Hi guys this is Jason here from Nathaniel. In this lesson we are going to do a lot really. So we are going to first look at one of my favorite songs of all time from the movie The Sound of Music called Do Re Mi or Do A Dear I guess I don't know what it's officially called. I think it's Do Re Mi and then we look at the melody obviously how to play the melody the every single note the phrasing the timing and all that we have it notated also for you so you could check it out you could download it at the link and we'll also look at the chords of the song and the actual chords on the original key with all of the embellishments and what I also like to do is to talk about how you can understand this song a bit better and how this song can help you really grow forward as a composer by teaching you the concept this song really uses really stresses on a lot which is secondary dominance that's what we call it in theory which is basically a topic which allows you to use chords out of the scale and then resolve back to chords which are inside the scale okay and last but not least which you have to stay tuned for at the very end we are going to put it all together by developing various versions of this song you will be able to sing and play it together if you're a singer and a piano player or if you'd like to play the melody as well as the chords with a nice rhythm pattern at whichever skill level I guess there will be something for you to digest so before we get started it'll be great if you can subscribe to our youtube channel turn on the bell for notifications like share and anything else you'd like to do which will be nice for the video so let's just get started now with the melody of the song so the songs on B flat major let's first look at the scale B flat E flat those are your two flats B flat and E flat it's a really nice scale on the piano okay B flat C D E flat F G A B flat again so three two flats in the scale now a few tricks before you actually start playing the melody you could play B flat with your thumb but generally we avoid the thumb especially when playing melodies on the black note so you could just use your index finger to kind of go before the thumb which is always on C C will be a nice spot for the thumb and the index finger could go before the C to play B flat and it can go above the C to play D so so you could just get acquainted with that sort of a drill something like that and then of course you may also get used to the fingering of the B flat scale which is generally we start on the index finger index thumb back to index as I told you it crosses middle cross end on the ring okay so that's pretty much it so let's look at the melody I'll play it to you line by line and then let's look at it so first line do a dear a female dear okay do a dear a female dear so you could go do a dear now do a dear a female you have to come back to B flat so maybe either use your index finger to slide back or you can even use your thumb if you're okay with the thumb you can you play with the thumb so do a dear a female dear okay and then re you need to cross your thumb over to the C re a drop of golden sun so I guess we'll just stick with this fingering first three fingers and first three fingers for even the second line so do a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun one more time let's do that together do a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun okay and then moving forward almost the same rhythm so that's a dotted eighth note following followed by a quaver right that's pretty much the structure thumb so if you can get that rhythmic phrase or the motif into your head you can really use it for pretty much the whole song okay moving on so whatever we looked at so a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun and now me a name I call myself okay again very similar it's just the pattern going up and she sings it like that dough is the first note of the scale as per you know the western solfege language in India dough is the sa or the first swara of the scale or you can just call it the root if you will see you go dough a dear a female dear so the first word or the first note is dough or that solfege interval name right and of course it's spelled as DOE which is actually a female dear so it's a nice interplay on words really amazingly written song and if you haven't already make sure you watch the movie it's a great musical and just watching it even without needing to learn it or transcribe it or any of that just watching it is education watching and listening and digesting the music is is education you know so moving forward dough we've done dough a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun forget the left hand for now I'm going to come to the left hand so hang on let's only look at the right hand moving on me which is the third note of b flat which is D me a name I call myself and then far a long long way to run okay me a name I call myself which is the third note D me a name I call myself far a long long way to run so you could use your last three fingers for the far a long long way to run far a long long way to run so you keep that shape sort of here so let's do the first four lines now which we've learned and that's half the song so let's see dough a dear a female dear a drop of golden sun moving on me a name I call myself far a long long way to run okay I apologize for not being able to sing as good and as high as Julie Andrews but I'm just trying to give you a sense of the melody right and if you're a female vocalist please go one octave higher it's not something which I am very comfortable doing but yeah it will be your octave will be dough a dear a female dear you'll have to go high it sounds really nice for a female voice actually speaking for a male voice it goes a bit low but anyway so you go now moving on to the the one two three four fifth line now in the song which is so a needle pulling thread okay let's get the fingering so a needle pulling thread okay so a needle pulling thread again so being the fifth note of the scale that's f and again a great play on words so a needle pulling thread so so cross your index so a needle pulling thread pinky on the thread so a needle pulling thread and then let's move on to the la la a note to follow so so here you'll have to cross your thumb so it's slightly tricky just follow along so coming back to that so lyric so a needle pulling thread okay la a note to follow so so I do know to tuck your thumb under the middle finger la a note to follow so you end there okay and then the same melody sort of keeps going higher tea a drink with jam and bread okay tea a drink with jam and bread okay I like to kind of end with my ring finger because then I of course that'll bring us back to dough as she says so you come back the finger also needs to come back isn't it so let's just do that again from the so line so a needle pulling thread so he goes so a needle pulling thread cross that then la a note to follow so now tea tea a drink with jam and bread try to end with your ring finger okay so tea a drink with jam and bread then that will bring us back to dough repeat that will bring us so you can do us that will bring us could slide this finger in then play the thumb that will bring us back to dough and you come exactly to the index finger on B flat or the thumb on B flat if you want to use the thumb that will bring us back to dough and goes on okay let's just do the whole thing once and fingering is not specific it's not compulsory that you follow these fingerings but I've just given you a kind of a basic guideline to get acquainted because it's a little tricky melody right you find that there are quite a few notes outside the scale and we learn this melody actually in school so one might argue that it's a very simple song you know sometimes it's branded with a nursery rhyme and stuff like that but I think it's a very very interesting song it has a lot of harmonic and melodic movement and also rhythmic stuff okay so let's just wind up the discussion on the melody by doing it you know with the whole thing from the beginning okay and I'm as I said I'm just playing the left hand for effect I'm going to talk about the left hand very shortly so dough a dear a female dear ray a drop of golden sun me me a name I call myself far a long long way to run so so a needle pulling thread la la a note to follow so tea tea a drink with jam and bread that will bring us back to dough oh oh oh dough and then you can do it with the tempo of the song something like dough a dear a female dear ray a drop of golden sun me a name I call myself far a long long way to run so a needle pulling thread la la a note to follow so tea a drink with jam and bread that will bring us back to dough oh oh dough okay so that's about the melody now we are going to move to the harmony the chords and as I tell you the chords I'm going to also look at a little bit of the theory behind the chords because there are some chords which I think need to be explained they are outside the key so why is that the case usually chords come from the scale that's why we write the scale before we learn the songs so now let's look at the amazing chords in this song right so now let's look at the left hand well there are quite a few chords right but let's just start with the roots of the chords and I'm going to call out the chord as we play so in the left hand what you could do to get started is just hold the chord don't bother about any kind of rhythm because a melody is already kind of tricky so just hold the chord or what could also work is just hold on a few notes of the chord right for two reasons one is it makes it easy to play and the second reason it also sounds better because in the bass if you start playing many notes it can give you a very muddy sound so even if you knock off a couple of notes of the chord like for example the fifth which is not so important it could work you know so let's see how it goes I'm going to start with b flat and I'm only going to talk about the chord roots first so that's b flat and play each chord as a simple pulse four hits each bar you can use octaves as well a drop of golden sun or you could even use toggled octaves or scattered octaves so if you like that very bass like right and same thing for me a name I call myself same story b flat and f me a name I call myself f for a long long way to run and then it changes a little bit but we start with b flat as we did earlier so a needle pulling thread there you go to e flat you go to c at the la la a note to follow so you go to f there now d to g and then you can drop it to f if you want that would bring us e flat back to so I would imagine the first four lines are rather easy right you just go b flat and f it's the remaining four lines which are the challenge so anyway let's do the first four lines once more just to get a hang of it b flat f and then back to b flat f and then you do so a needle pulling thread that's e flat okay then c with la la a note to follow so that's f and you go t with d here so I'll do that again t d so these are all root notes of the chords right you can also now play the actual chord so b flat major b flat d f so do a dear a female dear now this is how I am playing the f chord I am playing it as an f seventh so instead of playing that whole striad which sounds a bit cluttered I'm just making it easy for myself and just playing two notes f and e flat so let's do the two chords no a dear a female dear a a drop of golden sun okay back I call myself f far along the way to this is how I am playing f dominant seven f e flat okay moving forward back to b flat so a needle pulling thread you could play e flat with an inversion so a needle pulling okay then that's la with a c seventh or you can just play a normal c major la a note to follow so that's f major with an inversion so let's do that again so a needle but e flat with its inversion then la a note to follow so f with an inversion then d major so it's sort of like root inversion then root position of c inversion of f then root position of d inversion of g minor let's now do it from the so again just to recap b flat so a needle pulling thread e flat with inversion la c or c seventh la a note to follow so that's f then d a drink with jam and bread g minor then you can do b flat right after that or you can ignore the b flat let us e flat back to f major b flat oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh dear so those are your chords so in in conclusion we've looked at the melody in the right hand and we've looked at two ways to accompany your harmony in the left hand the first and the most simple way is to just take the roots of the chord isolate the roots of the chord and then figure out a rhythm pattern and think like how a bass player in a band would think right i think that's the most simplistic but yet groovy way to get started with your left hand some people try to play the entire chord and then the problem is not only about playing the chord it's about shifting from one to the other which you may find a bit tricky so if you're newer to the instrument and if you find if you're still getting acquainted with the tune just play simple bass notes in the left and then you can graduate towards the full chords or even stick with the root root and octave kind of thing it sounds quite good if you ask me sounds quite nice right sounds quite cool and then you we have the chord system hold the chords with the pulse or just hold it that's the chord thing e flat c f with inversion d g minor e flat f b flat right so moving forward we are going to analyze this song a bit closely right we are going to do that in the next part of this series so if you if your intention is just to kind of play the melody get the harmony going in the left hand sing along i i hope this was good moving forward we are going to really explore the song and see theoretically why it's such a masterpiece okay so head over to the next part and before you do if you haven't already don't forget to subscribe to our channel hit that bell for notifications and leave us a comment that'll be great and you can also download the notation and all my notes at the link in the description that'll also be a great support to our 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Good afternoon.  And everything is terrible because you're getting all of your messages from your brain. So the TLDR, in case you wanted to fall asleep at some point, is everything is absolutely horrible. But not so bad. So to give you a bit of background about myself, my name is Jessica Rose, and I generally have to apologize for being a little bit too chirpy in talks. Mostly because I'm based in the UK and everybody's out there for reasons, just now. But Ireland seems to be a little bit chirpier, so I'm going to pass right by that. I work in developer relations, and this is a job which I'm firmly convinced absolutely should not exist. I get to go out to developer communities and talk to people about what they're building and give talks and give workshops. I get to spend all of my time talking to people, generally people who are much smarter than me, about what kinds of things they want to do in the future with technology. And this would be the best job in the world, but I'm generally talking to people who are a lot smarter than me. And that can be from terrifying to intimidating. And this talk really came from a lot of emotional interactions I had with talking to people who are much, much smarter than me. And because it's a little bit personal, I'm always really interested in hearing what other people have to say about cognitive biases or what they have to say about their own experiences with intellect. So I've got a tiny Twitter handle at the bottom of my slides. If you don't want to chat to me after or you don't want to chat at the question and answer, my DMs are open, you can go ahead and say that talk was the worst thing I ever heard. It's terrible. You could tell me your own story. You can do whatever makes you happy. Before I got into technology, before I got this incredible kind of bonkers job that couldn't exist, I worked in education and I worked in language and linguistics. So I taught people linguistics and taught them about language learning.   And there's a concept from language learning that I think is really, really valuable for technologists. And I hadn't seen anyone else talk about it. Has anybody heard of the zone of proximal development? There's like another language nerd in the back going, yeah, yeah.  Your brain wants to learn. You want to learn new things. But to do that, you need to be doing activity in a specific part of your skill set. If you're doing things that are far too easy for you, you can do the thing. I think this is familiar for everyone who's ever done any development. If somebody gives you something you've done 100 times before, you can do the thing. You're not going to have a lot of motivation. You're not thrilled. And no real learning is going to take place for folks who haven't slogged through a development process that isn't exciting and they've done it a million times before. I often talk about this in RPG terms. If you're level 50 and you're still bopping level one monsters, you're not getting anything done. But on the other hand, if you go up far too high, if you're dealing with learning tasks or development tasks, any kind of tasks that are too high above your current level, not only are you not going to be able to do them, there's no real meaningful learning that can happen at that level. And furthermore, you're going to really mess up your motivation. You can jump up there temporarily if you've got a great teacher helping you preview things. But if you're consistently levels and levels above where you need to be, you're just going to make yourself miserable.  And this would be great. We now know that there's a space in your brain where you're getting learning done. There's a space in your skill set that your brain wants to be at. Your happy brain is happiest right there in the zone of proximal development. And this would be fantastic.  You have no idea how good you are. And you have no idea how good you are relative to your own peers. And a lot of that comes down to cognitive biases. As a former teacher, I'll confess that teachers are just as lazy as students. So of course, I just copy and pasted the Wikipedia for cognitive bias. It's a pattern of DV. I don't care about any of that. My husband gave me a much better definition that I like a lot more.  This is something your brain made for you and you are never going to let this go. Cognitive biases are great, well and terrible. In many of the same ways, our brains are great and terrible. But I'm going to start out talking about imposter syndrome as the first one. Does anybody know what imposter syndrome is? Amazing. For those of you who don't, I like to describe imposter syndrome as this cold, sick, wet, sad feeling that you have no idea what you're doing, but everybody else around you, they seem fine.   I think the dictionary term is the feeling that you're an imposter and you don't deserve to be where you are. But that definition is super fluffy. Oh, it's all feelings. And I want to talk about stuff that's a little bit harder. We're a technical audience, we deal with technological processes. What does imposter syndrome actually do? And luckily, folks love to research this. So I'm in Clance first piloted the study on imposter syndrome in the 70s. And they said that imposter syndrome had these effects that they found. I'm in Clance studied high achieving women who reported feeling imposter syndrome. They said, you know what, the folks in our study, they say that they report feelings of inadequacy. Which is great, it's nice to have that data point. But I feel like that's kind of covered in the definition. Hey, imposter syndrome, you feel inadequate. Yeah. They also reported that people who felt that they had imposter syndrome avoided displays of target skills.  Found that people just like language learning and just like linguists, if you don't know a word or if you don't have a task, you'll find really clever ways to get around it. They found that respondents in their study used soft skills. They used charm and social mitigation. And this was really interesting. These women who were high achieving, who didn't feel like they knew what they were doing, were nicer. I'm mostly okay with that. And the thing that I thought was really interesting is they found that their respondents who reported feeling imposter syndrome reported doing more work. They spent more time on these core skills. And they spent more energy trying to upskill to get around their feelings. I like this one. Who is impacted by imposter syndrome? So I'm in Clance, did a study of high achieving women.  You can put them up only a little, but who's ever felt like you don't know what you're doing and everybody else absolutely does. Very sneaky like look around to see who does not have their hands up. This will be great in about 20 minutes. I love how everybody's like, yeah, okay. So I'm in Clance. I said, you know what? We think that high achieving women most often suffer from imposter syndrome. And I think I'm, that's great. Clance, that's great. Thank you for that. But y'all kind of set out to study high achieving women. Let's go to the next study. And Verifasquez and Corona, they came back around in the early 2000s and they said, you know what? We've gone back. We've done a little bit more math. We think high achieving women of color are more likely to be impacted. And then I didn't want to have like 40 slides up here. So I'll just Google it yourselves, but I promise you, most of the research says that high achieving visible minorities who are underrepresented in their areas most likely report feeling that they have imposter syndrome, which would be great. But we did a quick and dirty sampling and we found that like one to everybody, pretty much everybody was like, yeah, I felt like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm faking it. So what's with that mismatch? What's with people statistically reporting that underrepresented folks feel this more often and are very scientific hands up sampling finding a really wide range of folks? I think that one of the issues is the reporting involves saying, I feel. And for folks that don't often use emotative language, I think that guys are often discouraged from saying, I feel like I don't know what I'm doing because starting with I feel anything seems to be really scary and kind of dangerous as a guy. It seems exhausting and I have no advice for y'all other than make everyone else stop doing that. That seems terrible. I think in an environment where you need to say, I feel like I'm not supported and I feel like I don't know what I'm doing to get better support, that failing to recognize that men feel the same way is really, really not serving them well. I think another big reason you see more underrepresented folks talking about imposter syndrome and reporting it has to do with representation and reflections of success. If I am a yellow, kind of gross, yellow smiley face and I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing, things are not great right now, but I look around and I look at my professional contexts, I look at my peers and they sound like me and they look like me, and none of them are freaking out. So even if I'm not feeling especially well, it's probably fine, like Bill, Bill's just like me and he's cool. It's fine. But if I'm not well represented in my environment, if I'm a little cat-head emoji and I look around and say, do you know what, I have no idea what I'm doing. What's going on? What are my peer groups like? What's my office like? I look around and I say, I have no idea what I'm doing. Everyone else seems fine. And everyone else does seem fine. But I can't really see myself in their success. Bill's great. Bill's such a good dude to work with. But he doesn't sound like me and he doesn't look like me and we didn't go to the same schools. Having somebody around you and having environment that reflects success that looks like you is a really great sort of external sign that everything might be okay. I think on some level, recognizing that internalizing discriminatory messages are really common. And not necessarily just in technology, but folks who are high achieving and underrepresented get a lot of messages that this is not for them. This is not their space. They don't belong here. And at some point, taking those messages on board and really internalizing them is something almost everyone's going to do. I think that technology, very clearly, I think this is not a spoiler, but I think that technology is amazing. I think that technology is doing really interesting things to imposter syndrome that's not especially always great. Social media gives us an incredible opportunity to see and curated real-world experience through someone else's perspective. And it's really tempting to look at our peers and look at our heroes and look at our professional equals and compare ourselves to that. Before social media, if you wanted to look at somebody's dinner or if you wanted to look at what people are doing this week, you had to look at maybe politicians, lifestyle of the rich and famous. You only got mass media looks. Now, I could probably find out what y'all have been doing this week for every single person here. And it's so...  And the difficulty there is this invites you to compare the whole of your lived experience to a very carefully curated stream. If this talk goes really well, I'm going to brag about it on every single one of these. If this goes terribly and I leave this room in tears, no one is ever going to hear about that across social... Maybe Tumblr. But looking at other people's experiences is a great way to see what they're doing and a really, really terrible way to see how you rank against them. But I made a bunch of silly promises in the abstract. In the abstract, I promised that I would tell you about ways to cope with imposter syndrome, which seems like a pretty big ask.  Sort of. But you all are very nice people, right? It was amazing because this side of the room, people were like, yeah, yeah, that side of the room. Somebody in the back was like, no. You're all very nice people, right? So of course, the first thing you care about is how to make other people feel better when they might have these problems, right? Increasingly sarcastic, like, no, I don't know. Fix it for me. The first thing I would lead with is a warning. When somebody comes to you with a problem, don't tell them it's imposter syndrome for them. I do a lot of work with university student hackathons and the older I get, the more adorable they get. I swear they're like five now. They're just like happy puppies. I was working on something at a hackathon that I don't like doing and it's not at my skill set. So like a well-adjusted person, I was berating myself quietly. This is terrible. You're terrible. All of this is wrong. When the world's youngest 18-year-old boy, just like an absolute cherub, walked up and said, yes, yes, it's okay. You're not bad at that. You have imposter syndrome. And he's alive because he was the world's cutest child. Like I didn't want to... But when people are coming to you, take them at face value. If someone's coming to you as a direct report and they're telling you, I don't feel supported in the workplace. Don't tell them that they have imposter syndrome. If somebody's telling you, I'm not really fitting in with my company or somebody's telling you, I don't know what I'm doing professionally.  They can be telling you that they're not being supported. They can be telling you that they need to work on specific parts of their skillset. If you go ahead and say, no, that's just imposter syndrome. That's a really jerky way to erase everything they've just told you. Say, hey, I'm bringing you a very special concern. No, no, you're not. This is actually something that's broken with you and you need to go fix it.  I think he's probably unlikely to do it again. But one thing that you can do to lay the groundwork for people overall feeling less miserable is give very concrete, actionable feedback all over the place. Who has complained about something? Who's complained about an open-source project when it hasn't worked? Who's complained on social media? I love how a lot of people are lying. They're like, no, not one time, but come on. Who here has taken the time to give positive feedback to somebody who fixed something or built a feature when stuff went, oh, Drupal. For folks watching the slide video later, Drupal folks are apparently the loveliest people in the world and about 90% of them raised their hand and went, yay. Going ahead and reaching out and doing this whenever it's appropriate is an incredible way to make sure that people are getting positive feedback to combat their brains giving them terrible messaging. And this one's not risk-free. If you're in a place where you feel comfortable, go ahead and model a bit of vulnerability. Say, hey, sometimes I have no idea what I'm doing. And the great thing about this is if you do this in an even voice and you sound confident, people are never gonna believe you. I often give this talk and folks come up afterwards to say, hey, you've really got things together, which is not true. I think at some point during this talk I confess to crying in the bath. Like, that is super not true. But if you're willing to say, hey, sometimes I don't know what I'm talking about, folks are very rarely gonna be terrible about that. Fixing it for other people, great.  Give them positive reinforcement. Don't tell people that they have imposter syndrome unless you really, really want to die. But fixing it for yourself is a little bit more challenging.  Independent assessments, an incredible way to do this. Has anybody taken very, very useful industry certifications? Has anybody taken less useful? Yeah. If you do find an incredibly useful industry certification, taking one of these is a great way to get actual hard numbers to say, hey, I'm 87% competent. Maybe I should take a nap. But in the absence of meaningful assessment on things like this, doing things like mentorship, doing things like teaching are an incredible way to get feedback from someone else that you know what you're doing and you're passing that information on meaningfully.  It's just what brains do. One thing that can be really helpful is to recognize the patterns. When you get to the point you say, oh, I have no idea what I'm doing. Everyone else seems fine. I'm gonna get caught. I'm going to be humiliated. Then I'm going to be fired. Then I'm going to lose my flat. Then I'm going to have to live outside, and then I will reign on me all the time. That progressive gah is one of the things that can be really easy to sort of sidestep. So when you do see yourself, like check in with yourself occasionally, say when you do find yourself saying, I have no idea what I'm doing. Everything's terrible. That's a really good time to get off the panic express. And the difficult thing is oftentimes you need to walk away from what you're doing. You need to take a break from the thing that's making things really difficult and do anything else for just a minute. My slides are gorgeous because I have designers who are much, much better at this than me. And I actually confess to my designers jokingly what I do when things get really terrible. Where's that? If anybody else eats in the bath when you get really, really unhappy, could you please come see me after this so I can text my husband and tell him I'm not gross? I don't necessarily recommend eating cake in the bath, but you do need to find something that works really well for you. If you find that taking a break and doing some tabletop gaming is what gets you back off of that panic ledge, absolutely do that. 20 minutes, do that. I see again and again people claiming that they exercise when they're stressed. And I don't know any of those people. I'm fairly sure they're lying. But if you are actually one of those people, go take a short run. Like it's all about taking a break from those messages that your brain is giving you that you are never going to be able to do the thing. And one thing I'd add on top of this is I found that video games tend to not help at all. I have no idea what the deal is, but any time I say, oh, I'm going to go ahead and take a five minute break and I'm just going to play a couple rounds of Civ 5 and I'll go right back to doing my work. I've never had that work. And chatting to other folks, I find that video games are often not the way forward. If you can absolutely be trusted to put video games down after 20 minutes, great break. Also come and tell me how you do it. I've been talking a lot about imposter syndrome is just your brain being terrible and it's always going to be terrible. And even if you get better dated on top of it, it's going to be terrible. And even if you take breaks from that messaging, it's still going to be terrible. So everything's kind of terrible. But I want to take a little bit of a step back and recontextualize. I want to look at another cognitive bias and see if maybe imposter syndrome's not terrible, terrible. Maybe it's just terrible. Eims and Clance, when they're talking about imposter syndrome, they talked about these feelings of inadequacy and that sucks. Avoiding displays of target skills, not showing off the things that you need to do more, that's not great. But I love this.  Yeah, if everybody wants to make up for feeling insecure by being lovely, I am super okay with that.  I love this a lot. I want to talk about another cognitive bias really quickly. Has anybody ever used lemon juice as invisible ink? For those of you who don't, great. Take some lemon juice, write on a paper, find a non-LED light, and then it'll show up when you expose it to the heat. Way back in the dim days of the 90s, a gentleman decided to cover his face in lemon juice and then robbed some banks in the afternoon. And when he was caught, he expressed a great deal of surprise that he was able to be identified. Because the video you see, he would be invisible. And when I first read this, I'm going to cover my face in lemon juice, I'm going to go in there, I'm going to rob the banks, they're never catching me, it's a perfect crime. I was like, oh honey. But to Stanford researchers, Dunning and Krueger, they saw the same thing, and they were aware that grant money is real. Whereas, I would have just made a quiet, strangled sound, Dunning and Krueger said, hey, hey, hey, look at this.    So I think we all know how this is gonna go. They got about 2,500 undergraduate students and members of the general public to take a very, very general aptitude test.  And they went ahead, had people take the test, and then took the paper away and gave them another piece of paper. Said, do you know what? We're not gonna give you your test results quite yet, but you've just finished the test. Show me on this graph how you think you performed relative to your peers. And I love this, because quartile is massively of underused word. They found that the actual test scores were very, very predictable. This is a predictable curve for a test. But when you ask people, hey, how did you do? And Dunning and Kruger were sweethearts.  They said the unskilled. And they found that the most terminally unskilled rated themselves artificially high. And that the more talented you became, the more likely you were to underrate your own skill set. I love this, and I hate this, because it is actually saying that people who are unskilled do not know it. They have zero visibility around it. The first time somebody told me about this, I made a quiet, strangled scream, because I used to work with that guy, and it was fine. They went ahead and said, do you know what, here are conclusions. We think that the unskilled are holy and completely unable to recognize their own lack of skill. They do not know, but to make it better. And for those of you, I won't ask you to raise your hands, but you can go ahead and make a panicked face. If any of you have ever worked with someone like this, you also know that the unskilled are absolutely unable to see genuine skill in other people, lacking the skill and lacking it to such great extent that comprehension of different skill levels is completely alien to these folks. And again, that's fine, but it is actually fine because there's hope. The unskilled can move past their own lack of skill. The unskilled, once they recognize their own lack of skill, which they are never gonna do because we come back to point one, but if they ever did it, if folks ever had a come to Jesus talk with themselves about their own lack of skill, they could move past that and work to develop their skills. And this is great, this is super great. I think this is marvelous. So for me and for other folks out there who are constantly worried that they're not good enough, that they have no idea what they're doing, that everything's terrible, that we're frauds and we're gonna be found out, we're alone because people who are genuinely unskilled, they go to sleep at night and sleep the dreams of the just. But I think maybe that's okay.  I think that's still true. But I think imposter syndrome, I think this feeling that you don't know what you're doing and that everything's terrible, I don't think it's garbage information. I think this is a garbage error message. When you get the, oh God, I have no idea what I'm doing, that's your brain passing you a really poorly written error message that you're not incompetent. Every time you get this, this is too much, this is too far, this is a great sign that you're edging closer and closer to your mind being into the zone of proximal development. You're getting closer and closer to meaningful learning with every they're going to catch me that you feel deep in your soul. And I've given this talk a couple times and it's been really interesting. I'm so interested in people's responses and almost always I get people coming up afterwards and say, hey, so thanks for the talk which is you have to say that it's polite. I say, well, I've actually heard of imposter syndrome before, but that's not my problem. You see, I know that other people have imposter syndrome but I'm actually rubbish. And that's difficult because when you first hear about imposter syndrome, you've got a great, oh, that's what that is. I'm gonna ignore it the next couple of times. But feelings aren't as easy to ignore as error messages. Those feelings as they continue to come back feel more and more real. I don't know what I'm doing. Everything's terrible. I don't know what I'm doing. Everything's terrible. Ignoring that kind of alarm is really difficult. Checking in with yourself regularly and letting yourself know that you're not that special. There's no kind of magical meta imposter syndrome.   If you were actually that terrible, you would have no idea.  If you could think of yourself not so much as a fraud, as a con artist, you know you're terrible, but everybody else is terrible. And you're one of the few people who's actually parsing this error message into something really valuable.   Everything's mostly okay, but I'm gonna keep doing this just to mess with you. Thank you so much. I almost always get a question about how do I deal with somebody with Dunning Kruger in a professional environment?  Those are literally the only things you could do. You can't leave them like hints. You just, thank you all so much.


I'm going to give you the best way in our industry to cross-sell with what I call the money bag presentation. Big shout out to Keith, our video guy for drawing this. I cannot draw, but it's amazing. The money bag presentation, when you are sitting with a client, what you want to do, and you're never going to do it this good unless you make Keith draw it and then we put it on a piece of paper and you print it out, but this is something you want to do with a client early in an appointment when you're selling Medicare as you want to fact find and sell other additional products. A great way, I started doing it, you can hear Landon talking because we're blowing up marketing right now, we're busy, but I want you to focus because I'm telling you, this can impact and change your business and add six figures the next 12 months. So there's four different ways and so what you say is to set this up. Mr. and Mrs. Client, I would like to go over something that a lot of my clients are concerned about because this is your bag of money for retirement and there's four things that can take money out of your money bag and there are major concerns from my clients and these are four things that we specialize in helping them alleviate. So let's go over those together and you say the first thing is health. If someone doesn't have the right health care plan in place, health insurance, Medicare plan, it can take a lot, I mean you could have something happen, heart attack and guess what? You just went $200,000 out of your money bag or at least 20% of your own Medicare, right? So that's why we're here today is to help you with that and we're going to fix that concern. You with me? So that we're going to be able to check on. So that's the first concern, but we're here today and I'm going to make sure we fix that for you. The second concern that is a big concern for a lot of our clients is legacy, which comes to covering final expenses, end of life expenses, a mortgage, credit card debt, car loans, leaving money to your family, income, there's a lot of different things. And what we do to help with that is life insurance generally. What do you currently have to make sure that those aren't concerns for your family? Perfect. Okay, excellent. So that's where you get a chance to like ask them questions and actually fact fine. Okay, great. So that's a $100,000 life insurance policy, you know, you're paying $222 a month, you've had it for six years, it's with this company, okay, and that's where you can like start to fact fine. Now you don't want to jump in and start selling right there, you want to continue fact finding and come back to it, but this is a freaking great way to fact fine. Stay with me. Two more steps. Okay. This is probably the best video I've ever done, right Dylan? Okay. Third thing. Third thing that can take a third concern that can take money out of your money back. The third thing, Mr. and Mrs. prospect is income, big concern running out of this money bag going empty and there's a hole in it and you have no more. That sucks, doesn't it? Right.  So what type of investment strategies do you have or what type of monies do you have set aside to make sure that you have enough income for the rest of your life? What have we done to prepare for this? Oh, okay. You have a CD. Great. You know, what banks are that? How much is it for? Oh, you have an annuity. Okay. Did you have like a 401k at work or anything? Did you do anything with that? That's where you can start to fact find in that area. Great way to sell some annuities. This was the best way for me to grab some money and be able to help a client. Okay. And then I'll move into fourth concern, fourth major concern for my clients that I want to talk about is long term care expenses. And I want to go ahead and tell you that those expenses when it comes to care can be nursing home, home health care or assisted living major concern about 70% of seniors 65 years and older will need care at some point in the retirement. So what have you done to make sure that it's one of the biggest concerns? Huge financial burden. What have you done to alleviate that concern? Do you have a long term care insurance policy, nursing home policy, money set aside like everyone has a plan doing nothing is still a plan. Now it's not a smart plan, but it's a plan, right? So what plan have you put into place to cover and alleviate that concern? Oh, we haven't done anything. Nothing. Okay. Well, help me out on a scale of one to 10. One being dude, we do not care. 10 being it's really, really important to us. Where do you fall from a one to 10 as far as how big of a concern that is to you? Right? So you can use words like this. I'm telling you, when you get in front of seniors, this is the best way to sell additional products. I saw a lot of, even when I was focused on just Medicare for a time, I saw a lot of life insurance, a lot of annuities and a lot of long-term care or long-term care life insurance hybrid policies by using what we call the money bag presentation. This is a great way to fact find and sell additional products and to help additional people.


Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the North Point 24-inch Water Transmission Main Virtual Community Construction Meeting. If you have some questions already, you can put them in the chat. It's in the lower right-hand corner of your screen. If you're a call-in user and cannot see the PowerPoint, you can unmute yourself and ask the questions after the presentation. This presentation is being recorded, if you didn't hear me say that before. I'm going to hand this off to Susie Abbey, who is our project manager. Welcome, everybody. On the agenda today, we're going to start with some introductions, go over a project overview, discuss the project area, go through some frequently asked questions, and then discuss the timeline. Your construction project team includes myself. I'm the city project manager and my name is Susie Abbey. You can reach me at<PHONE_NUMBER> or email me at Suzanne.Abbey at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. The city inspectors, Carmen Drake, and she can be reached at<PHONE_NUMBER>. And you can also email her at Carmen.Drake at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. Our engineering design consultant is Kimley Horn, and Josh Kerchow and William Biedemann are the project manager and project engineers. And our contractor is SJ Lewis Construction. Adam Lunsford and Ronald Etter are the project managers and Caleb Ivey is on their cruise. As for the project, we're building a 24-inch diameter water transmission main in Northwest Fort Worth in the North Point Development Area. Construction will likely impact traffic on Park Drive and Old Decatur Road as well as Park Drive at Boat Club Road. The project is in Fort Worth Council District 7 and impacts the Northwest Fort Worth neighborhood lines. So the project area, the water main will start at Park Drive just east of Boat Club Road and extend northeasterly along the proposed extension of Heritage Trace Boulevard. Construction ends just north of the intersection of Assembly Road and North Water Tower Road on Heritage Trace Boulevard. Lake Point Elementary School is east of the center board lane and Park Drive intersection at the southern end of the project. So why are we doing this project? Fort Worth Water is working with the Lenard Homes of Texas land and construction LTD to construct the 24-inch water transmission main. This main will serve the North Point Development and anticipated future growth in Northwest Fort Worth. So what is a water transmission main? Water transmission mains are large pipes that are 16-inch in diameter and larger. Transmission mains are designed to move large quantities of water to the smaller distribution mains and eventually to customers. Which homes will be impacted by the construction? The Northwest Fort Worth estates is an existing neighborhood in the project area. However, homes directly impacted by constructions are not yet completed. Construction of the Lenard Homes phases one and phase two will be concurrent with the project. The timeline construction activities will begin in December actually 2021 and the contractor will start construction at the southern end just east of Park Drive at Boat Club Road. And the projected end date is late summer of 2022. This is where you can get more information if you need it. Progress will be updated on the City of Fort Worth website at this link. You can also go to www.fortworthtexas.gov and enter 103-505 in the search bar on the homepage. The link to this meeting video, the project map, and the project summary and frequently asked questions will be linked to this project page as well. Here's our contact information again if you need it. Project manager Susie Abbey,<PHONE_NUMBER>, susanne.abbey at www.fortworthtexas.gov and the inspector, Carmen Drake,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Carmen.drake at www.fortworthtexas.gov. If you need to report an emergency or non-emergency, you can call this one number,<PHONE_NUMBER>. For emergencies you can call this number 24 hours a day and select option one. For non-emergency you can call between the hours of 7am and 7pm Monday through Friday. The number is closed on City holidays though. You can also download the Mike Fort Worth app from the App Store or Google Play. You can report sewer overflows, leaks and water main breaks, missing or broken meter lids, water theft, water violations, water service, water pressure issues and other sewer concerns. This completes our presentation. Do we have any questions? We don't have anything in the chat so if any call and users have a question, now's the time. No questions at all? Susie, do we leave anything out? I don't think so. Okay, if there's no questions we will end the meeting and thank you everybody for attending.


Authorities are investigating a plane crash in Brainerd today, the third in the state in as many days. Officials say no one was seriously injured when the plane went down while attempting to land at the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration says two people were on board the fixed wing single engine airplane when it crashed at about 11 a.m. The search for the plane and the couple on board was difficult because the plane crashed in a heavily wooded area near Swampland. The Brainerd dispatch reports a state patrol helicopter located Vincent and Jody Facciano of Illinois near the railroad tracks in the area and the two were airlifted from the scene with only minor injuries including bumps and bruises. The Crow and County Sheriff's Office told the dispatch that the pilot, 60-year-old Vincent Facciano, said the engine failed upon approach and the plane was unable to reach the runway. Over the weekend two other small planes crashed in western Minnesota's Douglas County, killing one of the pilots. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Alright, baby, so what are you doing? I'm gonna try to open a coconut today for the first time. By the way, this is a coconut that I won from a giveaway on Instagram. Also, it was sent all the way from Hawaii. So if you're visiting Hawaii, you can literally send the coconut with a mail service. Alright, so now I'm gonna do what I think is the right thing to do. Yeah, see those little eyes and mouth here? I'm gonna get the water out first. You gotta be like Tom Hanks, though, in the castaway. Exactly. Oh yeah, a big hole. I don't think it has any water, really. Okay, so they say that, you know, see the mouth here? There's a line that goes horizontally, so that's where you roll to. I can actually see the line forming from here. Nice. Oh, that's a good sign. Holy moly. Clean cut. You're having a better time of it than Tom Hanks did. At least so far, anyway.  Let's see. I'll do it again one more time. Hit it hard. Hit it like a mean it. Hit it like your life depends on it. Oh, I think it's better. Hey, well, uh-huh. Alright. We're gonna get it out here.  Alright, you got a spoon? We got half of the piece out. This one is still a little stiff. So, not good. It's a little dry, actually, because it was mailed then. I don't know how long it's been pulled for. Usually, at least how I saw, when I saw the videos online, because it's got some moist, there is some space between the skin and the shell. But here, there's literally not even enough space to place the spoon, you know what I mean? This is painful. It is sitting in the chair. So, the question right now for you, Alex, are you going to eat any of this? Oh, man, I'm gonna go look up coconut storage stuff. If it says fine, I will have some. I'm gonna keep some of the coconut in the fire pit so that when we make fire next time, it's gonna be coconut flavorful. Oh, my God, I cut myself. This is not dead. You know, before making the video, I was gonna make the joke of making, like, you know, coconut bra. But now I only have half. Alright, still good. Be, like, authentic. Half coconut. There you go. Namaste. Alright, any parting words for the viewers? No, just do the thing and don't cut yourself. With a spoon. Alrighty. Well, I'm Alex. That's Habiba. And we are coconuts. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Bye.


Hello everyone. We'll be getting started with the live Q&A webinar shortly. We're going to just wait a few minutes to help ensure that everyone who's registered gets a chance to join. In the meantime, feel free to tell us where you're coming in from and what kind of work you oversee. It's always nice to get you know, know you a little bit better in these sessions. Awesome. From Sacramento, California with an escape room. Absolutely love escape rooms. I may or may not have completed a few myself. Alice from New York City. Welcome with a wonderful coffee shop. It's very convenient that I can connect here. Love coffee. Love a nice French press. Wonderful. Welcome everyone. It looks like our attendance has evened off here. So excited to have you all. My name is Tiffany and I'm joined by my team member Cara. We're part of the onboarding team here at when I work and our goals to help get new users up and running with when I work scheduling attendance tools. Myself and Cara have been with when I work for a long time and have seen accounts for a wide variety of workplaces and industries from all over the world. So no matter your workplace needs, I am sure our team has seen something similar and that we can help get you and your team set up for success. For the next 30 minutes, we're going to be answering your questions about when I work scheduling and attendance tool. We're going to show you some great ways you can save time creating the schedule, managing time sheets, and communicating with your team. We're going to get to as many questions as we can during this time, but if your question does not get answered and you'd like further help, you can always chat with us after. We're going to be providing more information at the end of the session on how to get in contact with us. So stick around for that. The session is centered around your questions. To ask us a question, you're going to go ahead and click the Q&A button on your toolbar and type your question. Cara is going to be going through and asking some of those questions out loud so we can demonstrate them in our when I work account. Also depending on where we are in the session, she might rearrange or type out the answer system questions, but we're going to be sure to get to as many questions as possible in this time. And with that, I'm going to switch over to my when I work account here and give a quick overview of navigating the web app. Awesome. So here we are in my when I work account. I am logged in currently as the admin. There can be three admins every account and that just gives you the most access possible everything from your account billing to settings setting up your employees. So right here we have our dashboard page this gives you a nice snapshot of what's going on today gives you some attendance notices here. Who's how many assigned shifts are happening for your separate positions few work labor cost options and graphs.  Our next page is the scheduler here in the top navigation bar. This is where you can assign employees shifts and you're going to see all your employees. This is going to be your bread and butter to get everyone on your account knowing what time they work and where they're working. This is our attendance tab right here. We're going to go over our time sheets which are where all of your worked hours are located. We've got a nice time tracker which also gives you a little snapshot of who's clocked in, who's on lunch, really great overview of where everyone's at. In this same tab you can also clock in from a computer here if you've got that permission turned on, and you can also lock this as a terminal, which sets the web, web browser somewhere that employees use their email or employee ID to clock in. And our next option here is our work chat feature. This is where you can communicate with your team on a daily basis, super helpful for you to get out announcements, send anything you need to your employees and they can also use this from their end if you've got it set up to chat with each other to work out their own personal scheduling needs maybe swap some shifts and figure out what they need as well. The next menu is our requests menu. This is where you can request time off for yourself or your employees. You can also review all of the time off requests that have come in and you can approve those and manage those as needed. This is our shift requests that's going to cover all the requests your employees are sending in for their swaps their drops and they're releasing of open shifts. Open shift requests are going to allow you to approve the employee you want for an open shift you released to them previously. And this is our workplace menu these are the building blocks of your when I work account. It's going to be a super important menu for you to be using here in the beginning while you're getting set up. You can also put employees here create positions, set up tags, create some additional schedules and job sites, as well as your shift templates. And we've got our great reports feature here that lets you export anything we have to offer from our when I work account. This is your task list option as well as our documents you can upload for employees to review. This is our gear menu here and that has all the settings you're going to need for your account, your general your scheduling settings your attendance settings, as well as all the integrations we offer this little page here is going to let you get those set up, as well as access your account and billing page. The last menu we have here is going to be your personal menu basically this goes over your profile settings you can view your own personal schedule set up your availability. You can view the alert preferences you want and if you have multiple workplaces this is where you're going to switch those accounts. Awesome so that's the general things that we have for when I work let's get into some of your great questions. Wonderful hi everybody my name is Cara and I'm going to be going through your questions today. So our first question is from Ira, can I add my manager so they can also create the schedule. Question absolutely let's go over adding an employee and look at a couple of our access levels and what that means. So we're going to scroll over a workplace menu here and select employees. So these are all the employees that I have already added if you need to add a new one you can go ahead and do that right here. So we're looking inside a profile we're going to click this pencil icon to edit it. And we've got the shifty schedule maker as an employee here. They're already set as an admin which gives them the same permissions that I currently have in this account. I've got access to everything including filling settings employees, creating shifts managing time sheets. The options are going to be manager supervisor and employee managers have a little bit less access than the admin they cannot access your account and billing page they have access to most of the settings on the account there are a few that they either need to be given special permissions for or that the admin only has access to supervisors have less permissions there they're only able to oversee employees that share the same schedule is them. They have access to settings and they cannot see wages and employees it's all about them here they only see what they are assigned they can update their availability they can review their shifts they can see their time sheets. So they just have the least amount of access as it should be and those are the different options that you have. They're going to be able to add your your manager in easily with their email they get a nice invite they set that up. And then once you have this permission set for them when they log in they're going to be able to create shifts see some settings, etc, and we have a great help article, which you can find over here in our need help center. You can go ahead and type in access or permissions in this search bar it's going to go over what every access level has permissions for and a beautiful breakdown grid. Super. Our next question is on the employees page as well from Michelle. How do I change a user's email. Great question, this is super fun. So let's take a look here at my personal profile as you'll see I don't have this little email icon, which means that I have set up my email and password. When you open this up, you're going to see that it's cut out you are blocked. You cannot update an employee's email for them. If they have already set up their username and password. The best options are really going to be from that employees and whether that's logging in to update their own, or to create an entirely new login by cooking sign up on our initial when I work page. When they click sign up they're going to sign up with that new email they want, and they're going to see the option to request to join your workplace. Now if they do have this nice invite icon right here to the right of their name, you're going to go in you're going to edit their profile.  So if they have an email invite here. You can open that up and change the email at any time and that's going to send out a new invite for them. Fantastic. All right, our next question looks like we have a lot of time clock questions coming in today so let's just jump right into it with what kind of time clocks we offer. Question and I did want to note that in with the employee emails. If you guys have any questions your employees needs help we have a great customer care team that can get them all set up for you. All right, so let's go over a clock in options. These are some of our favorite features that we offer, and we're going to go ahead into the settings to take a look at what options we've got.  And the first option you're going to see is to clock in with the mobile app. It's going to allow your employees to log in after they've downloaded our app and they're going to see a nice clock in button button first thing on their dashboard page. You can restrict those mobile clock ins to make sure they're at work where they're supposed to be by clicking this option here. And any changes that you make on our settings page make sure you click save to apply those. Our next option is clock in with a personal computer. As we saw or saw earlier this that option is going to be right under our attendance menu employees are going to log in on a computer with their own email and password. And they'll scroll over their attendance tab and go ahead and click clock in. Now the other option we have is a lock terminal. This is also can be on a computer and iPad and iPhone or an Android tablet device. And what that's going to be is they're going to see a screen that will not give them access to anything else in the when I work app. And it allows them to put their email in or their employee ID you can set up for them. And that's just going to go directly to the attendance tab where you can check out their times. It's a great time to take a look at our attendance tab quickly. When I scroll over this attendance tab here and I click some time sheets. You're going to see that my employees have their worked hours here. Anybody that already has worked hours in your pay period are going to be a little bit of a darker color here. These light gray ones they just haven't logged any time for the week. So we're taking a look at Jordan. He clocked in at 10 clocked out at 3pm. He had a 30 minute break here which you'll see with this hamburger icon. He was at the location shifties coffee and bakery as a barista. So when you're reviewing these time sheets, if you scroll over the details you're going to see a few more options here. One of those is going to be our entry history. So when you click on this you're going to see the day that it was created, who created it, times it was created, and if they clocked in on mobile, if they clocked in on a computer, if it was a locked terminal, as well as any edits that happen. And for our mobile clock ins you're also going to get a nice map from that clock in for the day. Yeah there are a couple of options here. It adds some more unpaid breaks. Also with the hamburger icon you can add a job site which might be a separate location from what the shiftie coffee and bakery was. And then you can add these notes right here. When employees clock in and out they are prompted to leave a note which is optional. And that'll show up here as that if they enter that. And then you can also enter a note about that as needed. So that covers all of our awesome clock in options how that looks on the time sheets page for you. And as always if you have any questions about those are need help centers right here and you can contact us as well if you have any specific questions. Wonderful. All right, our next question is from Brad, and he wants to know about the break options that we offer with attendance how can employees record their breaks. Awesome question. So we have a few different options for breaks and I'm going to head back to those attendance settings there in this gear menu, and as we scroll down you're going to see a nice break section. So when employees clock in from any method. The next time if this option is on the next time that they on a terminal if they put in their email again they're going to see the option to take a lunch break order clock clock out. On a mobile device you're going to see a tool options clock out or take a break. And then that's going to be the same with this computer option when you click clock in or clock out either is going to be a take lunch break here. So, letting employees record their unpaid breaks this is going to give them a nice app that's going to give them the button in the app for them to use. Another option is our automatically deduct unpaid breaks when they're scheduled this means if they've got a scheduled shift and you'd put the unpaid break amount of minutes into that shift. If they don't clock out for lunch that's going to be taken automatically from their time sheets for them. If they do use that take lunch button then that overrides the auto deduct. And then asking employees about paid rest breaks. Once they clock out for the day it's going to give them a the option to say yes or no. If they say no they can leave a reason why they did not get their paid rest breaks. And that's going to show up back in those time sheets if they've said no. And that breaks options. Highly recommend the automatically deduct unpaid breaks because I know I, I like to forget sometimes till clock in and out but it's really helpful for your employees to have that backup. Wonderful. All right, we're going to make a pivot back to the scheduler here with a bit of a plan question to start out. Ash asks, can you use the scheduler feature alone. No, I'm not going to use the lulies so we're definitely going to go over our plans at the end and what that all entails, but you don't necessarily need these clock in and out options with our time and attendance plan if that's just not right for your business. So when we head back to the scheduler here you're going to see a lot of stuff going on that we're happy to go over love to get into creating shifts, it makes, there's so many things that are going to help you guys save time. So you don't need those time clock and attendance features unless that's right for you. Super. All right, our next question is from Sam. How does scheduling work with shifts that aren't the same for all employees. Example, everyone is working different shifts rather than a standard set of shifts. So I'm thinking going over the shift scheduling process and how maybe to speed that up with shift templates. Gotcha, awesome. Since you guys are all just getting most people are getting started, we're going to go ahead over to our shift templates page in our workplace menu here so you can see your, what I recommend setting up first here. So under our shift templates you're going to see what probably is an average day for this wonderful cafe we've got running. So you can see we got a bunch of different options for those times 6am to 10 with the breeze to pick position but then also a 6am to 6am to 10am as a cashier kind of breaks up the day here. You can create as many of these as you want with as many different positions as needed. We're always happy to help you to decide what's what's best when setting up. So once you've got some great templates going on. I'm going to go ahead and click on the schedule or page up here. And as you see I've got a few shifts already going on. Let's go over how to create one. So we've got this great grid here you've got your employees names in the columns. I'm sorry, yeah, these are employee names in the rows and then you've got your dates in the columns here. So a nice shift for Keith here for today I needed some extra coverage. I'm going to click on this plus sign you can also click anywhere in the cell and that's going to bring up your option to add a template. So what we just went over creating, or if he needs to work a little bit different of a shift, maybe a mid shift that we didn't have created as a template, go ahead and click create custom shift. I think it's going to be assigned to Keith, we can enter our times here, as well as an unpaid break, make any color changes to make it look pretty. A position option here. So this is based on what you've assigned your employees to in their employee profile on that employees page I showed you all how to add an employee and went over those access levels. And this is going to be our job site here, which might be where he's working for the day. And if he doesn't have a job site that's going to defer to the schedule location.  But he can only work in your food, you only need need it for your food truck drivers it's just going to make sure that that shift is only qualified for certain people and really applies well to our open shifts like which I can go over here in a minute. And also add some shift tasks as needed. Looks like Keith might need to clean the bathroom today. Any shift notes you have you can input what you expect from your employees maybe some notes about if they're going to a separate building. Anything that you need here that your employees should be aware of. And then you can also repeat any shifts this is one of our great shortcut options and I'm going to caveat right into that after I show you guys how to create a shift. So you can select it to repeat between every week, all the way up to every six weeks, and then you can select a nice end date when you want that to stop repeating, when you're done setting everything up you're going to click save. So, repeating shifts was one of those great shortcuts that I love couple of other shortcuts that we have are copying a shift from one day to another or to a different employee on a Mac computer you're going to go ahead and hold your command button, and you're going to click on that shift and you can drag it and drop it wherever you may need it. Thumbs up means that employees assigned to that barista position thumbs down means they're not can go ahead and copy that into our open shifts row. Another option for our wonderful shortcuts is going to be located in this wrench icon up here, and that's copy previous week. So say I have everything I and I love the way it looks and I want to put that into next week. I'm going to click this arrow and head into our next week. I'm going to collapse this open shift menu here so we can see a little more there. So now I'm going to click this wrench icon, and I'm going to select copy previous week. It's going to give you some options on how you'd like to do that. I'm going to go ahead and overwrite conflicts which means if someone already has a shift it's not going to give them that shift from last week. Copy that in. And there you have it. You just brought every shift from last week over into this week, and you're ready to go and make any changes you need before publishing. The last shortcut we have, which is probably my favorite. We're going to click this wrench icon. And you're going to save as a new template. That means that everything here is basically being copied but copied forever so that I can go to any week that I want. I'm going to click this wrench icon and click load template and that template is going to be ready for me do this years in the future whenever you absolutely need. So I touched on some open shifts. We're going to go back to the today's schedule where I set that open shift. So open shifts are there so your employees can pick them up first come first served, initially. When I publish this I need that covered but I don't want to assign it to anybody. Anybody that's eligible for a barista position would be able to pick this up, and then I've got that covered.  You can edit any unpublished open shift here with this little edit icon, and you can select require pickup approval. That means that all of my baristas can say they would like to take the shift and then I get to choose who initially get who gets it in the end. So these are some really great shortcuts that we have to offer we touched on our open shifts. So if you guys have any questions about this or need a little more one on one time chat with us after this. Wonderful. Our next question. Does the scheduling tool provide insight into how many people can be scheduled for lunch at a time. Does the manager have control over scheduling breaks. I was just thinking about going over breaks on the scheduler and the different ways that you can manage those break times for employees. Yeah, definitely. So, with our each shift as we saw you scroll it when you scroll over and edit it's got this nice unpaid break time. So while there's not a specific time listed for those there's a couple of ways that you can manage that. One of the I had have a few ways that I like to recommend this. If you need a specific break time set for everybody can input those break times here into those shift notes. And if you needed to be a little more formal, the two other options that I recommend is we've got this 6am to 10am shift here. So I would create two shifts for these employees. So let's say this might not apply to you but they have a 6am to 10am shift and they get apparently they're going to get a five hour break here, because their next next shift wouldn't start till 3pm. In the case of a lunch you know it's going to be shorter so you can always edit this to be say 11. We're going to go ahead and save that. So now that from that turned into a PM. I apologize. Let's pretend that's an AM so they get a nice one hour break here with those two shifts they can clock in and out for the other option is so that another 6am to 10am shift here. We're going to go ahead and do a create custom shift. And let's just say that their lunch break is from eight till nine. Oh, sorry, 8am till 9am. And so that second shift would just indicate the break and you could create a shift that shows break for that. And now for you as a manager or your supervisors. We can go over that time tracker that I hit on just very slightly at the beginning under our attendance section here can select that time tracker from the dropdown menu. So we've got our nice little legend over here. So if somebody's on already on a lunch break it's going to show up in a nice green color for you. And that can help you manage who you send on breaks during the day. So is it just a few ways to manage breaks, and if you guys want to work out about all the options together I'm here for you and we can chat about this after. All right. I want to be sure to get to these last few questions here. Thanks everybody for joining us today and sticking with us. We know that your time is very valuable. So we appreciate it. Our next question is from Shannon. I was just wondering about releasing versus dropping a shift. Is the employee still responsible for the shift until it's picked up when they release like they are from when they're dropping a shift. Great question. Let's go over to our settings again. In this gear menu we're going to select our scheduling settings here. Employee shift coverage is the first thing you're going to see and it does give you a little insight right under those options as to how that works. Releasing is going to actually physically drop their shift into the open shift. So you're going to see a row on the scheduler page that we went over. And that means they are not responsible. You let them release that shift and now it's up to management to find coverage or do as they will with those shifts. Now dropping shifts keeps the employee responsible for that shift until another person picks it up. It's the same with swapping if they're trying to swap a shift they are still responsible for their original shift until another employee has approved that. Require manager review that lets you say yes I want you to be able to swap this shift and we will get you coverage for that. So splitting allows employees to choose what times they want to drop. Maybe they can work in the morning but can't work in the afternoon anymore so they can drop that for you. So once again releasing means that they are not responsible for that shift anymore it goes straight into the open shift row. That really good if they've got approved time off going on. Whereas dropping the shift allows another employee to pick it up kind of without your with you helping there in the middle to make sure they're covered in everything. Wonderful. All right, last question is from Jodi is there a way to post a specific specific day on the scheduler that your employees on vacation. So just showing how to add time off from the scheduler. Absolutely. So on the schedule we're going to head over to the scheduler page here. So while you're viewing this you're going to use that requests tab here. I'm going to go ahead and request time off. That's got your name listed there, but you can always select your employees you can select multiple employees or you can put everyone there. So let's say everyone's going to have some time off. You can select the type which can be customized on those general settings page. We already offer holiday personal and sick as types of time off and when I work can make those unpaid or paid and you have the option to manage which which ones your employees can choose. So if you can have an all day preference or if you select this then they get to put in those specific times within all days day preference when you select it makes make sure when you have a paid type that you put in those hours there or your send request options going to be unavailable. So this is where you how you're going to put in time off for your employees and just for the ease here we're going to put one in for today with eight paid hours and I'm just going to do one person. And I'm going to send that request as an admin this is automatically approved when you submit this for yourself or your employees. So now you can see right here I have time off all day. Alright, have a nice day everyone I am out just kidding. I have more details on that time off request that came through you can click view and it's going to give you those those options there really quick and easy to put in time off for your employees and then it gives you a great view as you're scheduling who's got time off so that you can adjust your schedule is needed. All right. Wonderful thank you so much Tiffany. I think it is time to go over our plans and how they can get in contact with us. Sounds great. I'm going to go ahead and switch over here to our wonderful slide show. If I can get to the right page. I think I've got it. There we go. All right, let's go over the plans that we have available. First one up is our small business scheduling plan which includes all of those features we went over today including access to the scheduler team availability communication tools like work chat notifications scheduling as many schedules and job sites as you would like and those more advanced features like auto scheduling task management and some shift bidding. The small business plan is a good fit for workplaces with less than 100 employees. If your workplace exceeds 100 employees we also do have an enterprise plan available with all of the same features included as the small business plan. In addition to some features specifically designed to accommodate larger teams like single sign on global privacy and access to the API. If you're interested in those enterprise features feel free to reach out to us after the session and we can provide more information. If none of the enterprise features are necessary for you and your team. You can also use that small business plan beyond 100 employees. There's not a hard cap on that employees settings for that plan. And next up we have our attendance product. This product's an optional add on to the scheduling plan that includes all of the time tracking features we went over today like time sheets access to all the clocking methods GPS location enforcement for clocking in paid and unpaid break options. Custom time sheet exports and access to any of our other integrations. If you log into your account on the web you can mock up the pricing for a plan by heading to the account and billing page. Found under the gear menu on the toolbar on that page press upgrade my account. And then you can toggle everything on that you'd like set everything for your account with or without time clock and attendance. You can also set up an annual billing by default we offer a monthly billing cycle but the switch for annual billing can be enabled at any time. The annual billing also provides a 5% discount compared to the monthly billing cycle if you're looking to use when I work long term. If you have any questions about what plans the best fit for you, or any of the features that we provide, please don't hesitate to reach out to us on chat. You can access that chat option by pressing the chat icon in the bottom right of your account. You can also send us an email to getting started at when I work calm. We'll be sending a list of resources in the chat section we used earlier to feel free to copy and paste that into a Word document or a notes app to save it for later. That list has more information on getting started plans and pricing and training resources. Just want to wrap this all up by saying thank you guys so much for joining us today and your questions were amazing. And don't hesitate to reach out to us. You guys need anything we're here to help and I hope everyone has a wonderful Thursday and a fantastic weekend.


Hello everybody, HoodedCoverCommander788 here and this is a very quick look of the 1984 G.I. Joe Flying Submarine, the Shark, and the diver that came with it, Deep Six. And I've had some requests to review the Shark, and I will do that. The Shark will not be neglected, but hopefully this quick look at it will satisfy for now. This is a very unusual vehicle and figure, starting with Deep Six. Deep Six had the least articulation of any vintage G.I. Joe action figure in that he only had two points of articulation at the shoulders. He could swing his arms at the shoulders, and that's it. He couldn't move in any other way. And he was permanently encased in this diving suit. But he did have a gimmick. He came with this pump and hose system, and that would plug into his back like so. And he would use this pump to pump the air out of the diving suit so he would dive under water. And then you switch it around and pump the air back in, and so he would rise back to the surface. Now that's a nice little gimmick, kind of a feature that's pretty cool, I guess. Not really my kind of thing, but at least he had that going on for him. Now the Shark is supposed to be a flying submarine. So it has both jet and submarine features. But for a submarine and for a jet, it has a lot of sharp edges. It's very angular, very few smooth lines. It has a canopy that opens up to the side, with a lot of room in there for the driver. And it needs a lot of room to carry such a large and clunky action figure. It has a couple flaps here at the back that swing around. It has an engine cover that removes. It has a couple pop-up guns. You push these tabs on the bottom to pop the guns up on the sides. So it has some additional features, a fair number of features for such a small vehicle. On the underside, it has a couple torpedoes. And these torpedoes, if you remove them, the pegs for the torpedoes are the same as the pegs for the backpacks on the action figure. So you could peg an action figure on these torpedo pegs and actually maybe carry like a diver underneath the shark. So that's a nice little added feature as well. So a good number of features on such a small vehicle. Not too bad. But that's all we're going to do for right now. There's a lot more to talk about with this toy, but I'll save that for the full review. So check back on this channel for more full Vintage GI Jotori reviews in the future. And thanks for watching.


Welcome to this session on processing data, which is stored on external devices. You would be familiar with many of these external devices. For example, a hard desk or an external desk. I have a sample here to show you. This is the kind of large capacity hard desk that looks like. We also have smaller versions, which are called portable desk, which we can connect to your laptops or desktops. These store data using magnetic recording. We also have other forms of data storing. For example, you would be familiar with a compact desk, which looks like this. So, this CD can also store data in many files. You also have a version with higher capacity called DVD, which can store larger amount of data. You will also be familiar with data, which is stored on smaller devices, which are traditionally called pen drives. They have a USB port, which can again be connected to your laptop or desktop. The files, which are stored on this small device, can be read from this device into your programs or written onto these devices. The pen drive uses flash memory technology. So we saw very briefly three different types of technologies that are used to store data externally. Symbolically, these are shown here on the board. So this is a typical symbol of an external hard disk. This is a symbol used to represent a CD and this obviously looks like pen drive. All of these, as I said, contain data in the form of files. Obviously, it is necessary for us to be able to write C plus plus programs, which can read data from these files or write data onto these files. Now before we come to our programs and how to handle files within our programs, it is important for us to understand how a computer generally handles the external files and the data stored on the external files. These files are actually handled by operating system. In particular, a component of the operating system called file system. The operating system has enough software to be able to manage the files on the external storage. The operating system has a convention of how the files should be named, what should be their properties and how they have to be organized on external devices. All of this is handled by the file system. You are all familiar with the basic organization of files on external devices. For example, you know that each file has a name. For example, the C plus plus programs which you write themselves are stored in text files which are typically called, let us say my name such as myprog.cpp. It is possible to have a text file. For example, a file which you prepare using a notepad or any text editor, any simple utility would permit you to write lines of text which are all stored in a file and these files are typically named as, for example, mydata.txt. Please note that the names have a name proper and an extension which often describes the type of data that is stored inside the file. There could be special type of files. We know for example that digital images can be stored in files and these digital images could have their own format in which data is stored. For example, a JPEC file could be stored in, let us say, pick.jpg. Not only the files have names and extensions, but the files themselves are organized within an external storage device in different subdirectories or folders. These data files and directories and folders offer a hierarchical organization of all files. So, you are familiar for example of navigating across various folders and subfolders, going to a desired folder or a desired directory and then locating a file. Of course, if it is a text file, you could open it using a text editor, edit, enter text and store that final text in the file again. This is the processing that you do with specialized applications. What we are interested in knowing how exactly are these files handled inside a C++ program. We will look at these details in the next session.


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