What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards, dripping 22-23 at Panini Prism Collegiate, draft picks, basketball hobby, 4 box break number 1, random team style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link that's in chat. What's up, Wahoos. Wahoos. What's up, dude? All right, let's do it. Here we go. We've got Palo on the cover. What's up, Eric? What's up, Gridiron. Kellen. Kellen. Gridiron. I thought it was Saturday. 4 packs for box, 10 cards for packs. There should be an auto in every pack, I believe here. Let us see. Mark Williams, Hornets legend on top. Silver, Keegan Murray, nice one there for the Kings to start us off. Jabari Smith, silver as well. That's going to the Rockets. Got Colin Gillespie. Wow. For Villanova, we'll take that. Nice one there. I think he had some G-League time. Let me see really quick. Nuggets. This will be going to Denver on the red. 93 out of 199. Colin Gillespie. Nice one there. Congrats Villanova. Well, not Villanova. Congrats to the Nuggets by way of Villanova. Got a Hyper. It's going to be Jaylen Williams as well as Russ. Nice one there. Got Blue Ice. KD. That's going to the Suns. How funny is that? 13 out of 99. We've got a KD. That's going to the Suns. How weird is that to say already in 2023? Unbelievable mindset. Nicola, that's Jovic for the Heat. Tatum and Kendall Brown, rookie base as well. On to pack number two. That's so weird saying that. James Hardin base. Christian Coloco for the, where is he? Rathers, I believe. Silver, D-Book. Got a Red of Tevin Brown for Murray State. Racers, Tevin. See on the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, I believe. Fort Wayne Mad Ants. Are they, I feel like they're what's it called, Indiana, but let me double check here. Yep, for the Pacers. Pacers. Nice one there. Another Jaylen Williams Hyper. Followed by a Red AJ. That's Steel of the Draft, AJ Griffin to 299. It's up to you if you want to do that or you want to just like help on it. Jabari Smith, rookie on the Portrait. I mean landscape. There's Jeremy So-Chan, instant impact, Hyper. Oscar Robertson and rookie of Josh Minot for the Timberwolves. Ron Harper, Jr. Jaylen Durin. Silver rookie. Yeah, Ron Harper, Jr. There's Osmane Chang. We've got, base auto is J.D. Nottay. Who's Ray Parker, Jr. Sean? Ray Parker, Jr. Yeah, who's Ray Parker, Jr. Why is that so blue? He is currently overseas. Does he have any pro? Don't believe he ever had any. No, he signed straight out of the NBA with the, with a Greek team. So yeah, no air fryer. Nice, I guess so. Nice one there. That'll be random to all at the end right there with J.D. Nottay. He signed in, played in Greece, so doesn't have any NBA team. Hyper, Steel of the Draft, AJ Griffin for the Hawks. Neek for the Hawks as well. There's Blake Wesley on the Portrait rookie. Jameran. Nice, 2013 throwback for the Grizzlies. Couldn't think of it for a second. Nice one there. Palo Bancaro rookie and Wendell Moore. Very cool. This year's nod to the past is 2013, so that's the Yanis here, which is very cool. D. Wade. Christian Braun. Silver, Peyton Watson. Got auto is going to be Justin Bean on the silver. Utah State Aggie. Justin, yes, Justin Bean, yes, B-E-A-N. Memphis Hustle of the G. Wade? Yes, I'm assuming that's going to be for the Grizzlies. Yes, that is going to the Grizzlies. Nice one there. Yes, Memphis Grizzly, unveiled. Kennedy Chandler on the Hyper. Nice, Purple, Joel M. B. Going to the Sixers. 65 of 75. Nice one there. Kansas. Jaylen Williams, yes, TTP. Jeremy Sochan. Refractor, fireworks. We got Clay Thompson and a Max Christie on the back. I'll do it for box one, everybody. Thank you again for getting this filled on up. Do appreciate it very much. We are sold out on number two, so I do appreciate y'all on that one as well. Let's go on to box number two. Good luck. 200 a box. Rich is currently putting these in stock on the website under Personals as well if you guys are interested in a personal of Prism Draft. Scotty Pippin Jr. There you go, Rich. Benedict Muthern. What? Scotty Pippin Jr. this time. Jaden Hardy. Got Johnny Juzang. Nice one there. That is blue. 40 out of 149. He's somewhere. I just don't remember where. What do you need? Johnny Juzang, J-U-Z-A-N-G. You got it? Yeah. Utah Jazz. Going to the Jazz. Nice one there at Utah. Supposed to be the next guy in the NBA was Juzang. I remember he had so much hype coming out of high school. Yeah. That is, I'm going to be Joel M. B. We've got Walker Kessler. Nice one there for the Jazz as well. Purple Joel M. B. Second Purple M. B. to 75. This time it is the landscape. The Timberwolves have Josh Minot. He is their guy. Lake Wesleyan Joel M. B. Who has a widescreen Joel M. B. No Chatter Nemhards yet. No. Donovan Mitchell. There's Marjon Bochamp. Silver Paul George for the clips. We've got Colin Welp. I like that name. University of California Irvine. That is two 149. Colin Welp. Gotcha. Colin Welp. I can't see you. I got you. I got you. Colin Welp. Ford, I believe he's still at UC Irvine. Colin Welp. Yep. And then WELP. Nice one there. I believe that will be random, still in college. Yeah. So that'll be a random to all of the end. Paul Pierce, Hyper for the Cs. Red Ja. Nice one there for the Grizzlies. To 299. Got Walker Kessler Rookie. That is Christian Braun. Walker Kessler Rookie again. And Alandes Williams. Benedict Matheran is the big one. Same with Andrew Nemhard. Or Nembrandt. Now is it Nemhardt or Nembrandt? Forget it. Jabari Walker. Silver. You've got Otto is Armando Bacot Jr. I might need that one. That is Armando and then Bacot Jr. For UNC. It didn't matter to Drap. Still in college? Yeah. Does he mean he's in North Carolina? Yes, he is North Carolina. He's gonna say he's still there. Yeah. So that'll be a random to all at the end. We got Alandes Williams as well as Keegan Murray. Nice one there for the Kings. Who's the Targill's leading scorer last season? I don't think he's even going to Drap. Jayden Ivy. Victor Oladipa on the 2013 throwback. Paul Pierce and Keegan Murray again. But it did 13 throwbacks? Yeah, to be honest here. It's really cool. Really cool. The Yama's version of that is going to be very popular. Oh yeah. Shack AD. Silver, Shaden Sharp. We've got Otto is going to need your rich. Noah Kirkwood. Noah Kirkwood. So that'll go Nets right there. Currently on the Long Island at Nets. We've got Devin Booker on the hyper. Pink Ice is going to be Max Christie Rookie. Nice one there. 117 out of 149. Or Purple Ice, excuse me. Marjan Bochamp. Silver, Shaden Sharp, widescreen. Devin Booker. And Osemane Zhang. That'll do for box two. We're on to box number three now. Good luck again here everybody. Colleges are trapped as well as in stock for personal use. Go. Colleges are trapped in stock for personal use. And my back hurts. And Richard's back hurts. Jayden's worth it. I think he's in his chair. I'm done. Pascal Siagham. Silver, Blake Wesley. Where's the LSC masseuse? It's not under center this way. Purple Ice Sensational Signatures. Michael DeVoe. That is one out of 99. D-E-V-O-E. Michael DeVoe. Ontario Clippers. Ontario Clippers. That'll go Clippers. Congrats on that. LA. Donovan Mitchell. He's from, I went to high school in Orlando. The 199 is Lanzo. That's pretty cool actually. Rated prospect Jordan Walsh. Silver, Dwayne Wade. Nice one there. On the 13th throwback from Arquette and the Heat. Bryce McGowan's and Patrick Ewing. Kyle Kibranum. Silver, David Robinson. We've got David McCormack for Kansas. David, M-C-C-O-R-M-A-C. What's up Carl? Carl. Carl. He's a player for, I can't read it, the Sictus ML object of the basketball super needy. What? I was gonna say I don't think he, no he's, Rich is right. Yeah he was undrafted and then I don't think he went anywhere. Sictus, that is, what is this? I can't read any of this. He was on Minnesota in the summer league. He did play four games from Minnesota in the summer league. That's fine. So that'll go Timberwolves. That works. Plus the Turkish lead. Ah, gotcha. Oh yeah. Scotty Pippen, Junior. There's Benedict Matheran. Max Christie. Instant impact on the, nice. On the mojo to 25. Going to Jennings with the Pacers. Benedict Matheran. That's nice. Nice one there. Congrats on that. There you go Jennings. Cool looking cards. That is what you're looking for. That is very nice looking. Mojos are so far. Congrats on that. There you go Jennings. That is who you are looking for to answer your question. Got Orlando Robinson and Jerry West. Sean Montero. He doesn't have time to play. Silver AI. There's Kai Sato. That's Kai Sotto. He's in the Japanese league. Japanese league, okay. No summer league or anything either. Should be. Nothing. Random to all. Yup, random to all. G League Ignite. Oh, well he was on the, oh no, the Adelaide 36ers. That is, yeah, no, that's random to all. Scotty Barn. It's on the Hiroshima Dragonflies. Nice. I like it. Nice. Here's a shack. That's going to be Purple Ice, the 149. Nice one there. We've got Jeremy Sochan and a Chat Holmgren on the fireworks. Jovic, KD, Silver Shea. Got an Orange. EJ Liddell. I know he's in the NBA. I just don't remember exactly where I want to say Utah potentially. EJ Liddell. 44, 49, L-I-D-D-E-L-L. Pelicans. Yup, now I can see his huge rookie. Nice one there. New Orleans. Grads on that. EJ Liddell. Jeremy Sochan. Nice one there for Baylor. Jabbarant. We got a Snake Skin. That is Jalen Williams. Congrats on that. Short-printed Snake Skin. Yes. Thunder. Thunder. Going to the Thunder. There's so many young players. They do. Nice one there for the Thunder. Got Shack on the 13th throwback. Jabbarus Smith rookie. Patrick Baldwin, Jr. and Daylan Terry. It is Forest Group Break Sunday night. I'll be over on drip, Carl. All right. Last box. Good luck here, everybody. Then we'll do our Randoms. Went a little crazy with Series 1, Manny. It's hard not to. It's hard not to go a little crazy on Series 1. It is. Kareem. Jake LaRavia. It's nice. Silver Chet Holmgren. We've got Red, Isaiah Mobley. That'll be going to the Cabs. Nice one there. 2199. Congrats on that. Nice one there, Cleveland. Evan's little brother. Both played at USC. Got Chargers and Donress. Nice. Evan Mobley and Isaiah Mobley are both. Both on the Cabs. Yep. Both on the Cavaliers. Pretty cool. Yeah. Really cool. I like that. Jordan Pool. Pool Party. Trevor Kiehl's on the Hyper. I've also got Walker Kessler on the Portrait Hyper. KD, Brilliant. Zach Levine and Cade Cunningham. That's our one-for-one this box, but that was where people have to go. Steph. Yeah, man. Silver Clyde. We've got Pink Ice. Jalen Sims. J-A-Y-L-E-N Sims on the Purple Ice. That is $2.99. Is he actually, is Isaiah older? Really, I did not know that. Unrestricted Free. I think he's Raptors. Raptors? Summer League with the Raptors. Summer League with the Raptors. That will go Raptors. Congrats on that, Toronto. Shea Gilgis Alexander again on the Hyper there. We've got Blue Ice. Evan Mobley. Add that to Isaiah at $2.99. That is David Roddy. Got Steph Curry Fireworks for the Warriors. Jalen Brown and Ty Ty Washington for the Raptors. Sorry, I kind of split on you for a sec. You're good. You're good. No worries. That's what happens when the loss works. That's true. So-Chan. Jammer. Silver O'Shea Bajie. We've got Blue Ice is Jalen Hood Shafino for Indiana. Jalen Hood Shafino. American basketball player. Elon. For the Indiana Hoosiers. So that'll be random to all. Hey, I'm glad you got it, Elon. No problem, buddy. There's Allen Iverson. David Robinson. Benedict Matheran. It's an Impact O'sman Shang. B.I. and Larry Bird. Who's in the G-League Swarm? That's Jalen Sims is Charlotte's G-League. So Jalen Sims will actually go Charlotte. That is Silver Jimmy Butler. Benedict Matheran. Instant Impact. We've got Otto. Another Jalen Sims. We'll also be going to the Hornets. Two Hornets. Jalen Sims. Is that the same Jalen Sims? Make sure that's the same Jalen Sims. Yeah. Okay, perfect. There's Blake Wesley. Blue Wave Shea. Nice color match with Kentucky for the Thunder to 249. Zach E.D. Rated Prospect Silver. Instant Impact. Jaden Ivey. Justin Lewis. And David Robinson. All right, guys. Before we do the recap, we're going to do the random. The way I'm going to do this is we're just going to random all the teams. And we're going to do... There's five cards. So it's going to be Notae first. It'll be Colin Welp's second. It will be Armando Bacot Jr. third. It will be Kaesado fourth. And then it'll be Jalen Hood-Chefino fifth. So it's in the order of what we polled. We'll be one through five. We'll be the teams that get it. So just to make it easier, five randoms is a little bit monotonous for this. So the top five, we'll each get a card in this. So, and you know, yeah, actually that's a good point. We'll do a random as well for all of the players still in college. So the six team will get all players still in college. I guess just make a note of that on the sheet once we do the random. We'll get all of the college base. So that's ED and any other rated prospects. So let's roll the dice. Going to go eight times on this. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Hawks are going to get JD Notae. Hawks getting JD Notae. The Raptors are getting Collin Welp. Armando Bacot is going to the Knicks slash Clippers. Kai Sato will be going to the Rockets. And Jaylin Hood-Chefino will be going to the Grizzlies. And all collegiate base will be going to the Lakers. Bacot, thank you. Appreciate you, David. All right, let's do a quick recap. We've got all five of the ones we just talked about, Notae. Welp, Bacot, Sato, and Hood-Chefino. We had Jaylin Sims, Jaylin Sims, Isaiah Mobley, EJ Liddell, David McCormack, Michael DeVoe, Noah Kirkwood, Johnny Juzang, Justin Beane, Kevin Brown, Colin Gillespie, and Mojo was Benedict Matherin, 225. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, number two.


Today you're going to see another program in our series of video programs on highway maintenance. I'm Bob Kelly from the training division here in central office and our subject for today is drainage. Most specially pipe installation. Pipe installation, proper pipe installation is one of the most important activities in drainage maintenance. We are going to look at proper methods for excavating, compacting and filling for pipe placement. Regardless of where the water comes from, it has to go somewhere. The key to successful drainage is to direct that water where you want it to be rather than where it wants to go. Lack of such direction can cause ponding on the roadway and present a hazard to the traveling public. Improbably directed water can get onto privately owned property and cause us to have complaints. Properly directed water goes off the road into prepared ditches and drainage pipes. As with any maintenance task, the very first thing that must be done is the planning. Notification from your supervisor that you are going to be involved in pipe installation raises some very pertinent and basic questions. You must know the type of road and the limits of the right of way. In addition, you must also have a list of your needed equipment, have scheduled your work crew, and have given some thought to the safety requirements inherent in pipe installation. Normally, as we will see in the program, pipes are installed over half of the road first, finished, and then the other half is done. This procedure, while keeping the road open to traffic, also exposes your work crew to danger. That tailgate safety talk. Remind your people just where they are going to be in relation to the traveled way. If you're using flagmen, plan to rotate them on a regular basis. Get everyone involved in safety, and chances are no one will be involved in a safety statistic. Many of our pipe installation jobs involve either going on private property or working immediately adjacent to it. Put yourself in the shoes of the property owner. How would you feel if you looked out your kitchen window some morning and saw a crew arrive with trucks and people and begin digging up your front lawn? Exactly. Take some time the day before to go out and talk to the property owner. This is really a case where announcer prevention will save you an awful lot of grief. Justice with the foresight you used in going out to see the property owner, exercise that same foresight in the yard prior to going out for the job.  Believe me, you can be sure of almost everything before you leave that yard. Excavating for pipe installation involves something very similar to our pothole activity, in that we ask for squared sides, a bed or base that is smooth and dry. Backfilling pipe is, as we will see, a combination of gentleness and intelligence. The pipe is put in gently so as not to crack it, and it is put in intelligently so that the water will enter at one end and flow out the other, which of course was the whole idea of this exercise. Backfilling pipe is once again like the pothole operation, the matter of covering over and of filling up the hole that you have created by excavation. The same rules apply. Pothole must be placed, compacted, and the road returned to its former state. At the conclusion of this program, your instructor will demonstrate to you methods for determining proper pipe slope and grade. Normally, pipe excavation is done over one half of the traveled way. The first thing to do is to mark off the area where you're going to be excavating. This can be done in a variety of ways, although the most common is the use of blue or construction chalk.  Where the lines have been marked off, the surface is broken up with a punjar or other pointed tool. This will prevent the adjacent pavement from being broken up by the backhoe. The next thing you have to do is to excavate the old existing pipe. The easiest way to do this is with the backhoe. Once the bituminous surface has been broken, the backhoe can dig out the existing earth until it reaches the old pipe. The pipe can then be pulled out using the backhoe and set aside. The operator can give you at this point a roughly shaped smooth trench. As you can see in the picture, the foreman is using a lock level to align the pipe on its existing grade. Almost all of our pipe replacement is on existing grade. Once you have established or reconfirmed your grade or slope line, the next thing is to ensure that you've scraped to dry earth for your bedding. Remember the similarity we talked about to potholes. Here again, we need those squared sides and a firm sub base in order for our material, in this case our pipe, to rest. Once the bed is firm, dry, with even sides, the pipe can be placed in the first half of the roadway. Prior to doing this, foreman like to lay down a thin 2 to 3 inch bed of loose material that acts as a cushion for the pipe and helps it settle against the smooth hardened earth. Once the pipe is in place, loose material should be laid along the sides of the pipe to form a cradle. This material should not come above the halfway point on the pipe. What you want to do here is to hold the pipe firmly in place, not to lose your grade and not to dislodge the pipe from the position that you have decided is best for it. This soil is compacted by the wacker. While the wacker or the hand tamper are labor intensive devices, it's an awful lot less laborious than digging out that pipe three months later and putting it in again. To dramatize the importance of good compaction, Andy Nagy came down today from 3.0 and bought with him the district training aid. A little box represents a cross section of the highway and our coffee can in here is a piece of uncoated corrugated pipe. What we want to do is to show you when material is put in next to the pipe and not compacted just what does result. Andy, you use this in the classrooms actually for the foreman up in the district, right? Yes. And does it work? It's very convincing. I think you'll see how convincing it is. Well, let's get convinced. Okay. What do we do first? Well, we brought a bag of graded down 2A to simulate the scale and what we're going to do is just pour a little in here just to simulate it was dumped right out of a bucket in on the pipe. And what I'd like to do is to just spread this out a little bit here so you can apply a force to the top of the pipe here, Bob. Okay. Which would be the same as traffic going over the pipe. Same as a loaded truck or an automobile. And I just pushed down. Just give that a good push there. See how it's moving here, Bob? We're starting to get voids. Uh-huh. Look here how it's starting to work along here. The more times the pipe goes down, the bigger the void. Bigger the void. And this is just the result of not compacting. Right. In the wrong way. What we have done here is empty the old material, the non-compacted material out, and put in a cushion, a bed if you will, for the pipe to rest on. We've already compacted this side by using the proctor hammer as a simulated whacker or hand tamper, whatever. Andy, can we compact this side? And I think you can see that there is a noticeable change in the level of the material. I'll hold the pipe. Okay, Bob. Here we go. And now if you take a look there, Bob, you'll see that the density of the material has increased and the pipe is cradled. There are no voids. All right? That was the thing we were concerned about before when we said we did it the wrong way. All right. So we would consider this a lift. Yep. That's your first lift. All right. Now, our next procedure then would be to go up how far in our second lift? We would say not further than half way. The half way point of the pipe. That's what I would suggest, okay? Let's do it up to the point. This little experiment here. Let's pour some stuff on there. On the other side here. Smooth it out just as you would if you were putting material in a ditch and simulate a little shovel or hand work there. Yeah. All right. Put a little effort on that other side there. Okay. Okay. Once again, we're, oh my gosh, it's just really going down, isn't it? Okay. How about if I put a little effort on this side? Looks pretty tight, doesn't it? Mm-hmm. Look at the difference here. Damn. So you're gaining compaction. Okay. Now, what we've simulated is the second lift. Now, we'll add one more lift, Bob, and... Which would take us up to where? About two-thirds of the pipe there. So we'd just be seeing just the top. Just the top, and we'll compact that, and we'll let you try and push down on it like you did before. I don't think I got too much. I may have gotten a little too much. Little shovel work. Yeah. Yeah. I think after you get it compacted, you'll find we'll go down quite a ways. Yeah. All righty. Yeah. Okay. I'll let you put the effort on that side again. Here we go. Got it? Is there a place I should be starting away from the pipe, next to the pipe, the middle, or...? I don't really think it's important where you start, Bob, just that you get an effort. Your material will be confined by the sides of your excavations. Oh, yes, that's right. Yeah. So we... Go ahead and apply your effort. Take a look at this, Bob. Look how your side is all dense, compacted. My side's really open. Now, if we get complete compaction, we should not get any movement at all. I should not be able to bend the pipe. It shouldn't be able to deform it. Traffic shouldn't be able to deform it. All right. Okay. Let's see if we can do that. All right, Bob. Why don't you give it a try? How's it work? It ain't moving. Man, it ain't moving. No moving down here around the haunches? No voids. All right. Now, if you're out in the field, you just go ahead and put your next lift on up your top of the pipe, and then some material for a little cushion over top, say, up to a foot over the top of the pipe. And I'd venture that a pipe placed this way wouldn't settle, wouldn't move. In fact, the pipe that was shown in the video program, the removal, was put in in the very late 1930s, so that pipe was in excess of 40 years old before it went bad. I would say that it would not be unreasonable to expect that a pipe placed this way would last another 40. The excavation is refilled using compacted earth, three to five inch lifts, until it approaches very close to the original sub-base level. Note, sub-base level and not the level of the wearing course. Then the same procedure is repeated. You now have two pieces of pipe in that are not, unless we've done something that I haven't mentioned, joined together. For this you will need a pipe clamp. This is merely a metal sleeve-like device that fits around the pipe in much the same manner as a collar fits on the shirt. As you can see, the collar is slipped over one piece of pipe, and the other piece of pipe is slipped onto the collar, and the whole affair is simply bolted together. One way to ensure that you have a good, tight fit on your pipe collar is to tap the collar. Tap, don't hammer. Let's take a moment and review just what it is we looked at today. We talked about the necessity for getting a good, clean excavation, and likened it to the pothole procedure, that is, the squared sides and the firm base. We talked about the necessity for compaction, and that was certainly dramatized by the little training aid that Andy Neggy was kind enough to provide for us, and showing how the compacted material actually shifted under pressure, and how material that is not compacted will give you pipe failure. Pipe compaction, pipe placement, is an important highway maintenance activity. A good pipe placement will last 40 years. You should never, in your career, with the Department of Transportation have to do the same place twice, and you will not, if you do it the right way, first. I'm really shocked at some of the figures that we went through. Obviously, some areas need to be addressed very quickly. Obviously, we've got some things to do to take a look at, to consider these areas that you brought up, and we'll get back to you on it. Thank you. Quality Circles is the revolutionary work concept that recognizes the employee as the expert in the workplace. It allows employees to participate in decision making concerning their jobs and environment. What you are about to see is an example of results that can be realized from this participative approach. Employees and management working together to resolve problems in the workplace. I'm Stephanie Renyak. I'm the leader of the Quality Circle at the Equipment Division. We call ourselves Central Circle. Although everyone here today may not speak to you, all ten of us have worked on this presentation. We're very glad that you could arrange your busy schedules to attend our presentation. I'd like to present to you our members. We have Linda Hoffman, Ron Close, Taylor Bechtel, Wendy Heberleg, Sissy Brown, Gary Snyder, and Ronnie Pound. Numbers, beads, are our guests. Ed Kozlaskis, Mike McClurkin, Dave Kellert, Rich Harris, Bob Stahl, Cortland Daltlin, and Mr. Malkin. Sissy? The first problem we have elected to work on is a performance evaluation report. Hereafter referred to as PDRs. It has come to our attention that the rules and regulations for conducting performance evaluation reports are not being followed as per Department of Policy. Therefore, the purpose behind the PDRs are being lost. Through our discussions with fellow workers, questionnaires that were distributed and charts that were drawn up, we realize that we do have a problem and request certain steps be taken to solve this problem. Through the course of our presentation, you will see and hear facts that represent our final recommendations. If the rules of the performance evaluation reporting system were adhered to, basically if employees were communicated with by their supervisors more than at the present time regarding what was expected of them and more importantly how their performance in their job area relates to the rest of the building and the other problems that we will present to you, the morale of the entire building would be increased to a higher level. Neither employees or supervisors understand the performance evaluation process. Once morale is raised and people begin to care more, absenteeism should decrease. The Equipment Division's sick leave reports show that 25% of the employees are above the 4% apartment bill.  After all, he sees other employees doing less amounts of work for the same pay and the supervisor doesn't correct this until the evaluations are given out. Also, no additional duties are given to present a challenge. If supervisors don't take the time to talk to the employee to tell them something is wrong at the time it's done wrong and surprise the employee with it on their evaluation, morale will definitely dip. Thus productivity declines. More importantly, to praise someone goes such a long way and reflects an upward boost to the employee. At the Equipment Division we gave out a survey to the employees and it's divided into nine questions. Taylor Bechtel and Rodney Powell will explain the first three questions. There's an overwhelming majority of the employees of Central feel that the PERs were not representative of their work performance. They are sometimes treated as unnecessary, evil to be filled out as soon as possible and forgotten. Any questions? One, two, three. My performance evaluation reports actually reflect my strength and weaknesses as an employee. A combination of 27% either agreed or strongly agreed of the question. 3% were undecided. And 69% either disagreed or strongly disagreed. And in question two, my performance evaluation reports rate my performance as an employee, not how I get along personally with my rating officer. 33% strongly agreed or agreed. 18% were undecided and 48% either disagreed or strongly disagreed. And in question three, has management explained that performance evaluation reports are an asset to me for promotional purposes? 12% either agreed or strongly agreed. 3% were undecided and 82% either disagreed or strongly disagreed. These questions and answers clearly point out the lack of confidence in the PER process as they pertain to this building. Thank you. Gary Snyder and Wendy Haverleck will explain questions four through nine.


Hey everybody, my name is Camila Ramos. This talk is super important and amazing to me because, one, I'm Colombian, I was born in Bogota, my family's Colombian, we can go through a whole journey of what this means to me to be back in my home country talking to you guys. But the one request I have is can someone take you pictures of me so I can send it to my mom and tell her that I spoke in Colombia. Thank you. Okay, cool. So today we're going to speed run this because there's so much to talk about and I only have 11 minutes. So we're going to talk about machismo, inflation, remittance, scaling a theorem for widespread adoption in Latin America. What does it mean from a technical level? What does it mean on a cultural level and how do we get there? So let's start with where we are today. I had to pull this out from back when I worked in product at Sony. We had this grid that helped us understand a product that we were building. You can build a product that solves a big problem for a lot of people, a big problem for a small amount of people, a small problem, etc. And where we are right now as we're in this quadrant where we're solving a small problem for a very small group of people, right? The amount of people that are using crypto today and that are actually getting something useful out of it is actually quite small. And this is what we end up with when we are in this situation, right?  It's because we're trying really hard to find a use case for it and we just can't seem to find something that we can solve. And this doesn't go without saying like, obviously I deeply respect everyone working in this space. I know we're all working towards getting to this point, but this is just the reality of where we are. Now how do we get to this quadrant where we're solving a big problem for a lot of people? My answer is super simple. And I actually wrote a blog post about this that I'll link at the end where you can see all of the sources cited, but solve real problems. And that sounds very straightforward and dull, but how do we actually get there? How do we find communities that have problems that we can solve and we can take crypto for what it is at the very base level, which is new infrastructure for a payment system and enable innovative use case that will actually drive adoption? And the place that I'm going with this is we have to go where there's necessity. In the global west, in Europe, in North America, we don't have much of a necessity. We're relatively doing pretty well, right? We all have access to banks. We all can get access to all the different financial services that we want. And even for those who might not necessarily have access, we have a wide breadth of different Neobank and non-bank applications that let people still access these financial services. Now, besides going to where there's a problem, we also need to address on the technical level what needs to be solved, which is scalability and more secure applications. In the last, what, six months a year, there's been like billions of dollars worth of hacks. And the truth is that when you're dealing with a community like Latin America, which I'm going to make the case for, for why we should turn our attention and capital to Latin America specifically, you're dealing with a community that's a lot more price sensitive than the west, right? They have an average monthly income of $500 a month. You can't afford to lose even $100 in a hack.  It's just not realistic. That's like two lunches, right? So I'm going to make the case for Latin America real quick. So consumers in Latin America, actually, I think are the best place to start because they already exhibit behaviors that make them really ripe for adoption of crypto. And those are mobile-first digital payments. If you guys live in Latin America, if you live in Colombia, you know that a lot of financial services are mobile-first. Everyone pays from their phone. Adoption of Neobank. We'll talk about more what this means, but basically a lot of people are already operating outside of the traditional banking and finance system. They're using Neobank applications, a.k.a. financial services that are not necessarily from a proper bank. There's heavy reliance on remittance payments, which is basically cross-border payments. If you guys are from Latin America and you live in the United States or Europe, you know it's not uncommon for you to send money back home and it's done via remittance. Growing political and socioeconomic instability and social pressure. So we're going to talk about all of these in the next seven minutes. So I'm not going to read all these, but just so you guys can kind of maybe take a picture, take a mental screenshot. This is what the numbers look like for adoption of online Neobank and non-bank. So basically a vast majority of people in this survey that was created by Rapid, which is all linked at the end, sources cited. A lot of people are already operating outside of the balance. 90 plus percent of Mexicans, Brazilians, 87 percent of Colombians, 84 percent of Argentinians regularly use applications such as PayPal, Molo, and Macal Babel. Heavy reliance on remittance. So again, this is back to the cross-border thing. And according to data from the World Bank, remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean reached $131 billion. This is something that crypto is such a good use case for, right? There's lower fees, there's higher security, it's faster operational speed. So this is just a perfect example where it's like, how do we build a system for people who are already transacting and already exhibiting this behavior but can use what is offered by crypto to kind of unseat the kings of remittance, for example, where you're standing in a long line, you're paying $10 for a transaction, you're paying 5%. It takes like seven business days for the money to get there. And then a really interesting thing that I found in this World Bank data is that remittance flows actually account for more than a quarter of GDP in Honduras and El Salvador. So a quarter of the whole country's GDP comes from cross-border payments. Okay, and then let's talk about social pressures and the first one in this term, which is machismo. Now I didn't have time to go into a full analysis about this because this presentation is so short but if you look at these countries and you take a look at Colombia, all the Latin American countries up here, you see, oh man, the key got cut out but green means women and blue means men. So if you compare it to European countries, women are actually holding and transacting in crypto at a much higher rate than women in Europe. And in some cases, they're really close to the rate of men in Europe. So what does this mean? What does this tell me? Crypto in Latin America, you know, if you guys are in Latin America and there's this culture of machismo, which is like super rampant and for maybe Americans who don't know what it means, it's basically patriarchy with like a Latin America flair to it where it's like, you're not allowed to work, you need to ask me for money, you need to stay home, you need to like be subject to what I want. And that takes form in a lot of different ways, which we won't get into, but I encourage you guys to look at research. But what does this signal to me? It signals that crypto is offering a new way for women to transact and operate within financial freedom while still operating within the bounds of what's socially acceptable. So what does that mean? So what that means is you could say, oh, well, why don't they just go open a bank account? They're going to get mail to their house. Oh, why don't they just go like sign up for PayPal? They're going to get mail to their house. Like these are all things that they could run a risk if they try to, you know, break out of whatever kind of like limits are set on them. Okay, and now let's talk about how do we actually innovate and what are some examples of companies who have focused on solving hyper-local problems and have seen crazy growth come of it and how we can model this in crypto. So Mercado Libre and Mercado Pago. So Mercado Libre is like an online marketplace where people can buy anything, beds, clothes, tools, anything, and they started this platform over a decade ago in Columbia and they created this financial platform called Mercado Pago so that people could transact on it. And it started out as just for this, just for this payment platform. And now it's grown to be a whole financial service provider and they offer gateway services, mobile payments, and credit cards. So what does this mean, right? Like this means when you go to a place that has region specific problems and you solve hyper-local, you can actually drive use and innovation and grow into like this, this is a great example into like an entire financial service. And then we'll talk about one more. Pixpain Brazil is Brazil's dominant digital payments app with over 60 million users and they transact over a million dollars, no, that's a billion dollars in monthly transactions. Pixpain started not too long ago. It's the number one payment system in Brazil right now. Another example of like when you solve hyper-local, when you go to where the problems are, when you solve solutions for people who actually are facing real problems, you can actually see exponential growth rather than kind of focusing on this like place where we are in that weird quadrant that I posted earlier. Now scalability, now let's get into the, what technically needs to change that we can actually get there? So this is an introduction to fuel labs on the head of developer relations there and why I'm really excited about fuel and one of the main reasons why I joined fuels for my specific mission and ethos of scaling Ethereum in Latin America. So what needs to change? Scalability, right? Right now we just can't handle the throughput if we wanted to do something like Mercado Pago or Pixpain. It just, Ethereum cannot handle it at this point. So we need to scale that. How do we address that? So fuel, labs is building fuel, it's like a layer two but better on Ethereum. And we have parallel transaction execution because of our different execution models. So we have our own VM called the Fuel VM that allows us to do a lot of cool things like paralyzed transactions which just automatically gives you more throughput because instead of having to do one transaction at a time you can do many transactions at a time and right away you're already getting higher throughput right off the bat without sacrificing decentralization. So a lot of chains like Solana and stuff they can do really high throughput but they're sacrificing decentralization. What does that mean exactly? You can't run a full node at home.  That is the core ethos of blockchain. If you can't run a full node and have control over your money then we might as well just like all go back to using PayPal or the bank. Okay, more secure applications. So again, when we're talking about a price sensitive population with an average income we can't risk hacks. We can't risk this type of level of security if we actually want these people to use it. Now another cool thing about Fuel is we have our own programming language called Sway which is a Rust based DSL which means it's a programming language created specifically for blockchain development. Now what does that mean? That you can create a compiler that is very tailored to very specific needs and one of them is who's heard of a re-entrancy bug? Re-entrancy hacks, right? It's like where in a very simple case it's kind of where there's like a line to release some funds and then after you like flip a bullion to say true money has been released so that you don't do it again. Some programmers in some instances there's been a bug here where someone can go into your contract and basically drain it and get the money over and over and over before reaching that line in the execution of the code where it flips some flag to stop doing it. So now Fuel, Sway, our compiler has built into the compiler to say, hey, on line 47 you have a re-entrancy vulnerability and it will not allow you to build and deploy the contract until you address it. Another thing, the Sway compiler forces developers to handle all possible cases using enum variants. Basically what that means is if you've ever written a program to say, let's just say if the number is above zero, do something. If it's below zero, do something. The Sway compiler will tell you, hey, you've only written code to handle the true case or you've only written code to handle this case. You forgot to write code for this case and again, it won't let you build the contract. It won't let you deploy the contract until you address that. So the powerful thing about this is like you can never have kind of an accidental like, oops, forgot to handle that edge case. Okay, we're almost done. Finally, namespace storage. So if you've ever written contracts in Solidity you know you might have accidentally touched storage without knowing it and that could have some unintended consequences. So developers in Sway have to define what the storage access is for each function and this is what it looks like. You do these annotations that say, hey, this function can read storage and write storage or maybe it can only read or maybe it can only write. And what that does is that it's, first of all, it's very clear to developers who are writing the program. It's very clear to developers who are using the library. But at the end of the day, it's very clear to users who actually don't have to know what's going on. It's abstracted out obviously, but they'll never accidentally access storage and never accidentally cause unintended consequences in your program. And here's a link to the blog post that I wrote where you can see all of the sources cited, read everything in long form and yeah, leave that up for a second. Thank you.


Chairman, I exist in Chairman Rowe and members of the Committees on Veterans Affairs. Thank you for providing me the honor of presenting the 2018 legislative program of DAV, Disabled American Veterans, an organization with over one million members, all of whom were injured or became ill as a result of wartime service. I am grateful and humbled to be here in front of you as the first, but I am confident not the last woman elected national commander of our organization. However, I am not speaking to you today as a woman veteran, but as a leader in DAV. And like all who are called to lead, I recognize while I sit here today, I stand on the shoulders and legacies of so many women and men who came before me. Legacies like my father, Joseph Robert Taylor, who was a Buffalo soldier in a renowned all-black Calvary during the Spanish-American War. He was an inspiration that led me to join the Army. I served in Operation Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and as a first sergeant for the Graves Registration Company. I look back with great pride on this solid service to my soldiers and I perform to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.  That's one of the reasons all of us are here today, to ensure that our nation fulfills the promises to all of the men and women who have served. One of the most critical promises to those who were wounded, injured, or became ill is providing timely access to high quality healthcare. When that promise faltered several years ago and thousands of veterans were found waiting too long for care, Congress created the Veterans Choice Program. Since then, there has been ongoing debate about choice and the future of healthcare. Over the past year, an argument finally emerged among VA Congressional and VSO leaders. They agreed that VA must develop an integrated healthcare network with VA acting as a coordinator in primary care for community providers filling access groups. Last year, your committee responded by approving separate bills to do just that. Although both bills have merit, we believe that S-2193, the caring for our Veterans Act, offers a best plan to meet the needs of enrolled veterans. We urge all of you to continue working to find a bipartisan compromise to strengthen and reform the VA healthcare system. Just as important, no reform can succeed unless Congress and the administration provide sufficient resources. So we also call on you to fully fund veterans' healthcare. Messers Chairman, DAV's highest legislative priority for 2018 is to ensure all veterans, not just those after 9-11, have access to VA's comprehensive caregiver program. I personally know the sacrifice caregivers make. My husband Jimmy, who was also an Army veteran, developed Alzheimer's and dementia, and I was suddenly thrust into the role of a caregiver. I did my best to give him the support that he needed, but I also had to work because we had limited income. As much as I wanted to keep my soldier home, his condition worsened. I grew older, and soon it was too much for me to handle. If Jimmy had served after 9-11, we would have been eligible for comprehensive VA caregiver assistance. He could have spent the rest of his life where he belonged at home with me. Sadly, my story is not unique. Behind me are hundreds of other veterans and caregivers who are unfairly left behind. That's why DAV launched an unsung heroes initiative to ensure all caregivers of severely disabled veterans have access to comprehensive caregiver benefits. We are pleased that the Senate Committee voted to phase in full caregiver assistance to veterans of all eras as part of S-2193. We now call on the full Senate and the House to pass legislation for our most severely injured or ill veterans of all eras. Messrs. Chairman, women veterans are another key priority of DAV. As a service-connected woman veteran who uses a VA system, I see that VA has made significant progress, but there is more to be done. In 2014, DAV published a special report entitled Women Veterans the Long Journey Home. DAV is in the process of updating this critical study to identify remaining gaps we hope you will hold a hearing before the end of this Congress to consider our recommendations. I urge Congress to act now by passing the Deborah Sampson Act to help ensure all women veterans using VA has timely access to comprehensive quality care that meets the unique needs. Last year, thanks to your leadership, Congress passed several new laws to strengthen and expand the delivery of veterans' benefits, including Appeals, Modernization Act, and Forever GI Bill. At the same time, we are concerned by proposals which could reduce and even eliminate existing veterans' benefits. Proposals to cut individual unemployability for thousands and reduce disability compensation coldest for millions would be devastating to our nation's veterans. Fortunately, Congress rejected these proposals, but we continue to hear these recommendations and even discussions about changing the entire veterans' benefits system. Some say our nation just can't afford the rising costs of veterans' benefits. We say that a great nation can't afford not to pay for veterans' benefits. These benefits have already been paid in full by the blood, sweat, and sacrifice of men and women who have served. Finally, Mr. Chairman, we want you to know the DAV does more than just talk about supporting veterans. With almost 1,300 chapters and more than 1 million members across the country, DAV empowers our nation heroes and their families. DAV has 4,400 credit service officers across the nation, providing representation to over a million veterans. In 2017, we offered nearly 650,000 rides to get veterans to VA medical appointments. Our 13,000 DAV and DAV auxiliary volunteers provide nearly 1.1 million hours of essential services to hospitalized veterans. Since 2014, our National Employment Program has led more than 50,000 job offers to veterans and spouses. Last year, our Disaster Relief Program provided direct finance to nearly 4,000 veterans affected by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and fires. Since 1988, the DAV Charitable Service Trust has donated over 100 million to non-profits serving veterans and their families. All of our services are offered at no cost to the veterans and families and survivors. When it comes to caring for American veterans, DAV is second to none. Professors, Chairman, Navy Veteran, former Senator, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy once said, Every generation inherits a world it never made, and as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. We are now the trustees. We must work together to fulfill our promises to the men and the women who have served. That is a legacy that I, that DAV, that all of us must strive to leave for our next generation. May God bless all of the men and women who have served, those who are serving, and those who will serve on behalf of this great nation. And may God bless the United States of America.


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The next item of business is consideration of business motion 473, in the name of George Adam, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, setting out a business programme. I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer, and formally moved. The question is that motion 473 be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. The next item of business is consideration of parliamentary bureau motion 474 on a temporary amendment to standing orders. I ask George Adam, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, to speak to and move the motion. Thank you, Presiding Officer. This motion amends the temporary standing order rule 3 to extend the period for which access to the public gallery is suspended until 9 October 2021. The motion is brought forward to reflect SPCB's decision on the matter, and members will wish to know that, should public health circumstances allow it, it would be possible to reinstate access to the gallery before this date. Thank you. The question on this motion will be put at decision time. The next item of business is consideration of motions 476, 477 and 478 on approval of SSIs. I ask George Adam, on behalf of the Scottish Government, to speak to and move the motions. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I rise hopefully for the last time to move three SSIs. The first being the health protection coronavirus restriction requirements, local level Scotland amendment 25, regulations 2021. Those regulations amend the health protection coronavirus restrictions and requirements local level Scotland regulations 2020 and are amended to allow the temporary removal of face coverings by a person receiving treatments around the mouth and nose. The individual providing the treatment must take appropriate mitigation measures to minimise exposure to coronavirus. Guidance will recommend the type 2 or fluid resistance surgical mask, plus face shield goggles should be in place for the individual providing the treatment as a mitigating measure. To permit indoor organised activity in level 2 areas, that adjustment allows non-sporting organised activities to take place in level 2 areas for individuals of all ages. The changes recognise the social well-being benefit that can be felt for attending such clubs and groups. Those regulations came into force on 31 May. We have the health and protection coronavirus restrictions requirement local level Scotland amendment 26, regulations 2021. Those regulations amend the health protection coronavirus restrictions requirement local levels Scotland regulations 2020 and are amended to adjust the allocation of levels throughout Scotland. Moving to level 2, the city of Glasgow. Moving to level 1, Highland, Argyll and Bute, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Murrie, Angus, Perthenkinross, Fife, Falkirk, West Lothian, East Lothian, Inverclyde, Western Bartonshire, Dumfriesen, Galloway and Borders. Moving to level 0, the islands in the Highland area accept Isle of Skye, Orkney Islands, Shetland Isles, Nye Island and Shire. I asked Dr Allan how to pronounce that. Disasterously. The Isle of Collins A, the Isle of Iona, the Isle of Islay, the Isle of Dura, the Isle of Mull, the Isle of Orensea, the Isle of Tyree and the Isle of Alva to permit no physical distancing when a person being married or entering a civil partnership is being accompanied from one part of a premise to part of those premises where a marriage or civil partnership registration is taking place. That ensures that a party to the marriage or civil partnership can be accompanied down the Isle or similar by a family member or a friend from another household, as is in line with many traditions. To adjust to existing exemptions to face covering requirements, applying in respect of parties to be married or entering into a civil partnership, to effect that the exemption also applies while there are being accompanied by other persons down the Isle or similar. To permit funfares to be open and public in level 2 areas, those regulations came into force on 5 June. The final one is the health protection coronavirus international travel Scotland amendment 12, regulations 2021. That instrument makes further amendments to the health protection coronavirus international travel regulations 2020 and are amended to remove Portugal from the list of exempt countries, territories, parts of countries or territories in part 1 or schedule A1 on principle regulations. The regulations also add Afghanistan, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Trinidad and Tobago to the list of acute risk countries, territories and parts of countries or territories in schedule A2 of the principle regulations. Those regulations came into force on 8 June. The question on those motions will be put at decision time. There are two questions to be put as a result of today's business. The first is that motion 474, in the name of George Adam, on temporary amendment to standing orders, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. I propose to put a single question on the three SSI motions. Does any member object? The final question is that motions 476, 477 and 478 on approval of SSIs be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. That concludes decision time and will now move on to members' business. I would ask members who are leaving the chamber to do so quietly.