to sign this demolition contract until all the hoops had been gone through and that we had Assurances from the from the city attorney that we could proceed. So that made me comfortable with it And that's why I'll support this tonight, but I did have some questions and they were answered. Thank you Thank you all their person Decker Thank You Samir. I also am concerned with some of the what's going on here I really think we should put a pause on this and I propose a hold till the next council Is that a motion? Yes The motion to hold So so you've made a motion to Forward it to the following council, I assume to are you referring it back to a committee of the council or just to the council? Just just for a three-man hold three person hold We don't Yeah, we think that's germane at this meeting. Yeah, that that yeah, that hasn't happened happened yet You'd have to follow the procedure for that three person hold The process that would happen if you refer it to the next Next council would be it would it would simply get referred to the council and the decision would be made at the following following meeting and then So we have a motion in a second to hold this item And refer it to the new council Is that correct? Yes Okay, is there any is this debatable A motion to refer is debatable. Yes. Okay. Is there any Because we have this is the last meeting of this council we have to clean our docket out So we we can't hold something we have to refer it to the the new council It's the only way that we can operate at this particular meeting in the last meeting of the council year The three-man hold hasn't happened yet either. So there hasn't been a You haven't done what needs to be done to do that although water is correct were you to do that? I would tell you that you can't Because because this is the last meeting of the year Okay, and other discussion Jim boring Where would it go with the new council then do we have to determine if it would it go back to finance and personnel were it originated or Is that who decides that? Well at this point if you refer it to the new council I believe we'd put it on the next agenda that the new count when the new council is seated And then I'll be referred to a committee at that point. Okay, it wouldn't have to be referred to a committee and and Because of the timeframe it would not go to the next meeting which is tomorrow And it would not go to the meeting after that which is a week from tonight because it is not allowed to be on that agenda So it would go to the first meeting in May Any other discussion on the motion to hold And refer to the new council See none. Will the clerk please call the roll on the motion for I six nose Motions lost so we're back to the The motion to accept and adopt and pass the resolution with an amended contract Are there further discussion all their person wolf? Thank you, mayor. I just have a couple of real quick questions In in our finance and personnel meeting Chuck it was discussed that certain things the mayor was going to Want to make sure that they were teased crossed eyes dotted kind of thing one of the reasons why I'm I'm actually in in agreement with moving forward is it it puts more pressure on said groups that Theoretically have Have interest in the property property has has been available for a long time If this group is truly coming and They're going to make decisions by May. I mean how soon contractually does Mike have to sign the said contract? Where we might have some liability to it like right now? It's not signed so it's just a literally a piece of paper and offer but How long kit is that offer available before he has to sign? Well, if you're asking the legal question of how long can he just simply hold off on his own on Signing it and the answer to that is is You know to some extent permanently although you as a council have some ability to to force his hand In that circumstance where he not to sign it if the answer is practically I'm probably not the right person to answer that but practically There does come a time when this contract is just going to get so old that The the other side won't sign it. Well, and the reason I bring it up Chuck is is the fact that most contracts have a validity date I'm just wondering if this contract has that because you know is it 30 days 60 days that the contract is actually alive before it actually dies this contract my recollection is and I'm just I'm just 120 days. Yeah, I believe there was now was that in this or was that in the RFP? That's what I'm looking for There was there was an RFP, but then there's the contract information as well. I'm just quickly going through Chad can you help us out? No in the contract. There is none. I was just making sure that it wasn't there so the in essence what happened there was the request for proposals the Contractor could choose to simply exercise, you know the language of the request for proposals at the end of the 120 days from the time that they put in the proposal and say we choose not to sign it solely for that reason on the other hand they haven't signed this yet either and You know, frankly they could refuse to enter into it if they could choose to enter into it after the 120 days if they so choose But they could also decline to do so after the 120 days. So the legal answer still is If they want to let it go You know long they can do that. It's just that they're unlikely to do that, right? And I guess the reason I'm saying that is I support continuing to move forward because it puts pressure on the Potential opportunity to get involved or not get involved doesn't mean that the city is actually gonna You know Mike said he's going to either sign it when all of the Teaser crossed eyes are dotted concept. So again if we if we don't have a timeline on the said contract Then we still have time for the said group company or group to come look at it Provide the city some direction and information and we can still give Mike the ability To continue to move forward correct me if I'm wrong Nothing to correct there. Thank you Any other discussion all the person sarnson. Thank you, mr. Mayor I disagree with all their wolf statement that this contract puts pressure on other outside groups I think it shows that the city has a preferred preference on which direction it wants to go And I do have a question for the city attorney regarding the public trust doctrine Do we have a clear answer of you know, what what's going to go on there? What if there are any legal implications in the future or development with that site? So the item on the agenda is this particular Contract and the public trust doctrine does not is not implicated at all by this contract And yet all the person Phillips Thank you. I agree that it puts pressure on The potential a prospective developer. I don't necessarily think that's a good thing. I think that we need to give appropriate time for prospective developers or redevelopers to come up with plans and secure funding and I think in the past we've fallen short on allowing that opportunity of time and my understanding is from what I'm hearing that if we agree to This demolition. It's still up to the mayor to sign the actual agreement But in all due respect Mr. Mayor that does leave all of the the power in your hands And I think that that is a decision that should be made by the council and I think that we need more time and information In order to make That decision Thank you. Thank you. Any other discussion all the person down here I know the cost in the current contract is 319,000 and the prior contract my memory is a hundred ninety seven thousand am I Does anyone remember what the first contract for demolition was? Or can you say it was substantially less than it is now? Jed I recall that the first contract was a hundred and twenty two thousand less the current bid In other words the current bid is a hundred twenty two thousand more That's correct. All right administrator Huffland Yeah, I have a specific number. So three nineteen five hundred is what's before you the previous Demolition proposal was one ninety seven ten or one hundred so a hundred twenty two thousand four hundred is the difference so I guess And I understand the reason that the Contract is so much more expensive now is that there just aren't that many folks interested in it. Is that a fair statement? I? Mean based on on your understanding of this Respond to that What I understand from purchasing agent Bernie Romer is that fact that we've gone out to bid a number of times and the People that have gone through all the work of putting together a bid and the project not moving forward have chosen Not to rebid on it one being vinten construction who was the low bidder the last time this went out to bid so I respect the fact that We have as we know from the letter. We have given many developers many opportunities to come forward We do have this last one and I think it's worth pursuing It's a reputable contractor. I think there's significant public trust doctrine issues with that plan But you know, we'll see how that all turns out But to the extent that we don't enter into this contract now With the assurances that have been given to us that And just reasonably the mayor is not going to I hope sign a document That puts the the city in legal jeopardy. I think we can all rely on that My concern is is that this you know, this contract goes away and the the developer decides that you know for all the reasons that so many developers have had trouble with this building that That developer doesn't want to go through Then we're back out for bids and then we're in the soup again. And so my view is is that I view this is more As just a contingent that protects the city's financial interests if a real developer if this particular developer comes through and he's excited or it's excited and there's There's some real possibilities there that we can debate. I think that's terrific and I think we should give full You know pay full attention to that but just to have this in our back pocket in case So I think we do have a fiduciary responsibility and I think if we vote against this That we aren't paying attention to that. It's already cost us more than More than a hundred thousand dollars and goodness knows what what the additional cost may be in the future Thank you for those comments any other discussion all their person Phillips Thank you just for clarification from my understanding from what I heard from Jennifer Larky the difference between the first Proposal for demolition or the first bid for demolition versus the current one was a difference in the type or amount of work type of X Excavation is that correct to say? Daryl did you want to respond to that? Chad as I as I recall from the purchasing agent that the request for bids was a exact same as the previous one So I don't know what the the discussion is about the additional excavation. I think Bernie just pulled up the Previous request for bids and changed some dates and sent it back out anything else Other person survive Leo Thank You mr. Mayor. I'd just like to echo all the person Donna Hughes Comments before I just spent the 20 minutes of our time before maybe 15 minutes of our time before fighting over What would amount to be about $20,000? This is already cost us over a hundred and we can't afford for it to cost us anymore. Thank you very much. Thank you Any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll Seven eyes three nose motion passes Next item on the agenda is five point seven It's RC number three eleven of eighteen nineteen by the finance and personnel committee tumours referred resolution number two oh six of 1819 by all the person's Reinflation born directing the purchasing agent to seek requests for proposals for an operational and departmental structure study of the city of Sheboygan's finance department and human resources department recommends approving the resolution all the person Reinflate Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion all the person Reinflate Continuing the studies like we did at the fire department last year's is a study of our finance and Human resource department. I at the committee level want to make sure that The study didn't pre-suppose a combining of the departments which initial language could have been interpreted as so We're modifying the language for that. I also thought that we ought to incorporate the Budgeting function which isn't currently in one of those two to either of those two departments We're gonna incorporate that for studying our financial area, which the resolution does now include so I'm comfortable with it I think it's a good idea to have that study. I don't want to pre-suppose conclusions Thank you for those comments. Are there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll ten eyes motion passes Items 5.8 through 5.46 will be referred to various committees of the new council And then we'll move on to other matters authorized by law city attorney 6.1 is an RO by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30 2019 December 31 2019 and June 30 2020 That would be referred to the licensing hearings in public safety of the new council. I Just like to thank everybody for a great council year this last year and with that I'll turn it over to all the person Wolf and thank you mayor. I make a motion to adjourn seen a die Thank you for that motion and support all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed motion passes. We stand adjourned. Thank you for all your work this year

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Offerta formativa Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione dell'Università di Siena. Anno accademico 2020-21. Con il prof. Andrea Garulli, direttore del Dipartimento DIISM

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Cari studenti e studentesse, buongiorno. Se siete interessati a studiare Ingegneria o Mathematica, l'Università di Siena è il posto che fa per voi. Il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Cienze Mathematiche dell'Università di Siena offre infatti corsi di laurea e di laurea magistrale, il dottorato di ricerca e tutta una serie di servizi per i quali il nostro atteneo da tempo e celle. Anche nell'anno accademico 2020-2021 avremo un'offerta didattica ricca e rinnovata e, nonostante l'epidemia di Covid-19, contiamo di offrire una formazione di alto livello ai nostri studenti. In particolare l'Università di Siena è subito partita con la didattica a distanza già nel corso del 2020 e garantisce mondale a tutti gli studenti che, per quale il motivo non potranno essere presenti nei nostri laure e nei nostri laboratori nel 2021, l'accesso alla didattica a distanza. Quindi i corsi saranno fruibili anche in modalità didattica sincrona o sincrona, sarà possibile partecipare in forma virtuale all'esercitazione di laboratorio. Ci sarà un ricevimento studenti costante sia in presenza per coloro che potranno partecipare sia in forma telematica per coloro che dovranno accederli a distanza e insomma siamo assolutamente intenzionati a sfruttare il miglio di questa difficile situazione per coniugare la didattica tradizionale con forme di didattica innovative che possano migliorare la vostra esperienza formativa. E ora andiamo a vedere quale l'offerta per l'anno accademico 2020-2021. Per l'anno accademico 2021 il Dipartimento offre tre corsi di laurea triennale, ingegneria informatica e dell'informazione che si articola in quattrocurricula, elettronica, sistemi automazione, sistemi informatici e telecomunicazioni, il corso di laurea in ingegneria gestionale e il corso di laurea in matematica. A seguire quattro corsi di laurea magistrale, il nuovo corso in artificial intelligence and automation engineering che si articola in intelligent systems and robotics and automation, electronics and communications engineering che presenta due nuove curricula telecommunications for the digital society and electronics for smart industry, il corso di laurea magistrale in engineering management che è la prosecuzione naturale per chi ha studiato ingegneria gestionale alla triennale e applied mathematics che è la naturale prosecuzione per chi ha studiato matematica. Tutti corsi di laurea magistrale sono erogati interamente in lingua inglese per due motivi. Il primo è che l'inglese è la lingua della professione per ingegneri e matematici che tipicamente operano in un contesto internazionale e il secondo è per consentire a studenti stranieri di iscriversi ai corsi del Dipartimento, cosa che avviene ormai con successo da diversi anni. E dopo la laurea, oggi la figura dell'ingegnere e del matematico è al centro della rivoluzione digitale che ha cambiato e cambierà sempre di più il modo di operare di aziende enti di ricerca e della pubblica amministrazione. Per questo i nostri laureati trovano immediatamente collocazione nel mondo del lavoro e il Dipartimento intrattiene relazioni e rapporti di collaborazione con un gran numero di aziende che sono ben felici di offrire anche durante il percorso di studi opportunità di stage tirocinio agli studenti e che cercano di catturarli il prima possibile non appena si laureano per inserirli nei loro organici. Bene, allora trovate tutte le informazioni sui nostri siti che vedete in sovrimpressione, non esitate a scriverci e a contattarci per qualunque richiesta di chiarimento. Vi aspettiamo assieme al Dipartimento di Ingenia dell'Informazione di Scienze Mathematiche nel prossimo anno accadentico. A presto!

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Dress Code: I.G. Approves Hijab For Female Police Officers | NEWS

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba has approved a new and improved dress code for women officers, which permits them to wear stud earrings, and headscarf under their berets or peak caps as the case may be while in uniform. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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The Inspector General of Police, Osman Baba, has approved a new and improved dress code for women officers which permits them to wear start earrings and hats cap on their berets or peak caps as the case may be while in uniform. The dress code was unveiled at the IGP's meeting with strategic police managers on March the 3rd. The IGP noted that the Nigerian police worked for his officers from every local government in the country with a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds and an increasing legion of female folks. According to a statement on Friday by the Force Public Relations Officer CSP Olimo Yohadijobi, it brings the need to guarantee inclusion, gender mainstreaming, ethnic and religious diversity in the workplace for optimum output and professionalism. Notified about fresh news updates.

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UN Climate Summit - updates with Saleemul Huq (Part II)

International Institute for Environment and Development senior fellow Saleemul Huq, also a director of the International Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Development, gives his personal insight after the UN Climate Summit on 23 September 2014. Fresh from being one of 38 representatives of civil society at the United Nations General Assembly, Huq reacts to the speeches and pledges made by government leaders at the summit, and looks to the future. More details: www.iied.org/climate-change

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I've just returned from a very exhilarating week in New York attending a number of events there, which I think are going to be truly momentous in terms of changing the narrative globally on tackling the impacts of climate change. I spent Saturday afternoon with a very interesting group of community workers in South Bronx called South Bronx Unite led by a charismatic leader called Michael Johnson who has been organizing the community there who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy and working on the waterfront and fighting against environmental injustice from waste management companies and other industrial giants in the region. It was an exhilarating experience and they also had a very entertaining band and street theater group there so that was very interesting and it was amazing how much we had in common with the between Bangladesh and the people of the South Bronx. In the evening I was invited by the Bangladesh Environment Network to address a gathering of Bangladeshis living in the Jackson Heights area of New Queens about the issues of climate change and Bangladesh in particular and also to organize them to join the People's March on Sunday where I joined the Bangladesh Environment Network who are part of the Bangladeshi group who are part of the South Asian group in the front lines of the march on Sunday in New York. I also had a number of colleagues from the International Center for Climate Change and Development who live in the area who brought a banner and we marched under the ICAP banner as part of the South Asia group. It was a long five-hour long grueling march. Well over 300,000 people all together we filled up 6th Avenue with banners and music and it was a wonderful experience but exhausting as well. On Monday I went and met a number of the incoming ministers from the least developed countries from Bangladesh, Nepal, Benin, the Gambia to brief them about the upcoming climate summit on Tuesday where the heads of state came in and spoke. At the opening ceremony we had a very moving poem by a civil society activist and poet from the Marshall Islands that got a standing ovation and then we had heads of state from the US, President Obama, President Hollande from France made a commitment for a billion dollars to help climate change and the least developed countries heads Prime Minister Hasina Bangladesh, the President of Ethiopia, the Prime Minister of Nepal all made excellent speeches showing that the LDCs are no longer just victims but they are actually leading the fight in tackling the impacts of climate change. That was very pleasing to see them take that changing the narrative on climate change from becoming passive victims to becoming leaders of action. And as I return back from New York reflecting on the week it's too early to tell but I think that we may well have made a turning point in three senses. Firstly, linking up the bottom up with the top-down leaders of the world and people from the streets, many of the leaders in their speeches referred to the march. Secondly, in getting many more actors on board to take actions particularly the business and investment community who are now started the ball rolling on divesting out of coal in fossil fuels, that's a very good sign. And thirdly, momentum going into the UNFCC negotiations upcoming conference of parties in December this year in Lima and following that the conference of parties next year in December in Paris where we hope to have a new agreement and that will be the final proof of the pudding of whether we've actually achieved anything or not this week in New York.

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The Whistler - Quiet Suicide

02/18/48, episode 299 Old Time Radio Researchers Group -Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com

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The signal oil program the whistler Whistle is your signal for the signal oil program The whistler. I am the whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Yes friends, it's time for the signal oil program the whistler Rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history and Signal gasoline is tops to tops in quality It takes extra quality, you know to give you extra mileage and signal is the famous go farther gasoline So look for the signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies friendly dealer owned signal stations From Canada to Mexico And now the whistler strange story Quiet suicide It was in a drab room in a commercial hotel in Chicago that Frank Reynolds finally made up his mind And in a curious way it was quite appropriate that the decision should come to him there partway between Los Angeles and New York Partway between two lives He'd known from the first of course that a showdown was inevitable sooner or later But his time went on he began to recognize the desperate form the showdown would take He came to realize that the only way out was Murder the train tickets were in his pocket. His bags were packed ready to go when he picked up the phone This is mr. Reynolds in room 617. I'd like to call New York. Mrs. Frank Reynolds Long Island 89038 Right yes, that's right. I have a call for you from Los Angeles. Los Angeles. I look. I'm calling you. You're just a moment operator I took Millicent, how did you I had to call you? I knew you'd be staying there. Oh, I'm sorry Millie I can't talk now. My train leaves in a few minutes Oh darling, I told you I had to rush off about that that business deal in New York, but it's more than that What do you mean Millie tell me Frank? You've got to be fair with me if it's another woman another woman on my mind all the time I can't listen Millicent. I told you a hundred times. There's no other woman dear. No one but you please believe that. I With New York, mr. Reynolds shall I put them on? No, no, can't you tell I'm still on this call get off the line Millie Millie believe me for once will you you're imagining things. I love you, baby There's no one else. I just be a good girl till I get back After all I am your wife. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Goodbye Angel You can go ahead with New York now. Oh, yes, sir. I'm sorry about the interruption sir I knew you wanted to talk to your wife in New York But when I found out your wife was still in Los Angeles have a mind that have you got my New York number Yes, and listen honey. I haven't much time. You're expecting me day after tomorrow off the train at Penn Station You mean you aren't coming. Oh sure sure, but listen, I'll be in New York tomorrow morning tomorrow Yeah, I'm flying the rest of the way being early. It'll give us at least a day together alone You can meet me at LaGuardia flight aid American Airlines Don't tell them anything that's the idea Explain to your uncle George that you're going into town early to shop for a day or two Oh, we'll skip the whole Long Island tribe and just be together for a day sound good You think so? It's wonderful Frank Yes, you're so clever darling I'm a lucky girl to have such a smart husband Yes Frank the operator has reason to be confused Because there are two mrs. Reynolds one in New York one in Los Angeles, and you're trembling as you hang up the receiver in Chicago It becomes even more clear to you now with the two lives You've been so careful to keep apart almost meeting accidentally by telephone How ruinous it would be if Diane and Millison should ever get together And the only way out is the desperate way, isn't it? It's too bad to Diane is so young so pretty so very trusting at least she always seemed to believe you But at the airport you wonder from the moment she meets you if something's wrong Excited to see me To drive out Well, how about a taxi? Where to folks the Harding Arms apartment. It's on the east side on 52nd Harding arms. I found it last night after you called. I think you'll like it Frank. Anyone know I'm here not a soul Uncle George thinks I'm shopping He's meeting me in the morning at Penn station to be there when your train comes in That's perfect, and you've You've really arranged to be on it. Why not just setting early alarm I'll run out to New York and get back aboard the train coming from Chicago You've planned it all pretty carefully. Haven't you darling of course Wanted to have you all to myself for a change So you went to all this trouble picket the telephone calls everything Just to be alone with me for a while. What's wrong with that? Still you Haven't even kissed me yet. Oh I'm sorry, Diana. No, please Frank not now. Well, Diane I try not to believe it Frank. I try not to listen to uncle George Oh, what are they saying now the same thing that you married me for my money But that now that uncle George has made it impossible for you to get a hold of it You'll leave. Well, then what am I doing here right now? That's what I don't know Frank They don't waste any time do they they get right to you the minute I'm out of town Diana you sure they don't know I'm here. I told you once Frank. All right Come here at that This way every time They tell me all those that make me listen to them and then then what? You kiss me like that and I forget all about good Keep it that way now. I'll try Frank. I promise at a girl It's very important to me Diane this day together. I Wanted all to be perfect With the prologue of quiet suicide the signal oil company is bringing you another strange story By the whistler at the beginning of this program. You heard me say in gasoline it takes extra quality to go farther and Signal is the famous go farther gasoline But just what does signal mean by that word quality? Well translated into driving language gasoline quality means quicker starts faster pickup smoother knock-free power Now in order for signal to give you that kind of performance the thrill of alert surging power that puts extra pleasure into driving Today's signal gasoline has to help your motor run more efficiently and When your motor runs more efficiently naturally you get extra mileage Which explains why more and more folks who insist on performance as well as those who appreciate mileage Are both switching to signal They've discovered that to be sure of the tops in gasoline quality. There are just two things to remember one it takes extra quality to go farther and Two signal is the famous go farther gasoline And now back to the whistler so it's going to be murder Frank The only way out of your marriage to Diane that will leave your other marriage in Los Angeles intact Divorce is out of the question naturally any notoriety any publicity on the national press wires and Millicent might get strange ideas about your business trips to New York. There'd be investigations bigamy charges To divorces instead of one and of course the prospect of working for a living when you got out of prison So it's murder now a fairly simple kind of murder The ingredients are all there Diane Dispondent disillusioned in marriage a nice quiet suicide It will rate perhaps two inches of copy in the New York paper no more You like the apartment Frank. It's wonderful three rooms fireplace. No nosy maids are janitors. Is it everything you want? Everything even at back entrance. Now you couldn't have done better darling. We're all set Yes, Frank all set with a murder plan for tonight With your alibi still solid on that eastbound train to tomorrow morning at Penn station You were careful back in Chicago, weren't you? Arranging things so it would be almost impossible to check either the plane or train ticket So no one will be able to say you left the train there and arrived in New York ahead of it On the way to dinner with Diane the plan begins to operate You stop the cab at a drugstore Explain that you want to order a prescription sent up to the apartment and go inside Yes, sir. Oh, I'd like this filled 25 tablets lumino barbatine. Yeah, it's my wife Made out to Mrs. Frank Reynolds isn't that right? Yes, but I wish she'd come in herself But to sign for it. We have to be careful filling prescriptions for sleeping medicine Particularly anything as potent as this I understand. Well, look, I'd rather not wait anyway Why not send it up to her Harding arms apartments? She'll be there to sign it for herself Matta Diane, don't you like the restaurant? Oh, oh, yes, it's perfectly fine. I don't know where we'd get a better dinner That's not just that I'm sorry that it has to end. Oh, you mean Uncle George, huh? Yes. Yes, Uncle George You'll be with us tomorrow. Yeah like William the Conqueror. You'll probably know all about this. How you set the alarm, didn't you? Yes, but okay, I'll get up breeze out to New York You can greet me with open arms when I step off the track at Penn Station. You just don't know Uncle George Look over there. Huh? What do you mean that man who just came in by the hat-check stand? What about him? I Didn't tell you Frank, but Uncle George's got his mind set on my divorcing you. He wants to prove to me. So what? That man over there is one of Uncle George's Detected. How long has this been going on since you were here before? Uncle's funny Even has them follow me sometimes you what for I don't know Does it really matter Frank? It matters with me? Did he see us Diane? I don't think so not yet. Let's get out of here Frank. It's no use Let me finish my drink. I said let's get out of here. I have I'll make sure to drink at home Not a soul. It seems silly you're using the back entrance me coming in the front. Hmm. What took you so long? this oh My prescription the desk clerk gave it to me. I had to sign for it. Uh, is it right? Yeah Yeah, it's right I'll uh, I'll fix you that drink. I promised you It's a medic They softly strong. Did you forget the soda? Yeah, you're going soft on me darling down the hatch Skull skull. This has been a funny evening Funny visit. There you go again. What's the matter visit? That's an interesting word. Is it look darling. My husband's visiting me for a few days Nice to see you dear Nice to look across the room and find you there. You're in a strange mood tonight. No Not strange really Just devoted and Maybe a little disappointed Love does a lot of funny things, you know Topps up your eyes and your ears Keeps you believing in someone no matter what people tell you. You're just tired Diane Yes I guess I am Tired of secret meetings with my own husband Tired of lying to uncle George trying to defend you when I when you what? There is another woman isn't there Frank in Los Angeles. Don't be silly It's like a movie Sometimes when I close my eyes and try to sleep I See you getting off a train Meeting a smart-looking blonde in a red convertible. You better get those ideas out of your hand Reminded if I stretch out of you not at all. I Really don't think you're so terrible darling. I I just love you sure Then think women don't know They think they don't even But they do They do They do Yes, Frank that sleeping medicine works fast you watch the clock 730 8 9 and then finally reach for a wrist and feel her pulse There's nothing there now Nothing it takes a few minutes more to check the room tidy it up Get rid of the cigarette butts that aren't stained with lipstick wipe off fingerprints Scrape the druggist label off the bottle of sleeping pills and then quietly you let yourself off the door and Hurry toward the back service stairs and then 20 feet around the corner near the rear stairway Are you sure she's here? Yes. She came in an hour or so ago alone. Yes, sir alone. Shall I wait? I'll stand by a minute. I'll see you should talk to me for a while. I'll wait It's the detective Frank coming from the elevator you're trapped with a choice of meeting him a running back down to the lobby It's then that you feel the key in your hand the apartment. Yeah There's no time to think Frank you hold your breath Press back against the wall behind the door and then there's only one way out of the building at this time of night Yeah, open it up. That's it. This is Reynolds You take the only chance you have Frank as they go in you slide around the door in the darkness and then out into the hall You aren't conscious of time now Frank. Maybe it's an hour Maybe two since that awful moment in the apartment But things are beginning to settle down now as you sit in the dim railroad station in Newark Waiting for that train of yours to pull in You settle back against the bench Vaguely aware of the smell of the oil wood floors And then the board creaks likely as someone moves towards you in the dark mind if I keep these No, go ahead Yeah, yeah It's a funny thing guys sitting in this drab station waiting for the train from Chicago at this hour Listen, I a sir odd thing You know you could grab a taxi outside and get to New York in an hour Still you're waiting here Why look you can figure that out for yourself. I don't know Mr. Reynolds How did you? My name it was printed on that match holder you handed me. What do you want? I want you to help me decide whether your wife's death was suicide or murder. She She's dead. Yeah After talking to her uncle I decided to drop over here and see if you really were on the train Oh, well listen, I can explain about that. I you can save all that for later I'm Pearson. Mr. Reynolds New York homicide Why don't we skip the train start back to New York right now? They're waiting for us back at your apartment So now you're faced with it Frank your big alibi the keystone in your whole plan has gone Once or twice on the way back to the apartment you almost decide to get it over with To tell Pearson the whole truth and avoid the dread questioning you know is sure to come But somehow you're not quite ready to give up and when you finally walk into the apartment to face Diane's uncle George You get an idea of a way to bluff it through I'll tell you this man's a murderer Pearson. Just I told you I told you I can explain everything. All right, you'll have a chance to but let me start out, huh? Now it seems you're on your way to New York on the train you switch to a plane somewhere without telling anyone But your wife figure you can intercept the same trainer day or so later give yourself a solid alibi There's no use denying it Frank. Who's denying it what? You mean you admit it most of it Just one word. I don't like alibi It's true about the train. I set it up by telephone from Chicago. You had a good reason a very good reason What are you talking about you uncle George? You've never given us a minute's peace sticking your nose into our business trying to poison Diane's mind against me That's why I did it Pearson. I wanted that day together just Diane and I my wife the two of us by ourselves Oh, that's ridiculous. I was forced into it lieutenant Ask him about the private detective Yeah We go out for a quiet little dinner at seven o'clock last night one of his bloodhounds follows us into the shamrock clock We know all about that So what happened after you got home? I told her she had to forgets Uncle George or I was through She broke down. She she got hysterical Well, I walked out. I got past the streets for a while and then I went over to New York. You didn't come back here. No I see Mr. Kittridge step in here, please Kittridge. Yes a druggist mr. Reynolds. I want you to meet him. Yes, lieutenant Oh This is mr. Reynolds. Mr. Kittridge. Do you yes, sir? That's the man who ordered the prescription Of course if you thought hard enough mr. Kittridge, you remember I told you that prescription was for my wife Then why did you order it because she asked me to on the way to dinner? And she gave you a prescription made out by a doctor in Los Angeles. Los Angeles why I can't yes You don't know how a Los Angeles doctor could prescribe pills for your wife when she's never been there And neither do I There's something else mr. Reynolds. I've been in the homicide division for eight years now I guess I've investigated a hundred suicides and a lot of women You know something mr. Reynolds. I have yet to find one particularly a woman who didn't want to have the last word I don't know what you mean a suicide note Your uncle's detective comes in here finds the girl in the bed a bottle of sleeping pills next to it Now does it seem logical? She'd set up a thing like that without doing the one thing they all do I told you she was despondent. She wasn't thinking straight when I left. That's what you say I say she went to bed with every intention of getting out All right, come on Reynolds you can get in touch with your lawyer in the way to now wait a minute wait a minute I didn't do anything lieutenant. You've got to believe me. I skip it. I've got no time Just a minute I Just can't take this on myself What I feel personally and what is just are two different things. I guess Diane was in Los Angeles a month ago What you mean she was that's interesting. I I should have told you before I suppose, but oh nothing of it And I suppose you have the suicide note tucked up your sleeve. Well, I I do have one as a matter of fact an old one you see Diane did try to kill herself just last month And that's why I've been having her fault Well Reynolds I Guess I was wrong We all make mistakes once in a while I'm sorry The whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending to tonight's story Meantime a question How long has it been since you had your fan belt and radiator hose checked for looseness or wear? Well, if you're like most drivers the chances are you never even give these items of thought But independent signal dealers being practical automobile men have not only thought of them, but they're doing something about it Right now they're offering a free checkup of both your fan belt and radiator hose They'll probably find everything's okay in which case you'll feel better to know it But if they should discover that either your fan belt or radiator hose needs replacing And in most cases they can do that while you wait and you'll be glad you had attended to before more serious trouble developed This free checkup of your fan belt and radiator hose incidentally is typical of the more thorough more Conscientious attention cars get at signal service station The reason each signal dealer owns his own business and naturally has a more personal interest in keeping your good will And now back to the whistler Oh It's over now Frank a few more questions and you'll be released free of suspicion that you murdered Diane wife number one Free to go back to Los Angeles and someone they know nothing about Millicent wife number two And it's ironic that Diane's uncle George came through with a one statement that could save you Yes You were as a surprise as Lieutenant Pearson to hear that Diane had actually gone to Los Angeles And you realize now that she knew the truth about That if you'd left her alone, she might have tried suicide a second time successfully You're going to be careful now Frank. No missteps. No false moves taking the cue from the lieutenant Yeah, this is a tough business. I'm in Reynolds. You got to play hunches, you know Yeah, I came into the room tonight and I took a look around. I see there isn't a note say to myself This lady went to bed figuring she'd be up and go on the next day in tent, you know Yeah, it's pretty important stuff. I understand lieutenant. Yeah, I was trained to look for intent above everything else Well, sometimes you go wrong though just like now Well What do you know about that intense, you know That's what they're gonna ask me Reynolds. What was in the little lady's mind the clock? I Don't understand it. I don't blame you Now, why do you suppose she set that alarm clock? I'll tell you why She expected it to wake her up. She expected to be alive right now You know, I guess we'll just have to start the questions all over again That clock's a little noisy for a nice Quiet suicide your signal for the signal oil program the whistler each Wednesday night at the same time Brought to you by the signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure drive at sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations It may save a life Possibly your own word Gerald Moore and Lorette Philbrand The whistler was produced by George W. Allen with story by Robert Eisenbach and Jackson Gillis and music by Wilbur hatch It was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces radio service Next Wednesday for a full hour of mystery over most of these stations tune in half hour earlier Enjoy the same as well as the whistler This is Marvin Miller speaking CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System

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Round 4 Gibraltar Chess post-game interview with Hou Yifan

Women's World Champion Hou Yifan talks to Tania Sachdev following her victory against Mariya Muzychuk in Round 4 of #gibchess

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You found a nice game today against Maria, from the very beginning you seem to go for blood today, very enterprising play today with White. Thank you, yeah, because we played a match last year, so I thought that both of us are quite familiar especially for the opening preparation. So the game today, okay, just trying to play a real game to avoid some long theories. Okay, so both of us spent some time even at the early of the opening, and of course my G4, G1 is a bit risky, but I mean if I didn't do that the position will be quite equal. I mean there will be another long end positional game, so I decided to try something different. And luckily it works out, but actually I was not sure especially for the moment that when she played E5 and did take C4 and Nc5, I thought those moves are a little bit, I mean not precise. I could do something better than what I did in the game because I thought that her Nh7 probably blinded Nxe4 or maybe she couldn't find something better, maybe Nx8 could be another alternative. And later on I started when I take on G5, the position could be winning because that is quite straightforward. Right now from the very start you did not go for anything topical, you played something that seemed, how much of it was preparation? Because you seem to just want to keep all the pieces and all the pawns on the board for as long as possible. Yeah that was just a type of position, I mean sometimes why just want a long and interesting game we could do like that. I mean it's quite a random game. Right now you obviously have a lot of history considering your world championship match and like you said a lot of preparation was done for that. So did that play a role in you choosing this sort of a setup in the opening? Well, cannot say exactly because of the match but if for example you play the player like 10 games or something like that, especially you know for a match it's something different. I mean if you're just facing different tournaments probably it could be random chess but for the match I believe that both players at least do have a little bit more anti-preparation. So that's why I decided to try something new. But since I've played already three matches and all my opponents actually we face each other even later on in the different tournaments so I'm kind of already getting used to it. Right it's always very interesting to watch such openings which are you know not topical. But I have to ask you, I mean you had a really nice victory against Maria in the world championship, you won five games. Do you feel that gives you a big psychological advantage every time you play her now? Well actually not that much as five I thought I had like plus three finally. Yeah but okay that's enough for the match. Well I didn't feel something different before the match or even after the match because okay I thought we just played like two or three games before the match. I also got a very good result so generally speaking I'm just ready for each game doesn't matter who will be my opponent. And considering my results against most of the female players so it's kind of I mean positive so normally I'm having a good feeling. Okay but even for example I'm facing some I will face some like top players for the open section although sometimes my results is not that promising. But still I was always trying to help for something better than previous times. Right and now of course you dropped out of the Grand Prix but you seem to be having a mini Grand Prix of your own here playing your fourth female opponent. Yeah actually this period really makes me you know shocked because it's such a rare rate that I could face like four women players in your role whatever myself is a female player or not. I mean considering the total number of all the participants and the percentage of the female players so it's not usual. So okay but anyway it happens so I just wanted to enjoy every game and try to show a better performance. And that's exactly what you're doing well good luck for the remaining rounds and see you soon. Thank you bye.

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Conservation Commission Meeting Dec 13, 2023

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I have not heard from Andre. I'm not sure. I think I came in at 7 o'clock. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, hello and welcome to the December 13th meeting of the conservation commission. Time is 7 07. We have members present. We have me, Michelle, Abby, Alex, or Jason Dornie. And we have Bruce Steadman, who I'm bringing in right now. absent our Laura and Andre. Okay, so first up chair report. I have nothing other than we have several continuances tonight. So I'll just announce that if anyone's here for any questions. I have a couple of quick updates. Valley CDC ball lane. Wetland. Wendell wetland services on Pomeroy or pierce guy on shoots very road and SWCA. On a lot at 13, those are all going to be continued. We will take public comment at the designated hearing time though. Thank you. I'm sure a couple of quick updates for the commission. Brad and Anthony are out there. You know, continuing to do some early successional mowing. They've done most of the work at Wentworth farm conservation area there. They're moving on to Mount Pollux. We're going to do some work off of station road some of these fields actually we haven't. We haven't brush hogged in three or four years so whether permitting they're going to keep going and see how far they can get. We saw months ago through the capital program we were able to purchase a skid steer. If you're familiar with what a skid steer is kind of a, you know, a little bigger than a mini excavator but it, it has a front mower which is very convenient it's challenging to mow a lot of our areas with a brush hog. So they're teaming up a great example of the use of the skid steer with the front mower is they can mow a lot of the invasives that have grown up around the apple trees at Mount Pollux and the old orchard. Very difficult to back in a brush hog to do that so it's a great application that skid steer can also help us in house work on ADA trails. Maintaining ADA trails and level and, and whatnot some of those crushed own gravel trails. What else is going on the Department of Conservation and Recreation and Mass just announced their trails grant program is open so Aaron and I are working with Brad to begin to kind of brainstorm a little bit about trails grants that we might submit or a trail grant that we might submit it's been a while since we've submitted to DCR. It's a rather onerous process. So if you go for money you should probably go for a fairly large amount of money. Keep it simple and keep it big because if you ask for 20,000 it's just as much work as if you get asked for 100,000 so we're kind of brainstorming on that if you have any ideas for trails and you'd like to shoot in my way, please do. There's plenty of work to be done out there on board walks and trails and ADA trails and the list goes on. We're doing, we're going to begin in January and February to do some kind of winter planning project planning for 24 what you know what what capacity do we have to get projects done in 24 what did we get done this year. We were pretty short staffed out in the field so our list from 23 a lot of those will carry over. A big project in 24 of course will be the trails at Hickory Ridge, although we won't be doing the work. There will be a lot of hands on project management to do for myself for Aaron and likely for Brad. So we will be bidding the loop trail, the ADA loop trail and the north south trail. And both of those should be done our goal and our grant goal our grant deadline is is the end of June. We're doing those trails through the design review board, the disability access advisory committee I just met with them yesterday have a good conversation. And then on 1220. Next week, we go before the planning board for site plan review, and all of those boards and committees are great for input on design on accessibility signage kiosks. We had a conversation with the DAC yesterday afternoon they're very pleased that we're thinking about accessibility. You know their focus was on parking on the width of the trail. How are we going to maintain it is it going to be open in the winter, things like that. The planning board, I'm sure we'll talk about there are many of the same things but also, you know, what kind of lighting are we going to have. And the answer there is pretty simple it's, it's going to be dawn to dusk we're going to have any lighting but is there going to be trash removal trash receptacles parking obviously and how do you get from one point to say, West street on our mapping so all of that is happening now and then we're hoping to bid out those two projects in January for as early as start as possible in the spring. We have some good contractors in town. You know this would be a public bid so you know likely, you know, probably a four to six week turnaround on the bids, and then we'd lock somebody in and see how the weather is in the spring. So that's the two trails at that hickory. And I don't want to steal thunder from Erin but she was going to give us a quick update on the America the beautiful grant and our role in that grant. That has to do with Hickory Ridge as well, and some of the ecological restoration we're hoping to do there along the Fort River. So that those are my quick updates. I know you have a full agenda. So, if anyone has any questions, let me know. Thanks, Dave. Aaron, did you want to comment on the America the beautiful. Congratulations on the grant. Yeah, it was a sort of a joint application it was actually submitted by mass division of fisheries and wildlife. But we did partner with them. They're working with a couple other cities and towns in Massachusetts. Looking to do some significant stream restoration work and Hickory Ridge was the focus of their stream restoration work for the America the beautiful grant and it's. I mean you guys have heard probably and read some about it already in the notice been 10 application and certainly the all of the work that will be done will be coming back before the commission as an amendment to the conditions once it's issued for Hickory Ridge, but it's looking at removing old fill material from the stream banks. The stream banks on the Fort River are really in size from all the artificial sort of maintenance over a long period of time. So like if you if you go to Hickory Ridge you can see that the banks the Fort River are really steep. And it sort of aims to do some floodplain restoration, taking down some of the banks to give the river a little bit more of a natural floodplain and allowing it to sort of meander more naturally. There's also removal of bridge, one of the bridges that's on the trail system. Placement of woody debris so like there's a lot of in most rivers you see like more woody debris versus in the Fort River there's not a whole lot so there's sort of a lot of restoration components that are associated with restoring the river. And Hickory Ridge will be the focus so it'll be exciting to see it come before us it's. It's a $3.5 million award to the state for the project so we're a piece of that and should come with some assistance in the form of staff as well so it'll be exciting. And could I could I just add one other element of that is the federal grant will pay for the removal of the building that is associated with the irrigation system on the irrigation system for the golf course irrigated the fall 150 acres and cause quite a bit of right area and damage along the Fort River Bank. So this grant will pay for that removal so that's a cost that the town will not have to pick up and they'll save us a considerable tens of thousands of dollars, maybe more actually in the long run so that's going to be a great addition in this grant. Excellent conservation work happening at Amherst thanks guys. Andre welcome just for Bruce I think you're taking minutes and thank you again. You got Andre on a little late. All right. So moving on we have review and approval of the 1129 2023 minutes. Alex had some comments I looked them over. I don't know did anyone else have a chance to do that there's, I think, mostly to do with Alex if you're there chime in. I'm just finding some acronyms and just kind of definitions or nothing huge but I'm comfortable with the changes just for their records. Any other comments from commissioners on that. Okay, well Bruce was author Alex is not with us anymore. So make sure that before we vote on them that everyone's had a chance to review Alex's comments just because I put in a read an original set, which folks may have had time to see and then I just uploaded Alex's comments late this morning. So, if folks haven't had time to review them I don't want to sort of rush folks to approve them to quickly. Okay, Andre had a chance. Yeah, just from my part I have not had a chance to review them and I would like a chance to do so. Okay. Jason saying. Okay, we have a bit of a backlog of minutes so maybe next time we could put a bunch on the queue and we could just go through them and approve some minutes. That sounds good to everybody so maybe just next time give it a give them some looks and we'll just get that done. All right, so we're going to table that the 1129 minutes till next time. Sound good. Okay. All right, not yet 730 so other items of goodness do you want to issue some orders of conditions while we're waiting for our 730. So I put in your packets. Draft orders of conditions for three different properties. 370 North Hampton Road 28 green leaves drive and then 191 West Pomeroy Lane which was the, the Hickory Ridge trail project. Bruce jumped up with a question. Yeah, just finished and then we'll. Yeah. So, each, each order of conditions is a little bit different sort of unique to the given project and so. I don't know if you want to go through them. If you want me to pull them up on the screen or how you sort of want to handle. Going over them, but they're, they're in the folder. Folks want to review them. Yeah. Do you want to just pull it up on the screen and maybe we can just start with the North Hampton Road. Good Bruce. Well, it seemed as though Alex was out of the, the whole thing when we decided to postpone the minutes that he commented on. So I just want to make sure he understood what the decision was. Okay. Thank you, Bruce. So, Alex, if you were gone, it seemed like you dropped off for a second. Not all of the commissioners had an opportunity to review your comments. So we decided to table it and do a big batch of minutes reviews next next meeting. Does that sound good? Okay. Thanks, Bruce. All right. So as far as North Hampton Road, do you want to bring that one up and we'll just start there. I had one comment on it, but maybe it's sort of at the end. So if anyone has sequential comments, we'll start there. Go ahead, Bruce. Okay, your hands down. All right. Any comments from commissioners on this? Okay, seeing none. Looks great, Erin. My only comment was in the perpetual conditions towards the end. I just was going to suggest that we, so there's a condition that no herbicides, except for organic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides be used. Subject commissioner review. So typically in restoration, the herbicides and pesticides, fungicides are not organic. They are deemed wetland safe solutions, but they're not organic. So I just thought maybe taking out that criteria and make it more in general in case there is a infestation later on down the road and leaving it up to commissioners discretion, what types of herbicides might be used. So I just want to, before we make this change, I just want to point out a couple of quick things. The first is, and I'm sorry I didn't mention this earlier today, Michelle, when we talked. The first is, so there's a couple different places where in an order of conditions, we might see herbicide applications. One might be if they have a invasive management plan that's associated with an order of conditions. I think that these conditions are more geared toward, for example, people not treating lawns for, you know, just in general, unless they specifically have a invasive species management plan. So I think that these, these boilerplate were set up basically as just a standard that unless you have an invasive species management plan that you shouldn't be applying any of these. But I'm completely fine. And I agree with your comment that we should take that out that it's and really what I'd like to do is just remove it holistically from our boilerplate because it doesn't really seem to make sense and I'm not sure why that was even in there to begin with. But just a general. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, assuming that there'll be some kind of lawn care, we want to leave open, you know, some kind of window for them to be doing that on our own without having to come to us. It almost seems like there should be another sentence that is about like domestic landscaping versus a actual treatment of some kind of invasive investigation. You know, I mean, off the top of my head, I'm not sure exactly how to word this but my concern is just I want to leave open the possibility for the commission to use herbicides or tools other than organic ones for treatments that are necessary just to protect the wetlands in general. Yeah, I mean, I think we just remove the word organic for these three orders. And then from there we can maybe word Smith, something for that specific perpetual boilerplate condition that tackles the issue at hand. Okay. Any comments on that. Okay. Hearing none. We need an order to approve. Motion. So I didn't actually, I didn't actually draft the motions for this. But really, all we would need is a motion to issue. The order of conditions for 370 North Hampton road, noting the DEP file number with the. Standard boilerplate for state and local and special conditions, but I'll, I'll try to draft up a motion right now because I see Alex as his hand up. Yep. Okay, go ahead, Alex. Alex, you have the floor, but I can't hear you. I'm wondering if he's having some technical difficulties. We can see you. You're on mute right now. Can't hear you. Not again. No. Okay, going to reboot. All right. All right, we'll see you in a sec. Okay. Do we actually need Alex on this vote for a quarter. Um, nice. Yes, I think we do because Andre wasn't here at the last meeting. Let me just, yeah, we he I've got to draft this language anyway, so I'll give him a second to get back on. Sure. And well, she does that for green leaves. I just had the exact same comment. So that would be all I have for that one. Do you want me to pull up green leaves while we're just waiting? Okay. Can you hear me now? We can. Yeah. Okay. So I rebooted my camera. My question when I had my hand up. I was back on the pesticide issue if the word systemic would work. I'm not sure I completely understand the difference between that and non systemic. You heard the word organic. And systemic, they go in if they go into the water. They're systemic if they go into the water. They're also broadcast sprays that are like more or less soluble in the water and more friendly to amphibians. I don't think that I completely understand pesticides enough to, to put a descriptor on that. And leave open, you know, innovation so that maybe just leaving it open without the word organic. Also kill bees. Well, I just want to leave it to the commission to maybe make the decision later on without tying us into. Is that okay with you, Alex? Sure. Okay. Right. With that, I guess we're looking for the motion. Yeah, sorry. I'm bouncing back and forth between screens bear with me. There we go. So we'll just start with 370 North Hampton road. This is just a general motion so you could just insert the address and the DEP file number for each of those, but we'll just start with 370 North Hampton road. Okay, I moved to issue an order of conditions for 370 North Hampton road DEP file number 089-0726 Hawkins Meadow. With the boilerplate state and local conditions and special conditions as noted. Andre on the motion. Alex on the second. Jason. Hi, Bruce. This is an I Alex. Hi. Andre. Hi. And I'm an I. Okay. Bear with me while I pull up. The 28. Leaves. So very similar. On green leaves, there was not the specific language about the wetland delineation and the reason for that is because the wetland delineation was originally tied to a 2004 order of conditions and we also had a DEP file number. I think it was a 711 that was issued immediately prior to this permit coming about. So I did make a note at the top of this. At the top of these conditions that basically note the connection between this order of conditions, order of conditions 402 and order of conditions 711 so that it was clear that they were all sort of tied together historically speaking. But other than that, it was just sort of our standard special conditions and boilerplate. Okay. Any comments? No. Okay. Same deal looking for a motion. And Michelle, you wanted to remove organic from this one as well. So that was just language that would change so slightly. Yeah. And maybe we can think a little more and talk a little more about what we want that boilerplate to look like but for now I just don't want to constrain any kind of future decision making based on that. I'll move the issue in order of conditions for 28 green leaves drive DEP number 089-0723 with the boilerplate state and local conditions and special conditions as noted. Second. Jason on the motion. Alex on the second. Jason. Hi. Bruce. Hi. Alex. Hi. Andre. Hi. Okay. Okay. If there's any public comment on this, please raise your hand and I'm going to not mind. Keep an eye on it. Okay. Do we want to just do West primary before we move in? Yeah. Sorry, I'm bouncing between two screens. That I'm on a remote computer so I'm. All right, so. This is the order of conditions for the Hickory Ridge trail project. So we've got the standard boilerplate. I also have the NHS P determination letter issued here so that it's rolled into the order of conditions. Yeah. And just some kind of site specific conditions that are a little different associated with this for. Stability to make sure the site stable to make sure there's inspections going on. So, they're kind of tailored to each each individual permit. Can you scroll down a little bit? Aaron, please. Of course. Yeah. I can zoom into a little. I don't know how far down you want me to go. I don't know. So do we have the native planting condition on this one? I just didn't see it. Should be. I can add that one in. I'm not sure why that one didn't make it on there. Jason, go ahead. I have a comment on special conditions. Number seven. Is that weekly inspections must be completed during construction phase of the work. Monthly monitoring reports to be submitted during the construction phase of the conservation commission inspections may be completed by contractor can be informal email. Are these meant to be the same inspections that are required by the construction general permit. That's a really great question and I'm so glad that you asked it, Jason. On this project, it's a little bit tricky because it's a town project and we don't have a separate wetland monitor, so to speak, who's out there doing the inspection reports. So for the sake of the town going out to bid on this project, I rolled in the construction monitoring so that the SWIP reports and the reports to the conservation commission can be rolled into one. However, you know, there's going to be a lot of staff visibility on this project. I'll be out there monitoring it. I'm sure Dave will be out there monitoring it and as well we have a. An engineer who's doing special projects in town who's also going to be monitoring the work. So there's going to be a number of staff that are going to be on site. Daily weekly as this work is going on. So that is a great question and it is a little bit different than how I would ordinarily condition a project because of the sort of staff oversight that's going to be happening from the town while this is going on. So, just for clarification, then those weekly SWIP required SWIP inspections will be the ones that are emailed to your informally emailed. Right. Okay, so then those those that person then who's doing those inspections needs to be qualified. Yes, under the construction general permit. Okay, I just want to make sure that this is not in any way stating that the inspections, the SWIP required inspections are informal when they require a person to be trained. Right. And just to also clarify, because this is something I didn't mention before when Jason was asking about this. The erosion control inspections are separate from the SWIP inspections. So I fully expect will be copied on the SWIP inspections. But the erosion control inspections for the conservation commission will be separate inspections where somebody is going around taking photos of the erosion controls and reporting any repairs that need to be made. But yes, the person who's doing the SWIP inspections and the erosion control inspections on our bid documents is going to have to be qualified to conduct those so they will have to be trained and qualified to conduct SWIP inspections. And the contractor that's selected is going to have to be qualified to carry the SWIP and do the SWIP inspections on the town's behalf. Right. I do have another question slash comment if any so. One of the things that I would like to see in here is the only the use of biodegradable erosion control blankets or any kind of blankets like that. With this sensitive nature and the habitat. I wouldn't want to see any kind of compost or any kind of erosion control blankets that have netting in them to snag wildlife. That's a big problem and especially in areas where they may go down and they may get forgotten and then they may never come up. So I would like to if we can state that no erosion control blank is containing netting can be used either temporarily or permanently. I'm all for permanently. That's a good point given that sensitive habitat and I've heard that snakes can get caught in those nettings. Birds. Yeah, that's terrible. So let's go for permanently. Yeah, I think that's a great, great addition. That would be a great addition to the boiler plates you actually. I would love to see that. Yeah, maybe. You know, you can't necessarily be everywhere all the time and sometimes they do get left behind. And if you've ever seen a DOT project with a large mower, grab an erosion control netting and rip it out. And from an erosion and sediment control standpoint, it's not a pretty thing. And from a vegetation standpoint, it's not a pretty thing either. So I would love to see that become. Absolutely. So we'll add in condition on native plantings and prohibition on. Erosion control blankets that contain netting and they're required to be biodegradable if they're used on site. So we're considering putting that in our general boiler plates. Yeah, great. Thanks Jason. Go ahead, Bruce. My concern is there's a lot of things here. And there's a June 30th deadline. And I just would like some reassurance that we can do all this and still be able to spend all the money. We're going to be going to bid very soon. And I think that the work is anticipated to take about a month and a half. So the portions of the work that need to get done for the grant, I think we're pretty confident we'll be able to get done. There are portions of work that are associated with this order of conditions that aren't associated with the grant. So for example, the Colvert removals where we're doing stream restoration, those are not tied to the time sensitive grant application. So there are bits and pieces of this that will be fast-tracked and bits and pieces that are going to take a little more time. Maybe that was what I was trying to figure out. So thank you. Okay, thanks Bruce. Anything else? Okay, seeing none, I guess we're looking for a motion with some of the set changes with all of the set changes. I'm going to make a motion. Go ahead. Yeah, before making a motion on, I'm just going to point out, from my opinion, Jason, your point that you made about the that madding is, is a really good point. And I would also like to see that on one boiler plates. So thank you, Jason. Thank you. I move to issue an order of conditions for 191 West Pomeroy Lane with DEP number 089-0721 with the boiler plates state and local conditions and special conditions as noted. Yeah. Do we need to state the insertion of the two conditions? I think we noted them on the record already. So I think we should be, we should be okay, but I'll make sure that the changes make it on to the formally issued order of conditions. Okay. Thank you. Okay, we had James Andre on the motion. Bruce on the second Andre. Hi. Alex. Hi. Jason. Hi. Bruce. Hi. And I'm an eye and Bruce, your hand is still up just in case that's intentional. Did you have something else to add? No, sorry. All right. All right. So let's move on to our hearings. Okay. So general procedures for fairness to all applicants, each hearing has 20 dedicated minutes on the agenda. The hearing structure will be five minutes presentation by staff, five minute comments from applicant. Five minutes for public comment or two minutes per person, five minutes from the conservation commissioners or two minutes each. All revisions and materials are required by the Wednesday a week prior to our meetings by noon on that Wednesday. And for all presenters, please clearly state your name, address of the project and here representing as well as if you have any preferred. So this hearing is being held as required by the provisions of chapter 131 section 40 of the general bylaws of the Commonwealth and act relative to the protection of the wetlands. As most recently amended an article 3.31 wetlands protection of the town of Amherst bylaws. The address of intent for a horse Lee Witten group incorporated the Nisco design and Brown Sardina incorporated on behalf of the town of Amherst for the proposed reconstruction of the Fort River elementary school and associated infrastructure. Parking stormwater mitigation ball fields and landscaping and the demolition of existing school building removal of existing infrastructure pavement and mitigation measures at 70 Southeast Street map 15 a lot 47. Okay, and do you want to fill us in to start. Sure. So just a quick update. I did provide staff comments to the applicant on December 8. The applicant did respond. We received comments back actually today. I did take a look through the responses that we received. I realized the commission hasn't had really a chance to review those and they're like 230 some odd pages long. So if the commission wants to take time to review those responses, you're certainly more than welcome to I did sift through them today to try to just keep the ball rolling as quickly as possible. And I submitted in the a couple follow up comments questions to the applicants representative, which I put those documents in the folder if you want to sort of boil down to what my questions were. Otherwise, I'm going to yield the rest of my time to the applicant because this is a huge project and they're probably going to need a few more than five minutes. Okay, so I brought Amy and and I can Janet. If there's anybody else in the audience. Okay. Please raise your hand if you're part of this application. Welcome Amy welcome Janet evening. I see Rick. Okay, and I think we're both working right now is Tim Cooper part of this project also. Yes. That would also part of this project. Yes. Okay. Okay, I think you should all be here. Okay, welcome. Do you guys want to give us a presentation of this project. Yes, thank you. Good evening for the record. I'm Amy Baldwin was a wooden group. I'm the senior ecologist here I'm going to run a really quick slide deck for you. Erin said to keep it short and sweet. It'll be an overview and then the members of the project team who are here Janet Bernardo she's my design engineer. Tim Cooper Rick Rice from Janisco or the architects and Margaret Wood is the owners project managers that correct Margaret. Is it okay for me to share my screen. Just go ahead. Very briefly, this is the Fort River elementary schools is existing conditions here. And the proposed project is the redevelopment of the school as the public advertisement states. We have gone through an and that process about this time last year, and it was issued on the 14th this year. So we have a number of resource areas they're all associated with the Fort River and or the faring brook. Of the resource areas that are on on the larger school property. BVW areas such as storm flowage, boarding lands such as flooding and buffer zones are what be affected by the project. The prop proposed project is a complete redevelopment of the school with the important caveat that the school needs to remain in operational during the approximate two year construction period. So it will be a phase construction, really consisting of three phases, one being an early site preparation, and then a phase one and a phase two, the early site preparation will happen. Permits granted at the beginning of this next year with the taking the existing stormwater offline, putting it into a temporary system to manage stormwater during construction, a changing of the traffic patterns and preloading the soils for the existing school, adding a ram aggregate peers, and this is all providing structural support for the building which I'll let the architects talk about a little bit more. And then the phase one, which is focused in the more southern portion of the property is the actual construction of the building itself, the stormwater the new bus route and drop off area. All of the play areas and the infrastructure that goes along with that. Once phase one is complete and the school, the new school is online, then we will switch to phase two, which is the deconstruction of the existing school and ball fields. And at that point we will also provide some additional mitigation areas in terms of additional flood storage and restoration of a wetland area. The site drainage design, which I'll have Janet go into more detail on as necessary involves a number of different types of stormwater practices to address the various areas, including cash basins and area drains, sand filters a bio retention area and a rain garden stone infiltration trenches, but to filter strips and reading need to. There are two proprietary practices that we are also posing the rain guardian foxholes and the rain guardian turrets. In addition, we'll also have some permeable play services. I presented these images I think to the Commission back in about September mid September with sort of a pre permitting presentation and just wanted to call your attention to this is what a rain guardian turret is for the commission members who were not present at that time. But the sand filters that we have these are all examples are likely to be much more vegetated than these pictures indicate in the bioswail also either be more gravelly or will have some vegetation depending on where it is located. So far as resource area impacts and this is something that Aaron brought to her attention this afternoon that we didn't quite clarify it the way she anticipated. This is just directly from our project narrative. We have about 4445,000 square feet and cubic feet of boarding lands such to flooding impacts, but we will end up at the end of the day with a net gain of more than 19,000 cubic feet. In terms of BBW alterations, there are about 1800 square feet of BBW alteration that is in an existing degraded state and I'll show you a picture in a minute with an ultimate restoration area of about 4700 square feet. This is subject to storm flowage which is something that came up during the Android process that will be all the interest that are protected by that area will be incorporated within the design. And then as far as buffers own impacts are concerned, we have impacts within the zero to 50 foot buffer and within the 50 to 100 foot buffer of both the BBW and the BLSF. And this is more of a qualitative response, which is that among the alterations that are proposed in these areas, we will be providing compensatory flood storage as well as additional flood storage and the wetland restoration area. And then finally, we also have to stay listed species. And the alterations within the mapped habitat are about 800 square feet. I mentioned we have two additional restoration areas there along what we call wetland bee which is to the north and directly east of the school and then wetland areas say these two are actually part of the same born and vegetated wetland system. The wetland restoration area there were some photos in the report but this is different times of year but the swing set that currently exists in the north of the school property is being overtaken by some Fragmites and is which are maintained by the school so that the swing set remains operational and there are wood play chips that have been placed directly in the wetland. And we discovered that the wetland boundary actually encompasses most of that swing set. So the proposal there is to fill that fill there, remove additional fill about a foot and a half or so adjacent to the swing set area, removing the shed and all of this grass area and restoring this about 4700 square feet of BBW. And then for additional flood storage, that will occur along the area of wetland sea, which is this long linear finger of wetland. This will again resulted in that gain of about 1900 cubic feet of flood zone, and we'll be doing this by pulling the contours back and removing some of the these are existing gardens. All of the mitigation that were just discussed will need to happen during phase two because this is this would change the condition of an operational school. And then I mentioned again we have the rare species habitat we have not yet heard from natural heritage they've issued a tracking number. We understand that we will hear from them on the 22nd of December and so we've already mentioned to Aaron that we will need to request a continuance to your one of your January meetings in order to allow us to get feedback from natural heritage. And with that, I'm sure I've talked for much more than five minutes but I figured I'd turn it back to the Commission for questions and discussion. Thank you. Thanks Amy was there anyone else from the group that wanted to add anything before we move on. Okay I don't see anybody we're going to just go to public comment and going to be doing two minutes per person. Please raise your hand if you have anything you'd like to add at this time. Okay I'm seeing none I'll keep an eye on the room. Okay to commissioners commissioners comments questions. Okay, Aaron I see your hand it I'm just going to let you go first. Yeah I just need to ask a really important clarifying question before we get too deep in this and Amy forgive me because I think we're on the alteration verse mitigation numbers we might be crossing pads a little bit. Could you put the table back up for just a second that you were presenting your resource area impacts in your presentation. The reason that I'm, I'm queuing in on this is because I want to be extremely clear about something based on what you've said to me the buffer zone impacts quote unquote impacts that you're proposing here are actually mitigation in the buffer zone. So what they are and I will have to drill down to the numbers but I think about half of the buffer zone will also be sort of repurposed or reconfigured into new playing fields. And I think a portion of the access driveway goes into the 50 to 100 buffer. That is that is true and would like to try and you know get those numbers for you and okay but that is that is the just the existing condition of the buffer is really just all of the open playing fields. Got it. So if when you do your, when you do your your number accounting for us if you could just separate out the sort of buffer zone alterations that are going to be field or driveway or, you know, sort of the permanently maintained used areas, separate those out from the comp storage areas, the, you know, that are going to be like pollinator meadow or the flood storage areas, the wetland restoration areas. I just want to make sure that we're seeing actually apples to apples comparison and that you're not grouping the restoration mitigation work into the alteration category. I think what we did here. Okay, I just want to make sure that that's happening so that's that was my comment so thank you. Yeah, thanks Aaron I was also going to ask about that so I'm just going to jump ahead of the commissioners. Yeah just a table showing sort of the existing conditions the, the temporary and the permanent alterations and then the associated by category buffer zones. So I think that's a good indication just something we can go across the row and, you know, see a tabulation that is not just quite qualitative but also quantitative. Yes. Okay, thanks great. Okay, Jason, go ahead. We discussed a number of things at the site visit. Regarding erosion sediment control during construction. I think most of them were captured Aaron on the comments. The last thing that I wanted to ask is, it appears that DPW is not going to be doing the maintenance on the post construction BMPs and that that's going to be up to the school. I'm a little concerned with a number of different types of BMPs that are on the project and the potential complexity and some of them are likely going to include confined space entry. So in any way, or the school districts. It sounds like they're going to just have to put this out to bid for a contractor to do all this work is that I'm just a little concerned that one that's going to be prohibitively expensive I saw an estimate of about 12 $12,000 a year. How did you all arrive at that number and overall again my concern is that this is going to be very expensive for the school. I think you want me to answer that. Yes. For the record my name is Janet Bernardo I'm a professional civil engineer with the horsey written group. As far as how we came up with a number we tend to every kind of area is slightly different we have a general idea of how much it had cost to bring a back truck on site and clean out catch basins. And some contracts are different than others. So we, we kind of wait to figure out what the, what the product owners can come up with a lot of the work might be easy pruning of work that could end up being put out to a local garden club or a college school that is you know is interested in helping, but we try to kind of come up with a cost that if they put it out to bid that's what they might look at so the goal is to understand what the, what the intention is. We had not heard that the DPW was not going to get involved so you have more information maybe than we do. So we were waiting to hear from the DPW and understand what they were looking for. Rick, you have a. Yeah, I would. Rick Rice with the discord is designed routinely. I've been told that the school department maintains their sites and storm drainage systems, unless. Well, they have a problem that they need to reach out to DPW on. DPW was going to review and get back to us today as to how it might be broken down, but I didn't hear from them by the end of the day. So I suspect it will be a combination of school department DPW and and subcontracted labor in order to make the maintenance requirements happen. Thanks. So I'm hearing that we need to have some conversations with the school staff and DPW in the town. About this, just to determine the capacity of each of the departments to handle some of these specific stormwater. Criterias. And this is something that we can't answer tonight, but I think Erin you've already mentioned that you had some concerns about this and it's been discussed. So we'll, we'll get back to this one with some further information. Yeah. Okay. I'll move on to Alex. Go ahead, Alex. Yeah, just I have 2 things, but this. Subject with a school and DPW is covered in. Since December 8th, comment letter, point number 2, where she come, she, she brings up this whole subject. So that's it's been out there. Thanks, Alex. Yeah. Yep. I didn't know if Aaron was trying to say something. Anyways, I have one other item that is a. Nothing to do with the school is that I saw a comment. In the folder. Um, I think Aaron posted it on Monday. And I came in from, I think it was Mary, Maria. And I, she thought she would be on to bring up her points. She called in and I was kind of expected. I thought she would be. If she is absent. I wonder if Aaron could read those. Yeah. She's not absent. She's in there. And I think maybe I saw Dave hands go up in response. The DPW comments. So maybe we could just tie that one up. And I do want to get to that, Alex. So. Aaron, do you have anything else to add before we move on? Yeah, just. Just to my goodness. To tie up the, the, the annual maintenance of the, of the stormwater system. I just want to make sure, you know, just the message I think I'm hearing is to the Dinesco team. I just don't want Aaron to be saddled with getting the answer to that question. So it's really on the, on the team. You know, I'm, I'm happy to have those conversations with, with Paul Bachleman and Guilford mooring, but I think Aaron, you know, should, should take a little step back from that. And, and so just wanted to put that message out there that sure Dinesco can work with Guilford and the school department and figure out how that's all going to be divided. I heard what Rick said. Maybe it's a kind of a one third, one third, one third kind of thing. But let's, let's get that in writing and come back in January. We did, we did pose a question and forwarded the owner manual to both DPW and the school department on the eighth. And, you know, through the beginning of the week, they were still working on a response. I hope they have one by tonight, but we're, we came up short on that. Yeah, I see a lot of parallels, you know, when, when we're, when we're building a school that is this kind of forward looking and energy efficient, we're going to have very complex systems on the inside of the building and we're going to have pretty complex systems on the outside of the building, all of them to save energy and create a great work, a great learning environment inside for teachers and families and, and kids, but on the outside, it's a pretty complex system too. So I'm sure we'll get there. Thanks. Thanks, Dave. So hopefully we'll have some more details on that next in January. Okay. Moving on. We did have some public comments. So commissioners, this was in the packet. It's in relation to the board rubber. I guess foundation for the school playgrounds. And this is relevant to our jurisdiction because there is a stormwater drain from the playgrounds that empties into riverfront. Is that right, Erin? And definitely into resource. It empties into bordering land subject to flooding, but it's, it's very close to the riverfront area, which is a critical area of cold water fishery. Okay. So this type of material is known to have contaminants that aren't good for people or ecology. And that is the concern. So the letter was pretty good in outlining some alternatives and provided some basically a table of other alternatives. And I'm, my question to you all is how have those been considered and are there ways to get away from that board rubber base? I think Rick Rice is going to take this one. Yeah, we were made aware of a. Important place cork based product at the. School building committee meeting on Friday. Our OPM. Had done some research the last couple of days. And we're looking into it. Okay. You can talk about it. So you said that the Margrit you could talk about what you found was basically that as far as storm drainage goes it. It is at least as permeable. If not more than the poured in place. Uh, rubber that we've based the design on. And, uh, This is a very new product and we are the team is looking into I appreciate that Maria brought it to our attention. It's, if anybody's interested in looking it up, it's called Corkin, C-O-R-K-E, and I haven't seen what Maria sent in, but have a good website. It's a Portuguese product that is a sort of side, sideshow of the cork industry in Portugal. There is a company in Baton Rouge who installs sort of up and down the East Coast. I have been told, although they're the name of the project that it's been previously installed in a school in a northeast, eastern Massachusetts and that there's another project underway. So we're hoping to get a look at that. I've left message for the landscape architect who worked on that project and we're definitely in the throes of actively looking into it. Great, thank you. Let's get here. Commissioner, is there any other questions or comments? Okay, I'm still not seeing any public comments. So I think at this point, we have some items to get some more information back on and we're looking to continue this to January 10th. I see you Janet, go ahead. Yeah, just one thing to make sure the commission's aware of. During phase one, there will be where it is when we're building the school and building the playground and the pathways near it. We will have a small amount of filling within the bordering landscape to flooding that we will be compensating for at the time as part of the phase one project. So we have additional storage during phase two, but we will be providing compensatory flood storage during phase one. It's just a semantics thing. I just wanna make sure that you know that it's happening. Thanks. That reminds me, I don't think I mentioned this, but in the table one, when we talked about, you know, row by row type by type impacts, maybe it would be helpful to also see what the phasing schedule is for those things. So if it's impact in phase one, but it's gonna be mitigated in phase two or three, that might be just helpful for us to look at or the project scape. We can put that in writing, but just so the commission is aware overall, what we call the early site package, we anticipate being under contract in March and starting in April. That contract goes until August of 24, at which time the general construction project begins and then all of phase one, all the site development, the new building of site development, south of that line that divides the existing site and the new site would be occupied for the start of school in September of 26. And then the building comes down and the rest of the site is developed to the north. Okay. So that's a big picture. Okay, thank you. Okay, I see a public hand raised. Go ahead, Maria. Hi, thank you, Maria Kapicki, South Amherst. I just want to appreciate the concom for taking up this issue about trying to eliminate or severely restrict, hopefully eliminate the rubber port in place. And I want to appreciate Danisco looking into the cork based product, just for completeness sake, the other products that I hope would be considered in combination or so on would be possibly the bonded engineered wood fiber or just loose filled engineered wood fiber in other areas. I think it's really important that we have an exterior and a site that is as awesome as the net zero aspect of the school building itself is going to be. So I really appreciate any efforts to make that happen. So thank you very much to all of you. Thank you, Maria. Okay, when I was there, it used to be graveled and not do that anymore. It was a little unpleasant, but no, it was like a little piece. I remember getting hit in the eye. It's stuck in your shoes, hurts when you hit it, but it's permeable. Okay, all right. Thank you, everyone. Commissioners, we're looking for a motion to continue this to January 10th. Erin, do you have something you could put up for us? I will move to continue the public hearing for 70 South East Street Fort River School NOI to 735 PM on January 10th, 2024. Second. Okay, that was Jason on the motion. Was that Andre in the second? Okay, Andre? Aye. Jason? Aye. Alex? Aye. Bruce? He's an aye and I'm an aye. All right, thank you, everyone. Have a good night. Thank you, Maria. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, on to our notice of intent for Stonefield Engineering and Design, LLC on behalf of Valley Community Development for the construction of a 15 residential duplex structure and associated site work, including parking utilities, stormwater management and landscaping within the buffer zone, at 20 to 40 ball aim at 5A, lot 56. This is being continued, but if there's any public comment and it can be quick, we can take that, just raise your hand. Not seeing any. I'm looking for a motion to continue this, commissioners. I have a question. Go ahead. I hope this is permittable, even though we're continuing, it has to do with the name of the project and maybe Dave can shed some light on it. It's referred to as ball lane, which is a private road. And there are conditions on that that a person can only drive in as far as his residence. You can't go any further. And every time I've talked to people on the road and every time this thing hits the paper, people drive into ball lane and wanna go look at the project. Is the entrance to this, I didn't see an entrance this project on ball lane. I missed it. I thought the entrance was on Pulpah Hill Road. And Dave, maybe you can shed some light on why it's called ball lane instead of Pulpah Hill Road. And can we change the name to save the people who live on ball road, the annoyance of people driving in? Well, I think I earlier saw Laura Baker on the call. Laura represents Valley CDC. I don't know all the history. There was initially looking, there was a look at ball lane for an entrance. You're correct, Alex, that the entrance will be off of Pulpah Hill Road. But I would prefer if the applicant. I don't see that applicant here. I responded. I thought Laura was here earlier. Are they continuing tonight? Erin? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So they might have left, but I think it initially started out as ball lane and it probably just carried over. The property address is ball lane. So the previous, there was a previous business that operated on the site, which the driveway came off of ball lane, which was associated with the parcel as a whole. So in the assessor's property record, it's listed as 20 to 40 ball lane. They are proposing to eliminate the connection from ball lane to the project and have a separate driveway entrance. But until the site is reclassified with a different address by the building inspector and or the assessor's office, that's how it's classified in the town's property records. And I think the residents of ball lane are well aware that the permanent entrance to the new development won't be through ball lane. Some are not aware. Well, there's been many opportunities. They've had site visits out there that are open to the abutters, et cetera, et cetera. So I think Erin is spot on with why it's called that, but it's clear that from the plans that the entrance will be off of open hill. Well, maybe we'll just leave it at that, but maybe we could hasten the changing of the name. Well, I can add a note when I read the application next time. Yeah, please feel free to remind me on January 10th. Okay, Bruce, go ahead. I agree with Alex. I went on the site visit and I drove down the road because I didn't know where I was supposed to go. I drove in there and was told I shouldn't be there. Yeah, I mean, I think we should, as a given the amount of work that's going to go on there, I think we should do everything possible to make it a positive public engagement. I guess what I would say is I would leave it, I would leave these comments to the applicant when you see them at the next meeting. It's not really up to the mission to make that change. It's really up to the applicant. So I'm sure of what I would address it. Yeah, yeah, I understand that I just wanted to put forward and hopefully they'll come up again and thank you. Thanks, Alex, for thinking about those residents of all. Okay, looking for a motion. I moved to continue the public hearing for 20 through 40 ball lane NOI to 740 p.m. on 1, 10, 24. Hi, second. Alex on the motion, Bruce on the second. Andre. Hi. Jason. Hi. Alex. Hi. Bruce. Hi. And I'm gonna A. Scrape your hands up. You're smothering Tafkin, yeah. I'm gonna have to just use my own hands. That's fine. Okay, so next we have a notice of intent for Wendell wetland services on behalf of Eric Olson for proposed restoration of a 2,300 square foot manmade pond by dredging and replanting at 296 p.m. relay map 28 D lot six. So I think we're still waiting for some information from this applicant and we're moving to continue public hearing. If there's any questions, I'll have a comment here. Okay. I don't see any questions from commissioners or the public, so looking for a motion. I move to continue the public hearing. 745 p.m. on 1, 10, 24. I'll second that. Alex on the motion, Jason on the second. Andre. Andre, I'm muted, I'll come back to you. Bruce. Hi. Jason. Hi. Alex. Hi. I'm an eye. I still don't see Andre. Do we need? I'm an eye. Okay, thanks Andre. Okay, next up abbreviated notice of resource area delineation for Pierce cry development incorporated on behalf of WD coals incorporated represented by Goddard consulting for the confirmation of resource area boundaries on site limited to areas that fall within the hundred foot of the proposed solar installation at Sheetsbury road map 90 lots 11 and 12 and map 90 lots 27. Again, this is going to be continued as your hand up. Go ahead, Erin. Just to give a very quick update to anybody who might be on related to this one. The peer reviewer did visit the site on Tuesday, I believe. And yeah, yesterday and completed a full day of site work on the property. And we're basically going to be sort of regrouping and meeting with the applicant in the near future. But until there's information to share with the conservation commission, we'll need a continuation. So the applicant did submit that request. Thanks, Erin. Okay, if there's any public comment, please raise your hand. I see Alex has hand up. So I'll go to you, Alex. Erin, I was just curious if that was sort of a closed site visit or would it have been possible for some of us to go there? I know there was already a site visit. Some of us missed it. And if there was a private site visit for the peer reviewer, so that they're not influenced by anything, will there be an additional opportunity to visit the site? Yeah, that's a really good question. We can certainly have a conversation on it. So we have a quote from Emily to do sort of her standard. Emily Stockman, a Stockman Associates has been our peer reviewer since I've been working with the town. She's excellent. And ordinarily when we do a peer review, what happens is they give us a quote for conducting the peer review. And they do it sort of in an independent manner. So in this case, the applicant actually gave Emily permission to visit the site on her own. So she was on site completely on her own yesterday for a full day of site investigation. The idea being to kind of give her some freedom to explore the site and kind of form her own judgments on where the wetlands are located. Typically what would happen once she's done an initial investigation and sort of determined where she thinks there might need to be changes or adjustments, she would then meet with the applicants, wetland scientists, and they would meet on site to basically review her findings and it would essentially result in, if there are changes to the delineation at that point, that's when the changes would be made. Theoretically made or not made depending on if they can agree on the changes. Ordinarily the commission is not involved unless or until there's a dispute. So for example, if Emily was to find something and say, I think this is a wetland and then the applicant's representative were to say, I don't think this is a wetland, then there could theoretically be an opportunity for the commission to come and view it and render their own decision based on the documentation that's provided to them. But on a typical basis, there wouldn't be sort of the site investigation wouldn't happen with the commission present. So that's sort of just the standard way of doing it, but I think we're gonna just take this one step at a time and if there is a need for the commission to get out there on site with Emily, absolutely we'll make it happen. Just sort of will depend on the cooperative nature of the review process in general, I think. Thanks, Erin. Anything else? I don't see any public comment. I keep doing that. All right, looking for a motion to continue. I move to continue the public hearing for Shrewd-Spray Road in A-N-R-A-D to 7.50 p.m. on 1.10.24. I'll second that. Alex on the motion, Jason on the second. Andre? Aye. Bruce? Aye. Jason? Aye. Alex? Aye. And I'm an aye. Aye. Last step, I know why. Okay, so we have tetra-tech on behalf of Fort River Solar-2 LLC for construction of an operation of a 6.3 megawatt direct current ground-multed photovoltaic solar facility and average tenant components at 191 West Pomeray Lane at 19D Lot 10. And who do we have here? Erin, are you bringing? I'm sorry. So we had an SWCA continuation that fell before this one, but we can come back to that after this. That's not, that's totally fine. Sean Foster and I think Matt Moyan, I'm gonna pull in. If there's anybody else that I missed, feel free to raise your hand. Let's not forget to extend that SWCA. I'll bring, yeah. Oh yeah. Good evening, everyone. Hello. Is everybody in? Laurence is not yet. Okay, we have Matt, Sean and Laurence, welcome. All right, Erin, would you like to give us an update? Yes, a quick update. So just to give a little background snapshot of where the review process thus far, I issued staff comments to the applicant on November 8th. The applicant may have been a little before then so that they could respond. The applicant did respond to provide comments back immediately after that. I had some follow-up comments on December 5th and the applicant responded to those comments as well. And where I think at the point now where we're getting very close, I feel like it's sort of the home stretch on this one to I'm starting to formulate conditions. There are a couple sort of outstanding questions which I've noted on the slide, which I'll pull up. But there's, I think we're just getting sort of the final pieces in place and the final really the fire department is kind of who I'm waiting to hear from at this point. I think that there's now agreement between the DPW and the applicant on the access over the sewer line. So I think we're sort of closing in on being ready to close, but I wanna give the applicant an opportunity to address any of the final comments or questions and we can sort of figure out where to go from here. You're muted, Michelle. Thanks. All right, go ahead, Tedra Tech, would you like to respond, present, give us an update? Yeah, I spoke with Erin earlier. We replied to think all of her direct comments as under the Wetland Protection Act. We have been in touch with the fire department who've indicated that. And I think we're gonna request that we could just condition any coordination with them for separate permits for some of the equipment on site that needs permits through the fire department. That way, we wouldn't potentially continue this hearing again with the fire department having their own separate process to review that material. But I think all the questions under the Wetland Protection Act, I believe have been answered, and including we did get knee-shap response indicating they approve our revised plan set and the conditions are made the same and we got a permit extension to 2030 to complete all the mitigation that were required to complete. So I think that's a big piece of the puzzle that was kind of outstanding last time we spoke. So I think we're just asking if the fire department work could be conditioned with the understanding that we have been, per sky has been in touch with them and then coordinating with them on several items that we don't anticipate to impact any of the scope under the jurisdiction of the Wetland Protection Act or under this kind of public hearing process. Thanks, Sean, go ahead, Lawrence. Thank you, yeah, just to add some color to that. I spoke with Captain Baskham earlier today and explained to him the questions that had come up from that. As you're aware, there was an incident with a fire at a power-in location in New York. We can't discuss openly the RCA on that. It'll be a subject to an NDA that will be coming in the fullness of time. I spoke to Captain Baskham and he sort of indicated that we've got to get a permit from the fire department anyway to be able to install the batteries separate to the concom, separate to the zoning, separate to the building and electrical permits. It's a fire department permit and he would not be issuing a permit if we haven't been able to provide him the information that he needs to say that it's safe from a fire safety point of view. So we're asking that we just formalize that in the condition to say that the applicant will be required to go through the Amherst FD permitting process for the battery storage. Okay, thanks. Any public comment? Please raise your hand. Okay, I'm not seeing any yet. Go ahead, Andre. Yeah, I'm not sure that... I've heard the point addressed if you can put that power point back up briefly. The second to last point about the town engineer having agreed to a grass-paved product to be used on the sewer line access through the array that the changes need to be incorporated on the plan and essentially any changes like that. Would you folks mind addressing that question? Yeah, so the town engineer, I think gave a little bit background to the how we got here is previously that there were panels that were some of the panels and associated racking was over the easement and discussions between Piers Guy and the town engineer was to remove all like structures associated with the project outside the easement so they could access it. But what they were also looking for is if they ever needed to access that section of the easement, say in an emergency situation, they wouldn't sink down into the ground and be stuck in the mud and kind of just destroy it. So what we came up with as a kind of an agreement was to do some sort of grass reinforcing. That usually it can be a proprietary system or it can just be some engineered solution where you put like a geogrid beneath the ground that kind of gives it a little bit more stability that you can drive lighter vehicles on top of it. But the maintenance of the grass would still be the same as the rest of it would be the same seed mix, same topsoil thickness and kind of same, I think there were some conditions related to how tall the grass would go. So that would still be maintained but if they ever needed to get to that area, it would have a little bit more stability to hold up kind of lighter trucks and smaller pieces of like a backhoe or something if they needed to get in there. And that's what the concern from the town engineer was just making sure that once they got off the access road, the kind of the stabilized access road, it wouldn't just, their trucks wouldn't get stuck like in the muck and kind of just, you know, have to have to build a road in there per se. We found this, I've used this product in other places and it's a little bit more effective because it makes it, I find it looks like kind of the rest of the area once it grows in as opposed to like, sometimes you see like pavers or pavers with holes in them, you can still see it when the grass grows in. This allows the, you know, it's not gonna look, you know, it in theory, it should look the same as everywhere else on the site. It's just that if you drove a vehicle on it, it'd have a little bit more stability. It makes sense, Sean. What I guess my concern is that it should be in the, incorporated in the plan. Yeah, so we committed to putting a note in a detail into the plan set. I think this, I think we provided the revised plans last week and since then we've talked to Aaron about just, you know, we were committed to putting that in the compiled, you know, the compiled permits that, you know, at any, when requested or whatnot, but it wasn't an oversight. I think just the timing of the exact detail and sign off on the town engineer was, wanna make sure we had that all before we put what we're gonna put on the plans. But yeah, we're committed to, I think I put in an email to Aaron that, you know, we're committed to doing that. What's gonna be on the plans. So we're not trying to get out of it by any means. So, thank you, Sean. I appreciate it. And also just to provide some additional color, obviously there's nothing there at the moment. So if the town does need to access it to dig it out, then this is an improvement. And it was a miscommunication, which is why it was an oversight when we discussed with the town, it was just to leave that area clear so they could access it to be able to get the equipment in based on what it currently is. I believe that putting a road or something in there would make it harder for them to dig down to access it. So we're just gonna make sure that the manholes are kept open for them and the rest of the area will be reinforced with this grass pave. Thanks. Thank you. Go ahead, Dave. Yeah, quick question for Sean. Sean, I might have misheard you earlier, but did you make a comment or reference to, was it the CMP and getting an extension from natural heritage on the implementation of the mitigation plan to 2030? Or did it mean? Yeah, correct. So our current permit, I believe expires in fall of next year. So two things we need to do, first get an extension of that permit till 2030 and this is outlined in the notes sheet about the phasing. There's several years of mitigation that need to get done. So that was part one, but we also at the same time provided them at the initial plan set that we produced. We gave that to them and informed them of the changes and we discussed it with them and they concurred that the changes were in general conformance with the previous CMP and they provided an extension. And I believe they also provided a letter directly to Aaron and members of the board just kind of outlining and informing them of that decision. It is included those correspondence with Nishamp are included in the attachments to the response to comments we provided. Could you or Lawrence comment on, I'm a little fuzzy on your commitment in the mitigation area to the, how long are you responsible for the success of the plantings in the 17 acre mitigation area? You're putting me on the spot a little bit there, Dave. But I think it's, I think we're two years. It's the establishment phase, which I believe is either two or three years. Oh yeah, it might be three years. Okay, it didn't mean to put you on the spot. I was just trying to make the connection but your intention is to get the mitigation area, you know, established as soon as possible. Yeah, gotcha, thank you. Yeah, so sorry for clarification, is that the mass heritage, well heritage CMP criteria or is that the town's criteria or that three year performance? I believe that was the state. So it's called the Habitat Management Plan as far as the CMP. All right, so we have no jurisdiction over that monitoring period then. That's all state permitting, okay. Oh, we will, I mean, we're party to the CMP. So we will definitely be working with Pure Sky and Tetra Tech and, you know, we will be keeping a close eye on that area. After those years, then, you know, that becomes a permanent feature of the 150 acres that 17 acres north of the Fort River is really that mitigation area. So it's an important area for sure. I was just thinking about, you know, being clear about successors and assigns over that three year period, given that, you know, there's turnover. I believe it's laid out in the CMP responsibility and then the town takes over from there. Okay, thanks. Go ahead, Alex. Sorry, I keep you waiting. Now, can you hear me now? Yes. Okay, so I have sort of two points on the same, in the same subject matter as the do of the fire department. And I hope I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought what you said was you wanted to disconnect your proceeding with the Conservation Commission from your communications and need for a permit from the fire department, such that we would be not privy to the fire department. And did I get that wrong? You did to a certain extent, yes. So the safety and security of the fire, of the battery storage itself is a fire department consideration rather than a concom one and would be done through the permitting. It would be up to Captain Baskham as the permitting issue if he wanted to consult with the concom or any other town departments in terms of the containment and protection of resource areas. That is most definitely under the concom purview and has been addressed in our submissions. Yeah, okay. So the sensitivity for me was that we have been very much interested in a fire-related subject matter having to do with batteries. And I was going to ask Erin if she could just remind me how we handled this situation when we were working with the battery storage out there in Sunderland. And we were concerned about fire and we were concerned about containment of materials used to put out fire and that kind of stuff. We were in communication or knew what the fire department interests were. And I don't remember us necessarily becoming divorced from the fire department in the process. Yeah, no, I appreciate everybody's comments. I mean, I think what's difficult for us is while the fire department's ultimate approval of what the battery system setup is is at the discretion of the fire department to make those decisions where it results in a potential change to our plans is where it kind of becomes our issue. I know we have a couple plan adjustments that we had talked about earlier today for example, the dimensions of the equipment pads were missing. We talked about what was gonna be done underneath the new construction trailer location. We have that grass pave issue with where the actual grass pavers are gonna be located in the Eastern Array. The potential for what's gonna happen with the equipment pads and sort of the layout of everything. And as it pertains to our permit what happens when we issue an order of conditions is we reference the plan set that we have that is the most up to date from our permit application. And so if there are changes to the plan set after our permit is issued then what that means is that they would have to potentially come back to us with an update and amendments to the plan to get approvals for changes. And so that's where it's tough because I mean we went, several commissioners probably remember us going through six iterations of administrative changes to the previous order of conditions and it's very challenging to go through that process because we basically have to rehash everything every time there's an amendment. And certainly the preference from a staff standpoint would be for us to have finalized plans that all departments are on board with and sign off on and we issue the order of conditions and it's like a clean order of conditions and there's no changes or adjustments. And granted there may be that are out of our control for example like we talked a little bit offline about this, but for example the... Come again? Concrete foundations. Well, you know that's something that I think... So yeah, just I was gonna mention the interconnect the utility interconnects because there might be some polls that Eversource requires for the interconnect that we can't really, we can't say definitively are gonna be required now or not. It's up to Eversource, right? But so, but since that issue was brought up I just wanna mention a couple things which are I have been talking offline with Sean about conditions and that those conditions do potentially adds medicinal management to the plans as they're currently proposed. And I can give you some examples of that. Lawrence just brought one up. So some of the questions that I asked to Sean offline today were about the number of pilings. So essentially the supports for the solar panels themselves. So the number of pilings, the number of panels and the number of pilings per panel. And the reason for those questions were because I was talking internally to our, we have an engineer on staff who answers a lot of stormwater questions for me. And it's been really valuable. And actually to the applicants benefit quite frankly because when I have questions about the stormwater management plan I have somebody to go to who really knows the answers. And so it makes it so it's a lot more seamless for me when I'm reviewing things. But you guys may recall the members who were here for previous minor administrative changes that one of the changes was that there was a potential need for modifications if there was a pile. So they're hoping to use driven piles for the supports on the solar panels. But there may be instances when they're installing the piles for those panels that they hit resistance and they have to put in a more substantial footing. And so in some cases requires sheeting on either side of the piling in some cases requiring concrete. And so one of the things that I was requesting in the details and in my comments was a spec for what those foundations would look like which they've provided to me, which is wonderful. And so now the question becomes so we know that they're hoping to use the piling but there may be need for them to use a couple of the foundations if they hit resistance, if they hit ledge or something like that. And so part of what I was hoping to build into the order of conditions is something to the effective. And this is just me sort of spitballing but I'm just throwing this out there for the sake of discussion. Like they could potentially use the concrete foundations for say 20% of the overall pilings but once they exceed that 20% they'd have to come back to the commission. And the reason for that is because those concrete foundations weren't accounted for in the stormwater plans. Now speaking with our internal engineer it really probably won't impact the stormwater that much but it's, as we discussed when we talked about those, when you're installing a pile driven support you're using pressure to drive it into the ground. There's really not a whole lot of material that's coming out of the hole. When you're putting in a dug foundation you have a lot of material that's coming out. And so where is that material going? Is it being stockpiled? Is it being taken off site? Is it being dewatered, right? We have high groundwater on the site when those materials are dug does that mean that that material needs to be dewatered? And so there's like all these sort of ripple effects that happen when there's a need for those types of structures to be installed which we have to manage and come up with a plan for that. So it provides them conditioning it on some level provides them some flexibility. So if they need to install a couple of them they have the flexibility to do it but it doesn't mean that like let's say there's 500 pilings on the site they couldn't do 500 of them, right? Without coming back to us and letting us know. Similarly, one of the things that was really a concern to me when I was reviewing this was we have two arrays on this site. The Eastern Array and the Western Array. This is ballpark but the Eastern Array is approximately eight acres the Western Array is approximately 12 acres. They basically wanted permission to just install both arrays at the same time. And my concern with that was these are very large footprints and we're talking people getting in there with equipment putting in trenching. There's a lot of vehicles traveling in and out of the site. There's excavation that's happening there's a heavy equipment that's tracking over this and so it introduces a lot of disturbance. Now as part of their SWIP they're only allowed to disturb up to five acres at a time. So having access to install on almost 20 acres is a pretty substantial amount of disturbance in my opinion. So another condition that we had discussed offline was since we were sort of having I don't want to say a disagreement but the applicant felt like we should be able to install these at the same time and for financial reasons we need to install them at the same time. And from my perspective I'm saying we need to protect the resources and we can't have this entire site opened up. So the compromise that we arrived at which I put a lot of thought into and came up with this suggestion was on the Eastern Array which is approximately eight acres. In order that would basically be phase one of the array installation. In order for them to move on from the Eastern Array to the Western Array they would have to have stabilized three acres of the Eastern Array before moving on to the Western Array. So they could still be working on the Eastern Array but start working on the Western Array. But they would only have permission to begin on half of the Western Array the first half of the Western Array. And once they have stabilized the entire Eastern Array they can move on to the second half of the Western Array. So you see I'm trying to sort of do this piecemeal so that we're getting some stabilization as they're moving through the site and not just both the sites opened up. But these are some of the conditions that we've been talking about offline. And again, it's very fast and furious because we're trying to sort this out quickly as we go back and forth with our comments. And there's a couple other conditions that would be associated with some of the back and forth with our comments that we've already discussed. Like for example, if poles are added for an interconnect they'd have to come back for an amendment from the commission. The construction sequences would essentially be considered phasing. They'd have to report to me as those phases are being completed. We'd have to have some open dialogue. This phase is being wrapped up. This phase is looking to begin so that I can be on board with how that's working. This is a very large site. So I wanna make sure that we are in the know with how the process is moving forward. And then- I do think we need to go through all of these right now. I'm just trying to keep an eye on the time. And I mean, that was a lot. And I think giving it in like a, once you and Sean have had some more back and forth having it like for us to review would be super helpful. But it was really good background. And I'm hearing building contingency into the plan set. So we don't have to go back for all the amendments. I think we learned a lot from all of those amendments. I don't know how many commissioners were there for all of them, but there's a lot of things that we can just go ahead and get into the plan sets on the get go. And Erin has a lot of foresight on that now. I'm certainly supportive of the phasing that she recommended. And I think probably now you know where staff stands on that. So unless I don't see any public comment, please raise your hand if you have anything over there. I just want to circle back to the fire department and DPW like those conversations might end up having some implications for our jurisdiction. So I think it would be prudent for us to wait to hear what they want and then make sure that's in the plan set. And I just want to prevent this, the multitudes of revisions and amendments that we went through last time because I think we've learned a lot in the past couple of years from doing that. Any last comments from anybody, questions? Anything from the applicants about what you need to correspond with us or Erin? Okay, I see a, I'm sorry, I heard, go ahead, John. I was just, I said I think we're all set. Great. I do see a public comment. So I'm going to allow Matthew to talk. Welcome Matthew. Sorry about that. So Matt more attached to our team. I got, I got booted out a little while ago and have just been listening in as attendee. Just real quickly as I relate to the DPW and the fire department, I think we've gotten the closure we needed from DPW in writing as to what their expectations are. And as Sean indicated before, we plan to include that information on the final compiled plan set. The fire department probably more concerning to me that the commission's considering extending this process contingent upon however long the fire chief needs to complete his process and his review. It sounds like we all understand that if there are changes to the plans resulting from the fire chief's review and his permit process, we would have to come back. And in a perfect world, we ask we would have that all wrapped up on this final set of plans. But what I don't want to see happen is that review take months and have, you know it's outside the purview of the commission have that hold up, closing the public hearing and issuing an order of conditions when there's a separate process that we should be respecting that the fire chief has in place. And also just to throw in some color and context around that the batteries are the last thing to go on site. We need site power to be able to operate the HVAC and life support systems for them. So the site goes live with the witness test for the PV and then we install the batteries. At the moment, Eversource is telling us that it's a late September is when they would be able to provide us with a utility interconnection. So the batteries aren't going to go on for probably nine, 10 months from now. So we do have plenty of time for the fire department and if necessary for us to come back to you with any to incorporate any minor amendments with anything that he may wish to see as part of that permitting process. So it's not like we're looking to get on and install a battery next week and the fire department aren't gonna have any time. That's certainly not the intention. We're gonna have a long and detailed chat with all the departments to be able to make sure everybody's happy with everything that's there. Okay, fair enough. I guess I'm nervous that we have no ballpark about what that might look like. So if there are early updates that you can give us that would be helpful. Aaron, did you want to respond to that? I see your hand, Andre. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I agree with the applicant on some level about getting fire department sign off and I'm definitely sympathetic to that concern. I guess where my concern does fall well. So there's two issues with the fire department. Number one is the battery and the battery storage and the cabinets that are associated with that. So that's sort of number one and number two is confirmation of the access roads. So the access roads, this is what I understand from speaking with Mr. Baskam is that, and I'm sorry, I don't know what his official title is so I'm doing my best, but he said that ordinarily the access roads would have to be 20 feet wide. But in this case, there was a provision granted for them to have a 15 foot wide access road, which is essentially like a variance from the 20 foot wide access road requirements, but that they had to have additional turning radii that were added in order to accommodate them pulling in and turning around. So I have a call into them, but I'm just, I'm between a rock and a hard place, I guess, because I don't know if the access roads are gonna change. And so I think it would be good for us to get some confirmation on the access roads and also it would be good to get some feedback on the battery storage. It doesn't necessarily mean that the fire department has issued their permit, it doesn't mean that they've approved everything that's being installed per se, but just to say we've reviewed the plan and we don't think that there's gonna be any substantive changes to the conservation permit as a result of anything we may require. I think that's the sort of confirmation that I'd be looking for. And part of this, so for context, we had another battery storage site in the town of Amherst where they were proposing similar battery storage cabinets and they worked with the DPW to have a roof system put over the top. And the purpose of the roof system is basically to provide number one containment that doesn't get stormwater influence and two to protect the batteries from rainwater so that they're not damaged. So if there's a roof structure that's added over the top of this, that changes the plan to some degree as well. So if the fire department was to require some sort of a cover over the top of the equipment pad, then that would also trigger a change to our permit. So I see it from both sides and I'm understanding and I certainly don't wanna be unreasonable. It's just that I think it's gonna get, we don't wanna go through multiple administrative changes and I think that that's where I'm concerned to try to limit that to the degree that we possibly can. So I was just gonna say, I understand that entirely but the reality is that if the fire department is a permit because we haven't been able to satisfy and we don't install batteries at all on the site. So it's, they are more the gatekeeper in terms of us, the ability for us to put it on there. If we put a roof structure over, which as you would know from conversations that we've had, it is unnecessary due to the design of these cabinets. I don't know the design of the other ones but the way that these are done, it's relatively unnecessary. But we'd also need to, I would have thought, go through a zoning variance as well on the special planning site plan because that's a structure that they'd need to consider as well. So I'm reluctant to go through the kind of, the what-ifs of this stage if it's unnecessary. Yeah, I just wanna piggyback on that real quick, Aaron, if you don't mind. I certainly understand exactly the way you're coming from here and fortunately this process includes opportunities for administrative changes to address all these what-ifs. And the project's at a point now, it's a little unique where we're filing a notice of intent after we've already received the building permit. So presumably the fire chief has reviewed the access roads which were constructed under the prior order and are not part of this filing. The access roads are in existing condition in this filing. So I get your concern, it's not something that's part of this notice of intent filing. And ultimately there are processes in place that address these what-ifs. And we're just looking for the commission to respect those other processes and ideally focus primarily on the jurisdiction that you guys have reviewed over. Okay, so I'm a little bit concerned about what you're talking about there, Matthew, and a little bit about where this part of the conversation is going here. We do have, our concern is like you were saying before Lawrence is with containment. Now, depending on what goes on between you and the fire department, they may ask you to do something that may change the containment aspect or how much you can contain. We're concerned about what might flow out of that, what might flow out of the battery area. So we do have, I can tell you, I have some concerns about that. So let's, I think everybody's gonna be reasonable here but I do want you to know that I'm concerned and I think we've heard some concern from some of the other, from at least one of the other commissioners. Yes, Andre, Dave, you wanna jump in? Go ahead, Dave, you wanted to jump in. Yeah, I was just gonna maybe offer some guidance here, all along, conservation staff, zoning staff, planning staff and the fire department have worked side by side to work with Peer Sky and their consultants moving this project forward through the permitting process. So I was gonna step in or jump in a few minutes ago when Alex asked a couple of questions about kind of parallel pathways of communication, all along there's been good interdepartmental communication and this seems like a point where that would be very beneficial. And I'm happy to work with Erin to get the fire department, make sure that the zoning folks are with us as well, with Matthew, with the team from Tetra Tech and Peer Sky and get in a room and see if we can get to some resolution on these and bring them back to the commission. Having said that, I am sensitive to the length of time that some of these things may, the fire department may not make a decision and give an okay on the kind of batteries that they are going to approve for that site for some time. So I am a little sensitive to the applicant about about holding this matter that long when there are opportunities, but I get it, you don't want the applicant coming back for small changes amendments along the way, but as Lauren said, it could be 10 months or more before installation even takes place. So, but I'm happy to pull that group together with Tetra Tech, with Peer Sky and have that conversation and see if we can bring something back to you at your next meeting, if that would be helpful. And I'm curious. If Erin would be supportive of that as well. I mean, I would like to see some way in from the fire department. I don't think like everyone's been saying we need to sign off on a permit necessarily, but just some kind of review and initial input on whether or not we're gonna be moving roads or putting anything significant in that we should be considering that is under our jurisdiction. Okay, lots of hands up. I'm gonna go to Jason, go ahead. Yeah, sorry, I just am wanting some clarification as far as the relationship here between what the fire department needs to do and what we are looking to do and what the applicant is worried about. I understand that the fire department can potentially take months to make some decision. What is it exactly that they are asking of us? And just can somebody clarify that for me? Obviously, I'm somewhat new to the board here and I just wanna make sure that I am clear on what's being asked of us. And I understand the objections to fire department's input potentially changing plans, changing impervious surface, things like that, as well as I am also concerned if there's fire and it has to be put out what is going to be running off of the site, what is going to be running out of those batteries. So I'm just looking for some clarification as far as what is being asked of us tonight. I think we're trying to give the applicant some guidance on what we'd like to see in the plan set before we close the hearing on this and the detail which we do it and how much of that should be nailed down from input from the fire department in TPW. But if there's anything else there and you wanna add? Yeah, I mean, just ordinarily we would have the plan design sort of solidified and finalized before we close the public hearing. And so if they're still outstanding design details that aren't shown on the plans, it's somewhat risky to close the public hearing because once we close the public hearing we have 21 days to issue the order. In this case, our next meeting is January 10th. So it's basically, I'm not even sure we may even put us over 21 days if we were to close the hearing tonight. But if we're basically, we're closing the public hearing not seeing the final plan set. And so that's the risk that we take. Usually you wanna see that plan set, you wanna verify, okay, all updates have been made, all final changes are included in there. There are, like I noted, a couple additional things like the dimensions on the equipment pads, the area under the trailer, whether it's gonna have hardening or not, the grass pave, final approval of the access roads, the equipment pads. So like those types of details like like to have those all settled out and a final plan and we issue the approval and then we have a final plan set to reference in order of conditions. But it's my understanding we're not going to be closing the public hearing tonight. There's a continuance on the. Yeah, but we'd like to move forward in that regard and hopefully do it to the next one. So we're trying to give as much as possible in terms of guidance the applicant so that the next meeting we could hopefully get somewhere with that. Okay, I see all applicant hands up. I'm just gonna go in order on my screen, Laurence. Go ahead. Yeah, just putting it out there that there is a containment measure that was that is shown on the plans that was reviewed and approved by Erin last year. And we've maintained that within this plan set. The reason and just to explain some context about why it's probably gonna take some time with the fire department. So obviously it pairs back to the fact that the company that we've selected that is gonna provide the batteries power and had a fire at a site in Warwick in New York. They carried out a root cause analysis that determined the cause of it. But at the moment we're covered under an NDA. So it's not something that we can publicly talk about until we get the authorization from them to discuss the RCA. They are getting close to that point but it may be January or February before we can have those three conversations with the fire department, which I would expect them to want and we're more than happy to have. But there's no point me having the conversation with the fire department in January just talking generally about things when there would be specific questions and things that would come out over what that cause was, what's been done to address it and anything that needs to be incorporated on this if that makes sense. So it was really just to, and I understand what I was saying about having the final plan and that kind of stuff, but it was really just to deal with the fire department permission as a condition, one of the order of conditions that we will need to do that before any batteries are installed rather than us having to go through that approval process now to get the order of conditions issued. Okay. Thanks, Florence. Sean, go ahead. Yeah, I was going to just reiterate what Lawrence said is that we do have a secondary containment system for the batteries. They're kind of odd because they don't have a lot of fluids in them, right? I think there has been some discussion on the call like the cabinets are watertight. I can't speak to that other project in town why they put a roof on it. That's not typical design. So, but I will say they're designed as watertight systems. Regardless, there is a secondary containment system for anything that could get out that we wouldn't be, shouldn't be getting out. And I think there was just some confusion on what maybe Matt was saying and maybe one of Aaron's comments too that I just want to make sure it's clear. I think our understanding, right, was that the roadway work was considered in an existing condition, right? That roadway work was done, improved previously and it's completed. And part of that process was the approval of the width of the road. And during that process with the fire department, the radii of the turning radius where they turn around was enlarged. So on the plan, you do see these what we call hammerheads and turnarounds. Those are solely for fire department access. That's not for maintenance equipment at all. That's for the larger vehicles, you know, to come in and out of the site. So I know there's a long history to this project. I'm not necessarily knowledgeable of all of it. Most of the people on the call probably aren't, right? But there was conversations in coordination with the fire department to get us to that previous approval and get that built. So I just want to put that out there for that understanding that it's not like we've never coordinated with the fire department and we've just gotten here without their sign off to that there was coordination with them historically on specifically the radii's of where they would turn because that's their number one concern. And I'm not even sure if the same people at the fire department were part of that are still there as part of that conversation. That those pieces that I'm not sure of, right? Because I think the project's gone so long. I think we've just brought in new people but I just want to set the stage for that. I think it's important because I don't want this to sound like we're doing this in a bubble. There has been a process to get us where we are, right? And maybe that maybe some of that's gotten lost in translation a little bit. Okay, understood. Thank you, Sean. Lawrence, I see your hand up. I'm really trying to move on at this point. So do you have something quickly to add? Okay. I'm absolutely nothing to add. It was raised in error. I apologize. No problem. All right. We do have one public comment. Mike Lepinsky, I'm allowing you to talk please if you may just keep it to two minutes. Yes, I'd just like to fill in a few facts that are missing in the discussion tonight that the conservation committee should be aware of. Mr. Cook has referred to one fire involving these polling batteries. And there's been at least another one in October of 2023. Sorry, yeah, October 4th actually. And that involved the same either the exact same battery they're trying to use or a similar one where nine individual cabinets caught on fire. So it's a big problem for polling. And it seems to be a big problem this particular company, Pure Sky, because even though it's been proven that these things have some fault that has caused them to catch on fire rather than abandoned this particular battery and substitute any other batteries that are out there which would move the process along really quickly. They want to stick with this for whatever reason. Perhaps they've already purchased them. It's really not clear because they're kind of tight zipped about it. But the thing is, you guys shouldn't take this as it's your fault that you're slowing down the process. At any point in time, they could switch to a battery that wouldn't have any controversy that the fire department would look at and say, no problem, let's go. But they're sticking with a battery company and a particular model of battery that is still not clear why they're catching on fire. And even if they do issue a report that says, everything's okay, we're ready to go, you have to understand that where the beta testing for that is going to take place is going to be at Hickory Ridge because they won't have those batteries out in the field whatever caused the original fire and the batteries that they put out in the field in New York and in Idaho, they won't have tested for that. And so this new improved fixed battery system is now going to be installed in Hickory Ridge and it's a town of Amherst that'll be doing the testing. They could solve this problem really easily, switch to a different battery, a safe battery with a long history of being safe and the process could continue very quickly. The only reason why it's being dragged out at least as far as the batteries go is because they're hanging onto this poem, Centipede 750 System, which so far has a really bad track record as far as fires go. And you should be aware of that and do your own research on it and see what some of those fires look like. Okay, thank you, Mike. I'm just gonna take, sorry, Mike, we're just trying to get this going at it fairly. Thanks for your public comment. Commissures, I just wanna take a quick poll. I see Lawrence's hand is up about who is in favor of continuing this right now or if we want to continue the conversation. Okay, so in favor of continuing, hand up. Continuing now as in closing. Did you just clarify what you mean by continuing? Yeah, I'm sorry. In favor of motioning to continue now and closing this hearing, not the public hearing, raise your hand. Okay, all right. Okay, I'm sorry, Lawrence, we'll be back, obviously, but I think that we've sort of reached our max on this hearing for tonight. So, Jason, go ahead. Nope, hands up, okay. All right, with that, I'm gonna make, look for a motion to continue this hearing to January 10th. Alex, I see your hand up. I have one quick comment, Michelle. Go ahead. I just wanna say that as a commissioner, I'm not particularly interested in working on a project which may be segmented. I would rather work with the whole project than segments of a project. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. I move to... I move to... What's that? I move to continue the public hearings for 191. West Pomeroy, Fort River Solar LLC, notice intent to 1, 10, 24 at EPM. I'll second that. Right, Jason on the motion. Andre on the second. Alex. Aye. Jason. Aye. Bruce. Aye. Andre. Aye. Anam and I. Right, thank you, everyone. Have a good night. Yep, thank you. Okay, back to SWCA, not forgotten. Okay, so this is a notice of intent for SWCA on behalf of the University of Massachusetts for the construction of a gravel parking lot and associated storm water structures in the 100-foot buffer zone to bordering vegetation, vegetated wetland at Lot 13 Olympia Drive at 8D, Lot 15, 16, and 3. So we are still waiting on some input from this one, unless there's any comments and looking for a motion to continue. I move to continue the public hearing for Lot 13 Olympia Drive, notice of intent to 155. EPM on 1, 10, 24. I think we have a... Yeah, I think... Okay, got it. Got that motion. Okay, is that Andre in the motion? Alex on the second. Alex. Aye. Jason. Aye. Bruce. Aye. Andre. Aye. Anam and I. Okay, I think we have one more up. That is 30 Kestrel Lane, DEP. Do we have anyone? Yeah, so I had a little communication with the owner at 30 Kestrel, kind of late this afternoon. They did send me a PowerPoint presentation that has some photos. If the commission would like, I can share those with you now. It's kind of at your discretion, but I'll let you know what... I guess the situation is. So the owners of 30 Kestrel came before the conservation commission with a notice of intent application probably about a year ago for the construction of a sort of a lean to storage structure on their property for the storage of a boat. And so they went through the permitting process for that and they were issued in order of conditions. The owner reached out to me a couple of weeks ago that they were building a shed slash play structure in their backyard and their neighbor stopped them and said, hey, I think you need a permit from the conservation commission. So he reached out to me and said, I'm building this structure and my neighbor alerted me that I need a permit from the conservation commission. So I said to him, you can try to amend your order of conditions to include the structure and or you could file a request for determination. Based on what he told me, the play structure slash shed is located within the 50 foot no touch buffer to a wetland on the site. So he opted to file an amendment to the order of conditions, which is why this is on the agenda. I'm having trouble downloading. I had requested site visit photos. I know Bruce went out and took a ride by and he said it looked like it was either fully constructed or partially constructed. Partially. Partially, okay. It's just a frame. Okay. It was a little unclear the materials that were submitted to us because so the original plan showed a wetland delineation line, but it didn't extend to the back of the property where this structure is being requested to be placed. What the request included was a GIS map that showed the DEP wetland layer and there was a line drawn to the wetland layer. So I reached back out to the owner and said, we can't use the DEP wetland layer. We really have to rely on a wetland delineation. And he said that there was still flags from when Ward had done the original delineation. They just weren't picked up by survey in the back of the lot. So that was kind of a new piece of information for me. And I said, okay, well, you can still present tonight. And he said, here's my PowerPoint. I'm not going to be there. So for whatever reason, it's not allowing me to download the PowerPoint at this point. I just tried to download it. He only sent it to me at like seven o'clock tonight. So I can't share it with you. So I think we're kind of at a point where we can't really approve it tonight, but the concept of having a site visit might not be a bad idea just so that everyone can sort of see what's going on out there before the next meeting. Thanks, Erin. Raise your hand if you're in favor of a site visit or be interested in it. Okay, that's it. Longest Friday. Sorry, say again. Longest it's not this Friday. Okay. I think we can make that happen. Okay, so we'll table that to the next meeting. That's no problem. And sorry for the long-winded explanation. Thank you for the background. Okay. I think we've gotten through all of our items. So I'm going to just take one last public comment call. Give a couple of seconds. Seeing none. I'm looking for a motion to close. I would hear your motion. To adjourn. I don't know. I think Andre got that one. I'll second it. Andre on the motion. Jason on the second. Alex. Hi. Jason. Hi. Andre. Hi. Bruce. Hi. And I'm an I. Right. Good work, everyone. Thank you for staying up late. That's all I need, Bruce. Good night, all. Thanks, everyone. And I'll have you on the day as I see all the time. Oh, yeah. Erin. See you next year. I have a question for Erin before she leaves the arena. Okay. Okay, I think we can all leave and they can hang out. I just want to ask a question about the notes. Sure. All right. Happy to hear, everyone. Right. You too. Bye-bye. Go ahead, Bruce. Just I have some questions. What time will you be around tomorrow? I believe I have I will be tied up from about 10 to noon. Other than that, I think I am around. Okay. Just send me the tape and I can ask my questions in the afternoon. Okay. That sounds good. Have you stopped recording? No, I have not.

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Gastropods diversity | Animal Diversity Invertebrates | ZOO512T_Topic084

ZOO512T - Animal Diversity Invertebrates (Theory) Topic084: Gastropods diversity by Dr. Farkhanda Manzoor @thevirtualuniversityofpakistan

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भी या उता मैसी एकि करुच्टो, देर वर स्वाठी लगती भाजाने रग्टी। धवर स्वाब ये औत कर अंगिर बहुद की लगटे देकादका उस्वाप की न्रेच करूद लगती ख़िर, लर्ची जफ्जगिन, बहुझती नरह मय गी दीर फीत भाजाणे. गेस्डो पोड़ जो है ये मुलस्का कि सब से लारज़च्ट खलाथ और इस को इसके अंडर जो सब खलास सुडो ब्रेंक्या है यह तो गईस आलसो अन उमपार्तेंट सब खलास और इप रेपिशएंट मैली आईर ओव आनीमलज खलास गैस्डो पोड़ा 20,000 श्पिषीज जो हैं बो गेस्रो पोड़्स की मेरीन हैं लेकिन उच जो हैं वो फ्रेश पाटर भी हैं इसके लावा काफी सारे गेस्रो पोड़्स हमें टेरिस्टेल एंवार में भी मिलते हैं जैदा तर मेंबर्स जो हैं सब ख्लास के दिये हर्भी वोर्स हैं और उचे बाज जो है इनके अन्दर हार्पों लाएक श्ट्रक्चर होगा उस श्ट्रक्चर की हैं लेकिन एक अपने अप्टेएच भी कर लेंगे फिर इसके अन्दर प्रोँ सो ब्रोंक गेस्रो पोड़्स जो हैं इन में जेदा तर वो एनीमल्स हैं यो। के मेंरीन सनेल्स कहलतें... और इनके अन्दर दो है एबेलों अर मैरीन सनेल्स जो हैं दिसी जएं एईग्साँपल आप प्रोँ सो ब्रा tolerant गेस्रो पोड़्स तिर इस सब खलास के अपने अन्दर अदर आट्रोपोट्स मजुद एं ये अनिमल्स जो है वूरेश्यस् प्रिटेटर्स आप और इनके अदर स्माल शल या कोई भी शल मजुद नहीं होगा इनका फुट जो है ये अजूली मोटिफाट इंटो अज्ट्र्क्चर देद प्रोपल दा एनिमल प्रुद अवटर सी हेर्स लोग, उसके रेलेटीब, सी हेर्स, दीस अर प्रो मीनेत एकसाम्पल, अप आनिमल् क्लास anything class which we use, that's the branch, and it is sub class of class guest report, यहा गेश्रोपोट्स की दाव्रस्टी देखे। and we will see the diversity of guest reports. यह हमे के ॐ नभाग नवार्ख मैंट के अंदर एक भॉटिख्तिफ्छॉल भूँग्ट कि शकल में नजर अझेंगे अब ये मुस्ली मैरीन गज्टरो पुट्ष ते इस में पूँसे लेके 2000 तक गज्टरो पुट्ष की सपिषिस पाई जातिने इनका शेल, मैंटल केविटी, गिल्स जो है, दे आर आदर रड़ूस्ट या लोस्ट है, और इस की वगजा से ये आनीमल दिफश्लेस है, यान इनके अपर कोई भी अराम्से अटैक कर सकता है, कोई भी इनके बाडी में प्रोट्ट्रक्टिप स्ट्रक्ट्ट्ट्ट्ट्ट् बाडिट्ट्ट कर दार अडाrencies लोस्ट रगी स्न पंसकलूस्ट के अनदर पलमो नेता है, नार मैंदास बदुन और स्फीशे लोस्डाब स्फीशे आब कर फये, तरीस्टेल आनीमल्स के अंदर दिस मेंटल केवेटी बिल अक्त लाइका लंग. आर और वार्टर दे विल मुव इंटु दे बार्टी अथसाद दे बार्टी तु तरीस्टेल केवेटी की अपनिग दिस को हम कैंगे नुमेटो स्टों. इंदिशन तु तिपिकल प्रेष्वार्टर अर तरीस्टेल स्नेल्स पल्मो नेट्स तो हैं इसके आंदर गाएड श्लाग्ज तो हैं दिस is an excellent example of guest reports जोके तरीस्टेल एंवार्मट पे मजुद.

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Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury following Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Critical Issue f... | RTCL.TV

### Keywords ### #Acutemyocardial #myocardialinfarction #currentstandard #standardtreatment #reperfusionstrategies #AMI #IRI #RTCLTV #shorts ### Article Attribution ### Title: Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury following Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Critical Issue for Clinicians and Forensic Pathologists Authors: Margherita Neri, Irene Riezzo, Natascha Pascale, Cristoforo Pomara ,and Emanuela Turillazzi Publisher: Hindawi Limited DOI: 10.1155/2017/7018393 DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/add0ebc71c5045b48cb16e9875b9c5cc Source URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7018393 ### Image Attribution ### Background images were sampled from the source article ### Channels ### YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@medicinertcltv Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@medicine_rtcl_tv ### Video Timestamps ### 0:00:00 - Summary 0:00:40 - Title 0:00:46 - End

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Acute myocardial infarction, AMI, is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with reperfusion strategies being the current standard treatment. Despite these treatments, however, there is still a risk of paradoxical cardiac dysfunction, known as ischemic reperfusion injury, II, which can lead to sudden death. This paper explores the pathophysiology of II, focusing on the potential roles of the calpain system, oxidative nitrosative stress, and matrix metalloproteinase activity. Understanding the pathophysiology of II could help improve outcomes for patients suffering from AMI, as well as provide insight into sudden deaths following AMI. This article was authored by Margaritoneri, Irene Riezzo, Natasha Pascale, and others.

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TTOO Deep Dive | How To Read SEC Filings | Ep. 33 [PREVIEW]

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Hey traders, this is T Bradley 90 from the My Investing Club chat. I'm one of the top mentors and moderators in chat. As a special gift to our viewers on YouTube, we have created a free two-hour course to help teach you how to start a consistently profitable trading business and identify high-paying setups in just 30 days. There will be limited seating every week, so register for the course and reserve your spot now using the link in the description. As a special bonus for everyone that watches the entire video, we will give you the link to a free 10-hour additional mini course that has never been released to the public. Register now before all slots completely fill up. Hey, what's going on everyone? It's Chicago trader checking in for the weekly fundamental video here on the 13th of September. Hope you guys are having a good Friday. Had a few names, as usual, wanted to run over and then the main one I'm going to cover is Take Two, TTOO is the ticker. At the end, it's a little bit more of a deep dive. Just kind of want to share my thoughts on it. Before I get started, as usual guys, you know the deal. This isn't investment advice, my behalf or MIC's behalf, so be sure to do your own due diligence. Cover Take Two last. First one I wanted to cover was cool. It moved on to news this week. Let me pull up these AKs. First thing, so I noticed they're a little bit low on cash. However, they do have a spa. So what that is, Securities Purchase Agreement, they essentially have the right, they agree to amount that somebody can purchase from them and they will put it into their account. So it's a million dollars, convertible notes. You can see the conversion price, it's $1.80, or it's gonna be 90% after six months. Also, if you guys remember the video I did on R-E-K-R, I think that they had debt at 24% as well. So I now have seen two that have basically loaned out convertible debt that have done 24%. Obviously, less than favorable terms. And then there's another AK, shortly after that, I believe this is the same one, that they're gonna extend the maturity date and why wouldn't you if you hold that debt, you obviously getting paid fat stacks on it if you're going to, not favorable for the company, but again, just something that kinda tells you the health of the company. But this one did a reverse split. I've been moving a little bit. It had about one and a half million shares outstanding after the split. So if you come down here to the offering, it gives you the details. So there's actually 426,000 shares of common at $6.30. And usually, like I've mentioned in the last few videos, these pre-founded warrants usually are a dagger. And then you come down here, and this one's actually pretty transparent for once. So there's gonna be the common shares outstanding. So again, that's just the 1.5 that's outstanding plus the 426,000. So they're actually nice and do the calculation. So there's gonna be 4.7 million if the pre-funded warrants are exercised and 5.2 if the underwriters exercise the over allotment. And so you go from 1.5 to potentially 5.2 million shares. It's just absolutely terrible. But so last one, the main one that I caught, definitely thought it was gonna, the news was weak. You had a nice run up before. So personally, I played this day one. I was completely wrong on it. Thank God I did get out of it when I did. So take two came out. They had some news on an agreement. Let me pull these up here real quick. Basically with this BARDA, and like I said, Redwell up to $69 million in funding. Usually on those things like that, when it says up to, you kinda wanna be, at least I am, kinda weary about what that means. It's not a guaranteed. Also, the second paragraph below here, you can see there's a cost sharing contract between them. So obviously, even if there is a little bit of money up front, so it looks like there's gonna be $6 million up front, until there's further details on the deal, that might just basically offset the $6 million that they're receiving. So then, I believe it was the same day. Yeah, same day. They came out, there was an amendment. Basically, what was happening was they had some debt, this terminal agreement, and they're reducing the revenue target that has to be met, slashing it over 50% from $9 million to $4 million. So kind of gives a negative outlook for the company. Also, why would a lender do that? Well, then they get 568,000 share warrants, rather, $1.55. So you take that, I kind of thought that news was weak. You come back here, very recently, within the last couple, last month and a half, entered into an at-the-money offering of up to $30 million. Hey, traders, this is Tosh. I go by T. Bradley 90 in the My Investing Club chat. 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WHAT IS JUSTICE? Objectivist Ethics Explained

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All right, what is justice? The subheading in Opa for justice is justice as rationality in the evaluation of man. Justice as rationality in the evaluation of man. So justice is the application of rationality to human relations, to evaluating other people, to judging other people. Justice, quote Leonard again, is the virtue of judging men's character and conduct objectively, on of acting accordingly, granting to each man that which he deserves. Another way of thinking of it is treating people the way they deserve. Justice is required, you is the virtue that requires you to treat people the way they deserve to be treated. Now, why is this important? Why is it important to judge people and treat them the way they deserve, right? Why is this such a crucial, objectivist virtue? Well, because as I said at the beginning, human beings are a great value to you and can be a great danger to you. That is, if you value your life, if you value your life, then you must figure out which people are worthy of dealing with and which people are not. We live, we live, which is good, in a society. We live with other people. We gain potentially massive benefits from other people. But because we live with other people, we could also be really, really, really hurt by other people, physically damaged, spiritually damaged, monetarily damaged. People can really, the bad people can do immense damage and I don't need to tell you about the history of human society. I mean, just think of politicians and the damage they can do to your life. But think of a bad business partner. Think about what a bad business partner can do to you. The extent to which you go into business with somebody, the extent to which you're exposing yourself to this person, to the extent to which they can destroy your reputation, they can destroy you financially, they can make it really difficult for you to recover. If they turn out to be bad, if they light sheet steel, you're their business partner, you're gonna be held accountable. You're gonna have to find a way to recover. You might be holding the bag financially. But in every respect, they are impacting your life in significant ways. Think about a friendship where somebody stabs you in the back, tells lies about you behind your back, but they're your friend. So people believe them and they can do you real damage, not to mention the emotional, spiritual damage of having been somebody's friend and then being stabbed in the back. I mean, there are very few occurrences in life that are in a sense worse than that. You've given somebody's trust. You've engaged with somebody on an intimate level and they're not worthy of it. And when that becomes a reality to you, you feel naked, exposed, vulnerable. It truly is horrible. Think of somebody you love and they betrays you and how bad that is, how much damage that can do to you. Again, physically, materially, spiritually, emotionally. So other people, even if you have immense self-esteem, even as we discussed last time, you are amazingly independent. We interact with other people on many, many levels. From business relationships, we trade, we employ people, we go to work for people. We have friends, we have acquaintances, we have love relationships. And those are all amazing, rewarding, satisfying, beneficial relationships to have. But when they go bad, they can be really awful. So from a perspective of your own life, as an egoist, it is on the one hand crucial to avoid evil, to avoid bad people, to avoid doing yourself damage by interacting with bad people. But of course, the flip side is even more important. The reward of dealing with good people, the reward of having satisfying relationships, the reward of great trade, the reward of employing great people, the reward of working for a great boss or a great company, the reward for interacting with good people and benefiting from what they produce, what they create, what they are is immense. It adds hugely to one's life. And in spite of the fact that it's easy to emphasize the negative, in spite of the fact that many of us think in terms of the negatives, objectivism is not focused on negatives, it's focused on the positive, it's focused on your life, it's focused on living a great, successful, wonderful, happy, flourishing, fulfilling life. And to do that, one wants to surround oneself with good people who represent one's values. And yes, as an aside, one wants to avoid the people who can do one's harm. But the focus should always be on the positive. The focus should always be on the way in which moral judgment, the way in which justice affects us positively. So the first thing to know about moral judgment is you've got it about, sorry, about justice, is that you have to judge. You have to judge. You have to judge other people. Morally judge other people. What does it mean to morally judge them? Judge their character. Are they good people? They are principles. We're talking about some of them. Moral principles. Do they live up to the moral principles necessary for successful human life? Or do they reject them? Whether they reject them explicitly or implicitly in action or in words, do they, to some extent or another, reject these principles? Do they act and speak against them? If they do, if they are not moral people, then one should avoid them. If they act immorally, then one should avoid them. And if they're good, you know, they're a benefit of my life. And depending on the context, interaction is a good thing. So moral judgment is essential. It's what justice requires. It means judging other people, having an assessment of other people. Good, bad, mediocre. But even mediocre. In what sense mediocre? In what ways are they good? In what ways are they bad? What things, is it okay to interact with them on? What things you wanna avoid completely from them? Christopher says, judge yourself as well. Yes, you should judge yourself as well. And we'll really get to self-judgment when we talk about pride. Pride really, the virtue of pride, really involves judging oneself. But the virtue of justice involves judging other people. It's the application of rationality to the challenge of judging other people. As Peacock says, rationality in the evaluation of men. And what does rationality in the evaluation of men mean? It means going by the facts, going by evidence, not going by emotion, first impressions, instinct, intuition, whatever. It's by using your mind, we're using reason, facts, evidence, logic, figuring out. And again, I don't know that there's anything more difficult to judge than other human beings. But that's why you need to use reason more than ever. More than ever, right? You always need to use reason. So there's a common phrase in our culture today, right? And oh no, don't judge, don't judge, so that you will not be judged. But that's basically saying, don't strive to be a good person. Don't strive to be moral. Don't strive to attain morality, because if you're good, why would you be afraid to be judged? So, objectivism holds the opposite of you. Our view is judge and be prepared to be judged. And there's important implication to all of this that Ayn Rand discusses. And that is the you are the product of you. The you shape your character. The you shape your soul. That you are a self-creation. That you are in control. That you are not just influenced by happen hand. So whatever happens out there, your genes or the environment or what your mother did to you when you were four years old, that in terms of your actions and your thoughts, maybe not in terms of your emotions, because that most psychology in that sometimes is harder to control and sometimes needs professional help to control. But in terms of your thoughts and your actions, you are in control. And therefore, what you say and what you do, you should be judged on. What you say and what you do are products of you. See, today in our culture, we have this attitude of, oh no, no, people are not responsible for themselves. They're not responsible for their actions. They're not responsible for their thoughts. They're just products of, I don't know, Russian election interference. I mean, note that no Russian can actually go into your brain and change your chemistry. All they can do is give you information that you then can check out and find whether they're right or wrong, whether they're good or bad. But you have to decide what information you accept as truth. Nobody else is responsible for that. You shape your decisions. You shape your actions. And therefore, you must be judged based on those. And other people should be judged as if they do, even though many of them default, don't use reason to shape their conclusions and to shape their actions. But since they have the capacity to do so, since they have the ability to do so, they should be judged accordingly. They should be judged as if they did. And in that sense, in that sense, everybody you interact with should be judged within the context, within the context of what kind of interaction you're having with them. I mean, you don't have to spend enough time figuring out if your grocer is good or bad. But if some information you come across that he's a fraud, smuggling in second rate products and selling them off as, you know, I don't know, first rate products lying to you, stealing, cheating, then avoid the grocer, sanction him, condemn him, condemn him through your action by not having anything to do with him. Jennifer asks, and by the way, I'll take Super Chat questions, I'll give priority to Super Chat questions that are on the topic. And there should be a lot of questions here. I mean, I'm not, don't wanna put any ideas into your minds, but you know, this is not easy. How to judge other people, what appropriate actions this has to do with the fact of sanctioning other people, who you get up on stage with to debate and who you don't, why you don't, some people, you do others. These are not simple issues, but they're all issues of justice and they're all issues related to egoism. They're related to your life. They're related to the benefit or harm of your life. Jennifer says, some people prefer pets to other humans because animals can't lie, but animals can't choose. Isn't it the fact that a person chooses to be good that makes that person a value to you? Yes. The value that an animal represents is you're projecting onto them. It's in a sense, some kind of unconditional love that they're giving you, right? It's of course also conditioned and you treating them well, but there's no choice there. So you get kind of a sense of, some kind of sense of pure emotion, those dogs with those eyes that look at you, gaga eyes kind of looking at you in admiration, right? That as soon as you open the door, they rush to you and celebrate your arrival. But while that gives you that sense of being loved, being appreciated, being seen, it doesn't come anyway, I think, anywhere close. I don't have much of a relationship to pets and animals. It doesn't come close to getting that from another human being. Where you know it is a choice, where you know it is a cognitive, rational, and emotional, emotional, but emotional based on rational values. Response to you, that is so much deeper, so much more meaningful, so much more pleasurable, so much more important. So, and it comes from the fact that it was chosen, imagine if your spouse loved you because they were conditioned to do so. They had no choice about it. It just wouldn't be the same. Choice is crucial. Free will is crucial to everything we talked about in ethics. Ethics is meaningless without this idea of choice. So it's, yeah, so it's crucial to shape your own soul, it's crucial to make you the best you that you can be. It's crucial to live up to your values, to live up to morality, and then let them judge. Part of your self-esteem comes from the idea, from the knowledge, from the knowledge that here I am, judge me. Judge me for what I've said, judge me for what I've done. I've said this before on a show. The only two options, your judgment can be right or wrong. If it's wrong, it's on my business. If it's right, hopefully it matches up to my judgment, but if it's right and it doesn't, then it's good for me to know. Andrew writes, a lot of religious folks pay lip service to non-judgment, but a hyper-judgmental on the brother's keeper primes, yes. See, every religion or morality requires you to make some form of judgment of other people, but the standard for judging is not, cannot be the benefit that other people represent for you, to you. What does it mean to judge somebody based on the premise of altruism? Because if they're doing something that's good for you, then how should you judge them? Well, you have to be careful because you don't wanna be selfish and you don't wanna have a positive judgment of them because you are benefiting, it completely mixes you up. Good people sacrifice, you should be sacrificing. And by the way, one of the reasons people don't want to be judged themselves is because they know they don't live up to their own moral standards because you cannot live up to altruism. So one of the main reasons people don't want you to judge them is because they know they fail. They know they're far from their own ideal. They know that they don't live up to the altruistic standard and almost nobody can. Really, nobody can, but, and nobody, very few people actually try on a day-to-day basis to live up to the standard of altruism. They couldn't survive if they did. And it's no, not fun. It's a frigging disaster. So think of this, they walk around afraid of being judged because they know that if somebody was honest about they're judging them, he would say, but you're not living up to your own ideals. You're not living up to your own morality. You claim to be a Christian, but other than go to church on Sunday, what are you actually doing for the poor? How many of God's requirements and commandments do you actually practice? Do you actually follow? How much are you evading, distorting, pretending? So they can't live up to it and therefore they don't want to be judged and therefore they don't judge. And when they do judge, by what standard should they judge? By the standard of benefit to themselves? Well, that would be egoistic. So by what standard? Well, they've been told that honesty is a good, as they judge people as honest to dishonest, right? But since the connection of that honesty to their own values, to their own life, to their own happiness is not solid, right? I mean, we understand, I hope, that somebody else's dishonesty is bad for me. It's bad for me to interact with somebody who's dishonest and I'm gonna stay away from somebody who's dishonest, not because there's some abstraction here, commandment that says dishonesty is bad, but because I know, I know I have a principle that shows me but I know the principle is true because I've seen it in reality, I've proved it to myself, that somebody else's dishonesty is going to hurt me, that the model is the practicalness and somebody else's immorality has practical consequences on my life. And that's why I avoid it. So, objectives should be passionate about their morality, passionate about condemning evil and passionate about rewarding and supporting the good. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broods. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes, that should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who are liking it, you know, I wanna see a thumbs up, there you go. Start liking it, I wanna see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this, and you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego, it's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So, you know, and if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. 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Decolonisation in Colonial Institutions-Reparative Approaches to Philippine Collections in a US Univ

This event is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series. Speaker: Ricky Punzalan (University of Michigan) Discussant: Cristina Martinez-Juan (SOAS) Chair: Conan Cheong (Asian Civilisations Museum) The sizable Philippine collections at the University of Michigan underscore this institution’s role in U.S. colonial expansion. Michigan faculty, students, and alumni came to the Philippines to teach, conduct field research, establish business ventures, and participate in colonial administration. This involvement resulted in the accumulation of one of the largest Philippine collections in North America. It is time for the University to address its colonial complicity in the formation of these collections by developing decolonial and anti-racist policies and practices. This presentation will discuss the current efforts to develop alternative ways to represent and provide access to Philippine materials held by the University’s Bentley Historical Library, the Special Collections Research Center, and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. This project asks: What constitutes reparative work in the decolonization of the University’s Philippine collections? This effort will: 1. define what it means to pursue decolonial praxis for Philippine collections; 2. identify institutional obligations and articulating reparative work; 3. reimagine community engagement; and finally, 4. decenter colonial provenance to better represent Indigenous communities and knowledge to understand the full extent of the collection.

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Hi, hello everyone and welcome to the fifth lecture in the Decolonizing Curating in the Museum in Southeast Asia series, which is jointly organized by the Southeast Asia Art Academic Programme, so as University of London and the Asian Civilized Museum Singapore. Let me just, so actually this is the second to last lecture in the series and you can sign up for the final one, which is next Thursday at the same time by scanning that QR code. My name is Conan Chiang, I'm a curator for Southeast Asia at the ACM and I will be your host for this online event. I'd just like to thank the Alpha Web Foundation and the Chris Foundation for the support of this series, and also my co-organizer, Dr. Stephen Murphy at SOAS for making this collaboration between our two institutions possible. So we are recording today's session and it will be available on the SOAS Center for Southeast Asia Studies page afterwards if you want to watch it again. Okay, so today we are very pleased to have Dr. Ricardo Punzalan with his lecture, Decolonization in Colonial Institutions, Reparative Approaches to Philippine Collections in US University. So with that, Dr. Punzalan gives his talk. We will have a response by Dr. Christina Martinez Juan, who I'll introduce later. And finally, we will take some questions from the audience, which you can type into the Q&A box, please click the Q&A box and not the chat box. You can type your questions in at any time in the presentation and we will take it at the end of the session. So before I do let me introduce Dr. Punzalan, Dr. Ricardo Punzalan is an associate professor at the University of Michigan, where he teaches archives and digital curation. He studies access and use of digitized anthropological archives and ethnographic data by academic and indigenous researchers. He is currently a research associate at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives and a former council member of the Society of American Archivists. So just please note that Dr. Punzalan will not be using PowerPoint slides in his presentation so you know don't be alarmed if you don't see anything on your screen. And yeah, with that, Dr. Punzalan over to you. Thank you. I would like to thank the organizers of this lecture series, particularly Dr. Stephen Murphy for the invitation to speak at this event and for Conan Chung for co hosting. I'm also grateful to Dr. Christina Martinez one for agreeing to serve as my discussant for today. So I grew up in the Philippines, but I currently work and reside in the state of Michigan. So I would like to proceed I'd like to give a land acknowledgement. So the University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the unashamed people. In 1817 the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewatomie Nations made the single largest land transfer to the University of Michigan. This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty of the Foot of the Rapid so that their children could be educated. Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed. My goal today is to discuss how I come to understand decolonization and how it might operate as a framework for managing, representing and engaging with the sizable Philippine collections at the University of Michigan. This constitutes reparative work in the decolonization of the University's Philippine collections. In answering this question I wish to present what I learned so far from an ongoing effort called ReConnect ReCollect reparative connections to Philippine collections at the University of Michigan, which is a two year project that I'm co leading with Deirdre De La Cruz, Associate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Cultures, and in partnership with librarians, archivists, curators, and collections managers in three university institutions. And these are the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library with about 259 collections in their catalog pertaining to the Philippines. The Special Collections Research Center, which holds approximately 50 collections of archival and manuscript material relating to Spanish American war, the Philippine war. The University of Michigan's involvement in the Philippines by a scientific investigations and also about 1500 published works on Philippine history and culture. And the third is the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology with 25,000 archaeological artifacts, 72 human crania and several hundred post-cranial elements, 1,800 ethnographic objects, 42 zoological specimens and 617 ethnobotanical specimens. The collection at this museum also includes about 5,000 glass plate negatives and lantern slides. I'd like to note that the University's Philippine collections extend beyond these three partner institutions. Philippine materials are also kept in the following university institutions. The Stern's collection of musical instruments, which has at least 13 items with Philippine provenance in the collection. The Clark Library, which is a repository of maps and ethicists from the 16th century to the present. The Clements Library, which is a repository of rare books and manuscripts. And the Museum of Zoology, which has about 2,000 birds, mollusks of approximately 250 lots representing nearly 1,000 specimens and 150 species, and 3,108 specimens of mammals from the Philippines. There's also the University's Herbarium, which has about 6,000 items from the Philippines, which includes ferns, algae, flowering plants, fungi, mosses, conifers and lichens. And finally, the University's Botanical Gardens, which of course would have Philippine plant species. I'm belaboring, you know, describing the extent of the collection to emphasize a point that there's a sizable Philippine collection in this university. So in May and June of this year, our group facilitated a series of conversations to first define what it means to pursue decolonial praxis for Philippine collections. Second, identify institutional obligations and articulating reparative work. The third is to reimagine community engagement and finally to explore how we can de-center the existing colonial provenance attribution and description to better represent indigenous communities and knowledge to understand the full extent of the collection. Our series of roundtable and listening sessions engage Philippine studies, scholars, archivists, cultural heritage workers, activists, and members of the Filipino community here in Michigan to better understand what constitutes reparative and decolonial approaches to the collections of Philippine materials. We also invited speakers from the Philippines. So decolonization has become widely used in cultural heritage and academic circles. Many have become critical of the many misappropriations of the term. Critical race, indigenous studies and education scholars like Eve Tuck and Wayne Young's essay Decolonization is not a metaphor for instance, had made me reflect on how decolonization might operate in the settler colonialist context of the United States. For Tuck and Young, decolonization was about indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, or the return of stolen land to native tribes as the scope and scale of the colonial struggle. As such, it's used in libraries, archives and museums, such as decolonize the reading room, decolonize the stacks, decolonizing the catalog, or even our focus today, decolonizing curating and the museum to mean incorporating indigenous knowledge and perspectives in revising our catalogs and databases or exhibit labels in creating a welcoming space and diversifying the staff or in auditing collections for culturally sensitive or stolen items may not be appropriate use of the term unless these practices ultimately result in the return of stolen indigenous lands. To some, it sounds like decolonization is yet another word for knowledge appropriation and extractive relations that only benefit institutions in terms of better audience experience, collections management, diversifying staff and visitors, increasing grant funding support and so on. Thus, the overuse of the term decolonization has impacted its meaning, its attachment to pre-existing frameworks of social justice, though well-meaning can remove its connection to the realities of indigenous life and settler colonialism. But I am not recommending giving up on the use of the term just yet. What I advocate for is a radical reflection and reorientation of the management representation of you and use of Philippine indigenous materials, which document diverse knowledge and traditions, because decolonization can mean many things to many people, and without specificity as to its use as a concept for politics or practice, it threatens to mean little at all. Thus, the challenge for us is to understand decolonization as a meaningful concept in the Philippine historical context and for Filipinos. The issue of decolonizing the Philippine collections that the University of Michigan offers forms of context and considerations, despite the large accumulation of indigenous material at the university. We lack culturally appropriate frameworks and policies for navigating access, building community relations, and instituting reparative actions. Though the Philippines shares a common and connected history of colonialism with US indigenous tribes, our experiences of and receptions to colonialism are not the same. Different cultures respond to colonialism differently. Thus, protocols and guidelines developed for Native American collections are not always appropriate and sustainable in the context of Philippine collections. So far, I have not heard of any requests to repatriate any item held by the university. It might be different case if Philippine indigenous tribes rely on those archival sources and museum artifacts for use in a land claim, or to meet some government recognition requirements like the federal recognition process in the United States. Philippine materials are also not legally covered by NAGPRA, which stands for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which is the law that protects US Native American graves and requires repatriation of Native American human remains and certain cultural and sacred items. This context challenges us to rethink what the university's institutional obligations to Philippine cultural objects might be. And this in turn affects what we might consider as constituting the decolonization of Philippine collections at this university. Let's go back to my question earlier. What constitutes reparative work in the decolonization of the university's Philippine collections? The focus on reparative work is intentional here because I believe that the sizable volume of Philippine historical, natural, and cultural collections at the university amassed from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th underscore this institution's role in US colonial expansion. Michigan faculty, students, and alumni went to the Philippines to teach, conduct field research, establish business ventures, and participate in colonial administration. At the height of the US colonial era in the Philippines, Michigan men, as they were called, took pride in their dual identities as Michigan alumni and colonial officials. As George A. Malcolm, the founding dean of the Law School of the University of the Philippines, in his speech in Manila in 1914, while convening the University of Michigan Alumni Association of the Philippine Islands stated, and I quote, In the Philippine Islands, we claim, and we are able to substantiate the same by facts, that the University of Michigan Alumni Association is the largest in number in the Far East. Not only this, but it can be safely asserted that its members occupy as important positions in the affairs of the Philippines as do the alumni of any other university. Even so, from the beginning of the American occupation, so that now there are only Michigan men prominent prominent in official and private circles, but Michigan men in the Army, the Navy, and among the Filipino, Japanese and Chinese communities. The Americans need not be ashamed of their work. It need not fear that its tradition and future are forgotten. All Michigan men in the east of whatever locality or nationality joining the assurance that their alma mater can count upon their cordial support. The presence of the so-called Michigan men in the islands resulted in the accumulation of one of the largest Philippine collections in North America. The ones you associate with these collections are not only limited in the context of their accumulation. In this presentation, I'd like to present two persistent areas of harm associated with these collections. The first is the decades of lack of real and sustainable connections with Philippine communities here in the US and in the Philippines over the management and representation of these materials. After more than a century, it is time for the university to address its colonial complicity in the formation of these collections by developing b-colonial practices so that institutions can provide reciprocal and reparative access to Philippine cultural collections. Reconceptualizing archival and museum work from the perspective of relationships, building where bonds do not exist, or repairing when trust has been broken, has become a significant theme in archives and museum scholarship. We can build on the more recent efforts in b-colonial archives and museology, which foreground indigenous perspectives and community collaboration, consultation and dialogue to construct a model of relationality and shared stewardship. Although we have seen significant progress in centering indigenous knowledge frameworks for North American tribal collections, such as the adoption of the protocols for Native American archival materials, our tribal approaches are still missing for non-North American collections taken from former US colonial territories that are not covered by legal regimes like NAGPRA, the law which I just mentioned earlier. We can also take the methodological approach of reparative work that foregrounds community relationships to inspire culturally-appropriate curation and scholarly endeavors that address the harmful legacies of colonial collections. We can implement b-colonial practice through community consultations rather than apply protocols that are universally defined and enacted for every institution, culture and community. Many current and previous projects have attempted to address the responsibility and care for colonial collections at the level of digital access through the creation of online databases, web access portals or virtual exhibitions. But digital humanities efforts that rely heavily on the creation of digital infrastructures without appropriate investment in building community relations or input into community members can end up reproducing some of the problems they seek to redress, generating new tools for the same epistemologies. If the goal is to facilitate broader community impact, efforts must therefore begin and end with better relationships between institutions and communities. The understanding of reciprocity is informed by the work of Indigenous education scholars Heather McGregor and Michael Marker who provide the following characteristics of the concept. First, reciprocity as giving back or involving power flowing back and forth within parties, ensuring that relationships are not extractive. Second, reciprocity as sharing knowledge or a cyclical and circulating responsibility to teach what one has learned passing on knowledge between generations. Third, reciprocity as relational accountability, where relationships are characterized by respect and the interests of communities inform all aspects of work. Reciprocity as circular and continuous, not a system of gifts and counter gifts, but a constant coexistence and kinship. I take this set of characteristics to be the defining goals of for curatorial and museum reciprocity, relationships, practices and projects that give back and recognize power dynamics, share knowledge, are held accountable and are continuous or sustainable. Curatorial and museum reciprocity must therefore consider the meaningful outcomes and changes that result from reparative interventions. Here I offer six indicators of impact to help us identify our institutional obligations in reparative work, namely knowledge, attitudes, professional discourse, institutional capacity, policy and relationships. So for knowledge, a critical question could be what new knowledge about the collections, their history, representational tools and uses have we discovered. Are we using the collections in meaningful ways and in diverse settings going beyond the exhibition hall, reading rooms and classrooms but into community based learning spaces. What are the attitudes, is there a shift in the attitudes and practices of those who stored the collections around collections management representation access and news, or the community members feel welcome to visit, access consult or use items in the collections or to interact with librarians, archivists, curators or collections managers. In terms of professional discourse. Is there a renewed understanding of responsibilities over collections stewardship and sense of ownership among curators, librarians and archivists responsible for collections care and management here I put ownership in quotes. In institutional capacity, a good question could be, how have we developed a set of guidelines for reparative practice that enables institutions to better represent their collections and better connect with the communities represented in their collections, or perhaps created ways of managing collections. So for policy impact, does the project lead to or inspire efforts to revise or create new institutional, whether written or unwritten policies around collections caring representation. Finally, for impact on relationships, have we facilitated the formation of a reciprocal relationship among institutions, scholars and community members. And I'd like to go next to the second harm that I see from these collections which is the harmful description and metadata and the prevailing and the prevailing and the privileging of colonial provenance and glorification of colonial actors in our finding aids and catalogs. We can be center colonial creators and collectors in finding aids and provide equal attribution to the communities represented by the collections. The racist outdated and culturally insensitive terminologies in finding aids and other descriptive materials can be revisited through the process called reparative description. Archival scholars have in recent years focused their attention on reparative description and corrective action, which seek to redress historical inequities and injustices in the ways language is used in archives and special collections, especially in the social and political context of the United States, we have witnessed in more recent years the rise of racial violence as a social crisis. Archivists would like to read address the crisis of racial inequalities as reflected in the collections collections in Western institutions gathered by virtual colonization materials that contain violent images, or those that depict troubling historical events, including outdated racist incorrect or inappropriate metadata and description are not only distressful to indigenous community members, but they can also limit wider discovery, access and meaningful engagement or use. The aim of reparative description is to find ways to be centered the colonial provenance of collections to better represent indigenous communities and knowledge, as well as gain better understanding of the full extent of those collections. One secret that university collections are often attributed to collectors whose career as academics or civil servants were deeply linked with colonial governance. For example, until recently the whole collection of Philippine archives, rare books and manuscripts at the university's special collections library is attributed to Dean C. Wooster, whose entire career as a colonial administrator was to rationalize the US occupation of the islands. Through his photographic images and writings Wooster depicted Filipinos as savages and fit for self governance and required American tutelage and civilization. We can offer alternative descriptions that highlight the numerous indigenous communities in this collection. The graduate students who conducted the preliminary survey of Philippine collections at the university has noted that for collections in natural history institutions such as the Museum of Zoology, the Arbarium and the Arbarium Gardens, the scientific naming practices in of themselves are not actually indicative of harm, but the use of disciplinary nomenclature does not leave room for cultural or historical context. Thus, they leave the significance of these specimens for Filipino communities and addressed. Consequently, scientific nomenclature elides the relationship that local communities have in these specimens. So we must develop models for culturally responsive and historically minded stewardship and care of Philippine materials in non-Philippine institutions. The Philippine cultural and natural history materials dispersed across various Michigan libraries, archives, museums have been built without any community consultation with Filipinos in the Philippines and in the diaspora. The lack of a comprehensive inventory of the full extent of the Philippine historical, cultural and scientific items at the university further complicates attempts to fully address and utilize these collections. Philippino, Filipino-American, Philippinex communities living in Michigan and in the Philippines seek to develop greater connections and engagement with the Philippine collections at the university. Furthermore, librarians, archivists, curators and collections managers who steward these collections seek to apply reparative approaches to collections care and representation and build better community ties. Thus, to repeat my earlier statement, we can reconceptualize cultural heritage work from the perspective of relationships, building where bonds that do not exist are repairing when trust has been broken. We cannot do this without actively seeking community input. How do we activate the Philippine collections of Michigan to better serve Filipino, Filipino-American and Philippinex communities living in the United States and the state of Michigan and in the Philippines? To do this, we must address the issue of limited access to Michigan's Philippine collections. Regarding the existing access infrastructures that had been built by the university's repositories, it became clear that not only those infrastructures are lacking coordination and integration across multiple units, but community input was almost non-existent. The dispersion of cultural items across the various institutions of the university, the lack of comprehensive descriptive access tools, and missing Filipino voices make discovery and use particularly challenging. At this juncture, it is useful to take our cue from scholars of indigenous archives, Kimberly Kristen and Jane Anderson, who advocate for one mode of decolonizing processes that insist on a different temporal framework, which is the slow archives. According to Kristen and Anderson, slowing down creates a necessary space for emphasizing how knowledge is produced, circulated, contextualized, and exchanged through a series of relationships. Slowing down is about focusing differently, listening carefully, and acting ethically. It opens the possibility of seeing the intricate web of relationships formed and forged through attention to collaborative curation processes that do not default on normative structures of attribution, access, or scale. Focusing on the temporality of slow archives is not meant to post binary between fast and slow. Rather, slowness is imagined and enacted in terms of relationality, positionality, and a framework that privileges restorative and reparative work that is decolonial in its logic and practice. Slow archives do not presume one course of action. In fact, they allow for changing course, for shifts, and for unexpected endings. The slow archives pivots around the register of decolonization as a processional move in centering indigenous temporalities, territorialities, and relationalities on their own, as well as the conversation with settler colonial logics and practices. Focusing on slow archives, because it seems to me that most of the time, more often than not, when I go to institutions and discuss what to do with Philippine collections. The tendency is to have this fast decision making process that somewhat always leads to digitization and the creation of web exhibits, so forth and so on. And I do think that we should start investing our time instead in the slower process of relationship building. So to conclude, a first step to decolonizing Philippine University collections is to prioritize the slow path of reparative actions to mitigate the repair or repair the harm of traditional curation representation and scholarship that has largely ignored community voices and perspectives. Glorified colonial actors and almost exclusively catered to academic researchers. In addition, the colonial work requires that we examine curation as a whole accounting for the whole spectrum of cultural heritage institutions from library from galleries, libraries, archives and museums or the glam sector, and not just collections and museums. In engaging Michigan's collections, I learned that Philippine items are dispersed across the multiple units of the university that have been historically siloed. Hence, we cannot decolonize museum objects without paying the same amount of attention to archives and library collections. Decolonization therefore demands that we see the discernible connections and relationships between communities, institutions, and collections. Thank you. Thank you so much for that very talking presentation and to respond to your lecture. We have Dr Christina Martinez one who is a senior teaching and research fellow. And the project hit for Philippines studies at SOS or PSS, an interdisciplinary forum for Philippine related teaching, research and cultural production in the UK. She is the principal investigator for mapping Philippine material culture and open access knowledge based at sources annotated knowledge from cultural originators in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Without further ado, Dr Martinez one please. Thank you for having me. And thank you, Ricky, for giving us the low down on the Philippine collection at the University of Michigan. I didn't realize how big and also how dispersed the collection was, and how the school itself and its alumni are so complicit in American colonial expansion in the Philippines. I was intrigued by the fact that, aside from the infamous Dean Worcester and his obsession with the non Christian savages. There were other Michigan many, especially Carl equals I guess he's, he was the first director of the university's museum of anthropology. I was interested in him because, being from Cebu, I'm excited to see what he added to the university's collection, as it is sometimes rare to see objects in museums from the so called low land and Christianized areas, especially in the Visayas. So I can't wait to look more deeply into the entire collection. And so thank you for doing the survey and introducing us to your reconnect recollect project with its mission to produce reparative approaches to Philippine collections at the University of Michigan. For grounding your presentation with the reference to top and young's article decolonization is not a metaphor was very helpful. The provocative ideas they put forward on moves to innocence, which are basically diversions they call which relieve the colonizer from feelings of guilt, or responsibility and conceal the need to actually give up land or power or privilege. No, it's indeed crucial decolonizing benchmark. Sometimes there's a tendency to focus only on decolonizing the mind or making epistemological violence as a stand in, you know for the more uncomfortable task of relinquishing actual material capital, or indeed helping in making this kind of helps make decolonization as kind of a toothless signifier for many, or I guess as someone had put it decolonization has become a cliche. But I do appreciate the fact that you did not stop with talking young and recognize that there is no global answer to the question what is colonization. In fact, I think they some in some way contradict themselves when they say that colonialism can and must only be defined as settler colonialism, and so negating their kind of other proposition of a need to pay attention to the specific colonial apparatuses within a particular time and space. So, I guess I'm glad that you haven't given up on the term decolonizing yet, but instead offer real targeted strategies for upsetting the balances of power. Let me begin the discussion by posing a few questions to provoke further thought so I'm just, I just segmented some of my questions into kind of big tranches and you can feel free to discuss after I go through one point. So, at the core of your reparative strategy. There seems to be the foregrounding of the idea of reciprocity. So you talk about the need to address the lack of real and sustainable collections connections with Philippine communities in the US and the Philippines over the management and the representation of the collections materials. In your talk, you, you talked about repressor, reciprocity that to that envisions a relationship where power flows back and forth between parties, a relationship that is not extractive, and that we're both sides are mutually accountable to each other. But I guess, I guess, for me, we know that since the 1990s, and like with James Clifford's 1997 essay on the museum as a contact zone and maybe even Robin both 2011 influential critique on this. It seems to me that there has not been a lack of co curatorial endeavors and inclusionist programs in exhibitions. My question is, why do you think has there been little or no previous attempts at reciprocal custodianship in relation to the Philippine materials at the University of Michigan. I guess, was it a lack of curatorial interest and valuation coming from within the institution. I'm kind of familiar with this marginalization as I do think that more often than not the Philippines is always falls into the category of an orphaned collection. Both from within Southeast Asia, and from the more encyclopedic world of the museum in general you hardly ever see anything, any of the objects on display, or hardly ever have any exhibits not big exhibits on the Philippines. So, I am the segment with the question, how, how do you increase or do you agree that there is. There is a lack of curatorial interest, no, from from within the institutions, and how do you increase or how have you increased institutional interest in this marginalized collection. And I guess the other question is, should, should, should we be addressing this marginalization as and make it as one of the goals of a decolonizing agenda, kind of like the double marginalization of particular collections. Sorry, I was I was making notes because this is a wonderful question and indeed it's like, you know, a fascinating question, you know, why not, you know, you know, to give you a little bit more context here, you know, like the university has for decades, hosted Philippine scholars, you know, like, giving them there's even a specific scholarship for Filipinos to come and study at the university. There's one program for women, the barber scholarship, you know, for, and that expanded into Asian women, but it started as Filipinos, the pensionados, the early Filipinos scholars who studied in the U.S. So a lot of them went to Michigan. There's Michigan faculty, there's a sizable Philippine population in Ann Arbor and in the state of Michigan, and of course, you know, what in the United States I think Filipinos are the fourth largest immigrant population. So, you know, it's so the first thing I would say is like, you know, just the process of elimination. So it's not the lack of people. Right. It's, there are Filipinos within the structure of the university. We're not that many, but we're here. So there are Filipinos, there's Filipino community, right? So, and there are Filipinos who come to study the collection as Fulbright scholars. And as you know, given the extent of the collections, the Filipinos who come here study just about, you know, a whole range of what could be studied from snails to combat this male-born disease in the Philippines to, you know, looking at ceramics of the Gute collection that you mentioned earlier to, you know, studying the Worcester photographs on textile and weaving patterns, you know, people studying even, you know, history of the colonization itself, right? So, you know, so there's a lot of kind of academic access, but I do think that the missing part is, and you mentioned it earlier, despite, you know, models of, you know, like the contact zone and, you know, the the revisitation of that concept. And even like during, at the height of the implementation of NAGPRA, that, you know, returned objects and things like that, that also the creation of the Native American museum in Washington, D.C., with the Smithsonian, you know. So there's a whole lot of like kind of awakening around Native collections in the U.S. And, you know, the natural history museum here, for instance, had to retire its dioramas because of its depiction of Native Americans that associated them with, you know, like a backward and primitive cultures. And because also by sheer, the sheer fact that it's located in a natural history collection, which associated them with dinosaurs and all these things. So, there's a whole lot of, you know, context, it's like that. And your question is quite good, asking, so why not connect, you know. There's been multiple dialogues with Native American tribes in Michigan over its natural history collections, even at the Botanical Gardens, there's like the heirloom seeds that they have, that came from Native communities, already, you know, just that exchange of ideas happening between the institution and their collection. But not the Philippines, even though we're here. So I think partly the answer is like, as you said, it could be the lack of curatorial interest, especially, you know, in the past. Now I would say this project we're doing is possible because there is actually the curatorial interests now. But there's historically none. I think it's more like the idea was, you know, first, the siloing of these collections. It's still a prevalent now if you go to, so I'm dividing the collections into cultural and scientific, you know, so the cultural ones are the ones that are in the archives and, you know, Philippine history and the photographs and things like that. And then the scientific, this is kind of crude way of dividing them. The scientific ones are the, you know, the collections in natural history and the erbarium, where the approach to representation is scientific. And so it's, it actually makes the collection harder to access for communities because first you need to have some kind of scholarly and legitimate reason for doing so. And also, these collections have always been regarded as academic research collections. So for instance, most majority of the materials are considered research collections, they're not for exhibit. They're stored. So the university started building a museum. Actually, it started with the Guta collection, and then it expanded from there, you know, the expedition in the Philippines. And also, because of that created its anthropology department. But, you know, they've always seen these collections as something that they collected in the field, and then put them in storage. The students do research, their students did research, the students did research, other scholars did research, but they're not actually meant for exhibition. And that kind of kept the collection in these literally cabinets, in literal cabinets and hidden. They've always been, they've always positioned the collections as for historical and research kind of use. And I think it's that kind of framework that, and we also assume that if we invite Filipino scholars to access these collections that we are actually that's enough to access. But we all know that within the Philippine culture, there's also a kind of even divide between the elites and the academics and they don't necessarily travel back to the community and return the knowledge. So, you know, my roundabout way of explaining, it's complicated and there's a particular kind of dynamic. And then going back to the relational connections with the community. How do you navigate the differences in approaches and mindsets between the Filipinos in diaspora and Filipinos back in the Philippines. So you're trying to get their opinions and engage with them. Now, how do you navigate there? Because probably the IPs are, you know, their social economic status is very different. Their view of cultural memory inherited. So how do you, yeah, how do you consult and then kind of, yeah, because I think that's kind of very difficult to navigate. Yeah, wow, Tina, you're asking excellent questions. And then you're hitting the, you know, the, like the key points here. So I would say, first, I'd like to say that, you know, the Philippine community, both the diaspora and back home, it's not a monolithic community. I'll give you an example. We did a community consultation last summer, and ask members of the Ann Arbor community, so people living in this area, also in Detroit, because we're close to Detroit, and ask, what should we do with this collection? And the assumption is that the collection is harmful. And, you know, there are some who actually express that they don't perceive it to be harmful. In fact, that's just, you know, how things were in the past. And that it's, you know, how people collected scientifically, or how people did their work. So, you know, as far as they're concerned, there's really no harm done. But some disagreed, right, you know, and so we don't really have the same response. In years ago, I conducted, you know, like a series of focused discussions around Philippine items in American museums. And some, there's also an intergenerational perspective happening, and there's also, you know, like the immigration status, right, so meaning, you know, third generation Philippine Americans might have some kind of affinity, but you know, those baskets and textiles do not really represent me as an American, you know, kind of idea, right. And then for some Filipinos, they say, I don't want to see that because it's a reminder of what they say about us as savages, you know, and backwards. So, very complex and complicated. So, navigating those conversations is not easy. Also, like, for instance, you know, the people in charge of this project, me, myself and Deirdre de la Cruz and my other partners. You know, even if we're Filipinos, you know, when we go back to the Philippines, we're also considered settler in the eyes of indigenous Filipinos because we're not a part of a tribe, right. So, so yeah, like all that positionality and different perspectives, not easy, but I'm not giving up on the power of dialogue because it's actually helping institutions figure out, you know, a path forward. And that it's to invest more on that work. And because to me, the collection being separated from the communities is, you know, worse than us, I think debating about what to do with the collections. Yeah. And then, you know, like real terms of engagement with the community with regard to power and resource sharing. Some people think until the museum actually hires somebody and gives them a permanent long term job to work on the collection. I mean, in terms of like, how do you actually, how do you envision sharing power with these, you know, with these people that you dialogue with. Yeah, or even material resources, you know, times, because it's hard to, you know, because most of the time voluntary and then, you know, people come in and so how do you, how do you address this kind of. The power imbalance, right. Yeah, yeah, especially like what's unique about the Philippine situation, at least for now I'm not claiming that this will always be the case. There's really no active advocacy to repatriate the items. Yeah, right, you know that right. Yeah, right there's no. In fact, the attitude is more like, you know, I don't want those baskets and weaving back we have tons of them back home. And the other thing that I hear is that basically, well, you know, with climate change and all that you want to share those, yeah, those materials so that we can study our own, you know, scientifically studies that there's that and then. So, yeah, the, well, it depends on how we locate power in this particular situation, you know, it's, it's not like the situation for Native American human remains and sacred objects where there's real advocacy, right. And then to get them back as part of this, you know, claim to sovereignty and respect. And then also, and that's emanating from the cultures from the, you know, so I think what the first thing we should do is learn, given the, you know, the number of communities in the Philippines. We should actually do our due diligence and examine what are the terms for the communities, right. We have models. We never lack models in our field of how do we share, how do we digitize, how do we provide digital access and even create, you know, ways to interact with the collection. But, you know, going back to the community and seeing that that's tricky and we're still actually trying to figure out a way to do this. I know some people would easily give up and say this is an impossible task, right. You know, and I feel like, well, you know, it may not be in our lifetimes. Like, you know, like to me that we're playing with a different mode of temporality, I guess. Yeah. I like your idea of the slow, slow. And the reparative description and corrective actions on the language in the catalogs. Yeah. Do you have a mechanism for annotating the database? Yeah, so, so what's happening now is actually we're compiling. There are other universities doing reparative description, you know, like leading the way or actually Yale at the Yale collection. Harvard, but, you know, not necessarily for Philippine collections, but just, you know, for other marginalized or historically marginalized communities. So, you know, we're actually interested in the workflow because, because, you know, when at the end of the day, this is still relying on institutional work. So when you go to, when you talk to librarians, archivist curators and collections managers, you can't just say decolonize the collection. They show them like a kind of workflow. And normally it has to align with, depending on the field, like for librarianship, it has to align with the standards and guidelines for description of description. Right. If you don't, you know, show that, you know, like a way to circumvent those rules or exemptions, it's very hard to, you know, in fact, one pushback we heard is from, you know, a Filipino librarian who said, you know, they've spent decades to describe the Philippine material so they could be discoverable. And now you're telling me that I have to undo my description because I use the Library of Congress subject heading. And, you know, so you can't annotate Ricky. So right now, yeah, that's what we're looking at all the possibilities either add or maybe create like, you know, an extra layer, a metal layer into the description across the universities that says, because right now, you know, one problem is they're not integrated let's say the Goofy archaeological collections are at the Antro Museum, and the Goofy papers are at the Bentley Library, you know, they need to be brought together and make, you know, people realize that the archives in the museums are actually, while they're separate they are very much connected. Very much connected. So, so in terms of digital infrastructures and reparative description and all these actions, you know, we're looking at right now practical ways actually to implement and it may end up having a digital infrastructure. I know I've been really quite negative about, you know, jumping into that digital bandwagon immediately, but who knows, you know, to me is basically I want to listen and hear first and dialogue and talk to scholars like you and maybe in the audience to hear what's happening. I think for me, yeah, I think with the mapping, because of course we're learning all the time, as we keep adding to the inventory, but I guess it is kind of a superstructure in a way that we have more editorial control, because we link back to the items in the repository, but then we are able to have more mechanisms for enunciation from the community. I say we have control, editorial control, we annotate the entries, so we don't have to go through the mechanism of the library and the kind of their editorial policies and things. So I don't know if that in a way makes a kind of aggregated inventory a bit more manageable in terms of annotation or mechanisms for enunciation from the community. I don't know. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, we're faced with the realities and you know this, right, like for instance, some communities do not even have 24 hours of electricity, you know, so how can they annotate things, you know, it's difficult. No, but like with the mapping, we have workshops, for example, and then we gather, you know, and then I'm just talking more about the kind of the result of the workshops, it's easier to annotate a kind of free standing aggregation rather than the bad to go into the library system. Yeah, and individually, yeah, because they have rules and they have, yeah, so it's harder to. Systems don't necessarily talk to each other, like, you know, the museum will have its different database, whatever they use, and then the archive will have the finding aid and it could be not in a database but the published finding aid or digitized finding aid, which is you know, so, you know, like the infrastructure, I think, yeah, some will take the path of creating a kind of supra, what's the term? Yeah, that would become an umbrella for across. Yeah, yeah. But I guess that's kind of what we're doing with the mapping, no? But it was just too hard to. That's right, but how do you incorporate indigenous knowledge in that, you know. Oh, so we do a lot of in conversation. So we do a lot of workshops, so like we do, just recently we did the Tagbanua workshop, I think Sonya is here, from the Columbia. So it was actually really interesting, because these were people from all over, of course, Zoom, and then we transcribed and translated and everyone could just pitch in and then we had a product at the end and a paper and then we were able to annotate right away and to show, of course, it doesn't speak back immediately to the museum, where the object is stored, but at least we have this kind of, yeah, addition to the baseline, the baseline data. Yeah, I mean, I really believe in the dialogues. I mean, over the years, you know, you've heard people being critical of dialogues and they were tired of talking. But I say, you know, it depends on who's listening and, you know, and where, you know, whose perspectives you're privileging. Because even like the, you know, and a lot of museums are very open to that, you know, like a lot come to us to say how do we correct these sort of pan regional terms, kind of the idea of the moral and then Providence Research also they keep, you know, and I think it is a good foundation for, I don't know, for eventual repatriation if there is a need. Yeah, but more, as you were saying, which I agree very much with is there is a kind of focus on the colonial on the collector, you know, rather than And there is definitely a need to put in more details on, I guess, reversing the map also, no? Yeah, and like one time in one event I was accused of basically, you know, you're erasing history by changing the descriptive terms. I said, no, it's, we're not, that's not the recommendation. The suggestion is to, you know, well, for providential research, of course you want to know these people and, you know, so history of the item, you're not erasing that. You're just basically adding more terms that would help communities find themselves in your collection. Because, you know, as a good example is Wooster, unless you know who Wooster is and what he did in the Philippines, which tribal community he's been, you wouldn't know that he has items about your community, right, and, you know, magnify that into hundreds and thousands of collections. It's, and then for scientific collections, you know, when you front scientific, you know, naming and convention and it's less findable in the Philippines because we have local terms and names for certain things. I mean, it's not, this is not a surprise for museum workers, but I think the crux is basically on the implementation. So like the, I think the dismissing Philippine collections as like, oh, it's far, it's difficult, we don't have the money, we don't have the infrastructure and things like that. So, right now, like the goal of our project is to show model for doing this and say, you know, there's there's a path here, and it's a slow one, but let's do the first step. Yeah. I think we have questions. From the audience. Okay, great. Thanks so much, Ricky and Christina for the wonderful discussion I didn't really want to interrupt because you guys were kind of going to really And I know and we miss each other and this is our only opportunity to chat. So everyone learned a lot from your discussion and I mean I really appreciated that sort of focus on practice and implementation and you know I like how you can just show up at a museum or library and say like the colonize everything you actually have to get people like a workflow right. So, but yeah, I mean we have a couple of questions from the audience and I would like to, you know, encourage everyone else to please type of questions into the Q&A box. We still have about 20 minutes for questions. I just want to pose the first question that's asked by Almyra Gilles. It's Gilles. Hi Almy, we know Almy. So she's a research associate from the Field Museum and she says one of the encumbrances to the display of the Field Museum Philippine Ethnographic Collection they have 10,000 objects but only 20 hours display is actually financial so who's responsibility is it institutional and who's responsibility is it to find funding and is it a local diasporic community or global including Filipinos in the Philippines so I think that's kind of connected what you've been talking about. Yeah, like that financial aspect of this you know so I'll tell you what happened here at Michigan. You know, over the years, the academic community here has really been conscious about, you know, the existence of Philippine collections and the lack of infrastructures to connect them to communities and you know, and also the dark colonial history right. So when I was a PhD student here and then I left and and then came back as a professor, and then I, you know, with tenure and I think it was at that time, there's already other efforts to, you know, build the collection do exhibits. There's even protests from many years back on the natural history collections here. You know, like for us, you know, the timing is just ripe to go to the university and say, we want to do this, but we need funding. So the university has an arm called the humanities collaboratory, and the humanities collaboratory is, you know, under the office of the provost and they have a pot of money and we applied for, you know, support. So in this instance, it's actually the university that provided the funding. Of course, it also relied on the willingness of the scholars here the Filipino scholars to work. Because we asked, we also think that it has to be led by people from the community, and the scholars from the Philippines who are here because we are here. So there's also that, you know, effort. Maybe at some point, going back to Almi's question about so who's responsibility. That's a complex and hard question to answer in the sense that, you know, the reality of Michigan is, you know, different, you know, it's a university institution. And there's the whole anti racist rhetoric is really, you know, as a university really open here. Once a scholar like me and Deirdre go to university and say, you know, we need to dismantle, you know, the racist practices that we have here. There's a tendency to work with us, you know, and, you know, with, you know, willingness to do that, which I do not know and I'm not certain if it's, you know, the same for institutions. I'm not saying that the field museum is one of those that this is the difficult because I know some of the curators and people like Almi they are doing great work and they actually have inspired me with, you know, the co curation concept. But, you know, right now we're saying, well, other than co curation, there should be counter curation as well from the community, you know, like the kind of resistance it's not always harmonious, you know, sometimes you have to counter. And all of those models, I think for a university like this. We're also excited around, you know, the possibilities of this of rethinking, you know, new frameworks and new ideas, you know, so for us, the funding comes from the university and, you know, through the efforts of the scholars in this university. I know in Chicago, there's a big Filipino population. There's a consulate there. So potentially, but I don't know if Filipinos at this stage are willing to, you know, provide funding and money. I have a, I know of another effort, another, I'm not going to name the group, but another, you know, Asian population and they are having a hard time soliciting donation to support the project because there's just not a culture of giving to institutions in the same way that many cultures have a kind of philanthropic spirit that I will give you an endowment of this much. You know, I don't know, I'm maybe over generalizing, but it's really hard for me to find Filipinos to open their pocketbooks and donate. So like right now, we're going the route of the institution supporting this. But you know, I'll be here in Chicago, there's probably a lot of entrepreneurs there. So I have to say though that Jamie Kelly gave us permission to use the entire database of the 10K collection, including the IRS photos and catalogs to add to the inventory, the mapping. So I know there are limitations to digital, to kind of a digital kind of museum in some sense. But I guess for me it's always better to just have that type of access, and then work on that access by by connecting it. And that leads to even digital repatriation. I think Ikin is here and she's so very very successful with with bringing these high resolution photos of textiles and bringing it to the weaving community in the cordilleras and they're able and using a digital to be able to revitalize the textile industry because that's what the specific community wanted. They wanted to see these old designs, 150 year old designs preserved in museums. So in some sense, because of this, you know, it's kind of, I guess it's not a slow way to deal with it Ricky, but because you know you in a way you dump the colonial into as a baseline in this in this huge inventory. But yet, I think there are ways also to manage it so that it becomes more, you know, it can intervene in some ways so you can make sure that you actually put mechanisms for intervention. You know, listen, for me is like, I think we benefit from the diversity of approaches. You know, we have different approaches but at the end of the day I'm not I don't see myself in competition with any projects happening. In fact, I do think that it's a particular ecology that sometimes maybe things should happen simultaneously, the fast and the slow. You know, because I do think that, you know, I mean like, I'm Eakin is doing amazing work, you know, bringing collections I know that she's just for the Worcester photographs here she's done photoidicitation in places that physically I cannot go, you know, and you know, all those ties and connections. So, you know, and even the National Museum of the Philippines once used some images of Worcester from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, you know, getting high resolution copies from there for their exhibit so there's there are those kinds of exchanges that I think are good that facilitated digitally, right, because it's, it's one, one notion of repatriation that I'm very fascinated with is not that of like actual return but, you know, knowledge repatriation you actually repatriate knowledge because sometimes it's not really the object that people are seeking. It's the knowledge embedded in those objects and sometimes digitization could facilitate many of those. You know, so we do have examples of, you know, actual repatriation of objects in the Philippines right and but a lot of those are very like symbolic, you know, like the Balangiga bells it's like stolen by the American soldiers, returning has some kind of meaning, you know, nationally. But most of the time the majority of the collections in museums and archives and libraries here are more like, I would say falling under the rubric of, you know, knowledge repatriation. Give them the knowledge, give them knowledge about, you know, how traditions and rituals are performed, knowledge about land knowledge about, you know, natural resources and things like that so that people are informed so that they know, you know, both the cultural and scientific knowledge that they actually have that are embedded in these collections so I think you know there's a whole lot of exciting work to be done around knowledge repatriation. Yeah. And, well, I guess, with digital repatriation, the idea, the cost factor is very minimal in some sense, you know, and that's another, that's another, you know, and then of course the preservation of the material. Of course there's no aura of the actual thing but if it was indeed knowledge repatriation. There are ways even now technologically. There's a lot now of computational tools that you can use with digital repatriation you can use an AI and look at emerging patterns for kind of diasporic objects and then once they're aggregated you can see stylistic patterns you can see kind of diffusion of, I don't know, not really diffusion but even connections with Southeast Asia when you begin to aggregate the whole thing in one. So, yeah, in terms of knowledge repatriation I do think. Sometimes, you know, I like the term knowledge repatriation rather than digital repatriation because when you say digital repatriation you're focusing on the medium. But the solution is not really the medium it's through the, you know, access to knowledge. And also, I've kind of, I've been reading a whole lot about digital repatriation and I do embrace some of the critique that say it's not repatriation where they're only giving back copies. So but I say but there's a lot of power in those copies because they have knowledge embedded in them. So why don't we just be more accurate and say this is knowledge repatriation. That's a very good point actually. So yeah, kind of seems with this question of repatriation is really dependent on what the community wants and needs. Thanks so much for kind of complicating that question a little more. I just want to take another question. We have 10 minutes left for today's session. Thank you so much. And she thanks Dr Ricardo for the interesting introduction and also for your critique of the term, the colonization and introducing us to the story of the Michigan man and histories of clicking at the, at the university. And she appreciates your emphasis on building community relations and wonders, are there any models for you and your team beyond the Native American experiences which of course, I guess it's the most natural to turn to given your location in the US. Are there any other models for you that you follow. And also other, you know, similarly large other similarly large Filipino collections outside the Philippines and how do they do you know how they engage with the goals to be colonized. Yeah, so yeah, I would say stay tuned, because you know, like our project is a three year project we only started in September we did a series of conversations in the summer summer here is basically May, June, July, August. And then after that we got two year funding beginning September to actually create the model. So what we're doing is basically, let's try some activities and programs and see how it will work for us and create like a kind of toolkit that others could see because we know and conscious of the fact that we are not the only university with large Philippine collections Harvard has a Philippine collection. I know Berkeley. I don't if you're watching the news Berkeley. There's a lot of currently happening a protest in Berkeley about you know the treatment of Philippine collections there. I know Cornell has Philippine materials, Yale and prison basically like big universities right and and museum, the pen museum also yeah because I've done research there and then of course you know field museum, you know non university based. The American Museum of Natural History the Smithsonian. It's largest Asian collection is actually Philippines. Why, because we were a colony right so we really need models and this is what I'm saying you know we need to create those models. And while saying this may not apply for just about every institution, but let we'll show you how we're doing it and then so one of the things that were, we have different kind of points one is reparative description like how do we fix the right that's one. Another is how do we engage communities, you know we've been doing all the series of dialogues we had dialogue by going to like the Philippine Center in Detroit for instance, we want to do more of that. But one is to open the collection and do what we call the the reconnect lab which is patterned after you know if you Google museums lab you'll see many models of museums lab but we call it reconnect lab where you, you bring objects, and then around the object you create like dialogues for people to you know, talk. So the problem right now is our location, you know, it's almost impossible plus COVID to bring Filipinos we have a we're planning to bring indigenous Filipinos here but you know as you know number one visa restrictions are to COVID and availability, you know so, but if we choose to we have funding for that, but we're saying oh, we have to wait. Yeah, and so that's why you know we cannot make decisions and say this is how you do it we want to test them. We also have an artist series where we want to bring diverse artists to interact with the collection. We opened up, you know, the catalogs to artists and say, What can you make of it, you know, what will you make but there's no pressure to make something but for them to interact with the collection and see if they do something you know so that we have an artist series. And then of course, there's a pedagogy around this that the university is really interested like involving the students like how do you really do reparative and decolonial work. It's not just it's not sustainable if it's the same people over and over right you know so we are we're working with students across universities of different levels undergrad to all the way up to the PhD. And you know, it does make me so busy with all of these things but you know it's it's the kind of hard work that I really like so to answer the question we are building the model. And with the caveat that you know this this works for us here in Michigan maybe you can emulate some of it or be inspired by some of it and maybe it will work. And, and yeah but the thing is you know I wouldn't discount too much the progress in Native American collections because you know a lot of the issues are resonating with us. Some of the arguments could very well be applied to Philippine collection. But you know the thing is we need to sit down and like see how they apply really to us. I'm extremely grateful because in a sense you know they made institutions more open to these kinds of work. So, the term I use is I build I build from the Native American models that are out there. Christina do you have anything to add on your work with mapping material culture Philippine material culture and how you know what kinds of models have you been following in your work in my work. Well, there's a, I don't know, people might accuse me of being too theoretical but hey you know I'm an academic. So I could I could put it in the chat later on but there's a work by Sharon McDonald it's a co-authored piece called other whicing. And maybe somebody could quickly Google that if you put Sharon McDonald otherwise and you'll see the PDF of that work. And you know Sharon McDonald is for you know like the museum studies scholars here probably is quite familiar you know she's done a lot of work or thinking around museums. But she was particularly looking at anthropological collections and how do how do we think otherwise you know other ways of doing things and and that actually was enough to inspire me so yeah, how do we perform other whicing in this collection how do we do things otherwise when we know it's not working. There's you know it's very liberating to see to see that you know argument you know like the one I cited earlier slow archives by Kim Kristen and Jane Anderson. Also, you know, advocating for the slow process not jump immediately into you know big projects that you think will be high yield but create and form relationships. That's another one. You know, I've been, you know, like that. My experience when I was still a student and I was invited at the field museum and then they did the co curation event in there. That one was amazing, you know, bringing community members together I was there I was very touching. Mira brought me actually and John, the wealth curator. So there's, there are things that are in practice that informed me over the years, my own scholarship in virtual reunification and digital repatriation. I'm, I'm actually not against digitization I'm more nuanced about it having studied, you know, what that what the process could actually achieve and also the limitations. Particularly in the limitations for communities. So, yeah, but you know, the models I'm talking about they will not give you like one size fits all like map or guidelines that they say if you do step one two and three then you'll see your set. I think the slow archives movement and the other rising movement. These are people who tend to think with communities. Think through the processes, do the dialogue, and then start working slowly. To that specificity that you are talking about mentioning on there as well. Yeah, I mean, if you examine the history of these institutions it took them decades, if not centuries to build the collection, we cannot undo those structures in 10 years, I think. I'm I'm prepared to take this project beyond, you know, be on my lifetime and that's why I believe in mentoring students and young students, because I do think that it will continue until, until we're all gone, and because it took the same amount of time to create this collection. They will probably take generations to kind of, you know, do this work. But Christina, we only have a couple of minutes remaining. Christina, do you have anything to add to this any final sort of thoughts. Yeah, I do really agree with Ricky, no. Now, there's no point in in access, if, if, if you define access as just mere data on, on, you know, in not really connecting to the, but connecting to the cultural or originators and the communities who actually own the cultural property I guess but I guess there's also something to be said about aggregate go putting the data out there. baseline data so that you already get access and then work from there in terms of, of connecting to the community so, so you have something in some sense already. So yeah, again that's a different model in some sense but I think the ultimate goal is really allow to empower another cultural originators to have a say to enunciate to own this, this, this cultural, this cultural heritage, I guess that they have. Thanks so much. Well, so with that, I think I need to kind of bring the session to a close. We don't want to thank, you know, Dr. Benzalan and Dr. Martinez one for your really rich and productive discussion today. I mean, you know, I've also learned a lot and I think gives me a lot, a lot to think about for my own kind of curatorial work at the ACM in Singapore. And also to thank our audience for your for your time and attention and for all your questions. So, you know, once again, remember to sign up for the final webinar and our decolonizing curating the museum and Southeast Asia series next week, the same time. And yeah, to those who celebrate today's actually the body, so you know, happy to be probably happy to Wally, everyone all over the world. And yeah, with that, I'll bring this session to a close. Thank you everyone. Thank you.

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CISO Perspective from theCUBE Collective | Supercloud 3

Merritt Baer, field CISO at Lacework joins theCUBE host John Furrier for our continuing coverage of Supercloud 3

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Welcome back to SuperCloud 3. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. This session is security plus AI, the perspectives of the CISO, the opportunities and challenges. And we're here with distinguished CUBE contributor and just announced from Lacework, their new field CISO, Merit Bear, Merit, great to see you. Congratulations on the new job at Lacework. Great to see you. Thank you so much, John. I'm happy to be here. Yeah, I'm very excited. And obviously this is a near and dear topic. So happy to do the conversation. Well, congratulations on the big news that launched this week that you moved from AWS office of the CISO to Field CISO at Lacework, a fast growing company we cover in detail. Jay was just on, the CEO was just on the keynote on SuperCloud on day one. Great company, we've been following them for years. A lot of action. So before we get into some of the SuperCloud 3 security and AI conversation and perspective of the CISO, tell us about your job as Field CISO. What are you going to be doing at Lacework? Yeah, I am going to be talking regularly with customer CISOs and CXOs executives about their approach to moving to cloud, about their security posture, about how we can help solution for them. It is not a sales role. I get to be the security practitioner geek that I am, but talking to folks who are working on these problems and helping them to understand how to best approach the life cycle of security. And also being a person in the industry who helps to inform thoughtful approaches to security at scale and being able to do that in a way that is enabling the business. And that's always been a big bone of my hair. We always joke about my T-shirts. I'm wearing a Lacework one today that says run EC2. And the point is like to go out and do stuff, right? The point is not that security should hamstring you, but that it should actually be woven into what you do and allow you to do more and have the confidence to do it securely. That's awesome. I like how you call that. That's not so much a sales role other than getting down and dirty with the tech and also the changing tech. And you know, the CISO has got to deal with relationships with the board, the C-suite, partnerships with industry, other companies, the platforms they're running on, the tools they want to do, the supply chain security, all that stuff is on the mind. But at the end of the day, there's new tech coming, new technologies. There's different ways to approach threat detection, scales there. These are real technical challenges. When you're out there talking to the CISO, what's their perspective? What's the psychology right now in the mind of the CISO? Are they more political, more technical? So you're going to take more of a technical approach. What's on the mind of the CISO? You know, honestly, the tech matters a lot. And folks that I talk to sometimes feel overwhelmed and sort of lonely having to confront some of these issues. And you know, they may or may not have huge amounts of support from the rest of the business. And so it's sort of like they need to garner the resources they need and then also go out and do it. And I think one of the reasons that I came to Lacework is that I think what I was hearing at AWS is that folks want something that just works. And Lacework felt like magic. And so the ability to take what are these kind of broad issues, so like, I want visibility. Well, great, now that you're in cloud, everything's an API call, let's say. And if you weren't in one environment, then you're going to have even other challenges with your visibility, right? But then what? How do you take action on things? How do you know that your muscle groups are getting better? And so that's just one example. But essentially, I think the goal for CISOs is to prioritize the issues they have, be able to make meaningful change and be able to enable the business, like keep the lights on, but be able to make security part of what they're delivering. These days, it is part of your bottom line. Like, it's got to be what you are delivering to your customers, too, regardless of the industry that you're in. And so having tooling and capabilities that allow you to build better, build and do security at scale, that's actually the enabler that we've been excited about, but it needs to be done, the CISOs are thinking, how do I do this in a controlled and responsible and secure manner? Yeah, there's always the question of the single security control point or multiple layers, what's, you know, is that you do it together? That kind of thing. And I think one of the things that we've observed on theCUBE, talking to folks and watching some talks that you've given actually in the past and others, is there's a big push with digital transformation, which is, you know, we're transforming our business and now with AI, almost half the code in GitHub is presented by machines. So you're seeing an acceleration of the digitization of business. At the same time, the security architecture has to evolve with some of the infrastructure changes, hybrid edges emerging, multiple clouds. So baking in security into operations sounds like a cool thing to say, but like it's hard. So can you share your perspective of from a CISO perspective, how do you bake security into the operations as the plane is traveling at 35,000 feet? Because you've got cloud, okay, get that on-premises, hybrid and edge and then multiple clouds. Yeah, I mean, I think, so first of all, when it comes to things like generative AI, although it's become a really buzzy word in the last year or so, you know, we have been using ML, we technologists and security folks have been using ML for at least 30 years, maybe longer depending on how you define it. So on some level, I think we should continue to let computers do what computers do well. And that doesn't mean that it's going to take away from the raw importance of human innovation and creativity and thoughtfulness. So I think questions around AI are important and exciting and that we should be taking advantage of technologies where they make sense, but it's certainly not a sort of, okay, we've arrived, there's no need for human thoughtfulness in this area. We definitely are working on that and with that. And one of the ways, as you alluded to, that folks are taking advantage of it is having generative AI do code reviews and other things. We've seen the outputs that you get when you try to have them write code and it's not that great, but I don't think there's any reason why you can't take the tool and use it for whatever it works for. In terms of, as you were describing, sort of doing this at scale and being able to get to that woven in standpoint, I think part of the key is that digital transformation. So while lots of organizations do and will have on-prem assets for the foreseeable future, moving what you can to cloud will really allow you to take advantage of that scale, the ability to have those flexible environments to scale up and down. And by that token, to you use infrastructure as code. So things like terraform, cloud formation, et cetera, to be templatizing your environments. And you've got your security team with arms around these so that you're generating templatized environments for your R&D teams that look different than your HR teams. And you're really constraining as you push to production. A lot of this, again, can be validated by computers and ensuring that you're doing least privilege or in the case of lacework, helping with configuration anomalies and misconfigurations. As you know, this is one of the huge pain points for folks. And so it's something that, like you said, it's not just like a push a button and you're done, but it is a huge advancement over the kinds of physical jobs that it was like some person's job to go run around and make sure all your VMs are plugged in. And you don't have to think of security in those same manual terms today. And in fact, you shouldn't, you should take advantage of that ephemerality and the ability to do that kind of modular environment. Identities should be vended, and that will decrease your sort of special snowflakes, which are always sources of possible, negative security impacts. Well, I want to get in some of the challenges organizations have with multi-cloud and super cloud as it emerged. There was certainly data is a big part of it, but I do want to ask you about culture. Well, you brought up some of those things you mentioned. The security culture of the old VM ways. Now you got cloud native moving forward is not just AWS, you got Azure, you got multiple clouds. They have their own security cultures as well and code and stacks. What's the culture like that you're seeing that's working for CSOs and security practitioners? Is there a trend that's happening? Is there a certain playbook that's sustainable that you see people adopting from a culture standpoint? So I get it's actually one of the primary questions that I get from CSOs is like, or other executives, how do I build a culture of security? And the answer is by doing it, your culture will reflect what your actual priorities are. And I'm not saying that to be flippant. I mean, so nothing goes out without app set reviews and you can add an architectural security review onto that, especially if you're building on cloud. And you can make sure that like I said that you're using paved roads for your developers so that their app set reviews go faster and they have a security engineer trained person on the team and like you can do this in very mechanical or mechanistic ways that ensure that you're actually living up to these kinds of ideals. It's not, this is not a lip service. We say we want a culture. You have to do it. And it takes work and you build up those muscle groups and the tech matters, but ultimately it's more the commitment. And part of that is your executive sponsorship or whatever the right word is for the importance of security and the fact that it's going to be part of what you deliver and not a cost center. I always get weary of that misnomer because I just think we have to think of security as part of your core business delivery. And once you do that, hopefully the business is able to support you, but my personal prescription would be that the CISO should report to the CEO, for example, so that they cannot be benched when it gets inconvenient to prioritize security, that they should have a seat at the table, that your processes are informed by security, that you're then able to translate that down to your customers. Like I said, it can be a really compelling part of both what you translate up to the board and down to your end users as what they get when they do business with you. It's interesting. It's an IQ test when you look at the CISO relationship because when you call it a cost center, essentially that's so dumb because it is the only thing that matters because if the company goes out of business with a breach, there is no cost center profit center. They are the business because digital transformation assumes securities everywhere and that's why this whole security everywhere message. We heard that at reinforced too about scale. I talked with Megan Isenberg from Lacework at there about this too. And she was telling us about what you guys are working on but the comments we heard from that event were, weave security into the development cycles, shift left as they say, not bolted on after the fact. What does that mean when people say weave in security into the development cycles? Yeah, and I think this is actually, you alluded to like the business risk of breach, for example, and that obviously is true. Like no one wants to be in the newspaper headlines tomorrow for that but there's also a much more just like ordinary or like, bread and butter story around that importance of security which is as you alluded to, like the ability to actually get your death cycles shorter to have them running into fewer obstacles and doing that in an increasingly automated way. So it means that, the minute you spin up an environment in the cloud you have made some decisions. There are permissions in there. There's either an internet facing endpoint or there isn't. There's all these ways in which escalations might be able to be privileged or not like you are either encrypting or you're not and those are security decisions that you've now embedded in the ways that you're building. So I think in cloud it's very evident that you have to weave it in but I think even when you're working in multi-environment and on-prem, you know, the idea that you have these muscle groups that security is part of your lifeblood that you're regularly doing exercises. I mean, another thing is like if you define security by the CIA triad of confidentiality, integrity and availability, we security practitioners focus really heavily on the confidentiality and integrity side, you know, making sure things are locked down or encrypted or are validated as being true. But what about availability? Like it also has to work. So you have to build all this stuff and build it securely, but it also has to be something that, you know stays highly available. And I think that as part of your security mechanism does mean that the business is, you know this is critical to how we define a successful business strategy is ensuring all of those elements including the fact that things keep working. Merit, great to have you on theCUBE. Certainly we appreciate you being a CUBE contributor part of our collective, but also the being the field CISO at Lacework, great company. Final question for you is what are the conversations you're going to have you expect to have this year as you go forward now that you're kind of outside the cloud AWS which is they're great with security. We've covered them great too but they're one cloud. You know, customers have multiple environments not just one public cloud. They have multiple public clouds. You sit now a partner with AWS with Lacework but you also have an independent perspective for the customer. They want to connect their environments, run their cloud operations with security. What are some of the conversations that you expect to have this year in the field? Yeah, I think you're right on with that. I think, you know we will have conversations with customers frankly, even when I was at AWS we had plenty of conversations with customers who were in multi cloud or in multi environment including OT and other considerations. I think we will do the same hard work that it is to take advantage of technologies that are available. One of the reasons folks come to Lacework is to help with multi cloud management and multi account management which is a deliberate best practice but it takes corralling and you want to have some posture management and other elements of your security strategy then need to take that into account. So I think it's going to be the kinds of conversations that folks are increasingly having which are around how do I do more automation so I can get more scale? How do I contribute to the digital transformation that I know we need to do but that we may have some technical debt and other issues in implementing and how do I take advantage of emerging technologies? You know, how do I take advantage of the ways in which we are seeing increasing reliance on like you said, AIML on being able to scale up using modular environments using open source but having awareness of the security considerations around it. You know, there's going to be all of those good sort of constant conversations because security is something that doesn't just get done one day. We're never going to be like, all right, our work here is over. It is like a journey and it is also something you get better at over time and it changes over time. And so it's really kind of that commitment to doing the best we can with what we have and being bold enough to make the choices when we need to move. I think sometimes security folks are risk averse and think that not moving is a security strategy and I would encourage folks to reframe that because not moving means that you have also lost out on some possible gains. So I think, you know, we're going to see those threads continue and I hope to be a force for good in that momentum and bring back customer feedback to our roadmap too. You know, we are extremely empathetic and we build for the customers. So I look forward to being able to be a feedback loop both ways. I hear a great voice and great to have you on expertise here on theCUBE, SuperCloud 3. Great to have you. We'll check in with you when our security conversations, when we do our top power panels, definitely want to hear more about what's going on and appreciate your time. Merit, thanks for coming on theCUBE, SuperCloud 3, security plus AI. That sounds great. Thank you, John. Appreciate it. Okay. Merit Bear, the field CISO at Laceworks for with AWS, CUBE contributor. We'll be back more with SuperCloud 3 after the short break.

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Addressing Evolving Threat Models in Cloud Security with Open-Source Software

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Perfect. All right, thank you everyone for joining this morning. I have today with me, my dear friend and security leader, Nick from SNAP. He heads the detection engineering at SNAP. Nick, thank you so much for joining me this morning. Thanks for having me so much, Sandeep. It's such a pleasure. Absolutely. So everyone, you know, this is unlike, you know, a bunch of previous webinars we have done. We will not be talking specifically about any particular product or any particular feature. Rather, the goal of this, you know, session essentially is to talk to thought leaders like Nick, see how cutting edge security teams like the one in SNAP or the ones in Google or Amazon, essentially use open source software at scale to keep their security program, keep their security apparatus consistently cutting edge. So that would be the topic today. The way we're going to go about this, Nick, essentially is, of course, we have, I have a dozen, you know, almost a dozen questions for you starting, you know, talking about the evolution of cloud security, talking about how open source fits the bill. You know, what sort of any initiatives that you might have at SNAP that we could, you know, take as a use case and talk about it. And of course, a bunch of inputs along the way for vendors who have open source first, you know, good market strategy, as well as, you know, any other compliance with that, that would be the format. Well, we'll keep it part structured, part free flowing. So please feel free to ask any questions. Anytime you want to take the questions towards the end. And with that, I think we'll just go ahead and get started on this one. So by default, all the attendees are muted. This webinar, of course, is being recorded and you'll have the slides as well as, you know, the video shared with you as we go forward. Keep asking the questions anytime you want to, you know, ask those questions absolutely fine. I will try to keep looking at the, you know, the questions and, you know, if I find any question that is sort of super relevant. At that point in time, I'll bring it up right now. Otherwise, we'll take a couple of questions, you know, towards the end of the webinar. So with that, to introduce myself, of course, I'm Sandeep Kofan, I'm the receiver defense. I have Nick with me, security and utility leader at SNAP. Nick, once again, welcome to the session. Yeah, thank you so much Sandeep. And of course, Nick, you and me go back a long way, you know, start, you know, meeting first on the bylines of one of the conferences and we share this common passion for open source. But for the audience, you know, that has tuned in today, do you want to go ahead, you know, sort of talk about your journey. How you, you know, what is your primary role and responsibility at SNAP, what you've been doing prior to that. We would love to hear your story. Start with that, please. Yeah, absolutely Sandeep. Thank you again for having me. It's such a pleasure to be here and share some thoughts with the audience. I recognize some of my friends and future employees that actually joined this call. So we have an individual joining us soon at SNAP that's actually on this webinar to listen in, which is really, which is really great to see. Thank you for joining Karen. And also thank you for joining Jeff. Look, it's been a while journey. I'm an immigrant kid who came here at five years old with two bags and a dream my family landed in JFK some 20 years ago, more than that actually like 30 years ago. And we, we've just been trying to build our life here and I found security pretty young age and at about age 16 I started, I started hacking web proxies at school because I wanted to get access to the open internet to download music. I didn't want to do this. But at the time the internet was really slow at home we only had America online dial up we would get the CDs and because we were poor, we could only get like 30 hours a month from the CD and then we had to get to the next CD. But the school had proper internet it was T1 it was 1.54 and BPS, which is a lot faster. But there was a problem. I couldn't get past the web proxy to use Kazan Napster download music. I figured out like hey there's this little host file you can edit. And if you edit the host file it changes the route that that machine takes to bypass the web proxy and then I can get to the open internet. And I did, but that was my realization about age 16 I realized that this six the security industry is my calling and since then I've been at it for 20 years and in the best like five years or so something changed in my career I realized I've learned a lot and I've harvested a lot of knowledge. And now it's time to give back that knowledge. And part of giving back that knowledge is sharing some of the cool stuff I've learned along the way with others. And that inspired me to not only do more things that snap and be more influential but also have a more influential effect on the community to start paying it forward during COVID during lockdowns. We had more time on our hands I decided to create a class on cloud native cloud security technologies fully focused on open source. This class has now been consumed by over 2000 students 2000 people I've never met have taken a class that I created I hope I've created some value for them. Some of them have reached out to me and thank me. Many haven't but that's okay. You know as as I was writing this class I realized that there's not a lot of good books on cloud native open source security. So every book that was even like close to that topic I had a stack of seven or eight books, and they're real and that these books are really great and I could probably write a better book. So after the class shift in May of 21, myself and a couple of folks at snap we, we proposed a book proposal to a publisher we had a relationship with through Michael Zalewski who used to be our VP of security he's kind of an influential guy in the industry. We had some introductions and we got a book deal with no starch, which builds themselves as entertainment for the geeks. So, we're working on the book we're about halfway down it'll ship in September of this year. Hopefully maybe we could do a book signing with with defense maybe at one of the conferences this summer. But yeah that's a little bit of background and beyond that right now I look after corporate. I look after corporate security at snap. I have interest in a lot of other areas that I've talked about with your teaching and my personal research so yeah that's a little bit of background. Absolutely love, love that make and you know what love to host you at our book at RSA and maybe even a black hat, you know, the book comes out by the back by then. And you know what I think one of the common themes that both of us have sort of interacted on is, you know, security is a digital public good. Everybody has a big it's a basic right everybody needs it. It's like GPS it's like raw infrastructure and security is essentially that it's a public good. Everybody has to have an access and I think that's where you know be connected on the open source, essentially the passion for open source and you know, really giving it back to the community so thank you so much for that. Now let's just, you know, try and you know look at open source insecurity and how leaders such as yourself companies that have snapped essentially look at this from a standard point of view really right. Yeah. What level open source security solutions are considered by your teams be the detection engineering team be the the security engineering team or DevSecOps or you know you name it essentially. One of the options that comes to you know the team's mind or you essentially always start with open source solution is how do you really think about it. We almost always start with open source and the reason from there. Now there are some things they wouldn't build like they wouldn't build an anti virus team and that's really involved and other people have done it really well. We probably wouldn't build some other commodity tools but would we build the service around device trust to assure that every single corporate device on the network actually belongs to the company and when you authenticate to a company endpoint. We can add in a payload in the authentication header to assure that that endpoint is actually the company's endpoint it's not a real good point. That's something we build. We call it device trust. So it's foundational right we could have when bought something similar sure there's beyond corp style zero trust products in the industry but that's not how we approach it let me let me tell you a little bit more about why. Let me zoom back out to the kind of cloud cloud angle here to me it's really ironic that the cloud and the internet are built on open source technologies broadly. However most security tools are closed source commercial products. This has a bunch of downsides that I want to talk about. I think it holds back security engineering as really being seen as a true engineering discipline and a lot of companies. At high technical bar companies this isn't the case but in in lower technical bar companies security is seen as a compliance function as the policy people people who say no. But what why is that the case at like at the foundation security is an engineering problem. Right. And so at you know at internet scale the way that we operate we we need to build to support the the ecosystem that part of if I can convince the engineering team that a security control needs to be implemented and built in a certain way and we can't have like low low observability of how we do that especially in the cloud context. We're not going to be able to get it across the line and close source commercial products. You're basically living to the vendor documentation and mental models. Let me give you an example snap rounds of service measure over 1000 communities clusters. In order to add runtime monitoring like Falco we had to convince the mesh platform engineering team that's kind of the central team that builds the service mesh that we instantly understand the fault modes for Falco. And we have a way to kill the sidecar that Falco runs in. If something goes wrong. I remember this meeting vividly. It was a meeting with the engineering director for that she means like Nick where is the big red button. Like, oh, you mean like how do I kill it if it's if it's if it's doing something unexpected. Yeah, like Nick how do you kill it because honestly these folks don't really want this there this is like another variable for them to manage so we have to convince them that this is the right thing to do so how do we do it we throw it modeling and we sit down and say okay what are the fault modes that can happen. The cluster loses connectivity to the network and fully saturate the network adapter what do we do next Falco sidekick services down or inaccessible how do we kill it that we push a bad rule to Falco another rule up data is stuck in a loop. Right, what do we do next, or we have an unexpected CPU load on the kernel, and that that's maybe the fault of Falco how do we have observability so we spent like a year studying how to do this correctly. I'm not kidding like a year, and then implementing all these control mechanisms these big red buttons as I call them right to roll out of Falco that's just one like one major product yeah we chose open source Falco instead of cystic like enterprise Falco. Why because we felt we could do it ourselves and we wanted to take the time to really do it correctly and not put ourselves into a position where that when I get you know challenged by an engineering director. Whereas the big red button I know where the button is I know how it operates and I'm confident that we need to want me to press it we will press. If we need to. So, that's part of our ethos and I think when you build security services in house completely or open source you know exactly what's going on you can debug traces will have low level of their ability. You are empowered to scale the services to your company's needs. You're not locked into a vendor ecosystem and ultimately, this is a lot more fun like, I think I can hire better people who are more into building, and then keep them happy because they're building really cool stuff in the industry because it's a lot more reliable versus like taking boxes on the UI you don't really know what the box does you have to dig in through a vendor documentation. Now I do want to caveat this isn't for everybody a lot of companies may not want to treat their security engineering program this this way but where they have a heavy build or heavy open source culture. Some companies want to treat it more as like a dial or manager role this role decks of vendors run some tools you look at some logs have some alerts you do some follow up at the end of the day this is risk management is the risk that way we've chosen the risk we've chosen to manage the risk a very different way a very intentional way a very deep way a very methodical way and to do that we have to really understand what's going on. And to do that we need to have low level understanding of the code of the of the the Providence of it. If it comes from open source which of course we can always look because open source is open or build it in house. So that's a little bit of our ethos envy. Absolutely. In fact, as you were outlining that particular example. I totally concur that operationalizing security program at scale is an engineering problem. It is not a vendor problem. It's not any of those other things really, and especially at your scale or any you know internet scale companies it's it's the, the tool the product that you're using has to be out then the public you should be able to build faith around the, you know, the thesis the product has, you know, maybe even sort of evaluate it internally to see if it is, you know, it meets your, your own standards of quality really right. And the second one is the most of the float source product and I totally agree with them they probably wouldn't scale to where snap is at or where Google is at for sure really right so you can take the code for open source customize it you know operationalize it truly the way engineering happens and you know top tier tech companies really so it couldn't agree with you more really and you know I think the right way what it is is basically that operationalizing security is an engineering problem. Absolutely it's it is risk management again at the end of the day but to operationalize and scale it you need to create these happy paths for engineering teams right you can make it easy for them to do the right thing and hard for them to do the wrong thing. Yeah, in a way that's as frictionless and seamless as possible. Absolutely you couldn't agree more. And you know what what I love that the fact about open source I mean I mentioned that essentially is the quality of folks that you've been hired just to work on cool stuff which is out there and open and trust me since we went open source. I have made most of my key hires on GitHub. It changes the game you're not no longer right initial recruitment and hiring top talent for example ebpf you know we did the same thing. Most of my top ebpf hires are from GitHub project either they reach out or reach out and that's it. No recruiters nothing so open source essentially. Yeah. The quality the DNA essentially has to be needed in DNA to operationalize any kind of security at scale so yeah. Absolutely. Now, we spoke about we know I want to go deeper on one or two use cases, you know that you might be dealing with or the team might be dealing with that snap neck. But even you have had quite a journey I know you would personally hired at SpaceX by Elon and you know work with a bunch of bunch of lucid tech companies before that. What is your mental model, you know, having been through the journey really it has evolved I'm sure really right based on starting at the 16 year old to where you are now. What is your definition, what is good and what is great. What did just compliance even purchase and what is security engineering driven security program essentially. Yeah, you know, having a chance to work with you on and doing some consulting work 2011 2013 timeframe, I open my eyes to what I call good to great security. I think the major difference between good to greater the engineering bar and the adoption of a either an in house built culture or an open source built culture. Like we really mentioned sick at its core security is an engineering problem. So let's talk about an example. Let's say you have 2500 engineers they need to correctly manage I am permissions for AWS. Right. And we need to do this consistently so how do you make this easier for 2500 engineers, you let them like pick whichever permission they want do you like have some set of permissions do you have some birthright access you have. Do you have like some kind of system you build. How do you do that like, how do you abstract away the complexity of 2500 engineers. Right, you need to build a happy path right and sure there's vendor solutions that do this but in this example snap has also chosen to build in house we built a tool and how to do this. And we've taken the like a leasing philosophy where you get access for an ephemeral period of time, and that that ephemeral period of time that expires and like our app where you send a snap. Once you've read it and replayed it once it's gone forever, ever ever right same thing the same thing that the access now. The balance here is how much overhead this is created for an engineer to come in request access lose access request access was access. We're not clobbering them like every couple hours you know it's every couple of days or maybe a little bit longer. But that's the kind of thing they need to do like we've solved for this at massive scale not even one cloud to clouds, and that internal system that we build it handles both of them and we could probably scale it to a third one if we needed to. So, I think when you consume vendor services, it's kind of like being a hoarder like that's my like mental model you know these these shows about like people who have like hoarding problems and they hoard all this stuff they have like rent storage units to hoard stuff and then like something happens in their life and they need to solve it to me buying a bunch of vendor tools like being a hoarder. At one point you're going to be like, what am I even doing like I'm lost. And these tools that I have I don't know you know what they're for like a lot of tools are never even used. So there was like a study on the three something I read on the internet that I think like 40% of organizations have tools that they never even log into right like what's the point. So you got to be like a lot more intentional about this stuff right because if you're being intentional and building you know why you're building you know why you're there you know why the codes being written and you know my open source is being used consuming tools left and right. Unfortunately the industry wants us to do that I get solicited to probably 50 times a week. You know it's everything from like, you know Nick do you want a gift card do you already want to go drive Porsches with us so I get to know you a bit better like come on. Why do we have to be, you know, having to be transactional. Right. I can't accept any of these things it's against company policy please don't offer me. So, anyway, I think the time for open source really is now the security landscape is shifting to open source first. And these recessionary times and companies are being challenged and see if those are being more scrutinizing with those that role of decks of vendors that I talked about the time for open sources right now like the people doesn't care how much open source costs because it doesn't cost anything to get started and then when you graduate and what enterprise, it's probably going to be more affordable than a pure pure play commercial product what do you think Cindy. Absolutely, you know, absolutely especially in fact I had I had a couple of questions that came up, you know from from this discussion that we're having the first question Nick is to run second engineering security as an engineering function in a way really or or call it secret engineering which is basically operationalizing sacred apparatus of scale. Roughly, what sort of commitment companies like snap look at essentially are we looking at 10 security engineers for every 100. Yeah, that's a really good that's a really good question. Yeah that's that's right so we've historically taken a 10% of engineering kind of baseline proxy metric. So if engineering is 2500 or so about 10% of security across all different disciplines right. We have seven teams across those those those disciplines. But yeah that's the metric that's a big investment. A lot of companies cannot make that kind of investment and if you're a smaller company, you're lifting this like man this guy's crazy like how can you have that many people. Well because we're intentional we care a lot and we build. If you're smaller you can scale that down to the smaller size that you are right. Maybe it's not 10% free maybe it's 5% right but it needs to be a kind of like engineering minded metric otherwise it's unclear what the purpose of this role is. And that is so true for so many products it's unclear why they were purchased, why one of the, you know what the matrix, what are the key goals and objectives you had they never get deployed forget getting deployed at scale they just never even get deployed really find solutions really and you know I completely agree with you that you know open source gets you know forget the vendor side of it purely from customers point of view from a user's point of view. You have some of the greatest pieces of technology out there, you can modify it you can look at it you can smell it you see it fits the bill and not and then go from there. Then of course oftentimes you see that there are companies there are startups who are essentially often support or some additional features on top of that that you can always reach out to, you know, you know, work with them as part of your, you know, your extension as, you know, as part of your team essentially, and go from there to you right so do you do that as well Nick or it's primarily, you know, we collaborate like I'll give an example but we need to build arm 64 support for for Falco. What did we do we went on the Falco Slack forums and start talking to other people who are BPF developers we're not BPF developers. The person who worked on this and part of our sister team like he never even looked at that before but we know again we have a higher technical bar. We give people space and it took some time but he figured it out. And now we have arm 64 support. What would we have done if it was a vendor. All right. Hello, Mr. Account Manager. Hi, I'm Nick. I have a problem. This thing doesn't have arm 64 support. Can you get it into the roadmap. Okay, Nick. Let me go talk to the product manager. Okay, okay. Sometimes passes, they come back. Oh, let me talk to the product managers manager. You know, Nick we talked to the head of product that we can build this for you it's going to be six quarters. That like, that's the reality that we deal with like that that's that that really is the reality I'm not dramatic so. And I think it also depends on how enterprise grade that that particular open source product is I mean is it just a command line tool that you're bringing in and the building. That's that's that's exactly that's exactly right like like like defense and tackle these are enterprise grade security tools, much like what has she core brought to the market when they built vaults. Some 10 years ago right like it's enterprise great it's high quality for the enterprise and happens to be open source this is like the best of the world right like why are more people doing this I don't get I don't get it so. I think everybody is going to do it soon enough absolutely agree with you. So, you know, moving on, I'm already getting a couple of questions more than a couple of questions from audience. The last point was super important for them and I took you see we know how and why essentially. Hey, do I have to put in 10% of my engineering strength to operationalize this particular tool now or will 2% or will 1% or hey you know what I'm an up and coming SMB. I hired our first security higher than that's my whole team, what do I do with open social area I'm sure these are all, you know, valid questions and I would have to dig deeper into all of these so but moving on, you know, for now. Tell us what are some of the challenges organizations may face when trying to adopt OSS for security. And what I mean by this is, is there. For example, you in your case really do you have a checklist that hey this project has to be Apache V2. Hey this has to be part of CNCF or open SS or you know what the dentist report has to be out there and get to otherwise I'm not going to touch it you know, is there a model is there a checklist you know that you or the team had essentially why evaluating such projects for your intelligence. Yeah, that's a really good question. Well, I look I think just to get started like the technical bar is definitely a bit higher and you need to hire people who are technically capable hands on engineers, not all security engineers can code for open source I think you people who can code. Or it could be DevOps engineers or other engineers but they need to be engineers like they need engineering to be somewhere close to the title. So you need to have that type of talent. Now I think secondly is is you need to ensure the project you're you're considering is legitimate and it's serious. And you should also consider supply chain tampering like maybe projects coming out of certain parts of the world. Maybe they have, maybe they have backdoors maybe they have some some nefarious things going on maybe they're sort of, you know, Trojan horse kind of projects to get into your environment and then absorb your environment so you got to be cautious open source as well so the way we look at is like is it legitimate how much adoption has it had in the industry are people in our like tighter circles of security engineers talking about it. How many stars does it have on GitHub how many times has a ripple been forked right like how, how, how, how good of quality is the code like we can obviously audit the code because open source, right. And then how much more do we need to do to make it operationalized at our company, because that that's the part that takes the time right like you can always drop it in and get immediate results it depends on your requirements like if our requirements are very sophisticated if it's a smaller company that may not be as sophisticated so pentest reports also matter but I think reputation matters more and like like really like shaking it down and like getting a couple people to look at it closely that that can probably give you enough, enough comfort, and then the rest is is is implementation and opera operationalization. Yeah, no totally agree and in fact you know the bit that you said about. Are there any back doors, is there anything potentially nefarious with this, I think open source sort of you know gives you puts it out there in open really for so many eyeballs you know like you essentially so many people are looking at at and you know if you look at if you look at the stories every quarter, somebody's firewall gets hacked. But you know the Genesis of Secretary industry was around hacking close source products really right so open source in a way I think I'm fresh with of air because you know it's out there to see you can have your engineers you know look at it pentested you know find the kids treat this as an engineering problem just like you would do for your services you know your critical. You know, I can think of many vendors security incidents that we responded to as a result of poor security practices. Totally yeah totally see that yeah. In fact you know what I wanted to keep this question for the end Nick but I think it's so relevant to this particular point I must bring it up now. This is a question from such it such it is the question for you Nick he's basically asking. I can't do 10% of security engineering from get go for open source, if new adopters are scaling and always his program. What are core competencies needed in security, essentially what such is asking me. Hey I have X people engineering team and I have some security folks. What do I look for in these security engineers to be you know calling them essentially security engineers for this new program really right. So that you can resume that is the question that you know the essence of your question, Nick over to you. Yeah, that makes sense, such a thanks for joining such as a friend of mine for many years actually so great question. Look, you don't need 10% to get started 10% is where you where you may end up over time. I think you need a couple of good people who have done similar work in in and around open source projects either developers of them contributors to them or other companies that have similar cultures, like take any tier one tier two tech company. Most of those companies have done open source projects in this kind of way. And then you decide okay where do I put their focus. And what are some okay ours for that focus. Right now for us it was for the faculty story it was getting run time observability over our over Kubernetes fleet. That was a big big big project where I took it took a while to do that that that was our challenge but our fleet is like very large and complex. And so take like one or two areas where you feel like there's good partners on the market like a defense for example that built legitimately high quality enterprise grade products. Find one or two people, probably at like a l 405 level, which is like senior senior or staff, and, and put their focus on this and if they're good and the product that you're using is good. I think you're going to see incredible results you'll be surprised by how much, how much of value you're getting and how much money you're saving with open source. Absolutely. Absolutely. And then, you know, like you said, it has a lot to do with whether the project that you're picking up comes back as intuitive. You know, is there a company behind is there is there, you know, essentially someone who's sort of willing to work as an extension of your team, even if you don't have a team, for example, you're just building. Is there a community like if it's two guys in a van kind of open source project like yeah maybe it's kind of risky to put your your big bet behind that. But if it's a legitimate company that has large adoption like the examples that we've talked about, they have a product community they have good quality documentation like that's okay like you could start there and then, and then iterate and see and see how your adoption goes. Absolutely. In fact, you know what there is one more question coming from Christian Becker, what Christian is essentially asking is, what about Oasis license management, thinking about copy left and copyright licenses here in commercial. Yeah, that's, that's a great question Christian so yes you need a way to to observe this there are mechanisms and tools that can can ensure you're within license license compliance. So maybe there's tools that scan repos to look for whether the license allows commercial usage or for commercial usage rather. This is another angle of it yes the you do need to manage this it's not something you can exclude, but you can also very clearly when you go to the project like you can see what the license is and before you adopt it because okay can I use this license is this this license allow this kind of use case open source cannot be the wild wild west you can't be like okay team open source slam my hand on the table scatter no you like anything in life you need to have a strategy to be intentional. And so when you pick like one or two or you know or five of these, you can vet them obviously and you should have them before you use them, and then I think you'll have much much better understanding of what you're doing and these types of risks are are really really mitigated. Absolutely. Yeah absolutely Christian I hope that answers your question. Thanks Nick and moving on to now to you know essentially a more specific use case for you right. I want to ensure Nick that you know we're giving our listeners right now something super concrete that they can relate to for example you know hey I'm just building up my security program and I've been told by my CISO, or it's a board level you know sort of you know, a director which has come in, which says hey you have to be at least 50% compliant as per MITRE attack and that means doing one two three and four right that could be basically one of the management that has to be you know cloud specific attack vectors you know as per cloud MITRE attack framework really right. MITRE attack of course is you know it has so many favors now for cloud, Kubernetes and so much more. How would you go about it essentially and it's a very sort of a high level question essentially we can just pick up one single modality saying that hey look, we are working on AWS forget Kubernetes for a moment really just think of it as a cloud environment, and I am supposed to be meeting at least 50% of the MITRE guidelines. And doing so, you know, does two or three things for me makes me compliant gives me peace of mind because I have covered almost 50% of you know, the needed most essential picks really. And you know, essentially, can we map some of the open source tools that we have that that you might have seen to one of the existing one of the ongoing or one of the evolving programs within SNAP saying that hey, look, we would be supposed to be doing this let's say MITRE attack we were supposed to have 50% coverage for MITRE. And as part of that effort, this is what we did, and this is how we went about it. Yeah, do you have any such case to do that you think we can share. No, that's a really, that's a really good question. The way the way I would think about this as follows MITRE is now pivoted and provided very actionable very measurable from initial infection to pivot to lateral movement coverage with their ATT and CK framework right. So you sit down and map this what this means to your DNR program for example and say okay, how do we get signal coverage for 50% of the MITRE ATT and and CK framework. Well, what are they. Let's look at them in detail. Now we say okay how do we get a signal for that. We need some kind of attack vector from an from the AWS infrastructure well we need some kind of product to do that. Right, we need some kind of observability product to do that. It turns out that deep fence offers MITRE mappings out of the box. So if you turn on deep fence for that cloud infrastructure to start observing it you'll quickly see which one which signals you're generating for the for the cloud infrastructure and those AWS it could be at a DM level it could be at a Kubernetes EKS level, regardless right, you'll get that like out of the box immediately and then that saves you a lot of time like this was hard like sitting down like parsing spreadsheets to figure like well I have this thing here it maps MITRE here. This is really labor intensive enough fun. But if you have this mapping in a product like it'll quickly show you like here's the coverage here here's the gaps here, and then you can start to operationalize those to your detection and response team to act on it to triage it right to enhance the alert. And then we get into playbooks and response and containment kind of exercises that you know as per classic detection response goes. And this is this is pre deployment, as well as post deployment, some of these controls, some of the checks and balances some of these tools that need to operationalize to let's say meet 50% of MITRE coverage really. They have to be deployed throughout your CSID pipeline right there, they're not necessarily only as part of CSID in the sense of you know pre deployment or not necessarily only at some time right they have to be scattered throughout. The first you will have to probably figure out all the integration points where you really need to do what, map it back to potential vendors or open source projects and essentially go from there really right to get you that brother coverage. Yeah, that's, that's exactly right like, and there's no like secret like weapon here to how to do this you have to sit down and think about it but coming back to my point around. If the coverage comes with the product out of the box which it does with defense like that's so powerful that this this could take many, many, many days and weeks to to parse through. And I think that's to in a sense it's like a quick start guide already. So, yeah, absolutely. Moving on, I'm getting a couple more questions but I think we can save those for later they're not about the point that we were discussing so let's move on. And, you know, talk about this particular question that that is in front of us essentially is so when you think about building secure cloud native services and be getting more specific about cloud native now. Are there any fundamental controls or partner technologies that are table stakes for organization to consider essentially what are the lowest common denominator to make when it comes to building a cloud data security program is what the question is. That's a really good question. The way the way we think about it is this like the foundations that we need to build to be secure, whether it's in a corp context in a cloud context and other context. Those foundations really haven't changed in the last 20 years the technologies and the how has changed, but the foundations really haven't changed so what I the way I think about this is. Okay. You start with a security strategy for those foundational controls that you need to have in your environment and they could be things like, do you have observability on any piece of infrastructure that is being provisioned to your to a public internet presence. Do you have observability on hardening scanning pre deployment, do you have runtime observability in context, are you collecting logs, are you sending them to a system or a human who can act on them. Do you have audit mechanisms to look for changes that infrastructure that are unexpected. If a pod is immutable, which it is in the clock in the cloud communities context. It changes on a pod like what's going on like why somebody shelling into a pod that that's probably a bad actor behavior now. Continuing my my discussion here. Now you take that signal and you send it to to an individual and then individual X on it, or a system X on it will store type frameworks we can have systems acting on signals now. So what I just what I just described like that, it really hasn't changed in the last 20 years. When we had bare metal VMs and data centers when I got started with this industry was basically the same. It's become more sophisticated the skill has become larger and the unit deployment has become smaller now it's the pod before it used to be the physical server, but the elements of this are basically the same. Yeah, you know I told you again in fact you know what one of the one of the things that I used to want to make. And I'm sure you thought about this too is given the fact that observability basically means being able to infer internal state of any system by looking at the outputting signals, right, which is why you have any LT in you know, observability metrics events, errors logs and traces essentially really in in cyber in security we have the mitre attack and defend we have really granular flavors of mitre for various modalities but there isn't anything like any LT, which basically tells me hey if you just this for you taken care essentially, but what I what I what I learned from what you're saying which I think it sort of you know resonance very well with me is look at four pillars here too. The first pillar essentially is measure your attack surface, you know that is your pre deployment checks post deployment checks scanning CSPM, what have you essentially what could go wrong pillar number one and this is commodity everybody needs it. The modality change, it was VMs earlier now it's communities on top of VMs probably tomorrow something else but essentially the core principles remain saying the modality might change so measure what could go wrong the move on. And then deploy or develop a way essentially to measure what comes in what goes out and what changes is basically what it is really figure out your attack surface and see how the runtime signals are interacting with your attack surface, and that is pretty much essentially the way to. What do you agree. Yeah, I know I completely agree and so we could talk more specifically about this we have some some questions up and it's sort of in the back, maybe we could skip to question nine I can talk more about this. Sounds good. Okay. Now this is this is purely this question comes purely from a start point of view, maybe right like I'm a startup let's say we're running a startup which is you know having this open source project seeing great traction. And we want to know how a top tech, you know, Dr engineering team would evaluate such a such a project really right. Yeah, that's part of whose reputation and even the fitment and you know all of that. Sure. But is there anything more there. Absolutely so first of all, first of all the first question is what what problem are we looking to solve internally. Yeah, and sometimes we do a build versus buy bake off if there's a compelling product in the industry that we're we can get behind. Sometimes we don't sometimes we we we skip immediately to open source or build. We don't have the same modality, because the open source almost always involves like some some building to operationalize into your environment so. And then we ask ourselves like hey what is like the ideal state and this is where like my product management had turns out a little bit. There's this idea of like working backwards or okay now that the thing has been completed and launch and has this capability. You, you will have like an announcement of that capability I'll give an example now we can observe all runtime. How do we work backwards from that and state to actually establish that and then how do we evaluate the potential partners with how close they will get us to the what and why that we're looking to accomplish with objective criteria like how would you know the end of market. How much existing adoption. Do they have how, how many feature requests or pull requests are being submitted into their open source project. How engaging is there, is there support community like we don't want to be on an island ultimately if we have to support something will will be will usually figure it out. But those are the kind of questions that we asked. Right. Now, be beyond beyond that. We also ask ourselves, how, how long will this probably exist and like what's the next iteration of it, and with open source next iteration can be our own iteration, we can fork the project and make it to whatever we want, versus with close source partner technologies, they're completely commercialized, we're at the mercy of the product team back to my, you know, begging and pleading to the product management team to build features. Absolutely. And I think, after that, of course, the open source product, or the project that you're choosing has to be at least as good as the close source options that might be there on the table essentially or at least has to be open enough, so that you can customize it really right and that's when the quality differences will probably start coming in. Hey, what is the quality of alerts, how many integrations it has and stuff like that to you right so. Right. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay, moving on to the next question. And I told you already we have at least a dozen questions for you and I see more and more questions coming in from folks as well so I hope you have time. We'll move on. Of course. Of course. Absolutely. So the question is, you work with household internet scale companies and it snap isn't household name. And that, of course makes you a desirable target for right after three right. And is there a or use case or example of how you're always a strategy helps your company manage cloud media security at internet scale essentially. So I think this is probably the same use case that we're speaking about of your observability but but over to you, if there is anything more that comes. Yeah. Yeah, well, at internet scale as we discussed there often are not alternatives that are palatable that are not open source of built in house. Now to make this to make the answer here like we're useful to a broader audience they're not always internet scale companies. Let's talk a little bit about like the tenants of why open source is useful. So I lead my teams to have extreme ownership and focus on craftsmanship. Right. You, you, you, you eat your own food so to speak meaning the code that you build it should be of high quality we should have unit test we should have coverage. It should be understood by others. It should not be a black box we should avoid single points of failure. Right, which means a single, a single engineer on a team should should not be the only person who understands it multiple engineers on a team need to understand that with open source this is very achievable, because everybody can see what's happening they can look at the repo, we can collaborate on on feature requests and PR is we can do code reviews together. Right. And we know like we know what's happening and that that helps us really for that helps us inform our strategy just like iterate and like build feature a build feature be and so forth. In other sense, I think open source helps us with hiring like I already talked about some of this but like the best people in the industry that we hire they want to build the cool stuff like they want to do stuff that's like really notable. We've open sourced some projects that snap has built like back to the community right. And we won't and we'll do more white white like why not it's we built it we built it for the world will build will will allow allow the world to use it. I think also having an open source heavy culture. It allows you to hire software engineers into security engineer roles. Because at the core like what what is a security engineer security engineer somebody who has context and knowledge of threat modeling and attack surface and risk play kind of risk based mentality but they're also somebody who can code and he was an engineer at the core. So in some cases we've taken software engineers by title and really by background. And we've hired them into teams that build build services or build on top of open source services and we've taught the threat modeling the kind of attacker based mentalities and so forth. Now we open up our talent pool like dramatically if we can hire let's say back in software engineers versus security engineers which are a lot harder to find and they typically come with a premium. So we completely get moving on to the next question. And this is a little bit about, you know, the description that you will need to have essentially is anything about defense or a project like defense essentially threat map about open source, you know, CNAP essentially which helps you scan. As part of CICD at runtime across all the cloud modalities essentially to and ensures that all the all the days you know essential features like vulnerability management, you know CSPM malware scanning security scanning is essentially out there for everyone to use, but also comes with matters included right like you have integrations you can you know integrate this tool in your ops to lane file a georatica in all of that stuff really. So, and this probably goes back to one of the earlier questions essentially is when you're taking something like this, like you know defense we have had a different journey they did not start as an open source company. We were closed source first day earlier right when we started but then we went open source. So the platform that we open source essentially was already being used by enterprises for for you know close to a year. So what would be your input to to start that so vendors like defense essentially that hey it's it's essential to have those enterprise features baked in as part of the platform that you're putting out so that anybody could just download and start using it you know without any customization without putting any additional it's sort of on it. How would you look at it essentially and what would be your advice to you know the listeners. If you're a builder, like like yourself send deep and you would like to take a product to market. And your commercial only you're going to be met with a lot of resistance from people like me. I get peppered for requests to look at stuff all the time. And a lot of it I'd never even look at because it to me, what's more novel is what what you're doing. What's more novel is taking open source approach so in the competitive landscape that that exists in this industry with with just and so many options so much optionality there are very few high quality open source products. And those stand out to me the ones that do stand out to me. And this this is why I'm an advocate for this the space. So my advice would be like hey build this in to your product or like maybe have like some part of the product open source people can start maybe there's like a freemium kind of layer of. Hey you start here and then you grab and when you graduate we're here we're here with you we're not going to leave you leave you hanging right and so like in that sense you you can get the best of both worlds and you get your product to to market for people like myself who are skeptical of closed source, and then you have a kind of like a revenue pipeline to enhance and build the enterprise version into that customer install over time. Absolutely and you know overall it raises the bar for everyone right by permanently shifting these you know demand and supply curve in our case and in cloud security essentially everything that you need on what whether you're building out a security program or whether you have already matured program or you're willing to you know are looking at replacing a bunch of float source vendors with open source becomes a standard essentially right in terms of usage adoption and you know that way you're you know slowly but steadily changing the demand and supply curves of cloud security couldn't agree more. Moving on. So, we spoke about observability we spoke about Falco Falco's use case we spoke about the four pillars that need to be defined, which is basically what comes in what goes out for changes and how all of this interacts with your existing attack surface. Very specifically, you know post deployment I know you're a large sort of here. I think one of the largest communities deployments I've heard of, honestly you know I didn't you know we've been speaking to so many large companies but your scale is very, very different, especially in terms of communities really. So tell me more about this post deployment. How important is runtime security to observability, you know and we're talking about the molecules we're talking about part level process level context. Yeah. None of that. Yeah. Let's let's go deep on this so think about this way you've now you've deployed now you've done all the work that you've done pre deployment that we talked about previously hard on the images. You have ensure there's no malware, you've bootstrapped your your pause now you're deployed now you're running. Okay. How do you observe for bad in this running state and in a immutable service context where a change should never actually happen to a pod because it's meant to not be changed. So you need to observe you need an observability layer like falco or like defense that can basically run a kernel level BPF probe to look for look for assist calls to the kernel introspect them and tell you, Hey, is this normal or is this not normal and if it's not normal fire from alert. Here's some like really good examples. A lot of communities clusters are targeted for crypto mining takeovers this happened to Tesla I've talked about in the class that I built with capacity. That's one of the three studies that we go deep on. They had their API server layer exposed that actor took over there. What are what are many of their Kubernetes clusters and started spinning up Monero crypto mining pods to do crypto mining why it's free compute awesome right. What the lot with a lot of infrastructure going on. I, unless you have logs that specifically look for like callbacks to their C2 control, or other, other log level observability on like the network layer let's say you won't cash it at the pod level unless you have a low level observability with something like defense or Falco you just want there's no I don't think there's a way you can technically do it. So, to me, this is definitely more advanced but to me if you if you care about runtime and you actually care what's happening. While the infrastructure is running before it gets you know killed destroyed and reintroduced because in this context we mostly treat this infrastructure like like cattle right versus like pets. Just like in the corp context if we have a laptop on the network. I need an observability in the laptop because without observability I can't react to a malware download on a laptop on on on the corporate network just the same way I can't respond to an event on a pod in the cloud context unless I have that low level observability. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. So while it is essential to do scan as part of the deployment, of course, can you tell infrastructure, you know, using agent base region to solution to cover the basics essentially CSP and moldability management all of that it is equally important to have runtime essentially which which use EVP or for one of you know something similar essentially to get you this low level telemetry and really build detection on top of that right that's that's a high order bit I'm taking a review of me. You need both standing comes first short. It's it's it's a busy don't need but once you have that you need something something which goes deeper right and you know sort of you know is looking at all of these all of these runtime signals to say whether you're under attack or not. That spot on like this is not a a start with this kind of thing this is a graduate from pre deployment to post appointment observability but once you've graduated this is an extent. Perfect. Moving on Nick, and I have at least four more questions I'm not sure whether we have time to take all of those but at least with two of those questions will take. And this is probably the last question from my side. And, you know, a high level one now you've been you've been at multiple organizations including SpaceX and you know now it's napping you if you've been a hacker since your childhood almost from 16 years of the age. What would be one piece of advice you would want to sort of leave our audience with essentially before we you know pause the session and then sort of open it for a question. Yeah. I think what's made the difference and deep as this philosophy of being a lifelong student. Being intellectually curious and really never stop learning so if you stop learning you'll probably stop earning and or you may stop earning as much. Right. This industry is extremely dynamic and fast paced and you should never you should never stop learning so for me the day I stop learning is probably the day they like slowly retire and like just rest somewhere. Not focusing on this industry as much until then I will always continue learning. But learning is not enough to me to me, you need to teach other ones you've gotten to a certain place in life to help evangelize and build the next generation. Right. The people we're hiring now are going to be me and some in some in some time frame right. Right. There's also this philosophy that I take of always be firing yourself, like not actually firing myself but removing yourself from the critical path to love people who you've hired to become better than you. Right. Absolutely. And to me that to me this is this is this is the style of servant leadership that I that I like to practice and really support my team with some. And solve for the boring things first the things that we talked about the the hardening the observability the monitoring their learning those are kind of boring this isn't the ml this ai that right then the stuff the vendors want to sell you like the boring stuff matters a lot. Right. If you solve for the boring stuff then you then you'll be in a really really good place right a lot of people don't solve for the boring stuff that they jump into the sexy shiny object stuff. And they actually missed the point of absurd of how to approach this in a strategic way in terms of security program leadership so. I think the other thing is like have advocacy have people that are supporters of your view and have people that you support in the industry like this kind of relationship I think has really helped me like have a broader perspective and how the industry operates. And pay it forward like give back speak to others, whether it's at a meet up in your local, you know, community, a blog that you write. If you want to get, you know, very ambitious you can do a book, or or teach it's out there like the industry will allow you to do it you just need to step up and and and be a participant. Absolutely make love that paid forward. Absolutely. Exactly what we believe at the fence. I think with that you know what we'll do is we'll just open up for some more questions. I have a bunch of them in front of me, but we'll probably just take two more. Given the time limit so let me go ahead. This is a question for you Nick from Dave. The question is, when do you decide to pick up open source point solutions for a specific use case versus go with a broader platform, which is also open source. So what is the thought process taking up a single tool to solve a single matter problem versus going broader. Yeah, that's a great question Dave, thank you for asking it. I think you just start with your strategy so we're a doc based culture we write down okay problem statements who bar to bar at plus and right we write it down. We ask ourselves okay what are we trying to solve for specifically like very specifically, not high level specifically. And then we say okay how can we accomplish this okay are we looking to scan images but we can do that with gripe. Okay, are we looking to look at a bill of materials, there's products for that open source products free. Come take it, or are we looking for a solution that wraps them together like like defense does again open source, or maybe we're looking for commercial offering because we really want that we really think like this is the one. There are those as well that we've purchased like there are this is the one kind of commercial solutions that are fully closed source that we've also bought. You got to start with the strategy you got to ask yourself like, what are you solving for what are the requirements and how do and how will you get there. Absolutely. In fact that was my next question that was in front of me that is, what are the set of criteria that you look for when you want to upgrade from open source to enterprise version of the product. But maybe that could be the sort of you're concluding your mark on that helps the founders like me and companies who are you know trying to monetize open source. Right. I know that's a really good question. You have to figure out what the market's going to pay for it and what is, what is desirable enough for a person like me or another security leader to pay for the enterprise what does the enterprise need well the enterprise needs, usually like lower level authorization management because I have a lot of users using the system, we probably need additional logs we may need support because we get stuck and we may not have, you know all the resources to go iterate and expand our wheels trying to figure it out through the forums. We may need more advanced features you have to figure out what that is, depending on whatever product area and like in this product area. You know threat mapper gives you observability from mapper gives you context from mapper can have have you harden and ensure what you're deploying into production is safe. Now threat striker, which is the enterprise product version here in this context, it will give you a threat graph it'll allow you to seal off and stop attacks at runtime by basically killing the network connection. Okay, if you've studied this and you decided okay, this is the thing people are going to pay for this is the thing that we're going to basically allow for free. You got to do that for every product that's built. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. What is day zero use cases, one of the day one use cases where is your IP as a company, you know which what is what is something that you can you know give away build a community around the stuff like that I think these decisions have to be made by, you know, on case by the companies that are trying to monetize, whether you want to go open code, you want to remain completely open source or you want to, you know, have a convention they are totally unique. This was awesome. Nick, thank you so much for your time.

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Why should we care about coral reefs?

Coral reefs are suffering – and we aren’t going to save them through small-scale, feelgood actions like reusing our shopping bags or hotel towels. Kristen Marhaver is Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California at Merced, working at the Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity (CARMABI) Research Station in the Netherlands Antilles. She explains why coral reefs matter, and what actions we need to take. Watch her World Economic Forum Betazone here: http://bit.ly/2fd6ScP www.weforum.org

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People often ask me, why should we care about coral reefs? Corals build one of the most important ecosystems in the ocean. They are animals, but they look like rocks because they make a skeleton underneath themselves and they leave it behind as they grow up toward the sun. And then that creates homes for sponges and clams and snails. And those smaller organisms are what feed the bigger fish and the bigger fish. So without the corals you slowly lose the ability to support the entire pyramid. People often don't realize that they help protect the shorelines from waves, from big storms and from hurricanes. We know that corals can live for a long time but what's particularly interesting about that is that they're living in the blazing hot sun near the equator for hundreds and hundreds of years. So now scientists are looking into how a coral manages to repair its DNA when it's sitting in the blazing sun for decades and decades and hopefully we can understand how to prevent the mutations that eventually lead to cancer in humans. Corals live with algae in their tissues. It would be as if you had lettuce growing under your skin and you were able to use the calories that that lettuce was making without eating any food. When a coral bleaches, the balance between that algae and that host coral sometimes goes off. The coral spits out those symbiotic partners and it's very difficult for them to survive because they've lost their main source of food. Unfortunately, anywhere you have humans, corals tend to suffer and that's because all the activities that we do on land, things like building, things like discharging sewage, things like agriculture, those all affect the ocean. A country that's doing a very strong job of conservation is Palau. They saw a massive coral bleaching event in 1998 and realized that they were at risk from the changes occurring globally. So they started putting in place fisheries, regulations, a marine park, they eventually put in a shark sanctuary and now they have 80% of their water protected from any kind of fishing or mining. What we know now is that the sort of days of hoping and wishing for those coral reefs to survive is over. This treasure will help us get through the next era of development as long as we're just kind enough and wise enough to be sure that they all come along together with us into the future safely and protected.

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AAF BIRMINGHAM IRON VS MEMPHIS EXPRESS - MY POSTGAME THOUGHTS 😬

AAF BIRMINGHAM IRON VS MEMPHIS EXPRESS - MY POSTGAME THOUGHTS 😬 #AAF #BirminghamIron #MemphisExpress Business Email: [email protected] Team "KeepItClean" MERCH!! : https://teespring.com/stores/team-keepitclean **ANY Donations are appreciated : 1)Via PayPal: paypal.me/IngravenVids 2)Via Cash App: $Ingravenvids 3)Via GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/trying-to-bring-you-the-best&rcid=r01-154169588947-392c55a1e01642d5&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w Welcome #BaltimoreRavens #Ravens fans & #RavensFlock to IngravenVids!! Team Keep It Clean!! Featuring ALL the latest news on the Baltimore Ravens & NFL. So if you LOVE football make sure you SUBSCRIBE!! Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IngravenVids Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ingravenvids/ Follow me on Snapchat: Ingravenvids Wanna be part of NFL #QuestionsFromSubscribers ? Just send me a DM on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, or Facebook. All 4 are "IngravenVids" Or email your question to : " [email protected] " Get Gear For Your NFL Team Here : http://www.pollystore.ru

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To team keep it clean. What's going on is engraving here with another video You know what maybe Says this is a an AAF video. Maybe I should cover up this Ravens logo. Anyway, team keep it clean We just watched our well This was my second game that I watched because I didn't get to watch both games yesterday Since the tour then we're playing at the same time But so this was my second game and oh for a lot of you guys is the third game that you all have watched but this was the The Birmingham Express Taking on the Memphis iron and again, like I said yesterday, you got to bear with us because This is all new for all of us. So the names of the teams haven't quite clicked yet I think right now I got Orlando Apollo's and and Atlanta legends down already. I got those two down But for the rest of the teams, it's it's gonna be a process. But anyway in this in this game Like there were some names that were actually familiar We got more familiar names like yesterday. We had will heal But today we had Nick Novak the kicker. We all remember him We've seen him plenty of times as soon as I heard his name. Oh, I started kicking something So Nick Novak Christian Hackenburg Hackenburg he used to play for the Jets and in this game. He looked like he still played for the Jets so he I think he he threw for like 87 yards and one interception So same old Hackenburg Got a new quarterback. Um, Lewis. Oh What was his last name? They has been saying it all game long now. I forgot his last name Louis is it not roses? Lewis? Oh I can't remember his name But again, like I said, this is a process. So y'all please bear with me But anyway, the Birmingham ex no the Birmingham. No the Birmingham Express Took care of the Memphis iron Wait a minute. I am getting the team's names mixed up now Anyway, Birmingham beat Memphis 26 to 0 They beat them 26 to 0 and we got to see Trent Richardson Trent Richardson somebody who we we remember Zach Stacy Zach Stacy I know he used to play for the Rams because when I first heard that name I was like, oh, hold up. That's ain't that wasn't didn't he wasn't he there running back? And yeah, that was him. I got confirmation from that from from Twitter but um Trent Richardson when When they first like a AF first tweeted a picture about him before the game started and you know all the comments That were to follow. You know all the comments under the picture Well And AF had to know it was coming they know people were gonna get on Trent Richardson, but it's good. Trent Richardson is doing this thing I'm happy for him. He's getting another another opportunity to do his thing We know he had the several opportunities He first started off with what is he started off with the Browns, right? His career just went by so fast. He started with the Browns didn't went to the Raiders Then the Ravens and then that was it. I believe Wasn't he with the Browns first? I don't even remember man. It just it seemed like it was so long ago Seems like it was so long. It seems like that guy has been and he looked young. He still looks super young He still looks super young, but it seems like all his whole Everything was so long ago. I forgot about his career but I know that um He I first tweeted out when he he had took a handoff and he fumbled it He fumbled it and I said oh man this I said this dude He's getting ready to get kicked out of two pro leagues two of them, but It ended up working out for him. I think he got a touchdown and he helped on like a two-point conversion But he started grinding it out throughout the game Now uh, 26-0, of course, um, this was a defensive game for one team They were flying around the ball Um, I was looking for the guy, uh, tocho. He was a free safety tocho And he for birmingham Express, right Memphis iron birmingham express those two sound like they go together a little better But either way, I'm still I'm still a little lost on the team names, but Tocho, they said that he used to play for the NFL too. So I had never heard of him before Um, but I was looking for him to make some plays Something that I noticed like I said, I thought of details of the um, of the players and stuff. Y'all know, we don't have that yet We don't have that down pack yet because it's just like it's this is a brand new journey for all of us But we appreciate it. We enjoy it, man They were talking about the um, the ratings last night and The af and his debut went head to head with, uh, james harden and uh, the rockets going against um paul george and russia westbrook um for the thunder and af one They won So I was like, okay Okay, I like that Let's see if they went against like the lakeers and the warriors or something like that But we'll see when we get there. Anyway, um In this game something that I noticed and again, I know yesterday they talked about how, uh, these guys only had like a month of practice Um, so I'm sure that plays a part and I noticed it in the game yesterday, too There have been a lot of dropped passes That has been something that uh has been happening in Both games that I watched the game today in the game yesterday, uh the one yesterday with the atlanta legends and Orlando apollos, um, I noticed a lot of dropped passes Just a lot of drop passes a whole lot of um and again, that's the lack of reps the lack of Practice time show that plays a big part Um in in contributing to those drops. So I noticed a lot of drops. Um, I also noticed um I also noticed a lack of chemistry, too Both games in both games, uh with the lack of the the deep passes And the sort of um intermediate passes With the short passes, it was fine But with those medium and especially with the deep passes that the chemistry was off And again, this is something that's brand new So with it being brand new with the schedule being brand new, um, they A lot of guys these guys might not be used to each other and again This is the very first game So these teams are still trying to figure out their identity. These teams are still trying to figure out What's going to go down? How are they going to be? Um, because I believe all the home teams have won so far And they've been wanting winning in big fashion too. Um These things ain't even been closed, but it could completely flip flop next week So we just it's too early Well, it is it is it's it's early It's early. Um, but these guys are starting to They they really going to start developing. Um, who they are as individual players Because we're gonna I will say This is week one. I believe it's 10 games. I will say in about week three week four We'll be we'll see who these who the stars are Who the more consistent players are we'll know the more notable names in AAF But right now everybody is trying to put their name on the map Which they should be because this this could be their chance to to graduate To the nfl and for some guys it could be that chance to Go back to school again The guys who have already been in the nfl. Um, and that's if they're trying to get back Some guys may be contesting with this Because some guys may be like, hey, I just want to do this thing for these 10 games and be done with it I don't want all the pressure to nfl. I don't I don't want that I'm good with this So you just you just never know Um Well, yeah, I noticed a lot of drop passes a lot of drop passes in the lack of chemistry Uh with the the intermediate in the deep ball. Um, something else. I noticed was very uh, the offensive lines They had a lot of trouble blocking quarterbacks have been taken a lot of hits Um, so I noticed that from from every single team It seems like you every every time you look up You always talking about the quarterback getting hit getting popped getting laid getting sacked and all that stuff Um, so that was something that that has been going on through all the and again the same thing The the more you repeat stuff repetition That's going to contribute to you doing that thing better. So and again, it's early. It's early So I expect these guys to be perfect now. No Are they going to be perfect ever? No, but I'm sure they're going to get a lot better throughout the season everybody um But now with that Not a tackling though the tackling has been pretty good The tackling hasn't for the most part the tackling has been pretty good. That's one thing that's been pretty consistent has been the tackling um, but just I think I think the lack of The lack of practice time and preparation and whatnot. I think that's had a bigger impact on the offenses Or a more negative impact on the offenses than the defenses um Something else that I did notice too. Like I said the quarterbacks They've been taking a lot of hits and uh, really everybody they've been hitting out there And something that I noticed and we talked about it last night and I just wanted to see if it would be consistent tonight And also in the game that we're going to be watching later. Shout out to josh woodrum. Definitely going to be rooting for him Former raven. Well, they okay. Can't be putting a a f can't be mixing in that fail with a a f anyway, um What I was watching for in this game was to see if those hits would stand and if they would still be legal and I They all did They I didn't unless I missed something. I did not see one um passing offense Unless I missed it and I didn't see any rough in the passer. I didn't see any defenseless player flags I didn't I didn't see any late here. I didn't see none of that I didn't see none of that I something that I loved man. Oh man. I'm glad that I'm thinking about this something that I absolutely loved was when trend richison He was running a ball He was running And he broke off for one guy and then he ran into like a group And then this group they were they were rumbling they were rumbling and then the group started getting pushed back And the ref they weren't like As soon as he stopped they still let them keep playing And then even on that same exact play After the play was stopped once still the full progress stopped somebody on a defense They came in right, you know how the guys doing nfl when they come and run and they go And they jump on a pile To kind of to try to get it stopped to put some weight on it to get it stopped Somebody did that and they didn't throw a flag had this been nfl Oh late hit unnecessary roughness Really But they didn't call that in this game They didn't call that they didn't call that They let the guy they they they let trend richison and that pile continue to move and they let the guy Run and jump and try to stop it And they didn't throw no flags Love that man I love that And I appreciate it and I know everybody watching appreciated it too Everybody did because that's The thing with nfl again, we we're going to continue to watch nfl We're going to still watch it But one of the most frustrating things about it is that they just continue to water the game down They continue to water the game down But again, like I said yesterday Like I said yesterday since these guys are affiliated with the nfl the aaf is Do not be surprised if you see stuff incorporated in nfl as early as even this season Minus the kick minus them taking off the kickoff Since aaf doesn't have a kickoff nfl is going to take that away Within the next two three years at max I guarantee it within the next two three years the kickoff's gone kickoff's gone They're watching this right now And again, like I said, I know some of this for those of you who watched our aaf video last night This is kind of repetitive But I got to mention it tonight too that this The the aaf is sort of like the nfl's guinea pig Because they can insert things in here. They could test them out See how they work see how crowds respond And then they can take that and put it on the bigger scale And the the upcoming season or the season after that they can start throwing little stuff in here and there Because you know they will You know they will So anyway, um looking forward to the game tonight. I'm sure it well by the time y'all This video gets uploaded the game will already have started. So I will see y'all after that game. I appreciate y'all We out