and there until the very end I really appreciate it. My name's Laura Dapkus and I'm here to speak about WordPress for nonprofit organizations and we're also going to talk about things that impact you know if you work on campaigns, any advocacy group, faith communities, even local government, those are my favorite areas to work in. I also do small business sites but my very favorite is nonprofits. I am located north of Dallas in a rural community. I'm originally from Los Angeles. I'm an actual shepherd that's why the business is called Sheet Boutique and what I discovered in living in these communities we have a lot of rural poverty. We also happen to have a labor shortage which doesn't really make us a lot of sense and that's why my passion is education particularly community colleges and so what you're doing as a web first of all how many of you actually work for a nonprofit or educational institution and versus how many of you are designing for clients nonprofit clients or want to or as a volunteer both yeah yeah me too. As a nonprofit person you are really asking somebody to trust you. You're asking somebody to give you something and not expect anything in return whether that be money. You want to really show yourselves as being a good steward of your donor's money. You also want to show yourself as being a worthy place to volunteer. I think a lot of us have probably shown up at for to volunteer somewhere and it was a hot mess and it wasn't worth our time. You don't want to convey that with your website. So that's why for me you know as a professional my clients are going to get something that's accessible it'll have it'll be consistent it'll have transparency in terms of what we do what the organization does who's in charge how we spend your money and it'll be hosted in a secure reliable fast and air free environment and in terms of being timely that's your content creators job and that can be kind of a challenge when a lot of people are volunteers or your spread really thin. We're going to talk a little bit about content as well. Most nonprofits don't realize they have a problem until their website breaks they get hacked they lose control of their entire domain name forever or their web designer disappears. So I get a lot of people they have too many eggs in the volunteer basket and they're so and so made a website for us and they disappear. One of our board members kids made the website and now we can't get in anymore it doesn't work anymore. So this is where it actually behooves a non-profit no matter how small to have a professional. So you may ask yourself well should we have somebody who's in the organization do the website for us like a board member or you know a volunteer or something like that and you know there's pros and cons to that. There are advantages to having someone from the outside do your site because you can fire them. You don't have to worry about hurting people's feelings. I as your designer don't have to worry about hurting y'all's feelings because you know sometimes we as designers or developers have to tell clients something they don't want to hear. That can be really hard coming from someone within the organization. It can also be really hard to hurt the feelings of a donor or a board member or somebody that's really important valued and has been with the organization a long time and is loved because sometimes you know they may have a suggestion that's really not practical or not appropriate. You'd rather have you know a professional from the outside tell say that bad news than have conflict and drama in the organization. But it's really hard to take money away from your primary mission you know whether it be a food pantry or a campaign or something like that and spend money on you know a consultant or an outside company and that's why you should do a needs assessment and figure out how much can we spend what is the bank for the buck that we're going to get and needs assessment can be another hour and a half to our presentation so I'm gonna go over that pretty quick but what what you're mainly asking to do is what supporter participation are you trying to engender from this site. Who are your audience who what features you need over what time frame that is going to depend on what you're asking people to do. So I have some chamber of commerce sites and they have very complicated calendars they have a lot of forms they take memberships they take sponsorships they have a lot of events that's a lot different than you know a food pantry and they're really just trying to get donations of food and they don't they have one event a month or two events and it's a regular interval they don't need a big complicated calendar. Ask yourself what other audiences so I'm primarily talking about donors here because that's going to bring money into your site but some nonprofit websites are trying to reach potential beneficiaries potential clients people that need their services some are in advocacy so they are really trying to approach the government they want government agencies or perhaps legislators to read what they have to say or hear what they have to say and interact with them and also if you apply for grants having a really detailed professional looking website that makes it look like you deserve the grant that can be a huge plus as well. What I try to do with nonprofits is try to be realistic about what features they need now so the wonderful thing about WordPress is that it's so expandable you can do anything from something really simple to something really complicated so what do you what are you targeting now versus 10 years from now are you trying to grow an endowment that's going to be a different sell later on that's going to be something that's more personal and a different you know are you looking for the $50,000 $100,000 million person 10 years from now or two years from now or now like what are you looking for are you trying to get a lot of small donations are you trying to sell merchandise where is that going to go so if you're a nonprofit has strategic planning documents it's a really good idea to get those out and review them and if they don't have one maybe you know before you put a lot of effort into marketing think about what where the nonprofit really is and if they're ready for like to spend money on a good quality WordPress site also be realistic about resources available to manage your content so your client may want a forum for example so who's going to monitor the forum who's going to kick people off the forum if that needs to happen and make uncomfortable decisions I love how WordPress can give you different levels of access and publishing ability so I think it would be great to have board members and volunteers publish content so who's going to train him who's going to give them approval publishing rights and learn what all those levels are and what those people are allowed to do whether they be editors or contributors so the purpose again of your website is to make it easy for people to give you money make it easy for that person interested in your nonprofit to make take that first step whether it be volunteering giving donations selling memberships I mentioned chambers of commerce selling tickets selling merchandise I've come into situations where somebody had a website that did not take donations effectively or well or they didn't take them at all as soon as we redesigned the site got that in just the money just comes in it's just amazing that way and it's super cool and pretty soon you've more than paid for your development cost and what you've taken in and also don't forget efficient use of staff time if you do have a paid staff because maybe your website can automate some of these things that your staff was doing by hand maybe like I like to when I do a needs assessment I do a questionnaire as well and I also have the staff if they're a busy you know office keep track of what kind of calls they get just make kind of a log and then you know hopefully you can put things on the website that will not have people call the staff asking for routine questions so again you can save money with using your website efficiently so if there's one thing that you remember from today it would be decision-making for nonprofits is not the unfiltered wants of 12 people so if you're used to dealing with businesses this can be really a different going into a nonprofit or type arrangement because maybe you're used to the boss makes all the decisions and you negotiate with the boss about what the website's going to say do and look like and you and the boss agree everything's cool well you you cannot answer to a nonprofit board or city council you know eight to twelve people or whatever it is that's not going to work so what you need to do is identify in that organization who is empowered to make decisions working with you who is empowered to take all those inputs even that no matter how big the donor is or how important this person is you know filter them down make have judgments negotiate with you talk about the pros and cons and implement it the best possible solution and I put that person's name in the contract because if they leave we renegotiate the contract because you know the new person are they gonna like anything the old person did no you're gonna get to start over so in order and you know I do that now because it's happened right that's that's how a lot of contracts get changed so you want to keep that consistent voice going through the entire project and if the voice ends up changing you have to you know start go back take a step back another project management thing is ask if there are 501c3 organization and that's a federally IRS tax exempt organization so not everybody does that right away because it's a lot of paperwork and it's expensive but the thing about that is you don't listen Texas you don't charge sales tax I'm guessing here you don't oh it's different yeah you all have different sales tax than we do but we don't charge sales tax and also they may be eligible for some discounts from a merchant processing from PayPal and Stripe if they're 501c3 so that can be really helpful and from some other services and also keep really good records our media market's really small where we live so we find out about all the embezzlement that happens with nonprofits and it's really shocking so don't be an unwitting participant in some kind of shady embezzlement like if some paperwork's not kept upright so assume that there will be you know embezzlement and act accordingly just be super careful copy lots of people on everything keep a really good paper trail it's surprising that how often this happens I'm really glad to see a lot of talk at this word camp about the issues of accessibility and inclusivity I don't think I've ever been on a word camp where this was talked about this much and that makes me really happy because I feel like as nonprofits or education or government agencies we have to be on the forefront of that and be good examples for everybody else so definitely I won't everybody has shared so many great ideas and since we're limited on time I'm not going to rehash any of that and I'm not an expert on it my main thing that I try to do is there's several technical things that I won't get into but I look at contrast you know because we're all going to get older we're all going to lose contrast it type versus the background and the other thing is I want to make sure people don't need a mouse to navigate and that we don't have jumpy navigation menus and stuff like that because a lot of people have arthritis or MS or something like that and can't use a mouse so those are two things I always test for and color blindness and things of that nature storytelling is going to be a lot more fun with a nonprofit than maybe most business sites so that's one of the reasons why I love it use pictures and and stories about the beneficiaries if the privacy allows a lot of time it does not allow you to do that you don't want to do that so you can use stock pictures it's not my favorite thing to use stock pictures obviously they get used a lot but if you an alternative is to show volunteers and donors having fun it encourages people to kind of jump on the bandwagon everybody wants to be part of a successful organization so the more you can show like people getting involved in the community to support you that encourages more donations to come in also don't forget to really treat your donors well donor prestige is important donors get asked especially your corporate donors and your big high-profile people and organizations in the community get asked for a lot of donations a lot so give them some value for their donation they are doing out the goodness of their heart but I think they also need to get recognition out of it so think about different levels maybe of sponsorship what they get they get links back to their site they get their logo on there just think about I'm on the board of a community college foundation and they do such a great job recognizing people I've been I've been involved with some that don't so it's very very important I mean you notice the beautiful mosaic when we walked in that recognized all the donors for this building right so what's your gonna what's gonna be your kind of mosaic in the front of the building social media is WordPress adjacent so I'll just say that a lot of my clients are much more comfortable using Facebook than anything else just in it might be just be our region and the demographics that I work with so we would prefer that people post on your website and then share that on social media it's better for SEO but if they're really just more comfortable with Facebook you can or Instagram or Twitter you can display these feeds using a plug-in I've got some plugins at the end that I'll show you and that you can download the slides and I'll give you that address Facebook has fundraising tools if you're a US based 501c3 there's some pluses and minuses to that the main minus is you don't own it you don't own your data so but it's a simple way to get started some people might not have the resources to do some you know credit card processing or something complicated on their own site so it's just out there you can consider that or not if you're especially if you're involved in a real sensitive area I would suggest using social media and email archiving services it keeps track of everything people have done protect your accounts give the minimum access needed both for WordPress and for Facebook sometimes people hand over admin to people and they lose their site completely their Facebook I've seen this happen with nonprofits and businesses don't do that and finally have a crisis communications plan in case of a natural disaster like if you're a church or a rescue people are gonna need your services how are they gonna access how are you gonna access your media in order to communicate that also there's something called guide star does anyone use guide star so that's another it's kind of like Yelp for nonprofits suggest you check it out you don't have to be a 501c3 to use it some grants require that you're in it it's also for transparency and rating these are some of the resources available of course there's so many different ways to do it but I won't go over these in great details it really depends on what you're doing if you need a calendar or not but for search so some of you may have large libraries of information and WordPress search is not really good it doesn't search PDFs so I use site search 360 for my more detailed sites it's really wonderful or search WP because Google site search puts ads on there now so there's ways to get around it with a nonprofit but knew who wants to deal with Google not me and they won't do it for government the only different on profit if you have a lot of authors for your WordPress site which I really encourage that you do because it helps with your storytelling helps us share the message I have some tools on there that help you lock things down a little bit more than WordPress does right out of the box also I use I encourage people to use Grammarly which is a browser extension it's not a WordPress plugin it will help them correct their grammar and they'll feel more comfortable writing so we have that is about it we may have one minute or two minutes left so does anyone have questions for me I would love to hear them I've ten minutes left I talk that fast for no reason all right questions hi so what what's your recommended that's a great question so most for most nonprofits when they're if they're small and they're getting started I you know PayPal is real is good out of the box you know just out of the box I use gravity forms with PayPal and people can pay with a credit card if they don't have a PayPal account but PayPal is always changing that interface to get to to skip the login and get to pay but it's so weird every time it just keeps looking different if they have resources I use Stripe so they can just take straight-up credit cards and especially if you have corporate donors like they feel more comfortable with just a regular transparent credit card processing so they don't leave the site it's just like a normal e-commerce processing the downside to that is you know anytime you take any credit card from your accounting perspective it's another bank account so it's another thing somebody has to keep track of in QuickBooks or whatever yes so like if you just use gravity form play PayPal plug-in you're just paying for PayPal only and no plus plus extra and same with Stripe so Stripe just charges you the normal merchant processing fee and no extra on top of that and then they have a discount I don't know if I wrote it on there but oh yeah I did on the previous slide so if you are a 501c3 PayPal and Stripe have nonprofit rates so be sure you check their website out or ask them about that so it'll be cheaper oh yeah sorry and someone raise their hand behind yes oh right so your question is you have you have other members who want you to update content like I add this name add this change us put this picture on type questions I would have a are you an Albuquerque I will join the Albuquerque meet-up and have bring some volunteers with you who will help you post content because like I said they can post content without breaking the site because if you give them a low enough you know capability and you can even approve what they post so you can set it toward they're not like going crazy and posting whatever you have to approve it so but if you have some consistent pages that you don't want people editing like you might lock those down yourself but as a as a designer I encourage people to have a change request process you know but since you're a volunteer that's a little you know sticky but yeah like change process like a change management process and find out why are they so why they're asking for changes like you know what I mean did you guys have a big strategy shift where so that happens with organizations and businesses like sudden they have a strategy shift and now the content that you have is not appropriate and they're trying to change it and dribs and drabs and little bitty pieces when maybe what you really need to do is reevaluate the direction the tone whatever it happens it's okay I tell people you're not a failure if you're redesigning every two years I mean I think you're growing and you're changing other questions yes yeah I think so that oh sorry yes the the slides the slides are going to be at she I'm gonna put it on Twitter but it's I believe a sheet boutique comm slash word camp but I'll put it on Twitter also but there are you on there thank you for that oh I thought I did put on the last line I guess I did it my bad or I didn't get to the last slide and okay there you go yes thank you yes yes oh yes absolutely where there's no websites and it's just Facebook you know and that that's a really big good question and because we have had I mean blogging has given way to short form Internet and so I think for a lot of nonprofits just because we have so much transparency requirement and so much credibility that we have to build I think it's hard to do that on Facebook because you can't have like a library of static information that's always at the top very easily and then I mean there's a lot of nonprofits that need to have resource libraries with lots of information so you can't do that on that's impossible to do on Facebook like say it's a disease and you want to show you have to have a library of information about that illness or whatever but yeah I actually have some nonprofits who like they do start out with Facebook and they don't have a website for a while or if ever or I have them do Squarespace or WordPress.com something really simple because they can't afford the maintenance and the hosting you know we'd rather they do WordPress but if they can't afford it they can't afford it so I'd rather have them do something nice that's scaled down that's something crazy and not that doesn't serve their donors or their clients. Did you have another question? No? Yes? Do you have a favorite advertisement plugin? Oh yeah there's a logo rotator that I cannot remember what it is called. Oh an ad rotator? I don't have I don't use an ad rotator I there's one called logo there's a logo rotator one that I use for logos yeah but I can't remember what it's called because there's several there's several and it's not a slideshow plugin it's it's a simpler just for logos yeah it's a logo carousel that's it that's the one yes just for space purposes like if you have a lot and people clients ask for it so there's a lot of different ways to do it that's a thing you know that might not be your style you don't have to do it that way yeah sponsors sponsor logos yeah because a nice yeah yeah like thank you to the banquet sponsors you know then it rolls around yeah not your logo I mean yeah you want that to be at the top are there any other questions yes oh that's an awesome question how do you recommend switching from another platform to WordPress so well the first of all the way I convinced them to switch is you know WordPress powers what 28% of web now five minutes and so the chances of you finding a volunteer that already knows how to use WordPress or an employee that already knows how to use it is pretty good because people I've had you know employees that you know had their own hobby blog so they already knew how to use it which is awesome and also you know since it's open source and portable if you don't like me you can fire me and get somebody else if I don't like the hosting I can put it on someone else's hosting but then actual switch so I had a big city municipal website and I actually had a developer do a scrape and then they had a lot of PDF files so they and I don't know how to do this but developers do he scraped it and that automated a lot of it but I still had to get a lot of it manually cleaned up and there I feel I saw this question come up on advanced WordPress Facebook group the other day actually the whole transition and sometimes I just if it's small I just copy and paste because half the time you need to read that stuff anyway because it's gonna be out of date or there's gonna be typos or I'm a grammar nut and I have my grammar Lee in there and I run it all through Grammarly and I fix stuff so there's nothing to be ashamed of if you're copying and pasting but if there's hundreds of pages you might not be able to do that that's a great question yeah right if you if you've been I've been dealing with WordPress for over 10 years so to me I can do it in my sleep and then when you encounter something weird like oh no you know so yeah try to get him a switch I mean WordPress has longevity so I think it's a good investment for a nonprofit you know are there any other questions okay thank you for coming and sticking through to the end


Abel Luna, thank you so much for meeting with us today. I know you're busy, but I wanted to speak with you about how migrant justice is approaching this COVID period on behalf of the migrant workers in Vermont and around the country. Yeah, thank you again for having us. My name is Abel Luna. I'm an organizer with migrant justice. And yeah, just to very briefly before diving into some of the what's happening here in Vermont with the migrant community, migrant farm workers, I think it's important to understand the bigger picture that we're facing right now into ask ourselves, sort of how do we end up in business, right? There's thousands of people that are being laid off, millions of people that have been excluded from financial support and healthcare, thousands of families that are unable to pay rent. And it is important to question that at this moment, I had to be gay here. And it's important to understand that this is a perfect time for the right wing for power, to seize the opportunity and to put their agenda, to continue to get richer and richer while communities, the migrant communities and other working class communities continue to suffer and are fighting for the leftovers, right? And to even make it worse, migrant communities are not getting any of it. And so what is happening in Vermont? And so there is, as the government has been, farm workers essential, what does that mean, right? So farm workers have to continue to get up every day, every morning, mill the cows, continue to work with unsafe working conditions, like a protective equipment, overcrowded housing, two to three people per room. And for example, as the government is calling for people to self-isolate, to stay six feet away from each other, to stay home, that is the reality that farm workers on dairy farms cannot live because of things that I mentioned above, right? And these things are not new, these conditions are not new. They have always been there before the crisis started to sweep the nation. And they just have gotten worse now with the pandemic for the migrant community. And so what are we doing as an organization here in Vermont? There's two main things that we're focusing on right now, access to healthcare and also economic assistance. And for that we're talking to legislators and representatives and Senator Leahy and Sanders and Representative Welch's office. But some of the things that we're saying is that, it's great that there's free testing for the virus, but there's no, for example, related treatment assistance, right? If you test positive, if you need to spend more money, there's no coverage for that. It is a great idea. Also that the State of Vermont has actually expanded Medicaid to cover more people, but migrant farm workers have not been included on that. And this is a time of crisis and it's a public health crisis and everybody should have the right to coverage. And so we're saying that there is this Medicaid, has this emergency fund that in other states, for example, in Massachusetts, New York and Oregon have been used to expand that emergency fund to cover migrant communities. And that's something that Vermont can do in the broadest way possible. And we need Vermont to take that stand to protect the community that is making sure that their industry collapses in this time of crisis. And on the economic piece, migrant farm workers pay federal and state taxes and they have been excluded from everything, the unemployment fund, the stimulus checks. And so people continue to work and the government needs to put money into migrant workers' pockets. And so Vermont has gotten $1.2 billion through the CARES funds, the CARES program, that is gonna be redistributed in different ways. And that is something that Vermont can carve some money and to make sure that farm workers, if they're facing financial hardships during the crisis, they can have access to these funds. We have seen that with Texas, we have seen it with New Jersey and we have seen it with other cities across the country, putting funds aside to protect farm workers that don't have money right now. And just yesterday, California created a $120 million fund just to assist migrant communities. And that's what we're pushing here in Vermont for. The money is here in Vermont and it needs to include migrant farm workers, otherwise we're not doing anything. So what kind of response are you getting from Vermont legislators on the idea of expanding coverage to the migrant community? That is a great question. That is something that we're starting to explore with some of the percentages and senators and it's something that, we hope that there is not a lot of resistance around that because that is something that Vermont can definitely use the emergency fund from Medicaid to include farm workers. And that's what we're gonna be pushing for. We had some initial conversations already with some senators and representatives that support the idea, that want to get behind it. But again, like I mentioned at the beginning, there is a lot of interest and power and farm workers have been excluded. And so we hope that that is not the case with those funds and there is willingness to do that. Do you need help from the broader public to help make the point for this need with the Vermont legislature? Yeah, I think we're gonna sort of continue to define exactly sort of what is it that we want as a public to do. And once we sort of have that ready, I think we're gonna send out information. If it's necessary, hopefully we don't need together. Hopefully we don't need to do a campaign to make sure that people have the right to access to healthcare and financial support. That's something that it's a no-brainer and the state should be doing that. So hopefully with the conversations that we're gonna be having, that can be done and that's something that can be put in writing. But even that, that's something that I think we're gonna be calling the community to support migrant justice and farm workers ask. But we'll be sort of defining that and we can put it out there. And there is gonna be one thing that we're doing is that there is a May Day car rally. Not just for migrant justice, different organizations, the Worker Center, AFL-CIO, people are gonna be joining us. So different groups are gonna be joining their car rally. And it is to represent those working class interests and that could be something that maybe on May 1st we decide to push for something, the state has to do something. But we want people to come to join us. Yep. Well, that May Day rally will be a lot of fun, I think, because people, even if they can't be physically together would have a good time in their cars driving around certainly together and making the broader point about how working people in this country and in our state are being taken care of or not being taken care of, given that they are many of them providing the essential work that is keeping the economy and healthcare going. Yeah, and it is important for people, I know that we need to take measures and stay safe and keep safe. But at the same time, it's important for people to stand up and to work together, to organize. Like I mentioned, these are times where power's gonna cease to take opportunity and to rise in popularity and to do its thing and they never rest, they never stop and we have to do the same thing. We have to continue to organize. We have to continue to come together, especially now, different communities that have been doing work in their own areas. Now we need to talk to each other and come together and make sure that we're fighting this battle together as workers and as people who are being sort of, left out of a lot of the benefits. And so it's important to fight and to stand up. Well, now more than ever, especially that we're physically apart from each other, but we need to be united really. I think your point about the forces of capital never sleep and they're very adept at getting bailed out. So being able to, as working people, make sure that the people who need it the most are protected is really important role. And I would like to thank you and your coworkers at Migrant Justice for keeping this fight going today and always, it certainly is an uphill battle and there isn't anything that United States is doing to make it easier for the people that produce the food we rely on. Yeah, thank you for having us and yep. Great, all right, Abel, it's great to see you. Thanks for joining us. And let us know if you need any support. Yep, thank you, we'll be letting you guys know and check out our website and there's gonna be more information. If you wanna show up to the May Day, send us an email at infoatmigrantjustice.net for more information. All right, well, we'll get the word out too. Thanks a lot. Yep, take care.


What is up Zendu nation today we're doing you know a workout in a volcano if you like this workout and you want to see us jumping rope all over the world in a bunch of crazy places then go ahead and like this video and give us a subscribe because while we're jumping rope all over the world we're also going to teach you how to do the same thing and also how to lose a bunch of body fat in the process so that you don't need to worry about always being in a gym or always being in one location you can travel around the world too today's workout guys eight exercises 20 second each mostly focusing on the legs and then high intensity jump rope of course let's get after it dudes and dude that's what is going on Zendu nation yeah let's get after it today we got lower body and some jump rope let's do it whether you're in a volcano or not I want you guys to be going at your max intensity all right good guys for regular bounce same thing I always say look at my elbows there in my hands are jutting out to the sides of my hips my arms are bent at around 90 degree angles and everything is controlled by my wrists and my form that's how you keep the rope tight and notice as well knees are slightly bent feet only coming about one to two inches off the ground squat pulse next guys you don't need to do the turn here I just did it because I was on like a weird rock and it was fun to hop back and forth on this but feel free to do whatever you want you know as long as you're squatting down and pulsing good guys jump rope running place next here we go good guys remember you don't need to do this forever you don't need to be working out all the time Brandon and I do not spend that much time each week working out it's probably two to three hours max because when we do these workouts or we're jumping rope we're doing bodyweight exercises we're doing it hard and fast and that's the most important thing guys you have to be able to move your body in a way that forces it to adapt so turn up the intensity it's only like 30 minutes come on then you can go you finish and then you go do whatever you want jumping lunges guys super important on this one when you're pushing back up into the jump position with your front foot push off your heel good guys good I'm trying to do that I'm not doing the best job right here because I'm on some rocks but you want to be pushing off of your heel alright guys jump rope side swipe side swipe so it's a pretty simple move it's definitely one that you want to be able to get down as a you know a more basic trick so all I'm doing here is just moving my right arm over as I'm keeping my rhythm so the rhythm of the jump rope stays the same my feet are coming the same height off the ground but I'm just swinging my right arm over and then my left arm over the other one and we'll have it we actually do have a tutorial on the sideswipe so if you have not seen that yet get it to YouTube and check out the sideswipe tutorial I posted about three weeks ago I believe high knees guys come on let's do it I don't care if you're in a hotel I don't care if you're in a gym I don't care if you're out in the forest I don't care if you're in a volcano I do not care where you are okay you can get an efficient fat burning workout in and look the way you want to it just requires intensity a jump rope and your body heel taps next guys jump rope heel taps we're gonna have a tutorial on this as well soon so make sure to look for that good guys almost done with this first circuit once we're done with the first circuit you're gonna rest one minute and repeat four more times all in all it's about a 30 minute workout guys side squat tap so down in the squat position and then when you come up you're just slightly moving the feet out tapping outside and coming back down 10 seconds left guys let's go let's go like I said finish up and if you like this workout give it a like and subscribe if you want to get lean with just a jump rope and your body


Hello my name is Claudia Deema. I work for West Sussex County Council within the Community Safety and Wellbeing team. Sextortion is sadly on the rise within West Sussex, yet still few people know what sextortion actually is. I hope by listening to this recording you will take away some valuable information and I thank you for your time and for listening. Sextortion is a form of blackmail where a perpetrator threatens to reveal intimate images of the victim online unless they give into their demands. These demands are typically for money or for further images.  Criminals will then threaten to share the images with the victim's friends and family which can make the victims feel embarrassed or ashamed and prevent them from coming forward to report the incident. This short video provides an example of how sextortion can happen. Children reporting sextortion has increased significantly compared to a year ago. Victims of sextortion are getting younger in age with children making up to 24% of reports in 2023. Older children age 16 to 17 years are nearly three times more likely to be victims of sextortion than younger children age 12 to 15. Sextortion offences disproportionately impact on male victims in both children and adults. 95% of child victims are of this demographic. Just over a third of child victims reported a loss of 36%. The median amount lost where a loss was recorded was £100. Children are most likely to pay via PayPal or by bank transfer. They are being contacted via social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat rather than through dating sites. Most child sextortion offences are taking place in the towns of West Sussex. This infographic shows how young people are being contacted and via what means. As you can see Instagram and Snapchat are the most common platforms used for sextortion to take place. Sadly there has been a shocking increase in the reports of children tricked into sharing sexual images of themselves by abusers intent on extorting money or further imagery from the victims. In the first six months of 2023 the Internet Watch Foundation, IWF, received more reports involving sextortion than the whole of 2022. Older teens 14 to 17 year olds are the most at risk with boys apparently being targeted more often. The Internet Watch Foundation and Child Lines Report Remove Service helps young people to have sexual images of themselves removed from the Internet. What did you do if you were a victim of sextortion? Please understand that in no way is this your fault and there is nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about. It may make you feel upset and helpless but support is available to you from trusted, non-judgmental and understanding people and organisations. Stay calm and reach out for help. Ask for assistance from a trusted adult or support helpline immediately. Preserve evidence if possible. Save messages and record any communication related to the incident. This evidence can be valuable for legal purposes and reporting the crime. Stop all communication. Discontinue any interaction with a perpetrator and block them on all platforms to prevent further manipulation or harassment. Report the incident. Contact your local police and provide them with the evidence and details of the sextortion incident. They can guide you on the necessary steps to take. Report and Remove If you're a child of under 18, images and videos can be submitted to Report Remove, an online tool developed by the Internet Watch Foundation and Child Line NSPCC to help young people in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves in an effort to have them removed from the Internet. Inform parents or a trusted adult. Share the situation with a responsible adult who can provide support and help in reporting the crime and assist you in navigating the emotional challenges that may arise. Seek professional help. Reach out to counsellors, therapists or support organisations specialising in cybercrime or victim support. They can offer you guidance and help you cope with the emotional impact of being sexually extorted. Alert relevant platforms. Report the offender and the incident to the platform or website where the initial contact or harassment occurred. They can take necessary action to prevent others from being victims. Be cautious of re-victimisation. Offenders can be very persistent. Despite all attempts to avoid, block and secure your personal information and online presence, they may still manage to contact you. They can be very determined. But again, this is not your fault. Try to ignore and continue to report. We have a printable Sextortion Guide for parents available on our Staying Safe Online website in the section for young people. This provides lots of tips and advice on Sextortion and how to report. If you are a victim of Sextortion, please report to Sussex Police and in an emergency, always call 999. Some of the ways you can report a sexual image or video are by contacting SEOP.  And if you're worried about how to support a young person who has a sexual image or video of themselves shared online, and if they are under 18, they can use Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation's Discrete Report Remove tool to see if the image can be taken down. Young people can also get support from Childline throughout the process. The National Crime Agency website contains lots of information on Sextortion. Thank you for listening to this recording.


Hello and how are you all today? My name is Priyanka and I shall be helping you with the following question. Let's see. Evaluate the following limits. Now here the limit which is given to us is limit x approaches 0 cos x minus cot x. Now here we need to find out the value of this limit. Now first of all we will be converting cos x and cot x into sin x and cos x. So we have limit x approaches 0 cos x can be written as 1 over sin x whereas cot x can be written as cos x by sin x right. Further we have limit x approaches 0 taking sin x common we have in the numerator 1 minus cos x right. Further we have limit x approaches 0. Now on rationalizing the numerator we have 1 minus cos x over sin x and multiplying the numerator and denominator with 1 plus cos x we have 1 minus cos square x divided by sin square x sorry divided by sin x getting multiplied by 1 plus cos x also. We know that sin square x plus cos square x is equal to 1 isn't it? So we have limit x approaches 0 1 minus cos square x can be written as exactly sin square x. So we have sin square x divided by sin x multiplied by 1 plus cos x. Further limit x approaches 0 we have sin x over 1 plus cos x. Now since here we cannot since we cannot use the trigonometric limits. So at x is equal to 0 we have the value of sin x over 1 plus cos x as sin 0 over 1 plus cos 0 that is further equal to 0 upon 1 plus 1 as the value of cos 0 is 1. So we have 0 over 2 that is further equal to 0. So the answer to the solution is 0 that is the value of limit x approaches to 0 cos x minus cot x right. This ends my solution hope you understood and enjoyed the session. Have a nice day ahead.


Japanese rescuers found the wreckage of a crashed military helicopter and recovered the bodies of five of the 10 people who had been on board, Japanese media reported on April 16. The aircraft disappeared from radar on April 6, while flying over the sea near Miyako Island, part of Japan's Okinawa Prefecture. A senior ground self-defense force commander, Lieutenant General Yuichi Sakamoto, was among those on the flight. SDF divers found part of the fuselage of the helicopter and confirmed five bodies were submerged at a depth of 106 meters below the ocean's surface, about 6 kilometers north of Irabu Island, according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK.


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وآل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين بس بي أقوانكم ورسبيتكم ورسبيتكم ورسبيتكم إلى جديد جديد الشيعة مع ميع علي معاش who send our warm congratulations to the Imam of our time المهدي المتظر may Allah hasten his reappearance and to the whole Islamic world on this happy occasion on the fifth of Sha'ban which is the birth of our Imam علي بن حسينة سجاد peace be upon him Today marks the fifth of the whole month of Sha'ban The day in which Imam Ali ibn Hussain peace be upon him was born The year was 38 after Hijra The Imam's father is none other than the Prince of martyrs الحسين بن علي peace be upon him And his mother was the pious and pure lady شهزنان and she is also known as شهربانو his wife was the chaste lady فاطمة the daughter of Imam al-Hassan al-Mushtaba peace be upon him He has different epithets and names that he is known by such as أبو محمد أبو الحسن أبو القسم The best of four shippers زين العبدين ذلثفنات The Imam of the believers امام المؤمنين The sincere زاهد And several other names The Imam lived for 57 years And the period of his Imam lasted 35 years He lived during the times of some of the most treacherous tyrants of Benu Umayyah They are يزيد بن معاوية معاوية بن يزيد مروان بن الحكم عبد الملك بن مروان And الوليد بن عبد الملك The Imam possesses very high morals And ethical standards When we read into his life We see him enact all the traditions set forth By his grandfather The messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his family His mannerisms and human nature Would bring people to Islam His worship and supplication Would leave many in completely frozen state of amazement It is reported that he was the most A knowledgeable person amongst the people of his time period And a lot of grand scholars and jurists narrated from him They did not just narrate in the category of fiqh Jurists prudence But they covered various different sciences Traditions of the prophets, manners, science and so on He is known for his eloquent supplication and prayers And our scholars and jurists narrate from him What he is known today as a صحيف السجادي Which can be translated to the Psalms of Islam The book of supplications and prayers This book has been passed down from the jurists and scholars And it contains secrets to unlocking the mysterious of this world And it is the code, the law that leads to sincere slave to Allah And it is supplication and prayers For the days down to the hours The Imam peace be upon him is known for his kindness And especially for his generosity This is expected As he comes from the pure lineage of Lady Fatima peace be upon her To put this image into perspective We will narrate to you the follow report from his life شيخ المفيد reports the following in his أرشاد He says There was a slave woman under Imam Sajad peace be upon him He used to bring him water One day, as she was pouring water for the Imam She got full on the face of Imam and ripped his skin He raised his head towards her And she said to him Those who suppress their anger Chapter 3 verse 134 The Imam peace be upon him said I have suppressed my anger She said and forgive the people From the same chapter 3 verse 134 The Imam peace be upon him said May Allah forgive you She said verily God loved the righteous one The Imam peace be upon him said Go you are free by Allah From the book of أرشاد volume 2 page 146 This picture really is beautiful And shows you the level of faith That this Imam has If this was one of us And someone was pouring for his water And it fell on our face What would we do This is why we read such stories And memorize them So we practice them This is one snippet And already it contains so much lessons Another characteristic of the Imam Is his open hand in charity He is known to be giving And caring for the poor and the needy Who would leave in the middle of the night Covered so that no one Can recognize him And give out food and water To the poor in Medina It is even reported That the Imam peace be upon him Would not eat something Until he gives that same type of food He is about to eat as charity He would carry heavy loads Of bread and wheat on his back In the middle of the night And pass it out to those Who is in need Who would inform his companions Giving charity in secrecy Removes the anger of the Lord From the book Volume 3 Page 292 Since all of his charity works Was in the middle of the night No one was ever able to know Who was the covered man Taking care of us They ended up finding out After his martyrdom For about 100 families Began asking about this man And they knew it was him The inhabitants of Medina would say Who used to give us charity Never stopped until the passing Of Ali ibn al-Hussain peace be upon him Henceforth you can see What great qualities the Imam carries We do not have the time To go through them all Because frankly That would be impossible But we provided these examples So we have a better understand Of who this great Imam was We narrate such stories and events So that we may extrapolate from them And take them as life lessons In our lives today Imam Sajad peace be upon him Is a banner for us all Muslims and non-Muslims We can learn forbearance Patience, humility, kindness Morality, ethics and so on The Imam went through The tragedy of seeing his household His brothers His dear father being Massacred in front of his eyes And lived through the image Till his martyrdom Yet he stood strong In front of the biggest tyrant Of his time When Yazid ordered his soldier To attack his anti-zainab Peace be upon her If anyone that listens To this short biography Of Imam Sajad peace be upon him Wants to see who this man really is I suggest one refer to his Sahifa Sajadiya The Psalms of Islam And the Message of Truth These two books Will give you insight In this character like nothing else Because man is done by The speech he utters And words he narrates And the Imam Which was written 1400 years ago He shows us The rights of our mothers, fathers Siblings, friends, people Animals and others The treaties that he covers And not span and touch Just the human side But it spans all of Allah's creation Because in this religion Everything has a right And at the end of the day Muslims or non-Muslims We are all humans Which is why the Imam Peace be upon him and acts The saying of the commander Of the faithful peace be upon him Found in his letter towards A letter which is recognized In which he says Man is either your brother in faith Or equal in humanity Henceforth my dear viewers The Message of Islam Is a message to mankind And I hope you benefited From this short episode This is what we have for you today Until we meet in next episodes Of Shia calendar This is Ali Mahash And peace be upon you


It is still, largely unknown, just how colossal the great city of Ur could have once been. Ur, once the most important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, around 3rd millennium BC, is where the remains of the great Ziggurat lay. And just as with the ancient city, only the foundations of this once enormous pyramid still exist today. Just how big this pyramid once was is now left to the imagination, although one could calculate the structure's original possible size based on the ascent angle of many other ancient pyramidal structures from around the world. A range between 48 to 53 degrees would be a very safe benchmark to use, which would have made this once complete structure located on the Daikar province in South Iraq an awe-inspiring site. But what must be the most interesting of details regarding this very ancient structure, characteristics of which make this building stand out as obviously a very important piece of the puzzle regarding the pyramids, has to undoubtedly be the living quarters which were actually built into the pyramid for the use of an ancient alien, a god, who apparently came from the sky. Before delving into the details of which I feel it is important to point out our previous video covering Mario Bildrip's compelling work, collaborative data which correlates over 500 ancient structures on Earth to pass cardinal reference points or North Pole locations from over half a million years ago, interestingly, he singles out the great Ziggurat among others. In particular, the Sphinx as noticeably the most ancient of monuments that he has correlated on Earth. If his work becomes peer-reviewed, it would, along with numerous other research projects, strongly suggest certain monuments on Earth have survived several ice ages, the city of Urr's pyramid being but one of these ancient sites. Regardless of Mario's compelling work, historical facts surrounding this ancient alien god, who is said to have resided within this great pyramid within Iraq, has already been translated and thus well established on many occasions. The great Ziggurat consists of successive platforms which have a solid core of mud brick which is then covered by burnt bricks. This outer layer is said to have protected the core from the elements. The mainstream archaeological and historical understanding of the construction is that it began under King Urr Nammu of the Third Dynasty of Urr around the 21st century B.C. and was completed by his son, King Shulgi. The great Ziggurat of Urr was located in the temple complex of the city-state, which was the administrative heart of Urr. Although we would postulate, just like the ancient Egyptian cities, which also build up around these monumental and mysterious structures, were merely modern colonizations of sites which were far older. It is a well-known fact that many cities, towns, villages, and indeed temples are often rebuilt, reconstructed upon much older foundations. It is a common mistake to perceive a historical understanding beginning, which occurred at a certain point within history, as that of the site's creation. Many sites all over the world are far older than that of the academic records made upon said subjects. The great Ziggurat of Urr is largely accepted as having been dedicated to the moon god Nanna, who is the patron deity of the city. It is interesting that Nanna is a very ancient deity indeed, and of course, in all possibility, was once a very real entity, an ancient alien who visited Earth and attributed it as a god. It is likely that this occurred at night, thus making him or her a moon god. Why, for example, would you create a monumentally-sized building in the dedication of this god with a throne which rested upon the top overlooking the city? Why would one feel the requirement to build living quarters into the temple, a bed chamber complete with furnishing? Why would one completely build the structure around the living need of an imaginary giant if one was never intending on using it? Nanna has turned up in mythology from cultures throughout the world over the ages, and this, of course, may have been for good reason. She also appears in Norse mythology in the 6th century, thus having been connected by some scholars with the Sumerian goddess Inanna, the goddess Babylonian Ishtar, or the Phrygian goddess Nanna, mother of the god Attis. Scholar Rudolf Simech opines that identification with Inanna, Nanna, or Nanna, is hardly likely due to the large distances in time and location between the figures. Yet, alas, this form of conclusion, based on academic paradigm rather than a sheer possibility, is a very dangerous mindset indeed. Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson says that while the idea of a link with Sumerian Inanna, Lady of Heaven, was attractive to early scholars, the notion seems unlikely. Though she too lacks a compelling argument for her conclusion, we find the notion of scholars assuming to be a dangerous scenario for the rest of humanity, and we perceive such attitude as an attack on open critical thought. We do, however, find the facts surrounding the possible past existence of Nanna, along with the theories surrounding the true antiquity of this one enormous structure, to be highly compelling. It is largely accepted within mainstream archaeology that modern civilization started with Iraq, within what we now call Mesopotamia. Iraq is currently accepted as the longest surviving continuous area of civilization anywhere on earth. The question is, how did this very ancient culture excel so successfully within their surrounding environment? How did they develop such sophisticated methods of survival at such a primitive time in our history? There actually exists a series of figurines made by unknown people that predated the Sumerian culture by some magnitude, known as the Ubadian people, were these the source of Sumerian wisdom. The only problem is that the figures are representative of a race of reptilians, a discovery at the Al-Ubaid archaeological site where many very ancient artifacts were found, depicting humanoid figures with lizard characteristics. The origins of the Ubadian people is unknown. Their entire existence is a huge mystery to mainstream history, and although this race of people may in all possibility be the pioneers for modern civilization, very little is known about them. They apparently lived in large village settlements within mudbrick houses. They developed architecture, agriculture, and farmed the land using irrigation. Their domestic architecture involved large houses, open courtyards, paved streets, even food processing equipment. Some of these villages began to develop into towns, temples began to appear, as well as monumental buildings, such as in Eridu, Ur, and Urruk, once the capitals of the Sumerian civilization. Many of the figurines exhibit different postures, and in most cases they appear to be wearing a curious helmet of some kind, and have some form of padding around the shoulders. Other figurines were found to be holding staffs, or a scepter, possibly as a symbol of their status amongst the group. Each figurine was clearly intended to represent a unique individual. Some female figurines were even discovered holding babies, with the child also represented as a reptilian creature. Just who were the Ubadian people? Were these figures intended to represent tribe members? More research into their appearance and information surrounding the origins of their knowledge is clearly needed.  In 1835, an unknown laborer in Kent, the UK, was doing his usual field work. He struck the soil in what could be classified as a lucky spot. Upon impacting the ground, his spade disappeared into the earth, breaking a doorway into an underworld like no other. The lad soon realized that he was standing on an entrance to hollow underground caverns that from the surface could not be seen. Word quickly spread regarding the find, and the curiosity to see what was actually down there soon began to boil over. A local school teacher kindly volunteers his young son Joshua to make the dangerous trip down beneath the ground to see what was actually down there. He described rooms encrusted with millions of carefully arranged shells. People were obviously a little skeptical regarding the claims initially, yet when the hole was eventually widened, allowing to see for themselves, they were stunned when the boy's accounts were confirmed as completely true. Now known as the Shell Grotto of Margate, its origins or purpose still remains a complete mystery to this day. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof are covered in mosaics created entirely out of seashells, totaling about 190 square meters of mosaic, calculated to be around 4.6 million shells. Various hypotheses have dated its construction to any time in the past 3,000 years. These have included that it was an 18th or 19th century rich man's folly, that it was a prehistoric astronomical calendar, and even that it could be connected to the night's Templar. Interestingly, no publicly known scientific dating of the site has yet to be completed. The most frequently used shells throughout the mosaic, mussels, cockles, welks, limpets, scallops, and oysters are largely local. They could have been found in sufficient numbers from four possible bays, yet the majority of the mosaic is formed from the flat-winkle, which is used to create the background infill between the designs. However, this shell is found only rarely locally, so would have been collected from shores west of Southampton. Shell Grotto is certainly an amazing, yet not very well-known find. More scientific research is clearly needed if we are to unravel the mysteries of its incredible construction.


So we're still here stuck in our tent that MBS goes to here at Van Tastaville, but I'm joined by Derek and John from DFEI lads, how are you getting on? Not too bad. Very well. Good, so Derek you're going to be playing later on on the DFEI stage. Yeah, yeah I did. What kind of stuff should we be playing? I'd say alternative rock, it's a mix of, we're going to do five covers and five original songs and a bit of everything really Kingsley on and then our own things as well. Cool, and is it just you and a guitar kind of thing or do you have a band? No, full band band. Oh brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. And John was mentioned that you have some stuff coming out this summer. Yeah, we're working with a label called Pickle London Records and we're going to release an EP I think at the end of July and August, so that should be out then. Brilliant, and are you planning on doing some more festivals? Hopefully, please God if anything comes up we'll jump on it straight away, you know. Brilliant, brilliant. And John, can you tell us a bit about what DFEI is? Yeah, well DFEI stands for Donary for an Education Institute. Now within that then we have a music enterprise called DFEI Music and hence that's what we have, the stage down there is the DFEI Music Stage. That's where Derek is involved in this, this year he's one of the music production students and he's involved in like, you know, public carding as an artist and also promoting the current dimensions. So that had a nice two-week run on the charts that we've reached. Oh brilliant, brilliant, congratulations. So basically on this DFEI stage you have students from the production courses in the college playing at the stage, is it? Yes, and it's both a mix of current students and past students over the last ten years, ten years ago we set up the project. And as a result of that we have like this band catalogue band and you'll find that we do live acts like Derek Sate from maybe like 12 o'clock to 9 o'clock and then at 9 o'clock for 3 hours. We have a mix of DJs who play until midnight. So yeah, it's really good, it's going really well, we're so happy. So a big broad spectrum of acts on the stage. Yeah, it's not about genre, it's all about really good music. Well that's brilliant, that's brilliant. And Derek, how do you find playing on a stage like this and how do you find the course itself and the DFEI as a whole? The college itself is fantastic, it's one of the best decisions I've made really was going back to college in the first place. But this college in particular, it's kind of, the facilities itself are fantastic and the album is kind of, the music on it, in my opinion is very good. Mix of genres, you've got everything on it, you know, so now I'm really, really glad I did it, you know. I'm looking forward to playing on this stage, it's a great little setup, you know. Brilliant, I'm looking forward to hearing it. And that's just before we finish, I just want to see, what do you think of Fantastical as a festival? Do you like Fantastical? How are you finding it? I do indeed, yeah. Absolutely, we love it. It's the way every festival should be like this, simple as that. Every festival is great. The people here as well, I just say everybody kind of does that the same way I've learned them. So that was Derek and John from DFEI. This is MBS Goals 2 at Fantastical.


And we are live. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode. I got a repeat guest He's been on a couple of times my good friend Brad Mills Who he is and what he does? He's been a serial entrepreneur for most of his life He's been in the crypto space for quite some time He's been involved in many different crypto projects a well-versed investor in the crypto sphere and overall kick-ass cool motherfucker What's up, Rod? How you been bro? Excellent. How you doing Amir? I'm good. I see you got yourself a little man beard going on Yeah, this is my ICO beard. I don't have time to shave your ICO beard You're stuck in a garage 24-7. Oh, it's still in it's still in the pre ICO phase right now. You can tell So how much what's the discount I can get on that beard? No discounts for me Amir They all say money talks wait list right here That's what list. That's wait list So man, you've been busy fill a cinnamon What's happening the space a lot of a lot of ICOs honestly that seems like the most Action lately has been ICOs and has my connection by the way So far so good. Okay ICOs and then also trying to stay ahead of like the regulatory FUD that seems looming and You know how how regulations are gonna impact All of these ICOs that are yet to launch is the big question that's been on my mind And then we've also got the the 2x hard fork looming which is also a big factor in a crypto investors You know Worry basket buckets. I guess you got to wonder like what is the 2x hard fork gonna do to Bitcoin? Is there gonna be another Bitcoin? So talk about them. I think a lot of people don't even know what the fuck's going on with that so There's you know histories. What is it histories written by the victors? Is that what the saying is? So it's actually to saying yeah histories written by the victors and single people over democracy win Single people over democracy win. What's the what's that? Yeah? So will it's a little the few not democracy that shapes and transforms history. Oh, yeah I think like the crowd transform is not the crowds are the crowd the sheep Yeah, so there's all that both of those quotes fit perfectly right now with crypto because there's a lot of people that say Bitcoin used to be a benevolent dictatorship, right and yeah majority of the world Would be served well under a bit of benevolent dictator But then you know how the other side of that is like what if that benevolent dictator goes crazy and just doesn't let benevolent anymore not good so Bitcoin at the moment is struggling between the three different powers That are shaping the future of of the of the actual code and economics of Bitcoin itself And so there's the core developers who've about a hundred and some strong developers who are Like like just slowly Integrate changes and upgrade the network and don't want to like move too fast and break things right and then there's the businesses that are Getting this crazy influx of of customer support from users Chinese Bitcoin, but paying really high fees and having full blocks and Kind of getting frustrated that the Bitcoin network hasn't been upgraded to two megabytes or whatever yet and Then there's the other side which is the miners who Have this game theory sort of play with Bitcoin Where they need to make You know earn bitcoins for securing the network and processing transactions But they also have a little bit of incentive to spam the mempool to create a fee market that Will will take you from you know, like a 20 30 cent fee to a Dollar to three dollars. I was paying like four dollars sometimes a few months ago for my fees So to send like five bucks Yeah, so I remember I ran this little thing on Facebook for my friends like hey if you don't have any Bitcoin yet I'll send you five dollars in Bitcoin I got like 20 people asking me for five dollars in Bitcoin and as I was sending these fees I was sending these Bitcoin transactions. I was paying like three four dollars in fees to give someone five dollars So once You know the the you'll see a lot of people on Twitter with the hashtag and their name no 2x yeah, and so this is kind of like the same as the user activated software movement when people had the UASF in their in their name and It's kind of like an activist sect within Bitcoin Where it doesn't necessarily mean that these people are against Upgrading the network with a 2x or 2 megabyte or whatever Block size increase. It just means that they support cores position on it which has been They will do it but not right away and not without Extensively testing the code and making sure that it's backwards compatible with previous clients so you got people that see this no 2x and You know like Charlie Lee from litecoin has recently joined up with with the you know recommending people drop out of the New York agreement. That's the NYA. You may have heard that term NYA and Nick Zabo, which is you know one of the one of the earliest guys in Bitcoin who He was on a podcast with Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss podcast recently. There's a really good listen I'd recommend everybody go listen to that one and pretty much every core developer and Now you're starting to see some businesses drop out of the New York agreement so From a high level What this whole debate is it's these three camps right the miners the coders and the businesses I'll trying to like vie for power and control over the future of the Bitcoin network right now you've got the majority of users that are supporting the hard fork because they don't know what the hard fork is and It's because they're on blockchain.info or bit pay And they're just like regular people that have Bitcoin and send Bitcoin But they actually don't know what this whole block size debate isn't you know, they're not actually supporting it But that's what the claims are that these users are 90% of the users support the hard fork, but it's really just two or three of the major companies that have All the users are supporting the hard fork so the biggest risk for for right now is that if If this hard fork happens and there's another Bitcoin a 2x coin What the hell happens to Bitcoin and which one of those is Bitcoin? So that's what this big fight is right now is to control like which one is going to be having the ticker of Bitcoin BTC and which one is going to live on because The there's like Jeff Garzik is one of the lead developers for this 2x hard fork And he's he was kind of like ostracized from Bitcoin core a little while ago And so now he's kind of like revenge coding for Bitcoin Bitcoin 2x fork And he doesn't want to add replay protection and they're saying that you know replay protection is for anybody doesn't know it's when a Chains forks off and splits right if you want to send coins from the 2x fork and sell them To get bitcoins on the original fork if there's no replay protection you may sell just both would go So when you say why why gone to earth than he or they add that because it's a power It's a power move. It's part of the this whole struggle of control over Bitcoin They'd be you know if so the 2x camp has 90% of the hash power right if the miners are supporting the 2x So it's the miners in the businesses right now that are on the side of doing the 2x hard fork But the developers don't want it right now. They what miners do we know what pools? It's on coin dance if you go to coin dot dance You can see all the pools that are voting for the support. It's like 90% right now, but it's a little misleading because slush pool You know only 9% of the slush pool users are voting for 2x But it shows that slush pool is voting, you know on on the side of 2x But slush is a really small pool right now But it's mostly like the larger The larger pools that also, you know are the only ones mining Bitcoin cash right now. It's it's it's like It's a bit of a it's a bit of a like a political battle and a power struggle So the reason why they won't add replay protection is because they kind of want to wrestle some power away from the core developers because the core developers have been You know pushing forward segwit and and all the advancements to the Bitcoin core code and some of these other developers feel like they don't have a say and They're frustrated with core for it's been like two years since the Hong the original Hong Kong agreement where they agreed to put segwit plus two megabyte hard fork in and It's just been a debate ongoing ever since Bitcoin unlimited was like Roger Ver's big push to try to wrestle control away that failed and now they've rebranded it to Bitcoin cash and Bitcoin cash is an ongoing experiment that may or may not work out, but now you've got Craig Wright who's You know claimed to fame is that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, but was not able to ever prove that Now he's super active in in the community pushing segwit pushing up for getting rid of segwit Pro 2x John the cafe Yeah, John McAfee as well, but John McAfee is kind of like a dark horse in this whole thing He he's he's just I don't think he understands really what Bitcoin is. He's just influential and he has a lot of Resources and Jihan Wu and Roger Ver and those guys got to him first and he's like in late 70s Like I don't think he cares and he also would just launch his own John McAfee crypto hedge fund coin He had his accelerator coin Yeah Gaffy coin or whatever it is What do you think this there's a lot there's a lot to this So statistically speaking, what do you think like what are you pegging on like well? I think what's gonna happen right now the way that I'm structuring my portfolio is I think the 2x hard fork is gonna happen Okay, I think there's gonna be two coins.  There'll be volatility in the price You're gonna get to You're gonna get two coins again But it's gonna cause havoc if people start trying to sell their 2x coins or transfer bitcoins to the 2x For whatever because you're gonna end up selling both unless they put in replay protection and they don't want to put in replay protection because the The idea behind this 2x fork is that it is Bitcoin So it's a contentious fork between a couple of camps on one side and a couple of camps on the other side And they don't want to add replay protection because they think that they both think it's Bitcoin So let's say it's gonna cause some craziness based on the replay protection Let's say you have your private keys on a ledger nano or treasure or whatever Are you gonna automatically get this if they split this new 2x coin? Yes You will automatically get them but unless you go and take the action of like proactively splitting your coins away into the chains It's not gonna automatically happen like the Bitcoin cash fork like when Bitcoin cash forked off you automatically got Bitcoin cash And then if you sent your Bitcoin cash somewhere You didn't have to go to a splitter and like split your your private keys right on the both forks Yeah, it was automatically done because they added replay protection, which was the right way to do it That's right, but now this is not gonna have a replay protection So if you start thinking oh look I got these 2x coins for free I'm gonna sell them and you send them to an exchange. You're gonna actually send your bitcoins, too So a lot of users are not gonna know what they're doing and they're gonna lose their bitcoins if they start to try to sell 2x coins For Bitcoin or for dollars or whatever So I recommend like if the 2x fork happens You should take action before it happens in November like if you feel like it's too risky And you want to sell some cryptocurrency and you know just do it before the fork happens because otherwise you may end up with Losing, you know coins on both sides of the forks if you don't split them properly now The other side of that coin is well Maybe I'm a speculator and I and I think that both of them are gonna be worth more in the end if I just hold them for six months Which is what happened with Bitcoin cash and Bitcoin so It's tricky. It's tricky to recommend like what should you do in this case when the big The big bad fork is coming again What's the saying gotta be a hodler Well, what's the danger just hold what's the danger just holding Bitcoin like let's say you have shitload of Bitcoin What's the dangers in that well? Your turn. There's no long term. Yeah long term. There's no threat of just holding That's probably the best strategy The only threat the only threat I can conceive of for long term holding is that this just ends up fragmenting Bitcoin so much and that to if 2x does actually win and they actually do have 90% of the hash power and 2x becomes Bitcoin then the majority of the core developers are gonna leave Bitcoin They're not gonna they've already stated a lot of them that they won't develop on it anymore because a lot of these guys are like nerds and like evangelists and passionate Developers like they're not gonna work on a project that they don't like anymore and that that doesn't align with their vision and their goals anymore So some of them are saying that if the 2x hard fork passes without their consensus then You know, they're just gonna go and like take the original Bitcoin and fork it away from proof of work and change the algorithm So it won't be the same consensus mechanism anymore. Some of them are saying they'll go work on other projects Some of them are just gonna leave the cryptocurrency space. I mean, it's there's a risk of if this 2x hard fork Succeeds as the real Bitcoin then we would lose a lot of smart developers, but then You know, the other flip side of that is I'm sure there's gonna be more smart developers coming on board and joining up So I really don't know. I mean In the end it could be that Bitcoin loses value Because of this this political struggle and both Bitcoin so like Bitcoin Bitcoin cash Bitcoin 2x like they could all lose more value and dominance to altcoins So maybe but I actually think Bitcoin cash might increase in value. There's a lot of issues between 2x Yeah, Bitcoin cash probably Will Mineral to Yeah, but then again like that all depends on Really what the motives are behind Bitcoin cash because right now it's only Jihon mining Bitcoin cash basically like even though The motives is profit Profits the moment, but there's a lot of like speculation that the Chinese government is Trying to get a nice grasp and foothold in cryptocurrency and that Bitcoin cash is the way that they're doing it and So yeah, maybe that's gonna increase the value of Bitcoin cash because you've got a government trying to Try to grab a piece, right? Yeah, it might also be that the market rejects that and It's not it just keeps going down because like another 80,000 coins were sold by Zappo just recently The price is going down a lot There's coin base still has to release all their Bitcoin cash to the users and I imagine once that happens It's gonna be massive dumps again. Yeah, so I know I know from my OTC connections that there's large buyers stepping in and buying up OTC like 10,000 coin blocks Like really huge blocks of Bitcoin cash. So there is some people buying up this Bitcoin cash that's being sold And and supposedly it's like a mandate from Government or whatever to to kind of prop the price up or buy it up or whatever. I don't know That's sort of like speculation. I don't have any real confirmation on that But let me ask you this what would happen listen, we all know that All the ICOs are pegged towards Bitcoin Bitcoin's the tidal wave it goes up everything goes up it goes down everything goes down What would happen if Bitcoin dropped in 50% what happened all the tokens? well, I think there's only a there's a certain amount of correlation that that exists and There's a large pool of users now in cryptocurrency that That are like agnostic towards Bitcoin So a lot of us like early Bitcoin evangelists and Bitcoin maximalists or whatever I call myself a Reforms maximalist. I'm not really maximalist anymore But I still believe Bitcoin is like the best cryptocurrency for money and Store value but a lot of the people that have come into the space in the last year are you know They came into the space because they're like, oh my god. Look, I missed Bitcoin. What's the next Bitcoin? I need to I need to find the next thing and then oh, I missed a theory and what's the next a theory? I'm gonna go buy a blah blah blah So majority of the people that have come into the space are not really aligned to Bitcoin so the reason why I say that is relevant is because I Feel like if Bitcoin does drop 50% it's not necessarily going to be bearish for the whole market and New markets have developed with a cerium and with the US tether and the US dollar.  I'm gonna tell you that much I don't know man.   The gambling one pair Erity as well. Yeah parody hacked right so a lot of these ICOs lost their money. So edgeless lost their ethereum Eternity lost their ethereum, and there's a third one of form city token or something like that. Yes Ten million so all these guys they're losing their their their money they're losing their more chest and that's kind of like a Simulation if what what would happen if the market went to zero right the ethereum market went to zero because these guys for them It pretty much did right and they're still trading. They're still doing while like they're still proceeding So like I feel like we're at a bit of like mass You know enough inertia that and like enough users have come into the space that even if there's some kind of crazy price capitulation capitulative events with ethereum or Bitcoin it's gonna pull us down for a bit But I don't see a scenario where in five years or even two years. We're not back to this level or higher. I Just I think I'll pick up and different first I'll say 99% of these ICOs won't even ship and they're not businesses that will epically burn down to the ground. Yeah Number number two from even like a technological issue a lot of these ICOs can't even scale just based on the reality and nature of Ethereum for God's sake like if you have a token ERC 20 token You can only do seven transactions per second per node. You can't run like I can't even run an e-commerce store in that I can't run any app on that. I can't run hundreds if not millions of users per second on my platform So there's a technological barrier at stake as well Also, there's a barrier at stake like we do a blocky because it's not enough developers and enough educate, you know Smart bright minds work in space. That's what we're trying to solve that problem with our online learning platform So for me, I see a lot of what ifs I see a lot of Things that are Dependent on one each up on one it out on one in each other I see a lot of things that if one if one thing in this jenga piece goes out everything falls apart Which is scary to me for a whole ecosystem Yeah, I agree. I think though that like I Am looking at a lot of these projects as they're not actually dependent on Ethereum They're just ERC 20 tokens that could easily be migrated off of Ethereum and put their ticker somewhere else Like all of these D apps Yeah, that's a major problem if any of these D apps are really banking on launching on Ethereum with their scalable messaging platform or or whatever Internet of things upgrade like whatever your DAP is If it's gonna be on Ethereum and Ethereum can only do seven transactions per second gets bogged down whenever the next big ICO happens Those projects I I'm not talking about those. I'm talking more or so about the ones like That are just using Ethereum as a fundraising platform basically. He's just kickstarter for them like I say I think like Ethereum has taken the technology out of blockchain technology Say that just because just get well, but it's scary man It's really scary the but it works as a fundraising platform But well kind of like my whole thing with ICO is like listen I'm an investor and I still There's all very limited use case scenarios where tokens make sense very limited use case And I always break it down to this and like crypt economics input output levels also token velocity for increase and decrease If you buy a stock, I buy a stock to keep it. I have shares in that stock I can have a voting rights in that stock and I'm actually keeping I don't want to sell my stock to buy anything else I'm thinking long term majority of these ICOs what people are coming in is all arbitrage It's pump and dumps people, you know increasing a value within the first two weeks of launch and decrease in value afterwards And there's no reason for me to keep that token, you know, we're at a conference the other day Everyone everyone raised their hands saying yeah, I bought a token then we asked everybody How many of you actually use that token on day-to-day day-to-day basis on a utility like actually have value? Nobody put up their hand everybody bought it for speculation.  Well, there's there's there's two sides of that argument I think there's that there's the fundamental analysis and then the actual use cases and then there's the investment side right like the speculative side so Yeah, I agree with you on most of these use cases, but here's a little chart like to keep close by at all Times, I don't think you can see that. Yeah. Yeah, you've shown that before that's the stock market That's crypto currencies like that's the pattern that happens in any investment, right? This is from Alpha Trends Brian Shannon, I think his name is you wrote this book Alpha Trends understanding market structure It's great book on technical analysis. So You're gonna see those rises and those dumps and those like ups and downs in any market whether it's cryptocurrency or stocks or futures or whatever so Fundamentally, that's a separate problem. That's a separate issue like Fundamentally, yes, majority of these projects are gonna fail just because they're gonna follow the same pattern of startups Like what is it 99% of startups fail or something like that? Yeah, but I at least have a some cost box for startups. I've equity in a company I'm keeping my equity long-term. I want that company to succeed and I'm doing everything in my power to get more equity in the As opposed to a token if someone buys a token pre ICO 50% value and the token goes up 200% within two weeks You mark my words are fucking liquidating as much that token so token velocity goes south people are liquidating to buy a different asset A different hedge you're not actually keeping that token for long-term value or second as the ICO majority not all of them That's not fair to say we can't just brush it with a what a broad stroke But majority of ICOs they promise in utility of token obviously to escape securities Please name me 25 or even 10 startups or ICOs that I actually fucking use my token Monday to Friday Yeah, I mean we're very early in this space though I'm trying to play a little bit of devil's advocate But I agree with you for the most part But I do think that there's a shift happening and that eventually there is gonna be use cases for these tokens Not all of them. Oh for sure 100% bro. I'm very bullish on that But on our current landscape, that's not the case like I'm bullish on crypto equity. I'm bullish on crypto rev share I'm bullish on on somehow having a token voting right system.  This isn't anything different though than any other Bubble or any other market. I don't feel except it's open to more people and it's fast. Yeah, and yeah, I think like Yeah, a lot of these projects are just crap and they're gonna go to zero and I thought about I try to think about this too and especially recently because We're having like This major backlog of all these ICOs that have run in the past three four months that are not getting added to the major exchanges So there's I'm probably holding 50 ICOs just myself personally not for the fund But personally because the fund thinks like you I mean you're like the fund thinks like the majority of these things are gonna Go to zero and we've got this fiduciary duty to our clients to invest in good fundamental stuff and hold long term and not to Be flipping things that are given us a hundred two hundred percent Just to get investors in like the fund is a totally separate Operated than how I run my own personal portfolio and but for my personal portfolio. I'm a sucker for a deal So when someone's giving me an 80% discount, I'm like, I gotta toss into that I gotta take that if it's a good if it's a good You know a good Project like I'm not my bar is like maybe here You know where as long as I can see over and there's okay. It's not on fire Okay, I'll give you my money for 80% discount, but like alphabets bar is like up here So for my personal portfolio anyway, the reason I'm saying that is because like I've got like 50 ICOs that I'm waiting to get Launched in my personal portfolio, and I've got no liquidity for all these ICOs right now. So The the regulatory risk I think is very high for these US basic changes like bit the tracks and and Poloni X and all the like major ones like Whatever, I don't even know if they're cracking as in the US. I think they are but They're all not adding tokens right now Vittrex added 88 this week, which is Cardano Cardano card card. Whatever it's called. It's IOH project Oh Boreos, what was it called? Part Cardano. I think is what it's called Yeah, but the actual the actual consensus model is called a board. Oh I don't know But that one was like a child. It was a Japanese or an Asian only ICO that they ran for two years and like I think so Bittrex probably added that because it's Followed, you know, it's not a security and Bittrex just delisted bit shares and a bunch of other tokens and It's Poloni X only added What was it 0x or something recently and it's not done. Well, it's followed the the distribution chart here It's it's just another issue man in declining You know the weak points of the space for these exchanges then super yes points so, okay, you've got now you've got like 50 or 100 ICOs that are like probably if you're gonna rate them from a to f, you know, we've got like probably 30 40% of them are or fails and that number is increasing every day like instant fails like There's no chance that these I don't want to name names because I'm like I talked to a lot of them but I Can't even like I can't even I can't even hold my tongue on the phone with these guys anymore Like sometimes like after a call I'll get on a telegram group with my friends or whatever and I'll be like, oh I talked out so and so it is such ridiculous piece of shit Like it's never gonna work But now sometimes I'll even say that to them like straight up on the phone like after two minutes I'm talking to me. I'm just like this is not gonna work guys Even if I've told a guy recently like even if you give me 98% discount I would probably still say no because this is not gonna work And you see you have to you have to do that Yeah, yeah, I mean if there's just more and more crap coming to the space But of the ones that that I invested in now I mean some of them are decent projects that will probably work if they can get through the startup Challenges right like a lot of these are just startup pivots that are putting their technology on a blockchain or Decentralizing and that's that's and that's a scary thing.  It's like an emotion driven cycle and trading in the market So not all investors are long-term and a lot of them are traders and a lot of them don't even know how to trade So they they'll just dump when it's going down because they get scared They came into the space thinking all I got to find the next Bitcoin.  But you know and then it pumps in their site and then it starts to go down and they just dump it and get scared like a lot of it is a lot of it is just human emotion driven that they don't know how to trade they don't know how to like Properly manage risk like they'll go all in on a couple of coins and then once they start to lose They'll lose most their money and people start margin trading and like using leverage and just get margin called and lose other money like That's gonna happen for sure whether or not this is fundamentals Like if say everything in the space was really good fundamentals. You're still gonna have these patterns in the in the price So like oh totally But I also I also I also believe though for The ecosystem mature we have to figure out the new evolution of exchanges Yeah, whether that is decentralized exchanges or that's better token protocols and token allocation and token distribution Actually having it for example, like if you and I IPO a company we Sorry, let's say if you and I want to buy shares in a company. That's IPO We can't just buy all the shares at once, you know, there's lottery systems There's actual control mechanisms in place. So you don't have a corporate takeover so you control everything and you can manipulate the stock, right? These why though, I don't I don't know what is that the reason why or is it just I control people's Classes of wealth. It's one of the reasons why man as a publicly traded company. You want to stop people from taking over a majority of your stock. Yes so You know like for example like bank or there's a couple of people that own and I'm not pooping on that I'm just saying based on this on the numbers. There's a couple of people that own everything so For me, that's that's a big red flag where and if you're investing something It's like four or five people own everything that if somebody design decides when they to dump all those coins The value of your coins go down to zero and this is why like I really liked civics Token allocation system where they had a waiting list the white labeled people I think they had a cap on how much you can have maybe it was like 500 bucks or a thousand bucks I forget yeah, but the whole process is really good They had a waiting room. So basically they also paused it and restarted it on it. They big So the whole system was really really good. I think that was very similar as well Yeah, Kyber Networks. I think did the same thing and Red Pulse is gonna do that. There's a lot of people using that whitelist method. I mean, that's fine I just think like I'm more of like on the libertarian side where I think like the free market is gonna Solve all these problems and why try to control everything and Yeah, but what that is the free market like let's say like let's say, you know, I Wanted to get into civic, right?  I just want to invest So their system worked for them, but it didn't work for me For all the people. Yeah, but see that's a thing though If you're if you're an if you're an open-source system like that and you're saying your token is a decentralized token the very nature of the word Decentralization means that you should decentralize the allocations of that token. Yeah, but when you're spelling tokens You're engaging in the free market and investments like if you really want to decentralize a token Then yes, tie the tie the token to the identity or some unique factor of every person in the world and give everybody one and That's real distribution like well, you could wasn't that to bite ball. Did it airdrops that way? I dropped it, but they're done airdrops Bite ball did airdrops to Bitcoin holders though. So you already have a distribution. That's sort of like skewed towards certain whales holding a lot of the coins and it basically just rip like Replicated bitcoins holding, you know, I have a friend who had like 2,000 bitcoins. Yeah, but think what you know think with airdrops that I kind of Prefer sometimes over ICOs if you really believe that your token has x utility that it's so wonderful. Just give it out Just give it out. Yeah. Yeah, there's a bit bit sends was doing that There's a few that do that But the problem with doing that is that like it has no value if you just give it out, right? Like no, well supposedly it has value.  Hey, he's gonna rise. That's the that's the promise Yeah, but if it's just like, you know, there's something that is just giving away tokens then How value it's no different a casino. Hey, I go to I go to casino.  You're going to man. I gotta go there Let's go. Let's go and I evera baby. I think like, okay, so there is there's like a real issue with these like unbalanced distribution tokens I do like the Bitcoin in the first place was because of of the fact that I felt like it was unbalanced and you know the money system was flawed and the power resides with the central bankers and You know all that stuff which which I wanted to be Fight against in my original vision for why I got into bitcoins I was going to help democratize money and like everybody's gonna be able to access Bitcoin and everybody's gonna have Bitcoin and Bitcoin is gonna be The new money of the world But now it's like I'm driven by these capitalist needs to make more profits and acquire as much Bitcoins as I possibly can and there you go.   They're just holding and then When like when we have eventually these apps and stuff using Their their supposed tokens for this actual platform that has a real use case Then that'll be that'll be a validator or it'll prove the model wrong So we'll know once that once these tokens start to launch like Are people actually using these tokens or or are people actually just gonna only invest in them Just for speculative reasons to increase their portfolio value Only time will tell man only time will tell But there are so many like there are so many projects that It would be awesome if they had a more widely distributed Token base right like yeah, I like civic what civic did but what I think civic should do is actually They're a KYC Entity right like they're they're basically putting identities on a blockchain. So why don't they get every person to get on Civic and use some kind of biometric marker or something that can't be easily spoofed buy it to a SIM card or something like that so that Every person with a cell phone can just take a picture of themselves and then allow them to track where they're going or Whatever it's kind of scary standing but something that identifies a person and Then give them a token and then that's like or 200 tokens or whatever and then use like a second cryptocurrency or something Just to give out to everybody then you'll have every Then you'll have like a really super widely equally distributed coin that You won't have all these big whales that have we know a whole a whole Million coin block or something just sitting around waiting for to go to $100,000 so they can be the richest person in the world you'll have Everybody having some of this network and then the value of the network is based on who's using it And how much any time I tell maybe a maybe someone will create that maybe it will be you bro When you go create it. No, man. I'm too busy trading and buying ICOs. I can't do that. Sorry All right. All right, man. We're gonna wrap it up here. I gotta head out my buddy's waiting for me in another room Brad like always. Thank you, bro. If somebody wants to talk to you Yeah, I'm all at Brad Mills can on Twitter All right, cool. All right. I do actually add your Twitter below this. All right, Brad. Peace. Thanks, man