The second day of the conference, and we'll begin with the second lecture of Professor Yanyan Li. Thanks. So if a function satisfies this equation, degenerate elliptic equation, so in a punctured plane, punctured space, then you should be radially symmetric. So actually, u can be continuous, satisfying the equation in viscosity sense, but let's prove it for c2. So let's recall this definition. So this gamma is something like in Rn. It's a cone, a symmetric cone, and on one side of the half plane, half space on this half. So this is gamma one on this side. So if lambda of Au, Au is the conformally invariant operator. So it's on this surface, then it should be radially symmetric. So if this gamma is this gamma one, if this gamma is this gamma one, so namely the eigenvalue on this boundary of this hyper plane, then the equation is actually Laplacian u equal to dL, so harmonic function. So this is a kind of nonlinear version of that. So last time we described a procedure to prove this result, and we only need to prove the following proposition. So it's a comparison principle. So if this, well one can, yeah this is a sub solution of the equation. So we can take it on the boundary of gamma, will also be a sub solution. So that's a solution. So this is a sub solution. This is a super solution. So it's on the other side of the cone. So sub solution and super solution with finite singular points. And if we have a v, the singular one is greater than the regular one on the boundary, then we'll have an order. So the singular one should be greater or equal than u. So this is a comparison principle. So we'll prove this result, and let's prove it for an easier case. The proof will be similar for more singularities. So let's say we have one singularity. Let's say we have a bounded open set C2, and it's a sub solution, and there's a v, which is C2, but having a singularity, possibly having a singularity, and v greater than u on the boundary imply v greater than u in the domain. So we'll prove this. So we just take one singularity. And last time we have proved this comparison principle if there's no singularity. So there's a fact that if something is in gamma, that would imply this is super harmonic. This is just because of the structure. When we take trace, we will see a positive multiple of minus Laplacian u. So if on this side, it's always a super harmonic function. And to prove this, we will use two elementary facts for harmonic functions. So we are going to, because what we are, our singular solution is always super harmonic. So we can use, so one is if we have a super harmonic function away from a point, now negative, then either w is identically zero, or at the singular point, it should be positive. It's just saying that we don't see this singularity. So this is a classical result because a point, is of capacity zero. So capacity zero sets are the sets which have this property. You don't see the singularity. So the second lemma says that if we have a super harmonic function, I forgot to write super harmonic. So I should add Laplacian v less or equal to zero. So it's a super harmonic function. So it's a super harmonic function. Well, of course in one dimension, this is not true. I can write a super harmonic function, but I can certainly take a w one like this. I can do a w two like that. And the gradient is not the same, but that's because it's in one D. So here, because this harmonic capacity is zero, so it's actually super harmonic function across. So one cannot have, if we have w one, w two like that, ones have to have the same gradient. So these are two simple facts, and I forgot to write super harmonicity in the second lemma. So let's, now we can prove this result by reading, yeah, we prove this, we prove this result comparison principle. So suppose not.  So if we draw the arrow here, one may have a u like this, and the v might be something like that. This is v. So somewhere it's below u.  So v will be bounded from below. So therefore we can replace, we just multiply v by a bigger than one column. So constant we may assume. So because multiplying this v by a constant, it doesn't change the equation. Equations stay the same. Now we have a u like this, and v will be this boundary and maybe touch somewhere like that. So the arrow could be here, or maybe touch at zero. So actually from here, we know that this limb in has to be touching the arrow. One cannot have a picture like this. Because if one have such a picture, then so this picture will not occur. One have to touch at there. So because otherwise, so this has to be true if we have an inequality like that in here, then for small ball, this v will be bigger than u. So we are going to take a little ball. So it's going to be bigger than you. Then one can just apply comparison principle on bigger minus this little ball. So now u and v have no singularity. So reduced to the case we already proved that will tell v bigger than u outside. So these two will violate that. So we know that whenever it's like this, you touch boundary is bigger, v is bigger than u, then it has to be touching actually at a singular point. It might touch elsewhere, but at least it should touch the singular point. So then what we can do for this picture, so now we know that this v has to be touching at zero, somehow touching here. This is the, and u is on the boundary, there is a little distance, yeah, positive, positive. So therefore for epsilon small, for small epsilon fixed, we look at all x less than epsilon. And then we look at the function by translation a little bit. This function we translate a little bit. So when we translate a little bit, so on the boundary because there's a gap, so they are far away always. And here it may cut through this, it may cut through this picture or it may be detached. But then I can always find a positive constant multiplied by that so that I adjust it. This function will satisfy the if is equal to zero. So maybe it's higher, maybe it's lower, I adjust it a little bit. So this wx is still a solution. So our equation is translation invariant, multiplying constant, it's also invariant. And we also know this v is bigger than wx on the boundary. So it's exactly like what we argued before. So therefore we know that we must have wx zero for every x, it should be equal to the if. Let's call this number alpha, just like here. So this is true for every x. And therefore by lemma 2.2, so all these functions is touching this v from below at a singular point. So at a point, so the gradient should be the same. So we know that gradient wx at zero should be equal to the same v. This v is independent of this x. Well, now this is clearly equal to lambda of x, w of u of x by definition. This is equal to that, because this is just a translation. If we put zero, this is the value. And here we take the derivative. So this will be equal to lambda of x, gradient u of x. And we replace this lambda through here. We are going to see this is alpha divided by u. So it's gradient log u. That means for every x we have this, that means log u of x is going to be equal to this vector dot x plus a constant. So for all x in b epsilon. Then this is exponential. So if we calculate Laplacian u here, it's going to be equal to e to the b. So it's greater than zero. So therefore this u is actually super harmonic. But v is sub harmonic. So we know that v minus u will be less or equal to zero and v minus u greater or equal to zero, also in this form. But we know that they touch at a point. So this means they have to be the same. So that means v has to be equal to u. So v is smooth actually. So it goes back to the situation we already proved. So in the smooth case, we know that comparison principle holds. So therefore we have proved this symmetry result. So consequence of that is the Liouville theorem. So any solution in the entire space will be a constant. So next I will prove another analysis result. So this is kind of symmetry result, Liouville theorem. Another result here in such studies is a gradient estimate. So in this generality actually is proved quite early. So if we have a solution, this is a constant. So it's upper bounded, then it will imply gradient log u will be less than a constant depending on b. If a solution is upper bounded by a constant and then it's gradient log is bounded. So that implies the Harnock. So actually for this estimate, the main subtle part is on this side is not assuming it's bigger than a positive constant. So the proof we'll present here will make use of the Liouville theorem we just proved. So we recall what all this gamma is the cone, the operators is here. So it's a conformally invariant operator. So we'll prove this by first proving the part, which is easier to handle. So is to assume actually we have a lower bound also. So then the conclusion is to prove the gradient is less than a constant which depend on a also. So I'll prove this. So then the second step is try to prove without this a dependence. And for that, we'll need to use the Liouville theorem we just proved. Is a c of b in the final S, okay. Yes, it also depend on f and gamma. Okay, okay. I am mainly. But you stress the dependency on the L infinity. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, the upper bound. So here we impose a lower bound now. So for this, so the method is, this method is more standard. It's a Bernstein type argument. So I will not show all the computations but just show the schemes. So the scheme can be applied and has been applied to rather broad class of equations. So we write log u as v. So then if we look at v, then it's a equation. It's a fully nonlinear elliptic equation. So it's not uniformly elliptic. It's elliptic, but not uniformly elliptic. So, and it's in this particular case, this nonlinearity with respect to the Hessian of v is through the eigenvalues of this. In general, the method can be applied. It doesn't have to apply to equations of this particular dependence through eigenvalues. So it's a nonlinear elliptic equations. So you have Hessian of v, involve first derivative and involve v. So you have a nonlinear elliptic equation. So we want to prove gradient has a bound because the bound on u will translate to a bound on v. So the v will be lower bounded. I didn't write the v bound, so v is here. So v will be having both sides of bounds. So for this type, Bernstein type arguments, so it's easier to keep track of things if we have both bounds. If we only have one side bound, it becomes rather tricky. So we have to keep track of things very, very carefully and more. So that's why we impose one side bound. So we have a full C0 estimates. So C0 on v is bounded. Then we want to estimate graded. So this, for the success of using this method, it depends on the structure of the equation. So some, yeah. And so we want to get local estimates and our equation is very good and actually it has local estimates. So for some other equations, you would not have local estimates like Monchampere equation in high in three dimension up. So, and now let's take a cutout function because we want to get local estimates, we take a cutout function. Inside b1, it's one, outside b2 is zero and it's nicely in between. So we look at a function, rho is cutoff and we take graded v square and we multiply by something depending on v. So this phi, we leave it flexible and we look at the computation to choose later on what kind of phi it can work. Well, it turns out this is the phi we are going to use. So we are going to use a phi satisfying first inequality and the second inequality on a closed interval. So then it's very easy to pick up such a phi. So on the other hand, if we insist to have a half ray and such phi would not exist. Otherwise this method will just give the whole thing. So we want to prove that this G has an upper bound. So this C should be a constant depending on our alpha and beta and of course depending on the phi you choose but that doesn't depend on v. So we want to prove this. So, well then this because G is zero outside b2 so there is an interior maximum point. So the maximum point you fix at pick up maximum point you try to prove the value at the maximum point is universally bounded. So, well if G is have an interior maximum point the gradient should be zero. So this means partial derivative in Xi. So should all be zero. So this will give us an expression involving phi always through v of x zero involving phi, phi prime, gradient v and Hessian v. So because our expression involve up to gradient v. So take one derivative we will get an expression here. So we have n equations. So we freeze at x zero. So then we take the Hessian. The Hessian should be less or equal than zero because it's a maximum point and we evaluate at x zero. So we are going to see an expression involving this. So now up to third order derivative. So the equation is a second order equation. We hit a derivative we are going to see this. It should be right hand side is zero. We are going to have an equation involving data up to third derivative of v at x zero. So then we forget the equation. We just use this information here. So now because of ellipticity, f lambda i is positive. We hit this one. It's a negative definite matrix. So we make a summation. We should have less or equal than zero. So now at x zero we have one information is one and two and three. So in this two and three, one can easily replace the third derivative of v by derivative up to second order. And we also use this equation to replace to insert to this inequality. So we are going to have an inequality evaluated at x zero and that's an expression it's rather long involving data up to this, up to secondary like this. But once you write it down it's quite clear which one is what you want and so on. Anyway, so then I hide half page computation. So then you will end up with something like this. So this is what you will end up. So you are going to see an expression like this inequality.  So this gives the upper bound for a gradient estimate. I seem to have run way faster than I thought. That seems to be an interesting thing. Now it reminded me something happened many, many years ago when I was in Taiwan. Luis was there maybe. It's for birthday of Louis Nuremberg. So I gave my talk and I finished half way and I look at the audience I said, what should I do? I remember Varuda was sitting there. He said, well you could start all over again. Maybe we should thanks. Oh. No, you'll continue. I could add something on the spot. Very good, very good. They will thank you again. Okay, so it's really a surprise. I thought it's so long. So I put everything on the slides and hide all the computations. So maybe I'll describe briefly what I will describe next time. Next time I will have formula. So now we have proved that. So now the next step to prove these estimates is to prove a holder estimate. So step two, step two we want to prove that. So now our solution, our solution, our solution is bigger than zero and less than B let's say in B three. So we would like to prove instead of a gradient estimate, we are going to prove first a holder estimate. We will prove a holder estimate. So once proving this holder estimate we will be, so let's assume this step. So suppose we completed a holder estimate. Then we will prove from here to get the gradient estimates just by using step one. So this is a easier argument. So now, so if under this, so what we can do is because this holder estimate, so holder estimate is still giving us Hanak. So this is going to be less than constant. Take holder and X minus Y to the alpha for X, Y is in B, B1 for example. So this is still Hanak. This is still less than C. We have Hanak. So this is log U of X minus U of Y. So this Hanak, UX and UY they are comparable. We can reverse the role of this Hanak. So holder estimates already give Hanak. So then for the gradient estimates, we can look at U of X over U of zero. Let's look at this function. So this function, so because U of zero, so this is greater or equal than U of X. So yeah, so then let's look at the equation. So let's assume this has minus one homogeneity. So this is homogenous of degree one. Then if we insert this expression in because AU has homogeneity, certain homogeneity. So we are going to see this will be F of lambda of AU and divided by U of zero four over M minus two. Plus power actually. This will be, so you are here here as a U of X. U zero to a positive power. So let's take it homogenous. It's F equal to one, yeah, let's look at homogenous. Let's look at homogenous. So this is equal to one and this is equal to a constant. And this constant has an upper bound now. So even though our earlier estimates we prove all these results for right hand side equal to one, you replace it by a constant less than one. It's the same proof. It doesn't depend when it becomes small all the estimates remain the same, the same proof. So therefore we have an upper bound. It's a upper, it's constant upper bound. So our step one will then gives gradient log U hat gradient log U hat is bounded by C. So now because this is upper and lower bounded by a constant now. So this will be bounded by R from B. And this is the same as gradient log U. So the gradient estimates is proved by first proof there is a upper and lower bound. And then if only upper bound we prove a holder estimates. So now the main thing is to prove the holder estimates. Now proof of step two. So then this is B one. So we look at this semi holder norm. If we have a sequence goes to infinity. So if we have a sequence of solutions the semi holder norm goes to infinity.  So then there's a sequence it goes to infinity so well of course it may go to the boundary. This is maximum points you can do a selection. So let's assume that the maximum of this. Well so one can not just take the it's not like if we try to normalize this. So I can take a maximum point. I can go to the maximum point iris scale. So well this is a holder norm. So first one sort of have a little this kind of measure this holder largeness by a small piece.  So the largest that thing it's like if we are not doing holder we are doing gradient then we will say assume the maximum of gradient occurs at the origin. This corresponds to a selection of this maximum point. So we do that. So that step will be the same like normalizing the gradient but here there's a little difference is so here I can say I assume the gradient happens at the origin. I go to the origin I sit there I rescale center there and I will get an entire solution after the limit. So here there is a, here there's a kind of hold. So one can't do a small piece.  So then you rescale that because it goes to there that's a maximum you rescale that then that notion of holder largeness will become one just like normalizing the large gradient to become one by rescale the variable. So that will be go to one. So then so after the rescaling become that then it will end up with a solution U and that solution will be entire and that solution will end up with because we normalized so then one would have a log U somehow holder the largest is the norm at zero. So it's not quite hold this is equal to one. So we have that and this will go to that in any C gamma, gamma bigger than alpha log RM. Because this is the maximum at the center when you scale on every ball you have the maximum chain with the value in holder sense. So on any bounded domain the log of UI will have both upper and lower bound. So therefore the gradient estimates enters step one enters step one enters because we have maximum holder size at zero and everywhere any unit ball going out the maximum holder control is at most one. So when you go finite distance is bounded above and below. So then step one allows gradient estimates on any bounded place. And then the convergence is higher than alpha. So then this will satisfy equation lambda of a U will belongs to the boundary because this is when we normalize this way our equation will deteriorate to this equation. So now the Liouville theorem comes in. So now we know this solution. So we have this solution. So we know that U has to be equal to constant. And however it violates this holder sense at the origin is one because it's just like if you renormalize gradient this would be gradient of that function at zero is equal to one. So it's a contradiction to that. So then this will give this holder by using this degenerate Liouville to prove this. So I still have 10 minutes. So maybe I have to stop. So I didn't estimate the time properly. So let's thanks Yan Yan for this second talk.


Ladies and gentlemen, Sal and Mike back with another video. Today we're talking about power lifting, strength and conditioning, programming, buzzwords, or definitions of things like conjugate, concurrent periodization, and daily undulating periodization, what are they and what are the difference before we get involved. I need you to comment below what you want me to cover in upcoming videos. Be sure to subscribe, turn on notifications, give that thing a thumbs up. Let's see if we can hit 1.5. 1,000 likes on this thing. Let's dig in, my man asks. Conjugate versus concurrent versus daily undulating and what are the differences. Before we hop in, most of these apply to power lifting, although programming in general can be broken down and used for anything we do in life. What I believe programming is, and there's probably some textbook definition, but to give it you guys, what you can understand is when you have a goal, we're gonna build a plan and a progression with intent towards that goal. And most of the time programming in this sense is used for our workouts or our strength and conditioning. Very common in power lifting, weight lifting, endurance sports, even in team sports, basketball, et cetera, the strength and conditioning coach is working on programming that allows our athletes to perform at optimal times for their goals. Now, let's break things up a little bit basically. So two things, I guess he's a little confused because some of these overlap, but concurrent periodization or concurrent programming basically means that you're training to always be ready. There's not a lot of peaks and valleys, you're always kind of at a high or midpoint and you're always ready to perform. Conjugate method made popular by Louis Simmons, the conjugate West Side method is a concurrent type of programming with two upper body days and two lower body days a week.   Often in the West Side method, a heavy one. You're gonna work to a max. It's a kind of a mix of a Bulgarian and more of a Russian style lifting. The other day of the lower and upper body day is what they call a speed day or an explosive day or a dynamic effort day, where they're gonna handle anywhere from 50, 60%, maybe 70% of that one rep max with another variation and they're gonna handle it for singles, doubles and triples and they're gonna move it very, very fast. So on one day you're handling a maximal load, tends to be slow when you're lifting a max and then really fast and really explosive on the other day handling sub-maximal loads. Now this is a type of concurrent programming because there's no peaks and valleys. Once a week you're handling a max in a squat dead bench, one week a max or one week you're handling light loads and so within a month you're handling four heavy days and four light days. Opposed to a more block periodized where you have kind of an accumulation phase, a peaking phase, et cetera, et cetera where you block things out by either two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks and you have multiple blocks where some blocks you're focusing in on let's say first blocks hypertrophy and you're working in sets of maybe eight to 12 on everything you do. Then the next block is extra volume and so now you're handling heavier loads but you're doing a lot of volumes. Maybe you're doing seven sets of five, seven sets of three, 10 sets of three and then a peaking or tapering phase where you take away some of that volume you start handling heavier loads and you hope for some super compensation where basically your body is healing from all that volume you did the block before and now you're going to hopefully be your strongest and peak towards what would be a power lifting meat, weight lifting meat or maybe an event like running a marathon. So that's where the running and power lifting and things kind of combine. There's been a lot of successes with Westside Barbell, concurrent training, the conjugate method with geared power lifting. There is some successes although I think outliers for the Westside conjugate method with raw lifters. The other question is daily undulating periodization which could also be blocked out but basically what that means instead of doing kind of a hypertrophy block, maybe a strength endurance block and a strength block where it's like hypertrophy block again is sets of 10, let's say the strength endurance is sets of eight and then the strength block itself is sets of one to five what you would do is condense that and you would raise your frequency and you would hit nearly all of those within the same week. So same squat in three times a week. What I would do within that is it's actually not that dissimilar from maybe a conjugate method except for the varied exercise.  You don't necessarily have to be, there can be exercise variation but I'm trying to give you guys all the factors here because this is a very in depth question which is trying to give you guys some ideas. So we squat three times a week. One day is gonna be kind of that hypertrophy day where let's say I'm hitting sets of eight on the squat. And then I'm squatting on my second day. I'm gonna hit sets of three and I'm doing it for form and a little bit of volume and I'm doing sets of six sets of three at maybe 70%. So it's heavy but it's not too heavy. And then my other day is gonna be heavy day. It's gonna be the strength based days. So maybe I'm hitting five sets of two at 80 to 90%. And we're gonna rinse and repeat that. The number one goal though for all of these programs should be progression. And if it's not, you need to ask your coach or check your programming and what you're actually doing.  But if it doesn't have progression day to day, week to week, month to month, you're wasting your time. One is a workout, one is programming. So even with daily undulating periodization or concurrent programming, what you basically wanna do is you wanna add some type of stimulus week, every other week, every month depending on how advanced you are. And that's what kind of defines a beginner, intermediate and advanced is how often you can add progressive overload. If you're more advanced you can't just add five pounds every week to your bench press and get stronger. As a beginner, you may be able to do so. In the undulating model, we still want to add either a set, a rep, maybe some poundage or some type of volume on accessories, something week to week, month to month so we can continue to progress. Now all program, again, if we wrap it up, the goal is some type of progress, some kind of intent towards some goal. And all those will have to line up based on the athlete, the athlete history and the goal itself. I know that's a lot of information and there are some gaps in it so leave your questions below. We can dive into a little bit more particulars if you'd like. Check back on the channel, just search. I have tons of videos on programming itself with tons of examples and I also have kaizen-training.com that has all of my programs if you want to check those. Some of them are free, others I think are highly affordable with a bunch of PDF video and information on there. I appreciate you guys, silent mic, I'm outta here, I'll catch you on Twitch. Every single day we're streaming, we're talking fitness, we're talking life, relationships, business and playing a little bit of video games and also I got a new podcast, 50% facts, iTunes, Spotify, et cetera. Catch you guys in the next one.


Throughout its history, Santa Cruz County has weathered earthquakes, floods, landslides, fire, and even a tsunami. We are a community well-practiced in disaster, but this year, a pandemic with a side of wildfire is really putting us to the test. As if we don't have enough going on, we also have a national election. Joining me today is Santa Cruz County Clerk Gail Pellerin, who will share the county's plan to make sure voting is safe and secure for everyone, no matter what happens next. Stay with us. Every vote matters, so the county clerk and her team have come up with a plan for just about every obstacle to voting to make sure everyone who is eligible can cast a ballot. Joining me now, Gail Pellerin. Welcome, Ms. Pellerin. Hi, thanks for having me. Well, it's great to have you here. I know you're going to have a bunch of great information for people, and it's going to make it really informative. And I think it's a good time because you're facing the challenge of holding an election during a pandemic and a wildfire. And I know you've launched a new program called Vote Safe Santa Cruz. Can you talk a little about that campaign? You know, due to the pandemic, the state of California has basically authorized every county elections official to mail every active registered voter in the state a ballot. So ballots will be in the mail by October the 5th. And so just because we mail you a ballot doesn't mean you have to return it by mail. We're going to also be setting up 15 outside drop boxes that you can access 247 so you can vote that ballot and then easily drive up and drop a couple of them or walk up boxes. We'll also have in-person voting locations for people who do like to come in and get assistance or vote on the tablet. And the tablet does provide for an accessible ballot and a ballot that's in Spanish.  But those voting locations, two of us will be opening up beginning October 5th. That's our office, the Santa Cruz County Clerk Collections, and the Watsonville City Clerk's office will be open starting October the 5th. And then on Halloween, Saturday, October 31st, we're going to have 18 other voting locations that will be open. And they will be open Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Any voter could go to any location. They can go in to get a replacement ballot because they either lost or don't have the ballot we mailed them originally. They could register and vote on the same day. They can use the voting booths and drop off their ballot there, the one that we did mail them, or they can use the tablet to vote a Spanish ballot or an accessible ballot or if they just want to use the ballot. And then any other voter assistance that we need that they need, we're doing same day voter registration too for people who missed the October 19th deadline to register. They can go to these 10% voting locations and register to vote on the same day. So, and then on top of that, we're going to have a vote mobile and I'm very excited about this. We're going to have a trailer that we can take anywhere in the county as long as we have connectivity through our signal. And we'll be able to issue ballots and collect ballots in the communities depending on where we need to go. So, we're probably going to be looking at a lot of the fire areas, you know, for the summit as well, and our residential care facilities for our voters who are in residential care facilities so we're open to ideas on where people think we should go and we'll be able to be very mobile. Well, that's very interesting. So, when you say people, we're very interested in where people need us to go. Are you accepting suggestions and it's so Yeah, yeah, I'm open to suggestions and and if it works, we'll make it happen. So, yeah, we're going to hopefully be picking up this trailer in early October. I'm hoping after 12. We'll be able to start scheduling places and dates and times when we'll be out in the community, providing this voter service for anybody. You mentioned that most people will get, I guess everybody gets a mail in ballot, but they aren't able to mail it in. Now, what about people displaced by the fires who are no longer at their home to receive their ballot. Right. So, the thing is, is that even if they do a forwarding address through the USPS that does not mean that doesn't work for ballot cannot be forwarded. So, you still have to tell us where you want your ballot materials to be mailed and you could do that very easily on our website with a change of mailing address form. We also have these forms out at the shelter and the resource recovery center and just fill that out to let us know where you want to mail that ballot and we'll mail it in. So, when should people expect to receive their ballot in the mail and is there a date by which, if they don't receive it, they should call you? Yeah, so we are, you know, our plan is to get them in the mail by October 5th and then they don't get it in the mail by, I believe the 12th is a Monday, but I think it's a postal holiday. So next day is the 13th, the day so they'll get in the mail by that date. Give us a call, send us an email, let us know. We could follow up on the mail to see to make sure that things did get delivered because sometimes the trades missed, we're going to be able to follow up on that. But what's really cool and voters should really do this is to sign up to track your ballot. So just like you track a package, you can track your ballot, you sign up for it real simply at wearsmyballot.sos.ca.gov and you'll put in your name and you'll indicate whether you want text messaging or email alerts and you'll get an alert every time someone's coming with your ballot that's working through the mail. So you'll get an alert once it enters the mail stream, you'll get an alert when it's in your mailbox, and then you'll get an alert we get it, and you'll get an alert as good, or if there's some question with your signature, either the signature doesn't come there, or if you're missing, you'll get an alert to that and you'll be able to cure that. Okay, so now one thing we're hearing a lot about on television and in PSAs is make a plan to vote and I've never heard that before. Yeah, yeah, that's actually, yeah, I started that a couple years ago as far as making a plan to vote. So I don't want to question anymore, are you voting? I'm expecting everybody to vote.   And by all means, just make sure you mail it to you and you can have it back. You have those options of dropping it off at a drop box or a voting location. It do mail it, make sure that you get it postmarked on or before November 3rd and postage is paid on the ballot return envelope. So you don't have to hunt for a stamp and just make sure that is postmarked on or before November 3rd. And California changed our law, so now there's actually 17 days on the back end for us to get it. So if there's any kind of slowness happening with this office, there's no new grade because as long as we get it by November 20th, that's 17 days. As long as it is postmarked November 3rd. So if anyone's mailing their ballot on election day, I would not just drive it up to a drop box that the USPS uses. I would actually walk it into the post office and make sure it gets that canceled stamp on. So we know that it's postmarked on November 3rd. Okay, all right, so that date is important to make sure that you get the postmark you can just throw it in a box. Yes, yeah, our boxes you can and we will have our boxes will get cleared daily and on election night at 8pm. We're going to have people stationed at all those 15 drop boxes and they'll be looking at their clock. And at 8 o'clock, they will lock that box, close and secure it for the night, empty all the ballots that are inside and bring them back to the county elections department for processing and counting. So in addition to making sure we get it postmarked and we mail it on time, what other kinds of things should people be thinking about in to make sure that they vote? What sort of steps go into plan? So right now we want to make sure people register. So it's easy to register to vote. You just go to register to vote.ca.gov. And what happens then that that works really well when you have a California driver's license or ID because it will pull that signature on file with the DMV and that will be your signature for voting purposes. So you always know what that signature looks like. If you don't have a California ID or a driver's license, a California driver's license, you do have to print out a piece of paper that you need to sign and then mail it to us. If you want to vote using the voter registration card, you want to register to vote, voter registration cards are available at post offices, libraries, City Hall, our office, of course. We're hoping to get out in the community more so I believe there's an event tomorrow going on over at City Hall and we're hoping to have voter registration going on there. So there are cards available or I can mail you a card. You can call us and we can mail you a card that you can fill out and then return to us. So sign up is the first step. And then the next step time people to do is check up. So you want to check to make sure everything's correct so you can go to voter status dot sos dot ca dot gov and look up your your registration to make the correct name, the correct address and if there is an address that will be provided there as well. So you know that's where I'm mailing the ballot. So if it shows a PO box and you're like oh I canceled that last year. You know to let us know to get rid of that PO box so we can mail that ballot to your residents. So checking your status is super important. So the third thing you want to do is to sign up to track your ballot. So again that's where is my ballot dot sos dot ca dot easy to sign up and get those alerts. Those are three simple things to do sign up check up and track it. Yeah, I've also heard that pick the date you're going to vote make sure you have childcare get your ride to the vote if you're going to go and vote in person get a ride that sort of thing. I mean it's so easy to vote from home now and it's so convenient you could do it on your own time and and you are protected there so somebody comes to your door and voting here and up to the air. So you need to tell them I'm sorry I'm voting you need to leave. There is no electioneering around your home when you're in the process of voting people can't tell you how to vote. I'm going to send a ballot to a stranger if someone comes by says I'm collecting ballots I'll return it for you. Don't do it. If you need help with some with to return your ballot call us and we'll send someone to your home to pick up your ballot or to the assistance of somebody you're a family member or a household member or a neighbor, somebody to give you. That person returning their name and make their relationship to you. So I'll just give your voter ballot to somebody you don't know. Right. And but it's okay to give it to someone you do know. You can enlist the help of somebody and if you yeah but don't just give it to a stranger. All right so that so while we're on that subject. They also I noticed in your on your website you also talk about compensation for voting. Like people may offer you something to vote right that's illegal so you know people can't offer you a dozen donuts or a free cup of coffee. I feel like every elections somebody in you know with good nature says come in with your I voted sticker and you can get a free coffee you know that's illegal we cannot provide any sort of incentive for voting. Okay. Yeah. All right. I voted sticker so even though we're all getting about mail to us it's going to on the instruction sheet, there will be that I voted sticker that you get to where proudly when you go out and about in your community. Okay, so everybody should look for that and where it with pride. Yes. If you go to if they decide to vote in person if they decide not to vote at home they head for the about do they need an ID to vote in person. No, so what's going to happen when you show up and basically we're taking our office operation and we're duplicating it out in the community. So we will have connectivity to our election information management system. So when you do come in they will look up your name and their and ask you address and if it's a match they will go ahead and issue. So the California law does not require ID we do have 129 people who are in a what we're called first time federal voter category and we are not saying that there's an ID so have it. And we don't put on file for those voters when we mail the ballots out they're going to be getting an alert that they do need to provide a copy of their ID so we can verify them. And that does occur but but if you go and the other cool thing we're doing at the voting locations is in order to manage the line because we really don't want a lot of people congregating inside due to COVID. And we are going to be complying with all the public health guidelines we're going to be wearing masks we're going to have hand sanitation stations will have disinfectant to disinfect the surfaces will have shields and plastic dividers so and we'll be adhering to this physical distancing. But what we've got also is an app. So what we're going to have what's going to happen so remember those good old days when we went to a restaurant and all the tables were full, they would get your cell phone number and they'll say we'll text you when your table's ready. Same thing with voting so if it says if it looks like well it's going to be a half hour wait. That means it's your cell phone number and we'll text you when you're ready. You can sit in your car and you know listen to music you can take a little walk whatever it is you want to do and then you'll get that alert when it's your turn for your ballot, and you can come back and get in line and get your ballot. So that and I think we're also going to have it on our website where you can see which places have the longest wait time so kind of like the urgent cares do so if you if something happens and you need to go to urgent care you can go online and see what the time is. We're hoping to have that same sort of concept where you can say oh well it looks like Kaiser's got a 15 minute wait but Simkins has an hour wait we're going to go there and we're going to go and vote there because there's less wait time. And remember one you can go to whatever any voter can go to any location and and remember that voting is not just Tuesday Tuesday is the last day to vote. There's people to get out there and vote on on Saturday it's Halloween come in costume. Good chance to wear a mask right and then Sunday will be open as well so so Saturday Sunday Monday another good day and then Tuesday so we're trying to flatten that voting curve to make sure that people trickle in over all four days versus all coming in on Tuesday. So if you want to see that you know it's five o'clock Tuesday and you're like oh it's election day I haven't voted yet and you rush out to that voting location by all means you're going to get to vote but you might have to wait longer. But with our line app you can go wait in your car or do you know something else during that time you have to wait. And so I assume the regular safety precautions will be in place people should wear a mask nation stands six feet apart. Yes yes we're going to be adhering to all that public safety protocol guidelines absolutely yes. Now where can people find these voting locations is there a list someplace or will it be sent to them. Yeah so the list is going to be published in the voter guide and it's going to be in an insert with your mail ballot and and there's a little caveat that this is subject to change and no sooner than we sent the green light to print did we get a change. So we do have one change that we posted on our website the Soquel Center does not have good connectivity and AT&T is moving its whatever the device it has to provide for connectivity is getting moved to other areas of the state that are under siege with these fires so we're not sure we're going to get that back in time for voting. So what we did is just you know grateful to the Santa Cruz City School District and Chris Monroe and her team who now have said yes you can come to Soquel High. And so we'll be down the street at Soquel High for the voting location and on October 31st through November 3rd. So we did have that one change so people are getting that published in their voter guide and they're in their insert but we do have a change there where we're going to be moving down the street. We'll be posting signs at the conference center we're going to send out a postcard to people in the area and and then hopefully people will get the word that we're we're moving down the street to the high school. Okay. Well hopefully this helps. Yes. Can you, as the president has suggested, both by mail and then go to the polls and learn if your vote has been counted and vote again if it has not. So okay well voting twice is a crime. It's a felony so you don't want to vote twice. And you will be getting those alerts through your, you know, whereas my ballot tracking, you can always call us to find out if your ballot was received. So, you know, if you do show up to vote and the indication is you've already received a ballot and in this, if it hasn't been voted yet, what we can do is we can avoid that first ballot and then issue you a second or replacement ballot. That first ballot shows up in our office then it is voided and it's not going to get counted. And that second ballot that you voted at your voting location will get counted instead. But if you're if you show up to voting location and we've already received your ballot and you've already cast it, then we're going to say I'm sorry you've already voted. If you insist on voting, we're going to have you vote and put it in a pink envelope and that means it's provisional. And so that gets held and does not get processed. And so we will not be counting that vote so you would have to go to court to see what a judge would say and why you're voting a second ballot. What happens, it's not going to happen so much in November, but what happened a lot in the primary is candidates dropped out of the race, especially those running for president during the voting period, the early voting period. So we had a lot of people calling and saying, I voted for somebody who's dropped out of the content. And we don't want anyone encouraging anybody to break the law. And so, you know, that's just not advised. So your sound broke up a little bit there right at the end is there. So, so if you want to change your, if you vote for someone who drops out, what are your remedies are there any if you've already cast your ballot and it's already been received then then you cannot vote again legally you if you if you want to go through the process will give you a ballot and put it in a pink envelope and not count it. And you can go to court and see if you can get a judge to authorize us to count that vote. But I doubt there would be any judge who'd be willing to allow a voter to vote a second time. Okay. All right, so let's say there's a problem with your ballot like your signature doesn't match or you can't read the places you filled in will you be contacted or you just don't count those. So, no, no, so if if there is a, if the signature doesn't compare to what we have on file, or you fail to sign your ballot return envelope, we will contact you will contact you. First of all, we'll try to contact you through the information you gave us on the envelope because we asked for a phone number or email, which is nice and quick for us to call you and say hey, you didn't sign your ballot envelope and here online we have a form you can get back to us so we could match these up and get a process. But if we don't can't get a hold of you through a phone or email then we're going to mail you a letter with the form that you need to sign and get back to us and that you'll have to do that by November 29. Okay. Two days before we're going to certify the election on December 1. So that's why you have that much time. So, so since you're certifying on December 1, I'm wondering how long does it take now with all the people voting by mail and drop off ballots in the in your drop boxes. How long will it take you what's the process to count these votes. So yeah, it's a very tedious process because as ballots come in our first step is to peel off that tab to reveal the signature, and then they go through a ballot sorting sorter that will basically capture that signature digitally. And then I have clerks that are at computers that have been trained to look for signatures and do signature comparison. And they'll see five signatures at a time on the screen, the one that we have on file, and then the one on your envelope and it's either a comparison or it's not or it's unsigned.  And, and the ones that do go to processing what happens then is that this ballot sorter has sliced the ballot envelope open. So we have teams that sit down and they extract the ballot and they do it in groups of 100. So they'll extract 100 ballots from the paper envelopes, they'll count up to make sure they have 100 envelopes and count to make sure they have 100 ballots. What does happen sometimes, especially in households, they'll have two people in the household, and they both return their ballot and one envelope. Don't do that. Each individual voter needs to have their own individual envelope and their signature on the envelope. So we, once that matches up, then we take those 100 envelopes, we take them off the table, and then we open the ballot and we look at it and inspect it to see if there's any issues with the ballot. Did a voter vote no on a proposition? Yes. And if there's voters telling us how they want to change their vote, we will have a two person duplicating team do that for them. And then the ballots, once they're flattened and ready, they will go into our ballot counting room and they get scanned and then they get batched up and stored in boxes and we just keep doing that process till every single ballot is processed and counted. And the ones that did get kicked out, get kicked out for no signature, that's, you know, we know we're going to have to contact that voter, we'll send them a letter or try to contact them, let them know we need their signature. For the ones that didn't compare, we're going to have two other clerks look at that before it goes into, yes, it's challenged. And at the point that it's challenged, we're going to try to contact the voter by email or phone or send them that form and the form will also be posted on our website. To sign up for where is my ballot, you're going to also get a text alert that says ballot challenge signature doesn't compare. So you can go online fill out that form scan it and email it back and you're and you're done. So we have lots of ways for people to rectify a signature if there's any question with it comparing. So, so this sounds like it's going to take some time and so what kind of results will we have on election night any at all. Well, the reality is election night is always a snapshot, we will have for the last six elections or more, we have counted more ballots than we've been on election night, because more than 70% of our voters have have opted to vote by mail so and but it doesn't take forever, I mean we will be processing it and getting through so it's probably a good week to week and a half, where we're going to have the bulk of the ballots in and election officials always love wide margins so certainly the wider the margin that the more people can feel assured that the winner is going to stay the winner and that will go in that direction but we do have this close contest it cannot be called until all votes are in all votes are audited and all votes are certified. So we do a manual recount recount process for every contest will be recounted and will be verifying that machine count against the paper count and balancing during the canvas period and that canvas period is what occurred after election day through December 1. Okay. Wow. Wow, that sounds like a lot to do it's very labor intensive and and and we're used to working close together and we can't do that anymore we need to space out so we're going to have to set out tables in our hallway and have people six feet apart doing these processes that we're used to doing next to each other so we're having to change the way we're doing business here in our office. Wow. So that sounds like that sounds like a lot of work but you've got a plan so I'm sure. Yeah, it says in our first rodeo we've got we've got a really good team of people who care passionately and deeply about the democratic process and making sure that every eligible voters ballot is counted accurately we everything we do is transparent and open to the public so people want to come up here welcome to do so all the time to put up some cameras so we can have some live streaming going of our processes so you can sit at the safety of your own home in front of your computer and look at what we're doing. So we're hoping to just make it as open and transparent so people know exactly the processes we're taking to get through so. Democracy takes time counting votes takes time you don't want to do it we don't want it done quick we want it done accurately and accuracy takes time. Now you've done a lot of work also to make voting really accessible so I wanted to ask you a little bit about some of the offerings that you have like curbside voting can you talk about that. Yeah, so if a voter for any reason cannot access a voting location and wants to be able to get a ballot there they just need to call us and set up an appointment really for us to know that you're going to be over at the Scots Valley Community Center at 12 o'clock on Sunday and I will make sure that I will make sure that you and get you signed in so we do not have to leave your car. Okay, so to talk a little bit about the touchscreen voting system what kinds of things does it have to offer. So it's actually a tablet. So it's very similar to like an iPad kind of thing it's it's a large tablet that's hooked to a printer. It's not connected to the internet. Unit it's only used to mark a paper ballot nothing is stored and so a voter will navigate through their ballot on the tablet. It has an accessibility component so it can be an audio ballot so a voter can put headphones on and have the ballot read to them and they can make selections through a tactile device kind of like a kind of like a Game Boy device where they can go ahead and navigate the ballot and make their selections and then when they're all done they act their ballots printed in the off the shelf printer that's right next to it and the voter can can read it to make sure that it has all their choices their choices are written on there. And so that's if you are someone who's visually impaired and you cannot read text mostly many of the voters have a reading program on their phone and the phone can read the text to them to verify their selections. And then that ballot is put inside the ballot ballot box and it's tallyed here at county elections. So and then the other option with the tablet is to vote a Spanish ballot. So again we're getting Spanish facsimiles of all of our our ballots and we're mailing those to all of our voters who requested Spanish materials. But then they'll also be the Spanish ballot available for them at the voting location on the tablet. So what about getting a ride to the polls. Is that possible. Yes. Yes. So we will definitely provide a ride to the polls for people who need that. I know that that Uber and Lyft were doing programs and other elections and we've been fortunate to use them as well. So, you know, we'll just have to see what voters need.  Okay, so audio. The other thing that we do have to I don't think I've said this yet is we have a remote accessible vote by mail program. And what that is right now it's being used a lot by our military overseas voters because their voting began on on September 4 they get to vote early in an election. And what they're doing is that we are emailing them their ballot with an access or an access code. We email them an access code and then they can go online to actually open up their ballot and they can make their selections on their computer and then they print it. And if you are. So having that ability to fax it back is really, really important. If people don't have access to a fax machine, the Department of Defense operates the federal voting assistance program, and they have a method where you can email it to them and then they could fax it to the local elections official. So it's all very secure and monitor. And otherwise, the remote accessible vote by mail program is also used to be available only to people in the military and overseas voters with disabilities. So they were able to vote independently and privately from home using this, we call it RABBM, the acronym for remote accessible vote by mail balloting. They'd be able to vote that way. But during COVID, the governor and the legislature has now opened it up to any of the voters. So any voter who would like to take advantage and use this method of voting, they are more than welcome to call us or go to our website and request a remote accessible vote by mail ballot. And we can email you that access code.  But come October 5th, we can set you up and you can be emailed an access code and vote your ballot that way and then return it to us. That is impressive. Yeah. Can you talk to me about the audio versions of the information that you're talking about? Can people get a recording of their voter guide? So where I believe we're in the process of posting that now. So that is part of actually the RABBM system. You can get the ballot material read to you. So that is being built, I think, as we speak. So I know we have we have information going out in Spanish and you can receive a ballot in Spanish and you can receive a ballot in Spanish. Are there any other languages that you can get your voter material in? We have people who can assist in Tagalog and Chinese and if there's any other language needs out there, voters need to let us know and we will get somebody who can translate for you. Okay. So in Santa Cruz County, you have all these mail-in ballots, but when can you start counting them? So actually the law changed on that as well. So we don't count them, we process them. So as soon as the ballots come into us, we can do all that work to get them scanned. And into the queue, but we don't hit until after 8 p.m. on election night. So nobody knows any vote totals until after 8 p.m. election night. And that's when we will release our first result.  Use that ballot we mail you, return it to us, and then that will be in that first batch that gets released. Usually it's around by 8.30, I would say, on election night because if there's any voting here in the office, we don't like to release results while people are still voting because then people are talking about them while people are voting. Yeah, and sometimes people don't vote because they just don't think it's worth voting because they know the effect. There's a lot on the ballot. We're not just voting for president. The ballot contains contests. We have a superior court judge on the ballot. We got our first district supervisor and a runoff on the ballot. All four of our city can vote on the ballot. The ballot contains contests. We have a superior court judge on the ballot. We got our first district supervisor and a runoff on the ballot. All four of our city councils have contests on the ballot. There's school districts and other districts on the ballot. There's a lot of things on the ballot, not just the top of the ticket. We've got, of course, state senate, state assembly, two congressional districts. So there's lots for people to vote on. And the good news is voting is not just on the ballot. And so there's just a lot of things on the ballot, not just the top of the ticket. We've got, of course, state senate, state assembly, two congressional districts. So there's lots for people to vote on. And the good news is voting is not a test. You do not have to vote on every single issue in order to have your vote count. So you can pick and choose the contests that you know and feel comfortable with voting and you can leave the rest blank. And that works just fine. So you've got, you've given us a ton of information about voting. This is excellent. I appreciate you're giving all this information. I'm really impressed that you have this all at the top of your mind. Is there anything I didn't ask you that you would like to share about about the voting process in Santa Cruz or anything else people need to know? Well, you know, I mean, it takes an army to do this. We have, and I am so very grateful for all of our volunteers and poll workers who have helped us out in the past, and will continue to help us out. So for a lot of poll workers were in that vulnerable population that aren't comfortable working and inside the people coming and going. So a lot of them are not able to return to work in this election. So we're getting a lot of new people showing up and signing up. So we're very grateful for that. And we're going to be assigning people to positions later this month in early October. And we're going to be doing online poll worker training or election officer training is what we're calling it. That's going to occur in mid October and everyone's going to get trained on exactly what to do at these voting locations. So we're also very grateful. I mean, being part of this county family is a huge thing that I'm very grateful for because there are so many people in county offices who step up and help us during election time. And they're going to be being they're going to be leads out at the voting locations and they're also going to be staffing a voter hotline. So we're going to have operating for the four days starting Sunday of the election time and we're going to have county employees on the phones with access to election information management system being able to answer voter questions about the voting process and how to get their vote counted. So we're really grateful for all the people that are stepping up. And, you know, we've seen a clear indication of this may to serve during these horrible fires that we've all had to experience and see and and how many I mean how we all stepped up in our office of emergency services and our county office and our law enforcement sheriff's office and general services department our office of emergency services. Everybody has pulled together to make sure that people have shelter and that they have food and they have water and they have information about what's happening. So, you know, really great experience see county family pulled together in an emergency to make it happen and, and they'll do it for elections to they show up there they're there they're there to make sure that that this happens and they, and that people have a good voting experience. Well, county clerk Gail Pelerin thank you so much for spending this time with us and sharing your vast knowledge about how voting will work for us this year in a pandemic with a wildfire on the side. We appreciate it. That's going on. Thank you and people can call or email if they have any questions. Okay, thank you very much. And thank you as well. I hope you enjoyed this informational interview with county clerk Gail Pelerin. Good night.


Hopefully this is not some cookie made up thing that this is real. I haven't seen anybody claim that this is not real. Usually they would claim it. So again, I'm being very tentative here because I looked for it and it wasn't on the website. So, but there are people in the, in YouTube, in Twitter saying they saw it on the website. I didn't see it. So, red lights come up. Maybe they just took it off, but here it is. I don't know if you guys saw this, you're seeing a piece of it. It's again from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. And it's about white culture in the United States. And it says, white dominant culture or whiteness, notice how racist this is, refers to the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States. And since white people still hold most of the institutional power in America, we have internalized some aspects of white culture, who is we, I guess, the non-whites, including people of culture.  You can talk about Western culture and Western civilization, but to identify it with a race, to identify it with color skin plays right into the hands of white supremacists. This is as racist as any white supremacist. This is a product of Western civilization starting in Greece, throwing Guru the Renaissance and through the Enlightenment. It's not white culture. It's not whiteness. This is really what they're describing here as the Enlightenment. And again, notice what's missing is the standard for what a good culture is. Truth, reason, human flourishing. No standards. The only standard is white people came up with it. White people came up with it. Maybe it's good. And notice that implicitly what they're rejecting, and this is what makes this so racist and so disgusting, what implicitly they are rejecting is the universality of the human condition. The fact that universal truth supply to everybody. The law of gravity doesn't matter what color of your skin it applies. That capitalism produces wealth no matter the color of your skin, no matter the culture. If they apply capitalism, they benefit. So this is a pure racist, and again plays right into the hands of the white supremacists. Now notice what it counts as white dominant culture. Rugged individualism. Now, rugged individualism is part of American culture. It's part of what identifies America. But it is the idea of individualism is a universal idea. It applies to all individuals, and the truth is there's that big capital T. The truth is that no matter who adopts being an individual benefits. Now what is rugged individual? The individual is the prime unit. Self-alliance. Self-alliance is somehow whiteness. Independence and autonomy. Individuals assuming to be in control of their own environment. You got what you deserve. Now notice what this does. How insulting and oppressive this is to somebody who's not white. They're basically told that if you have the idea that you have control over your environment, or you have the idea that you should have autonomy, or you should be independent, or you should be self-reliant, you are just succumbing to the white dominant culture. You are rejecting your true nature, which is determined by your genes and determined by your color of your skin.  It is, ah, it drives me nuts. This is white supremacy or black, whatever. Blacks have to be collective. Whites are individuals.  Have autonomy, be independent, be self-alliant. And isn't it true that the individual is the prime unit no matter what color of skin they have? Absolutely it is. But that's what they're rejecting. They're trying to undermine individualism. That's their real goal. Their real goal is to kill individualism, reason, science. Notice that item number three is emphasis on the scientific method. That's white, not a truth, because we've abandoned truth. There is no such thing as truth. There's just color of skin. Now it's true that this is the dominant culture. But that's a good thing because it's a true thing. To be objective, to be rational, linear thinking is white. Oh my God, I guess it's cultural appropriation if somebody not white does it.  This is the consequence of multiculturalism. This is the consequence of viewing all cultures as equal. Culture is not equal. Individuals are equal in their rights, in their freedoms. But culture is not equal. Cultures that emphasize individualism. Cultures that emphasize the scientific method. Cultures that emphasize work ethic. A good cultures. Cultures that de-emphasize these things. Cultures that reject these things, particularly the scientific method, particularly objectivity, are bad cultures. But that you see, they were termed as racist because they assume that because somebody, because the people who happened to have discovered these truths happened to be white. And who knows what race the ancient Greeks were, but happened to be white. Therefore, this is associated with a white race. But what do you make of great black scientists, great black intellectuals, great black economists? Oh, they're just, they sold out to the white dominant culture. It really wants me to throw up. Cause and effect relationship, relationships, or white quantitative emphasis, putting numbers to things. That's white.  That if they embrace science, if they embrace education, if they embrace individualism, if they embrace self-reliance, if they embrace hard work, then they are selling out. If they embrace individualism, they are selling out. Yeah, I'm not going to go over all this. I mean, this is so derogatory to their own people, to the people they associate with their own people. I don't think there is such a thing as their own people. This is so derogatory and so crippling. This is why, if you want to know why, blacks have had a hard time economically, educationally. This is why it has nothing to do with their genes. It has nothing to do with IQ. It has nothing to do with, it has to do with their culture. A culture that rejects individualism. And a culture that rejects scientific method. And a culture that rejects the work ethic is never going to be successful, never, ever going to be successful. And doesn't deserve to be successful. But there's no reason. There's no genetic reason. There's no color of skin reason for them to reject any of that. All right, now I wasn't sure if this was a legit document because it was so insane that I figured I'd better check. So I went and looked for other stuff of our white culture. And you can see it here. Yeah, the optimist pessimist. I don't know what that is, optimist and pessimist.  Yes, and that's what they want. The real agenda is not to defeat racism. The real agenda is to defeat reason, science, and individualism. That is what they ultimately hate. That is what they ultimately despise. Now, if you look at this document, this is a document from Seattle.gov. It's in the education department. It's used by Seattle.gov in their education department. And here's what white culture is. One, white culture defines what is considered normal. It creates standards for judging values. For example, think about who and how these terms are defined. Good parenting, stable family, well-raised child, individual self-sufficiency, and effective leadership. The standard definitions of all of those are white. Two, white culture privileges a focus on individuals, parentheses, not groups. The real agenda here is collectivism. And collectivism, racism is a form of collectivism. The real agenda here is collectivism, anti-individualism, anti-capitalism, its socialism, collectivism, altruism, and mysticism because it's a complete and utter rejection of science. One of these is about science. Where's the one about science? White culture values certain ways of knowing. That's number five. For example, if you can't measure it, it's not a value. Focus on cause and effect relationships. Oh my God, cause and effect relationship. And rational linear thinking. What can I say? By the way, the document I read to you before, and I think this document too, are both basically inspired by the same work. Let me see. Yeah, I think this has different citations, but the citation is, and you can get it, is it's called some aspects and assumptions of white culture in the United States by Judith Katz. And my guess is that is a paper you can actually find, and that's where this whole thing is. And so there is a legit citation behind it. This is not made up. People actually believe this. People actually take this stuff seriously. People actually think this is good. I don't know if good is the right word. That this is scientific. That this has value when it is truly despicable. And you see, I can get angry. I get angry at lots of things. Because when I see my values attacked, whether it's by Trump or whether it's by the nutty left, I get angry because values are important to me. And I know there are many of you out there. I get these emails and messages that say, you're on, if only you were calmer. If only you just analyzed this and dissected it in a calm, Sam Harris kind of way, you would have a much bigger audience. And maybe that is true. Maybe that is true. I don't know. But it's not me. I get angry. I get angry when I do Q and As in lectures. I get angry when I speak in lectures. I believe that modeling appropriate behavior, getting angry is appropriate. At crazy, crazy ideas is really, really important. Morality, ideas are not some technical thing that one stays, it's life.  They literally wanna kill me.  Well, they scheme to kill me. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broads. All right, before we go on, reminder. Please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes, that should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show.  But at least the people who are liking it, I wanna see a thumbs up, there you go. Start liking it, I wanna see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this. 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So what we're doing here is we've provided a mobile classroom so that schools can bring their children in out of the classroom that they normally have into a classroom where we're really talking about fire safety and emergent fire safety. So behind me we have our main screen, our main television where we'll show a lot of the videos. We've got quite a good video that's been put together called Lessons from the Past which goes through Black Saturday, Black Friday and Ash Wednesday, not in that order obviously and it just goes through a lot of the basic elements of fire. Now that was created mainly for the secondary environment, however we've noticed that it's actually quite good across a lot of audiences, adults and some of the upper primary alike. Further around, if we go for a bit of a walk, so further around either side of the telly we have a couple boards and they've got dual purpose so the side that we're seeing now, we go through a bit of a timeline so we're talking about the history of bushfire so we take the kids through a bit of a self-directed history of bushfire and then on the other side it goes all the way up to Black Saturday so our major event. Now on the other side of the boards are versed images that actually talk about the fire safety environment so we're looking at the different risk environments so we've got examples such as coastal, bushland, rural farming land, grasslands, that type of thing so if we're looking at doing a lesson which is more geared at the fire environments and the fire risks, we'll flip the boards around so that the students can look through that. Both of the boards have been designed so that they can be self-directed learning as well as being presenter interactive so that element is what fits in there. If we turn a little bit more down here we've got some radiant heat boxes. Now these will have a little panel that Captain Koala will have a couple little words and a couple little description of what radiant heat is and a couple questions for the kids. So what we get the kids to do is we actually get them to stick their hands in so it's about interactive learning so you get the kids to stick their hands in the different boxes and that way they can actually look at why the barriers are affecting the heat. So some are hotter than others, why is that? And we talk about the kids, we talk about the concept of radiant heat with the kids. So radiant heat's a hard one to talk about particularly with the primary school kids so we thought if we had some kind of a visual interactive it'll help actually to illustrate or talk about that point. Now we talk about that in relationship to clothing so protective clothing but we also talk about it in relation to protective features of houses so you know we're talking about distancing yourself from radiant heat away or having solid objects in between. One of the other elements that we have here in the start of the bus is we actually have a projector that can have a screen which is actually rolled up at present and that can actually kind of set the scene and show some just kind of video images or still shot images so that the kids kind of get a bit of a feel of what they're going to be talking about so we're looking at fire safety and that aspect of it. If we switch around here we've got a series of a couple of different iPads in here for the students so we've got two iPads in each docking station and the kids can go through things like the CFA app and look at what incidents are happening around them. They can also look at CFA Connect and they can look at the CFA website so though a lot of our presentation is about the presenter and about the presenter facilitating and getting a lot of information with the kids. We also want the kids to be able to actually break apart and have some self-directed learning as well so that's the idea of the iPads particularly because that technology a lot of the kids have iPads and things like that. They're using technology that they're familiar with. The main actual part of the program is delivered via our smart board here so what happens here both in the primary and the secondary environment is we have interactives which the presenter can go through but they ask students to actually come up and go through the lessons with them so that again you've got that hands-on part of the program. So they go through different elements such as the fire danger rating which is what's up there on the screen now. They look at bushfire behavior. They look at embers. They look at risk and they also look at that kind of personal protective nature. So it's the secondary environment interactive that's actually currently up. We've got a simpler version which is led or using the Captain Koala and Friends characters to help teach those basic elements of fire safety. Up on the wall here down the middle we've got some simulation embers so it goes through a cycle as it travels down the top of the bus where you get the oranges and the reds and the yellows to try to simulate kind of ember attack but in a non-threatening way. So again we can talk about the idea of ember attack and what that means and we've got that visual for the kids to kind of relate to it or the students to relate to it but without making it too scary and without being a threatening environment. Associated with that we have a surround sound system that we've put in which for the secondary students we have a soundscape which goes through a simulated fire environment so with the embers and that kind of sound of the fire and the emergency services and the sirens and a family kind of enacting their plan we get to kind of look a bit more deep into the psychological aspect of it but again in a non-threatening way. So we want to illustrate that fires you know are dangerous, they can be very scary and that there's a personal element to it so we can use that in the secondary school environment and with adult audiences to talk about that element. One final bit, well we've got two bits that are kind of external to the bus. Down the bottom here we actually have a weather station that we've put in so the weather station's actually outside mounted out the rear of the bus that's just clipped in here, sits above the bus and then what we have here is the actual station itself for the students to go through looking at their local temperatures, wind speeds, what the weather's like, pressure that type of thing so we can really explore the concepts of relative humidity, temperature, wind speed and then how does that react to a fire and also what does that mean for the kind of environment that they're that they're currently in and then you can kind of compare that to okay what kind of a day are we at today what does it look like in the fire danger period and relate it back to that local risk. We've also got a television outside which again can show another video so it's just sound it's not interactive but it allows us to have multiple groups going through the buses so we can have a class inside and a class outside with a couple presenters and they can be taking them through different elements of the actual lesson and then a rotation can occur as well and that way they can use their local environment as well so depending on where the bus is stationed they can actually look at what does the vegetation look like what's the weather look like in association with the weather station so that's the major components of the actual program there's a lot there to use and the presenters themselves can use a lot more of their own aids that they bring in as well so we have you know little fire danger rating posters that they can use and we've even got the good old fashioned whiteboard which is the the last bit that we have either side of the smart board so if they want to actually write some illustrations or get the kids to do some illustrations we can still use the the basic technologies of a whiteboard so that's the program in a nutshell.