How's everybody doing? We'll invite the responsive place-making Discussion up just after this. We will take a break. Please feel free to stretch your legs Step outside, and then we'll be in the last portion of the program Welcome greetings peace salam everyone How's everyone doing? I have to say I'm really grateful because of the Rich conversation that we've had so far for that moment to ground ourselves and to breathe so thank you for that Patricia My name is Asad Ali Jafri. I am a artist a cultural worker and organizer based here in Chicago I'm a founding member of space shift collective that seeks to reimagine the ways in which we work live create and play With healthy doses of joy and mischief making as well Our session is responsive place-making Thinking about the context that we're gathering in and the the wonderful framing we had this morning I'm wondering if it's really about how place shapes us and how we respond to that as well So maybe we can think about this conversation in that context Part of the work that space shift collective is doing currently is also relevant to this conversation Because we're building a space to grow and to gather called Shamiana Across four corners of an intersection on Devon Avenue, which is Chicago's South Asian neighborhood and I wanted to start in proximity To that because we are in Chicago and maybe take you to the other edge of the city all the way up on the north side and Ask Patricia You lead access labs in Uptown in Chicago And you're also the designer for the Chicago torture justice Memorial project What intersections yeah, give it up give it up What intersections do you see between this work? For yourself as an individual as well as for the communities that are involved Yeah, thank you for that question There's so many different ways that I can begin answering it The first is Chicago is so deeply segregated in so many ways, right? so how do we understand how to connect and build communities through cultural work and through artistic intervention in different ways and a Lot of the times racial antagonism arises because different races are pitted against each other and so the different work that I do in these different communities is really about like thinking intersectionally and So my parents are Vietnamese refugees. They came here by boat Or not here they came to they went to the islands in Indonesia and Malaysia and then made their way to the United States but These slides are going to advance in different ways, but the for folks who are not familiar with the Argonne neighborhood in Uptown it's historically known as a port of entry for immigrants and refugees and It's actually this nexus of where During the Indian Removal Act a lot of Native communities from different parts of the Midwest came to Chicago looking for job opportunities in a place to Make a home in a different way, but of course there are really, you know violent challenges to that And then there are also folks who were coming up from the Great Migration African Americans poor white Appalachians who were also coming into this neighborhood at the time too and then in addition to that There are also Vietnamese Cambodian Laotian refugees who are coming in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American War and Also before that were folks who were Reset trying to find a place to call home after Japanese Concentration camps as well. And so it's like this nexus of so many immigrants refugees Indigenous and black folks who are coming into the neighborhood in different ways And so we really wanted to create a space that honors we make sense of that history and That's one part of the work that I do And organizing with different types of cultural workers theater makers filmmakers Herbalists all of that and then this other work that I do Chicago torture Justice Memorial projects is to Honor and support survivors of police torture who were tortured under birch John birch who was actually trained by the CIA CIA to assassinate and torture people in Vietnam and then took those torture techniques back to Chicago to implement unperdominated black communities in the city and so Working on this is really thinking about the transnational history and the connection between the military and prison industrial complex And so I can delve deeper and more into the kind of other work that we're doing, but it's really focusing on abolition through different types of artistic intervention And thinking about how do we make life-affirming institutions in the face of death-making institutions? Thank you for that Patricia We're gonna move a little further north and then go to Detroit. I'm Augusta. You're with sidewalk Detroit and Place community and inclusivity seem to be really integral to the work that you're doing How do you navigate these? While balancing them with strategy growth and impact Great question. Yes community is at the heart of everything that we do and In Detroit, we are a predominantly black city. So the people that we are representing are primarily black people And we are working in communities all over the city We work with artists. We work with community leaders. We work with the government in ways that How we kind of Work within these different spaces is we host community conversations and community engagements So the slides that you'll see today are these kind of different areas and avenues where we're doing art We have music festivals and I think there was maybe an earlier presentation, but I think this is an example of kind of everything and The way that we kind of curate these performances these festivals these sculptures is through Community conversations and it's driven by those needs and those priorities And we take those conversations and then we kind of identify the types of artists that are work well with these So some of these you see here this jet, which is a very much Detroit based dance There's examples of Dapke. We have the largest Arab population outside of the Middle East And we have here a Dapke lessons This is sidewalk festival We are in nine years of doing these community-based neighborhood arts festivals and we're able to go into these different Neighborhoods because we are invited in we're never just kind of going in there and plopping ourselves So we are working with community leaders black club organizers Artists that are in those areas and really just kind of like neighbors and residents that want to get involved So we host these kind of open community meetings and also have a curatorial council that helps inform Who those artists are? Some of the other spaces that we work in this is Eliza Hall Park. This is Detroit's I think it's the third largest park in the city It's over 250 acres and the city of Detroit kind of abandoned it and it stopped putting in infrastructure So we raise funds for the park. We started an infrastructure plan in 2016 and with the Residents of that neighborhood. We were able to establish a framework plan And we understood that the type of art that they want is natural materials so through kind of research and We found the artist Patrick Dougherty who in that image of the stickwork sculpture If you go back a few slides that he works with Volunteers to kind of construct that so that was a 21-day process Can you go back a couple slides? Okay, right here right here So this is a 21-day process And we had over a hundred and fifty volunteers come and work with us on this Working with the parks all over the city To cut down these saplings so we had to not only Kind of like we made these relationships with the parks But also we had to get federal permission from like the federal Park Department to work in some of these areas And we cut down kind of these saplings and really have this beautiful process I think there's a slide maybe a couple before which shows a little bit of how we Made okay, here's an aerial view of it But now this is a space where it's like we can host performances Gatherings talks workshops. It's temporary. We're in its third year. It's like a two to three year temporary Sculpture, but we're hoping we can kind of have it for much longer But some of the ways we do Engagement and our strategies which make us I feel like very successful is we create really joyful kind of meetings and yes There's always food and kind of the engagement activities are interesting and there's art making and there's a lot of feedback and Once we process that feedback and like analyze that data We give it back to them and we're like, okay, are we hearing everything right? Are these the priorities kind of create a mission a vision and kind of a set of values And then we work with artists to kind of like sometimes make these things happen like this one and then Think the last one The last slide of this This is our current actually a couple before One before this here. Okay. This is our current iteration. We're working with this artist right now Jordan Weber He's based in New York, but he's Midwest artists, so we love that and this is a Sculpture That we're working in this community. It's called East Cantal village It is two blocks from the Stalantis factory And if you've seen the slantist factory in the news or the media, it's putting out pollutants these pms that are extremely toxic to our Whole bodies asthma rates are through the roof similar to an area in Southwest Detroit Delray community, which the same thing is going on you have these factories inside of your neighborhoods The residents are suffering so this sculpture Well, we may look very pretty. There's a lot more depth that goes into this We are putting an air quality monitor So we're able to understand what the air quality looks like we're also planting trees and other Perennials to remediate the air So we're working across these kind of Intersections of environmental justice environmental racism and we are working there's a school right across the street the Barack Obama Academy School Working with kids teaching them about tree health tree kind of equity and planting trees with them There's an air quality monitor that's being installed Already installed right outside their classroom another air quality monitor. That's measuring the VOC is the bio tile Something components and I'm not the male the oh I'm learning all of this as we are kind of Unfolding this this project specifically what started as a three month residency is now a year and a half because these projects take that long permitting with the city architectural renderings You know as community partners grow. We just got an email last week was like oh, we have 50 Conifer trees would you guys want them? We're like we were looking for you like six months ago when we wanted to install all these trees But to show that people are interested in this type of work and climate change is happening in real and I think as an arts Organization we want to be working a lot in that space and more in that space and open spaces. So I Think I'll leave it at that Thank you. I'm really Seeing the parallels that are coming out amongst the work that's represented here I'm in a shout-out to Detroit jit hardcore Detroit and strings from from their representing on a global scale We're really lucky to have a fellow here with us right now who's in residence Lately you've transformed maybe even preserved a historic space in Baku Turned it into salam cinema a radical creative community space Who is the space for what's programmed there and how do you make those decisions? So hi everyone Yeah Who is the space for I think like Depending on the different perspective the answers will be different if you ask some people then that space is for the marginalized The LGBTQI plus Etc. But for us is actually the space is for everyone and In the context also of a queer space we are also thinking about like how Inclusive our queerness Can be and what it means so for us is it's a radical inclusive space, but also a safe space and The inclusivity of it stops when our safety is under threat But It's space that welcomes artists and anyone who is willing to try itself in creative practice and We don't Operate throughout any forms of theories actually. I think we just do stuff and Sometimes we fail and then we do again and Sometimes if we feel like not doing then we stop and That's how we operate but of course we try also to Listen to what is needed and I guess our programming is based on listening and trying to answer to those needs If you feel like we need to elaborate further on a certain topic Then we decide to do on it for example now it's a global popular topic the topic of the colonization and I think like our practice is in general very the colonial also towards the institutions and Very critical and at the same time we we were like voicing it out constantly We're very critical of institutions. We're criticizing them. We are not an institute We're not implying to be but of course there is some kind of a Structure that is starting to build because we are a group of people and we're growing and we need to make some kind of structure and then it's also a constant reflection like what are we criticizing and why and Yeah, I think it's also Regarding the the colonial topic what I want to say also that it becomes also popular in Azerbaijan where the space is located but And we were very busy with that and then we see how the colonial topic is being used To give a space for almost like nationalist Discourse which we find very frightening and scary So now we're for example developing like how we can criticize that at the same time. This is how we are curating and programming as a form of reaction and listening and Trying yeah Just to pick up on something you said I'm in creating and facilitating spaces and experience that are relevant to specific communities or experiences What sort of negotiating do you have to do? What are the challenges that come with having to make that negotiation and what kind of support would be helpful? You don't have to answer all of those but if anyone wants to kind of jump into that I feel like one thing that comes up in a lot of our meetings is the trauma that Comes in to when you are dealing in spaces that are underserved so oftentimes they're really mad at the system and How to facilitate and so how to be a good facilitator and hear that person? And where they're coming from and just I think be a good listener And I think that's what a lot of us in this room are doing or we're listening. We're being observers And we're being sensitive to what those needs are so I think I Feel like that was the first thing that kind of came to my mind when you asked that question And yeah, like we don't always have the answer but we can listen and try Could you repeat the first part of the question because I What sort of negotiations are you making when creating these kinds of spaces? Yeah Yeah, because like I think when I heard the question the first time I think it was also about what we kind of Discussed earlier and something that you know, there is always like there are people that And you also said like radical I'm not sure what that means in general because like there is an understanding of radical Theory and then people call something radical when it's something radical. How is it radical and? Previously there was a talk about this independence and interdependence and I Don't I don't know if this is an answer in general, but I Feel like in for unfortunately in our context and It's very difficult to voice us out, but we have to make Very often to compromise this and we have to often think about like Where are we ready to take those compromises? because In our context to do something that is understood to be radical is not always It's never sustainable. It's never like a long-term thing. So we need to compromise our Existence sometimes To Negotiations or conversations or silencing Against our will So this is the first part of the question. We may be we can continue Thanks for this question. I'll answer it in terms of how I've navigated with access lab and working through the nonprofit Structure in many ways and thinking about funding right and we've been lucky enough to work with People from the Field Foundation tempest was there at the time who spoke earlier and then also crossroads Like they had a different kind of lens on on what it means to like offer funding in some ways And so it allowed us a way to like maneuver and navigate and redistribute funds to the community in ways that we felt Were grounded and aligned with our values and politics But that's not always the case right a lot of the times funding. It's like 30 million questions And they give you five hundred dollars right and then they want this like 30 page report And so it's like how does that actually Confine you and bind you to the creative opportunities and possibilities you could actually do and so part of the way We've navigated working as a nonprofit organization is like when using that status actually helps us and supports the kind Of work that we're doing but also how to maneuver in ways where sometimes it has to be like When we are volunteer run in some ways or where we're navigating more creative streams of funding how it gives us a different kind of mode of operating and doing things that actually Thinks about how we redistribute funds thinks about how we actually ground it in the voice of the community and Gives us the expansiveness to be experimental in ways that A report can't actually capture or quantify right And then with the Chicago torture Justice Memorial project it is you know It there's something to So the Chicago torture Justice Memorial projects actually part of the first reparations ordinance in the United States that addresses racially motivated police violence and Part of that reparations ordinance includes a memorial because you know There is so much that money, you know money is important to survivors need to be paid and And but that money can never do justice for the time that they were forced to serve in many ways And so what then does aesthetics and an art offer? as a mode of repair as a mode of justice as a mode of Cultivating a different world that continues to demand more on our systems that continue to take from us in many ways And so there is something to it being part of this reparation ordinance and making sure the city pays for it Making sure the city gives us land for it making sure the city actually follows through on their commitments And and so it's playing with in the different realms of work that I do It's really thinking about what can support this work and how and who we hold accountable to doing the work and and how to Navigate that in ways that At the end of the day can be liberatory right because sometimes people will hold the money like a carrot stick And so how do we make sure that we also push them as they're trying to push us or we pivot entirely? Can I also follow up question? I'm curious how you hold the city accountable and how you're able to Navigate and kind of move that Project Amazing it's it's it I came like later There were decades of organizers like I want to give shout-outs to the mothers whose sons were incarcerated Who fought for reparations the lawyers the organizers the activists folks who are part of project NIA BYP 100 we charge genocide like these amazing intergenerational black-led organizations that really pushed for reparations and then continue to push the city in different ways like Artistic interventions train takeovers like all these different things that are like you promised us Don't forget like and and it's really thinking about how to apply pressure in ways that isn't just about Pushing, but also how do we community build as we're doing that too like where we're We're resourcing and supporting our people and we are regrounding ourselves It makes me also think about power or energy and when that's with the people or when it's with like a city infrastructure For example, and what that means about the questions We're asking the permissions we may need or perceive to need and not existing in a binary But like how we go down that path that can often feel like it's not a straight line And when the decisions get made and ask people who have to make those decisions I'm interesting in continue to hear like when we decide a certain type of support is necessary and how we balance that Especially lately in your in your situation even just being in the space that you're in I think a way of the way we practice of Or have on learned or trying to learn at the same time is to take time as well There is a certain rhythm in the cultural industry of expectation of how time goes and how things how quickly things have to happen as well and And how fast you have to react to certain situations even What are these are like political situations and I think like one of the very actually recent Analysis that I've had is that maybe not to rush and to take to allow yourself to take the time to pull poles to press a pulse and Think about it together and Communicate together Listen to each other and evaluate it, but that's time and and I when I say time it's really Really taken a time to reflect on it and that not as a checkpoint of a quick meeting but So yeah, that that is something I would imply for yeah Do you do you want to describe the physical space you have to at the Salam our temple? Because I feel like we kind of glossed over that Yeah, I think maybe in the next slide you can see the space the picture of the building and I don't know if you can Next slide, but it is yeah next one. I think yeah It's actually very symbolic space because it's really located in the center Which is really like super gentrified at the moment and there is only like super luxury Places and they're also getting more and more expensive and then you have this Big building which was built in 1913 as a Malachan prayer house and Malachan's where was a Russian ethnic group that Was in exile from the Tsarist Russia because they would not Accept the Orthodox Church, so they were able to build this building So it was initially meant as a community space Which is very symbolic for us and as a form of resistance and then it became a radio station and now It's three stores of artist studios a cinema theater Sewing lab a huge garden where we plant so it's a it's a yeah multi interdisciplinary space and you own this building We do not own the building we are squatting the building with Electricity that is illegal with water that is illegal and Yeah, we have no registration no legal anything Except ourselves We only have a couple of minutes So I just wanted to see if any of you want to leave us with some parting thoughts or have a question that you want to leave people with Just two things one is I forgot to say this run show. I'll go Grant also helped us out with Mariela in the back and and also the name of the memorial is called breath form and freedom so kind of connecting to the earlier Talk on breath and really thinking about what shape this freedom take and and How do we give more life and offer more life through that space? I think one thing that I've talked a couple folks about is the type of engagement that we do and I'll say I'll leave if anyone's familiar with Adrienne Marie Brown an emergent strategy The one thing that we really focus on is Mild deep inch wide So really getting into the folks that you're talking to in the communities as long as you can and as many Conversations as you can rather than trying to cover as much land so And I would just say that I hope that we can continue to build these relationships because even just being a part of this conversation Has really helped me understand the work that's happening in different places Across the globe and how much we are really all connected and that we need to go mildly with our Relationships first in order to have the power that we're hoping to kind of have collectively as people Thank you you


Hey everyone Rob Greenfield here and over the next few days. I'm going to build a tiny house from tree To tiny house. Yes, that's right from cutting down the trees to milling the lumber to finishing a tiny house From scratch. I'm gonna walk you through the entire process and then I'm gonna move in This isn't just any tiny house though This tiny house is going to be fully off the grid and built completely out of wood Harvested on this property as well as second-hand materials right here from the farm So this is a tiny house that's designed to work within the land that it's being built on and not be a pain to the land So where is all of this happening? It's that L'oreuve des Gaia which means the dream of Mother Earth Here in southern France. So now it's time to build the tiny house Okay, so here we are at the wood saw now And this is where the tree that we cut down on the property actually turns into the lumber He bought this land about seven years ago and this has pine forests on it that have been Used for forestry for for decades now probably centuries and a lot of it was done in a very unsustainable way now he's transitioning this into Sustainable forestry and just moving it back into hopefully a native forest that is a place for Humans other species and the environment to thrive So he is working on managing it sustainably using this wood to build and then also it's his source of income and Behind me is his wood saw and this thing is incredible. This is the first time I've ever worked with a wood saw But he bought this for about $8,000 Prior because of his work as a forester and it's amazing what this could do in a community Imagine if a community had this they could come together and build their houses out of wood Locally harvested and it would pay for itself in no time creating jobs and opportunity and Working with the land rather than having things shipped and depending upon huge corporation. So we're gonna turn the tree Into the lumber with the trees right now right here is a larger one and this will make the bigger planks behind me he's working with about Closer to the size of the tree that we cut down today and then that's going to be used to make the posts for the floor So the larger tree for the planks Smaller trees are going to be used for basically like four by fours All of these are trees that were harvested from the land These have been Curing for about six months to a year so that they have the right level of moisture to be easier to work with So we have finished cutting again, a lot of stuff was cut prior to today, but almost everything here is stuff that we cut today and I want to show you the different things. So these wide almost like four by fours. These are for the foundation and then these are for the foundation as well and then These what we're calling planks are for the roof slash side and then These are the floorboards, which you can see are thicker. So all of these came from the different sizes of the trees and We started with the trees now. We've got the lumber and then it'll go from tree to tiny house Okay, so now we've got the wood milled and it's time to treat some of it So we're sanding and we're treating staining Just the flooring the reason is is we want nice smooth floors for walking on barefoot, you know preventing slivers But the rest of the house, we're not going to sand and we're not going to stain and the reason why is we're actually experimenting with a as natural as possible build here and Over time it might not last it's not going to last as long as if it was stained after the house is No longer something you can live in it's just returned back to the land whether it's wood breaking down in the forest or Turning it into firewood. So the idea is that we're designing it You know extremely naturally with the wood right on the land and the wood can go back to the land All right, our last step before finally building the tiny house is to take some of these planks and cut them into the right sizes for the flooring for the walls and we're using Basically a table saw or a skill saw and if you really wanted to you could do it with a hand saw, but we've got the tools All right, so we have the site now the first step is to create the foundation We're having a little bit harder of a time than plan that with that because The well, we're on a bigger slope than we had thought so we're having to raise it up But first up is to create the foundation level it then we're going to put on the floor Then we're going to create the frame then we're going to put on the sides and the roof And then the last step will be to put in the doors and windows So we've actually moved the foundation back a little bit so that we didn't have to put it up as high And one thing that I want to mention is on the bottom We're using Douglas fir, which is more resistant to rot and will last longer And then the rest of the housing is spruce so a little bit of Douglas fir on the bottom That's contact in the ground then the rest will be spruce so Got the foundation pretty much set and it's time to start moving upwards we just got this foundation set in Really just about an hour which for me was the part that I was the most worried about because I'm really bad at making things Level or even like angles like 90 degree angles. That's what I have a really hard time with So that went really really well. I'm right now. We're just putting these giant screws through and I should mention this is basically the one material that's not secondhand or from the forest These were bought new And this is pretty much the main cost, right? Yeah screws. That's the only cost. Yeah, and some gasoline Yeah for the chainsaw and the saw machine. How much gas do you think we burn? In total maybe about Five To eight liters. Okay, so like sixteen dollars about twenty dollars. Okay, so two get two gallons about You know less than twenty dollars of the gasoline some screws and then the rest was from the forest and stuff that was laying around in the barn, so It's looking pretty good All right, the foundation has done and we used about 18 of these and That's it wood 18 of these with the foundation and now we're putting on the flooring Which is pretty simple? We just have to line that up to make it even and then we'll have the flooring done All right, so we have the foundation set and I am pretty amazed it's basically two ingredients wood and screws and It's solid. It's feeling good. Yeah It's looking solid and that only took really probably two hours and Next step building it up So we're putting up the frame now and the frame is about as simple as can be Antoine said this is the simplest structure that he's really ever built and So the frame is just the four beams We have one up and we have one sitting here that's gonna go up right now and then in each of them There's about 16 screws These heavy-duty screws both at the top and then at the bottom so total for the frame We've got about 30 of these big screws And then the next step will be to put the planks right onto the frame and we're getting pretty close All right, so now we're putting up the walls, which is super simple. We're just taking these Planks that we that we cut with the machine and then we're just screwing them on with a couple of screws And they have an overlap and the overlap keeps the rain running down the side so moisture doesn't stay on there and That's it about as simple as can be. We're going for simple and natural We are putting in the last screws to have the sides and the roof done on the top. There's just a little overlap To keep the rain from coming in and now we just have to do the front All right, once we finished up the sides Then we went ahead and put on the front and the back and pretty much the same method It was just the overlap and making sure we had enough overlap to make sure that rain couldn't get in and it would Go down. The other thing that I didn't mention was the doors We have the door in the front and then door slash window in the back and we had to put in framing for that as well So just some really simple framing that Antoine put together in order for those to go in a little spot left up there to do And once we've done that we'll have built out to the entire house itself And still a little bit to do on the inside one thing that I do want to mention is that I did Lay things out in a specific order, but after everything there was a lot of back and forth We had to go back to the saw and cut a few New planks we ended up cutting the sizes of things many times throughout these couple of days Here is the very basic framing that we did in order to be able to put in the doors slash windows in the front and back And you can see the frame here just a very simple structure using the same wood from the trees right here on site So that is the inside of the house. The house is complete. It is quite small as you can see So there you have it from tree to tiny house That is the whole process of building this very simple tiny house Now I want to say that this is designed just to be used during the spring summer and fall Here in southern France and it's for woofers or volunteers who are learning organic farming here at L'Rev de Gaia So it's not designed as a year-round structure for one person or a few people to be living in and the key Is whatever you're building to design it for the use and the purposes that you have so I hope that this video has been helpful in Realizing how simple it can be to build a tiny house now in the next video I'm going to walk you through the rest of the processes that I did with the compost toilet And the compost bin and the outdoor shower in the kitchen I'll walk you through that in the next video and Give you a tour of this place as well if you got a lot out of this video then make sure you subscribe for more videos to come and Like and comment help this video get out there into the YouTube world I love you all very much, and I'll see you again real soon


As much as there's a lot, really a lot that I like from GNOME or ElementoryOS or other projects, one thing that I think Kitty leads in, of course a lot of people are going to disagree with that, but personally, personally, I think that Kitty has some of the nicest wallpapers that I've seen. Personally, I think that wallpapers is something that Kitty excelled at. One could rightfully ask, okay, but how does Kitty choose wallpapers? Are all wallpapers done by Kitty? So Kitty does actually have three different ways of choosing wallpapers, depending on the mood, basically, but let's actually go through them. So the first one is the most simplest one, and it's the one that actually got used by the majority of releases, and 5.24, as an example, has this wallpaper Honeywave, I think it's called, because it was done by Cambernet, which is one of the major wallpaper artists of Kitty, and almost all of the wallpapers in the 5.x line were done by him, and especially earlier on, and sometimes he's busy, rightfully so, rightfully so, and if you know the older Kitty wallpapers, like super beautiful, those are Cambernet, sometimes he's busy. So there are different ways that Kitty does get some wallpapers, and one of them is by doing contests. The last one was done by the 5.23 release, so the one just before this wallpaper, and it's really simple, like anybody can submit a wallpaper with certain rules, and then the wallpaper, the winner, is actually selected by a jury. So case number one, Cambernet provides a wallpaper, the wallpaper is automatically chosen as the wallpaper that we're going to use, because it's very good. If Cambernet isn't available, then we either case two, run a competition, and in this case the wallpaper is chosen by a jury. It's a jury of around five people, and the exact rules always depend on the competition. We've done two so far, if I remember correctly, and I mean, it's a competition, anybody can submit anything, and we do get a lot of super cool wallpapers. At the end, the prettiest one wins, there's even a prize, so that's useful, and the winner receives the prize, and the wallpaper is used as default in the next release of Kitty Plasma. In this case, usually everybody knows about the wallpaper that will be used before the release, because we do an announcement saying this guy or this girl won the tournament, the contest, so we are using his or her wallpaper. Fun fact, when I first joined KDE, I was like in the promotion group, and I did actually participate in one of the contests. If you go to the older contest, you actually get one of the submissions that is done by me. Nowadays, I'm like giving prizes, this is me, but back then I was actually doing wallpapers, hoping that my wallpapers were going to be showcased by default on Kitty Plasma. They weren't, but I'm still proud of myself. This one is, I think, one of my prettiest ones. Of course, it doesn't apply, thank you. Okay, funnily enough, if you select my wallpaper in particular, the default one gets selected for some reason, so sorry about that, but yeah, it's this one, and I don't know, I'm proud, it did not get selected, it did not win, I was very sad, but I'm proud. Okay, what else? The third thing we do often is we take all of the nice wallpapers that were done by all of the people that sent them to the competitions, and if Ken is busy, if he's not, we always take his wallpaper, but if he's busy, rightfully so, we actually get all together, we look at the wallpapers and we think, okay, what should be the right wallpaper to use? This is a discussion that actually happens publicly. Differently from the jewelry, the jewelry one is close to the public and it's just five people, in this case, open to the public and anybody can come in and give their opinions. So how does it work? Well, ideally, we would just talk about the best wallpapers and eventually agree on one, that doesn't quite work because wallpapers in general are something very subjective, and sometimes it's very hard to actually reach an agreement, so if we start discussing and we see after some discussion that it's not working, we're just saying, okay, I'd like that and somebody else, no, no, let's do that and we don't 10-20 agreement, then we start voting after a lot of discussion, we start voting. We did it the first time on September 6, 2020, this was the very first time we started voting for wallpapers, and now in theory, everybody with a fabricator account can actually vote, but the important thing about this kind of voting is that it's not binding, we are doing this just to pull between ourselves what we prefer the most as a community, we know each other, and of course, technically speaking, we could get like 500 comments from accounts that were created this very day, and if that happens, it's not like we have to count the results as final, if we see that the voting was somehow somewhat, it did not go as we thought was going to, one can just say, okay, no, let's actually ignore that and let's start discussing again, we can do that, it's not by any means binding, and fun fact, I was also a judge for wallpapers, so privately, and one thing we did for deciding the winner of the contest privately is voting, we actually voted the wallpapers, and when we saw the results, we saw the ranking, we had the first wallpapers, the first wallpaper that got the most votes, and we discussed, and we realized that that one wasn't going to work, so even though it was the highest rated between us judges, we actually decided to, on some other wallpaper, that maybe had less votes, but we agreed on more than the one that got first, so this voting, which we see here, is not binding by any means, I just love doing cool tables, I just keep doing all of the cool tables with the votes of everyone, it's me, so these are the three ways, we either get a campfire net wallpaper, we either do a contest with a closed jury, or we just discuss between ourselves and start some voting that's not actually binding just to get our opinion, and if we run out of wallpapers, we do a new contest, and that's mostly it, there's a whole another video I could do about how do we actually, what do we actually do after the wallpaper is chosen, like we say, okay this wallpaper is pretty, but how do we actually implement it in KD Plasma, it's not that easy, I wrote a python script to do that, and it's fairly complex, so I'm going to talk about that maybe, if you're interested, that's for today, this is it.


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Okay, our next speaker is Timo Savola who's going to talk to us about the gate project. So please give a warm welcome to Timo. Okay, thanks. So my name is Timo Savola and today I'm not here to solve any of your problems. My purpose is to give you a bunch of new ones because I'm presenting a new platform. So that usually isn't the end of problems. This is a project I've been working on for quite a long time on my spare time. And I think it's a high time that I get a lot of people about it and see what they think. So the concept of my project, I've titled Portable Execution State and that's a pretty like opaque title. And to put it short, it means that I'm supporting migration of live programs between various kinds of systems. So basically, like you can think of virtual machine migration, but, you know, like, between disilluminal systems with different CPU architectures and so on. And what you can do with that, the result of that is that you get a new kind of programming model. And the disclaimer I have to mention is that this sounds like a blockchain, nothing to do with blockchains this time. This is a high level illustration of what I'm talking about when I say that it changes the way you write or design software. So up there, the upper dashed line, dotted line is the new focus of program supported by gate. So traditionally, when you have a software installed on a computer, the code is immutable until you upgrade the pre-installed program. But you can freely exchange data with other systems. And that layer used to be the focus of indirection. For example, in this graphic, it's between application and data files where the complexity of external interfaces happens. And I'm trying to, like, remove that completely with this approach. And the remaining interface remains with the human interaction with the application. So what we can actually accomplish is a single file that contains both the application code and data. And both are equally dynamic and exchangeable and so on. Another way to look at it, or another use case for this, is in a network environment. So in a classic, like, request response, a networking model, you have a client which implements, for example, ACDP client. Then you have a server that implements the STPD. And then maybe in the server backend, you have actual functionality in addition to the network layer. So in my model, you are removing the network protocol incompatibility or compatibility problems. And performance problems from the shared, like standardization, specification area. Instead, what you are focused on is local APIs inside the server. So by moving your, when the client moves its own code to the server to act as the controller, we no longer have to bother about network protocols. Instead, we are just doing, like, IPCO local function calls inside the server. And that changes the dynamics of how you can, like, optimize. For example, if you have a large latency between the hosts, the model messaging pattern has to be designed in the specifications and so on. But now it's an internal client detail. They have to take an iterate. And also do a few round trips for the use case and so on. So it's a little bit like a GraphQL, but with actual programming. And that's just curing. And concrete stuff. So, like I said, this is, like, I've been working on this for my free time. So far, to my knowledge, this has no users outside of myself. And I've been playing with these ideas for a long, long time. And the latest prototype called GATE is pretty far along, technically quite advanced. But it needs, let's say, a community or something on top of it to actually be useful. So I'm hoping to get some interest from you people today here. And these are the foundations of GATE. WebAssembly is all the rage nowadays. And it's deservedly so. It's everything I dreamed of when I was, like, coming up with these ideas for this portable stuff. And the next thing you need is the runtime environment for WebAssembly. WebAssembly itself is, like, pretty secure, but only if the runtime implemented correctly. And the biggest difference between, let's say, other server-side WebAssembly runtimes and GATE is that I'm not actually implementing any of the sort of, like, Web APIs or even Vasi, which is a server-side interface because of this portability requirement. So I have to, like, provide custom APIs, unfortunately, for that. And those are accomplished by extension services. And I'll talk about those things later. So the headline feature is this portable snapshot and restore. And it doesn't require any support from the user programs running in GATE. And programs can be suspended at any time. They suspend immediately. Or if someone is trying to, like, work around that, it might not be immediate, but it will be pretty fast as well, so that is built into the design. The program format is WebAssembly. And I'm also building on that for the snapshot format. So WebAssembly allows custom sections in the binary file. So I'm adding GATE-specific sections there. And if you are wondering what that would look like, if I load it to, let's say, Chrome, Chrome would just see a no-operation binary file without any entry points. So it could actually inspect it, but not actually run anything in it because that would require GATE-specific features. One special type of snapshot program is one that has finished. Its entry function has returned. And those are almost like normal WebAssembly programs that come out of a compiler with the exception that it's actually representing the final state of the function call that returned. So you could, like, repeatedly execute the program by making repeated entry function calls in the same state. And those actually could probably pretty easily be loaded into, let's say, Web Browser by adding a lot of GATE-specific APIs there. And the internals, because I'm primarily intending to use this on the server side, and I like go on the server side, so I implemented this GATE with that in mind. And part of this effort was a custom WebAssembly compiler implemented in Go. And to my knowledge, it's the only WebAssembly compiler implemented in Go. So if you are interested in that, it's a standalone project, although it features a GATE toward GATE. And this secure, safe, untrusted code execution requires all kinds of tricks and Linux-specific namespacing and whatnot. So there's C in there, and the runtime, maybe, functions are in platform assembly. And the two most important CPU architectures are currently supported explicitly by the WebAssembly compiler and then the GATE runtime. So x86 and ARM 64-bit variants. And I also ported this runtime to Android. It required some tweaks, but I have a working proof of concept. So basically, the same data features are quite similar to normal WebAssembly runtimes. They are defined by the logical sandbox of WebAssembly. And then the, let's say, hardening feature on the outside are like container runtimes. But there are some distinct stuff. So many, let's say, fast WebAssembly solutions out there try to get high density by doing isolation in process for many customers. But GATE is conservative on using one process for its invocation, for safety. And also, unlike containers, GATE is not containing anything. It's an empty container. Just does all the Linux namespace stuff, cleans out all the modes, all files, everything, and smuggles the binary in a file descriptor in there and just runs that one process in the isolation, not the container. And because of that, every exchange between the service APIs has to go through pipe socket. And that has a really nice feature. It has overhead, but the nice feature is that I can actually employ a second filter that is not much longer than the original strict checkup mode. I couldn't make that work. I had to pull and protect and close in there as well. But I think that's quite much shorter than, for example, something you would need a bit docker in a typical scenario. So I'm pretty happy with that. OK, services are like extensions. You can implement any go or with a go wrapper and some other language. Internally, GATE implements only two services, catalog and origin. I have this proof of concept localhost thing that you can use to migrate legacy request response thing to use GATE. And a few other experimental ones that aren't listed, then probably not going to be there for long. And the services, unlike user programs, have to deal with serialization. So it's a complex thing compared to, like, say, a trivial implementation of that feature in other settings. Oh, the next focus in development is try to enable service that enables user programs to communicate with each other, which is one of the points of interest for me. And on the other side, a user program, ABI is unfortunately, because of the portable scenario, we cannot just expose the Linux, and whatever. GATE does support, like I said before, but only through stubs and with the minimum functionality required to do the GATE specific stuff to the pipes. And it's an asynchronous programming model because of that IPC messaging. And currently, the best way is to use CLang and C++. But I would hope that soon I can say that the ideal thing is to use Go or Rust. So let's have a small amount of time to do a demo. Let's spray the demo goods. What I'm going to do, because every platform needs a DOOM port, so I'm first going to run DOOM port to GATE on my X86 laptop, like this. There's a WebAssembly DOOM, and I'm piping it in the data file. And there it is. And we can play some DOOM. Next, what we are going to do is send a secret to suspend it. So there's the, well, whatever. It's an instance ID. And with that, we can create a snapshot of the state. Now it's in the snapshot of the Wasserman. There's the Shah of the content. Let's see if the network works. Let's copy it with SSH to my RM64 machine in the clouds. And the network worked. Let's go there. Let's see that it's actually ARM. It's AR64. Yeah, it's ARM. And now that the file is there, we can run it with GATE. And it's using X4 wedding to run it. So it starts from the same position of the game that we used. Now, because of X4 wedding, it's really slow to update the screen. But here, you can see that it's actually running just fine. And I have one minute to, okay, let's quit the game. One minute to show the details of the snapshot. I'm now using GATE's debugging features to show the backtrace of the point of suspension. And you can see that, never mind the Linux DOOM, it's the open source release of DOOM. It's not the directory name. So it's then suspended it to get package function. And there are some stack variables there. And finally, we can look at the snapshot file. You can see that there's a bunch of standard representative sections, and then this GATE. Whatever custom sections that contain the stack state, IO buffers, service state buffers, and dwarf debugging info that comes with from C-Lang and so on. So thank you. That was it.


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First question? Mmmmm, ui nitu aka si pool, alikwa mese mati kazi a MPs, niku katuku kwa Red Sun Blue, na wa support youth. Only have to say about that, like, muna katuku muna kunya chai na ham-support kadi pool. What does he do? Ani zema kazi a MPs, niku katuku kwa moteri liku wajdayo, Oh that guy! Ah, now I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've been out of the entertainment scene for long. So, Alisema, Aliko MP lini aka fanyayo kazi. Atyani kwa wawaraisi? Ame sema, ako na kandani. Oh, maybe kama konayo, I don't know, but since it's never been an MP, so you might not be able to know what we do. So, lakini kama ya na jua my MP yukanae uko, labda atuambini akinadani yukanae, kama shahona nani, aki kanae uko wakitulia radisom blue. Ikan kama and say names that niliwa na moshi muwa jalanga meka radisom blue, jalango alikwa na kunywa chai, evot. Tuwe kupa? Yes, bro. I'm happy to see you. Umeskia, te? E kofiti? Oh, let me do this interview. So, mueshimiwa, kamere kopale. Mueshimiwa, watwa your thoughts about the show? What was your epic moment? Of course, yes, being the first time, the courage first to just decide to put up this event. Forget about the show, the courage to put it out. Just the courage, yes. That's already a win, yes. Ki take out. Ki take out. What's your take home menu? What was your take home? Bien was big. Avenger was big. Aaron was big for me also, yeah. Then he was also big. He was also big? Yes, that's... I think Na'hazodan himself. What do you think the impact is for the industry, considering also from entertainment? Of course, now it's time for other people to also start thinking, taking the next pace. Oh, yes. My next show, I think I'm waiting for Flacco also. This is a challenge to all of them. Serious challenge for the market, eh? Yes. I mean, bibi amulamua kishazapia amulamua pande stage, yes. A kuna kuni ni, usidandia mutumingini, now it's your own show. Wisha maneno. Terrence did his part in Jogusha's Dan. Abel did. Nice. Serious amulamua jipangie, Waiwai a jipangie, Flacco a jipangie. We want shows like this almost once every month. Specials like this are nice. Shukran. Wabi kido wei, mi ni kuhodi betiku SPM. Wabi kido, kido. Kido kujia kaziako. One of the things that comes out really nicely is the fact that you need a team, a team to make sure that things work out. Kenas made sure that he has a whole team around him to make sure that things work out. And also you need support from all other people to just make sure that it works out. Yes. And also we've seen so many comedians here on Mekuja Kusapotkana. I'm great. I miss him when I was on Mekuja Kusapotkana. Mekuja Kusapotkana. Mekuja Kusapotkana. This is what we used to do. To expect Shuiwa Kulini. Ume se makilam tuhaike Shuiwa Kusapotkana. Mimi Shuiwa Kusini nendelega dei. I'm a wuni kumtanda hoshu nendelega dei. No, for now I don't think I'll be able to get back on stage any time soon. I can't keep up with what the new generation is doing. But they're opening a new space for so many other people. Wachawachanga miki. Yes, I'm in a new space and that's what I love doing. Okay. You've been unwell. How are you doing right now? 20% to total illness. I thank God I can now walk without the crutches. I had a bad surgery. You know, people thought it was... You see this? The whole of this is surgery going all the way up. All the way up. So it was not a joke. Yeah, so that's why I'm noting Rwanda for the Iyala games. But the Kenyan team is doing well. And we thank God. And also maybe to the upcoming comedians. We'll have to take care of that. We'll have to send a message to them. We'll ask them what they started from somewhere. Right now, what are the issues? Of course, nobody is going to hold your hand. It's what you do for yourself. We'll change everything for you. Don't expect anybody to hold your hand. So if somebody holds your hand, you're lucky. But the truth is it needs courage for you to take a stage and show people what you can do. Yes. Kikambotu koto mezoya. Onengia churchi live. Five minutes. Watu nafraia. Ten minutes. Watu nafraia. But now you have two hours to show us what you can do. That's why you see even Kenyan had to put a good team to make sure that they come up with this beautiful show. Yes. Lastly maybe a word to you of us. Merry Christmas message as well. Merry Christmas and happy new year. 2823 has been a beautiful year. And with that, the 23rd season, comes to an end. Merry Christmas and happy new year. Bye guys. Mbuzi nikila paali. Kwae we kamauna mbuzi kujalangara tu kule mbuzi. Suli ora tumiazak patiana Christmas gifts. So we want to do it throughout all the old wards to all our women who are not able to buy Christmas for themselves. We are making sure that we get Christmas for everyone. This is a time to celebrate, come out and let's enjoy. What do you wanna ask? Ito kasi pul. Ali kwa mese mati kasi ya MPs niku katu kwa Red Sun Blue. Na wa support youth only have to say about that. Like muna katu kwa muna kunya chahi na ham support kasi pul. What does he do? Ali se mawa kasi ya MPs niku katu kwa maote li kwa nise na. Oh that guy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've been out of the entertainment scene for long. So Ali se mawa? Ali kwa MP li ni ya kafanyayo kazi. Atia ni tawawa rice. Maybe kama konayo I don't know but since it's never been an MP so he might not be able to know what we do. So lakin ni kama ya na jua ma MP yukana e uko labda atu ambi ni akina na ni yukana e ama shahuna na ni hika na e uko wakitulia radison blue. He can come and say names that ni liwa na moshimuwa jalanga me kara radison blue jalanga li kwa na kunya chahi evot. Alright maybe moshimuwa just sorry to ask you. Your good friends few creatives about muheza kwa mentor in the creative industry. I'm in the creative space. I'm talking about butita and jugush. He's excellence. Now saywa kwa na taito lukilogo ojw you as a brother are cemented to them. How do you say something about it? It's such a big thing that happened to even have artists recognized on one of the biggest stage. Awinja is now ojw order the green warrior. It's amazing. For a very long time we didn't have people who could recognize what artists do. So when the president decided that you know what the creative industry can be recognized then that was big. So yes I'm also waiting one day maybe I'll be HSC or OGW but na joha me pata kabula sija pata so like we always say club for the others until your time comes. Yes. How has this beer in especially as but I mean you first allowed both positively and negatively. How has it been? Wow it's been challenging. First when I decided to work with the president people thought I betrayed my party and everything but the truth is we only have one president that is William Samoeruto. And now working and supporting what the government is doing was the only thing we could do because the people want services and this is the government they elected and 2023 has been a beautiful one because it's been challenges learning through everything holding here everything sometimes you think is crumbling down but you know me my name is Hevi J. Babalangata Wan we never give up so 2024 will even be better always accept challenges that come in your life. Maybe it's being about working with the president we saw people throw stones at you saying that you're a one time MP maybe after the five years what is the problem by being one time what's the problem being one time I've been one time in so many places so I don't depend on people I depend on God it's God who gives leadership God is the one who gives positions one time or one month life goes on will your life stop but let me tell you you're looking for the MP of Langata for the next 10 years yes after that we'll consider other things and your friend your friend Marwa is expecting you I'm going to the village from 20th all the way to the 15th of January so I will make sure that I visit Marwa yes it's a very good Marwa keep on doing what you're doing make the party longer but when I get there there will be a party because I'm the head of the party because your friend Tumbili he was supposed to come here oh Tumbili Tumbili apone aroo di kazi na uda kuna fake life kuna mambu ingine thank you guys so much thank you for your time you guys are the best


All right, sorry about that, y'all. OBS froze. All right, we're back. Like I said, sorry about that, OBS froze. Gonna give it another minute for everyone to hop back in here again. OBS froze, so I had to restart. Had to restart it. All right, looks like we got quite a bit back in here. All right, we got Ryan R with an NT baseball. Good luck, Ryan. Here we go. What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenzie. Sports cards, and I'm ripping a personal for Ryan R. We've got a 2022 Panini National Treasures Baseball Hobby Box. All right, good luck, Ryan. Here we go. We have that last week, Gate Chicken Cordon Bleu. Oh, no, I think I might just season it and throw it in the oven. I don't wanna have to go to the grocery store for anything. I would do like stuffed chicken or something, but I don't even have mozzarella cheese or anything. Oh, I love shake and bake. I usually do that with pork chops. I realized that would be a good idea to use it with chicken, too. I'll have to try that. It's a good idea, Donald. All right, yeah, me too. Bobbi Abreu, 23 of 49. My fiance is not the biggest pork fan, so he doesn't really like pork chops, but I definitely need to try that with chicken. That sounds delicious. My pork ear. Colossal William Conchiris, 83 of 99. I don't mind it.  Two of two, partial laundry tag patch. Charlie Blackman. Nice one there, Ryan. That's sick. Two of two. Now we've got Patch Auto, a little butter. Riley Adams, 15 of 25. Three color patch. Dye cut material signatures. Got Century Auto, 13 of 99. Ezekiel Doran. Ezekiel Doran. And we've got Acetate Auto of Logan Webb. Giants, Logan Webb. Got a one of one giant patch. Printing plate, Louise Heal. Nice. The rookie one of one printing plate. It's a little bit of damage on it. It looks like it's like dented in a little bit. You can see there, down on this side. We'll get this magged up and we will send a box with you, Ryan. Let me get these things back on. Send the box with you. Nice one here, Rookie Auto. We've got 47 of 99. O'Neill Cruz. O'Neill Cruz, 47 of 99. Save the booklet for last. We've got 39 of 99. Jose Ciri for the Astros. Elle Rail. Elle Rail, is that what that is? I like the lightning strikes on the side. That's sick. 39 of 99. And we've got legendary materials. And Elston Howard, 42 of 49. Elston Howard. Yankees. Legendary materials. Game worn, used material. That's sick. Alrighty, that will do it for your box there, Ryan. Congrats again. We'll get this right out to you. That's sick. First ever black MVP. That's awesome. Nice little piece of history then. Alrighty, up next we've got Justin H. Two F1 Sapphire boxes. What's up, T-Po? How's it going? Half of this, I'm gonna have to go grab the last couple of personal that are in queue. Alright, Justin. How many words can you type in? I don't know, Donald. It's been a minute since I've done any of those. I can type pretty darn fast, though. Birthday break, alright, Justin. Here we go, good luck. What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenzie here from Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping a personal for Justin H. Birthday rip here for you, Justin. Happy birthday. We've got two 2022 tops, Formula One, Chrome Sapphire boxes. Alright, here we go. Good luck. Have a crash of time. Haven't pulled one yet. Lowest number that we've pulled so far is a purple. That is number to 10. We haven't seen red either. I'm sure Justin would take either of those. Or how about a photo variation? Good luck. We got gold in the first pack. Let's go. Fernando Alonso. We've got Future Stars, Marcus Armstrong. Gold, F2 for Trident, a Richard Borshore on the Future Stars. Gold out of the first pack, 17 of 50. Here we go. We've got a Bolubasi, Nassani Future Stars, Kevin Magnuson, and Sergio Perez, driver of the day. Again, every single one of these will be screened and top-loaded for you, Justin. Lance Stroll. We've got the Chartreuse of Joe Guanyu, rookie. Nice, nine of one, 99. Joe Guanyu, Yuki Sonoda, and Max Verstappen, Grand Prix winner. Bonito, we have, nice. A Sebastian Vettel on the Sepio, one, or sorry, 45 of 100. Sebastian Vettel. Let's see, does not have a photo variation. This looks like it could be one. There's so many with the photos that definitely, that gets a photo variation. Beautiful looking card there. George Russell and Charles Leclerc. Great box so far. Gold in Sepio. Got Max Verstappen, a Aqua of Daniel Riccardo from McLaren. That is 40 of 99. Got another Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. Vettel, Sergio Perez, Vesti Future Stars, and Daniel Riccardo, driver of the day. Joe Guanyu, rookie. Got another Chartreuse of Joe Guanyu. Wow, 71 of 199. Two Joe Guanyu, rookie Chartreuses. Is that a word? Chartreuses, Magnuson and Orlando Norris. Last pack of your first box. Logan Sargent, Charles Leclerc. Yuki Sonoda and Max Verstappen, Grand Prix winner. Very solid box there. All right, box two. Two. Esteban O'Conn. Got gold already. Lance Stroll. Fernando Alonso of Atheo Pusher for ART Grand Prix on the gold. That is 34 of 50. Nice. Now let's see a one on one. Verstappen, Yuki, a Yuki, and Riccardo. Back to back Yuki's. Just not have a image variation. Just two different cards there. Got Joe Guanyu, rookie. We've got Chartreuse of Red Bull on the fastest pit stop award of 199. 106 of 199. Lance Stroll and Accordial. Got Logan Sargent, Future Stars. Charles Leclerc. Future Stars Daruvala and Sebastian Vettel, driver of the day. Yuki. All right, Fernando Alonso. We've got Aqua of Nicholas Latifi, 21 of 99. Nicholas Latifi. Future Stars, Marcus Armstrong and Fernando Alonso, driver of the day. Bossy, Nassani, Future Stars. Kevin Magnuson and Sergio Perez, driver of the day. Lance Stroll, we've got Chartreuse.  See, box is in a row. We've got Chartreuse of the same card. That's cool. Nice hit though. Yuki Sonoda and Verstappen on the Grand Prix winner. Last pack here for you, Justin. Thanks again for hopping in. We've got Bonito. We've got Sepia of Fernando Alonso, 32 of 100. Fernando Alonso. What does Sepia look? George Russell and A. Charles Leclerc. All right, Justin, that will do it for your boxes. Congrats again on those hits and happy birthday. Thanks for hopping in. We'll get these right out to you. There we go. Solid boxes there for you, Justin. Thanks for spending your birthday with us. Hope you have a great day. Of course, Justin. Thank you. I'll refresh what I need here. Prism, T-Mall, Chrome Black Baseball. We need a Bowman Chrome. We need two more Sapphire. That's one. All right, give me just a few minutes. I'll be right back, and we will continue ripping, everybody. Thank you. Boom, that's so sick. Oh my God. Green! Another one. We've got Skymore One going to Mo-M with the Chief. Congrats, buddy. Rookie excellence, one of one. All right, guys, we have a big card here. We have a big card here. Letter plus auto relic book card. Oh my God. One of one, David Ortiz. Kaboom! Red Sox with a monster booklet hit. Come on, man.  Jonathan Cue, Red Sox, White Whale. David Ortiz. Silver Slugger, Triple Patch Auto. Printing plate, one of one. About 10 of 10, Shohei Otani. Massive hit right there, buddy. Let's go. That's so sick. That'll go straight into a mag. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Oh, that is a, that's a Luca Succi image variation. Orange Rookie, five of 25, big card. Wow, I've never pulled, I haven't pulled one of these yet. The variations are sick. That Tampa Bay now. That's not, oh, we got one already. Yeah, that's sick. Let's go. I am so jealous of that. Jackie Robinson, Corbin Burns. There you go. First one of the day, one of one, Craig Abigio. Careful of time right there. Yeah, literally. That is so sick. That's those 2000s Astros jerseys too. Wow, who's got Houston? Congrats, H-Town. Orange Refractor and a gold wave. F1 racer, rookie, Joe Guan Yu. That's really nice. These inserts are really cool. Love the color on that. That's sick. Current Reds. Oh, there's one current. But Red Sox legends here going back to Regina. Triple Auto, four out of, and Raffi Devers. Wow, sick. And Grimes Rookie. And, not expecting that. Steph Curry. Jersey number. Holy cow, there's the 30. I saw the Warriors, and I was like, oh, Kaminga Armoody. That'll be cool. Nope. No, sir. Not at all. We'll get that magged up for you. Hang up, of course. Shohei Otani, triple patch, two of three. Angels, very nice. 8RBI, 13K.  Cody Bellinger, boom, NL West. There's one there, that nasty patch on that thing. And TikTok, oh, we got our first box. That is a goal. Wow, that is so sick. Oh my god. Green. Another one. We've got Skymore, one of the chiefs. Congrats, buddy. Rookie excellence, one of one. All right, guys, we have a big card here. We have a big card here. Letter plus auto relic book card. Oh my god. One of one, David Ortiz. Kaboom. Red Sox with a monster booklet hit. Come on, man.  Jonathan Cue, Red Sox, White Whale, David Ortiz. Silver Slugger, triple patch auto, printing plate, one of one. All right, we've got Ryan B up first. Bowen Chrome. And it's cold in here. Guys, it's a little chilly. It's a little colder out there. All right, here we go. What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenty here from Layton Sports Cards. And I'm ripping a personal for Ryan B. We've got a 2022 Bowen Chrome baseball hobby. Good luck, Ryan. Thanks for your patience, for your order. We're on fire with oranges out of here earlier. Let's see what we get you an orange out of one box. What was that five game suspension for? Do you remember? What was between them and the Pistons? No, there was another fight. Obama got in a fight with Austin Rivers. There's five people who got suspended. Look at why they keep fighting. Stupid, that's why. I'll call them Dana White. Come to Orlando. Marcella Meyer came to the lead. They ran, oh hop, De Los Santos, Colas. Tap here. We've got 39 of 150 AFL Relic Card of Ryan Velaide. Nice, it's a thick card, too. Nice Rockies, pinstripe there. Juan, Christian Yellowitch. We've got Rookie, Luis Hill on the yellow. Yankees, 49 and 75, Weimar and Donson. Melendez, we have a Brandol Mesquita. 112 of 499, Brandol Mesquita. Malfoy, Ramos and Vasquez. Torque, Crookie Base. Andrew Painter, Refractor, Alvarez and Carson Williams. All right, second mini box here for one more auto. We've got Shimmer of Leover Paguerro. So, Meyer, Akoska, Ashby, India, Yolver at Sanchez, Refractor. I don't believe we have any in stock for personal, but I know Matt was having some group breaks of those. I believe Samara. Wander, Franco, Shades of Greatness, Refractor. A little bit of an indent on the bottom. You can kind of see it right there. I'll send the mini box here with you on that one. Mercedes and the Andrade. I can look in a second here for you, Gritty. Arias, Boba Chet, what do we have here? We've got a Bowles Cazaar for the Reds. 30 of 75 on the yellow gold Superfractor looking car. First time it got me, because I only saw this side of it. It looked like a Superfractor. I was like, no way. Machado, Rosarino. We've got Ian Lewis on the first Voman oil. Marlins, Marte and Fernandez. Last pack here. Shades of Greatness, James Wood. Invicta of Jose Ramos, Christian Hernandez and Jose Rodriguez. Alrighty, Ryan. That will do it for your box of Bowman Chrome. Thanks so much for hopping in and for your patience. We'll get this right out to you. Let me see. Break schedule, Matt. Breaks. Yes, he's got some going tomorrow. His first one's at 12.50. It's Penini Prism at 2022 and 21. Penini Prism Collegiate Draft Picks Baseball Hobby 4 Box Mixer, 20 bucks. A spot on that, nice. Here is the link for crypto if you would like to take spot. That is a random team style break. Let me upload that. Ryan B. Yeah, of course, Gritty. Let me know if you have any other questions. All right, up next we've got Luke. Here's some team of football and Chrome Black. Here we go. What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenzie here from Layton Sports Cards and I'm ripping a personal for Luke S. We've got a 2021 Penini Prism Football Team All Box as well as a 2022 Tops Chrome Black Baseball. I'm gonna start with the Tops Chrome Black. Good luck, Luke. Here we go. Up first, we've got Marcus Semia, Ryan Mountcastle and a Refractor of Corey Seeger. This is 56 of 199. Chloe Seeger, Rangers. And the encase card. That Refractor of Carlos Delgado, 38 of 150. Carlos Delgado, 150. Team All Time. Good luck. One exclusive base for a rookie prism red and yellow. Number two, 39 or less. All right, we've got Chris Jones. And Young Hoku, Elijah Moore. I think we got an auto. Nice, set that there. Silver rookie of Jamar Jefferson.  That's gonna be 28 of 39. Little color match there. Cardinals. And then, see what we have here. Autograph Guarantee by Penina, Penina Chargers. We've got to 49, a Linvol Joseph on the Green Scope Sensational Signatures. Linvol Joseph Chargers. Looks like a line in there. There you go, nice. Again, autos are not guaranteed, so there you go. Alrighty, Luke, that will do it for your boxes. Congrats on those hits. Thanks so much as always for hopping in and we'll get them right out to you. What's up, Luke? Doing great, doing great. Yes, I had a baby girl. Little baby girl. Nice little box for Liz S. All right, we've got one more personal in queue. And that is for Chris S. Top preschool for 15 years. Oh, wow, nice. Yeah, before working here as a special ed teacher. For our severe profound disabilities. Three, two, two, six. I did that for about four years before I left to come work here. Aw, thank you, Luke. I appreciate that, thank you. All right, two. All right, here we go. Last personal of the day, y'all. Good luck here, Chris. What's up, everyone, it's your girl, Kenzie. Here from Layton Sports Guards and I'm ripping a personal for Chris S. We've got two 2022 tops for me, one Chrome Sapphire Hobby Boxes. Best of luck, Chris. Thanks so much for your order. Let's see what we can get you. Good luck. Hope everyone had a great time watching this this morning. I appreciate all the support. Future Stars of Amari Cordial. Got Sher Truse. Future Stars, Liam Lawson on the F2 racer, 98 of 199. Charles Leclerc and Kevin Magnuson. All of these will get sleeve in the top loaded, by the way. Good person. Wow, that's awesome look. Lando Norris. We've got Sepia Rookie Joke Wanyu, seven of 100. Nice hit, Chris. We'll get this in a mag for you. First Joe, Sepia that I've seen. Daniel Ricardo and Theo Poucher, very nice. Short print max, says Greg. No pressure. Poucher, we've got a Aqua Joke Wanyu Rookie. What is going on? 36 of 99. Back to back packs with some big Joes. There you go, Chris. We'll mag this one too for you. Wow, one box. Toto Wolf and Piaustrie, that's crazy. McShumacher, Lewis Hamilton for Sure Future Stars and Kimmy Rickonin. Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure. Those parents don't play. Got Lewis Hamilton, we've got Orange. I haven't seen Orange in a while. Vettel, sorry. We've got Dennis Hougar Future Stars. What a box this is. Orange, Aston Martin, a Mike Crack on the principle. That is three of 25. Nice orange. Yeah, that's a big card, Chandler. A Joe Red out of five. Absolutely. We've got Nassani Albon, Magnuson and Sergio Perez. He's technically the only rookie in this year's F1 stuff. Three cards in it. That's kind of weird. Chartreuse Future Stars, Liam Lawson, 92 of 199. Botas and Lewis Hamilton. Hold on, let me see how Botas real quick. 42. Nope, not a. Number 42 is a photo variation. I look like it could be. This one has two cards. That's really weird. Can you give me a favor and count how many cards you have there? Box for Stappin' and Zaffner. We're going to count the cards real quick because there was a couple packs that only had like two and three cards because if you're short, I want to make sure we send you a box. There was only 28 cards in that box. That was the whole box. All right, we're going to send this box with you because there was only 28 cards in there and it says on the box that there's 32 cards a box. That's the first time I've seen that. We've ripped like two cases of this so far. That's weird. I wonder because of the bigger hits, but I don't know, we're going to send a box regardless with you. I'm there, Chris. All right. Box number two. And I haven't seen South Park in so long. All right, box two here. We've got Lewis Hamilton. We've got chartreuse of Carlos Sines, 150 of 199 Carlos Sines. I appreciate that Arizona. Botox and Verstappen Grand Prix winner. I appreciate you having, I appreciate you stopping by, you know, hanging out with me today. We've got Charles Leclerc, Future Shars of Ralph Beauchamp, Max Verstappen, I believe this is a photo variation, no? This feels like it's a variation. I've not seen this photo of Verstappen. It says it's card four. One, two, and three are on the checklist. Hmm. We're going to mag this just in case, but I have not seen a Verstappen like this yet. According to the checklist, only cards one, two, and three are short prints or image variation, sorry. But I'm going to mag that just in case. If anything, you've got a free magged card. Seidel. These can be so tricky. Yeah. Cause I mean like in the base and the regular ones, if it doesn't have refractor on the back, it's a variation. But these are all sapphire, so there's no refractors here. Um, you know, I mean Max Verstappen gold coming up here, Sebastian Vettel, we've got Sato, Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton, gold, grand free winner. There you go, Chris. 45 of 50 on the gold Hamilton. Heck yeah. We'll mag that one for you too. Making Dylan work over here today. Have a good day, Donald. Thanks for stopping in as always. Good luck on my chicken. I'm going to try. I guess we'll find out if it's any good next weekend when I see you, huh? Got Lewis Hamilton. We've got Sepia of Joss Capito for Williams Racing, 78 out of 100. Wait, Sepia there. Sergio Perez and Alexander Alban. And you've got four magged cards in two boxes. Uh, Mick Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton. I'm going to set that aside. That might be a photo variation too. LeClaire and Schumacher. It says card five on the variation. Why are you doing this to me on the last person all of the day? Hold on, let me pull up the, I'm going to set that right there for you. I'm going to set that right there for a second. We've got Botas, Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz and Sato. Looks like one, but then again, it's like... So I know Lewis Hamilton's variations. He's like holding a flag. We've pulled many of them before. Bochang. We've got black and white. Katelyn Williams. That is 10 of 15. Nice. These are hard pulls too. I think I've only pulled one other black and white so far. Katelyn Williams for Trident. And the F2 racer to 15. We'll mag that one too. Pierre Gasly and Vershore. We've got Dennis Hauger. Esteban O'Conn. Latifi and Max Verstappen. Give me one second here to look at this. I want to make sure we're looking at it before we end the live here. Variation, Gallery and Guide. Face, face, face. Four. Okay, see, look. This is a variation then, right? This is the same card. Hand up. It looks like it. Okay. I do believe this is a variation, Chris. I'm looking at the guide. And card five. But this... Oh, that is card five. Yeah, this is a variation. In card four, he's holding the flag. Card five, he's got his hand up like this. So this is a image variation.   How many mags do you have for two boxes? Let's do a quick refresh here. Vershstappen. I can check this one too. Yeah, I'm looking at it now. I don't think it is either. But we already have it in a mag. So that's fine. We're not going to take it out. We've got a Kailin Williams on the black and white. A ton of 15. Then we had the Jo Guan Yu Sepia rookie. Along with a Jo Guan Yu Aqua rookie to 99. And then we had the Gold Lewis Hamilton to 50. Along with the Hamilton image variation as well. Wow. What a two box break to end the daytime. Alrighty. That'll do it for you, Chris. Congrats on all those hits. And we'll get these right out to you. Wow. 2252 F1 Chrome Sapphire as Chris S. Let me just do a quick refresh. That was the last one that we had in queue. So that will do it for daytime personal. That's all that's in queue. Forced will be live here starting at 4pm Eastern.  Let me go ahead and click on him real quick. The Sunday Funday football mixer is down to 19 spots left. So he's going to start off with some upper deck artifacts, hobby hobbies. Those are 10 box case break random team. He's got some still left in stock. Some spots left. 49 bucks a spot there. Sam will be live on drip starting at 5. So you can download the app, the drip app, or go to dripshop.live for more personals tonight. There won't be any personals here on the main channel tonight. Just over on drip with Sam. And then he's got, let's see, some Gilden Collection and Finest Mixers. A Sunday evening MLB high end 30 box baseball mixer, Bonanza 10 left in that. This is a crazy baseball break. If you're a baseball fan and this is in your budget, definitely check it out. 10 to go in high end baseball mixer. There is the link for that. That's got six boxes of Gilded Collection. People have been going nuts for that. Absolutely beautiful product. 2020 and 2022 Diamond Icons. Definitive 2022 Flawless, Sterling, Bowman Sapphire. Got a 2025 star, 2022 five star 21 tribute. Got a 2019 National Treasures hobby, as well as a 22 NT and 22 NT photo. 2018 Bowman Chrome. 2020 tops Chrome. 2022 iMac first off the line and more. That's crazy. Absolutely monster high end mixer there. So definitely check that out. And he's going to get into some basketball. He's got Mosaic, half case breaks, random team, iMac Mosaic mixer, collegiate football, Flawless. Nice. You haven't seen any of that in a while. Only five left there. 80 bucks a spot in that. That's going to be left side serial numbers. A couple of mixers. And then the Sunday Funday NFL Pro Bowl 20 box Flawless Treasures football mixer. So that will do it for his breaks. Got a ton of nice ones up. So definitely check those out. And then again, Sam will be live on drip starting at five. Thanks again, everyone. Have a fantastic rest of your weekend, your Sunday. And I will see you guys back tomorrow night. Have a great one. Thanks everybody.


My name is Karen Davis. I'm from Duke Falls. I was born and raised here. I was raised here in Duke Falls. My father was a triple logger. My great-grandfather was a timber-fowler for Medco. And my grandfather drove the four-spot shea for Medco. So logging has always been a part of our life. My dad and my mom both worked in the woods. My mother rode and drove the cat. My dad fell the timber and he drove the logging truck. And us kids spend a lot of time working in the woods. We always worked in the woods. So that's how I grew up. And that's what I did. I went working in the woods. How old were you when you first went into the woods? 17. That's pretty young. Yeah. Were you nervous? No, I ran it. Well, I used to, I learned to buck. And then when I got married, I married Alvin Thompson. And he and I worked in the woods. And he would fall and then I would buck behind him. And then he would, you know, he would keep going and I would work with him. And so it just kind of developed. We got divorced and I ended up with two kids. And so I worked for all the Jipple Loggers around here, Arlen Ragsdale and Ron Helica and run equipment and power saw. And eventually I had my own business. And I had 17 men that was on my career. In the 80s, 1980s is when I had my own business. And from the time I graduated in 73, I was married and working. I went to work. I helped start the ambulance here in the early 70s. Was an EMT too. And so I was transfixed because of the logging and stuff you never knew, you know, when somebody would get hurt. So they brought an ambulance. I think it came from Ohio or somewhere. They drove it out here. But I just have always worked in the woods. I always had wood heat. I needed to have a way to get heat. I didn't have the money to buy the wood. So I would cut it. And it just developed into doing roadside brushing. And I ran backhoe, cat. You name it, I did it. A grater, a backhoe. It was nothing.  So I would get on the equipment. And we would go to the mills when the old mill was in the valley. I remember going to Medco and then I remember going to White City. And I remember the log scaling station here below town because they had to keep track of all the logs. Yeah, I had one gentleman who was working on his power saw. We were all sitting around for lunch and we always would eat lunch and then gas up and sharpen our chains.  We're going to have lunch. So when he went to Fix City, put it on backwards, had the chain on the power saw backwards.  And he didn't like a woman telling him that his chain was on backwards. I said, well, you know, I just thought I'd mention it. So he, he pretty soon I looked over when we went back to work and he was sweating pretty hard. And I went over and asked him, hey Ed, I said, how you doing? There was no wood chips or nothing. I said, how you doing? He goes, well, he says, I don't think I got it done.   So kind of listened to me after that. That's a very kind story. Did you ever get in a situation where you had to be angry with someone in order to get them to straighten up because there was a dangerous situation? Yes, yes. I mean, you were the manager. You were in control. You were running that site, that job. I think everybody, everybody that was around here that worked with me, I was lucky enough to know everybody, you know? And it was a good place to work. I treated everybody well. I never had anybody do anything that, you know, I wouldn't do myself. And there was a couple of tests, you know? But pretty general, I wore cork boots. I did the same thing that all the men did. And if something needed done, it hadn't been done. I didn't want to, one of my, one of my daily things that I told them when they started was, I'm not going to go back and do the work twice. If it's not done right, the first time I'm going to tell you, the second time you need to listen to me in the third time, you'll be gone.  Dad was always working. And I wasn't going to do that. I had figured out by that time, with enough hours in the woods to know that when you did a job, you did it right. You didn't go back and you moved on, because it was your reputation. And as a woman, it was hard. I did, after I got married to my husband now, Rick, we were blessed enough in 94, 95. We went back to school. We were actually for Rogue Community College. And we were ecosystem management specialists. So we went to college together. And we worked in the woods. We went full-time to school. And then we worked. That's what we did. We had a con, we did contracts, but it was through the college. And so when we finished, we had a degree, but we worked for BLM, we worked for Forest Service. And I was the only woman on the crew. And Tell me about your proudest moment. And this will be the ending of the Timber. I want her to tell one more story. It's real fast. About the guy moving the line, stealing the Timber. Oh, well, I don't know if I should. I don't want to hurt you. I have to use his name. I just think it's sort of a typical story of trying to get one over on a woman. Yeah, I won't say the year, because I don't want people looking at it. You know, there's family members out there. But one of the jobs that I had was doing brush piling in the woods for loggers. And a particular year that I worked, this gentleman hired me who had a business and his timber followers were from here in Butte Falls. So they knew me. And I got the brush piling job. I would finish the job and it would be acres and acres. And I would go back on Monday to get, I had to get it checked before I could get paid. I would go back and I'd have all this, this brush and tree limbs laying on the ground. And I had already finished. And he'd say, oh no, no, you missed it. You didn't do it. The line's over there. So get the piling as soon as it's piled all, you know, we'll get the Forest Service out here and they'll check it. So I would, I piled for a couple of weeks and I thought, man, this is strange. And so I got to look and well, and notes to me with my crew working, they had been working on weekends, fallen timber and timber theft. It was, they were stealing lumber. And I was brush piling behind them, but it was all on tape. And so he actually, he spent time and it was a big deal. There was a big court case and it wasn't really hard. I really don't know who brought it out, but they had the US Forest Service, the sheriff and police and their law enforcement and they had put up cameras and was filming it. The most important thing that I think I've achieved is the fact that I worked with, like Mr. Ragsdale who worked with my grandparents. It's really an emotional thing to have respect from people when you work as hard as I did. And I still have them today saying what good work I did.


Project-based learning is a pedagogical approach that involves students in a long-term, in-depth investigation of a real-world challenge. So instead of memorizing established knowledge or following an instruction that offers a fast path to facts, students actively work on a problem that allows them to develop several skills simultaneously. To understand the difference, we can look at the experience pupils have in a conventional class led by Mr. Listen and compare that to what they take away from doing a project with Mrs. Do, the objective, learn how to engineer a tall tower. In the conventional class, the students sit at their desks and look at the blackboard. Mr. Listen first goes over some principles of physics and then instructs the students that are still able to pay attention to design the optimal structure for a high tower. When doing project-based learning, or PBL, the students sit in groups. Mrs. Do then gives each group 20 strands of uncooked spaghetti, scotch tape, a cotton thread, and some marshmallows. Then they are told they have 18 minutes to build the highest possible structure that could hold up the spongy confection. So what will the kids in the different classes learn? And what do their minds remember? With Mr. Listen, all kids might learn something about towers, a few might learn some engineering, and one could, in theory, learn to construct an ideal tower structure. But just a week later, most will have forgotten everything. Mrs. Do's Marshmallow Tower Challenge activated the kids' brains in various areas and taught the children something about construction, creativity, physics, and teamwork. Maybe more importantly, they learn that if they fail the first time, they can try again and still succeed. They learn to learn, and even decades later, some might still remember that day. The benefits of project-based learning include high engagement and a greater depth of understanding. They practice communication, critical thinking, and creativity, and as a result, often experience better learning outcomes in general. Randomized controlled trials involving thousands of students demonstrated that project-based learning significantly outperformed traditional curricula, raising academic performance across academic disciplines. The best teachers often combine projects with traditional instruction or run what's known as active learning classrooms so that students get to make sense of trying, failing, doing, and the theory from the educator. What are your thoughts about learning through projects? Since education is allegedly not about what the teacher covers but what the students discover, is it the better way to learn? Learn more about project-based learning at www.project.com