Hopefully I'm live right now. Yes. Okay. I see somebody already joined me Okay, awesome. Great. Well namaste To everyone that is joining live and We'll be joining on the recorded version both here on Facebook and on YouTube My name is Greg Prescott from in 5d.com and today I want to talk about the recent energy ships especially about what happened during 11 11 and Afterwards, so this is going to get really interesting Let me get comfortable Now I usually sit cross-legged During most of my in 5d Facebook lives. So it's just how I get comfortable Got a lot of things I want to cover today And I'll probably cover them in a short period of time because you know, I don't like being the center of attention You know Anyone who knows me knows that I'm the king of introverts and it's really difficult For me to get in front of people like this But I know I have to do it and I'm the one I'm basically when I got that galactic download in 2008 I Was basically told you you are the voice of the introverts So, okay, I'll accept that, you know I've always said that if there was a big party going on and You know imagine there's a big party going on in a room like that I'm going to be in one of the four corners of the room just watching everybody You know that the extroverts would be in the center and I'd be on the outside just being really quiet so like I said, it's not easy for an introvert and I know there's a About 85% of the people that follow in 5d are introverts So you guys know what I'm talking about. It's not easy to go in front of a camera and start talking But it's what I have to do. I was also told by an Akashic record reader that There's codes within my voice and within how I look and people people get downloads from that as well, so I Don't know if there must be something in the tone or how I speak. I don't know what it is but hopefully you guys are getting activated right now and You know, I always work on activating my DNA. That's something I work on every day Whether it's through the walk of gratitude or putting intention into water or stuff and something along those lines So I'm kind of hoping that you know if what I was told is true by this Akashic record reader That you guys are benefiting from it also from either seeing me or hearing my voice So let's hope that that's the case because every day I'm working on I Have written articles about this too about Activating all the codons in my DNA. Those are codon COD ONS according to the research of Greg Braden He said that we only have 20 of the 64 codons and our DNA turned on So if somebody can figure out how to turn on the remaining 44 codons in their DNA you can do anything and So what I want to do and I'm not sure what order this will be in But I can do this in the course of less than a minute for for both of these but the first thing I want to do is to lay my hands down on Mother Earth and Heal the air water and food supplies and just make her pristine and The second thing I want to do is to hook my higher self up With every other higher self on the planet And if you want to be activated and have your codons turn on as well and be healed of anything It'll be done instantly and I can do all this in a minute or whoever is that person that's able to Figure out how to turn on all the codons in their DNA now I'm sure there's probably some kind of catch where you know if everybody's codons were Turned on and you could do anything There'd have to be some kind of catch where say there's one person that said well screw all y'all and I want to just launch a big Nuclear bomb that blows up the earth. I think Whatever you do always has to be in humanity's best interests So I don't think that that something like that would be allowed and this is where we're heading And I'll talk a little bit more about it when I talk about the event a little bit more And when that white light floods the planet and all you feel is that unconditional love So yesterday was 11 11 and I had an in 5d 11 11 beach party meetup on the 99.9 percent quartz crystal sands of siesta key beach and It was amazing. We had an awesome awesome turnout I posted pictures and some videos and I got a couple more videos that I uploaded from a friend of mine Randall that'll be sharing on my personal Facebook page too from that event and we had My friend Patrick brought what he calls a quantum field Generator, I believe it's called and I also brought my copper pyramid. I have a six-foot copper pyramid and I placed that in the center of this quantum field generator and I did a meditation. I was meditating to the song Heart of Reiki. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with that song I think it's by Merlin's magic or something like that. I'm not sure the name of the The artists that that made that song but the song is called Heart of Reiki and you can find it on YouTube It's about an hour long and it's an awesome song if you like meditating to music. I highly recommend that one But I'm sweating. I've been so hot lately. My body's like burning up, but I'm not sick but anyway while I was underneath the pyramid and meditating to The heart of Reiki. I was getting these images and visions The first image I saw was this It was a quartz pyramid. It was a huge clear quartz pyramid That seemed to engulf me And it was really cool and you can feel that just loving energy and presence that was channeling through the pyramid and While I was enjoying that all of a sudden I get this vision that I'm standing on top of this huge diamond larger than the size of a football field and I was right on top of it looking down at the top and you could see all the facets that were going out Outwards on there and it was just an amazingly beautiful vision that I had And both of them a while underneath the pyramid on the quartz crystal sand on the quantum field Generator so there was a lot going on and a lot of people ended up meditating under that and you know It's talking to other people about what they had and there's a lot of purging going on People had various different experiences that were going on that were underneath that pyramid Now this meetup was a little bit different than the other meetups. I've had in the past What we did though when I first started the the meetup Started up the meetup. I Actually brought us together and we had had like a small Almost like a meditation where we basically brought in the energies From the event that happens into the current timeline. Hang on a second. This is the best water ever It's called alkali. It's 10 pH I'm not a salesman. I don't get any commissions from it It's the best water ever And it just tastes so good and it's the alkaline water is so beneficial for your body So getting back to what I was saying what we were doing was I had this well let me preface this first and For those of you who don't know what the event is. Oh gosh, I'm sweating The event is what and I saw this and felt it and experienced it already and other people have Experienced the same exact thing and that's this why it's so important that you put this kind of stuff out there But for other people to listen to because you'll find that other people are experiencing the exact same thing that you are Anyway So in this vision, I saw myself standing in front of myself. I could see myself from behind Looking at myself and in an instant this white light floods the planet and The only thing you feel is this unconditional love like you've never felt before Imagine and this is the only way I can describe it imagine the one thing or person that you love the most For me, it's my daughter, Brittany Multiply that by at least a million times And you'll have an idea of what That energy is like to be immersed in that kind of unconditional love energy That's the event The event happens when time ends And what's happening right now It just seems like time is speeding up. It's kind of similar to what Terrence McKenna talked about in his time wave zero Theory where he said that we're spiraling towards the singularity and things are happening quicker and quicker and quicker And we're seeing that right now through manifestations when you're manifesting It just seems like they're manifesting like that your thoughts are manifesting quicker and quicker faster and faster And even time Seems like it's going by quicker. It seems like a week is only like maybe two or three days Are you guys experiencing that? Does it seem like time is speeding up for you? I know I can't be alone in this obviously But that that's where um, that's where I feel like we're heading anyway Getting back to what I was saying about the the meditation That I kind of ran before Well, as as we started the infid each meet-up party on 11 11 I I kind of asked I asked for everybody to bring that loving healing energy That amazing unconditional love into this timeline to kind of expedite the process of bringing the event to us now there's a lot of us that have been experiencing vertigo And it it's abundantly clear that when these timelines are converging As empaths, that's what we're picking up We're picking up the convergence of timelines and it's manifesting through vertigo Because what's happening is you have a timeline here one here And they're merging like that and then all of a sudden they're together and it creates this imbalance And it's manifesting as vertigo in our heads and That's what we're all experiencing a lot. Well, many of us are experiencing Um, I just want to say hi to everybody that's joining. I see craig carol sunny Steve bryan michael joanne Thank you for joining me on this in 5d facebook live on November 12th the day after 11 11 now So the all day yesterday. I was very energized. I had a ton of energy So but anyway last night I decided i'm going to take a nap about 8 30 at night and I nap My nap lasted until 4 30. I slept for eight hours and that was up for maybe I don't know half an hour or so And went back to bed again and slept for another five hours It's a total of 13 hours of sleep. I never sleep that long On a normal night, I might go to bed around one wake up around five or six and then take a nap Maybe later on in the day You know get five hours, maybe six hours total sleep For the day, but yesterday 13 hours and well, yes last night into today And then I took two naps on top of it today So I slept at least 15 or 16 hours in the last 24 hours And I made a post about that as a quick energy update On my personal facebook page And so many other people are experiencing the exact same thing This is more than a coincidence and we all know that Excuse me. Oh wash Sweating profusely and the house is set at gosh 77 degrees Normally that's really good, but my body's really hot Here's a question I want to ask you guys to Normally when people sleep Their body temperature goes down Not mine. Mine goes up. I get hot I sweat in my sleep. It's it's very abnormal.  I'm instantly Into the dream stage and I get zero Deep sleep. I don't get any that's the the deep sleep stage is after the the The dream stage, but I stay in the dream stage all night.  I'm constantly in the astral realms and working and multi-dimensionality and uh, this is what we do when we go to sleep And you know, we're working in the astral realms and a lot of times we're not even allowed to know what we're working on When we're up there doing that and a lot of what we're shown is hidden within metaphor so there's um Things that you're not supposed to know on this level, but yeah A lot of us are working and doing a lot of work, especially after the 11 11 with this deep tiredness and the need to go to sleep and uh So many of us are what I call sleep warriors And what we're doing is we are working overtime right now In the astral realms to bring that energy of the event into this timeline And that's that completely explains why we're also tired right now. Many of us are doing this work on the other side of the veil So that's really exciting Um, what else do I want to talk about? Oh, yeah, I was wondering about this too because I was talking to um my friend michelle walling who Has is experiencing the exact exact same thing. She's as a matter of fact, she's out on the west coast in sudona at a conference right now And being in a three hour time difference She's experiencing this exact same sleep patterns and you know, what i'm talking about right now too Is I've got this like it's almost like a dryness in the back of my throat almost like in the bottom of the sinuses the nasal cavity coming down And the back of the throat going up And i'm just wondering if other people are experiencing that as well And if this is one of the possible ascension symptoms, so if it is and then you are experiencing that We may comment About that as well Oh, okay. Wow Super sweat In 5d facebook live is brought to you by alkali. I'm just kidding It's crazy Just though So I think that's about all i'm going to cover for now Um, you know, if you guys have any questions or anything you want to put out there having it you even really taking a look at What's going on here? But I do want to acknowledge everyone that has joined me i'm in 5d Like glenn and nicole and craig and erica sandra And debbie. Thank you so much everyone for joining me um And i'm getting Confirmation over here. It feels like I've been in a fog the past week and that's coming from sand and nicole is saying Oh, I went by too quick. I nod off at my desk a few minutes seems like time stands still Yes, so there's many of us that are going through this Samantha's saying that she needs so much water lately really thirsty dehydration is huge. I totally agree I've been drinking a lot of water too And uh, it's really important when you do drink the water To put that thought and intention in there that you know, whatever it is that you want to think and intend myself I put that thought and intention that all my codons are open and sometimes i'll i'll do uh reversing on that because You know those in power and in the shadow governments and stuff like that they use reversing against us. So i'm going to use that Not necessarily against them, but for my own benefit So when I reverse all of my codons are open It becomes nipo aerosnodak impala And that means the same thing And I put that energy into the water as well. So all my codons are open nipo aerosnodak impala And one of these days hopefully it manifests into All my codons being open Yes, and then okay, i'm getting confirmation. Yes to the throat thing from don Sarah i've been having the hot breath throat. Yes dryness in the throat due to expansion of the throat chakra from more lito Wonderful. Yes. So there's more confirmation on that. This is why it's so important too When you're experiencing these um energy shift symptoms Don't feel uncomfortable to post something on your facebook page because you're going to get that confirmation back From many other people what seems like you might seem you might feel like oh gosh, you know people are going to think i'm crazy Well, you know what there's a lot of us that don't and there's a lot of us that are looking for those confirmations From other people that that show us that this this is real and this is happening right now. So Be sure to make those posts on your facebook page and let other people know That this is real it's happening and we're in the process of going Into the event that shifts humanity forever So i'm going to i'm going to leave it off for there right now And i just want to thank everyone for joining me whether you're watching live or on the recorded version Or on facebook and sending you lots of love and light. Thank you all namaste


Good morning John. It's that space between Christmas and New Year's where no one knows what's going on I almost forgot to make a video. I have reminded you three times today. Heather just texted me. She said Should I come down and I was like I'm doing the puzzle. I could use another set of hands It's too bad. You can't see it. It looks great right in this direction in layer of yeah cars No, the first question is for Mandy who asks if you fart in space could the sound propagate through its gas Go ahead Hank you would both have to be out of space suits and dying and your ear would have to be very close to their person's But but I bet you could yeah Well, the nice thing is you don't have to be alive to fart you do have to be alive to hear things That's the nice thing you can still fart when you're dead. They call it the Lord's tooth the last one you have No, they don't a We got a giddy.   You can be fine. Okay, what holiday music do you guys like to listen to? That and also Handels Messiah Okay, it's a mix in this household Julian would like to know what the sequel to an absolutely remarkable thing will be named. I have a name that I'm calling it I've been told that it's bad by my publisher and editor and agent. Here's Catherine's reaction. I told her what it was You know like it. I mean No, Rento wants to know do we remind each other of anybody from like characters from books or movies like the kid from the Christmas story? You'll shoot your eye out.  I mean mr. Darcy Nothing First thing fits William. I was thinking Dwayne Bebe wants to know what's your favorite thing about my Twitter? What's my favorite thing about your Twitter? Mm-hmm Wow, nothing my favorite fleas that I've weaved. Oh If you don't know what we're talking about listen to our podcast delete this delete this It's free recorded right here in this room right here right on that couch over there Yeah, usually usually sometimes from our bed though. Do you have any New Year's resolutions? I would like to use my phone less in my bed I want to do a month meat free. Oh, yeah start out the year. I've never tried to go vegetarian I've always thought that I should I've never done it. I just want to try it out And you have to eat those hello freshes pretty quick. I want to know what our favorite inside couple joke is we're not gonna tell you That's ours. Kevin. Do you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain? Absolutely not. I don't like either of those things. What's the cutest thing Orin has ever done? One time I left him in his crib after I got him up from his nap Mm-hmm because he likes to just spend a little time in there by himself And I gave him a book to look at he and then I went out into his room I saw him like get his hippo, which is his lovey and like put it on his lap and say hippo read book How nervous are you for when your child starts watching YouTube? Oh very do you have any new year as well wishes for people Catherine? Herb, hip, herb. I thought he was gonna say something He did. You just don't understand Nutcracker. Whatever you need to hear is what this Nutcracker is saying John I'll see you on Tuesday. I think Happy New Year Tickets are available with PodCon right now January 19th and 20th in Seattle, Washington There's also digital attendance available delivered right into your podcast out Everything that happens at PodCon is a podcast It's true


Let me say how very privileged I am to be here today to join you in the celebration of the dedication of this magnificent edifice with the glory of God and for the worship of the living, the city of David, Apuja. This is a very special marriage as we've heard from Pastor ID. It has a name of a church that has shown itself to be able to do incredible things by the power of the Almighty God. The city of David in Lagos, on which you take this philosophy, is one that has now built the largest building in the city of Lagos, the Trinity Towers. And I mean that seriously. That is the largest commercial or non-commercial building in Lagos, Quebec. I noticed that the motto, in a place where legends are made, and when I saw the young man, the mass sacks, claimed his sacks so much earlier, and with such a distinct tone, was convinced that indeed the time will come when we will begin to see some even more incredible talents, international men and women of international stature here in Lisbon. And I agree that that will be the case in the mighty name of God. The House of God is a place where, as the general of Asia has said, miracles, signs and wonders will happen. But those who built the House of God are very special to God. David did not even build a house. He just thought about building a house. He thought about building a temple for God. And God said, just for thinking about it, just that it occurred to you, I will bless you for generations and generations, and there will always be a man on the throne, a man who will always be a descendant, your descendant on the throne of Israel. And God has kept his promise given unto this day. So for those of us, and for those of you members of this church who have contributed financially, morally and in various ways to the building of this church, it is evident that God Almighty is going to do great and mighty things in your life. If you think of what you will do for those of you who have thought it thick to actually build a church, this church is the least achievement that you will ever have in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus. And the words of scripture, the glory of the latter temple are surely the greater than the former. And that shall be so, not just in church building for you, but in everything that you set your hands upon, in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus. So I congratulate you again after what I did. I know that this is only the beginning. God bless you and God bless our CCG, city of David, Abu Dhabi.


Hello everyone! This is the Circuit Python Weekly for Monday, September 25th, 2023. This is time of the week where we get together to talk about all things Circuit Python. I'm Liz, and I'm sponsored by Adafruit to work on Circuit Python and other fun things. Circuit Python is a version of Python designed to run on tiny computers called microcontrollers. Circuit Python development is primarily sponsored by Adafruit, so if you want to support Adafruit and Circuit Python, consider purchasing hardware from adafruit.com. This meeting is hosted on the Adafruit Discord server. You can join any time by going to adafruit.it-slash-discord. We hold the meeting in the Circuit Python dev text channel and the Circuit Python voice channel. This meeting typically happens on Mondays at 2 p.m. Eastern 11 a.m. Pacific, except when it coincides with the U.S. holiday. In the note stock, there's a link to a calendar you can view online or add to your favorite calendar app. We also send notifications about upcoming meetings via Discord. If you would like to receive these notifications, ask us to add you to the Circuit Pythonista's Discord roll. There is a notes document to accompany the meeting and recording. The final notes document includes timestamps to go along with the video, so you can use the doc to skip around and view the parts of the video that interest you most. The meeting tends to run 45 to 60 minutes. After each meeting, we post a link for the next meeting's notes document to the Circuit Python dev channel on the Adafruit Discord. Check the pinned messages to find the latest note stock so you can add your notes for the following meeting. If you wish to participate but cannot attend, you can leave hug reports and STAS updates in the document for us to read during the meeting. This meeting is held in five parts. The first is community news. This will look at all things Circuit Python and Python on hardware in the community. It's a chosen set of items from our Python on microcontrollers newsletter. Second part is the state of Circuit Python, libraries, and Blinka. This is a quantitative overview of the entire project. It's a chance to look at the project by the numbers separate from our status updates. Third part is hug reports. Hug reports is an opportunity to highlight the good things folks are doing, taking the time to recognize the awesome folks in our community. Fourth part is status updates. Status updates is an opportunity to report on what we've been up to. Take a couple of minutes and talk about what you've been doing in the last week since the last meeting and what you'll be up to over the next week. Fifth part is in the weeds. In the weeds is an opportunity for more long form discussions. These discussions can come out of STAS updates or be something you've identified ahead of time as too long for STAS updates. And that covers how the meeting will go. And with that, we will get started with community news. So Hacktoberfest 10 starts October 1st. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Hacktoberfest. Hacktoberfest has grown from 676 participants in 2014 to nearly 140,000 participants last year. What is Hacktoberfest? Join forces in virtual and in-person events to get your project's pull, merge requests done as a team, learn new skills, and meet lifelong friends. This year we're partnering with Major League Hacking to help the community connect. Open-source projects maintained by community-minded coders make the modern internet function, supporting that essential work, and the folks behind it is what Hacktoberfest is all about. As in previous years, Circuit Python will be participating in Hacktoberfest, marking some pull requests as Hacktober eligible. Keep an eye on the Adafruit blog for details as October approaches. Fast approaching. And Circuit Python pieces getting ready for version 9. Circuit Python team has been getting key features into Circuit Python ahead of a new version 9. These include updating to the expressive ESP IDF 5.0 goal, is to get to 5.1, and merging changes from MicroPython version 1.20. Goal is to get to the latest version and excellent work to folks who have been working hard on that. And then featured project making a single button keyboard with Circuit Python. MagiClick S3 is a single button keyboard with a color display and is based on a expressive ESP32 S3 microcontroller. The display features a .85 inch color screen, very small, 128 by 128 resolution. The main control board is currently designed with an ESP32 S3 which supports Wi-Fi, Flash, and RAM, large enough to hold functional scripts in Circuit Python and that has been featured on Hackster IO Adafruit blog and the GitHub repository for the project is also public. This and more is available in our weekly Python for microcontrollers newsletter which goes out via email on Monday mornings. Visit adafruitdaily.com to subscribe to the newsletter. Thanks to Ann for putting the newsletter together. If you have any Python on hardware projects to share or find content you'd like to see included, please consider contributing to the newsletter. You can open a PR on GitHub, mention Ann, engineer on Twitter with hashtag CircuitPython, or email cpnews at adafruit.com with a link and that is the community news. Next up is the state of Circuit Python libraries and Blinka and this is a quantitative overview of the entire project. It gives us a chance to look at the health of the project separate from our status updates. We will talk about the project overall and then separately discuss the core libraries and Blinka. So first up for overall, there were 48 pull requests merged by 11 authors, Maker Melissa, Maker M0, Blitz City, that's me, Cavs, G-E-H, D-Hand, Halbert, Jepler, Tanute, Repad, Biffo Bear, Foamy Guy, and Niridoc. There were six reviewers, Maker Melissa, Tanute, MicroDev, Catney, Carter Nelson, and Dan Halbert, and 11 closed issues by 11 people, 20 opened by 17 people. And next we will hear about the core and Scott, would you like to read the core? Yeah, I'm happy to. Thank you. I'm distracted. So let me just pull off here. Okay, numbers for the core, eight pull requests merged from five to four authors, Maker M0 is a new author along with Repad, Repad are new authors. So thank you to them. We have 18 open pull requests, which is lower than we've had in a while. So that's awesome. The oldest is 447 days old. I think that's the dual logical unit thing for mass storage on USB, which we should get back to because that'd be cool. Issues wise, we had four closed issues by three people and 13 opened by 11. So we have a lot of new issues from a number of new folks. I haven't had a chance to look at those yet. We have 724 open issues and six active milestones. We have 10 open issues on 8.2x and 55 open on 9.0. We use these milestones to prioritize 8.2x funded work generally. So if you're not paid by 8.2x and find something that's not necessarily a prior choice, feel free to work on it. We're still happy to support you. Lastly, we have four issues not assigned to milestones. So we have some triage work to do. That's it for the core. Thank you, Scott. And next, we're going to hear about the libraries and the FOMI guy. Would you like, are you reading the libraries? Yeah. Yeah, thanks, Liz. For the libraries this week, we had 29 pull requests merged. Let me, before I jump right into the numbers, also mention a few things. This section covers the CirclePython libraries. All of those are found on GitHub under the name Adafruit underscore, CirclePython underscore, and then whatever the name of the library is. This is the Python code that allows your CirclePython device to interact with various bits of hardware or provides helper functions for completing higher-level projects and things like that. So all of this section pertains to that sort of stuff. We did have 29 pull requests across all of those libraries. There were, from those pull requests, four total authors. So thanks to our authors, including you, Liz, Biffle-Bear, and Nirdak as well. We had four reviewers. So thank you to Melissa, Scott, Carter, and Dan for the reviews this week. There is a list of the pull requests merged here. If you check out the list in the note stock, what you'll notice is a number of them are one-day old. That was kind of cleanup from the patch that was run last week. So a lot of our action this week in terms of stats was from that. But we did have a couple other pull requests merged, including one that was up to 130-ish days old and another one that was 80 days old. So we're still working through other pull requests in the past week as well. That leaves us after this week, with 43 pull requests open, the oldest of which is 403 days and the newest is one day. Although I think the oldest one is a draft as well. At some point, I'll try to look into the stats and see if we can filter those separately. There were over the past week six issues closed by five people and seven new issues opened up by six people, which left us with 640 open issues, 19 of which are labeled as good first issue, which you can find listed at circuitpython.org slash contributing, which is the website that you can head to if you'd like to start getting involved contributing to Circuitpython. There are lists on that page of open pull requests and open issues. There are also filters to find those good first issue ones if you are newer to the process and want to get started. Also, if that description fits you, I'd encourage you to head over to the Discord where this meeting is occurring. There's always folks around there who are willing to help new people get involved. Rounding it out, we got a couple of Pi Pi weekly stats for this week. There were, let's see, is that 70,124 Pi Pi downloads from the 313 libraries in the past week and the top 10 is listed here if you'd like to see them in the notes docs. And that's what we have got this week for libraries. Thanks, Liz. Great, thank you. And thank you for doing that patch for mass releasing all those libraries. Next, we're going to hear about Blinka from Melissa. Hello. So Blinka is our second Python compatibility layer for MicroPython, Raspberry Pi and other single board computers. This week we had 11 pull requests merged by two authors and three viewers. That leaves a net total of three open pull requests amongst other repositories. There were eight closed issues by four people and zero opened, leaving a net of 78 open issues. And there were 16,235 Pi Pi downloads in last week, 3,542 Pi Wheel downloads in last month, and we are at 121 boards. And that's it. Excellent. Thanks, Melissa. And that is the state of CircuitPython libraries and Blinka. Next up is HuggraPorts. HuggraPorts is a chance to highlight folks in the CircuitPython community and beyond for doing awesome things. I will start, and then we'll go down the list alphabetically to give everyone a chance to participate. If you are text only or are missing the meeting, I will read your notes when I get to them in the list. So I will begin with a group hug. Everyone's awesome here. And then next we'll hear from Dan. Okay. Thanks to Jeff for working on the MicroPython v1.20.0 merge. So he made MPY cross and you export both work and fix some test failures and there are more to do. But thanks a lot for, and also thanks to Jeff for working with me on we did pair merging, which is not pair coding, but was kind of that. And got a lot of like very confusing merges done. Like there were eight files in particular that were hard to merge. I appreciate that. And thanks to Scott for doing the ESP IDF version 5.0 and 5.1 merges. Now it's really great to be caught up on ESP IDF now. Okay. Great. Thanks Dan. Next I will read for David Glau who is present. We have a hug report for Lady Aida, Jephler, and Aaron for the work on Teddy Ruxpin as I will be trying to do a Halloween Ruxpin. Very cool. And a group hug. And then we will hear from Fome Guy. All right. Thanks Liz. Hard reports for me this week. Thanks to Scott for reviewing and merging the read the docs theme fix PRs. There were a handful that Aida bought for whatever reason was unable to do automatically. And Scott got the PRs merged for those I do. Very much appreciate it. Thanks to DJ Devon 3 hug report this week for sharing the mega sized matrix portal or matrix panels I should say on show and tell. It's been super cool to see the evolution of that project. And it's very impressive how many panels you've managed to get together. It's super cool to see. And then thanks as well to Melissa for reviewing the PR for non blocking marquee on the led matrix controller library. And that's what I've got for this week. Thanks. Great. Thank you. And next we'll hear from Jephler. Hi there. So I want to give a big thanks to Scott and micro dev for the IDF 5.1 merge. That was a long time in coming. And of course to Dan for doing the review on that reviews of that scale are never easy to do. Meanwhile, Dan, thank you for the micro python 1.20 merge. I know we're working on it together, but you are really doing the lion's share of the work to Paul. It's been lovely to have you as a meeting host. Sorry to see you go from the rotation, but I understand that sometimes the day job takes precedence over the stuff we'd rather be doing. Melissa, I'm looking forward to having a chat with you. It's been too long since we've talked. And finally, a group hug. Thanks, Jeff. And now we'll hear from Catney. Okay. That is fine. Catney has a group hug for everybody right back at you, Catney. And now we will hear from maker Melissa. I want to give a group hug. I mean, I'd like to Dan for a reminding me review for me guys non blocking marquee PR. I'd like to Catney for continuing to participate in the community and a group hug be around us. Great. Thank you. And then I will read for Michael Pakusa, not present. A foamy guy for helping with cookie cutting the Adafruit template engine, which should be ready later this week. Very cool. And now we will hear from Scott. Hello. I'll report to micro dev again for the 5.0 update work and also reviewing the PR. Thanks to Dan for reviewing both the 5.0 and the 5.1 update reviews. And also hug to Bill88T for the 50 review and testing as well. Great. Thank you. And that concludes hug reports. Next up is status updates. Status updates is our time to tell folks what we're up to individually. I will start and we'll go through the list alphabetically. When I call on you, take a couple minutes talk about what you've been doing since the last meeting and what you'll be doing until the next meeting. This is also an opportunity to provide tips and tricks relevant to what people are working on. If a discussion becomes too long, status updates, we can move it to in the weeds and that I will get started. So I was out sick at the end of last week, very unexpectedly, but I'm feeling better. So I'm starting to get back into things today. I'm starting to work on a product guide for the HUSB238USBCPD, which stands for power delivery breakout. And what that is is it lets you set the desired power delivery voltage for USB-C wall adapters that can provide multiple voltages. So pretty cool. And the guide will be out for that hopefully pretty soon. And now we'll hear from Dan. Okay. So as we talked about, we finished reserving the merge conflicts for the MicroPilot and V1.20 merge and I committed that to my branch and Jeff is now has permission to push to that branch. So we're doing that. He pushed a whole bunch of changes. I pushed a few changes. And my work this week is going to try to build some simple boards like Trinket or something and see if I can get them to work at all. And as mentioned, I also reviewed Scott's ESPIDF version 5 merge PRs. And those are merged. So now we're caught up in terms of ESPIDF, which is great. Okay. That's it. Great. Thanks, Dan. Next I'll read for David Glau. For non-circupython Teddy Ruxpin week, receive the two Teddy Ruxpin I ordered from eBay, but only one is the right model. Recover the old code from Lady Aida that is not published anymore. He links to that. Started to use file and issue and send PR to the Jepler version, trying to go beyond the learn guide from Erin by trying to change the eye images like Lady Aida did. Very cool. It's, they are very, the Teddy Ruxpins are, is wild how prolific they are on eBay. So if anyone wants to work on that project, you definitely can. And then Circupython related checking my ultimate mouse jiggler with the new version of the USB HID 6.0 library. I feared the breaking change was going to hit me, but it still works fine. And thinking about ways to use Circupython and Teddy Ruxpin, like using USB hosts to change the Teddy content present, present itself as a USB mass storage and remotely trigger it. Well that'd be cool. All right. And then next I'll read for DJ Devin, whose text only went on show and tell with the correctly working 12 panel display driven by a Matrix Portal S3. Special Heartworks animation for Catney. Lady Aida said 12 is about the maximum I'll be able to run. We'll start working on a wooden frame to hang on the wall when I return from vacation. Haven't done any beta testing this week due to the merge. Everything is in the 9.0 alpha will be in a state of flux for a while. I feel it's best to stay clear and let the devs concentrate on non point 9.0 merges instead of adding new and most likely temporary bug fixes. Spent most of the week in Fusion 360 and Kira for 3D printing for a jewelry box project that will involve a TFT display, SD card, NeoPixels, and a mirror. And then we'll be visiting family for next two weeks and will not be as active. Well enjoy your break DJ Devin. And next we'll hear from FomyGuy. All right. So last week I ran the patch with AidaBot to resolve read the docs theme issue and then started working on a way to release all those libraries because now we had a new commit and need to release the libraries as well. So the latest version gets built with MPY and so that the bundle gets updated and all that good stuff. So there were a couple bits and pieces scattered about in various places that did some parts of this and I managed to kind of bring them all together to make a tool that will reuse some parts of AidaBot to check and make sure each library needs a release and then go ahead and do a release automatically with some preloaded titles and release notes built by templates and things like that. So I got that stuff put together over the weekend and then ran it this morning after a bit more testing and a bit more fixing. And then I have PRed that to AidaBot so that we can make use of it in the future as well or tinker with it to do other stuff if we need it to. Some other stuff that I have in mind to work on this week, I did notice from that patch there was a handful of libraries that reported failed actions runs when it got pushed out. I want to say maybe a dozen or so libraries got failures so not too bad out of all 300 plus but I'm working on going back through those and figuring out what's up with them and getting those fixes put in as well so that those can be back to a passing state. Projects that I have in the works is on the FunHouse I mean, I'm working on an IoT dashboard that will use the HTTP server library along with the new template engine library that Michael had mentioned previously and this will show a slick web interface that shows the sensor data from the FunHouse as well as information about the pins like when the things were tapped or buttons were pressed and stuff like that all in a nice little web page just as a demonstration of the server and the template engine working together. Aside from that, I also intend to start and submit an initial board simple test which was a concept that was discussed a couple of weeks back in the weeds and I want to get one or perhaps a few of those created and submitted in order to iron out any issues that might arise from it and then we can potentially have that as like a thing for Hacktoberfest that things that folks could be working on if they are not as experienced but happen to have hardware that maybe we don't have access to so that's a good cool way I think to get new folks involved and then last thing for me is for the latter part of this week I'll be headed out of town so there will be no stream on Saturday at my usual time but I'll be back next week for that so that's what I've got for now thanks all right thank you and next we'll hear from Jepler hi again so for ate a fruit last week I worked on dot clock displays as well as the micro python 1.20 merge one exciting thing is today I verified that with the updated espidf you can set the dot clock of the displays much higher which just refers to the refresh rate of the display this is still not while running ram or cpu intensive code but it is clearly a big improvement over the previous espidf which is something that we'd hoped for anyway let's see other stuff that I've done over the last week this next one is with circuit python I had gotten the unicomp mini m keyboard which has an rp2040 built into it actually a pico module is soldered directly under their circuit board and I've continued enhancing the firmware and so two big things about it are I improved how it detects ghosts and and allows a few more combinations of keys to be pressed that couldn't before and I also wrote it so that it does no python memory allocations after the initial startup so there's never a gc pause while you're scanning the matrix or sending messages to the computer so hopefully you don't experience even those minor glitches when circuit python pauses to do garbage collection and this is more important than with like a traditional keyboard that can be scanned with the key matrix because it actually does the scanning all in python and then the still python thing but not circuit python is that I worked on my program called chap which is a program for talking to text generating large language models like chat gpt I added some new functionality including being able to talk to gpt4 as well as to talk to local lm's with llama.cpp which is something that like it will run just on your cpu it will run on your gpu apparently works really well on current max and the model called vicuna seems to be one of the best that you can run at home right now and all right so back to work there's a link to that project so back to work I'm basically doing the same thing as last week working on dot clock displays as my top priority and then spending time resolving problems with the micro python 1.20 merge as I have idle time so that yeah the goal is to wrap up dot clock displays because soon I will be gone for about six weeks it's a 50-50 whether I will be at next monday's meeting and after that I will be back on monday november 13th so it will be a little time away from y'all and I can't wait to hear about what all you did while I'm gone thank you thanks thanks Jeff really excited to use the dot clock displays and also hope you enjoy your vacation next we'll hear from catney hello so this past weekend I put up one of two new blinds in my office to replace the terrible projector screen like ones that came with the house they never work if you move them you you end up pulling them down for 100 years before they ever decide to go back up they're terrible and I got new blinds and they look amazing I'm really excited the first one is at least the right size I ordered them online so hopefully the second one is as well and I finished building a custom table for my new tool chest it turns out putting something heavy on top of a small table even with solid legs on carpet makes for a tippy situation boards underneath the legs fix it well enough to call it good I just need to find nicer boards because they're awful scrap pieces of 2x4 that we had sitting around so upcoming my next steps so my plan is to start doing tech related and otherwise general information content I'm going to be doing videos tutorials eventually live streams I'm starting a patreon I'm going to be refreshing my github sponsors page my goal is to be ready to start releasing content about two and a half weeks until then I have a huge amount of preparation to get through and I will keep everybody posted on what I'm up to over the next few weeks and I will definitely let everybody know when I'm ready to get started and then the rest of that is continuing building up my office workshop and putting up the second blinds which hopefully goes faster but I bet it doesn't and that's what I've got awesome thanks catney and looking forward to seeing what you do uh next we're going to hear from maker melissa hello melissa last week I went through some uh more blinca issues and submitted prs for those and they got merged in I also went through the every post and updated the documentation and organized issues much better um I started going through blinca display IO code and updating it to be more to be current and much more complete in order to just support monochrome and grace growth displays uh and this week I'm currently debugging the blink of display IO code changes I made and I think I've narrowed it down to something in my palette code uh after that I'll look at optimizing the code a little bit and possibly adding in support if it's not too involved and that's where I'm at all right very cool uh and next we'll hear from Scott hello uh melissa always ping me if you have trouble with the ink I'm happy to help you with that stuff um okay uh updates uh updating the IDF to 50 and 51 were merged in last week uh so expect to find some issues on ESP um so please test and file issues however I want to say that uh there's a lot of rando ESP boards and I don't have them all so if you can reproduce any issues you find on adafruit expressive or unexpected maker boards that will make it easier for me uh to reproduce them on my end um I don't have all of unexpected maker I don't have all the expressive ones either but uh please try to target those if you can um so I wanted to caveat that because there are some random ones that I just don't have um I was trying to test the matrix portal s3 uh and re-enable rgb matrix support but I found a crash while I was doing that so I've got to fix that first uh so that's the first thing I'm doing this week and then uh also note that Friday's gonna I'm gonna be off and on uh so no deep dive this week as Tim said he's out so no deep no deep dive this week all right thank you and that was staz updates next up in the weeds uh in the weeds is an opportunity for long-form discussions that either come out staz updates or that folks have identified ahead of time if you have any in the weeds topics please make sure they get added while we're discussing other things so we're not weighing around see if anyone has topics uh and with that uh there is one uh by David Glow who's not present so I will read uh the Adafruit learning system repo has more than 1,000 entries in its root one folder per project and that makes the github web UI not let you browse it so I was hoping for a way to fix that and open an issue maybe uh and then there's a note maybe someone can summarize the previous discussion what possibilities or bring new ideas not sure if folks have thoughts I know we had discussed it a little bit I can't speak much to any prior um discussions but it is something that I've run into as well and thought a little bit about one idea that came to mind it for me at least was hosting a html page essentially just hosting our own html page that's effectively a copy of a giant list of links to everything that's in the learning guide and then that html page as long as as long as that page will render the entire thing it can just be a giant hard coded list of links that gets generated by actions or some other automatic tool every time a new thing is committed um that was the idea that came to mind for me I don't know if there were other other thoughts originally or yeah the other thing we could think about is talking to the learning team uh if if it's hard to go from the learn guide to where the source is on github that's something we could probably talk to Justin about or or you know the learn team so that when you're actually reading a learn guide we could try to get you straight to straight to the source file that you then it comes from rather than having to go to that like first page to start yeah I don't think I don't think any folder helps you sorry David proposed the new 2023 folder for for new guides and like it's still gonna end up below the fold which is yeah unfortunate um I mean for for folks coming from learn I think it does a good job already of not not sending them to that giant list um they can either they can like click to follow through to a link that goes directly to the folder for that project or they can just use the project bundler which downloads everything they need and lets them skip github all together yeah the actual if you click the view on github link in a guide for code that's been embedded it brings you to that like code file and then you can go one level up if you want to see the whole folder um and I also want to read what Jeff wrote in the chat um big technical problem is that changing a location on github means changing links on the guide right now I don't think there's a bulk link change and learn so um yeah I think um personally just as someone that writes a lot of project guides where we're embedding the code um I think changing like fundamentally how we're doing it could cause some problems but I like for me you guys idea of having like a generated list kind of similar how internally we have the tool to have that snapshot of what the circuit pie drive should look like I'm not sure if folks have anything else to say on the topic it can kind of be an ongoing discussion maybe I would also note that there's there's a go to file link at the top of the list um so you can always type in a few characters from the directory name and you'll go out you'll you'll see everything that's good too yeah thanks folks for that discussion um looks like that is the last in the weeds topic so we can start wrapping up today's meeting this has been the circuit python weekly for Monday September 25th 2023 thank you to everyone who participated if you want to support adfruit and circuit python those of us that work on circuit python consider purchasing from the adafruit shop at adafruit.com the video of this meeting will be released on youtube at youtube.com slash adafruit and the podcast will be available on major podcast services it will also be featured in the python for microcontrollers newsletter visit adafruitdaily.com to subscribe the next meeting will be held next monday as usual at 2 p.m eastern 11 a.m pacific and this meeting is held on the adafruit discord which you can join by going to adafruit.it slash discord to be notified about the meeting and any changes to the time or day you can ask to be added to circuit python nisa's role on discord and we hope to see you all next week thanks everyone


Hi. Welcome to Action Piece. Action Piece is a part of Building Bridges where we have a more interactive portion of the day and gives people an opportunity to really engage with what they're learning throughout the day as well. Our Action Piece this year focuses primarily through K-12 education opposed to different parts of the conference that are focusing more on that museum canon aspect along with literature aspects as well and higher education. So welcome. We hope you enjoy. Seventh grade. Thank you. I suppose you're loving coming back. This room we're going to learn a little bit about tracking. So tracking is the practice of dividing students based on their academic ability. It's typically permanent so usually what happens is you'll take a standardized test in say like sixth grade. You'll be put on this math or English course track and you'll be there until high school. So it often divides students based on their ability and it leads to a lot of bias as well as just some inequities in their education. So Emily here is going to learn a little bit about what tracking is. Emily tested into the grade level so she's currently reading through kind of what the grade level learner typically what the grade level learner looks like. There's also a bunch of little post-it notes around that kind of outline what some teachers will say to grade level students and also we repeat that for the gifted and talented tracks as well as the remedial tracks. So the point of this room Emily is going to be walking through some minutes to win at games and she's going to get certain advantages or disadvantages based on her track. So we're going to start out with here with Pong led by Megan. All right Emily here since she is in the grade level for this game she will be given 10 ping pong balls and since she's at the grade level she'll be able to stand right up at the edge of the table and what she has to do in order to make it to eighth grade is put four ping pong balls into these cups in 30 seconds. Would you like to give it a try? Yep. All right. Oh. All right keep going. Time's on the clock. Emily is getting grade eight since seventh grade. Emily passed. Because she met the standard she will be moving on along her track to algebra one. Mar take it away. In this game you are going to transfer as many marshmallows from one plate to another and chopsticks because you are on the grade level. So your time starts now. Wait how many do I have to get to the other plate? You need to get like half. That's the standard. It's like algebra one is a little more difficult for Emily. There's a lot of letters in here. We can't really see the stroke here. Well this isn't fair I don't know how to use chopsticks. There are many disadvantages that students may have in those grade level courses using chopsticks is representative of those. Okay you have 10 seconds. Time is done. All right Emily unfortunately you did not meet the standard for algebra one in eighth grade. Because you did so well in pre-algebra we know you have the skills.  So you have summer school here after eighth grade. No more hanging out with your friends. You'll have to read the algebra one. But luckily for you you do get to move on to geometry the next year. And the final test today is the writing down a list of words relating to the conference for Emily. Next time after memorizing the words for 20 seconds and writing it for 40 seconds. Until a minute. Are you ready Emily? Yep. You now may begin memorizing. 30 seconds. You may now start writing the words for the next 40 seconds. Reminders she does have one extra trip to memorize the words. 15 seconds. Time's up. All right Emily how many words did you achieve? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Well done. The standard was six. Emily has passed geometry. She can move on to algebra too. So as you can see by these minutes of winning games, once Emily was tested into that track, once Emily tested into pre-algebra, there was no escaping the route she was on. So even though she passed pre-algebra flying colors, she probably could have maybe succeeded in some of the gifted and talented courses. There's no way for her to get there. So tracking leads to these harmful biases. It leads to these harmful motivation decreases as well. And really just puts a damper on students' education. So come to the building bridges conference, learn a little bit more about tracking. Let's go to the next room. Hi, welcome to my room. So this is supposed to replicate a U.S. history room and how it's very Eurocentric focusing on white history, straight history, or male history. And we don't really get to see a lot of marginalized groups in history. And so this half of the room is very focused on America and we've got an eagle there and American flag. And then we have Kahoot up here, which just has questions comparing white history to black history and you're supposed to be able to recall the white history because that's where it's taught and maybe you don't really know the black history as well. And then over here is a gallery walk to freshen up on some topics that maybe weren't mentioned in your history class during secondary school. Just an example of a couple of questions. If you were a room, we're both an action piece. Our room is the mental health room. So we're starting off with the test zone where we'll split the group into two different groups and they will each receive a test. And then afterwards, after they take the test, we'll move into a time where you're going to kind of walk around the room and look at the boards. We've got a couple different things for people to look at while they do that so Abby can explain the test a little bit better. Okay, so we have two different tests and the group when they walk in is going to be split into two different groups and one group will take a test that is normal, that what everybody sees, and then the other group will take a test where the letters are a little bit scrambled and so it's a lot harder to understand and read it to show what a student with dyslexia could potentially see. It's a little bit over exaggerative just to just make a point. And so the test, all the questions have something to do with mental health and behavior issues and all these different things that add into mental health for students. And the group taking the test with the letters all mixed up will take the test in only a minute to kind of show that those students who normally have a disability with testing would have a little bit harder time getting that done in the given time. And the other group would take it and have two minutes and have a little extra time just to show that there's extra time for them. And so the group with the normal test also has the spot to sit where you can see a poster that directly says the answers just to give them a little bit more of an advantage to show the differences. And then afterwards we'll kind of give people the opportunity to look at the boards and read and write different words of support for the first board for people struggling with mental illness. And so there'll be that board. And then the second board we have is words of wisdom for those struggling with learning disabilities. So that's kind of anybody that struggled with them before or struggled with learning disabilities before can kind of write ideas that they've had that help them get through. And we also have some posters that kind of describe just the differences and what you can look for with depression, anxiety and ADHD and also kind of explains what you can do to help people who have that even just to be supportive and everything. And then we also have a list of on-campus resources that students can use but also it explains too that on our Gustavus website you can look at the mental health resources and there's also a lot of online ones that people who don't go to campus could use too. And then so right here you can see the actual tests. So you can see that the left one has been edited to kind of be a little bit harder to read and then the right one is the unedited version that just has them normally. And then right here you can see the poster kind of that tells all the different answers for people. And so yes. Which is real. So we have a few different tests for students to partake in and now we're going to fold them up. So we have a writing test and one of them is very easy. You're supposed to write this in your handwriting but the other test that the partner of the person sitting here is going to get is a symbols which is ridiculously a lot harder and especially in only a minute is pretty much impossible. So our reading exam is something that is at a first grade comprehension level but then we ran it through Google Translate a few times. And now it is absolutely incomprehensible and we'll take a quiz on that as well. Now you do want to talk about we will also have a listening portion with a video much like these. Olivia, no. Your turn is inappropriate. I can see your shoulders. It's distracting. Please cover up. Olivia. We can continue on our test. So this one will be an open note exam however. So while you're listening you can take notes and the videos are technically in English but some of them use random words or such high level academic language in ways that does not make sense so that even if it is open notes it is a hopeless thing to try and do.  And with the other one it's how English sounds to non-English speakers and that one you can pick up certain phrases and words and that's kind of how you start the languages at first but then comprehension overall is a little bit trickier and yeah in the writing one as well the symbols are meant to represent alphabets different than our own that we're learning in new languages and kind of the trickiness of switching between that when you don't even know what letters mean what and then the reading just kind of more on the comprehension level too. Yeah, I think that's all. Thank you. Hi, welcome to our final room for our action piece walkthrough and here is kind of just a reflection room where we have the opportunity to look back on what we learned today within action piece and see what also others have learned this is an anonymous posting and so what we're going to have everyone do is each room has a question on the board that kind of represents what the room was about so for example within the first room that we were in that talked about marginalized histories within education so people are welcome to answer the question with post-its we'll have markers for everybody to grab as well so we have a question for each room and we also have just a final reflection on what people learn today at building bridges in general within educational injustice and action piece I would say a final thank you for joining us on our virtual action piece walkthrough we're really sad that you couldn't make it today so we do hope you can come in the future have a great rest of your day, thank you


It's time for the Lawn Gene Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour, brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A presentation of the Lawn Gene Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Gene, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Gene. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Gene Chronoscope? Larry Lusser and Lewis Banks of Time Magazine. Our distinguished guest for this evening is the Honorable Patrick V. McNamara, United States Senator from Michigan. Congress is now back from its Easter recess to face a number of intensifying problems, bearing not only on the international scene, but on our economic future as well. Our guest tonight, the successor to Senator Ferguson, represents the great industrial complex of Michigan. Senator McNamara, the titular head of the Democratic Party, Adlai Stevenson, has charged the administration with ignoring the realities in the Far East. Now, do you think the question of these offshore islands of Kimoy and Matsu is going to become a domestic partisan question? Well, wasn't that decided Larry some, oh, eight or nine weeks ago when the Congress, by an overwhelming vote, left the responsibility and the authority to President Eisenhower to proceed in whatever manner he saw fit? I think it was, and I don't think that the Congress should, on either side of the aisle, should be talking so much about it now. Having by this overwhelming vote, I think in the Senate it was ninety-one to three or something like that. Well, would you think, Senator, that Mr. Stevenson would have done better not to make it a party issue in his broadcast? Well, of course, it's hard for Mr. Stevenson not to be partisan. He definitely is associated so closely and for all practical purposes, the head of the Democratic Party. And, I mean, it's almost impossible to say that he should not be partisan. Just his appearance is a partisan appearance. Well, Senator George is the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Are you, Democrats, satisfied with the bipartisanship of foreign policy, or is there a split between the liberals and the conservatives? I think you represent the liberal wing. Well, in international affairs, incidentally we'll have to go back to that last crack. In international affairs, I don't think that there should be any more bipartisanship than there has been. It's been rather incidental, really. I don't think that there's any indication in what happened just as I mentioned this, giving to the President, the authority, and the responsibility of acting in the Famosa area. Now, this business of hanging a label on me as a liberal, I usually resent such things. I'm pro-people.  And I don't plead guilty to labels very easily. Senator, you're on the domestic front. You're on the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee. That's right. We have major labor management contracts expiring this country within the next three months or so, and automobile and part of them in steel and rubber, I think. Do you think we're just coming into a period of labor management quarreling and strikes and strife again? Well, I think that the great majority of our contracts when they expire are renegotiated without any strikes or strife or any great turmoil. The exception is when there is a shutdown, they go on strike. I think there's great hope and great chance that we're going to get over this season without any of these strikes that you're talking about. Mr. McNamara, the negotiations are taking place right now between the unions and the motor companies in Detroit. Now, on this guaranteed annual wage which the unions are asking for, isn't that going to have a very far-reaching effect on our economy since the automobile industry extends into so many industries like steel, rubber, textiles, etc.? Yes, I think such a basic thing as a guaranteed annual wage is bound to have an effect. But then the logical question is, is it a good effect or a bad effect? And I think there's a good chance that it'll be a stabilizing and a good effect on our economy. Well, Senator, there's some talk that the guaranteed annual wage might be all right for the big two or the big three of the industry, but it might put the smaller automobile companies out of business. And I wonder if you would favor an annual wage at the price of kind of bringing the automobile business into one or two or three companies? No, I personally wouldn't. I think that we've had too much independent business failures in this country. I think actually that our country was made great on the basis of the independent businessman. And I think it'd be a tragedy if it worked that way, but I see no reason for it to work that way. I don't think that it's going to affect the small concerns adversely. Any more than they're adversely affected now by the giantism of General Motors and the others of the big three. Senator McNamara, the guaranteed annual wage will have a tremendous effect. As you said, if the automobile companies granted it, if they don't grant it, the possibility of a strike will also have a tremendous effect on the automobile industry and all its associated industries. Now, do you think that there is likely to be a strike following June when those contracts run out in the automobile industry? I just came from Detroit yesterday and I've talked to some of the people around there who are rather high ranking on both sides. And there's great hope and I have great hope that there will be no strike. I think this thing can be truly negotiated across the bargaining table and avoid any shutdown of the economy. And I surely hope so because we need it in Detroit. We need to continue as we're going. Looking just a little farther ahead in labor, this fall the AFL-CIO merger may well go into effect. And that would kind of bring in a labor organization with more resources and bargaining power than ending in the history of this country. Do you think that's likely to change the whole basis of negotiation that we will see more labor demands and greater labor demands than ever before? No, I don't think so. As a matter of fact, I think it can be helpful to the economy rather than harmful. You know, we had two large labor bodies, the CIO and the AFL. And there were occasions when there would be jurisdictional disturbances that can well be erased by this. And if you're asking me if I think that the threat because of the size of these people, the threat to business generally, is really bad. I don't see it. We had these same groups organized. True, they were separate bodies, but generally they went along pretty well together as far as our economic things are concerned, I think. There wasn't much conflict between them. So this matter of unity is hardly anything new, as I see it. Senator McNamara, I'm not quite clear on the guaranteed annual wage. It seems to me that if you have to guarantee a man an annual wage, there would be a reluctance to hire a new man. Do you think that it may turn out to be that way? I believe it's that way in Italy now. They have a guaranteed annual wage. Well, actually, I don't know anything about Italy. And when you start talking about the economy of other countries, I don't think they're comparable to ours. And I would hate to be accepted as an expert on labor. And maybe my answering these questions would leave somebody with the impression that I was speaking for organized labor. And believe me, I have no right and no authority and no intention for speaking for them. They have able spokesmen on both CIO, AFL and independent unions, and I'm not one of them. What was the basic... I just ask if you had a guaranteed annual wage in an industry, would that mean that there would be a reluctance to hire a new man because you'd have to pay him a guaranteed wage? Well, not necessarily. You see, I expect that there would be reasonable provisions made for people that were new, such as there is under seniority setups and union shop setups. There are probationary periods that run anywhere from 30 days to 6 months in some cases. And I expect that there would be latitude made for these situations that might arise, such as you're talking about, although I again don't know. That would have to be negotiated and I expect it would be covered in this bargaining agreement. Well, Senator McNamara, I compliment you on your humility and your reluctance to speak as a statesman since you are a freshman in the Senate. But tell me, what do you actually regard as the biggest issue before Congress now that you were in the Senate? Well, you know, I think that the consideration that has been going on of federal aid to school construction is one of the most important things. I think that we will not long be the most powerful nation in the world if we don't have a better educational system than we have presently. I think it's a tremendous problem and I'm spending a lot of my time in that direction. Well, doesn't the administration have a federal aid to schools program? Yes, yes. There was a bill presented that grew out of the president's recommendation. And about 40 educators from all sections of the country, each representing different states, appeared before our committee. And to a man, they oppose the program. Why? Well, actually what the school districts are short of now is money. They don't have enough money to operate. And the president's plan basically is very revolutionary one. It establishes that money shall be loaned through an agency that's reauthorized under this legislation known as the State School Construction Commission. And money would be borrowed through this agency to build classrooms by the school districts. And then the school districts would pay rent on the classrooms through this state agency. Well, now that's something new. We're going to rent our schools. But what are they going to pay the rent out of? They're going to pay it out of current income. Now that isn't going to help some people that don't have enough money now. Actually the effect of it would be that we'd pass on to our children or our children's children the responsibility of paying for the schools that they're using today. We've got too far behind in our program, our lack of classrooms, a lack of more than 300,000 nationally. For this kind of a program to do the job, you've got to give them some direct federal aid. I think more like is involved in this Bill S-5, the Hill Bill that would advance $500 million each year for the next two years. Why do you think it would be better, actually, Senator McNamara, for the federal government to pay a larger part of this bill than the states themselves? Why, it would be better. Yes, why do you think so? Well, the states have no opportunity to raise this money. Most of the states can't have an income tax to raise this money. Many of them have income taxes now that are very limited. But the federal government has power through their taxing ability to raise the money and raise it readily. And actually it means returning to the states by a small portion. Now under this S-5 Bill, the Hill Bill, the state of Michigan would have returned to it 1.1% of the money that they pay in in federal income taxes. A very small part. Now there's no onus on that kind of money in my estimation of you getting one cent out of a dollar back to meet an emergency in this school situation. I think that there's great justification for it. Thank you very much, Senator McNamara of Michigan. Thank you. The opinions expressed on the Launcine Chronoscope were those of the speakers. The editorial board for this edition of the Launcine Chronoscope was Larry Lasser and Lewis Banks. Our distinguished guest was the Honorable Patrick V McNamara, United States Senator from Michigan. Another baseball season is here and major league teams begin their long grind toward a pennant and a chance for the World Series. 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fantastic time. So today's video I wanted to show you a brand new product from Splab Auto Parts. They have a set of hemi valve covers that looks absolutely awesome. So we got a set for Frostbite. We end up getting the billet silver finish valve covers from them and they look absolutely amazing. You can get these things also in black as well. So let's check them out. Alright guys I'm so anxious to put these things on. They are going to look absolutely amazing on Frostbite. They're going to look so good with the Torque Storm Supercharger on the truck as the colors are pretty much almost about the same. Like I said they're made out of a billet material and these are the silver finish basically the billet finish and like I said they do make them in a black version as well but heck yes look at that guys. These things are awesome. They look amazing. Let me bring it in. So there you go. I mean that looks awesome. These things are very well made. Nice and clean. TIG welded. Awesome. They're so shiny that it's reflecting the light so much it's hard to get the camera to focus. Here's the inside of them. Like I said these things look awesome guys. Can't wait to get them installed. So let's talk about a few things about these valve covers. Start with let's jump into the price. $340 is what they're going to set you back and to me like I said they are very well made. They're thick. They're stout. Everything on them looks good. The machine works. The machine work looks super good. Nice and clean. These things should work very well. Now what do they fit? They pretty much fit all the Hemi engines out there. Five, seven, six, one, six, four engines. These will fit your engine. Specific years. Let's get into that. So these valve covers will fit all of your 06 to 1957 Hemi's. They also fit all the 05 to 2010 6.1 Hemi motors as well. And also your 2011 to 2019 6.4 Hemi engines also. Now some of you guys are probably wondering if these will fit some of the older generation Hemi's. Well good news they do. So if you're one of those guys that has a 2003 to 2005 Hemi engine these will fit as long as you use 2006 and up current ignition coils. They will work for you but you do have to update to the newer ignition coils. But they fit. Also a couple other things I want to mention guys these valve covers will work with your factory ignition coils or aftermarket ignition coils if you are running aftermarket ignition coils. So no problem there. They will work with both. In the box they send you a pair of valve covers for the passenger and driver side. You're also going to get the spark plug ignition coil sills that goes for each coil pack. And they're also going to send you with a valve cover gasket for each valve cover. And then the other thing I want to touch up on is these are slightly taller than stock height. And what that does is it lets you run a little bit taller more aggressive valve train. So they are clearance a little bit taller than stock to be able to fit some of the bigger valve train that you guys may be running. So there you go guys. Not a bad deal at all for $340. Again you can get them in the billet finish or you can get them in black finish but these things are going to look great on your hemi motor. Again I'm going to try to get these things installed soon on Frostbite. I can't wait to see what it's going to look like. These things are going to look absolutely awesome with the Torx Storm Supercharger. As a Torx Storm Supercharger has a billet natural finish as well. So these things are going to go together like two peas in a pod. I'll bring it up here for you guys so you can check it out again. Absolutely awesome looking valve covers. Again they're clean. They look well made. Awesome. I can't wait to get them put on. Go check out Splab Auto Parts. Link for these valve covers will be in the video description below. So click down, click on the link. It's going to take you right to them and definitely we will have an install video putting these guys on and we will definitely do some follow updates on how the valve covers are working on Frostbite. As far as if we run into any issues or leaks I don't think we're going to have any issues at all with leaks as the material on this is very thick and the gaskets should seal up very very nice. We should not have a problem at all. Definitely one of the best deals I've seen so far on some billet valve covers for the Hemi engine. Most of them that I've seen has been up closer to the $400 range if not more money than that. So $340 bucks is a steal of a deal to get some awesome looking valve covers to wake up the appearance of your Hemi. But I think that's going to do it for the video today guys. As always stay safe out there. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button. Tap the bell button for the notifications and we'll see you guys on the next one.


Hey guys, how are you today? We are here for my week in December with my year 2017. If you're watching this on Facebook, the prompt is celebrate. Celebrate, wait, let's celebrate and wrap it up. So we're celebrating our year, our steps forward we've made in our creative life, in our life of self-expression, in our art, in our journaling, whatever it is, maybe it's in pain management. We're also wrapping up the year and getting ready to start a new adventure. So in the previous video for this week, I went over with you all how I decorated my signature for December, why I decorated it the way I did. We did our little present illustration. We framed out a little spot up here of things that we are going to celebrate, things that we feel like we accomplished or we did and we want to maybe continue to do going forward. I did do some journaling on it. Now we're going to work on our book review. So I have a number of books and all you're like, holy crap, I thought it was just one or two books. There's a number of books here, but they all are kind of the same thing. So these are all easy drawing books. This one is Draw 500 Faces and Features by Cara Bean. I have a number of these kind of books in my stash. These are just the ones I got to handle on quickly. Literally these are faces, hard faces, easy faces, weird crazy faces, and it just gives you idea of this particular one has a room to draw in if you are so inspired. I love these for just inspiration on how to do certain things. When you get stuck on how to draw, say, a guy with a mustache, you can pull this off of your shelf for reference and go, okay, that's how you do a scared monkey, I think. But these are really great. So I have this one, Draw 500 Faces. We'll do these in a minute. I have this one, which I really love, 20 ways to draw a tree. This is a bigger book, but it's the same kind of book. Different kinds of trees and nature things drawn different ways. And like the other one, this has journal, and like my own book, this has places that you can journal in it. Let's zoom out some more. There we go. So you can have your acorns here and you can practice on the facing page. And this has everything from nature, snails, feathers, all kinds of things. It's, again, a really, really great reference book. 20 ways to draw a tree and 44 other nifty things from nature, Eloise Renouffe. I think that's how you pronounce that. These are three books by Peter Jenny. They are books one, two, and three in his Learning to See series. The first one is the Artist's Eye and has different, again, inspirational graphics illustrations and photos to inspire you in your art. There is some word wording in this one that explains a few things like mirroring, right? Splattering, really kind of what that is. Look at these. This is why I have these books, these kind of things. Isn't that inspirational? Quick, easy pen and ink. Number two is drawing techniques. So look at, this is just a little tiny, and these are little pocket books. These Peter Jenny books are pocket books. So you could really easily just take this with you. Different kinds of drawing techniques. Scribbling, shading, look at the coffee cup. These are fabulous. And especially when I feel like, and I may be using some of these, at the time I'm filming this right now, it's October 1st and I'm going to be doing Inktober and I might be using some of these for inspiration for doing some of those practicing techniques for Inktober. But how cool is this? And then the number three is figure drawing. Now I love this book. This, I mean, everything from how to do different kinds of stick figures, right? Figure drawing doesn't mean drawing like Picasso or Renoir, right? There's lots of different, and Picasso was a crazy drawer anyways. Well, I mean, he was talented, but see? All different kinds of figure drawing. Look at lots of interesting practice. And he gives you examples and text. This one is 60 minutes, one large sheet of drawing paper. Use a spiral motion to draw volumes that expand and contract. Begin this exercise without any specific content in mind while spiral lines are more suited to round shapes. You can also use them to develop other forms using a range of densities that helps distribute mass and models the figures to identifiable objects. They're just drawing lessons and inspiration. So I really do recommend these books wholeheartedly, especially if nothing else, these three Peter Jenny books. Yeah? These are wonderful. All right, so I hope that gives you some ideas of what you can do. These are fabulous, all of them. And they're a permanent part of my reference library here at the house and studio. I hope they are soon a part of yours if you are so inspired. You can always check to see if they have them at your local library before you buy them. And when you do buy them, you can always check the used section of the book title for a cheaper price if you're in on a budget. So definitely do that. I will be listing them by name and author in the book review list in my year 2017. If you aren't a member of my year 27 and you want to be, you better hurry up and join now because we're going to archive the group the first of the year and there will be no new members allowed. The old members will still have access to new members. There won't be any new members. Going forward for 2018 and going forward from that, there's a new group called My Creative Year and it has its own place on Facebook. And both Facebook links for both groups are in the description below. There's also a link to a site called Linktree for me. If you click on it, all the places that you could possibly find me on the internet are listed on under Linktree. My happy mail address is down there, the tip jar if you are so inclined to support my free tutorials here on YouTube or over in Facebook. That's it for the year and for the month for me at least. I hope you've had a great time this year. I know I have. I hope you have a great holiday and I hope you share what you've done this year. We would really like to see you share over in the new group. That would be fabulous. Our videos will start with the first week in January. We'll be sharing what we're planning on doing going forward and we will take it from there. That's it for right now. Don't forget to go out and do the most important thing. Something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys.