Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin, and look, I have a bone to pick with this game. The name of this game is LittleBigPlanet. It makes no- HECK IN SENSE! Eugh! And it... Pee's me off! That doesn't sound right. I sort of over-sensor myself, but that really sounds nasty. So, let's build. Look at it, it's trying to calm me down and everything. Frick you, fricker. But nonetheless, let's play the game anyway. My anger goes away like that. You're most welcome in LittleBigPlanet.  There he goes again. I'm angry again. Gasp in utter amazement. Oh, I'm f**king amazed, alright, that it's not working. What do you mean a problem connecting? What does zero mean? F**k! Oh, I didn't say a bad word.  If anyone just found my channel, they're gonna think I'm like, I gave me channel for kids. But take one look at my Sims series and you'll realize that's not the case. At least I hope it's not the case because if any kids watch this, me and there you are, they're gonna turn out to be monsters. Imagine me having a kid. I'm gonna teach them the alphabet in colors. Blue, green, purple, red, and brown. They're gonna be so messed up. Yeah, I think the reason it's not working online is because it's still like updating. So I'm gonna just hop in and single-player and see what that's all about. And then we can see what online has to offer. Finally, a game that dumps down everything. I was always wondering what Luading means.  Oh, Jesus. This planet's gonna get destroyed. All right, let me play. Come on, I'm ready to go. And this is you. No, that's not me. I was above behind the fecking clown. I've left the planet. Turns out this planet is flat. I just walked straight off it. What's this button do? Oh, it kills him. Okay, I like that. Transporting oneself. I have no interest in listening to you. I just get running. I run from my problems. And right now my problem is you. Oh, no. This is what happens when I don't play the tutorial.  Sorry, the game gets peed off and pulls me into another dimension.  What are they doing to me? I think they're making me into a McNugget or something. Oh, rats. I'm still alive. Never mind. Welcome to Bunkham Chummy Jump Jump where the sky is strewn with circling clouds of imagination. Thanks. I hate it. Can I leave? I want to get started, dude. Come on. I'll skip. There we go. Straightening everything out. Could you do my posture while you're at it? I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Oh, how I love the mountain air. Oh, God. Oh, no. Oh, Jesus. I know this is supposed to be peaceful, but it really feels like he's a serial killer chasing me and it's stressing me out. Oh, good. I'm dead. At least the terror is over. No, no, no, no, no. I'm just running away from it. I'm just trying to escape this tutorial. It's like a nightmare. A tutorial is just chasing me.  Existence is pain. Wonderful work. I knew you could do it. Thanks. It's kind of easy when I'm motivated by a tutorial chasing me along. I don't know how I'm pulling this. My legs are just in the air. It's like a glitch that would happen in a Harry Potter game or something. Oh, my God. This world is freaking terrifying.  Welcome to my airborne laboratory. Oh, my God. Now I've been kidnapped. This guy is something else. I think I got to make a disguise so he won't know it's me. There we go. And now he'll never recognize me. Hello, Poppy. I'm just looking for a bit of cricket. I don't know what that accent is, but that's my disguised voice. I'm just going to make a sticker of me. I wanted like a tribal sticker, like the kind that you go into a tattoo parallel and it would be first in the book and you just go, I want that one. I wanted something super generic, but this picture of me will do as well. There we go. It's like back in Wanted posters or something. I don't like where this is going. It sounds really wrong. Oh, God. No, he knows it's me. My disguise didn't work. Okay, that's it. I'm extremely peed off to the point where I'm actually going to go pee. All right. That's out of my system. Literally. I'm ready to play again and I'm a much camera now.  That's actually true. I'm a big fan of having a lot of pockets. The only thing is I hoard stuff in my pockets by accident. I legit found a yogurt that I forgot about like from a week ago in one of my pockets before. See how it's now in your hands? That's pock tech for you. I'm practicing my swing. Trying to teach me how to play the game. That's a paddling. Oh, if only daddy were here to witness it. You want daddy to witness you using the pumpinator. I really don't like where this is going. Press the L of Jolly Good. Jolly Good. He says I can kill myself. You know what? The feeling is mutual, buddy. The scholars of the omniverse have forever debated what the most satisfying feelings in existence are. I'm sure ending this tutorial would be the best one. The thing is, I think the tutorial is sort of over. I think this is just the story now. You're screaming, but honestly, are you surprised? Your spaceship has a hat on the top of it. Like a little bowler hat. It can't be aerodynamic. Not a great victory for health. Look how he's checking out. It's like, why do I look like this? Nanna put the crazy crone who lives here. I suspect to be the prophetic liberator of those diabolical denizens. You must get up there and stop her. No problem, chief. I got my cricket bat. Being evil, that's a paddling. The pumpinator doesn't just blow.  Did they know what they were doing? Like how that sounds? All right, line up that swing. We're ready for a paddling. Let's get going. We want to use the paddle and the pumpinator on you. They're going to be like, oh no, please don't use the paddle and pumpinator on me. What's that sound? Probably someone using the pumpinator on themselves. Oh, whoops. Okay. That was just suicide, right? I tried to grab on, but I forgot I had the pumpinator out. Okay.  The true ending of Toy Story 3, I should say, where they just go into the incinerator and you end the movie. That's canon in my mind. I'm like, I don't want these collectibles. Get them out of here, pumpinator. Don't make me collect them. Get out of here. I'm going to level with you. I don't really know what I'm doing half the time. I just keep interacting with everything I see. I keep trying to incinerate myself, but the game keeps stopping me. Oh my God. I was about to say you have bags under your eyes, but I think your eyes are literally in bags. I wouldn't, but unfortunately for you, you literally gave it an escape route here with your trap. I'd make such a good evil villain. I would have no escape, no failed safes. Tripwires hooked up the shotguns. Okay. I'd like an escape. YouTube commenters don't mind if I repeatedly explode cats over and over again by blowing them into fire, do they? No, it's dogs. They get upset with. Yeah, cats are fine, I think.  I'm here ruining her day. I'm the bad guy. Duh. I even have my own bad guy music when I show up. Okay, I take back what I said. You're the bad guy. Okay, no, I'm the bad guy. I am literally cooking him. Okay, he's dead. I like how reaction is.  You, sir, have been accused with murder.   I might have known this was something to do with you. Hit her with the paddle. Hit her with the paddle. You can't trust a word this boy says. He's tricked you.  God, whoever designed these characters was high as a kite. You must never do that. Oh my God, he's about to spill that tea. It's about time that I spilled some tea on YouTube. She's like, it's okay. You didn't know what you were doing. And I'm there like, I kind of had an inkling. I didn't kind of have a feeling we were the bad guy there. Good thing I'm wearing my disguise. All those wanted posters rubbed for a reason. God, what is he doing in there? He's using the pumpinator on himself. What have you done? Leading my new tier stray.  He doesn't know no better. You've got to save him from himself. I like this ending though.  In fact, let's edit in a nice little ending for this game. Okay, now that the story mode is over, let's take a look at the online. I've never gone to do this. Oh, John, are you perfect? Can we get dank meme please? RPG, what the hell? Asking to join new game, leader, something, something. Please let me in. Yes, they're letting me in. Thank you, kick-cock.  Am I an ant? Is this an RPG for ants? Ryan refused to let me join. Ryan, why are you like this? All right, general killer. This is my kind of person, I think. He ignored me.  Someone, please. Jay Diddy, what the? Why does everyone hate me? It doesn't help that my PlayStation name is like ZXNorahGretzXZ.  Great. Yes, someone finally let me in. Now I can finally socialize with someone. Hey, guys, my wife just left me. I need support, not laughter. I meant to put in dot, dot, dot, but that face kind of works as well. The first place I thought to come to was Little Big Planet. Okay, this is me flying apparently, but I'm just kind of stuck in the floor. Okay, citizens, I'm here to save you. Oh, that's Sannick that just walked by me. Okay, I fell down an open manhole. You know what? These people don't care for me at all. I'm just going to kill myself.  Probably because I'm toxic myself. I'm immune. This is extremely bizarre. I'm going to just fly up until I break the game. Okay, it's unbreakable. Even though one could argue that it may have been broken from the start. I'm definitely making a glitch out of it, but that's about it. I don't like this level. Why did they let me join? He wishes to follow me. Why? All I did was join and say my wife left me. Super Mario Bros., but it's in Little Big Planet. Oh, thank you for coming up with a title for me. Oh, wait, it's actually Mario.  I thought I'd have my character. It's a little bit janky. Like it's moving really oddly and strangely, but what the hell? How did someone do this? Oh my God, this is insane.  I'm genuinely impressed. It started to get over the fact my wife just left me.  Show yourself. Oh, it's siren head. I've seen the gifts of this, but I don't actually know what it is. So maybe this will clarify for me. It'll be good to know. It's already terrifying considering the birds fly like that. OMG. I hear siren head. Is that a corpse? Jesus Christ. This game went from Super Mario to this.  What is going on? I need to run to my car. No, I don't think I will. I think I'll let it kill me. There we go. This game is weird. I feel like I'm playing Dreams. All right, one more. SpongeBob Death Run.  This is a versus level. Play with other players. I'd love to, but people generally don't let me in their games. So I'll just push SpongeBob in. Okay. This isn't Death Run. This is Murder Run. I just murdered SpongeBob.  Patrick is also dead. Let me have another crack at that one. Okay. What is happening? Oh, Jesus. This is filthy. Should I get the pumpinator? Oh, they're going my legs. I guess I'll just use my face as legs instead. Well, Patrick just got chopped in half. This is bizarre. I'd never looked at community made things and I'm kind of glad I didn't feel like I wasn't mature enough when I first got these games back in the PlayStation 3 to handle this stuff. All right. You know what? I'm going to leave it there. That was fantastic.  God, I really didn't expect to be saying that sentence when I started playing Little Big Planet. But yeah, I hope you enjoyed the video. I appreciate watching as always folks. If you want more of me, I post every single second day and I also stream five times a week if you want to check out my stream in the description. But yeah, we're going to leave it there. I hope you enjoyed. Appreciate you as I said earlier and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


A menacing figure, a high evolutionary, approaches the cage. He reaches his hand out to one of the raccoons, Rocket in particular. In the present day, the guardians of the galaxy, Peter Quill, Rocket, Groot, Nebula, Mantis, Craglin, and Cosmo the space dog, have taken refuge on nowhere and set up their headquarters there. Peter has still been mourning the loss of the original Gamora and has been drinking himself unconscious, and Nebula has to carry him to his room. Meanwhile, Craglin and Cosmo have a bit of a rivalry going on as they test their telekinetic abilities. Craglin has been trying to master using Yondu's arrow with his fin, but he hasn't quite gotten the hang of it. From deeper out in space, the being known as Adam Warlock, created by the Sovereign High Priestess Aisha, comes flying in at full speed to nowhere, crashing into Rocket. The guardians leap into action, but during the fight, Adam tears Groot's head off, he's okay, though, and directly targets Rocket. Peter and Mantis try to help Rocket after he has been gravely wounded by Adam, while Drax attempts to beat up the Golden Man.  The med pack that Peter is using on Rocket is not working, and comes close to killing him before Nebula tells them to take it off him. Adam retreats while nowhere is left in destruction. As the guardians carry Rocket to safety, he appears to have a flashback to his time being experimented on by the High Evolutionary. He was marked 89p13 and thrown into a cage with three other animal test subjects, an otter with mechanical arms, a walrus with wheels for legs, and a rabbit with other mechanical attachments. They befriend the frightened Rocket and make him feel less alone. The guardians find that Rocket has a kill switch in his body that could detonate if they attempt to perform surgery on him, and they figure Adam was sent to retrieve him. Nebula finds that there's a pass key that can override the kill switch, but it would be with OrgoCorp, the company that experimented on him. Peter wastes no time in leading the guardians, minus Craglin and Cosmo, to head out there to save his friends. At the Oret Lab on Counter Earth, the High Evolutionary meets with Aisha and Adam, as they not only work for him, but High Evolutionary is responsible for the creation of the Sovereign, among other races and species across the galaxy. He sent Adam to retrieve Rocket, as he is High Evolutionary's most valued asset. When he tries to torture Adam for his failure in retrieving Rocket, Aisha pleads with him to stop, as she views Adam like a son. The High Evolutionary tells his henchmen Thiel that he knows where the guardians are headed. The guardians arrive at the Orgoscope, where OrgoCorp headquarter would be. While they prepare to break through the shield, Peter and Mantis discuss how he has never returned to Earth since he was taken by the Ravagers, and Peter says the only person he would know is his grandfather, and he doesn't know if he's still alive. Moments later, a guardianship is bordered by Ravagers, led by Stack R. Ogort. The alternate Gamora has joined them, and she has been secretly communicating with Nebula. Peter is stunned to see Gamora, even though this version is not familiar with the rest of the guardians. Stack R gives the guardian spacesuits and instructs them to avoid Orgoscentries while they try to access the company's records for information on Rocket. Another flashback shows how Rocket was highly intelligent, which is why High Evolutionary kept him close. He had also witnessed the development of Counter Earth, where High Evolutionary was sending his completed experiments. He showed Rocket a machine where he tried to advance the evolutionary stages of certain animals, but had not perfected it to the point where they were anything more than mindless monstrosities that he would dispose of once they were viewed as failures. To the surprise of High Evolutionary, Rocket seemed to have figured out the problem involving the proteins in the organisms they were using. The guardians descend onto the Orgoscope, with Peter trying to have a heart-to-heart with Gamora, only for her to reject him since she is not the same Gamora he used to know and love. They stash their spacesuits somewhere before being found by Orgoscentries led by Master Karja, but the guardians pretend to be working there. Peter splits off with Gamora and Nebula while Drax and Mantis go together. The former three encounter one Orgo employee, Eura and force her to take them to the records. Just as they find Rocket's file, the Orgoscentries go after the guardians. Their spacesuits end up sucked into space because they stashed them in the wrong place, but Drax and Mantis attempt to fight off the guards. Karja shoots at them, hitting Drax and Nebula, weakening them. Peter convinces Eura to help them, and she lets him access their systems to turn off the artificial gravity to get the Orgoscentries off their tails and allowing them to return to their ship. In another flashback, Rocket is seen with his animal friends as they dream about being free. Here, they come up with their names. The otter names herself Lilla, the walrus names himself Tiefs, and the rabbit names herself Flaw, before Rocket picks his own name after seeing a rocket flying over Counter-Earth. The guardians play Rocket's file and witness the horrors that he was subjected to under high evolutionary. The pasquie is also not found in the file, but it is in the memories of a device in Thiel's head. When Peter starts trying to head out to find Thiel, Gamora argues against the plan until Nebula tells her that Rocket is still their family. The Orgoscentries meet with Aisha and Adam as they take in a captured ravager and his pet named Blurp. While Aisha tries to get Adam to interrogate the ravager for info on the guardians, he ends up frying him to death with his powers, angering Aisha. Moments later she hears Gamora contacting the ravager over a radio, sending coordinates for her to get picked up and unknowingly letting Aisha know where they are headed. Meanwhile, Adam takes a bit of a liking to Blurp. Another flashback sees the high evolutionary madly bringing Rocket to witness his next experiments, as he took Rocket's suggestions over the proteins in the animals and had perfected it to make his creatures more advanced. High evolutionary also talks down to Rocket as though he was a failed experiment full of mistakes, and then orders the perfected creatures to be incinerated. The guardians make it to Counter-Earth, which has many suburban neighborhoods like the ones Peter used to know, inhabited by humanoid animal creatures. When they touch down, Drax makes a bad impression by throwing a ball at a child's head, and the other inhabitants begin pelting the guardians with garbage until Groot makes himself gigantic to scare them away. After Peter helps a Batwoman, she takes him and his friends into her home, where they help the guardians find high evolutionary stations so they can find feel, and the family lets Peter take their car with Nebula and Groot. They arrive, and high evolutionary's guards escort Peter inside.  After he and Lilla embrace, high evolutionary shot Lilla fatally as punishment for the attempt to escape. Rocket wailed hysterically and attacked high evolutionary's face, clawing and disfiguring him. When two of his henchmen showed up, Rocket killed them, but they had also shot Tiefs and Flawdead. Rocket escaped alone, mourning the loss of his friends.   Peter meets high evolutionary and confronts him over his actions before he declares that he is going to destroy the planet and start all over. Counter-Earth begins to get destroyed, along with its inhabitants. Adam tries to fly back to Aisha, only to watch her get blown up in her ship. Peter and Groot fight off some of high evolutionary's henchmen before jumping out of the window with Thiel, and Groot creates wings to keep himself and Peter up as he drowns Thiel and steals his memory. The rest of the guardians make it back to their ship as the planet continues to blow up around them, in the Chaos Mantis tracks, and Nebula end up on high evolutionary ship while Peter and Groot make it back to their ship with Rocket and Gamora.  Peter, Gamora, and Groot frantically rush to use the passkey to save Rocket. He finds himself in a white realm being met by Lilla, Tiefs, and Flawdead, as though they are welcoming him to the afterlife. Rocket seems ready to join them until Lilla tells him that he still has a purpose left in his life.  They then receive communications from Nebula, as she and Drax and Mantis have found a large group of captured children that high evolutionary has been keeping for experiments. They hear Rocket's voice over the radio and are overjoyed to know he's alive. Unfortunately, high evolutionary captures them and lets the other guardians know. Peter leads them to go rescue their friends and contacts Craglin for help. Drax is able to calm down the captured children since he speaks their native language, and he also manages to make them laugh by acting goofy like he used to with his own daughter. He, plus Mantis and Nebula, get put into a room with three Abolishks, but Mantis manages to use her powers to get them on their side and help them charge into battle. Craglin and Cosmo help bring nowhere close to the ship, but high evolutionary's forces begin attacking. Craglin sees a vision of Yondu, encouraging him to use his heart in order to fly the arrow, and it works when Craglin destroys the high evolutionary's drones, while Cosmo uses her telekinetic powers to squash a henchman coming their way. The high evolutionary's henchman attempt to revolt, only for him to use his powers to vaporize all of them. Once the guardians reunite, they are joined by Adam and Blurp. Together, they take on high evolutionary's army and utterly annihilate them. Cosmo uses her powers to get the ship closer to nowhere so that the guardians can rescue the captured children and take them to safety. Before leaving, Rocket finds a litter of baby raccoons along with other animals and begins to try and free them. High evolutionary finds him and almost kills him, saying once again he is nothing more than a failed experiment, until Rocket reminds him who he really is. The other guardians then show up and deliver a well-deserved beatdown to high evolutionary before Nebula pulls his face off, revealing the horrible disfigurement that Rocket left him with.  Rocket frees the other animals, but Cosmo's powers give out before Peter can make it to nowhere. He nearly freezes to death in space until Adam flies him on to nowhere to safety. Back on nowhere, the guardians meet one last time together. The mora is set to continue working with the ravages, while Peter has plans to finally return to Earth. Mantis says that she also wants to go off on her own to find out what she wants to do for herself. While Drax offers to go with her, Mantis says she needs to do it alone, and Nebula says Drax is better suited to looking after the children since he was always meant to be a dad, and she will be in charge of nowhere. Peter passes down his leadership title to Rocket so that he can lead the next guardian's team. Before Gamora leaves, Peter acknowledges that they will not be together, but there is a hint of attraction and flirtation between them. He returns to Earth and finally reunites with his grandfather Jason. After the guardians partways, Rocket is given Peter's zoom, where he plays dog days are over for all of nowhere to hear and begin to dance to. Mid-credits scene, Rocket and Groot now lead their new team, which includes Kragling, Cosmo, Adam, Blurp, and one of the orphan children named Fyler. As a horde of enemies come their way, Rocket leads them by playing come and get your love as they head on their next adventure. Post-credits scene, Peter and Jason have breakfast together, discussing Jason's steps on with his second wife.


To one of your games, you wore a Kendrick Lamar shirt. Your teammate Leonard Miller wore a Drake shirt. Has that been picked already? For sure, I mean, Lenny's from Canada, so he's from Canada, I'm from the L.A. area. That's fair. But, man, I got Kendrick Lamar all the way for sure. Okay, that's fair. I got Drake all day long. What? For sure. Really? Lou, do you? I really, really like those shirts.  You gotta check those out. You're not even running for office.


So I'd like to start off this presentation today with a quote. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. That's a fact. And it's something that we take for granted because as web developers we work with technology every day and it starts to become routine and we forget. You know if you were to go out onto the street here in Atlanta and you were to ask somebody how does the internet work, they would tell you the truth which is that it is magic.  Just look at our beards. We build the internet. We build this thing, this core foundation upon which our very society is built.  We build it from bits of HTML and CSS and JavaScript and it is magic and we are wizards. And as anyone knows, with great power comes great responsibility. All of you in the room with me today, you have a responsibility. Nay, you have a duty, a civic duty to yourselves and all the muggles out there to use your powers for good rather than for evil. Now some of you I know use your powers simply for your own amusement or to earn a simple living. Well today I hope to inspire you to use your powers to bring lightness and good into the world to take up the quest of civic hacking and make a contribution to our society, to our community. And I hope today not just to inspire you but to warn you of some of the perils that you may face on your journey and that I faced on mine and to equip you with some of the weapons that you may need for your prepper backpack so that as DHH would call it you can be ready. Now I myself started my journey into civic hacking and into Rails magic in general not so long ago. I was a student at the Flatiron School and it was a snowy night in New York City and I was up late on campus in Manhattan downtown in the financial district right by the Wall Street Bowl and it was snowing outside and the icy wind was cutting through the streets and even in the halls of our ivory tower of technology and academia it was cold. You may not know this but New York City is not just its old buildings are not just full of history they're also full of broken boilers and drafty windows old steam pipes with peeling paint running to rusty radiators especially in lower income areas this problem is epidemic and people who live in buildings like this they don't have control over their temperature like many of us do they don't have a thermostat on the wall they depend on their landlord to provide sufficient heat because all they have are these steam pipes and in lower income areas particularly although the problem isn't limited to that a lot of people do not get the heat that they need and this isn't just a problem for New York City it's a problem all across the northern United States it's a problem in Chicago Philadelphia Boston and it's not just a problem in the United States it's a problem all over the world we get the same issues in Canada we get the same things in the UK now it seems every year in New York where this problem is particularly bad there is a new story coming out of the New York Times and the year that Heat Seat got started it was this is actually a really hard story it was the the Ortega family and they lived in old building in Crown Heights in Brooklyn and Christine Ortega had a daughter has a daughter with several palsy she was six years old at the time she requires a lot of medical equipment and they were not getting sufficient heat she called the landlord she called the city she complained nothing was happening so she went out to the store and she bought a space heater when she plugged that space heater in the draw from the heater and from the medical equipment was too much in a blue circuit so she had to choose one or the other the best that she could do was to prop a mattress up against the window to try and keep the draft out and this is not an isolated incident I wish that it were but there are 200,000 heating complaints in New York City alone God knows how many there are across the United States or across the globe one of my teammates made this map we call it the cold map you can see it's broken down by zip code in the colder the more heating complaints there are in that zip code the darker the blue and unsurprisingly this corresponds really tightly with the areas of the Bronx in Brooklyn that how's the most lower income demographic most low mostly lower income demographics so you know it's a big problem right because it's dangerous but it's not just dangerous it's illegal it's actually against the law there are housing codes in place that prohibit this in New York it's it has to be at least 68 degrees during the day and 55 at night there are similar laws in Philadelphia and Chicago with slightly different rules and the issue isn't that people aren't aware it's that they just it's not practical for a city to know the temperature inside of every old building like within its borders like New York City has so many old buildings I mean it's an impossible task it's a limitation of technology and I remember that night at the Flatiron school looking out at the snow and trying to come up with a project to work on for school how hard could it be how hard could it be now granted it was actually really hard I didn't know this at the time I was like really naive and this was the first app that I ever tried to build so I didn't know what I was getting myself into and I certainly didn't even envision what he'd seek would then go on to try to become I didn't envision a network of temperature sensors for temperature sensors all across these neighborhoods I did not envision an app that would analyze and produce reports to give to advocacy groups that would then use that information to bring about justice all I imagined was just a simple graph that connected to a simple wireless thermometer I thought you know how hard could that be how hard could that be now I fell for the hackathon trap so this was the first of five traps that I fell for in my quest into civic hacking if you are the first five that I know of they're actually probably way more than I haven't discovered yet but five that I know of if you've ever been to a hackathon you know what it's like and everybody's sitting there thinking I've got this great idea and if I just focus on this one idea for the next 48 hours to the exclusion of everything else to the exclusion even of bathing which is why hackathon smells bad then maybe maybe it will be cool before I get distracted because it's so easy to get distracted there's so many other cool projects that we could be working on and what happens is what happened to me which is that you burn out you can't you can't possibly come up you get through the 20 the 48 hours and afterwards you have this like kind of okay thing that you really just cannot stand looking at because you just burned out so hard on it and that's what happened to me and the app would have died I think if it hadn't been for a couple of things that we'd done by mistake I'd roped another another student in with me who was also starting to lose focus how do you how do you stay focused well the first thing that we'd done was we had agreed to give a presentation in front of a bunch of students you know at least one of whom is in the audience with me today and we were going to be horribly embarrassed if we didn't have something to produce something that we could demo at this presentation another thing that we did was that we made a promise to a user somebody who actually had an apartment that was too cold and who wanted this technology so he could generate some proof and take it to his landlord or take it to the city and get the problem fixed and I got squirrel keeping you on your toes guys stay focused so put your reputation on the line that's this that's the key to surviving to overcoming the hackathon trap put your reputation on the line maybe thinking but I have an idea you had this bolt of inspiration and you were sitting in you know the Hogwarts of web development of flat iron school you know and I just have an idea why I'm totally exaggerating I didn't have a bolt of inspiration I had a project that I wanted that I needed to come up with and so I went to open data sets if you go and you look at some of the data sets that are just coming online there is so much government data at the city level at the state federal at the federal level coming online that no one has had a chance to dig into yet nobody's dug in yet there's a ton of stuff that you can come up with like they just now have traffic information that shows where collisions are happening in certain cities how cool would it be to map that out and see like what's the most dangerous intersection in America a live update that or better yet don't use other people's technology don't use other people's data get your own data 56% of US adults have smartphones they have geolocation they have microphones they have accelerometers in them you can collect a ton of data and and and use it to affect policy you know people don't want to invest in infrastructure because you know it's expensive and it's not always politically expedient and some of the old infrastructure in the United States is in terrible disrepair and really needs help we have the ability to crowdsource that information we have the ability to make it politically viable to invest in our own infrastructure you know you really want to have an impact automate advocacy don't just take open data and do something cool with it but automate the process of advocating for people who need help because there are the advocates in our society the social workers and the public defenders and the community activists these people they are always underpaid and always overworked there's never enough of them and if you can take just some of the hardest parts of their job and automate it for them you have a huge impact and that's what he'd seek does we don't work directly with tenants we we don't have the time or the staff or the skills for it we empower advocacy groups by automating one of the hardest parts of their job which is to gather evidence so you may be thinking but I don't want to listen to all of your stupid hack like a civic hack ideas I have like a way cooler civic hacking idea and I bet not only do you have cooler ideas than me but some of those ideas are actually already better implemented than mine but I also bet that the majority of those ideas are languishing unloved at the bottom of your github repo why is that I think I think it's because of the field of dreams fallacy so it's the second track that we fell for we thought if you build it they will come right and so we built an MVP and we had it working we had it connected to temperature sensors we had it collecting readings we had a user in the field who was actually showing violations and then you know it started to get boring and we started to lose interest because nobody really cared except for like this one guy and you know the reason is because well nobody knew that we didn't tell anybody if you build it they won't come if you tell them about it they will come you need to tell people about it hype it up whatever you're working on hype it up that's the cure for the field of dreams fallacy but be careful with height because it's a double-edged sword that was the the third trap that we fell for was we got drunk on press coverage we went on a publicity bender you know after after we started hyping up our project you know we started we entered in a competition there was a popular vote and we spammed like every man woman and child to get them to vote for us I went through my whole Gmail contact so everybody who I had ever sent an email to or received an email from and spammed them and like you know my own grandparents you know it was embarrassing as it was really it was a low point but the result was that we got a lot of attention and at first it was just blogs but it got to be bigger and bigger names and then it was fast company and it was Reuters and then we see NBC and then our moms were like really excited and it felt like that was the most important thing for us to focus on and so we stopped coding we started writing talking points and you know we ended up concentrating all of our attention on the areas that were most interesting to the reporters rather than the ones that were most important you know reporters are not gonna ask you what's your code coverage like they're gonna ask you what are your uptime metrics or how does your retry logic work they're gonna ask you you know what's your strategy for growth and how many users do you have and like how many buildings or whatever you're gonna be it's all a terrible distraction we got really sucked into it and then it got worse got worse we started pissing off the very people we were trying to help you know one of the things that happens if you hopefully eventually have a civic hacking project that innovates in some area if that area happens to be helping people in a lower income demographic one of the things that's gonna happen is people are gonna tell you oh William you're so noble you're so magnanimous and generous and dedicated your talent and your time to help these poor helpless slabs who live in dumps and it's bullshit I mean it's not true but it's really easy to get sucked into and then you start thinking oh yeah well I am rather magnanimous sometimes well I thank you of course and then the people you're trying to help they hear that and they're like man I really don't need your pretension right now it's already cold I've been dealing with this project let's just say same problem for like years before you came along don't need your help why don't you just like go back to plan World of Warcraft or whatever it is you do and stop kind of save us with your code and you know that's like a valid point and then it wasn't just the tenants it was also the government agencies that we were hoping like the housing department that we were hoping would adopt this technology is another area civic hackers often innovate in and I want you to be aware if you innovate in the public sector at all people are gonna tell you oh thank God that you young smart innovators are gonna come in to this you know old government bureaucracy of terribleness you know where everyone is just like wanton spending and grossly incompetent you guys are gonna come in with your code and you're just gonna disrupt it's gonna be great and it's also again really easy to get sucked into but the truth is that actually those government agencies have been working on these problems for like decades they have a really deep understanding of the issue they are usually doing good and they can foresee like a ton of problems that you're definitely gonna run into but you know I mean if you're gonna be a dick about it then like we'll just you know sit back and watch you guys figure that out on your own we'll maybe laugh at you and that's you know that's bad enough but then it got worse we got inundated with all of these requests for us to pivot you know petitions to pivot I called them can you so they were usually they were ridiculous like can you just use this technology to like help with global warming or could you could you guys maybe just become competitors to nest or when are you guys gonna start monitoring air quality it's like really it's like at that level it's pretty easy to brush off but sometimes they start to sound like plausible feature requests you know like can you it can you expose an API for us that we can consume your data and you know yeah that's actually the same like a great you know I think there's a story on the backlog for making maybe we should just like bump that to the top bang out an API for you they always say it's this is great opportunity anytime anybody tells you this is great opportunity be careful what they're actually saying is I want you to focus on what I want rather than what you're actually doing that's the great opportunity and there's a reason that that API was at the bottom of the backlog and the reason is because we didn't have any data to share yet we need to focus on actually getting data so that an API would be useful that was the challenge we got sucked into all of these distractions and you're probably thinking now okay well William given like what a horrible screw up you are and all of these problems that you've had why am I listening to you we turned around we did help keep the heat on I think you know we had dozens of sensors in the field collecting readings by the end of it we had actual violations detected this is a graph from one of the tenants who's in active litigation right now you can see that we've anonymized it so you can't see the names but those orange dots at the bottom those are readings that were recorded when the temperature was below the legal limit so how do we turn it around what were the secret weapons for your prepper backpack as DHH would say that that brought you through all these trials and tribulations on your quest into civic hacking what were the four there were four secret weapons the first one is non-developers non-developers you know they get a bad rap I think especially in that hackathon culture where you've all been there there's that one business guy on the team who does nothing for like 95% of the competition and at the end he gets up he gives like a bad pitch and then he tries to take credit for vision and he's like no okay devs are act non devs are actually dead weight but in real life though they're awesome because any project whether it's a civic hacking project or any other project of a meaningful length that has longevity is going to need more skills than the developer has developers we are narcissists we think that we can do everything and they were the best person to come up with the long-term strategy and the vision and all of the code and the social media and the marketing and let's just do the books you know but actually if you turn over those responsibilities to people who actually like actually specialize in those areas well all of a sudden you're free to get back to actually coding and that's really powerful the only issue is that you bring on if you're a civic hacking project you bring on all these non dev volunteers and then you just spend all of your time coordinating which brings me to my second weapon managers this one I know is controversial because managers are particularly hated type of non developer you know they'll ask for estimates and they'll use them as deadlines they make you go to a bunch of stupid meetings that don't matter at all but that's actually that's not managers that's bad managers good managers will protect you for meetings good managers are like meeting shields you know somebody tries to make you go to a meeting you just grab the manager and you block it that's what that's what good managers do they keep you focused on what you do best I keep everybody else focused on what they do best and once we got some managers people actually started getting back to work third secret weapon is the day job and this is really important I think I am very fortunate I work at Sun Guard consulting services it's a great dev shop they are super supportive of me and my side and my my civic hacking side projects they paid for me to come to Rails Conflicts that give this talk they always tweet about us when we're doing well and most importantly they give me that regular paychecks that I have to worry about money and that means that I don't have to I don't there's there's no temptation to bastardize the original idea which was about giving something back to the community and instead turn into something profitable you know we talked to investors and investors investors are sharks and their big idea was how about this is great actually have a great technology what if we could read like just change the branding so instead of focusing on poor people we just sold this for like rich people that good idea no like the whole reason that we started this so be careful if you have a day job though you have a good job by day then you know you can fight crime by night like Superman had an awesome day job so the fourth weapon this one's this one's a little bit cheesy but it is honestly the most important weapon in your arsenal as perseverance because perseverance will make up for any number of blunders any number of pitfalls any number of traps that you fall into if you get back up on the horse and you keep going eventually you'll make it through and I'm not talking about individual perseverance I'm not talking about just one person because there will come a day when your confidence will fail you there will come a day when you will be ready to give up and talking about the perseverance of the team because if you have a group of people with you to support you then in those times you have someone to turn to and say why are we doing this and they'll tell you this is why we're doing this is why we started this is where we're going this is why it's worth seeing this through and we as an or as a as a as a project we have an organizational habit we meet every Sunday to tackle these problems together as a team and it's that organizational habit coming back every week time and time again that has kept us going for you know it's been a year over a year now so we Rubyists we're a community also Rails Conf this is another is another organizational habit you may be thinking well okay so I'm prepared now I'm equipped I know that I know the perils that I may face in my quest into civic hacking I see the value of it and I have some tools that you've equipped me with so that I might be better prepared but I've forgotten I forgotten why I was excited at the beginning of this talk to actually do any civic hacking forgotten why this is important well like I said we're a team I'm here to remind you that the internet is magic and we are god damned wizards we have a responsibility nay we have a duty a civic duty to ourselves and all the muggles out there to use that power for good rather than for evil if even 1% of the commits that we put out went to civic hacking projects we would live in paradise so this is your call to action after you leave this conference join your local code for America Brigade fork a civic hacking project on github or start one of your own because the society that we live in it's got issues so fork it let's make a poll request thank you


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Remember we are super excited, super excited in such a way that we are going to benefit, we are only not going to benefit as the employees, but also the employer will benefit, it's going to create what you call a good working environment that is going to super help us to improve ourselves, but remember what are some of the amendments that are in this law, or what are some of these amendments that we need to talk about, remember we talk about a year, a three year contract that you need to sign, which can permit you to either work on a full time, a temporary, or what we call a flexible time period depending on what you have agreed with your employer. So when we talk about the UAE, we are also talking about the other Emirates that make up the UAE, that is Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Shereja, and all other Emirates that make up the UAE. In this video we are going to look at what we call the working hours and the overtime clause, the amendments that is being introduced, what are we talking about, or what are we talking about in this case? That your employer will not force you to work overtime again is your will, and then even if you work overtime, you have to be paid that overtime, and remember part of these amendments also notes that the overtime should not exceed two hours, the overtime should not exceed two hours, the overtime period should be paid. Your day off, if you work your day off, you are entitled to payment as per the Nule Balloon. Hope it's very clear and hope is pretty very clear. Let me read through what I summarized from these amendments. It will be prohibited for employees to work overtime five consecutive hours without at least one hour break. It will be prohibited for someone to work five consecutive hours without a break in the Nule Balloon in the UAE. Starting February 2022, that if you work five hours, you must have one consecutive one hour of rest. Hope it's very clear guys, this is quite amazing. You work five hours, if your duty location is more than five hours, you work five hours, you get one hour rest. So that means if you work in twelve hours, if you work in twelve hours on your duty location, that means you need to get two hours of consecutive rest. It further says no more than two hours of overtime employees must receive an overtime wage equivalent to a regular hour pay. With a 25% increase, if conditions required employer to work overtime between 10pm and 4am, they will be entitled to an overtime or an overtime wage equivalent to a regular pay with 50% increase. This is quite very amazing guys. Hope people are planning to go to UAE and people are already in the UAE, you super going to make a lot of money. Especially when it comes to overtime because it's quite amazing. It's quite amazing. Remember, they will also be entitled to an overtime wage equivalent to a regular pay with 50% increase. Employees on a shift basis are exempt from this rule. For example, this is only going to be applied or only applied to those people that are going to work on a full-time basis. But if you are going to work on a shift basis, then you are not part of this rule. I think that is very good at a time that is going to benefit all of the people. Remember, if workers are asked to work on a day off, they must receive a one-day leave or an overtime wage which is equivalent to a regular day pay with a 50% increase. Hope it's very clear that overtime, if you are working on a full contract in the UAE, it's going to be part of another time where you are going to make a good amount of money as part of an increase to your salary. Hope I've tried to share something for you and try to pick out something. So remember, overtime will be paid and if you work on your off day, you'll be paid 50%. If you work on another day according to a regular basis, you'll be paid 25% on top of your overtime increase. And remember that no one is permitted to work more than two hours of overtime. And if you are going to work between 10 pm to 4 am as your overtime, it should be doubled to 50% of your wage. Thank you so much for coming back to this channel and thank you so much for tuning in to this channel. See you again as we try to see more amendments in the new level in the UAE. It's makes from the makes creation.


Okay, let's start by drawing the Earth. Now that we've got the Earth, let's divide the Earth into two equal parts. We're going to call the North part of the planet the Northern Hemisphere, and we're going to call the South part of the planet the Southern Hemisphere. And that dividing line which divided the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere, we're going to call the equator. Equator for equa being equal. We're also going to define the equator at zero degrees of latitude. And so the term latitude is the term that we're going to use for North and South. Now let's say that we wanted to determine what the latitude was of the North Pole. The North Pole of course is the northernmost part of the planet. All we need to do to figure this out is draw an imaginary line from the North Pole to the center of the planet. And then from the center of the planet, we're going to draw a line to the edge of the equator. You'll notice that we've just made a 90 degree angle. Therefore, the North Pole is simply located at 90 degrees North latitude. Or the North Pole is 90 degrees North of the equator. We can do the same thing down here in the Southern Hemisphere. Here at the South Pole, we're going to draw an imaginary line from it to the center of the planet and we're going to draw an imaginary line from the center of the planet to the edge of the equator. Once again, we've created a 90 degree angle. Therefore we know that the South Pole is 90 degrees South latitude or 90 degrees South of the equator or South of zero. Now let's say we wanted to figure out where San Diego, California was located. Well we know that San Diego is right about here. Well what does right about here means? We're 32 degrees North latitude. So what exactly does that mean? That means if you were to draw an imaginary line from the center of the planet to San Diego and another imaginary line from the center of the planet to the edge of the equator, that angle is going to be 32 degrees. So in essence, San Diego, California is 32 degrees North of the equator which makes it 32 degrees North latitude. We can also do this in the Southern Hemisphere. If there is a point right here that's at around 32 degrees South latitude, we know that that position is 32 degrees South of the equator and a good example of that would be a place like Sydney, Australia. Now here's a question for you. Is 32 degrees North latitude San Diego only or are there other places on the planet which are also located at 32 degrees North latitude? Well the answer is obvious. Yes, I mean what about over here? This place is 32 degrees North of the equator so it too has to be 32 degrees North latitude. And what about here and here and here and here? As a matter of fact, along this entire line you're at 32 degrees North latitude. And the same is going to be true down here in the Southern Hemisphere. All along this line you're going to be at 32 degrees South latitude. Well what about somebody who's up here at maybe 60 degrees North latitude? They're not the only ones. This is 60, this is 60, this is 60. So this entire line also represents 60 degrees North latitude. And we can play this game across the entire planet and you'll notice that all of these lines that we're drawing, all of these latitudinal lines are parallel to one another. Therefore we can also call these lines parallels. So now the term latitude and parallel are used rather interchangeably. San Diego, California is located at 32 degrees North latitude and it's also located on the 32nd parallel. Now here's my question for you. How do we know that San Diego, California is located at 32 degrees North latitude? Other than me telling you it's true and other than us using for example a GPS, a global positioning system to verify it, how in essence do we know that we are at 32 degrees North latitude? Well there's a rather simple way to do this. Let's draw the Earth again. And this time that's really concentrated in the North Pole. And let's put somebody up at the North Pole, oh I don't know, let's call them Santa Claus. So here's Santa Claus up at the North Pole. If Santa Claus were to look straight up in the sky and it's nighttime, he would see a North Star. And it's called the North Star because there's going to be a star that's above North Geographic Pole and it's always going to be above North Geographic Pole. In fact that star today is called Polaris. And so Polaris is the North Celestial Pole Star. Now if Santa Claus looks straight up he'll see Polaris. And during the course of the day as the Earth rotates on its axis, Polaris is still going to be up. And Polaris isn't going to move, at least not to him.  And the reason of course is, is Earth is rotating on its axis. And it's going to make one complete rotation in the time span of 24 hours. So during the course of the evening, the stars will appear to rise in the east and set in the west. And they'll be doing this type of movement. Nice circular movement in the sky, but again it's not the stars moving. Rather it's the Earth rotating on its axis giving the appearance of the stars moving. Now all the stars are going to do this except for one star. And that one star is the North Celestial Pole Star. And the reason why it does not appear to move is because the North Celestial Pole Star is on Earth's axis of rotation. So here's the axis of rotation. Earth is rotating on this axis. And because Polaris is right on the axis, it's not going to appear to move. Now because of this, we can actually use Polaris to determine our latitude and the position on planet Earth. And here's how it works. So this person looks straight up. Now according to Santa Claus here, Polaris is going to make an angle of 90 degrees with his horizon. And so your horizon is your point that extends outward that you see on the edge. So for example, if you go see a sunset and you're looking out to the Pacific Ocean and the sun appears to set and it goes below the ocean, that oceanic plane is basically our horizon. And the point directly above our head is called zenith. So for the person standing on the North Pole, Polaris is located at zenith. And Polaris therefore makes an angle of 90 degrees with horizon. Therefore we know that North Pole is located at 90 degrees North latitude. So basically, your latitude is simply how many degrees that the North Celestial Pole star makes with your horizon. In the case here of San Diego, we know we're at 32 degrees North latitude. But how do we really know that we're at 32 degrees North latitude? Well, let's draw our picture here. Here's our zenith point, which is the point directly above our head. Here is our horizon line. And here is Polaris. And we will note that Polaris makes an angle of 32 degrees North of that horizon. Make sense? Now we can play this game all over the world. Here's somebody standing at the equator. And for someone standing at the equator, Polaris is going to be right on their horizon. So basically, Polaris makes an angle of zero degrees relative to that person's horizon. And that's exactly what we're seeing here. Now here's a question for you. What if you're down here in the Southern Hemisphere? Can you use Polaris to determine your point of latitude? And the answer, of course, is no. Because the second that you go beneath the equator, or at least really close to it, Polaris is now below your horizon and you're unable to see it. So for someone standing here in the Southern Hemisphere, they can't use Polaris as their point of reference. Rather, they're going to have to use the South celestial pole star, right? And that's going to be down here beneath the South pole. Make sense? Now let's clear this out and let's summarize this one more time and try to make it clearer on the picture. So here's Earth, here's the equator at zero degrees. For someone standing right here on the North pole, here's the North celestial pole star. And their horizon makes an angle of 90 degrees relative to the North celestial pole star. As this person continues south, continuing means starts walking southbound, you'll notice that as they do, the pole star gets lower and lower in their sky. So again, you start at 90 degrees, you start walking south, you're going to smaller and smaller numbers until inevitably you hit zero. And then beyond zero, the North celestial pole star will be below your horizon, you're unable to see it, right? So here's my question for you.  Tell me what our latitude is. And by the way, we're not going to be in San Diego. I'm going to throw you in a car, in a bus, in a boat, on a plane. We're just going to go somewhere random. The only promise to you I'll make is that we'll stick to the northern hemisphere. Would you be able to find your latitude? So daunting question. You could say, okay, Professor Yano, all I need to do is find Polaris. And then if I find Polaris, I'm going to figure it out. And by the way, there's a really cool way to determine angle. And you can just simply use your fist. You don't, in fact, have to use a sextant. For example, let's say you're standing outside, and here's your horizon. And that said that there's a star right here. First of all, what we're going to do is the following. We're going to count knuckles, or fists, I should say. One, and start putting hand over hand. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So for me, when I go hand over hand, it takes me about nine complete fists to go from here to there. Well, I know that that angle is 90 degrees. So 90 divided by nine is 10 degrees. Therefore, if I see Polaris in the sky, and I start here from my southern horizon, and I start counting upward, then I can actually determine what the angle is of that star above my horizon by just simply counting the number of knuckles, or excuse me, the number of fists that I have. It's not like super, super accurate, but it's better than nothing. And I could probably round up or down to the half. So if we're at 32 degrees, I can probably guesstimate 35 or to 30 pretty easily if I can find Polaris. But the question now becomes, again, how do you find Polaris? Contrary to popular belief, Polaris is not the brightest star in the sky. In fact, it's relatively dim. And so in order for you to find it, we need to come up with a clever way to figure this out. Well, here's how we're going to do it. Polaris is the tail of a tiny asterism called the Little Dipper. Now, the Little Dipper is called the Little Dipper because it looks like a little spoon in the sky. The Little Dipper is an asterism, which is actually a component of a constellation. And this Little Dipper is connected to Ursa Minor, which is called the Little Bear. So the Little Dipper is part of the Little Bear. Now, if you can look up in the sky, and if you could find this tiny little spoon in the sky, you could probably find Polaris. But again, the problem is Polaris is very, very difficult to find. And frankly, finding the Little Dipper is relatively challenging as well. But what's not too challenging is finding the Big Dipper. And the Big Dipper actually looks like a rather big spoon in the sky. And the Big Dipper is an asterism. It's part of Ursa Major, which is called the Big Bear. So all we need to do is find this big spoon in the sky. And the very last star of this spoon, we're going to follow it to the very first star that it runs into. And that first star is going to be Polaris. And so now you can go outside and find Polaris if it's a nice, clear evening. And that is going to be the North Celestial Pole Star. OK, so that, my friends, is latitude. We have latitude. We know what latitude is. We know the latitude are also parallels. And we know how to find latitude, at least to a certain extent. Of course, nowadays everybody's got their smartphones. You whip out your smartphone. You got your GPS unit on. And voila, you're going to see San Diego, California at 32 degrees north latitude. Yes? OK, so that's latitude. What about longitude? Well, let's draw this picture again. Once again, there's the Earth. And we'll put in here the equator. And now what we're going to do is draw an imaginary line from the North Pole all the way down to the South Pole. Now, this line is relatively arbitrary. The fact of the matter is with the equator, that way is easy. The equator is simply the dividing line between the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere. However, with this line that we just drew, we're also going to define this at zero degrees. But again, it seems to be arbitrary. There's a history to this, which we'll talk about a little bit later on. We're going to define this line going from the North Pole to the South Pole at zero degrees longitude. So unlike latitude, longitude is going to give us east and west. Now, we're going to draw another imaginary line. And if we draw this line going to the west, we know we're in the western hemisphere. If we draw a line this way and we go to the east, we know that we're going in the eastern hemisphere. Now, this might be a little bit confusing and it's hard to see on this picture. So you know what I want to do? I want to erase this and start over again. So here's the equator at zero degrees. And here is zero degrees of longitude. I'm going to draw a sister image right here. And on this image, imagine that we're staring down on top of Earth and we're looking at the North Pole. So let's call this NP for the North Pole. Therefore, this circle basically represents the equator because, again, we're looking down on planet Earth straight from above. So this line here is pretty much the edge that we're looking down upon. Now, this line that we drew here, it's right there. So we're going from the North Pole all the way down to the South Pole. And again, we're calling this zero degrees of longitude. And if we go in this direction, we're going into the Western Hemisphere. And if we go this direction, we're going into the Eastern Hemisphere. Now, if we were to draw an imaginary line over here on the opposite side of the planet, we've just made an angle of 180 degrees. So remember with latitude, we said, OK, well, how many degrees are you going above or below the equator to find your location? We're doing the same thing with longitude. But in this case, it's how many degrees are you going east or west from zero degrees of longitude. And by the way, we're going to call this line a meridian. In fact, all these lines here are going to be called meridians. And this line here that represents zero is going to be called the prime meridian. So in this picture, we've just gone 180 degrees west of the prime meridian. So we're going to call this 180 degrees longitude. Now, you might say, well, did you forget adding the west or an east designator? And the answer is no. The fact of the matter is if you go 180, you're neither east nor west. You're right in the middle just like if you're at zero. If you were to go this way toward the west and make an angle of 90 degrees relative to zero, then you would be at 90 degrees west longitude. If you went this way and made an angle of 90 degrees east of the prime meridian, you would be at 90 degrees east longitude. And so again, it works in the same way. The only difference is when we're dealing with latitude, our numbers are going between zero and 90. When we're dealing with longitude, our numbers are going between zero and 180. Make sense? Now, here's something clever as well. You'll notice that opposite 90 degrees west is going to be 90 degrees east. Opposite zero is 180. What about something like 120? What would the opposite of 120 west be? Well, here's a very, very simple solution for you. The opposite of 120 west has to be 60 east. So this plus this always has to equal 180 degrees. By the way, San Diego, California, were right around 120 west. So that puts us over here, 32 degrees north latitude, 120 degrees west longitude. More specifically, we're at about 117. OK, so remember, all these lines here going north and south are called meridians. All these lines here going east to west, but giving us north and south, are called parallels. And you'll notice we just turned the world into a giant grid system. This is called the geographic grid, hence the name. Now, by the way, we determine how we can figure out our latitude. And we can do that by looking at for the north celestial pole star if you're in the northern hemisphere or the south celestial pole star if you're in the southern hemisphere. What about longitude? Longitude is much more quirky, and it's a little bit more complex. And in order for us to figure out longitude, what we actually have to do is use a clock, and we're going to get to that in just a second. But before we do, I'd like to look at north, south, east, and west in a little bit finer detail.  That's not that much. That's only but one degree. But here's the caveat. One degree of longitude and one degree of latitude, if you're at the equator, equals 69 statutory miles. So imagine this.  You want to go from 32 to 33. You know that that's 69 miles. Let's say that you're off. Maybe you're off by a half a degree for your destination. All of a sudden, you've missed your mark by about 35 miles. That's big. That's really big. Therefore, we need to figure out a way that we can define distances a little bit more precisely, especially if we're talking about latitude and longitude and if we're out at sea, which, of course, is the early days of exploration. Well, here's how it's going to work. We know that one degree equals 69 statutory miles. And I'm using the term statutory because in a second, I'm going to use the term nautical. So statutory miles basically is distance on land. Now, let's say I want to break this down into a finer part. Well, what I can actually do is take this degree and break it into 60 equal parts. So one degree is going to equal 60 what that is an arc minute. So a little tick mark. So one degree equals 60 arc minutes. And that equals 69 miles. Well, now I can just do a little bit of math. I can divide 69 miles by 60. That equals about 1.15 statutory miles. So we know that one arc minute equals about 1.15 statutory miles. Now, that's not bad. So when you look in your atlas and you see San Diego, California, it won't say 32 degrees or won't say 117 west. It'll say like 32 degrees, 25 arc minutes. Or it'll say 117 degrees west, 33 arc minutes. So those arc minutes are just simply given us finer details. And according to this math that we've just done, we know that one arc minute equals 1.15 miles. So now if you're a navigator at sea, if you're off by only an arc minute, you're only off by about 1.15 miles, which is now not too bad. But keep in mind that 1.15 miles could be the difference between your boat hitting a big rock or your boat going into a bay. So frankly, we want to get this into even finer detail. And we can. So let's take one arc minute. And again, we know that one arc minute is the equivalent of 1.15 statutory miles. By the way, before I continue, one arc minute equals 1.15 statutory miles. That is what a nautical mile is. So one nautical mile is one arc minute. And that translates into 1.15 statutory miles. And if you're talking about a knot, a knot is simply how many nautical miles you're going per hour. So we're going to use knots and nautical miles when we're out at sea versus statutory miles when you're out at land. And again, we see why we're using arc minutes or nautical miles because that just makes navigation more precise when we're in fact looking for more precision. Of course, nowadays, you're going to use a lot of decimal degrees. And in decimal degrees, you're just going to have decimal point representation of a degree. But for now, we'll stick with this arc minutes. OK, so we know that one arc minute equals 1.15 statutory miles, which of course equals a nautical mile. We can break down that one arc minute into 60 equal parts. So one arc minute equals 60 arc seconds. And we know that that equals 1.15 miles. So again, we're going to do just a little bit of math. We're going to divide both sides by 60 arc seconds. Therefore, one arc second equals 1.15 miles divided by 60, which is about 2 tenths of a mile. So now we've got really nice, fine detail. When you break open your Atlas and you find San Diego, California, it'll give you a little bit more precision. You'll have an answer in degrees, arc minutes, arc seconds.  OK, let's do a little bit of trivia. Let's draw Earth here. Here's the equator. Here's the North Pole. And again, let's take a look at the perspective from looking straight down on the planet. So here's the North Pole. And let's draw all these meridians. You'll notice that as we approach the North Pole, meridians are getting tighter and tighter and tighter together until inevitably all the meridians converge at the North Pole. And then the same is true with the South Pole. They'll converge there as well. Let's say that at the equator, this distance here represents one degree or about 69 miles. As you go higher and higher in latitude, clearly the distance between one degrees gets less and less and less until eventually you're at zero. So if you are standing right here, one degree of longitude is zero miles. If you're standing right here, one degree of longitude is 69 miles, right? It's quirky, but that's what's going on. So the fact of the matter is we know that one degree of longitude equals 69 times cosine of whatever your latitude is. So if your latitude is at zero degrees, then we know that one degree longitude equals 69 times cosine zero equals 69. If you're at 90 degrees latitude, then we know that one degree of longitude equals 69 times cosine 90, which equals zero. So we can actually use this little equation here to determine what a degree of longitude is as you go higher and higher and higher North or higher and higher and higher South, if you want to use the term higher. Now this will become important for us a little bit later on, especially when we start to talk about great circles and small circles. In fact, let me give you a quick, quick example. Let's say we're here in San Diego. And so let's draw the United States of America. And here we are. And let's say that you want to fly all the way over here to England. So let's say we want to go to London Heathrow, which is way over here. Now, let's say that you take this flight. It's a long flight.  And the little TV screen shows you a map. And this map is going to show you the path with which the pilot is going to take to get you to your destination. Now, you and I, we're going to look at this map and we'll go, OK, well, let's go the shortest distance. And we would think that the shortest distance is going to be like this, straight line. Well, as it turns out, that's not the case. The shortest distance on a sphere is going to actually look like this. And that line is called a great circle. And so a great circle root on a sphere basically means that the center of the sphere is the center of that arc or the equal distance point of that arc. That's the great circle. So here around the equator, that's a great circle. Here is not a great circle. That would actually be called a small circle. On a sphere, the shortest distance is always the great circle. And part of that we can actually understand by, again, referring to this whole idea of longitude. As you go to higher latitude, your distance of a degree of longitude gets smaller and smaller and smaller until it converges at the north pole and it turns to zero. So here, you're flying this root. You're actually flying a shorter distance on the sphere. And that's what a great circle is. OK, let's go back now. Let's go back now. We know how we can determine latitude. And again, determining latitude is all about finding the north celestial pole star if you're in the northern hemisphere or the south celestial pole star if you're in the southern hemisphere. But what about longitude? Well, in order for us to figure out longitude, the first thing we actually need to do is talk about time zones. So let's do time zones really quickly.


Hi, my name is Carl Griffiths and I'm an Account Manager in the UK Super Office team. I am here today to talk about one of my favourite features within the Super Office CRM solution. The feature I'm going to be referring to in today's video is regarding Super Office and GDPR. Super Office was one of the first CRM vendors to offer GDPR type features in their solution. And as you know, this is now a process that all businesses must adhere to. We're not an enforcer of GDPR, we are simply giving you the tools to make your life easier to manage this legal requirement. We offer many features to help your GDPR compliance and today I will be showing you three separate features that are available in the contact module or person card of our CRM solution. So firstly, let's begin with Consent Management. Within the person card you'll see this button for legal basis. Now, this basically allows you to ascertain why you're holding someone's personal information. If I was to click into this as an example, you then can see a couple of consents. So for example, why are we allowed to sell and serve to Carl? What is the legal basis? There was a legitimate interest. If I wanted to, I could very easily click into this and make amendments. I could change the legal basis. I could also change the source, where does this contact come from? Or even leave additional comments. What's great about super office as well, we also give you the ability to customise this area. So it might be the case you wanted to add your own legal basis in there or sources as an example. You could do this in the settings and maintenance within the super office. The second GDPR feature I wanted to show you today was actually in the interest tab. So if I click edit here, you will notice this area for e-marketing. And this is what we call subscription management. This allows you to create your own types of subscriptions and help you to easily manage what this customer has subscribed to. For example, whenever a new person is added into your CRM solution, they will receive an email that looks like this. This is telling them that you're holding their data, but also it provides them with a link. And if they were to click this, they can choose what they wish to subscribe to. Thus, it will then update automatically as you can see here. This does also affect the mailings. So for example, if you wanted to send a mailing out to Coal, which is a promotion, as Coal hasn't subscribed to this, this will notify you that at the recipient's phase of the mailing. The third feature I wanted to show you was actually the ability to create what we call a personal data report. So under GDPR regulations, anyone within your system has the right to request all information you have of theirs. Now this task could typically take businesses hours of time to clay all this information. With Super Office, you can very easily generate this in seconds. To do this, you'll click task here on the person card. You will then go to the bottom where you notice a button for generating personal data report. If I was to click that, you will now see it's generated this privacy report. It's giving me personal data such as numbers, even positions, and also it's giving you a total number of stored activities in communication. So it's really breaking down that communication you've had at that contact. From here, you are also able to send directly as an email or even save as a PDF. GDPR is an essential important business process to ensure the safety of our customers and also to protect ourselves as a business. I hope you've enjoyed this short video on how some of the GDPR features within Super Office can be such a useful time-saving tool and also offers you that peace of mind that these features are ready and available to use with any user plan. Thank you for watching my favorite feature of Super Office. Have a great day.


I think and I really want that the next train is to start changing the culture because to include artificial intelligence into different economies and into non-mature markets is not easy must be inclusive and must be include all the population that is just becoming a more established and sustainable operations and companies not only for big companies must be artificial intelligence must be also for other small and medium companies No the the movement and the challenge is high because everything is moving very fast so the expectations are very high the only thing with the expectation is that we need to include the change in the culture the change in people because IT is moving very fast but the rhythm of the technology is not following the rhythm of the culture I really enjoyed I really enjoyed the interaction between business and IT people I really enjoyed the different examples and the the all the preparation for this space was great


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Oh, no. I hope my car doesn't explode in the crash. So you blacked out? Yes, I was driving, and then I woke up and my bike was gone. My motor was gone. I can borrow this for a five minute. Where is my bike? What is this? Can I help you, sir, for the bike? Yes, I need help. I am looking for my motor. I blacked out here. Why did you black out, sir? Have you been taking any sort of drugs like methamphetamine? No, I do not do drugs. I was I am very hungry. I am very hungry. I am I am very thirsty. I blacked out. So you're very hungry and you blacked out. Have you been smoking any weed by chance tonight? No, I do not do marijuana. All right, listen here, sir. I think I smell a little bit of weed on you, but a little bit OK, sir. So whereabouts was your vehicle when you lost it? It was right here. It was right. No, I think it was on the other side of the bridge. Do you recognize or remember the model, sir? I assume so. Now, can you prove that you own this motorbike, sir? A majestic bird. Yeah, it is my motor.  Do you have the keys on you? Just let me see the keys, maybe. I have the keys as well.  Would you? Yes. Yeah, no, I don't hear. You can feel anything you want. Sir, he claims to have passed out on the road. Let's see here, I'm crouching down. It may smell the cheese that I had on my cheese sandwich this morning, Montgomery cheese. All right, I just did a quick frisky on you, sir. I really don't feel anything suspicious. I may have pulled my hands lingering along your thighs and your sides and whatnot. Go ahead and get back up now. You're good. Richard, what are you doing? What's he's wrong with this man? He is on the rock.  Do you jump in, Jack, sir? Do you do the rock test for your own police? We don't have the money to do a drug test for everyone in the police department, sir. Oh, OK, I understand. All right, all right, no crack pipe, sir. He's good. OK, I don't think we really helped him with what he was asking for, but we're going to go to. So good luck out there, man. OK, I even keep looking for my bike. You guys have a good day. It's nice meeting you. Good to meet you, man. Dude, it impounded my bicycle. OK, thank you. I am still need help. Would they have happened to just impound that bicycle right there?  I see very well. I'm looking for my damn bicycle and it said it was right here up in this hole. Damn it. Oh, I. Dude, I think I stole his bike.   Wait, wait, what? How did it? Are you kidding me? You hit my bike on that beach.  What the damn? Hey, mother, bitch, what are you doing? Oh, you got a clear throw, Mario. I am calling the police right now. Right here. Hey, what do you want? We settle this. We settle this now. We said. Look at me. Hey, look at me. Listen to me. Hey, listen to me. Listen to me. I come here from Iran and you treat me like this. I come from period.  I am calling the police. No, you will not. My motorbike was in perfect condition. And now it cannot move. How are you going to fix this? Watch this. I'll fix it with my repair kit. You we fix this for discounted price. No, it was in perfect condition. What are you doing? You derive the wrong side of the road. You are already in the wrong road. No, you know, I was on the right side. You you are coming here and I was going there. Yes, this car, right? Yes. You was on the wrong side of the road. No, no, it was perfect condition. No, you were in the wrong side of the road. You were on the wrong side of the road. Do I need to call the police? Go ahead and call them. Do not call the police. I will call the police. Listen to me. What is your name, sir? Listen, we can fix this out. My name is Ali Farman. Now listen to me.    Sorry, sorry, boss. Now you need Sanchez fix. Yes, you broke my perfect Sanchez. Well, now my Sanchez is dirty. It is dirty Sanchez. Because I am from Pirro, OK?  Oh, I'm sorry. No, sorry, I was scared. I was scared from them that they're on. I already put his finger up today. Now listen to me. Here is the deal. Now seeing as you assaulted Hernandez.  And the way you may have slightly hit you.  We will give you discounted repair. This is good deal. It is ferry repair or I call the police. Well, we do not have a deal. Sir, if I call my friend Salim right now, I'll ask him if you purchase the Sanchez. Oh, you call Salim. You say Salim, you come right here. And you can talk to Salim. Oh, not Salim. I rent Salim over. Let's go. You call Salim, Salim, come take care of this. That's the lawsuit. I need my I'm calling the police.  I think we'll call police. I think that'll be funny.  Oh, very good. There we go. Perfect. Mike and you don't use that function one thing. They'll help you out. OK, thank you. Oh, sorry. Your door was unlocked in the back. Let me OK. You're fine. Thank you. Hello, Salim. Hello. I'll be with you. Oh, should I wait outside? Up to you. You can wait here or wait outside. We were wrapping it up. I was almost finishing. But yes, madam, I appreciate this. Can I get in your one moment? All right, madam, if you could just show me your identification again. Of course, sir. And if I can get your phone number as well, please. All right. 3538. 38. Yes, sir. OK, very good. I have one question. What is your Instagram? What's an Instagram? OK, don't worry about it. OK, rightly say I've ever heard of that. Is that like a phone company or something? Is this where they put a picture for like a madam? I think you will never have Instagram.  Instagram model, I having to say. Don't you think so? Ali, this is like social media, like the Twitter, you know, the Instagram will be leaving, all right? A pleasure meeting your habit. If you need anything else, please give me a call or text message. And my number is in the yellow page, all right? All right, Chaldees, you gentlemen have fun and enjoy doing your God-given American right to go vote for your mayor. Thank you, madam. Appreciation station. Thank you, sir. Have a good one. And she is a very, very, very, like much sex I having to say so. Yes, she is a very, very big. And you know, all right, I miss your browser. Come here. Yes, very good. If you say it's like this on the left cheek. Oh, yes, all right cheek. I have very less one on the left. Here, let's go make American duty. We go make voting. We feel like American citizen. I need to take a bathroom right here. Just make sure nobody sees me, OK? You are crazy.  It is fine. It is fine. This is America. We can do what we want. It is fine. All right. We are in America. We are American city. Oh, my God, your system. Just cover me, cover me, cover me. All right, all right, all right. This will be a long one. I will be very quickly. I will be very quickly. Toot, toot, toot. I am American Zellie. And I will make my vote. Oh, I love the red, white thing in the blue. OK, OK, very good. Very nice. I actually finished about 15 seconds ago, but I was enjoying that very much. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'm thinking from the heart, this national anthem. Ali, look at me.  Look at me. In the eyes, I have very serious question to asking you.  No, I did not do that. I went, I looked for American woman. I was looking for a wife. I look in yellow page.  I go to kelab.  They tell me, come inside, come in the back. They give me water. They give me food.  And they wanted the money. She makes stepping on you, maybe spit a little bit. I don't, you don't think? No, no, I don't. I didn't ask for any of that. But she was going to do it. And you like your mother-beach. Oh, my God. Not a problem. We go find the wife for you. Let's go, Ali. OK, just go inside. Are you looking to get a private dance in the VIP? You are American citizen. Yeah. Blaine, come here, come here, Blaine. Alina, tell this guy.  Thank you. OK, let's talk over here. How you doing? What you're thinking, Ali? Take your pick. This one, that one. Hey, jump. I don't know what the hell is happening, man. Can I talk over here? Yeah, what's up? I am looking for one that is not married or in a relationship. All right. Looking for a K. We all have, like, a post. Yeah, I escort you. Yeah, we should have a meeting. All right, madam, you tell me now. How long you have been stripper? You are, like, a working corner, too? Excuse me? No, no, I'm not a stripper. I was security. Oh, you are security. So how much security do you have? I'm pretty secure in myself, if that's what you mean. I think this one is a no. Is this one no? Oh, what the?  What is going on? Where is the explosion? Let me know. Oh, my God. That was Evil Witchwoman. She reads mine. She makes explosion. Oh, my God, terrifying. Ali, we cannot. We have to find good woman. Shit, we might having to go to court instead of years. Oh, my God. Look what you have on the wall. Hello? These are weapons of mass destruction. Mister, you are not allowed to carry these. No, this is fine. This is America. I think I will buy a coat. All right, all right. You can purchase. You have dollar. Oh, I do not have license.  We go acquire license. We go back to courthouse where we make voting. OK, we will go get license, and then we will do our American duty of getting a gun.  Yes, of course. Very well. This is Selim. You have called me. Oh, what the damn? What is the damn? What are you doing? Selim, are you OK? Oh, I mean the car accident. Oh, call Emberlamps.  What? Whoa. What the damn? Look what you've done to my car. You've destroyed it.   No, what the damn? What do you want to do to my car? Look what you've done.   What the damn? No, look what you've done to my vehicle. Look what you've done to it. What do you mean you crash our vehicle? No, you crashed into me. I was driving perfectly legal. No, what is on your head? What is on your head? Why does everyone keep mentioning my head? There's nothing there.    I called you old man. You are crazy old man. What are you doing? What did you just call me?  What the?  It's insulting, don't you? We'll use language like that, young man.  No, nothing is wrong with this head. This head is beautiful. Oh, you mean the thing on my head? That's my millennium eye. I can see the filter. This is why we need to protect ourselves. We need license for going for a weapon. You need license for gun. You need to walk around with a rifle. What the damn, huh, then? What the damn? Where did you get that weapon? Don't worry. It's all good. I got it up north at the hunting day. It's all good. When did you get your license? I got my license two days ago. There's a cold house up the road. There's even a mayoral election happening right now. You can vote. The system was down today. We went to, oh, that was very impressive, Salim. That was very good. Thank you. The system, I remember the system. Salim, we should leave. Yes, yes, I remember leaving. 13, 12, I think it was. I left my first restaurant. I went in there and I left. I left without paying. How old are you, old man?  What is going on? If you call me old once more, I'll execute you. What do you mean?  You are old? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Calm down, Mr. Blio, Mr. Blio, you want to? No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Don't get your finger here. Ali, get in the car. I'll use words like that. I am sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I am sorry, I am very sorry. Run, Salim, run. Run before he shoots us.  Don't get close. Ali, Ali is crazy. Oh my God, he has the colon head. You're going to murder. Here we go. I think we lost him. What the hell's happening? What's that? It is a witch.  You know there are lots of witches in this town. You saw that? It's a witch, did you? Oh, she's. Can you put cones around her or something? No, unfortunately, we don't have access to the cone. Yeah. We don't have a trunk full of them anywhere. Do you need anything else? Well, I don't want to. Very interesting. Yeah, I appreciate the technique. We were looking to acquire weapon license, you know, to protect our establishment premium deluxe motors board. Yes, yes. I unfortunately do not have access to weapons license since right now our system is down. Oh, I understand. You have to come back tomorrow. Hopefully the system be back tomorrow. Tomorrow we will be able to secure ourselves like good American men. A license, right. Fantastic, fantastic. OK, that's good. Very good, very good. Take care, mister. Good to see you again. Yes, sir. Good to see you all. Thank you.