the Healthy Planet, the show for people who care about their health and the health of our planet on the ThinkTech Live Streaming Network series. I'm your host, Dr. Grace O'Neill. Joining me today is Duretian, founder and director at the Hawaii Impact Collaborative and co-founder of the Good Food Movement. Welcome, Duret. Hi, thank you. Thank you for being on the show. So I want to talk a little bit about how you got involved with the Good Food Movement, what it is. So if you can go ahead. Yeah, so I started Good Food Movement with a few friends back in 2017, and it really came from this observation I had working really heavily in the environmental movement that even environmentalists weren't ready to be serving vegan food and talk about the importance of a vegan diet in their operations and events. And so I was really inspired to start this as a way to have an inclusive, fun way to promote veganism to our community. So when you say the environmentalists aren't ready to eat vegan food or serve vegan food at their events, do you think that it's because they have sponsors that are kind of against being vegan? Do you think that's part of the reason why they don't want to promote veganism? No, I don't. I think that the organization that I worked with and been exposed to are all relatively small, and it's usually actually just the people who are part of it. You know, the leaders, the volunteers, they're not open-minded to the concept. They may not know the science. They may not want to believe the science that a plant-based diet is one of the most important solutions to a sustainable future. And so just feeling the frustration of that, trying to integrate that into operations and being met with a lot of resistance on that front made me reflect in that way. And I wanted to have an outlet to promote that, showcase all of the amazing vegan options on the island, and then have events where we're one, educating people on why it's important, and two, actually feeding people that delicious food, and really having people have those aha moments where even if they're not ready to go vegan, they are not thinking that it tastes bad, and they're not thinking that it's a sacrifice, right? So planting those seeds and allowing people to be on their journey. Yeah, no, that's great. I mean, I think that some people may initially themselves like to eat meat, so they don't want to confront the fact that it may be better to be plant-based for the environment, but they might feel very strongly about being environmentalist. So I think that they might feel like they're losing out if they can't eat the meat. So just showing them that there's other good options that are plant-based when they might not know that, that's great. Have you found that with any of the events that people were maybe more open to being vegan and actually wanted to convert to being vegan, or at least eating more plant-based? Yeah, I think between the mix of having film screenings of really powerful documentaries that talk about the reasons why and are very visually compelling and tug at our heartstrings, and then having that food that's really amazing, you know, because I grew up eating meat, I grew up eating cheese, and I love those foods.  It wasn't because I was like ready to make the switch, but when I did, I was actually really surprised at how many delicious options that there are, and increasingly so, especially most of us who have access to grocery stores that have vegan cheese, vegan meat, vegan mayo, butter, all of the above. And yeah, so we have some really great examples of people who we do these food tastings, and they're like, why? I had no idea. I wouldn't have even known that this was vegan if you didn't tell me, especially with cheese. I think that's a big one for people, a big barrier to making the switch. So those are the moments we're striving for, where you try to do it in a way that's not, you have to go vegan or I'm against you, or you have to do it perfectly, or I'll be mad, or you're not allowed in the club. It's really, I think, the ethos of our organization has always been imperfection is okay as long as your intention is good, and as long as you're always trying, because we lose too many to the movement, because we demand perfection, and we're too strict with that. Yeah, I know that's definitely true.  And, you know, I think even if you're taking a step toward being plant-based and you're not completely plant-based, it's better than what you were before. So, you know, generally that's, that's, it's better, it's more inclusive. So tell me with the Good Food Movement, you said you sponsored some film screenings, can you tell us about what films that you've had and where the food you had came from? Yeah, we've done a bunch of events and, you know, some of our firsts were screening What the Health, and so talking about the health impacts and really the elimination of a lot of chronic health illness risk through the integration of a plant-based diet.  We also screened game changers when it came out and we just screened eating our way to extinction. We were lucky enough to have Will Tuttle on the island and he's actually the reason I went vegan. I had been vegetarian for a long time since I was 12 years old and when I was in college around the age of 19, I read the book World Peace Diet that was written by Will Tuttle and it really connected all the dots for me. You know, someone who cares about interconnectedness and not realizing kind of the negative impacts of the dairy and egg industry, both environmental and in terms of animal welfare and, you know, cruelty. I was really shocked that even the dairy and egg industries had so many issues. And so at that point, I went vegan. And so yeah, Will Tuttle was just happened to be on the island and we were able to do an amazing talk with him and Loving Hut did a whole kind of buffet of food for everyone that was just like comfort Asian food noodles and really flavorful stuff. So I think that's what gets me excited is like people realizing that when or if they make the switch or they try to go even vegan just on the weekends or something like that, that they're not sad about it, that they think, you know, one, this is good for the environment, me and my health and the animals. And I'm not sacrificing. I'm still eating delicious food. I'm still nourished and full and enjoying my food in my everyday life. Yeah, no, absolutely. So with the events that you had, I've seen, I've been to several events and how do you get the food for the events? Do the caterers donate? Do you have money that's donated that you spend? How do you usually come by the food because the food is always great? Yeah, no, I'm glad that you've experienced that we, it's a mix. Sometimes we get gift cards, like down to earth has often donated gift cards. A lot of the times the caterers, if we get a caterer, they'll either donate or give us a discount. And actually most of our events we serve food, we get a grant from VegFund. And VegFund is really a really easy way to get a small amount of money to fund the food. At events, it'll even cover costs for film screening or venue up to a certain amount. And so that's why a lot of our events we have been able to keep free, as long as we are at, you know, like a venue that is offering that space to us, we're able to keep most of our events free or pretty cheap for the community. Yeah, I mean, I feel like even if you charged a few bucks of people knew that they were getting food, it would be worthwhile for them and a movie. It's entertainment, right? So it's definitely worthwhile. So tell me about, I know you have some pictures, can you show some of the pictures for the events? So tell us about this event, who are all these people and they're holding a book? Yeah, no. So this was our first event of this year, 2023. This is Mackenzie and Kathy Feldman, a mother daughter duo. Mackenzie had the history of banning pesticides and herbicides from being used on college campuses and their whole family is vegan. And so they wrote a vegan and it's actually fully gluten free cookbook. So we did a cookbook launch for them over at the yoga studio in Kaimuki. So those are the kinds of events we like to do. It really varies and really it's because they wanted to partner with us and we were happy to coordinate with them because they do such great work, not just in veganism, but in food activism overall. So do they live here? Are they local? Yeah, Mackenzie and Kathy are from here and they, I think Mackenzie's right now, still finishing up her grad degree, but they're a local family from Oahu. Oh, really? Which ones are they? Are the ones in the center or on the side? Oh, they're the ones on the ends. Okay. And in the summer is yoga under the palms owner and then it's me and Anna on the other side. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, yeah, this is just another photo from that, from the book launch that we did. They're just the beautiful yoga studio venue there in Kaimuki called Yoga Under the Palms, which is really cool because they actually have a vegan cafe and a yoga studio in the same location. And so just a great place for wellness and eating food and getting work done and all of that. Yeah, I've seen that plant-based paradise. I've never been there. Is it good?  Yeah, no, it's a great food. I love it. Super healthy, delicious. You have a ton of options and I love getting work done there, going to yoga classes and it's a good community space. Nice. Yeah, and this is actually speaking on McKenzie. This is an event that mostly she organized, Book of Food Movement partnered on along with our partners at Center for Food Safety. So this was actually a film screening of Into the Weeds, an incredible documentary about the problems around glyphosate and roundup being sprayed and how it causes cancer and all of the lawsuits that have come up and it really focuses on one. He was a school groundskeeper, Lee Johnson, who, an amazing man, ended up getting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after a spill of roundup on his skin. And it talks about his, he was one of the first big lawsuits against Monsanto Bayer and he won a several hundred million dollar lawsuit against them. And yeah, so just I think for Book of Movement, like not just about veganism, but really talking about the problems with the food system as a whole. And they often do connect back to industrial animal agriculture and factory farming, but really recognizing where the problems are in the food movement, not just around animal welfare, but around all of the above. Ecosystem health and how we sustain our future with a growing human population that needs to eat food and how we not destroy the earth while we feed everybody. So I think that's something that a lot of us are passionate about. How about this? Yeah, this is from our Eating Our Weighted Extinction screening that we just had a couple of weeks ago here. And we partnered with Vegan Society of Hawaii. We had about a hundred people come out to the Alawai Clubhouse, you know, watching this film about all the ways that our food system is destroying our ecosystems and what we can do to fix it, which is to adopt the plant-based diet, was actually narrated by Kate Winslet. And we had some amazing food by Juicy Brew. They are catered and funded by Bench Fund, like we talked about. We had some mac and cheese, tofu poke, cookies, and mochi, and so just introducing people to that really delicious food at a totally free event. And who are all the people in the picture? Yeah, so it's myself, Anna and Joe, Anna on the right, and we're co-founders. And then Michelle, who's just joined the team, she just moved here recently. So we're kind of just a small volunteer team that plans our events. Let's go to the website now, Michael. So show us some of these other events that you've had. Yeah, this one was really fun. This is probably our favorite event ever, and when we talk about it, it was our vegan chocolate party. And I know we had 150 people come out. It was actually right before COVID in February of 2020. It was on Valentine's Day, and we just had a ton of people come out. We had a DJ, we were dancing, we had a lot of vendors serving all kinds of vegan chocolate goodies, food, and desserts. We had a mindful chocolate meditation, eating activity, and it was just like a great, super fun event. So just showing people, I think we're always trying to bust the myths around veganism, and a lot of people think you can't eat chocolate and dessert. And so we just wanted to have a whole event dedicated to that on Valentine's Day, and it was a big success. That's great. Are you gonna have more of those events? I missed that one. Yeah, we want to have more. I think COVID kind of slowed us down, so we're just getting back into our events group again. Yeah, so with the events, how can people find out about the events? Do they get on a mailing list? Yes, go to our website, goodfoodmovement.org, and it's, yeah, right there, goodfoodmvmt.org, and then on our Instagram, which is Good Food Movement, all spelled out. But getting on our email list through our website is the best way to make sure you get that email notification about future events. And then how about the Instagram? You want to show us the Instagram page with the restaurants. So it's kind of small, but can you just talk about it? Yeah, so the first two, and this is like a huge just resource for the community. We actually update this once or twice a year. So this is our vegan eateries wires. So if you see the first two posts on the top left there, and they're in the circles, we compile a really accurate list of all the vegan eateries on Oahu. So I actually look at this almost every single day when I'm looking for somewhere to eat lunch or get coffee or something. One of them is for places with brick and mortar, right? So like places where you can go and like sit down and eat. And then there's one that are vegan vendors. And so those are our popups, they're only open like once a week or they come to the farmer's markets or the hot dog. There's a hot dog truck, right? Or ice cream places that just pop up here and there. So it's more of like our pop up occasionally open flyer. And then we have our actual restaurant cafe flyer. So there's two of them. We keep them updated. It's always our most popular content on our Instagram. And if people are on Instagram and you go to those posts, you can pin it and save it. And so you can always access it super easily in the future when you're looking for somewhere to eat. No, that's great. So let's talk about a little bit about your day job. So what do you do with the Hawaii Impact Collaborative? Can you tell us about that? Yeah, the Hawaii Impact Collaborative is my consulting company. And so it really came from me working full time for nonprofits for a long time and realizing that it's hard to make a living out here doing that. And so I started my consulting company at the beginning of last year, and I work on a variety of projects in the impact space. So some of them are environmental, you know, one of them is with the Center for Food Safety, which is a public interest law firm and advocacy organization fighting for a safer and more sustainable food system. And one of the things they are doing is fighting industrial ag, fighting industrial animal agriculture and kind of the toxic chemicals in our food system that show up in the form of glyphosate and other herbicides. And yeah, there's a few other projects I work on. So that's just kind of how I make my living out here in Hawaii and allow me to keep working on a passion project like their food movement. So the Center for Food Safety here in Hawaii, are there any specific projects they're doing right now or any active events right now that they're focusing on? Yeah, you know, one thing, the Center for Food Safety Office is national. There used to be a Hawaii office and there's not a dedicated regional office here anymore, but one of the things that we were working on this year was to raise awareness about the only factory farm left in Hawaii. And it's actually an egg farm. There's 200,000 laying hens there. It's called Wailua Fresh or Villa Rose. There's two names for it. But a lot of people who buy eggs locally will know that it's Wailua Fresh to Eggs is the brand. And they market themselves as very sustainable, solar powered and all of the above. And yet in our investigations, we found pretty clear evidence that they're not managing their waste properly. And there's been a lot of a lack of oversight on their operations there. And because they have 200,000 laying hens and they hope to expand to a million with the goal to export their eggs, we're trying to raise awareness to the public that these are not sustainable eggs and that any factory farm is not compatible with Hawaii's ecosystem. So that was just one local thing that was happening here in the past year. So how about all their waste? Where does all their waste go? Because there must be a lot of chicken waste. Yeah. And that's actually exactly the problem was in their permits, they very clearly stated that they were going to manage all of their operations waste on site, which is really hard to do. You don't really see many or any animal farms claim to do that because there's just inevitably discharge from that many animals. And they had a biochar system that they were allegedly using, which is kind of like a burn compost system. And we soon found through someone who did a tour with the executives that they were not using the biochar that their biochar system was broken, was not compatible with how wet the waste was on site, and that they were actually compiling all of their chicken waste in a barn and without any permits to discharge. And so it's a potentially huge environmental issue and public health hazard. And so we're actually actively looking into that. And there's a press release coming out in the next week or two from Center for Food Safety to raise more awareness about this company. And they're owned by two large corporations on the mainland, so they're not a locally managed operation at all. Are there any other operations? Because I have thought that there was maybe some, maybe there's smaller pig farmers on the island. Yeah, there's none that qualify as large CAFOs, which is large factory farms. I think there are some in the small and medium, but yeah, no factory farms in that large CAFO designation. So they're the only ones. So it's kind of an opportunity. We tried to pass the bill this year that would ban large CAFOs or put a moratorium on them in Hawaii, given that there's only one right now. And it was not successful for a lot of different reasons. But we're hopeful that something like that can pass in the future because Oregon is considering the same bill right now. So with the Center for Food Safety, I'm familiar with a lot of their work with Monsanto and everything. Are there specific, I mean, I know there's a lot of, you know, there's some organic farms, but there are also farms that are not organic are people who do not use organic farming on the island. So are they, is there anything like that they're dealing with on the island with, in respect to the bees and everything, and the loss of bees for pollination? Yeah, I mean, most of Center for Food Safety's work is at the federal level, and they're actually the one of the only organizations that are in court with, there's a whole legal team, amazing group of lawyers that are on staff there and are actively suing the EPA for multiple different things, violations of the Endangered Species Act, and environmental violations around pesticide use from chemical companies like Bayer, Monsanto and Dow. And so they're really actively working on that. And my work there is around communicating that to the public through Instagram, our podcast, and other channels. So, you know, I think it's really important that we have, like all people, right? There's communications folks, there's legal folks who are in courts, like that's a very specific important skill set. And yeah, there's kind of an amazing team over there working on those. And you know, when we get to the place where a lot of these herbicides are banned, or better regulated, I think Center for Food Safety will be the organization that was at the front lines of that for many decades now. So you said they have a podcast? Yes. So we produce something called the Heroes Journey Podcast. And each episode is featuring activists around the country, mostly around food, but around a lot of other issues as well. People who have made a lot of change throughout their career. So it's on wherever you get podcasts, Spotify, Apple, the above Heroes Journey podcast. Nice. That's great. I wasn't familiar with that, but it sounds very interesting. And I also wanted to ask about avian flu because now there's this new strain of avian flu that's very deadly. And I think, you know, you had talked about the CAFO on the island. I think, like, that is a huge risk for us because having that, and because we have a lot of endangered native species, because we just had an episode with the Hawaii Wildlife Center about native birds and everything. And God forbid, if something happened, and, you know, avian flu went to this CAFO on the island and then spread, you know, to our native birds, that would be disastrous. So I'm just wondering if you know anything about, you know, avian flu on the island, and if it's affected any, any places. Yeah, no, I'm not really familiar with that, except, you know, one of our film screenings with Gifford movement was called Eating Animals based on the book. And it was an excellent film narrated by Natalie Portman. And it talked about a large part of it is around kind of the ethical questions around eating animals. Like, is it okay? And what are the consequences? And, you know, one of the parts of it that they raised awareness about was pandemics and epidemics. And he wrote that book, and that movie was released long before COVID-19. And it really predicted pandemics happening more regularly, and really highlighted the fact that the vast majority of epidemics and pandemics come from large animal farms, mostly factory farms, and how horrible they are for a balanced to in how hard it is to have a balanced ecosystem in the presence of these very unnatural and very unsanitary, large scale animal farms. And so I think, just in general, like it just always connects back to it's our food choice and our food system. And and it starts on our plate every day with the the food that we choose to buy and eat. So whether you know it or not, you're you're having that impact. And if you don't know what that impact is, then you're not being intentional. That impact is going to be very negative. And so the only way for us to help kind of our food system and our future and ourselves is to be very intentional about what we're eating every day. Yeah, for sure. I mean, another thing I did want to touch on we only have a few minutes left, but I know you had done a lot of work on plastic free Hawaii. Can you tell us a little bit about plastics, how we can decrease our impact on, you know, on the earth? You know, what can we do to minimize our plastic use? Because obviously, in some ways, it's inevitable. Everything is, unfortunately, coming in plastic, like if you buy bread, it comes in plastic. Everything you buy at the supermarket essentially comes in plastic if it's packaged. Yeah, you know, like I go to the zero waste store, there's a few now on the island and you can refill a lot of your stuff there, especially like shampoo and soaps and detergents and stuff like that. What's really interesting is towards the end of my work in the plastics movement, we actually, as a movement, realized that the bulk of the plastic pollution and marine debris issue is from the commercial fishing industry. So it again connected back to eating animal products and supporting commercial fishing because over 90% of the marine debris we were picking up from Hawaii beaches and beaches around the world was from the commercial fishing industry. So really just kind of always connecting back to that, even though our actual plastic usage is a big problem, that that ended up being the bigger problem when we were looking at what was ending up in the ocean and on our beaches. Yeah, people don't realize that these large fishing boats when they have lines, they just like toss them over. And then it ends up, you know, a lot of times it entangles marine life. People don't realize like what the secondary repercussions eating fish are besides the fact that now we have a lot of plastic in our oceans like microbeads and we're actually all consuming it ourselves and they're hormonal disruptors. So yeah, it's just, it's just too bad. But yeah, so anyway, we are out of time. So we have to wrap it up. But thank you so much for being on the show. This is Healthy Planet on the Think Tech Live Streaming Network series. We've been talking to Duration, founder and director at the Hawaii Impact Collaborative and co-founder of the Good Food Movement. Thanks to Michael, our broadcast engineer and the rest of our crew at Think Tech for hosting our show. And thanks to you, our listeners for listening. I'll see you in two weeks for more of Healthy Planet on Think Tech, the show for people who care about their health and the health of our planet. Learn more about coconuts in two weeks on our next show with a local coconut farmer. If you have ideas for the show or questions for my future show guests, please contact me at Healthy Planet, thinktech.gmail.com. Check out my website at www.gracenaui.com or Instagram at Graysville Living's 365 for more information on my projects including future show guests. I'm Dr. Gracie Neal. Aloha everyone. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. 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Hey, curl friends, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today, I have a new brand that is making a new appearance on my channel for the very first time, which is the brand Ceremonia. Ceremonia is a clean hair brand rooted in a Latinx heritage. Very new, small business, Latina woman owned, all things I'm here for. Today's video is sponsored by Ceremonia because they wanted me to show you all of their products in their full line. But the thing that I love most about working with Ceremonia is that they didn't rush me. They sent me the products and they actually gave me a whole month to try them out so I can give my honest opinion per usual. But instead of just doing like a first impression type of video, I actually got to really use the products more than once and really test to see how well these products work. And they were so confident that they actually sent me a microscope to physically look and keep track of my scalp's health progress. So if you were ever skeptical about a sponsored video, we're showing all the proof today, literally to the scalp via microscope. So what will I be using? I will be showing you how I washed my hair with the Ceremonia All-In-One Shampoo as well as their All-In-One Conditioner. As you can see from the bottles, I have been using it more than once and then I'm also using their Ceremonia Hairichid Scalp Oil that you use pretty much before your wash days. So if I wash my hair four times this month, I use it four times and that's where I am on this bottle after four uses. And then I have one styling product which you guys might have seen on my Instagram before, the Vitalizing Super Serum Pecky Curl Activator. So I'm gonna use all these products again and show you how well they worked on my hair and give you my honest opinion. So let's start from the beginning where my scalp was full of product, build up on a very much needed wash day.  So as you can see, it's pretty crazy to actually witness like each hair come out of our scalp and at the very root or base of my hair, it's pretty congested. We got some product build up going on there. It's definitely wash day. Oh, oh that's nasty. We got some big chunks, some big flakes. Mm-mm-mm, time to go. So this is how my scalp was looking on day one before I ever used any of the Ceremonia products. So now this is gonna be day one of using the Ceremonia Heritage Scalp Remedy Oil. I believe it was pronounced estete de mosca and I just put a couple drops, massaged it into my scalp and I let it sit on my scalp all through the night and then I washed my hair in the morning. So if you wanna use this, you can either use it at night while you sleep or 10 or 15 minutes before your shower. Now after watching the videos on their website, I realized that I probably didn't even use enough. I was kind of just doing drops like I usually do for like my hair growth oils but this I could have actually just done rows throughout my scalp to really get a lot in there and let it soak in. So I'm gonna continue to use this and continue to use even more than I did prior. So if you go to the website, this scalp oil is an award winning formula. It's one for best scalp oil in women's health 2021 beauty awards. Okay, you better get your trophies. This oil promotes healthy hair, nourishes and magnifies shine while smoothing down cuticles to combat frizz. It says inspired by the long cherished acetate de mosquat derived from the Dominican Republic. Wow, this brand is just full of heritage. After letting it soak into my scalp all night, I then wash my hair the next day. Starting off in the shower, I use the Ceremonia all in one. All right, I'm apparently not Latin enough to pronounce these products. Let me go to... Al shampoo de yuca y witch hazel y al acondicionador de Ceremonia. Conoce al shampoo de yuca y... What? Conoce al shampoo de yuca y witch hazel. Oh, shampoo! I was like, where does it say shampoo? C-H-A-M-P-U, shampoo. I'm learning a lot today. Shampoo de yuca and witch hazel. The shampoo smells amazing, absolutely love it. So the shampoo will cleanse your hair without stripping the natural oils from your scalp. It'll boost shine while also helping to strengthen your strands and reduce frizz. It does suds up just like I like it and it felt really moisturizing instead of like a drying, super cleansing shampoo. But as you will see from my magnifying results, it does do a great job. So now I'm gonna rinse out the shampoo and now grab the all-in-one conditioner. Let's go back to the video. Conoce al shampoo de yuca y witch hazel y al acondicionador de cupú azul y castor. I can, what? One more time. Only being able to speak English is so lame. Sorry. De capú ac... Here's the name of the product. It sounds a lot better when they say it on the website. But it's their all-in-one conditioner that is going to strengthen and deeply hydrate your hair, smooth hair without the frizz while castor oil conditions the hair from an unparalleled shine, healthy hair that looks good on you. So it has a decent amount of slip but I will say that the thing that really makes this conditioner stand out from some other conditioners that I've used is that even after I rinsed it out, my hair still looks shiny and moisturized. I've noticed that sometimes the conditioner will feel great, have great slip in the moment and then once I rinse it out, it's like I rinsed out all the goodness. But when I did rinse out this conditioner, my hair still looked very thick and juicy. So I was very, very happy with that, especially when your hair looks like that before you even apply your styling products. Now let me show you how I style my hair. You see the Ceremonia Pecky Curl Activator, Vitalizing Super Serum. I have been using this before, as you can see, I'm already like halfway through my bottle, so I have been using this and it always gives me like a very light, product-less feeling look, like very fluffy, soft curls. It smells so good. It's very, I don't know, what does that smell like? I guess it's kind of floral. Now because I do love this, I do think that my only request is going to be that we need a much bigger bottle than this because you're gonna wanna use it all the time and you're gonna run out if you have a lot of hair. So I know you guys are a small new business, so I think the next launch, we need large bottles. That would be my request. I'm going to smooth and scrunch this very lightweight serum into my curls. The Pecky Curl Activator is a weightless, milky serum for the ultimate hair wellness and curls. Our formula maximizes definition with an added curl boost, while helping to provide a central conditioning and hydration for a nourishing style ritual, like so. So I'm gonna let this air dry for a little bit, come back to diffuse and show you the final results. And I'm back and I'm changing it a little bit, I've already cuted them before. But now, let me show you how my hair just air dried, already really cute, and it's kind of like 99% dry, but I still like to diffuse just to get a little bit more volume, so let's just go ahead and do that and see how it looks. But just even air dried, very nice. And that is how I got to this point right here. I will say that the most common theme of my Switch It Up Challenge is definitely using light hold products. I haven't used as many light hold products ever as I have this year with my Switch It Up Challenge. So this is definitely a light hold, there's absolutely no crunch. So if you do not like crunchy curls, you are going to love the Pecky Curl Activator. It gives me that big volumize look without feeling weighed down at all.  This product just makes your hair look and feel like hair. It doesn't feel like I have any product in it, even though I do, so it's still giving me that definition and fighting back some frizz, but I honestly don't feel like I have any product in my hair. So if you love that just like supernatural hair, feeling hair, where it's still soft, bouncy and defined, this is gonna be a good option for you. But now the moment you've been waiting for, let me show you my after results of using the Ceremonia Heritage Scalp Remedy Oil four times this month, either before my showers or throughout the night and after cleansing and clarifying with the all-in-one shampoo. All right, fresh out the shower, it's time to see how my scalp looks after using the Acete de Mosca for a month, which really just means like four times once a week because I wash my hair once a week. So this is me using it mostly during the night, but I did use this before my shower today 10, 15 minutes prior and then I used the shampoo and conditioner. So now let's see how my scalp looks. Okay, so I'm actually gonna record my reaction this time of me using this microscope because it is pretty cool, but let's just go ahead and find a nice piece of scalp to observe right down the middle, that should be good. Grab my start recording on here. Okay, let's observe. Ooh, okay, I could already tell this looks a lot better, way less build up than before, which really does speak to the shampoo as well, getting a nice clean. Oh yeah, look at that. Nice clean pores, let me rotate this. Wow, I just sprayed some water on my head so you can see the water, the moisture. Wow, look at that, way less congested. That is a good sign, I am impressed. No large flakes thus far, wow. It's crazy what our scalp actually looks like, huh? Okay, so I mean I respect Ceremonia for being like, look we got a good product, we can prove it, I'm gonna send you a microscope and you can show real before and after. So I do think that a lot of credit goes towards the shampoo, doing a nice cleanse. So I'm gonna continue to use this and use more than I did this month and try to remember to use it before every shower, might as well. So there you have it, the proof is in the footage. My scalp does look better than day one. And it honestly even looked better just after one use of their shampoo. But I do plan on continuing to use this before every wash day, just kinda like as a new ritual, just to give my scalp a little bit extra love in before I go in to shower. If you go to the website, you will see a bunch of reviews of people raving about this oil and how it has truly helped their scalp, keeping it clear, helping with hair growth. I do think that my hair is getting longer but I do use a lot of different things to make my hair grow so I'm not gonna say that just this alone made my hair grow but I'm sure it contributed to my now very beautiful length. And I'm all for adding new things to my hair routine that are going to truly help my hair's health. And that's what ceremony is all about. It's about using clean ingredients that are going to help your hair over time in the long run, not just like a quick fix to make it look pretty in the moment but to truly help with the health of your hair. So now let me give you a little 360 view of the curls. Very soft, lightweight, bouncy, defined volume for days. If I got you curious about any of the ceremonial products make sure you use the link in my description box to check out and support this Latina-owned brand, very new small business with great natural ingredients in those sulfates, parabens, silicone and everything that they put in their products has a purpose for the longevity of healthy hair. They also gave me a promo code so if you use my code you will save some money. If you enjoyed seeing these true, real results using a microscope all up in my scalp make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. 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Welcome to the journey. Today we're going to talk about how to keep your side hustle going while in school. So instead of relying solely on scholarships loans or even money from family, you can actually just have a side hustle and earn some money on the side. Yeah school is busy. I understand you have that's the main reason that you're there but there are things that you can do to supplement your income and have fun while you're doing it. So our first tip is to wake up early. This is number one entrepreneurial tip anyway and so if you want to be an entrepreneur you want to be successful this is just the thing that successful people do. Just one hour earlier that gives you an extra 365 hours each year to get stuff done and to make some money. And another thing you can do is just add some physical activity to your day. A really short workout routine you just be body weight only. For instance last month I was doing a burpee challenge with my wife and it was a little challenging but I made time throughout the rest of my day and I was a lot clearer and it also helps with creativity. Yeah this will definitely help you have that extra energy to keep your side hustle going. So our next tip is to have a checklist or a to-do list. Things that you want to get accomplished that day. You can actually on the flip side have an already done list and there's actually science that shows that by checking off things that you've done your dopamine level spikes so you're happier and you're just in a better mood. So whether it's a to-do or already done make sure that you're writing those things out and that will help you have a clear vision of what you need to do because you're going to have your school goals and all your homework and things that you need to do there but also all the things relating to your personal and side hustle. Write them down and check them off. And I know for me whenever I do see that I've done all of these things in my day I feel so much more accomplished and then ready for the next day it's that momentum that keeps you going. Yeah so obviously we're super busy with school we don't have time to get a nine to five because those hours are not going to work for our schedule so what are some things that we can do for a side hustle? Well you want to be flexible. You want to have something that allows you to be able to do all the other things in your day. So the gig economy, Uber, Uber Eats, TaskRabbit, you'll be surprised at how many people want to pay you to put together IKEA furniture and also look at your university. You can also find something on campus that can be beneficial and very flexible at the same time. Yeah when I was going to school I was a TA for a marketing professor and all I had to do was just have office hours from you know x period to x period like three hours once a week. It was super easy it wasn't actual physical office hours I could be anywhere it was just online and they would go to the forum and they'd answer questions. It was so easy and it works for me and my schedule. And the last tip is monetize your passion. You know you can think of things that you are really creative at you know and you can do those things online and people are interested in them you can actually get some income from it. Yeah when I was in school another thing that I did is I would go to discount stores that sold designer clothes and I would buy them at a really really steep discount and then I would sell them on eBay and I earned about a thousand bucks a month and it helped pay the bills. And make sure you remember all of these different things and activities that you're doing future wise it can actually pay off. So keep in mind these are things that you can look back on and actually benefit in your career. And now keep an open mind you never know these side hustles could turn into a full-time career. All right guys I hope you enjoyed this video on how to keep that side hustle going while in school and let me know in the comments below what was your side hustle in school. Make sure that you like this video subscribe to our channel and ring the bell so you know when we have new content coming out. This is The Journey. Thanks for watching. See you next time.


So thank you everyone for coming today, whether you're joining us remotely or here with us in the room. I'm Rebecca Cummings. I'm the Interim Director of Digital Matters. And before I turn the time over to our presenter, I do want to make one quick announcement. And that is that at that time of year again where we're accepting applications to the Digital Matters fellowships for fall 2023. So the deadline for that is March 31st. If you have an idea for a digital project that you'd like to see funded, please do feel free to reach out to me. So without further ado, I am so pleased to announce our speaker for today. Who is Dr. Kaley Alexander, who is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow and also in residence right now in Digital Matters. Kaley has her PhD in art history and visual culture from Duke University and is currently teaching data visualization and culture here at the University of Utah. Kaley's talk for today, as you can see, is depth by data auditing the U.S. Cemetery landscape. Please join me in welcoming Kaley Alexander. Thank you, Rebecca. And thank you everybody for joining today. I'm going to be talking about a really new project if I knew, you know, the starting in the fall of 2022. So it's definitely a work in progress. And I'm going to give some background into what led me to this project. Talk a little bit about the early process and methodologies that I'm using. And then hopefully a little bit of result, but we'll see. And I'm always, you know, open to comments and questions and suggestions at the end of the talk. There we go. So the project that I have started here in Digital Matters, I'm, you know, calling for now at least the U.S. Cemetery audit. And you see we've got our lovely Salt Lake City Cemetery there representing this project for now. So this project is part inspired by the monument labs, monument audit that came out about two years ago. They basically get a survey of all the monuments in the U.S. trying to look at the different demographics that were represented in public sculpture in the United States. And I thought, well, why can't we audit the cemetery landscape as well? And what would that mean? I'm going to go a little bit background on myself and how I came to this because I am an art historian. What is an art historian doing, studying, you know, cemeteries as these kind of built environments. But I've, I started my Ph.D. working on French cemeteries in the 19th century. My book is going to be out in August. So this is a little plug for that will be on pre-order in July. What I was working on was really how can we study monuments that no longer exist in an aggregate form. In France, you're only guaranteed five years of burial. So over time, there's a lot of missing monuments, which gives us a very different view of the cemetery than, you know, what we see if we go to famous places like Perloshes today. So I wanted to study these more vernacular forms of non-elite individual that didn't survive into the present, things that haven't been deemed cultural heritage, and try to see what those types of objects could tell us about people and how they were commemorating their loved ones in the 19th century. So I was really interested in survival bias and how to use data to combat survival bias. Of course, we're never going to eliminate all of that bias, but at least working in the aggregate, we can start to see patterns and trends that we don't get in traditional forms of our historical research where we're looking at one or two objects in detail. So I was using a lot of text-based sources as proxies for this inaccessible material evidence. We had books where I had records of 2,000 monuments, and it was like, okay, that can give me a little bit of a start. And then I also, because the French are really meticulous about record keeping, I had burial records for everyone who had been buried in the city of Paris from 1804 to 1902. I did not gather the data for that far because there's a lot of manual transcription. But combining these different sources together, I was able to somewhat account for what monuments would have looked like in the 19th century and what the individuals who purchased them, what their demographic makeup would have been and how they were really perceiving, you know, death and commemorative action of this time opposite of the lead individuals. Also, I've been an editor for the Radical Death Studies blog for the past couple of years. So Radical Deaths, and they're collected for Radical Death Studies is an organization of both scholars and professional death workers working to decolonize death studies. And they do a lot of different work in the intersection of very different disciplines, working with different geographies, but really trying to de-center the typical narrative of American cemeteries and burial practices from white, European, and centric narratives. So I was working with them, working on my French project. And then I also start collaborating with the Friends of Gears Cemetery. Gears Cemetery is the first public African-American burial ground in Durham, North Carolina. So that's where I was based while I was doing my PhD. And as I was finishing up my dissertation, they were getting ready to set up this exhibition in the cemetery called In Plain Sight. And they really wanted to give the history of the cemetery and show how the cemetery reflected the history of Durham's rich black community, which was known in the era of Jim Crow for its black Wall Street, among other things. So my contribution to the In Plain Sight exhibition was really about how to mobilize data to study the cemetery in depth. The cemetery is not in great shape. They're still cleaning it up. Almost every weekend they have cleanups, but there's a lot of work to be done still. There's not a lot of monuments available. To us, there's about 200 extant monuments. Some have been uncovered recently as they've been doing more archaeological work in the cemetery. But there's not a lot of physical evidence in the cemetery to go on to tell us the story of the individuals buried there. That said, the Friends of Gears Cemetery, which kind of formed grassroots in the 1990s and then officially in 2003, has been working for the past 30 or so years to gather as much information on people buried in Gears Cemetery as possible. One of the things that this has taken the form of is a Google Drive folder with a lot of different documents, which at the time they were calling a database, but wasn't really searchable and it wasn't really useful in terms of studying people en masse. One of the things that they had been collecting though were these death certificates for every person they could find that have been buried there. Like I said, there are only about 200 monuments in Gears Cemetery, but by 2021 they had records for about 1,500 individuals based on archive records and documents like this. I see this and I see a wealth of data that we can use to study the community in various ways. So I went to Family Search, which is a nice, easy tool for tracking death certificates. And they had most, not most, they had more than the death certificates than the friends of Gears had collected over time. And a lot of this information had been transcribed. So I let a team to kind of scrape all this data from Family Search, clean it up, and then add to it. Because as you can see, not all of the fields that are represented on the death certificate were transcribed on Family Search. Things like the attending doctor, the hospital where the person may have passed away, the cause of death is not listed. For instance, even the names of the undertakers are not transcribed here, but it are on the death certificate. And this was a really rich source of information. So after scraping it, we kind of took to manual transcription, filling in all the blanks from the death certificate scans themselves. And we ended up building a database for mostly for descendants and genealogists to go and research individuals by name and get a little bit yet about what that person's life might have been like. So their age, when they were born, occupation, neighborhood they lived in, this kind of summary information, and then of course leaving out what might be more traumatic information like the cause of death, which often was a racialized category at the time. So we kind of wanted to keep that on the back end and make sure people knew it was available if they requested it, but not make it so public and in your face here. So what do we do with this next? Now we have a tool that ancestors and genealogists can use, or sorry, descendants and genealogists can use to search for individuals. But I also wanted to deploy this as an aggregate study to try to figure out how we can study the cemeteries and microcosm of the city as well to find out more information because it had been seen as an elite cemetery and we wanted to kind of test if this was true or not. So we started plotting individuals that were buried in the cemetery and we wanted to give it this kind of humanizing effect as well, where it's not just a bar chart where people become increasingly anonymous, but really thinking about visualization techniques to humanize as well. So here we have every individual represented by the year in which they were buried and this is an interactive visualization. You can hover over the block to get information about the individuals themselves and then perhaps be prompted to go a little bit deeper. That said, we did want to build some basic charts to understand what's going on. And like I said, we started with about 1,500 individuals. We ended up with over 1,800. The list is still growing, this is something we're working on. We have a data collection team here. And what this allowed us to do is really track the cemetery and what's going on. There's no death certificates prior to 1909. So no information. We can't really say anything about those who were mostly born during the era of slavery. We mostly have that kind of middle of Jim Crow era data. And then you can see that the information starts moving forward. And that's about when the city actually opens a city-run cemetery for African-Americans in Durham. So people start moving to that location instead. And then the history of gear kind of stops there in terms of burial history. So we know a lot about this chunk of time period now based on the death certificates we're able to look at different types of occupations. This allowed us to see that it was not such an important time period. It was a time period where we were able to see that it was demographically diverse, representing people from all different types of walks of life, from doctors to servants and what not as well. So a much richer history of the cemetery came out of this. Which made me think, okay, we've done this kind of study of one cemetery using data working in the aggregate. And so that represents a deep gap in the history, whereas for a lot of white cemeteries at the time we have really detailed documentation to study individuals from. So I wanted to see, is there a way to kind of pull as much information together as possible and maybe study how different groups are underrepresented. And so that represents a deep gap in the history whereas for a lot of white cemeteries at the time we were able to see how different groups are underrepresented in the cemetery landscape. So that's the origin of the cemetery audit today. So questions, how can we study cemeteries on a large aggregate scale? What might that aggregate study of U.S. cemeteries reveal about access to burial or representation in burial spaces? So do the cemeteries and the people buried there represent each other? So are local communities represented in the spaces of death that are adjacent to them? And then what methods could be used to undertake such a study? And that's a big thing for me, I'm really interested in the methods of doing data driven humanities work and trying to find humanistic solutions for kind of computational humanities. So the data, as many of you may know there's lots of different websites out there for tracking burials. There's Fine Degrave, Billion Graves and Tormund.net and all of these have really rich collections of data accounting for millions of burials across the globe. Ultimately I wanted to keep my data consistent at least at a starting point. So I opted to just focus on Fine Degrave. It's a well-known source of crowdsourced data. It was founded in the mid-90s as kind of a hobby project for tracking famous graves. Eventually it became a much bigger data source and since 2013 it's owned by Ancestry.com. They have over 400,000 known burial grounds accounted for in the US and over 107 million individuals. This is considered one of the most comprehensive databases though it doesn't have as much information about the cemetery itself which is definitely a gap. But in terms of scraping the data the website's also got a pretty consistent format that made it easier to collect the data from. So consistent web layout and I'll discuss some of that in a moment as well. So the methods that I'm using you can call it slow digital art history. This is a term borrowed from Coon Brozans at the University of Luba in Belgium. Slow digital art history is basically gathering data on objects over a long period of time. It's a project that continues to grow and doesn't have an immediate maybe result but over time will have more and more rich results to come. So very slow digital art history on this project. Then I'm using web scraping to find a grave. So I spent the fall semester using Chrome's web scraper extension to gather data on 20 states in the US including DC. And you chose the web scraper because I'm not a coder I come from a humanities background and I like the web scraper as a kind of first step tool for understanding how web scraping works kind of a non-coding version of getting your feet wet. So I basically created two different selector charts which you can see here to grab the data. And what the web scraper does is I told it to look for the city grab the name of the city then go into the cemeteries here grab the names of all the cemeteries and then for each cemetery grab again the name the location sometimes it has coordinates sometimes not so that's something we'll have to think about the cemetery ID so I can always link back to find a grave and check information and then just the number of memorials there. So this is important because it's not the number of burials it's the number of memorials recorded on this particular dataset. So this isn't really a question of how many people are buried there but how many people have been reported as being buried there. I had to do a second scraper because as you can see sometimes they have it broken down by city sometimes it's just the cemetery on that main level. So then I created a second one to grab the name of the cemetery and then go in and grab the same information just on two levels instead of three. So then after grabbing all of that of course the state is very messy the web scraper doesn't allow you to grab everything in the most optimal way you have to kind of grab boxes of information and kind of the bigger the box the more information you're likely to get correct the first time and not have to redo it but this means that the data needs to go through a big cleaning process to make sure there's not too much information in single cells. So I use open refine here to split up the different cells look at the different components of the address for example but I was also using this as a method of categorizing new cemeteries. You can see the variables for context type cultural religious remains as a binary variable representing whether or not the location houses remated remain new and these were all kind of built from text mining in the names of the cemetery new perfect method but if you search for certain keywords you can start adding these types of attributes and trying to understand if they're specific people that are being buried in certain spots so if it's a religious affiliated cemetery it's a military cemetery is another one that came quite often a lot across what type of cemetery is it so it's a military history we have cemeteries but we also have burial grounds and graveyards we have individual family plots and whatnot so I wanted to gather that information and then if it was religious what is the religious group that's being represented if it's a specific cultural group that's being represented I wanted to grab that as well for instance you can see if you just type in the word Baptist chances are it's going to be a religious cemetery so that was a pretty easy one but it's a lot of trial and error too because you have terms that will appear in multiple types of titles so for instance me being Jewish I thought oh if I type saint that'll definitely be Catholic well apparently it's not just Catholics that have saints so that didn't work I had to redo it also finding the Jewish cemeteries was a lot easier for me because I know the keywords to search for so there's definitely some bias that's introduced there that I'm going to have to reckon with as we go along so next step was trying to visualize this because now I have like 90,000 cemeteries and I can't really comprehend all this information on its own you may have seen this on our advertisement for the talk today so here I created two textile maps one showing the density of memorials one showing the density of cemeteries all the white ones I haven't gathered data for yet so more looks like this but that doesn't look like the US but just to give you an idea of what I have so far and you can see states like New York have more memorials but less cemeteries states like North Carolina have the most cemeteries but maybe fewer memorials this is because in New York you have a lot of big cemeteries with thousands and thousands of people in North Carolina you have a lot of homestead burials with maybe two or three family members buried there so this is another thing they have to account for what this data actually represents using the individual locations too you can plot them in Tableau here and try to figure out what the different locations represent I built a couple of dashboards which you can access with the QR code if you're so inclined this is a very, very beta version of the dashboards just allows you to kind of explore a little bit the data hover over the dots and see which cemetery it is you can filter based on cemetery types if you want to look at memorials versus cemeteries in the map on the right you can if you want to look at just religious cemeteries you can do that as well and sort of get an idea of what's represented alright so some very preliminary observations before I talk about how I'm going to completely change this project so the first finding is reporting itself tends to be overwhelmingly white and Protestant this is not surprising this was also the finding that the monument lab found when they did their study of public sculpture this is probably less true of the actual site than it is of find a grave and the people who use find a grave but I still find that to be an interesting thought who is reporting whom is a really interesting question that I'd like to answer for instance we have a lot of indigenous burial grounds that are recorded on find a grave but then it says zero memorials so what does that tell us about who is being accounted for and who should be accounted for so that brings us to inequities and reporting and research attention some cemeteries Greenwood in Brooklyn lots of information other cemeteries I don't know in St. George Utah not so much information on these pioneer cemeteries so I need to refame my research questions and definitely need to update my methods and this led me to the question to code or not to code which is the dilemma of digital so again I am not a coder I'm self-taught on all the technologies that I use and when I teach to I like to use technologies that are very user friendly from the start kind of drag and drop systems that a nice programmer has made for us to use and then I can revise later if need be but well I was at digital humanities Utah this year I met Jesse Vincent who's a programmer at BYU in their department of digital humanities and he basically said well you spent the whole fall gathering data and you could have done it in two days and I'm going to help you do this in a much more efficient way but I still see the benefits of this kind of trial and error right because you get to test different tools you get to see how the technology works and then you get to go and collaborate with people who actually know what they're doing and can refine the project so not all was lost so my next step is to throw out the 90,000 data points I have and recollect the data so Jesse has written a Python script for me which works with layout inconsistencies so that means that I will be able to gather data not just from find a grade but eventually I can also gather a billion grades and kind of sync the data up to fill in gaps and missing information it also scrolls automatically so I don't have to go one page at a time which is nice and I can gather more detailed information faster so I was gathering just the cemetery level data but now I can gather memorial level data too so his test run which took a couple of days and made me very angry he got 54,000 almost 55,000 cemeteries scraped an index almost a million different memorials across 816 different counties and basically this is the data that I was grabbing just the number of memorials but with his scraper I can gather this information too you can see there's at the bottom of the screen there's a description of the cemetery not every record has this so it would have thrown off my scraper if I tried to grab it for some and not for others now I can grab it but it's still a starting point he's also and I don't know if you can see it because of the zoom thing there but you can also grab also known as different names of the cemeteries which again wasn't at every single page so I couldn't grab it before now I can and then it goes into the few memorials which I thought was going to take me years and years and years to do and it'll grab the life dates of every person included in that view memorials tab and this helps me to answer one question that I wasn't really sure how to address before which is how do I add a time series to this data and maybe you know in the description it'll say a founding date here and there but ultimately that's going to be very rare in the scale of the data but with this memorial level information I can grab first known burial year which will allow me to kind of estimate when the cemetery open and see how the development of the funeral landscape in the US developed from the 18th century to the present century so I can continue working on my categorization methods and levels once I have the other known names of the cemetery this might become easier as well because I'll have more information to go on descriptions to will allow me to look for more information and evidence about what type of cemetery this is also I tried my hand at a little bit of topic modeling didn't yield very much but it still needs a lot a lot of work because 50 clusters is way too many to comprehend but a couple this is just topic modeling on the names of the cemeteries for now but a couple weird things do emerge you can start to see that cemeteries are being all kind of consistent names so memorial garden is something that comes up quite a bit that's a mid 20th century kind of way of talking about cemeteries that denies death a little bit in traditional literature but you can see here it's also associated with war and military cemeteries and that's an interesting decision if you're going to start calling it a memorial garden to cover up kind of the traumas war you can see also some religious words that are clustering together so what's going on what are people calling it fiscal cemeteries for instance what what did we know about evangelical cemeteries and so on and so forth it's interesting to house is the number one which makes sense because you have a meeting house and the cemeteries right next to it so you can see the model is working quite well but it will continue to refine once I have more detailed data about the individual cemeteries yeah so next part two is to use the descriptions to find the first reported burial force as I mentioned also going to welcome any suggestions on finding ways to account for area Justin Sorenson here found a great data layer for GIS that had all the cemeteries in the US but it had almost half the cemeteries that I had and it didn't have area included so there's not that data out there but thinking about how to account for area so you can really look at you know number of individuals buried per square meter or something of that nature and so I think that number of cemeteries and cemeteries are more crowded than others is definitely a question I'd like to answer more visualization trial and error apparently python trial and error as well and then yeah I'll open it up for questions now suggestions I know that was fast and not a lot of information but hopefully it sparked something sure presentation Caley I think you're interesting point in this project. One of the questions that I had is simply have you tried in the other of the sort of repositories. Yes, I mean it sounds like you've got a more robust way to capture more data and find a grave. I think it would be really interesting just to see like, you know, our different graphics using different methods, if at all, or different, you know, repositories or whatever. So I'm just curious if you've taken a look. I haven't taken a look yet. I know that in terms of that tends to have more historical information about the cemetery, which definitely one. Yeah. But with so much information on the website it's hard to tell from a glance which groups are reporting more on which all tend to be used for genealogy. So they're built for that they're not built for people looking at all the cemeteries in the US, but no that's definitely something I want to explore once I get the find a great data straight. You know find space on a computer for all that, and then I can go in and get the other repositories as well and yeah definitely comparing the three. But I need a team for that team and money. So there was so much I found exciting about this presentation, especially that you found such a good collaborator at DHU. I think that's like the point of why we do it so it's really great to hear how you two connected, and how Jesse's been able to help your research. So one question I have for you is just find a great know you're doing this like have you corresponded with anyone there. I'm not. I know they're just in the high school. And I've spoken to a couple of people are like, Oh, do you know the founder. I feel a little silly saying no. I probably have to do that though so they know. It'd be kind of interesting if you know at some point they had a link to your data set where other users and find a great could interrogate your data set over time. Yeah, I mean I definitely, you know, like to, to make it something that anybody could interrogate over time because I have a set of questions but there are endless number of questions that people can ask even looking at self sets of particular. On the sort of memorials age for those hyperlinks for each individual name. Yeah, so you can ancestry profiles. So those sort of profiles on finite rate. But they, they might link to documents that are done on ancestry, but to keep things anonymous I don't want to grab all that information. I think the stripper will automatically grab their name and then I'll wipe it out and give a record number but yeah what I'm interested is just the dates for that. We have a question online. Yeah, if you want to take one of these. So coming from I think it's Canada staff regarding size monuments and occupancy of the cemeteries will you try to account for as an example. Land burials versus mausoleum versus Columbia, I'm not sure that is each with different numbers of interments and space. I personally don't know a column bar is where you kind of inter pre made it remains. And those I have accounted for because some of the cemetery names include that there's a column variant at that site and so I've accounted for that with like a binary variable that says yes or no it's there. So in terms of accounting for memorial size that's hard because none of the sources I found actually give the dimensions of the tombstone so without somebody going out and measuring everything that's kind of difficult to say. If I find a way to get the area of the cemetery one thing I do want to do is calculate for density because one of the things we found a gear cemetery for instance with that. The cemetery was almost twice as crowded as the local white cemetery. So that's definitely a question that needs to be answered and we'll give a lot of weight to this project, but again this is very slow digital history so it's going to take some time to get to that point but it's a really important question. I don't know I might have to chunk it up. Okay. I've not worked with the data set that big yet. I assume I'm not going to be doing it on my laptop. I assume I will not be putting it all into Tableau either. So, I'll be so curious to find out if open refine is actually. Yeah, for that amount of data or not I have no idea. I mean already with the 90,000 it was moving pretty slow when I was using text filters. Yeah, for doing like big batch changes it's fine. Yeah, but I think I'm going to have to split it up and clean per state, ultimately. The cemetery is not a segregated cemetery. Is there a way to keep track of race or is that even knowable or some of this greatly. It's not knowable for public and religious cemeteries at large. For instance, I do have a lot of cemeteries that are marked AME so after that the statistical for those you can assume that it's mostly African Americans buried there. There are some burial grounds for formerly enslaved as well that we can account for. So it's not perfect but you can start to get it marginalized spaces of death. Asylums and institutional burial grounds that I'm trying to account for as well. But yeah, not perfect, but it'll give us some idea. To the individual memorial pages, I find a grave that maybe linked out stockings the ancestry for those indicate race as well. They could I mean a death certificate from, you know, the early 20th century would. You have to think do you want to go that deep and maybe violate privacy issues as well. Another thing we found using death certificate data is there tends to be some really purple terms used, and I don't want to replicate those traumas either so it's it's a balancing act that we're going to have to figure out as we go. Yeah. So another fascinating thing to me about this is, you know, there's sort of this debate in digital humanities centers it's like, do you equip people to learn the digital tools or do you hire programmers to help them with their research. And I feel like you hit this inflection point like you spent a ton of time learning digital tools which is sort of in the digital matters system up to this point as we fund people to learn on their own. Whereas like BYU has a lot of programmers to help with their research. Do you mind saying a bit more about like the pros and cons of each of those different systems. Yeah, I mean, I think you need both. Honestly, I think having a programmer in, you know, proximity to you is something definitely necessary once you start getting to a certain point. You know, down the digital humanities rabbit hole. There's definitely projects that don't need programmers. And my first step is always to try to do it myself without a programmer. So I at least understand the data that I'm gathering. I found this to, you know, with going through the French burial records.  And then I'm not engaging with the sources much and I'm not getting that information as a historian out of it. So I'd like to do this kind of combination of really easy tools, manual labor, and then when necessary go to the programmer. As I said, working with Jesse is kind of in the middle as well. He's written the script, but I'm working with him that he'll teach me how to run it. So now I've gained that skill as well. And then I can, you know, engage with my data firsthand rather than having somebody else do it for me, and then transmit it. But I, you know, it's a delicate question and everybody comes with different skill sets to digital humanities. And it's still even, you know, so many years now that's been here it's still kind of an emerging field right. And we don't traditionally train humanists and programming so you know if you have somebody with a computer science and history background that's great but that's probably not where you're going to have but that's why digital commanding requires so much leverage. So again anyway wants to work on this project. It's definitely not something I can handle. Well, I mean I'm crazy. I won't come at each grant or something like that. Ideally that would be, I would like to get a research group together to work on this. So yeah, grants will probably be done one. We'll have any more questions online or in the room.


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on here by the beach so the topic of tonight is the narcissist is whatever you want them to be they have no real fixed identity it's just whatever you like whatever you're interested in as soon as they see you they start mirroring you trying to appeal to your ideals pretend to be about whatever they think you're about and they just go with that they just ride off your energy knowing fully well that they're not about any of that it's all designed to secure you it's designed to keep you around or they may just mimic the personality or the dress sense of a celebrity that you admire they've got nothing of their own but they will mimic people who they think that most people see as desirable or attractive people who they believe to be superior in some way you may notice when you first met the narcissist compared to how they are later on in the relationship or when they leave you they're very different I think there's an issue with the signal is it better now can you hear me clearly you can hear me okay great so yeah the person you see in the beginning and compared to who they are when they leave you I think someone said it healing hurts that's right it's like two totally different people completely different identity completely different dress sense different likes and interests they're like different music and this has all changed from them being around you because they have no real fixed identity when they come around you suddenly they get influenced very easily they just change completely so it's like they're taking a part of you and using it to attract someone else or they're taking something that you have created and using that to attract someone else it's very peculiar and deep down I think they know that I think they are aware of that what are the choice do they have what else are they going to do like if they don't take a part of you to lure someone else in how else are they going to bring other people into their world because they know fully well that no one wants to know them really once the mask is slept they know no one wants to be around that so they wear a mask they try to disguise that it's only a matter of time and still people figure them out they realize wait a minute you're not who you said you are and then it's game over once you've figured out who you're really dealing with of course they know you're not going to want to deal with them after that because it's a completely different person from who you thought you were engaged with and they know this so all they can really do is take whatever they've stolen from you whatever they've learned from that experience and take it on to someone else and just try and fool them for as long as they can because I'm sure they know it's only a matter of time like with whoever they deal with that they're going to be figured out and usually what they'll do is they'll just say no that's what you were doing you were copying them or they were already like that before they met you that's what they want people to think but we know that is not true we know that they changed completely from meeting us don't ever expect any consistency from these narcissists one minute they're up then they're down one minute they're left and they're right it's just constant changes you never know where you are with them don't expect any reliability they're not someone that you can rely on because you never know what they're going to be like one minute from now don't expect any support look for that somewhere else because you're not going to get that from them I don't know people may think you know it's easy for me to say that like people may look at my channel where I've created I might think oh he's got all the support in the world but it wasn't always like that I spent many years alone with no help no support nothing but fortunately I do prefer being alone to myself anyway I enjoy my own company but of course it is important to have that support it's important to have someone there to help you and that's why lately I have been offering my new service which is there to support people and to help them to reach the level where I am at now because of course when we get involved with these narcissists it does tend to knock us down it does tend to make life very difficult but yeah you know since over the last couple of years things have completely turned around for me I've healed very well I've become very successful now and that's why I now offer this service to help other people to do the same thing there was a time where I could barely even afford food and the food that I did get used to walk for the rain late at night just carrying it home now now I'm blessed you know I've come through it and I'm sitting in this beautiful car just down by the beach I don't know people say it's not all about money but we do need money for our homes for our bills food to look after our families especially after we leave these narcissists many of them try to take everything from us so I'm all about helping people to rebuild and that's why I offer this YouTube coaching service for people who have been inspired by my work and are interested in doing the same so if that's something that interests you just send me an email ask it about the YouTube coaching my email is coaching at knocksurvivor.co.uk and who knows maybe one day we can collaborate as well there's always going to be new positions opening up with knocksurvivor I recently invested in a editing team and operations management I'm currently looking for someone who can translate the video into different languages especially Spanish and also maybe somewhere to help out in sales so there's always going to be new positions that are available here with knocksurvivor and even if you don't end up joining us the coaching service that I offer will help you to become successful on your own and to create your own YouTube channel where YouTube can help thousands of people around the world so yeah if that's something that interests you just send me an email coaching at knocksurvivor.co.uk where you can also message me on Instagram my username is knocksurvivor youtube but yeah that's all for tonight thank you all for joining I've got a huge premiere tomorrow the narcissist has a dirty little secret so I hope to see you all there


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Okay, so we're at the top of the hour. So we'll get the wrap-up session started for this hackathon. Again, my name is Ray Pake, and I'm sharing my screen. Let me get that into presentation mode so people can see that better. So, yeah, I just wanted to have a quick wrap-up session for this edition of the hackathon in Q1. So let me flip to the next slide here. I mean, first of all, I just wanted to provide a recap. I mean, before I go into Merge requests, I wanna provide a quick recap on the tutorials that have happened mostly yesterday. So, you know, outside of the kickoff session, we had four product managers invited, and I wanna obviously thank the presenters, for a lot of you who attended a lot of these sessions. So I thought it was very instructive hearing from product managers on not just getting an overview of their product areas, but what their plans are for 2019 and where they need community members' help. So if you miss any of the recordings or any of the sessions, I mean, all the recordings have been posted along with presentations if there are any. And the slides and recording for this session will be posted as well on the hackathon session. So I just wanted to quickly go over that. Next slide, if I can hit the button. So community MRs during the hackathon, so I did a quick count, probably about 15 minutes ago, I think we'll easily have more than 60 MRs, which is fantastic. I think the number of MRs for the last hackathon was 65, so we'll see if we can beat that number this time around. But the other thing that was really awesome was that we had over 20 MRs that have already been merged as of like an hour ago. I'm sure that number will increase at a pretty good pace. And the other thing, just like last time, the MRs came in across different product areas for GitLab. I mean, usually we expect a lot of MRs for the community edition, but we had MRs for charts, GDK, Gitter, Omnibus, and even our website, www.gitlab.com project. One of the contributor found typos on all of our blogs going back three years, I thought that was amazing. Now I sort of appreciate all of your contributions. And I have this issue created under community relations project. I'll be, I'm sure I'll be updating this the next several hours as more MRs come in. I mean, there's still people here like myself in the Pacific time zone, I'm sure they're still working. But if I happen to miss any of your merge requests, please feel free to let me know and happy to add them on here. So that's sort of a quick recap on MRs. I think we had more than 35 as I ended the evening yesterday. So, it was going to be another productive one. So I appreciate everybody's enthusiasm and hard work on this. Reminder on prizes, obviously anyone with MRs merge, the deadline is 2,300 UTC on the 25th of February. We'll receive a token of our appreciation. And the grand prize will be given to a person with the most MRs merge. And also reminder about priority MRs. I thought this was really successful. I think I counted at least five of the issues that were picked up by community members and people are actively working on them. So, I mean, I think it's been a great success and something that we'll probably continue doing either in the next hackathon or we might offer this opportunity even outside of hackathon, but that's something that we'll iterate over in the next few weeks. So, if you have any feedback on the events, you can add your comments directly on the issue I showed on the previous slide where the MRs are. I mean, feel free to chime in there with any feedback or especially if you have suggestions for other topics, other tutorial topics for the next hackathon, please set myself or David now through Gitter or directly on the issue. Be happy to hear from you on anything that we can do better or anything you like to see in future hackathons. Speaking of which, the next hackathon will probably, I haven't set a date yet, but it'll probably definitely be about three months from now. I mean, sometime in May timeframe, but I'll definitely make an announcement about a month before. So, look for an announcement sometime in April. I'll announce them obviously on Gitter. I know people have been active on Reddit and Twitter as well. So, I think just reading through one of the comments. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, Marcel, I think that's a good point about adding the issue on the main hackathon page. So, I'll definitely, I'll be updating the hackathon page in the next few hours. So, I think that would be an easy thing to do to link to that issue. So, thanks for the feedback, Marcel. See, I think that's about it for all the slides that I wanna cover. I'll post this pretty soon. But are there any other feedback or questions? Drying down notes here. No other comments or questions or either you can speak up or feel free to type it on the chat window. If not, let's see. Having trouble flipping through slides here. Again, I wanna thank everybody that have participated and provided not just code and MRs, but your enthusiasm and your work in general over this hackathon period. I'm just really pleased with the amount of things that we accomplished over the last couple of days. Obviously, people in like the Pacific time zone, for example, might still be going. But I definitely appreciate the work that's already been done. But look forward to seeing many of you again online on Gitter or Twitter or at the very least at the next hackathon. So I'm gonna pause another 10 seconds to see if there are any questions or comments. Well, thanks, Cocon, appreciate it. And thanks for everything you contributed so far. And I'm sure you'll be doing more. Cool, I guess that's a wrap. Thanks again. I mean, feel free to just ping me. I mean, I guess the other thing is we're trying to march towards the deadline for things getting merged. If you feel like your MR is not getting enough attention or timely attention from people like your lab, I mean, please ping me and David and then we'll try to make sure that somebody has a chance to review and provide your timely feedback so it gets merged by the 25th. So thanks for the kind words on the chat window. And I guess we'll wrap this up and talk to you guys again soon. Have a good one. Thank you.


In the Caribbean, we just think it's just like sitting down and doing some drawing and putting it on the screen and that's it. I've had to educate a lot of people over the years and locally where we do get work, we usually get work from different agencies who want to create animated products to kind of send a message or, you know, things like PSAs and informational videos. And they want to see certain things, but they think, well, that's just going to take a couple of weeks. And I'm like, no, what you're asking for is a full production here. And this is how it's done properly. So I've had many conversations over the years and I had to correct a lot of people in terms of what they thought animation was and how long it was going to take with what they were telling me they wanted. And, you know, what those who were willing, you know, and we when we got the jobs and so on, you know, I basically started by doing like a production schedule showing them like this is this is what needs to be done. And if you are looking to do something in the future, you can't contact us when you are about to do you want the animation in like two, three weeks. That doesn't work. You have when you're starting a project, you have to start with animation in mind and, you know, have a dialogue with us so that we could give you a schedule before you even start the project. So it's just a matter of one educating the business community on how animation can work for them in their business. And then for those who because we're always talking about all the animation industries is billion dollar industry and we want to tap into that. But if you want to tap into that you have to know how, right, you have to know how to set up yourself in business how to start and start networking and making those connections.  You have to know how to go about that and you can set up a studio and pay for all of this stuff, all of the overheads and you don't have work. You have to figure out first how you're going to bring in that work if that's the route you're going to go. So for freelancers we happen to come together very cohesively and with AJ and Chowali and a few other people who are like, yeah, you know, this you guys are doing this is this is great. And they started sending us work and you started learning the workflow and so on and talent came together. Once we really got that education and got some of our animators decided you know they're going to go to Canada and experience, you know what it's like to work in a studio, but we still stuck together. Once I had work they worked with us after their regular working hours things like that. And really the education is nonstop for us. And we have really a good view of what that is and at this stage now we are really looking to take it to the next level. We have our own IPs and so on but again, going back to educate him the community just regular everyday people business people and so on. They need to really take a deep dive if is animation is to thrive in the Caribbean.  Yes, you have the tools you have the wood and you initially learn the basics of cutting and so on.  But then you have to infuse the 12 principles of animation and and really hone those skills so that you can get better so your animation can get better, and you can then compete on an international level. So there are many different facets to building the industry, but it's just for us to really take it seriously a little more seriously than we have been in recent years.


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