we can just focus on one side for now get that dropped side note while we're peeling back this cabin today why don't you take a look inside how's that fingers crossed that steel's come because it'll be Wednesday tomorrow so that would be middle of the week morning so it is the next day i don't even want to check what dates is i can't remember but it's um it's a bit of a wet one today so our plan for now is this side is propped and we're still waiting for the steel so we're going to try and get this side dropped because obviously this side wants dropping too but with um with this needing to prop this side too we'd rather wait till the steels are in that way we can get them in place and ready so hopefully they'll be here soon it's Tuesday and they said they're gonna be here early this week so yeah there's two steels on both sides so we can just focus on one side for now get that dropped and uh if it dries up we can get this part finished that's a nice job this little brick match and this is last job yeah this is this is last job yeah this is the tradesman's entrance at the moment so we don't want to be using the front door and it's also it's good ventilation when we start making it dusty again but yeah that's the plan for now um we'll keep your date if the steel arrives or not and um we'll take a crack at this we'll set you up and we'll set you up somewhere and catch you there a few more little issues we've found but not issues we've found we've already knew about these but now we've uncovered them we see just how bad they are first we'll start with the stale which we'll undermine that but that did have 150 seating and when you get to this end there you go that is 65 mil it's not even sat on 65 mil it's probably sat on 55 60 mil but when we took the plaster off this piece of brick is sat on that block work by 25 30 mil the rest of it it was bedded onto the plaster line i just because there's the original block work i just knocked the plaster off so that piece of brick that that steel sat on was mainly sat on plaster unbelievable unbelievable my lintel magic oh shits so here's Alex with his magic lintel well i took my seating up expecting it to drop and it's still there and uh it's pretty tight in but you can see now there's the seating it was it was sat on that basically so obviously the seating and the seating it was sat on wasn't tied in at all no well that one there here it is there's the seating there you go that's what it was sat on a little broken bit of a brick wall chopping in three-quarter i'm willing to put my neck on the line and say i don't think this past building makes when this extension was done and even more i'm willing to guess that building specter never even visited this show when this building was done it would have been condemned what gives you that impression it's like you've gone through it all no wall plate blah blah blah so yeah so like i said before you can see where it splits here so we're gonna knock this bit down and leave this bit up until the steel comes it doesn't rain down poly balls on us yeah it's gonna be a cavity straight up there well there's a cavity straight over each one so that'll be that'll be the barrier for the but Paul could say he's probably gonna get it re-injected because there's lots that many polystyrene walls on the cavity yeah so could not get injected with the um the actual like insulation stuff and not just the poly walls he doesn't like that stuff because that can get wet that it actually sucks water up that white stuff whereas the poly balls are obviously polystyrene is waterproof isn't it yeah it's just a nightmare they're up luckily for us for us on sunday do you want these sledge elements to knock those nibs off yeah come do it i don't think they're tied in i think they're just held in by plaster there you go Thor just don't do it with me no don't want to break Paul's brush oh it was tied in no not very not very strong then no it's tied in the box a week aren't it oh right i'll come off and slap me it's basically held together by plaster because it's not don't doubt it's proper plaster yeah the plaster's basically held back in back to it it can look like we've done nothing now but uh we promised we have one side is gone use a bit it's tied in the friggin balls up yeah poly balls again there you go have a little look yeah so we've that that's been picking up with a hoover and everything and yeah so no idea how these have stayed up the way they have but we're not going to argue we're gonna we're gonna get these drilled on spread that across drill it on so that way they uh they're gonna stay there then and then obviously this steel will be coming out we'll do the same over there assuming nothing falls knock on their wood so yeah i'll go grab dad's and screws and then we'll get this screwed up still no steel no still no steel so hopefully the weather holds off just enough for us to get started on some brickwork to even get that finished if the weather's nice enough if not we'll just have to find something else anyway yeah that's tight as you can sorry there we go so that's held in they're not actually loose they're quite tight in them but they're pretty safe and sorry isn't it yeah we'll do that on the rest of them then off three and timelapse to the right side note while we're peeling back this cavity tray why don't you take a look inside how's that for trays a bit pointless below the roof line cavity tray needs to be able to roof yeah just to help those and the cavity tray is a bit of a point in this exercise putting them in this mixing is a bit of more of a fath for us okay i'm really walking really when you hold it up for me now two of these polyvores got that out that that was an absolute ridiculous meal we made of that thing yeah we completely and utterly cocked that up because we just blitzed this wall down got rid of it made a mess obviously and then that thing's just been hanging on the steel on a acro and then if we'd left the wall there we could have lowered it down onto the wall knocked a bit of wall down look use the wall to lower it down so we just struggled and then when we did actually take the weight of it um it's not very heavy so um that'll be a little bit of a comedy sketch because it feels a bit foolish now but uh yeah i'll help you with that now mate yeah i'll help you with that just need to get up here yeah so it's out the backs out that's half a day that's cost us really at least it's out for day when we're not really doing an awful lot besides the brickwork at least we're not doing this while trying to get the steels in the same day just made about a meal of it yeah so we'll just decide to get off and mixing and get outside because it still hasn't rained forecast rain all day today it's not rain once so if that had been the case we'd known that this morning we'd just got straight on the brickwork and left this but um we're getting close and close to being ready for the steel the steels so that we just need to take one more of that that pillar there just take one more off that and we've got all the all the blockwork is staying in beautifully for at the moment not budging and then we put our strip on those three they're not going anywhere and then this one's got this cavity thing nailed to the joist when they put installed it so they put an absolutely pointless cavity tray in there because the cavity tray needs to go above the roof above the lead flashing not down there so there's no flashing above that cavity tray but it comes down to this one hits this one just exits into the into the room so there you go so we're going to make tidy up a little bit and then spend the last bit of the afternoon probably get another 10 courses on that brickwork outside quarter to two now so we need to push on so we'll see you in a bit it's not been the most fun day but it's been a necessary day so obviously Dad's just drained it up in there but I thought I'd show in here again so I'm doing so again we've got one side down got the steel out got this whole box set up this part is ready for padstone block and steel sitting in in there um this part's going to be coming out once we get propped up eventually maybe tomorrow we'll see um while dad's been bricklaying I got the last cavity filled out emptied out just got a few nibs that I need to get once this door's taken out but we've made we've made little little progress steps that don't seem like a lot now but we'll notice them later it's easier taking this wall down now there were two big steel sat in the way so that's the that's the day tomorrow something might just be the same plan tomorrow get this knocked down get um get more brickwork done fingers crossed that steel's come because it'll be Wednesday tomorrow so that'll be middle of the week soon as the steel's arrived the better because that's one I think once the steels are in and that that door's blocked off that's all the inside work done all that's left to do then is that's really not a lot left really we've got this to knock out steel's to go in and that door to block and brick up really it's about it hurry up jm we'll uh see you tomorrow we'll be back here same time making more mess


Hi, today we are giving a look to Badgy, latest version, and as always let's start with the design. So the first thing I didn't notice, it took me a while, is this clock, time plus day, and I actually didn't see it. It got a bit confused in the background, but when I did see it, I thought that is pretty useful. You sure have a clock here as well, but it doesn't display the data as well, but I think this is the first time I actually see a widget used on the background, and I think it's a good idea. The only thing that might worry me a bit is how it will perform on darker wallpapers, like this one is a bit fuzzy, sorry, not dark but light, and you can see that the radibility of this clock already falls a bit, but you still have this one, and I also wonder if it's possible to customize it, I guess we'll see it later. Let's get back to the wallpaper that we had before. I think the wallpaper is okay, I'm not a big fan of the style, but it's fine, and then we have the top panel, we have the application menu with this grid-like list of applications, and then this more compact section, pretty useful, it's a simple menu launcher but effective, I think that I've seen many grid-plus categories launchers and they work really well, and then we have here a system tray with the elements that are way too close to each other, you seriously should really put some spacing between them, because like this, they're too close, you are guaranteed to misclick one of them at least one time per day, and just kidding, and if you open up an application you can see that you don't actually have a menu bar in here, unless it's for different kind of application, let's open up LibreOffice as well, yes, thank you, the menu bar of the application stays here and not here as it could have been, and the result is that this part of the panel is actually pretty empty compared to this one, so at least GNOME puts a label that that's a bit longer, it feels a bit unbalanced overall, but getting back to the system tray part, so let's see what we have, first of all this one I think is for virtual desktops, we can open up more virtual desktops, I don't know about switching between them, maybe there are some shortcuts, but as far as managing virtual desktop, you also get a list of application which is really useful, then this is simple screen recorder, we have this one which is quick note, also very interesting idea, you usually don't get a quick note by default in the panel, although you can put it in pretty much any desktop, but actually having it by default, interesting, I think it's a good idea, I like it, and you also get as part of the quick note a way to revert what you've done, character by character, then you have a folder icon to switch easily to other places such as documents, again something that you can add in other desktops, but it's usually not there by default, then we have notification with a sidebar, very nice to see, I like sidebars for applications, sorry notifications, and we can also switch to applets to get what I think is a customizable list of applets, and then we have Wi-Fi stuff, very simple, battery stuff even more simple, we just get a show battery percentage, sorry, and power settings, then volume rocker, again very simple, but we can actually mute it and open up settings to switch between the speakers, as always I kind of prefer when you can do it from the volume applet directly, but that's not very important if you have a quick link to the settings, then bluetooth, again super simple, the system tray is very simple, but it has many features that maybe some other desktops have, but they don't have turned on by default, this widget, the notification sidebar, the ability to have places and also the, sorry, quick notes, very useful, and I think it's an interesting idea to provide to the user more stuff compared to other desktops by default, then we have the sidebar button that actually opens up both applets and notifications, I wonder how do I customize this sidebar again, I think we'll see it later in the baggie layout application, we have the turn off button, as always very simple, I see that there's what's this, like five peak cells of border that's a bit lighter, I wonder if it's accidental or by design, because you don't get it here, but you do get it here, so it's a bit weird, and moving on, I've seen that there are many baggie applications such as these themes and layouts which interest me, so let's pop it up, and I can actually choose between many designs by default, so let's see if there's one that seems particularly pretty, what's our, let's try this what's our theme, it's one click to install, very interesting that we get 30 party third-party themes directly in the main page of the baggie application, let's wait for the changes to appear, and while we're waiting there's also more stuff in here, isn't it, and I don't know where, where is it, thank you, I got lost, hey baggie, let's get back to themes and layouts, and Big Sur, let's apply it, makeover, interesting choice of word, makeover, we use look and feel, but makeover is also pretty good, and we get a good theme, we don't get blur, which is a bit of a pity, I kind of wish we could get that, but I don't think it's supported at all by the window manager here, but the theme is pretty clean, we also get the icons, the title bar application theme, stuff like that changed very nice, but right now we are reviewing the default look, so let's get back to whatever the default was, arc design, is it arc design, hmm, I don't think it was arc design, no it wasn't, this one's pretty, I like it, but where is it, let me see, posillo, yeah it looks like this one, yes this one, okay, and we also got a new notification, so you can see how is the sidebar with a notification, very nice, and we also get a layout section, and let's try to change the layout, can we, we've got Cupertino with a menu, interesting, the one with menu and left sidebar, let's go with Cupertino to see how well the global menu works, let's open up files and it works, very nice, the menu looks very nice, you can slide within the items to get them, and let me get back to the default one because again that's what we're supposed to look for, but still very nice that it's that easy to change both layout and appearance, I guess you don't get much finer customization settings, but this is already a lot, then what else do we have, what's the online store, okay, stuff we all get, communities, let's see what more badges stuff we get here, what about extras, what's this, oh very interesting, so this is applets, we get an analog clock, an application launcher, application menu, brightness control, we don't get brightness control, oh this annoys me so much, we don't get brightness control, and I know you're saying why don't you just press the buttons to change the brightness, but I actually have a two in one computer, meaning that I can just use the touchscreen part of it, and when you have touchscreen being able to click on the battery and then slide to change the brightness is a must, like in order to change the brightness right now, I need to open settings, go to what display, not background display, displays, not this one, but there's nightlight, the UI is very nice, I like it, and it's impossible to change with touch this option, but still, very nice, I like it, okay, now turn this off, thank you, and then how do I change the brightness, power, screen brightness, like this, okay, this is very bad UXY, sorry UXYs, if you don't have the brightness button with you, you get a countdown applet, very nice, I like it, and this is I guess all three third party apps, let's try to install this one to see how well it's handled, we can get a link to the repository that contains demo, very nice, and there's not much feedback that's actually installing, but let's leave it in the app, it's done, thank you, and now how do I use this one, how do I add an applet, right click to the panel, first guess, does nothing, okay, sidebar, I've got no clue, there's probably some documentation somewhere, but the point is that stuff like that should be quite self-explanatory, like adding widgets should be pretty simple, if you have widget support, sorry applet, whatever, I've also seen that there is a drawing application, which is very interesting, okay, so it seems to be okay, and you can actually draw in this, like this, very nice, I wonder if it supports like pressure, probably not, but what else do we get that was interesting, well one thing I haven't seen is how is show all windows, okay, so this is the windows switcher, pretty simple, Plasma has a very similar one, if you set it up, very normal stuff, and there is no way to actually show all windows in the same time, okay, and what about switching between the workspaces, so let's open up settings again, another thing I've just noticed, the bottom menu is smart auto hide, which is super cool, I love smart auto hide, should be the default for all of the task manager only panels, we also get power mode, this is from GNOME, I remember when they put it in, and what else, I was looking for something that I already forgot about, and that is virtual desktops, nope, okay, nope, as far as touch screen, sorry, I meant, as far as touchpad just there's ghost, there's none, a bit sad, but Plasma on X doesn't have them either, so it would be very unfair for me to criticize this, then what else do we have here, well text editor is G edit, yes, and I mean that's pretty much it as far as budget goes, so if we click on the clock, we get calendar, an option to open up the calendar, and these title bars with everything in it always stress me out a bit, because I don't know where to drag them from, and sure I know that pretty much everywhere is fine, but it feels very weird to drag from a button, but that's because incoming from Plasma, preferences, oh this is very nice, I like it, so we get settings directly in the pop-up of the applet, this is something we could look into, like when you have an applet also like here, and you want to customize it, there's just a customized button that brings up a page with all of the options, maybe less option that we currently have, because we have too many options for each applet, it could be very nice because you can just customize it without having to actually open up another window, and system monitor, resources, do we have anything open, no, memory 2.2 gigabytes, but this is completely unreliable as a benchmark, I'm running simple screen recorder that pops up memory, so very info, what else do we have, I think that's pretty much it, because I mean the application are the one that we've seen, I don't see any budget specific application here, so okay so overall the things I like the most are the sidebar, very nice, one more thing I didn't notice, we get adaptive transparency, like this, oh actually this one feels a bit budget specific, at least the look of it, this doesn't feel like not loose, I don't know if it's not loose under the hood, but it doesn't feel like so, and one thing is this black color is very out of place, you get a gray status bar, gray gray, and then this dark black which doesn't quite match with the title bar, it's a bit weird, but having a sidebar that supports this tree like view, very nice, and we can also add it, let's get back to the normal one, we get devices, network, normal stuff, let's say, we also get a button to go to the parent folder, which I've actually accidentally removed from Dolphin I think, which annoys me so much, and then we also get, is this list, what's this? compact view, okay so it's like a list but not quite a list, okay, and if we have a zoom slider, okay so yeah, the only thing that bothers me a bit is this black bar, but except for that it's very nice, there's also this separator which is a bit out of place but minor stuff, okay so overall as I was saying, sidebar, I like it, notifications, very nice, the idea of putting default widgets that the user might use, but maybe not, it's an interesting concept, this clock, stuff like that, it's something that we could look into but Plasma is very simple by default so we don't like to put too many options by default like that the user might not need because as soon as the user needs something they have anything they want of course, but except for that when I saw this Magnus application I thought for sure that this was going to be a chess application, interesting naming scheme, it doesn't work for me but probably it's because I'm recording and that's pretty much it, overall I like it, it's very simple, there's not much to say, most of it is like gnome under the hood, they give you much more customization, layouts, how do you make covers, they call them, very nice, the sidebar very nice, interesting design decision on some things like the transparency plus shadow, the clock, the cursor, I don't quite like the cursor they used on the fold, I prefer the gnome one and of course we get a dock with the magnifier effect which is very nice to see and that's pretty much it, I have a positive opinion of Baji and what should I try out next week, please let me know because Baji was actually a suggestion they gave me last week so I'm looking forward to know about the next cool desktop to actual review, bye! Wrong button, this one, hey!


Burmese cat vs Sphinx cat. What are the differences between these two cat breeds? The ancestors of the Burmese are the Siamese and the Copper cat of Burma, now known as Myanmar. It's thought that they were temple and palace cats bred and kept by priests. The matriarch of the modern Burmese was a small, dark brown cat named Wang Mao. She belonged to Dr. Joseph Thompson, who either acquired her from a sailor or brought her back himself from his travels, depending on which story you believe. Wang Mao was at first thought to be a Siamese with a chocolate-colored coat. Such Siamese wasn't unheard of. Chocolate Siamese were described in the 1880s. Their bodies were tan or brown, and they had seal brown or nearly black points. The seal-point Siamese, also known as royal Siamese, had lighter bodies that contrasted with their dark points and were preferred by breeders in the public. The chocolate-colored cats eventually disappeared in Britain, but they still existed in Thailand and Burma, where they were probably the offspring of natural matings between free roaming Siamese and solid-colored Burmese cats. Wang Mao was one of them. It was her destiny to become the matriarch of two new breeds, the Burmese and, later, the Tonkinese. Dr. Thompson bred Wang Mao to a seal-point Siamese named Tai Mao. His breeding program, in conjunction with breeders Virginia Cobb and Billy Gerst and geneticist Clyde Keeler, produced kittens with beige, brown and pointed coats. The results, including the discovery of the Burmese gene, were so interesting that Thompson published an article on the subject in a 1943 issue of the Journal of Heredity, the first such piece on feline genetics. The Cat Fanciers Association began registering Burmese in 1936 but suspended registrations in 1947 because breeders were still using Siamese in their breeding programs. Registrations resumed in 1953 after the practice was stopped. Today the Burmese is a popular breed among cat lovers. The hairless Sphinx is an example of the cat breeds that come about accidentally. A genetic mutation brought about the birth of a hairless kitten to Elizabeth, a black and white domestic cat in Toronto, Canada. Elizabeth's owner recognized that Prune, as the kitten was called, was unique and set about trying to reproduce him. He, along with other hairless kittens that were born in the mid-to-late 1970s, was bred to furred cats, including the Devon Rex. The gene for hairlessness is recessive, so while some of the offspring were hairless, others had fur. Originally known as Canadian hairless cats, according to the International Cat Association, breeders eventually settled on the moniker Sphinx for the unusual breed, a reference to the gigantic limestone sculpture in the Egyptian desert, mourn smooth over the millennia through erosion by wind, sand, and water. The Sphinx is recognized by the American Cat Fanciers Association, the Cat Fanciers Association and the International Cat Association, as well as other cat registries. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. The Burmese are energetic and friendly. He has the charm and determination of his Siamese ancestors and enjoys conversation as much as that breed, but his voice is soft and sweet, belaying his tendency to run the household with an iron paw sheathed in velvety fur. He is highly intelligent and seeks out human companionship, so he's not best suited to a home where he will be left alone much of the day. If no humans will be around to engage his intellect, be sure he has the company of another pet. He gets along well with other cats and with dogs, but of course, another Burmese will be his best pal. The Burmese is about as curious as cats come. Expect him to explore your home thoroughly and know all of its nooks and crannies. He is playful and remains so into adulthood. Tease his clever mind with interactive toys, and teach him tricks that will allow him to show off for an audience. Besides sit, roll over, wave and cum, he can learn to fetch a small toy or walk on a leash. With proper early conditioning, car rides and vet visits will be a breeze. A Burmese is a good choice if you don't object a complete loss of privacy. This cat will want to be involved in everything you do, from reading the newspaper and working at the computer to preparing meals and watching television. He will, of course, sleep on the bed with you and may even snuggle under the covers. When you are sitting down, he will be in your lap or right next to you, waiting expectantly to be petted. You will be scolded if you ignore him. Guess will receive his full attention, and it is likely that he will win over even those who claim to dislike cats. A female Burmese is the very definition of queenliness. She likes attention and she likes to be in charge. Males are more restful, satisfied to fill a lap. Whichever you choose, it's likely that you will soon find yourself yearning for another. It's a good thing that the Sphinx loves attention because he draws it wherever he goes. He is demanding human attention and will do anything for a laugh. Look at me. It's his catchphrase. That makes him easy to handle by veterinarians or anyone else, and it's not unusual for a Sphinx to be a therapy cat since he is so fond of meeting people. When he is not receiving the attention of his adoring fans, the curious and energetic Sphinx is exploring his surroundings, climbing his cat tree or otherwise seeking high places, chasing a bug or just generally getting into mischief. He is extremely fond of teaser toys and puzzle toys that challenge his athleticism and brains. This is a highly social cat. If you are gone during the day, the Sphinx will enjoy having a friend in the form of another Sphinx, another cat, or even a dog. He likes the company and, equally important, he likes having someone to snuggle with so that he stays warm. He loves to be held, and you can expect him to sleep with you, most likely under the covers. Think of it as having a living hot water bottle. The soft, short coat of the Burmese is easily cared for with weekly brushing or combing to remove dead hair and distribute skin oil. A bath is rarely necessary. Despite his bald body, a Sphinx requires at least as much grooming as cats with fur and maybe even more. Their skin must be kept moisturized with a gentle, scent-free lotion or oil, and they need weekly baths so as not to leave greasy spots on your furniture and clothing. Use a gentle baby shampoo or moisturizing shampoo and rinse thoroughly, especially between the folds of the wrinkles. If you begin bathing your Sphinx kitten while he is young, he will learn to accept and sometimes even enjoy baths. Baby wipes will help to keep him clean between baths. Although the Sphinx feels warm to the touch, he doesn't have a fur coat to keep him warm. If you're cold, he probably is too. Buy him a nice sweater or two to help him retain heat. Brush the teeth to prevent periodontal disease. Daily dental hygiene is best, but weekly brushing is better than nothing. Wipe the corners of the eyes with a soft, damp cloth to remove any discharge. Use a separate area of the cloth for each eye so you don't run the risk of spreading any infection. Check the ears weekly. If they look dirty, wipe them out with a cotton ball or soft damp cloth moistened with a 50-50 mixture of cider vinegar and warm water. Avoid using cotton swabs, which can damage the interior of the ear. Keep the litter box spotlessly clean. Like all cats, they are very particular about bathroom hygiene. It's a good idea to keep them as indoor only cats to protect them from diseases spread by other cats, attacks by dogs or coyotes, and the other dangers that face cats who go outdoors, such as being hit by a car. Cats who go outdoors also run the risk of being stolen by someone who would like to have such a beautiful cat without paying for it. The active and social Burmese and Sphinx are a perfect choice for families with children and cat-friendly dogs. They learn tricks easily and love the attention they receive from children who treat them politely and with respect. They live peacefully with dogs and other cats. Always introduce pets slowly and in controlled circumstances to ensure that they learn to get along together. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. 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Hey, what's happening, man? We're back with a new edition of King Penny's podcast. This is episode number three. Hey, great weekend. A lot of stuff happening around town this week. Hey, so we had a Father's Day. I want to say happy Father's Day to all of the fathers, man. Hey, hope y'all got more than breakfast, a tie and a screwdriver. Hey, you put that together. We also had a Juneteenth celebration here in Longmont. We had two separate events that the city put on. One in Roosevelt Park that was during the day that was amazing. They had bands out there. They had vendors, man, food trucks, South African food truck was amazing. And also one in the evening at the Longmont Theater where they had comedians. They had a music group, the Reminders. So a shout out to the city council member who put that on, the city of Longmont. Saw the mayor there. Looked great in the rainbow. Shaw, it's amazing. Also to the Nuggets won the championship. Here we go, Nuggets. Hey, man, you should give them congratulations. Hey, look, and I realize I've been a hater for a while, you know, but I'll go ahead and own that. And I'll take that L right here in front of you guys, man. Hey, good job, Nuggets and the fans. You guys can keep on talking, man. At least tell football season, come on. That's a whole another story, man. So let's kick it right into the episode and stuff like that. Hey, we have a high energy guy, man, here today. You might have seen him on Instagram, the real estate hippie and stuff like that. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Mr. Noah. Hey, Penny, thanks for having me on today. Much appreciate it, my friend. Appreciate you finding time, man. I know it's hard. I know it's really hard. Is what it is.  My name is Noah Inhofer. I am, well, I'm from all over the place, born and raised in the Midwest, South Dakota, met my beautiful wife there. While I was in college, I got an opportunity to go be a professional mixed martial artist. So we relocated to Iowa with the Militage Elite Fighting Camp there. We moved from one cold place to another cold place. And my wife was like, hey, when I'm graduating from college, we're done with this. So we spent nine years in Hawaii and then just recently relocated here to Longmont, Colorado about three years ago. So you guys have children? Do I've got a six-year-old daughter waverly? She's beautiful, fantastic, and spit in fire. And I have a very sweet little boy named Ziggy, who is three. Hey, man, happy father's day, by the way. Hey, thank you. Thank you. Get that out of the way and stuff like that. So the main thing we want to discuss right now, we want to figure out what it is that you do. You know, that's a good question. I do have the title realtor, right? Or real estate agent, or real estate broker. And at the end of the day, man, what I do is simple. I solve problems and I help people. So you work on more the commercial side or the resident? I do commercial and residential. I've helped several businesses out over the last few years. You know, find a place to do business, make sure it's the right area, has enough traffic. All that stuff is great. But really, what I found out that I love to do is help families and help people build wealth using the power of real estate. How long have you been doing? So I bought my first investment property like 14 years ago and got into real estate through investment, Airbnb's, flipping houses, rentals, all that stuff. And then the real estate agent that I was working with irritated me. And so I just took it upon myself, hey, if you've got a problem, solve it. Got my own license. And then realized that I can help people. And that really fuels me, makes me sleep good at night, gives me energy. When you're doing flips and you're doing all that stuff, it doesn't really help anybody. And it's fun. It's exciting. There's danger. You're putting all your money into it. But at the end of the day, it's like, I do that house, I flip it, I sell it. And I really don't get the same enjoyment, personal enjoyment, that feeling of, hey, I did something good in the world today from doing that, so doing residential real estate, helping people sell a property. The world is crazy. Crazy stuff happens. There's a death in the family. You're going through a divorce. You're downsizing because kids took off to college. You're upsizing because you did good. Your income went up. Your house is too small. You lived there for seven years.  Man, I just help people in every conceivable way possible. In real estate, the actual homes, they're just homes. But it's the people that live in them that fuel me. That's nice. No, that's cool. Because I think about I interviewed most realtors, I think real estate agents, I would ask how many bodies you got, how many houses have you. So that's like the excitement, the glamor of it, I guess, that everybody sees on TV. But they don't hear the real stuff that you're saying, that you just want to do it for the community. You want to help people. And the rush that comes with that, everybody sees the go, go, go, sell this, flip that right quick, patch this up, let's get it out of here versus the actual real process. Yeah, you know, it's funny because I got invited to go speak at this event. And they invited me because of my production.  And I was like, hey, I can look it up for you. I don't know. Well, hey, what do you mean you don't know? You don't know your numbers? No, I don't. But I can tell you every single person by name that I helped during that year. And apparently they didn't like that answer because I got uninvited. Right quick, hey, this guy, man. Sorry. So outside of that, right? What is the day-to-day of a real estate agent? It's going to look different for everybody because here's the thing is what most people don't know and don't understand is real estate's literally the Wild West. If you have a buyer and seller, you have two parties that agree on a contract, you can write that contract a million different ways. There's no right or wrong answer. There's no, hey, here's how you do this. No, there's an infinite number of ways that you can put it together. So my day-to-day probably looks a little bit different than most people's day-to-day. My day-to-day is like, hey, who can I contact? How can I reach out to people to allow them to understand that the sole reason I am here is not to sell them a house? I'm not a salesman, all right? That's the thing is there's nothing I can say to somebody to make them sell their home. There's nothing I can say to somebody that's going to make them buy a house they don't want to buy. So at the end of the day, I'm here to consult with people. I'm here to have people lean on me. I'm a strong guy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and I tell people that and say, hey, listen, this is gonna be a stressful process. We're gonna have to overcome some things, but I want you to take all that and I want you to put it on my shoulders and let me take care of that. So day-to-day, man, I wake up, I have breakfast with my kids, go drop them off at school and then get to work. When do you find time for the gym? Oh, the gym is in my schedule three days a week. If I can sneak in a couple extra workouts because my schedule allows it, then I'm gonna do that. And that's how I actually came across you. A couple guys came to my gym the way Paul and Rocky's and they was like, hey, bro, we didn't even know it was over there. They saw it on your Instagram story. They was like, hey, new gym or something they showed me. It was like new gym opens and it was like a couple of months ago. And I was like, man, that was super cool for you to do because not a lot of people knew about it at the time and stuff like that. And then, like I said, after you put it up there, man, it was just like people just came through and everybody knew you. Everybody was like, oh, Noah said this and you know. And I really appreciate you taking time. And here's the thing is that my motivation behind that was nothing besides helping somebody else achieve their goals, especially when you're doing something for the community like that, like fitness, health and wellness run deep in me. I spent 17 years in the industry. I'm a licensed sports nutritionist, performance coach. I can't even tell you all the certifications that I've gotten over that time. And so it's a part of me, used to own a gym in Hawaii for six years. Have a fitness equipment manufacturing company. I mean, when I say I was in it, I was in it. Why? Because it gave me a platform to help people. I thought I would never leave that business because of how much joy that it filled me up with to be able to know that, hey, Sharon came to me. Her problem was that she said, hey, I need to lose 30 or 40 pounds of fat. Well, really the problem was that Sharon really didn't need to lose fat. She was having problems getting pregnant. Her and her husband, this is just one story out of hundreds. You know, her and her husband have been trying to have kids for seven years, tried everything. Only thing they didn't try was a shift in lifestyle. Shifted their lifestyle, shifted their movement, shifted their nutrition. She lost 110 pounds and quickly. All of a sudden, man, it doesn't happen quick. I would say over a course of maybe six to eight months, maybe a year, you know, and then all of a sudden her body weight started dropping. Her bio health markers went up. Her body was in a positive homeostasis and because of that, she was able to get pregnant. Now they have two kids. I mean, you talk about a life change and I was able to make a positive impact in them. Man, it makes me emotional just thinking about it. Be honest with you. And so I take that love for what fitness does for people and my knowledge about that and my drive to help people succeed. And then it's really simple for me. I just take those same measures and apply it to the tool of real estate. And, you know, my parents taught me the wrong thing. They said, hey, you work hard. You pay your bills.  You know, you do whatever it takes and you work hard. You work 40, 50, 60 hours a week, man. I'm from the Midwest. That's just what we do. However, it was wrong. What you do is you leverage things in your life. You leverage people and leverage people think is a bad word. No, man, we are a community. Human beings are community-centered beings.  So, man, real estate just gives me another area to where I can step in. I can serve people. I can help people. And when you're ready to buy or sell a house, hey, I'm here to help you out. That's it. Simple. I'm glad you went there. So now it's time to kind of get into the point stuff, right? Oh, shoot. All right, I hate to bore you with this. But everybody always wants to know when is a good time to buy or sell your home? Like when is, and this is a question I'm sure you probably get all the time. I do, and you're probably not gonna like my answer. But the best time to buy or sell a home is when you are ready to buy or sell a home. People try and time the market. People try and take all these numbers and it ends up in them sitting on the sideline. For sometimes, for years, as real estate values appreciate. So just talking to a potential buyer the other day, she said, hey, I don't think it's a good time. Interest rates are high, and this, that, and the other. And hey, interest rates might be high. But think about what's gonna happen when interest rates drop.  That's gonna put upward pressure on the low inventory we have.   When you are ready personally to start going down that road, that's the right time. I feel like we needed a diagram for that, boy. That's the way you broke that album. That's the right time. We need to get a boy made and move this way. So let's simplify that. Everything moves in circles of supply and demand.  So when it's the right time for you, that's the time to get in the market. I mean, you're not gonna be able to time the market perfectly, it just doesn't happen. So rather than doing that, go buy the dang house now. You're gonna save about 50 to 60K on that house because you're not competing against 30 other people who want that house that have more purchasing power than you. When the interest rates drop, it's a really simple procedure. All you do is refinance the house. So in using that technique, you get the best of both worlds. You get the lower price on the home, then you refinance when rates drop, when all these other buyers jump into the market and you're able to get the lower interest rate on the house and you're able to get the house for a less expensive price. So do you work with lenders personally or do you just let the whoever's doing that? I do, yeah. I'm a red carpet, red carpet realtor, okay? What that means is I do everything for my clients. Everything. If you're out of town and your listing is live and I go to that house, there's weeds in the garden and the grass needs to be mowed. Guess what's in the back of my truck? My lawnmower, my work gloves. So that also entails lending. And yes, I have several local lenders that I partner with and I work with. And when I say partner with, if we don't get anything from each other, it's just I trust them. They answer my text messages and phone calls, no matter what time of day. And in this business, man, if we go look at a house at 8 p.m. Saturday night, you call me and say, hey, you wanna write an offer at nine o'clock? I need to get ahold of that lender. And so my lending partners understand that game and they're, boom, they're on it. I text them, hey, can I get an updated approval letter for X, Y, and Z property? Boom, it's in my inbox. And really when you're partnering with a lender, a lot of people are gonna go shop rates and shop interest rates. So you might save like a quarter of a percent with a, you know, gosh, I think the last one was a like a loan depot. Yeah. Okay. Well, you're not talking to a loan officer. You have a call center of 300 people. So you don't have a personal relationship with that person. Guess what? They're not answering their phone on Saturday night, which leaves me trying to fight for my clients without that other key component. Yeah. Okay. No, it's good to know. So right now, at this very moment, what are your goals, your personal goals? Personal goals, dang, all right. Well, You do short-term, I guess, you know. You know what, here's the thing is my, my personal goals are to help people.  Well, now your, your focus is on money. If you say, oh, I wanna make this amount of commission. I wanna sell this amount of homes, your focus is on homes and the income it's gonna provide you. And my goal is to help as many people capitalize on the power of real estate to generate wealth because that wealth can help you fund your goals in life. It can help you send your kids to college. It can send you on a vacation. You can multiply that wealth by taking out some equity of that property to buy a rental property. And when you do that, you actually didn't take any money out of your savings account. So you can go down that investment rabbit hole, but the fact of the matter is, is that real estate is the single best wealth building tool that we have here in the United States, bar none. So you would, what would you, what advice would you give to a young guy trying to get into the real estate game or even an older guy? What would your advice be? So if somebody's looking to get into the real estate game, I would, first of all, I wouldn't suggest it. I'm really honest about this. It takes a very special kind of person to be successful in this business. And to be successful in this business, you're gonna have to get knocked down. You're gonna have to go through extreme amounts of stress. Your clients, you, it's part of the business. And what I see a lot of people struggle with is just not being able to overcome those stressful moments with the positive mindset override. Like listen, I can't control the interest rates. I can't control the market.  I can't control any of that. What I pay attention to is what I can control and what I can help my clients control and cut out all the rest of the BS. Also to the big back on that is kind of, you know what I mean?  You know what I mean? How do you guys deal with when the market fluctuates and when sales, how do you prepare for that?  Navigate your way through those times when things aren't optimal. It's gonna happen. You're playing for it.  My thing is this though, but I also wanna know what pulls you up out of that? Besides sale, besides, you know, moving homes and that, what is motivating you out of that? Like your alarm goes off, sales haven't been the best or you know, and things aren't optimal. What's getting you out of bed in the morning? What's driving you? The, what drives me is my goal to help people. I mean, I will always point my, listen, my heart and my compass is so, man, I just turned 42 yesterday, the 17th, right? So I have enough wisdom now to know that what I can control is my mindset, my positivity. I can control how I treat my family. I can control how I interact with people. I can't control the market, so I don't worry about it. I can't control interest rates, so I don't worry about it. What I can control is how I speak to people, how I relate to people and just to let them know, hey, listen, this is not a transaction for me. This is an opportunity for me to feed my soul and my soul craves the fact that, hey, if this person gets on Google and leaves me a review and says, hey, man, Noah did an awesome job. We didn't think we could get this house. Man, I post all those, not to brag. Somebody else called me out on this the other day. They said, oh yeah, so you're posting those five-star reviews and I said, yeah, what you don't understand, listen, what you don't understand, I'm not posting that to brag. I'm posting that because that is 100% why I do, what I do for my clients is to get that feedback. And man, that's like the most amazing thing for me. Like, okay, go close on a million dollar house. Yeah, go to closing, it's just like the rest of them. But to get that pad on the back from people who will publicly acknowledge my work ethic, my professionalism, and the understanding that I know this craft. And I don't even understand why they would say why. Why wouldn't you post it? I mean, it's exactly what you said it is. It's, hey, he helped us. They took the time to put in that review. They took the time to give you your flowers. And that, like that alone right there, man, is really all you really want at the end of the day. That's it. So you just turned 42. Yep. You look great. Oh, there we go. Here we go. Got a whole bunch of energy, man. I did come across something that I wanted to ask you about. Is it possible to buy a house with 3,000 down? Yes, yes. It's possible to buy a house with no money down. A lot of people get, a lot of people get this confused. There's so much mission information out there, which I don't know why is because you, clicking on all this stuff on the internet, clickbait things. You can purchase a home with $0 down. It is possible. There are several different ways to do that. First time home buyer loan programs. Here in the state of Colorado, we have Chaffa, which is a down payment assistance program that will pay your down payment for you. It's a second loan and it's at 0%. So let me break this down. $500,000 house. Let's say you need $20,000 to close. Oh, well, no, I don't have $20,000. No problem. Can you afford the monthly payment? Well, yeah, we can afford the monthly payment, no problem. We're gonna get Chaffa to come in, pay that $17,000 or $20,000 down payment, okay? It's 0% interest, which is powerful because what is that? That's leverage. You're leveraging somebody else's money for 0% interest. So let's say you borrow $20,000 and you can live in the home for as long as you want to. Don't have to pay that $20,000 back. When you refinance the home or you sell the home, you just are gonna pay Chaffa back that $20,000.  There's Chaffa, there's CHAC, there's USDA. All of these things can fit together for the right buyer to where if they wanted to, even if they had some money, if they wanted to keep it to do updates to the house, I would leverage that 0% second loan every time. Yeah, I don't think a lot of people know that. Everybody thinks that you need to have a certain amount or a certain percentage like down payment and so much misinformation out there or what other people dealt with with other, you know what I mean, realtors or other lenders telling them this, this, and trying to get, I guess the most bang for the buck on some stuff. Listen, if someone's gonna give me money to buy a house, take it, take it, take it and here's the thing, those are only like four programs that I mentioned. There's a lot more and it's really easy.  What do I do? First of all, follow me on Instagram, real.estate.hippie. Second thing you do, send me a message, my cell phone number's on there, text me, call me. I'm a very reachable person. We'll talk about everything. Third thing you do is you apply with one of my preferred lenders because they're gonna take that application and everybody doesn't wanna fill out the application. I think it's like a test. Like, oh, my credit's not, my credit's not the best. I don't know if I wanna fill out the application. Listen, I've worked with hundreds of people. Nobody's credit's the best. We all have debt as part of the deal, right? My college debt, medical debt, credit card debt. I've silly and bought a brand new car debt, you know? Like everybody has that. So rather than worrying about that, fill out the application, get the information to my team and what we will do is dive into that information and do the work for you. You do nothing. You, it's not a pass or a fail test. When you fill out the application, you pass. It's that simple because my team and I will work with you whether it is you're buying a home that next month. I've literally worked with a family for five years, five years working on their credit, coaching them on how to get rid of debt. Hey, we bought this new car, we really love it. Well, hey, it's stopping you. That liability is stopping you from buying a house. Sell the dang thing. Okay, take it back to the dealership.  No, is it glamorous? No, it's not, but it's gonna get you in that house, right? It's gonna get you there. Fast forward, we finally got these people, got their credit up, wonderful family, got their credit up, figured out their income, what they can get approved for. Man, we're out shopping for houses, got this family a house. They told me when they met me that they were never gonna be able to buy a house. I took that as a personal challenge. Challenge accepted. They're in this house, they love it. And now, guess what? So, that was three years ago when they closed on the house. Now, they have $150,000 of equity in their home that they can use to buy other properties. Now they can pull that money out and go buy a car that they wanted in the first place. You know, so. But they just need to sacrifice for that a little bit of time to get to that. You know, it's funny. It's, I find that the more people that I coach, the more people I talk to, we're very short-minded creatures. I mean, we want that instant gratification.  Now I can go afford that new car. Well, let's stop for a second. Let's understand why you want that new car. Why? Well, gosh, I never really thought about that. It's shiny, it's new. I want to drive something. Okay, why? Well, I guess because I want to post some good pictures on Instagram, like, okay, why? Because I think it might help me attract the opposite sex. Okay, why is that important to you? You can keep going and going and going down that why until you actually drill into the silliness behind that. The root of the whole thing is like, hey, I feel like this might make me more desirable and I really would like, you know, a partner in my life. Well, guess what?  Hey, man, great conversation, you know what I mean? Hey, anybody who wants more information on Noah, hey, you can reach him at, say the Instagram. Instagram, real.estate.hippie. Like I said, go follow me, send me messages. I literally, I answer every single message. You ask me anything, my cell numbers on there, call me, text me, listen, I'm just here to help you out. That's all there is to it. If I can help you some way, whether it's nutritionally, lifestyle, building wealth through the power of real estate, man, information is free. I'll give you everything. You don't pay me nothing. I heard that, man, he's a total package, man. You know, physical, spiritual, everything, man. So reach out to him and anything that you need, man. I'm sure he'll answer your question. And like I said, I'll put his information at the bottom of this. You can find this podcast now on Spotify as well. So on YouTube and Spotify. Definitely check out his videos on Instagram. Some funny stuff, man. He keeps the content coming. He's great. Also too, come on down to 1610 Main Street, the Waypile and the Rockies. Don't forget the squat competition is this Saturday from 11 to two. And we're going to try to figure out who's the strongest, the king and queen of the Rockies when it comes to squats, man. Kingpinny podcast, we got Noah. We're out of here, man. Follow us, check us out. It's been real, man. Thank you guys. Have a great day. See ya.


Welcome back everyone. This week NBC News hosted a Joe Biden town hall that I'm sure nobody is surprised was nothing but slobbering easy softballs. The town hall itself was billed as an audience of undecided voters yet at least three of them have been open about their support for Joe Biden in the past. Welcome back. Welcome back Miami and the town hall meeting with former vice president Joe Biden taking questions of undecided voters. Peter Gonzalez has next question. Welcome to Miami, Mr. Vice President. I was born in Hartford, Connecticut and I've been living in Coral Gables for the last 20 plus years.  Good luck and good luck with the future attracting younger voters. Let's go to Ismail Eliano, who voted for Hillary Clinton four years ago, but has voted Republican in the past. What's your question for Mr. Biden? I'm Mr. Vice President. Things that Joe Biden said during his speech that resonated with me was, you know, what defines America's possibility. Gomez joins us now. First time voter came to the U.S. in Columbia at age two. Welcome. Spent a lot of time in Columbia. Thank you, Lester, for the introduction. After watching the debate and I say, oh, Gomez told us he really didn't feel like he got a whole lot out of it and it really did not do a lot to help him. If you had to pull the trigger and vote for someone tomorrow, how would you vote? Probably by them in the sense of these people, others at the exact same town hall that I remind you was billed as an audience of undecided voters. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to tonight's town hall where we are surrounded by dozens of undecided voters have shown support for Joe Biden on their social media accounts. Michelle Cruz, described as a former Republican, is clearly not undecided judging by her Facebook photos that either support Joe Biden or are attacking Trump. Another one of the supposed undecided independents or former Republicans, Cassidy Brown, also has a social media channel filled with pro-Bind and pro-Hillary postings, even referring to Joe Biden as the future president. It was pretty obvious to everyone that these voters were just lobbing softballs at Biden, never asking tough or critical questions. A writer for Politico tweeted out, quote, NBC's town hall with Joe Biden and undecided voters in Miami didn't seem to have undecided voters, nor was it much of a Miami town hall, which would have way more yelling and pointed questions. It was a TV show that doubled as a Biden infomercial. As far as ratings go, the town hall was a flop, coming in below NFL football and dancing with the stars. Who knew obvious lab dog propaganda was so boring. Now I'm really going to blow your mind. This isn't the first time in recent history that this has happened. You might remember last month during the ABC News town hall that also touted undecided voters that all seemed to be pretty anti-Trump, regurgitating all the typical media talking points and narratives. Well, it turns out that multiple voters that were described as undecided are actually longtime Trump haters.  Oh yeah, but I'm sure her mind is still open. The next uncommitted voter, a Philadelphia pastor, also has a tweet history suggesting he's not a person that would ever vote for Trump, referring to him as a villain in other choice words going back to 2015. This is the obvious outcome of political propaganda theater masquerading as a legitimate town hall. This sham of a town hall was hosted by ABC News' chief anchor, a Democrat, a former aide of Bill Clinton, and generous donator to the Clinton Foundation, George Stephanopoulos. Once a Clinton, liberal Clinton hack, always a Clinton liberal hack. That's all I have on this story. Just a quick one for today as I prepare for the vice presidential debate, which you can watch on my D-Live channel, which is tonight at 9pm Eastern. Join us in the official DroneTech Politics Discord server to hang out with the community and discuss the debate. If you enjoyed this video, please hit that like button, share, and subscribe. If you'd like to support this channel, you can find all those links in the description and pinned comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back.


కొఘర్్ క౗త్సుసుట్యిన తొalstroవి Santi boys on what the ఎావ్లొమ్నుధిదేల్కోలాదుమోన్ష్ల్వ్పెర్అకిలొర학ండిిణ్.  DIRECTOR OF JOURNEYS OF THE COOPER BEARD PROVIDES నివ్ర్స్స్యందినిిందింది investigación మౕారంస్మ్సిందిందిపెళినిమేసికిందిదాభిరిటిందిందివకికింది comments The previous government we tried to diversify the economy of Kopa Belk province from mining dependency to agriculture and the agriculture. But what you are seeing today is very disturbing. I am a Kopa Belk person, my house and other businesses down the Kopa Belk province. I am on the Kopa Belk province every week and people are suffering on the Kopa Belk province. My advice, my elder brother, president Akai in the HLM is to sit and find the lasting solution to the suffering of the people on the Kopa Belk province. If we are mining the Kopa Belk province, we are going to be in the Kopa Belk province. We are going to be in the Kopa Belk province. I am just coming from Muferia. And it is a solid science what we experience in Muferia. Talk about Rwansha. So for me, my advice is to my elder brother, president Akai in the HLM to find the lasting solution to the issues surrounding the Kopa Belk province. Lord Shedding, in the past few days we have seen drama surrounding Lord Shedding in our country. There was drama for 12 hours. It used to 6 hours in space one hour. After our calculation, we find that the timings now have increased from 12 hours to 14 hours. The president told us that Khalibah North Bank is leaking. How was the minister for Lusaka province? We interacted with other ministers in the provinces. I visited Khalibah by the time Minister Mawumba was the energy minister. We have never experienced leakages at Khalibah. So it was very surprising to hear that Khalibah is leaking. Lord Shedding came. He told us the different version. He told us the different version. The spokesperson to the president, Mayan brother Hamta Gwadia. He also came and accused the PM. The brim game is over. The brim game is over. UPND, they are on the driving seats. Let them deliver to the expectation all the people of Zan. The promises which they made to the people during their time in opposition. And during campaigns prior to 2021 general elections. We expect the UPND to operate above both. Let them stop this game brim thing. The people of Zambia gave them the mandate to preside over the affairs of this nation. Presiding over the affairs of this nation. The people of Zambia, they don't expect the UPND to continue to the PF. PF is not in power. Yes, very soon they will bounce back in power. But now they are not in power. We want to offer solutions or suggestions to the government of Mr. Akayin Leitlema. The issue to do with road change. Our suggestion number one. Let the government through the Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Information to start sensitizing the people of Zambia. To switch off the cookers. Stop electrical cookers. And switch on gas cooking in our country. By doing so, we will be releasing pressure on Zesco. And we want to add this government to recapitalize in Deni. Let them recapitalize in Deni. Because in Deni will help the gas cooking in our country. It's a pity that the member of parliament for in Deni, instead of supporting the recapitalizing of in Deni, was supporting the setting of in Deni. And the members of the Constituency for Bonamukuba, they are stranded now. Because most of them they used to get. They are permanent jobs and pieceworks from in Deni. And other surrounding areas.  We also want to aid this government of Mr. Akayin Leitlema. To sensitize the people of Zambia. Switch off the electric gizzards to solar gizzards. By doing so, they will be releasing pressure on Zesco. The other suggestion which we want to give to this government is to push for Batoka Hydro project. Batoka Hydro project is a project or a joint venture between Zambia and Zimbabwe. And this project, if pursued to the conclusion, will see the addition of another power station to the grid. And this project is a project which was supposed to be financed in Batoka. The previous government managed to invest colossal sums of dollars in power generation, in different source of energy. Just few meters from where we are standing today, the Nuka summer area, the MFES, the government of president Edga Chagualungu invested in the solar farm which was supposed to be producing not less than 650 megawatt to be added to the national grid. President Edga Chagualungu opened up other source of energy to have been explored in our country. For today, and talk to Mapani, you will tell you that thousands of contracts for investors who wanted to invest in other sources of energy has been cancelled as Zesco. And seeing the mismanagement of Zesco which we are seeing today, we want Edga President Chagualungu to put Zesco in order. That house is disorganized. It's disorganized because they don't know what they are doing. If they knew what they were doing, it is suicidal to misinform the president. It is suicidal to misinform the president and give the long information to the president. A president is a politician is a head of government in the country and he relies on the information from the technocrats. If you have incompetent technocrats like the ones we are seeing at Zesco, this country is under risk. This country is under risk. Because we can't have technocrats who are misinforming the head of state. And to that effect, let the president within his powers let them fire the board chair for Zesco and the managing director for Zesco. Because they have failed. They have failed the people of Zambia. President Akainde Ichileva is carrying delegated power from the people of Zambia. And when the people are disappointed, the only thing the president is supposed to do is to part ways with those people who are disappointing the masses of this great country, Zambia. So those are the suggestions which we have on roadshedding. The issue, ladies and gentlemen, which we want to talk about is about regional issues as well. As you might be aware, we are politicians and as politicians we interact globally. We interact in the region and we know what is happening as we speak. We know what is happening in the United States of America. We know what is happening in all the countries in the continent. We know because we have connections in those respective countries. We want to talk about Zimbabwe, the issue of Zimbabwe and the issue of Zimbabwe we want to edge the people of Zimbabwe that as they go for this year's general election, let them not make a mistake of thinking Comrade Munagawa and the ZANOPF they are bad people, bad organization. Comrade Munagawa and the ZANOPF they mean well to the people of Zimbabwe. The problem which we have is the people who gave or oppressed sanctions on Zimbabwe and to that effect we want to edge the president the president of the Republic of Zambia Mr. Ata in the HLMA being friends to those people the Europeans and the Americans they wine and dine together to talk on the people of the people of Zimbabwe the issue at AN is a very serious issue when your neighbor's house is on fire even you you are also affected if you recover where Zimbabwe used to be food baskets not only to the people of Zambia but to the entire region and continent at last but today when you go into Zimbabwe it's a solid sign and we want the people of Zimbabwe to make a right decision as they go for general election the people of Kenya they defended Africa and we want Zimbabwe to defend Africa to defend the region the southern region the person who was pressed or who wanted the westerners the person they wanted to fix is no longer with us Comrade Gabriel Mugabe is a departed colleague is a departed comrade we want sanctions to be lifted on Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is our brothers and sisters we are not happy to see what has been going on in Zimbabwe so we want to edge the people of Zimbabwe that even that term is a comrade he is a good comrade but he is being supported by wrong people he is being supported by wrong people with wrong motives wrong people with wrong motives we know our friends our friends we know them they have been with us when we needed the most they were there our friends our friends it's Russia the manner you are seeing in Zambia is Chinese money our friends is Russian time those are our friends we can have other friends but we have our best friends we have our best friends at 24 hours when we have a problem we call them and they will come at 24 hours other friends when you call them at 24 hours they will come after 98 hours so we need a friend who treats our situation as an emergency those are the friends we need I mentioned about Patoka the only way we are going to push for that project to things we want to edge our republican president president Akainde Italy we have seen him going to Dubai we have seen him going to America we have seen him going to the United Kingdom but the solutions are not there the solutions are not in America Zambian solutions they are in China and Russia we heard the president very soon let him come up with a trip to go to Beijing let him go to Beijing our answers the answers they are in China and Russia


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Hello, my name is Lauren Bryant. I'm a librarian at Shoreline Community College and I'm going to talk to you about using CINAHL for nursing research. You're going to go to the library's website which is library.shoreline.edu and then you're going to choose databases out of this menu that says research. From this menu to jump directly to CINAHL we're going to click C and then the second thing in this list is CINAHL. I want to point out that the Absco databases, the Absco is the vendor or the people who sell us the databases, they look very similar so make sure that this says CINAHL with full text right here because you can choose databases and show and I'm going to show you how this one looks almost the exact same but this word this one says academic search complete where it says searching. So we're going to make sure we're searching CINAHL and then for my example I'm going to do urinary tract infections. The reason I use this as my example is because there are so many different ways of saying urinary tract infections which is common in the health sciences. I used a keyword search that's the one we just did we just did a keyword search now I'm going to show you subject headings. So in this detailed record there will often be an area that says major subjects and it will tell you what the major subjects are of this article. I see urinary tract infections as a subject heading. So our results list was 16,977 when I put urinary tract infections. If I click the subject heading it will give me 6,784 which is good. We actually want less things because we don't want to have to sort through articles that are not on our topic. So when we get this number of articles I want to reduce them down even more because I want to at least glance at the summary for each article. So I know that I want for nursing we definitely don't want very very old articles. I put 2019 to 2023 I also I want to click this box this is full text if you don't click that you will get some what are called abstracts or detailed summaries which is what you get when you don't get to read the full article you just get to see what the article is about and sometimes you do want those if you find absolutely nothing on your topic you can look at the detailed record and then you can submit an interlibrary loan through the library and we'll send you a pdf of the article. I want to click academic articles academic journals because I don't want to use magazines for my nursing research and then I get 358 items 358 full text items from 2019 to 2023. Now that I have this I'm going to research urinary tract infections and cranberry juice or cranberry extract or cranberry tablets or whatever it is so I'm going to add cranberry here. I'm adding it to that second field below and I wanted to double check it it unchecked my box for academic journals so I'm going to recheck that but I got six total results and these results are going to be very specific to my topic they're going to be recent and they're going to be easy to sort through because I only have six. Once you see an article that you think you want to use you click it and then you might have to click see how I scroll down and there's no article here you might have to click this red icon that says pdf full text you'll click that and it will give you the full text of the article in kind of a little window here if you want to save this article you can't take the url from your browser bar because it's behind a paywall you can click this little chain link icon and then it will a little permalink will pop up and this link is what you want to use when you're sending your instructor an article if you're citing an article if you're sending somebody in your group an article you want to use this link right here this permalink if you want to create a citation this yellow box on the side will generate citations in a lot of different styles now for your research you will want APA 7 if you have any questions know that the library is there for you we have a chat that's available 24-7 we also have appointments that you can make at library.shoreline.edu slash appointments and you can make one-on-one appointments where we can search for articles with you over zoom and of course come please come visit us in person we love hearing from our nurses thank you for watching


Well, thank you, and thanks to the consortium for inviting me to be here. I didn't realize I was being introduced as the local expert here in Michigan, which I was a little surprised at since I've actually been here in Michigan for nine months. And I don't know if that says something about the state of expertise in Michigan that having been here for nine months, I'm the local expert, but I actually had an earlier tour of duty here in the state of Michigan where I was a professor at the University of Michigan, and probably one of my singular achievements there was that I was an expert witness on a lawsuit over the use of the MEAPS for awarding of the Michigan Merit Scholarships, where the defendants were Governor Engler and Superintendent Flanagan, one of his predecessors, were the defendants. So I'm not sure that in fact I would have ever been invited back to the state of Michigan, particularly to participate in a conference talking about the Michigan Merit Curriculum, but nevertheless I was invited, so I'll do my best to be the local expert. Barbara started off this morning by talking about this sort of strange arranged marriage that Jack alluded to between the sociologists here at Michigan State, or in some cases Ken Frank is really a quasi sociologist, and the economists at the University of Michigan, and it reminded me a little bit of, to paraphrase that book from a number of years ago, that sociologists are from Venus and economists are from Uranus. But somehow I've been watching this consortium since I have been back here in Michigan for nine months, and it seems to work, and I think actually the two groups of people build on the strengths of each other, and we know that the economists are really the very strong analytics statistical people, and the sociologists presumably know something about people, given that they're sociologists, and they very smartly brought in the data guy here from the state, who had all of the data they needed to be able to answer these questions. So I've been very much looking forward to seeing these first results coming out since I heard that they were going to be released this fall, and I was very excited to be able to have the opportunity to look at some of the results the last few days when they were sent to us. And coincidentally, I just got back late last night from a trip to London where I was there with some people from our college, where we were visiting schools in London that very much mirror the urban school districts that we have here in Michigan, and facing some of the same challenges. And these were schools, state schools, as they call them, and also academies, which are their equivalent of what we call charter schools, that were in relatively poor for the most part parts of London that had been underperforming schools, just as we have many underperforming schools here in the state of Michigan, and managed to turn around those schools into raised academic achievement because the UK has exactly the same goal that we have here in this country that Jack alluded to, which was increasing academic performance, increasing college rates so that they can better perform just as we want to better perform against whom? The Finns and the Singaporeans. That's who everybody points to in academic achievement, and it was very interesting how parallel the conversations were between what we talk about here in trying to raise our academic performance on international benchmarks like TIMMS and Pearls and others against the Finns who seem to be the world leaders in academic achievement, and someday we will actually get there to be as good as Finlan, I'm sure, whether it's under your term as Commissioner Jack or mine as dean here in the College of Education, I'm not sure, but we will get there at some point. So let me just say a few words about the context of college going and what we know about what factors affect whether students actually go on to college or not. Then I'm going to say just a few words about what I took out of the findings that we're discussed here today, and then I will try to get this wrapped up quickly since I'm in the unenviable position of standing between you and our delicious lunch that I think is going to be right next door. I'm a little disappointed I don't actually smell it wafting through to keep us moving through these very quickly. So what do we know about factors that affect college going? What determines whether somebody goes on to college? Well, generally when we look at that research it falls into three domains. The first domain is academic preparation, and we've had a lot of talk about academic preparation today. What kind of courses students take? What's the rigor of those courses beyond just titles that are slapped on them like Algebra II? But how rigorous are those courses? What is the content that is dressed in those courses? What kind of preparation do students have for standardized tests, whether it's things like the MME or the ACT or the SAT test? What kind of access do they have to that kind of preparation? What kind of support do they get in their homes for increasing their academic achievement? The second domain is social preparation. Is there a culture of college going within that family? Have the students' parents gone to college or siblings? Are they in a community where the norm for all students' secondary school is to go on to post-secondary education or not? Are there community organizations that encourage that? Or are they in a place like Kalamazoo that has the Kalamazoo promise that not just provides money but encourages students to go on to college or not? And the third domain, of course, is financial preparation. And that has to do with things like how much income does the student and his or her parents have? What assets do they have? Have they saved for college? What kind of information do they have about financial aid and access to financial aid, whether it's grants or loans or work study? And what kinds of tuition prices do they face in their local institutions because we know, as Sue said, 80% of students go to public institutions and something like 90%, depending upon which survey you look at, 90% of students who go to college do so within 100 miles of their own high school graduation place. So what kind of choices do they face in terms of the price of the institutions? So in trying to understand what impact any particular policy change is going to make in a district or in a state or even nationwide, you have to be able to tease out these different factors. And it is an extremely difficult process. From somebody who spent almost 20 years researching this, I can tell you it's very difficult to do well and to do in a way that allows you to draw conclusions about the impact that any one of these policies may have. And I think that the consortium is on the right track in trying to understand what impact the introduction of the Michigan merit curriculum had on the goals that we have set for this state, which include increasing graduation rates, including, excuse me, increasing academic performance and getting more students into a post-secondary education institution and through to some kind of high-quality credential at the end. So let me say a few words about what I took out of the findings. And I've got a few comments for the researchers here. So this is where you can take out your pad and paper and hopefully use some of the expertise I do have as a researcher to try to think about the next stage of the work that you're going to be doing and how you can try to address some of these questions in the next stage. One of the questions I took out was I'd like to know a little bit more about the quartiles that you constructed. And you alluded to the fact that you included in there not just their performance on the eighth grade test but also something about their socioeconomic background as well as school characteristics. So again, from a research perspective, make sure you share with us how you constructed that because depending upon how you construct those quartiles you may be able to get very different impacts. And since you did find very different effects between top quartile on the one hand and bottom quartile on the other, it's important to understand how those quartiles were actually constructed. And this is particularly important when you're doing pipeline analyses. And Sue started us off by talking about and showing us the pipeline for students in Michigan. And she very accurately pointed out what we know from the rest of the nation also is that we lose students all across and every step of that pipeline. We lose them from ninth grade into tenth grade and even though we have mandatory school enrollment till age 16 we know there are some students that leave school before age 16. We lose them after the mandatory enrollment age. We lose them at the point of graduation and we lose them at entry to college and then through to a credential. And the important thing to know and again as Sue's data showed is that that gap between different groups, whether you measure rich and poor on the one hand or if you're looking at race and ethnicity we usually put together white and Asian American students compared to African American and Latino students that those gaps increase over that pipeline. So what that tells us is that we have work to do at every step of the pipeline. Increasing the rigor and increasing the rigor for the lowest achieving students so they can get to the point of higher achieving students. We have work to do on high school graduation and we have work to do on college entry as well as college completion. The other point that I would make is an important one and in their materials the author said and I think Brian alluded to this briefly the author said that they try to have some conversations with the state to make sure that there weren't other changes going on in state policy simultaneous with the introduction of the Michigan Merit Curriculum so that we could try to isolate that any of these interrupted time series changes we saw like the increase in certain measures or the decrease in others starting with the cohort first impacted by the Michigan Merit Curriculum making sure that that was the real impact and there was a cause and effect there. And I'm sure that they did a very thorough job in doing that and they've talked about the fact that they want to have the same conversations with districts to make sure that there weren't simultaneous changes going on at that same time in districts. But one of the things I do worry about is if you look at that first cohort of students who were subject to the MMC those students during their sophomore year particularly the fall of their sophomore year is when the recession hit this country and hit Michigan. And the question that I had as I thought about this is whether there were any of the economic factors again I think Brian alluded to this a little bit is whether any of the economic factors that occurred during the recession particularly so a ramped up because the recession ramped up so quickly and was so severe so quickly during the sophomore and then into the junior year of these students is whether any of those things could in fact have impacted any of the results that you're seeing here. So for example could the recession have impacted either in migration or out migration rates of students here in Michigan and when those impacts have been different for high achieving students the top quartile versus bottom achieving students. So I suggest you think a little bit about that and in fact whether there would have been any impacts of the recession that would have impacted the results you saw absent the introduction of the MMC and of course we'll never know we can't turn back the clock and conduct an experiment but I nevertheless I think it's something about for example we know that higher unemployment rates lowers the opportunity cost of staying in school. So 16 or 17 year olds who may be thinking of dropping out of school if it's a relatively high employment period and they think they can get jobs out there even though we might not think of those as being very good jobs because what kind of jobs you get if you're a high school dropout but nevertheless if somebody is thinking about that choice of leaving school and getting a job versus staying in school the signals of higher employment rates send to students they may opt to stay in school and with the introduction of the MMC we may say that in fact well the impact of the MMC were that more students were staying in school for perhaps that fourth year or fifth year of high school when in fact the impact you may be seeing may simply be that of the signals of the labor market sector that students are responding to so trying to tease those out I think are very important. I think that what struck me the overall conclusion seems to be that the MMC had a modest impact on the achievement of students who are already fairly high achievers and there's been little impact or in fact a negative impact on students who have been left behind to use the language of no child left behind so the challenge for the state will be to figure out in fact how do we reach and this has always been the challenge when we look at gaps in performance is how do we reach those students now another confounding factor that's going to make your jobs only a little bit harder is that there has been a change in state policy and that's the waiver that the state of Michigan was granted by the U.S. Department of Education so that it no longer has to comply with the no child left behind act and something I'm very familiar with because our college in fact is working in partnership with the department to go out in the next year and presumably in future years hopefully Superintendent Flanagan will work with about 300 focus and priority schools here in Michigan to look and help them address in particular the achievement of their lowest performing students so this is going to be the confounding factor that you guys are going to have to figure out how do you take into account the work that we may be doing and not that we're going to have miraculous results but presumably we're going to have some results in working with these 300 schools because the priority schools are the bottom 5% of the performing schools and the focus schools are those 10% of the schools that have the largest gap between their highest achieving students their lowest achieving students so on the one hand that confounds your work as researchers to try to isolate the impact of the MMC but on the other hand it perhaps provides a national experiment that you can exploit because there are going to be those schools that we're in there working fairly intensively on closing achievement gaps and there are going to be those schools that are just outside the label just miss being labeled with this horrific label of a priority or a focus school who aren't going to be getting that intensive work from us in partnership with the state so maybe there will be an opportunity to see in fact were there any differences between those two groups that you can then exploit in understanding whether the MMC had any impact or not or any further impacts so with that I will stop I think can we take a few minutes for questions before we head next door for lunch so again thank you very much for your attention I for one look very am very excited and look forward to hearing about further results from the consortium and again thank you very much


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Hey there. At Moodle, we strive to produce the best all-in-one learning platform that can be used by schools, universities, governments and companies to build the best environments for their own learners to learn what they need. Moodle itself is completely free and open source and we've worked hard to build an environment to keep it that way. We're happy to announce our latest version of Moodle and our regular May release version 2.7. It's definitely our best release yet. Let me introduce you. As usual, Moodle HQ and our incredible community have brought together work from all corners of the globe to this release. In the past six months, we have 14 major new features with many more in the pipeline. As with all our releases, quite a lot of work has gone into the Moodle interface to make it more usable, even better across all platforms, especially tablets, phones and in-screen readers. Bootstrap-based themes are now default and we encourage all sites to migrate to these if they haven't already. To help novice Moodlers, we've created one simple customizable theme in core called More. This theme allows any Moodle administrator to quickly create a unique looking Moodle site without needing to edit files, install third-party themes or write any CSS. The text editor is a key part of our system as it's the tool that almost everyone uses to write in Moodle. After much evaluation, we've decided to adopt our own new text editor in Moodle named Atto. Atto was originally a side project of one of our key developers. Because Atto is tightly integrated into Moodle, it allows us to work on usability and accessibility in ways that were not formally possible. Atto is already a big leap forward from our previous editors and it'll get even better as it evolves. In this release, we've continued to focus on some performance features that make Moodle better on large-scale solutions such as clustered systems and in clouds that you buy or build yourself. System administrators will find more options than ever to build Moodle systems that can scale to millions of students if required. A big new feature in this release is the introduction of a new logging framework. This replaces the logging that has been in Moodle since version one with a new flexible system that captures more data about what's happening in the system. It allows you to store it or act on that information in much better ways. This new logging is the foundation of powerful analytics tools and reports that the community can now develop on top of the platform, achieving the dream of true computer-aided teaching and learning. These new analytics features can also take advantage of our new support for mobile notifications on a variety of mobile platforms. Now your Moodle site can reach out to you direct and let you know whatever you want it to tell you. The final key thing about this release is that it is the first long-term support release we've had since Moodle 1.9. This release will receive attention for security and data loss bugs for three years until May 2017. That's one and a half years more than most releases. We hope that that will help you consider making the investment to upgrade from some of our very old releases that are no longer supported. And that's not all, there's quite a lot more in this release that I haven't had time to tell you about. For more details about all of this, see the release notes and docs on our site as well as other videos we've been producing demonstrating Moodle 2.7 in more detail. Please use hashtag Moodle 2.7 if you want to post about it in social media. Thanks to everyone who's helped with this release and thank you for being part of Moodle.