education was hit by an earthquake that moved fast and broke things. We have combined forces today with how I got tell for you to share you some perspectives from a life in educational technology in 2020. We heard in the last programme about the scenes from before the quake. This issues the rise of accessibility considerations, the ongoing dominance of big VLEs, learning analytics and questions around degree apprenticeships. We're going to go now to some of the impressions that you've given us about life as a learning technology just sells and within the sector. Let's see if we can get the right screen share. What have your experiences been like in the last three months which we could talk about as the quake itself. We can see that it's been exhilarating, tiring, exhausting, challenging. In many ways it's been frustrating and demanding, it's been a roller coaster but it's also been collaborative, it's been productive, it's been character building, it's had things to do with leggings and dogs as well. So they're all manner of different ways that you might have experienced the quake itself during the dramatic moments that hit higher education beginning in March of 2020. We're going to go next to higher education though has been disrupted before. This is not the first time that higher education has been disrupted. If we look at a period of the bubonic plague during the Middle Ages, we can see that although there were obviously wider population declines at the time, higher education did see longer term enrollment increases. So Oxford for example set up new college. Cambridge established four new colleges during this period. We also found a shift from the more theological worldview of universities at the time to a more science-based one which led somewhat towards the Enlightenment at the time. During World War One of course we also had a further period of disruption to higher education. Before the war we found that universities were largely private institutions that were somewhat dependent on fee income and philanthropy. University contributions to war efforts such as staff and students signing up to fight and war-related research did lead to financial crises and ultimately these led to universities and governments being drawn into closer relationships with each other. World War One also saw an increase in female teachers and things like changes in courses offered such as modern languages like French or Russian. So we can see that while higher education has been profoundly disrupted in the past, it has also tended to evolve and change. So we talked a little bit about before the quake and these were the known knowns of what the landscape was like before the quake hit. Let's go over to you now to talk about the current situation as well. We also heard from the panel about their experiences of lockdown itself in the summer of the last few months. So we're going to go over to you now and this is a time for a little bit of audience input here. I have a question for each of you and we'll give you a little bit of time to think about that and add your questions. You'll see them coming through live as well. And a question for you all is what one thing we're thinking of the coming academic year that was due to start shortly. What one thing are you or your institution putting in place to effectively support teaching, learning or assessment for the coming year? Take a minute to get some responses in there as they come in and it is something that you're also able to as you can see add full sentences as well. Welcome to add more than one comment if you feel the urge and do note the effectively support part of the question. Panic is natural for each and everyone. Riding the winds of chaos that's a beautiful embracing of the pending academic year. Somebody is enabling hybrid seminars that's a bold move. We have a new framework for teaching and learning that is focusing on synchronous over synchronous over asynchronous over synchronous. We'll keep that open for the time being anyway. So somebody's going for a Seamalt as well. So I'd like to introduce an idea that I brought to the ALT 2019 conference at Edinburgh. The idea of speculative design may be familiar to some of you. I introduced this at Edinburgh last year as we call speculative learning design. Speculative design takes the notion of possible futures, uses ideas generated to better understand the present and to discuss the kinds of ideas that people actually want or not in the future. Usually this takes the form of scenarios and often it starts with a what if question. You'll see some of these in a moment. Essentially this is using design as a critical tool. It's not about predicting the future but it's about imagining what possible futures there might be. Now speculative design comes from a tune London based artist called Dunn and Rabi. They wrote a great book called Speculative Everything published in 2013. They've found in their research this potential futures because of frame or the motif of thinking about speculative design and developed themselves to suit their own purposes. If you look at the different components of this, you can see that it starts out with the present on the left hand side and stretches out to the probable which is what is likely to happen, the plausible which is what could happen, the possible which is what might happen, and somewhere in there as well we have the preferable which is what we want to happen. So bear these different options and possibilities in mind. Obviously speculative learning design simply would apply these principles and these design objectives ideas to possible educational futures. Now one of the ways that helps us to think about these sort of speculative design ideas is taking a look at the state of the art or some current social trends. So I've re-showing a slide that we used again at Edinburgh last year that shows some technical, some social, some positive, some negative social trends or technical trends in some cases. Interestingly after revisiting this slide I noticed that global pandemics are all in there as well. So I'm not sure that any of us in Edinburgh in September last year when we were talking about holographic academics would have quite expected this degree of change that's been visited upon us. So that's it from me. I'm going to hand over to you and Judy's going to be helping me with the breakout room ideas as well. So we talked about Before the Quake which was the tell landscape before the lockdowns and coronavirus hit global higher education. We talked about During the Quake and you've contributed to that yourselves which are your ideas and perspectives for the challenges that you have had. Now Keeneid amongst you will notice a third Rumsfeldism coming here as well. We're also going to think about the unknown unknowns here as well. The unknown unknowns and this is thinking somewhat into the future. This is thinking about a post-COVID world. What does higher education look like in a post-COVID world? Now I'm not going to specify a timeframe there which it could be five years, it could be 10, it could be 20 but we're going to put you into small groups and you will have a single prompt in that group which is at the top of the page and I'd like you to use that prompt open up a discussion between yourselves in the group and use that prompt to generate ideas for higher education institutions in the post-COVID era. So it's a sort of ideation board or thought showering I think is the current appropriate expression. Aim for positive ideas if you can but obviously we're talking big themes, big topics here. Might have all sorts of difficult questions to throw in there as well. Now to keep it narrow you could think about teaching learning and assessment in a post-COVID environment but welcome to also include any other ideas around higher education as well. And just to give everybody a give you spare you some time on deciding who does what, the person in your breakout group whose name comes first in the alphabet according to the blackboard listing will be typing up the ideas from the discussion in the padlock board and Julie has shared the padlock link into the chat you can see it there padlock.com slash dompate slash after the quake. So I hope that the instructions are clear Julie would you like to send our participants into their breakout rooms please? Okay you should be going to the rooms now. Okay Dom it's just you me and Maureen in the main room now. How are you doing so far? That's too bad I think some of the the groups are now a lot lower than they were when I set them up but I thought did they go in automatically? Yeah they've all gone in. Call let me know I'm here let me know if you need anything. Is my mic coming out all right? Yep. I'll go and I'll go and join group four because there are quite a few of them are down to like two participants now. So I'll go and join group four. Feel free to join the group if you wish Maureen. Thank you will do. I'll also keep an eye on the chat in case anybody has any technical questions. I should wander into some of these rooms as well. The biggest thing oh we return to the main room. Okay I think we are back into the main room again here. I'm hoping that that's all right are we all back? Okay so let's go for a final share of some of what we've seen. We've got a few panelist responses coming in. So plenty of stuff from group one. The problem of universally good internet access would need to be solved for people working from home. It certainly wouldn't be as much fun. What if the pandemic kills off in-person exams? The idea of trusting our adult learners is an idea. What if hybrid teaching becomes a third operating model for most universities and colleges? No we certainly need to overcome some of the challenges. Let's take one more as well. What if global heating continues to rise? This is group six. We certainly need more flexible systems regardless of the pandemic. So I think this is working. I think this is sharing on. So I'm going to stop sharing that one. I'd like to thank you all very very much for your participation in this today. I know it took a very different turn from have I got tell for you but we've given you very different perspectives on the year today. Now the Padlet link itself will will remain open and the intention is that we'll follow up on this with a blog post to aggregate your respective responses on our Learning at City blog at City University and if Alts would like a version of the blog post as well then we could get the conversation started there.


We have come together today to celebrate White Cane Day, which happens every year on October 15th. We're celebrating it today, and it's in special recognition of individuals who are blind, originally impaired and showing that through the White Cane and the guide dog, they have an independent life, which is what we're all about at the Lighthouse. I guess they're going to put a little blindfold on me and walk me down the street and see if I can make it to the other end, and kind of an appreciation for the trials and tribulations that those individuals experience on a daily basis. Let's go for a stroll. Where's my handler here? You better get up here. Okay. Yes, I am. Okay. We're turning. Oh, it doesn't.  You have to develop other senses, I guess, to complement that balance. But I'll tell you, I have a great appreciation for the complexity and the difficulty with which you live your lives. You take, excuse me, by sight away, it affects my balance and it affects my stability. And I did not realize that before, but this has truly been a very enlightening experience and I appreciate how very much the difficulty with which you live your lives. And you're going to be congratulated for your courage and your effort in that regard. And I've signed this on White Cane Day, the 13th day of October 2011. Thank you all very much for being here. I appreciate it.


Introducing Halitzer, a hero that used to look like he just crawled out of a prison sewer.  Build this baby Yoda looking motherfucker with enough ability damage to roll into duo lane and rocket snipe your jungler's hard-earned kills. Our 2000 rocket will hit anything, like a truck, and I do mean anything, except your target. A small pebble and a ledge? Got it. A minion standing anywhere in my field of view? Toast. Random bird flying by?    Halitzer's E ability throws down some C4 that you can detonate early to displace you and your enemy. I see people using this to knock people into towers, save allies, and pop themselves up on the ledges.  Half the time I throw this down, forget that it's active and end up getting popped off in some random direction when it goes off.   Also useful for securing those kills. Your right click is now a quick AoE slow. It's one of the few things that changed since his old school paragon kit. Here's what it used to do. Halitzer's right clicking throws down three flutter grenades that are sure to give those bastards what for. It's also a swell way to impress the broad. What's up, those gals? The new version provides a great way to poke when your rocket is on cooldown, or there happens to be a fly buzzing around that will probably get in the rocket's way. Halitzer's ultimate ability called... Halitzer's Showtime? Is this what they're going with here? What was the deal? Was there like a deal made like predecessor gets the old ability names and overprime gets the paragon name?  Fly up in the air and make it rain destruction on your enemies. A great way to zone, kill, or just fly up and take a moment to enjoy the view.  Or wait till he's low health and uses his ultimate to set Murdock up for the best long-dawing of his life. Spin the entire game thinking your basic still cleaves in paragon today.  Get really confused when you try to alternate archway in paragon today. Man Goose! Shout out to channel members Joshua Bennoctis, J-Man, Jelly Knees, Passion Guard, Malco, Hasan A, Nico, F6, Actual Des, Dapper Dice, Lionheart Official, Blastoise King, Meowmix for Men, Surge Ben, Covetous Lemon, Bearded Wolverine, Pizza Face, Pusey, Aldreco King, Oda, Soul Reaper, LevyVersion2, CloroxTV, EyeBloodHunter, and Raven.


This article reviews a blog about the course database management system Microsoft Access, which is used as an auxiliary tool for promoting a course and teacher in the Internet. It also discusses the use of ICT in the course, including the location of the channel on YouTube video hosting. Additionally, the article highlights the fact that both theoretical and practical material is covered on real, implemented information and analytical systems. Teachers of computer science are provided with tasks from databases, which can be found on the blog and YouTube channel. This article was authored by Dmitro A. Pokushin, Yvgeny H. Prokofiev and Albert A. Azarian.


Is it true that when he used to rob butter and stuff on himself? Is that all true? Oh, he still does that now, yeah. Yeah, when he gets a bit bored, he did that. I think the last time he did that was a couple of years ago. I think he was in Wakefield about three years ago.  He gets in the yard to do all his dips and all that. And these twelve of them used to take him out with all riot shields and sticks and everything.  And yeah, he just gets the butter out, rubs it all over himself.   And they look at him and go, What?!   And he's covered in butter. And then twelve of them go in and he's like, Right!


Welcome to the Transportation Cafe, a regular show focused on the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission's projects and programs. The Regional Transportation Commission, or RTC's, mission is to plan and fund a broad range of safe, convenient, reliable, and efficient transportation choices for the community. The topic for today's RTC Transportation Cafe is the Highway 1 Corridor Program. We will examine what the RTC is doing in this corridor and why. I'm George Dondaro, Executive Director of the RTC, and my guests today are Ellen Peary, Second District County Supervisor and Transportation Commission Board Member. And we also have Kim Schultz, Project Manager for the Highway 1 Corridor Program and Senior Transportation Planner. So Commissioner Peary, let me start by asking you, why is the Highway 1 Corridor so important and why is RTC pursuing projects in that corridor? Well, the Highway 1 Corridor is really almost the lifeline of Santa Cruz County. If you want to get from South County to North County, you're going to go on Highway 1. The alternatives are extremely limited. There are a few two-lane roads that run north and south as well, but it's pretty much it. And what we have found, the Highway was built 50, 60 years ago, and it doesn't meet the needs that we have now. There are far more people in Santa Cruz County than the freeway was ever designed for. So as a result, we have periods of intense congestion on the freeway, which is a problem for a lot of reasons, safety being one of them, greenhouse gas being another, people wasting time yet another. So what the RTC is trying to do is improve that corridor, get the traffic moving, meet the transportation needs of the community as best as we can, and at the same time, make it easier for people to use alternative transportation. So example, we want there to be express buses from Watsonville to Santa Cruz, and we want those express buses to actually be an express that actually moves rather than be stuck in traffic. And we want people to carpool, but for those things, it needs to work. It needs to be better than driving in your car by yourself. Ellen, what do you hear from your constituents about overflow highway traffic? Well, what do I hear that I can repeat in public? I hear frustration and irritation and anger. In the area that I represent, which goes from Capitola to Watsonville, as I said before, there aren't a lot of good options. So when the traffic, when the freeway is stopped, which it sometimes is, just almost stopped or moving at five miles an hour, people tend to think, well, I could do better on the side roads, so they get off on the side roads. And those of us who drive it a lot know that, in fact, you can't do better on the side roads, so there's no point in getting off.  And so I hear the frustration both of the people who need to get somewhere, as well as the people who live in the neighborhoods who have, you know, traffic unexpectedly bumper to bumper traffic going by their front door. So you get quite a bit of feedback on that. I do. I do. Okay. So what's been done thus far in the Highway 1 corridor? Well, for many years, not a whole lot, but starting about 10 or 15 years ago, I started planning some projects. The first one was the Highway 1 17 interchange and merge lanes, you know, sort of from the fish hook south, basically. And that was completed, I think, in 2008. And that's made a big difference. That's made that strip, which is maybe a mile long or so, much safer, much smoother, and that's been good. Okay. I believe there was also some widening on Mission Street up at the... There was some widening on Mission Street, that's correct. That's been helpful also, although that still is a very constrained area. So Kim, you're the project manager for the Soquel Morrissey auxiliary lanes project. Can you tell us a little bit more about this project that's now underway? Well, George, this is an operational improvement. It's a complement to the 1 17 work that Ellen mentioned. And the idea is to smooth out the weaving and merging of motorists entering and exiting the freeway. And we do this by extending that third southbound lane that currently ends just north of the Fonda Overcrossing to connect with Soquel off-ramp. And then we'll be building an auxiliary lane from the Soquel on-ramp to connect directly to the Morrissey off-ramp. These auxiliary lanes, like I say, are extensions of the on-ramp to connect with the off-ramp to again smooth out the weaving and merging efforts of the motorists and really get the best efficiency we can out of the highway. Of course, to do this, we're going to have to rebuild the La Fonda Overcrossing to provide a wider span of the bridge over the highway to accommodate these new lanes. So can you tell us a little bit more about the La Fonda Bridge? Yes. The La Fonda Bridge will be taken down in beginning of summer, coincident with summer break at the schools, to minimize the disruption of the community in the area of schools were in that location. It will take six to eight months before the bridge will be operational again. But we're working very closely with the schools to minimize the disruption when schools get back into session. The new bridge will have wider sidewalks and a bike lanes to accommodate students and others traveling through that area in walking or riding their bike. Very good. So what other features will the Soquel Morrissey project include? Well, thanks for asking because I haven't mentioned yet that the commission is managing this project. Contrary to other projects where Caltrans is the project manager, the RTC is managing this project for the very first time. Not only did it allow us to get this project out on an underway six months earlier, but it allows us to be involved in some new initiatives. One I'm quite excited about is with the Calera Corporation, we're going to be using green concrete. It's not actually green, but it's manufactured capturing the carbon and the heat out of the smokestacks, the electrical plant at Moss Landing, and the creation of a cementitious material that bonds the concrete, and we'll be using that concrete in building sidewalks at Morrissey interchange for the community there. Another element is biofiltration. With the new lanes we're adding to the highway, we're actually also building bioswales so we can direct the storm water through these areas or special grasses and bioswales to capture the silt and pollution that otherwise drains into the creeks and ultimately into our ocean. We're very proud of that. So Ellen, what will this project do to address the bottlenecks that are currently out there on Highway 1? Well, I'm really hopeful that it'll do a lot. This is a project that I've been thinking about for a long time. I remember when I first came on the RTC and I saw the design for the Highway 17, Highway 1 interchange, and I saw that as you came south on Highway 1, you passed Morrissey and a lane came in, so at that point there were four lanes in the design, and then before you got to the La Fonda Street Bridge, it was down to two. So I'm looking at that and thinking, well, I don't know how well that's going to work. So as soon as I saw that, I started saying, well, can't we do something about that? And of course I was thinking, can't we just change the Highway 17, Highway 1 project? And of course everyone laughed because those projects are in the works for so many years. The idea that they're going to make this little change at the end was kind of crazy. But it did fortunately sort of start the conversation about, you know, this is a problem and we need to fix it. And so the problem I described, which is that you narrow down from at least three and at points four lanes to two lanes to go under the La Fonda Street Bridge. So I think that when we're done, the La Fonda Street Bridge will, it will be new, of course, it'll be much wider so that three full lanes can go under it going each direction. And that the far right lane going south then just exits at Soquel Drive. And a lot of traffic gets off at Soquel Drive, so I think that that will be good. That's not to say that there won't still be some congestion, but I think that there'll be less congestion because a lot of people won't be involved in it because they get off at Morrissey or at Soquel. But there still will be some. Same thing actually kind of coming north, which is when you come north in the morning and there's a lot of traffic, it loosens up at Soquel because it's getting to the area where there are going to be three lanes, just another entrance or exit ahead. And so I think that will have a ripple effect when those lanes start back one exit. I mean, I think you may start feeling it as far back as 41st Avenue. So in effect, we'll be shortening the bottleneck. Correct. The size of that bottleneck. That's what I hope. So Kim mentioned that the RTC is taking the lead on the construction phase of this project, which is a first time for the agency. So from your perspective, what's the value in that? Why is RTC doing that? The value, I think, is just keeping our hands on it, keeping our hands on it and our eyes on it full time as there are issues that come up, which there always are. There always are things that come up that you didn't plan for will be right there. And if we're right there, that really means the community is right there. So it's not somebody in Sacramento making the decision about how to handle things, we're right there. So we can both keep people informed, get feedback from them as there are issues, and be really involved in the critical decisions. We were also, as my understanding, we were able to start earlier because we were doing it locally. So we started about six months earlier than we otherwise would have. And who knows? Maybe we'll even end early. Let's hope. I'm not making promises. Okay. All right. We'll keep an eye on that. So Kim, are there other projects in the works on this corridor? Yes, there is. We're really excited to be doing a long range plan and vision for the corridor. The footprint of this plan is actually stretches from Santa Cruz to Aptos, it's about a nine mile stretch. To look at an ultimate vision of a corridor we would like and what our community needs and deserves. And through this analysis, we call this a tier one umbrella environmental analysis. And we will look at the cumulative impacts, the benefits, and the operational issues associated with making improvements along the corridor. We hope to get this environmental document out on the streets to the public in the fall of 2012, so just a few months away. And the challenge now is that the total cost of the construction of these improvements is in the range of $500 million. There simply isn't enough money to build that as one project. So we'll be breaking it down into incremental projects, what we call tier two projects. The next tier two project that's on deck after the SoCal Morrissey project is auxiliary lanes between 41st Avenue and SoCal Interchanges as well as a bike pedestrian crossing at Chanticleer. So how will that next tier two project be determined? Well of course the tier two projects have to be consistent with the vision of the overall project to improve traffic flow on Highway 1. By first fundamentally reducing congestion. And to promote, as Ellen was talking, alternative transportation. Alter behavior much like my own. Many of the times I'm driving to work alone if I'm not driving the kids to school or to sporting activities. To provide real alternatives like express buses, carpools, with the time advantage that involves. And finally of course to improve safety. That's the overall goal. When it comes to selecting specific projects we'll use performance measures with indicators of cost benefit, of improved travel time, reduced delay, and reduced vehicle miles travel. That's a surrogate really for the overall congestion not only on the highway but on our local streets and roads where many motorists will search out for shortcuts. As well as it speaks to the emissions and ultimately to climate change. So what kind of projects might be considered as tier two projects? Well I would put them into four categories. Like I've mentioned there's auxiliary relays to improve the efficiencies of existing freeway. There's the bicycle pedestrian crossings to provide alternatives to the freeway interchanges for non-motors to get from one side of the freeway to the other. Over time we're going to have to take a look at our freeway interchanges to smooth out the operations between the highway and the arterial system as we already have experienced much delay at 41st Avenue Interchange for instance. And then ultimately to build those carpool lanes, bus lanes, what we call high occupancy vehicle lanes to provide real time savings for people that carpool and express buses and the inducement of travel time savings by them using those lanes. So this is really a long term vision. It is a very long term vision. You mentioned earlier project, the next project on deck is another auxiliary lane project between 41st and SoCal avenues. That's correct, auxiliary lanes would be built northbound and southbound between 41st Avenue and SoCal respectively and what actually that does is just extend the on ramp to the freeway for instance at 41st to connect directly to the off ramp at SoCal. Again extending and smoothing out that weaving and merging distance, take out the anxiety of entering into a crowded freeway and smooth that out over a longer period, distance. You know this is the busiest section of the highway carrying well over 100,000 vehicles a day, not only in Santa Cruz County but virtually entire central coast of California. Important element also of that project is building a bike pedestrian crossing at Chante de Caler. Total cost of this on deck project is $29 million. So those bike pedestrian over crossings are important to sort of tie the neighborhoods back together for foot and bicycle traffic. Absolutely, you know non-motors and motorists just don't mix well and as the region, urbanized area of the region develops even more they're going to become more and more valuable to the community. So Ellen can our community come up with $500 million for this entire tier one project or is there a new funding approach? Short answer, no. When we started talking about the HOV lanes on Highway 1 we were talking about $300 million which is still a lot of money. But the economy was in better shape and it seemed like it was something that was potentially doable. Now when we're talking about $500,000 and a community that's struggling to keep its current roads in good shape it seems really not very likely. So the question is what do we do then? We're finishing the environmental document for this project that has high occupancy vehicle lanes and kind of all the bells and whistles. We can't afford to do it so we're doing what Kim had talked about is sort of taking out pieces sort of subsets. We're taking subsets of that plan and doing them as we go along. So each of these subsets is more affordable. For example the one we're currently doing the SoCal Morrissey is about $18 million. And I think you said the SoCal to 41st Avenue is $29 million is the estimate. And the bike lanes, one of the pedestrian bicycle crossings that I'm really interested in is in the Aptos area and it's from one end of Mar Vista to the other which was cut off when the freeway went through and that's $6 or $7 million. So it's possible that we will get either state or federal funding for some of these as the time goes by we'll make the application and try to get it. But we might also have to think about becoming what they call a self-help county. And a self-help county means that we've adopted a sales tax or some other kind of tax or fee that we generate locally and then that we keep locally and it's reserved for transportation projects. And so that not only gives us funding for some of these projects but it also increases the likelihood that we'll get state and federal funding. State and federal funding, as you know, it's unpredictable. You can't count on it for anything. But one of the sort of the new criteria that they look at is this going to a self-help county. So it's just going to a community that's willing to pay some itself, that's willing to tax itself for some money and that makes a big difference. And I understand that about 85% of Californians live in self-help counties. That's right. Yeah. That's right. And we don't. We don't. So that puts us kind of behind, you know. And that you can also use that local money to leverage the federal and state money sometimes. Exactly. Yeah. So we've discussed the costs and the funding challenges. So can you tell us a little bit more about those challenges? Give us some context here in the following. Sure. Well, I've heard it estimated that we are something like $2 billion short of the money we really need to do the transportation projects that we would like to do. That's such a large... That's over a 25-year period. Correct. Yeah. That's a large number. But even like looking at the county, we get information about the condition of our roads and what it's going to cost to bring them up to a good standard. And last I heard it was something like $90 million to make all the county roads, which is about 600 miles of road, to bring it up to a standard that was at least qualified as good. Not even excellent, but good. So there's tremendous amount of transportation needs out there. And I think that people feel, understandably, that that's one of the primary purposes of government is to build roads and bridges and to be able to get us from one place to another safely. And so I think there's a lot of feeling like we're failing to do that and we need to do something about it. Yeah. It's a big challenge. Well, we've barely had a chance to skim the surface of these projects, but I'd like to encourage our viewers to check out our website where there's a lot more detail about these projects as well as RTC's other programs and projects. The website is listed at the bottom of your screen and you can also sign up for E-News, which gives you timely updates on a variety of our transportation projects and topics. So I'd like to thank you, Commissioner Peary and Kim Schultz, for being our guests on the Transportation Café show, a show by the RTC on local transportation projects and programs. We invite you to get involved in regional transportation planning. A few of the many ways are listed on the screen. Your comments and ideas on future topics for this show are always welcome. And thank you for tuning in to RTC's Transportation Café. Hello, I'm Grace Blakesley, a transportation planner at the Regional Transportation Commission, with an update on the development of the next Santa Cruz County regional transportation plan. As the state-designated Regional Transportation Planning Agency for Santa Cruz County, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, or RTC, is responsible for developing, implementing, and regularly updating the state-mandated long-range transportation plan for the region. The RTP includes goals and policies that are used to prioritize projects for funding. It also identifies the area's transportation needs and plan projects and estimates the amount of state, federal, and local funding that may be available over the next 25 years. On the last Transportation Café show, we talked in depth about the inclusion of sustainability principles in the next edition of the area's long-range regional transportation plan. This will maximize the benefits of transportation projects and programs for the triple win, the people, the environment, and the economy. You can view that show on the RTC website in the video library. The RTC recently conducted a web survey asking the public about their priorities for incorporating sustainable principles into transportation planning. Of the 200 survey participants, the following three goals were rated most important out of the 14 goals when planning for a sustainable transportation system. First, improve people's ability to meet most of their daily needs without having to drive. Improve the convenience and quality of trips, especially for walk, bicycle, transit, carpool, and vanpool trips. And improve access and proximity to employment centers. The RTC will be considering draft goals and policies for the long-range transportation plan this spring. We'd like to invite you to a public workshop on April 19th at 6.30 p.m. at the Live Oak Senior Center to learn more about the goals and policies being considered and to provide your input. Additional information on the next RTP is available on the long-term planning page of the RTC's website. Hello. My name is Matt Liao, and I work at the San Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, or RTC. I'm here to share some information about a bicycle parking subsidy program called Bike Secure. The RTC offers free bike racks or subsidies towards the purchase of bike lockers. Applicants only cover the cost of installation. The program is funded by Grant through the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, and will expire early next year. Apply now. Take advantage of this highly successful program that has provided over 2,000 bicycle parking spaces throughout Santa Cruz County. Major destinations that need bicycle parking can qualify, for example, businesses, schools, medical office buildings, and mixed-use developments. This program has been instrumental in reducing the need for car parking in activity centers, and at the same time promotes good health and well-being. By providing more secure places to park bikes, riders can feel comfortable in knowing that their bikes are safe. Having the proper facilities will allow more users to enjoy the benefits of this sustainable mode of transportation.


Hi everyone, my name is Steph, this is Little Bookish Teacher, and today I have a review of two kids' novels that have recently come out from Alan and Unlin, and I'm really excited to share them with you. I do have a few more novels that I haven't read yet that are young adult titles that I will hopefully have up in the next week or so, but today I have one junior fiction-ish middle grade title and one middle grade science fiction novel. So we're going to start off with Hercules' Quick's Big Bag of Tricks by Ursula Dubasowski. This is a bind up of three Hercules' Quick stories that have come out over the past couple of years. The synopsis says Hercules' Quick wants to be a magnificent magician, he just needs a special box of tricks, but the box is expensive and Hercules doesn't have any money. Luckily Hercules lives in a big apartment block with Aunt Alligator and his tadpole friend Sylvie, and he has plenty of neighbors who are willing to pay for his help. No job is too odd for Hercules' Quick. And so in this story, Hercules has seen this box and he is determined to save up for it, like he's determined to do it himself and he's encouraged by his Aunt Alligator and so he makes this sign, he hangs it up and soon all of his neighbors begin calling him for help with various odd jobs. Some of them fairly mundane, most of them ridiculous and hilarious, and Hercules quickly finds himself inundated with jobs to do, but he's so excited because they're paying him and he's earning money and it has a purpose. And it's really interesting to see in the story that when he starts to feel tired or feel like he doesn't get a break, that he remembers that he's working for a purpose. This is a really great one for those kids who might just be starting to do chores for pocket money and things like that, because it is a great way of saying well if there's something that you really want and you want to save for it, this is a good way to do it. It's also just nice to talk about acts of kindness and acts of service that you can do to help out people who need help, particularly with young kids. The other thing that's really cool about this book, particularly for those kids who really like magic tricks, is that at the end of each of the books, so the three books that are included, there is a magic trick and how to do it and it includes everything from what you need to do the trick, to how you set it up, to how you perform it, and that's really cool. There'll be a lot of kids who love that. Magic tricks are huge for this sort of seven to 10 age bracket. I had a lot of fun with this. Vesela Dubaśarski's writing is always on point and I loved the illustrations throughout the story, it just made it more fun. And then I read Mars Underground by HM War. This is the conclusion to Mars Awakens, that's part of the Mars duology, and I previously had reviewed Mars Awakens when it first released. This is middle grade science fiction. This is about two colonies of humans that live on Mars. Both colonies have very different philosophies that have developed over the years, and they're very isolationist in that they don't communicate with one another. They do believe that the other group is detrimental to the way that they live, and so the two colonies are very separate. In the first book, a couple of kids from both colonies met and they realized that maybe they're not so different and maybe they can help each other out. One colony is very much into advanced technology. The other colony is very good at growing and maintaining their own produce and things like that. So they have complementary traits that would help each other out, and so these kids are determined to show each colony that they're stronger together. But that doesn't go as quite as well because obviously these philosophies have built up over time and the leaders who are now in charge have been previously led by other people and they don't know any different. And so that causes conflict as these kids try and race across Mars, trying to convince everyone to work together. There is also another plot in here about a symbiotic race that everyone calls the others that they're afraid of, but in this story they begin to explore that maybe they're not quite the enemy to be feared as previously thought, again due to that communication or just the lost in translation communication that happens over time. I really enjoyed being back in this world revisiting these characters, getting the conclusion to their story and you know seeing that there is some kind of positive outcome for both these groups of humans and it was very very interesting. I do love a good sci-fi story and I love seeing when we get more middle grade ones. So thank you very much to Alan and Alan for sending me both these books. I had a great time reading them. I will leave links to where you can check them out down below. If you've read them or you're planning on picking them up feel free to share your thoughts down below. Or if you just want to let me know that you're here but you don't want to leave a comment feel free to leave a star emoji. I hope that wherever you are in the world you're staying safe and healthy and I will see you in my next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye everyone.


Now I was raised by a mother who has been, this year is her 50th year in the natural food industry. So I grew up in a family that was very open, but never in my life had I ever been to a stopping point when it came to mainstream medical models. I had never been told, I'm sorry there's nothing else that we can do. I suffered a very tragic injury to my face, my jaw and my neck. I wasn't healing. I had a lot of paralysis, numbness, asymmetry, everything about my life had changed. And basically when they got my jaw to heal, that was that was it for me as far as their options. And so really I become a hermit because I couldn't keep food in my mouth. I could not, I could not talk phonetically speaking was very difficult for me. And so I just started searching for answers.  And so, you know, it's really an incredible story because it shows you the power of social media. Look at me now. Not only can I talk on video, you know, with David. So it's really a whole incredible journey. I don't want to keep talking for too long, but it it's really transformative. And it's not just you may get these calls for a specific condition that you're wanting to improve pain, anything. And you will see that it is a total body experience. Because once you start, you will feel the effects. And it wants, it's going to drive you to want to know more and do more and learn more.


Hi, I'm Steve Nunn, President and CEO of the Open Group, a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Over the last few years, we've introduced a category of events at our quarterly conferences, which we call special events, and they include user groups for users of our TOGAP and archimage standards, sometimes jointly held user groups. We've also had IT service management days and AI and smart cities workshops, as well as a government enterprise architecture roundtable. Most of the attendees at our special events are locals to the cities where we hold our quarterly conferences, and that's really a big part of why we hold them. It's to give people the opportunity to experience the Open Group for the first time in a particular area of interest to them. They're not the only attendees though, some of our members and other attendees at the event come along as well. We've heard various reasons why people attend these events. Clearly the primary one is that the topic is of interest to them or sometimes of interest to their boss, who's asked them to go along and find something out. The user group events in particular are a great way for those individuals who use our standards but aren't necessarily employed by member organisations who are working to evolve the standard. It gives them a chance to network with other professionals who are using those standards in their day jobs and find out tips and tricks, things that have worked, how do they go about achieving certain things. Because one thing that's consistent is nobody has a unique problem, it's probably been encountered by somebody else before, and the opportunity to learn from the experts in the standard and from those who've just tried to implement the standard is highly valuable. Another great aspect of the user groups is that it enables us to get feedback on our standards from a wider community than just our membership. These people tend to be individuals who are using our standards day to day and they have some great input on what works well and what could be improved in future versions of the standard. So we can then pass that on to our members in either the Archimate Forum or the Architecture Forum. Another great aspect of the user groups is that they enable us to get feedback from a wider community than our membership on the good bits and the bits that could be improved in our standards. That's valuable to us in planning future revisions of those standards. In the future, we'll continue to run our special events at our quarterly conferences. In particular, the Toga for user groups will happen wherever it makes sense to do so in the world and we're always looking for other topics of interest. So if you're seeing this and you have any suggestions for a topic, please let us know and get in touch.


The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANDS, have asked the federal government to shut down all schools in the north, west, and north-central part of Nigeria. The National President of the Union, Asefon Sunday, said this in Aduakiti during a parlay with newsmen. Asefon said the position of the APEC students body was informed by the recent upsurge in activities of bandits and kidnappers targeting higher institutions in some parts of northern Nigeria. It lamented the inability of security agents to challenge the bandits, thereby leaving parents at the mercy of kidnappers. NANDS also declared Friday, June 11, 2021, as a national day. This issue of insecurity in the country is getting out of hand and NANDS cannot no longer hold his hand and be looking for things is getting deteriorating every day. The unity of this country is blinking as a Nigerian, as a student leader. We so much believe in the unity of this country, but we call the government at all levels to please, particularly in the north-west. If closing of our schools is the only solution for now, temporarily, and for them to be involved in security around all our campuses is the best we advise them. Even though we regret by announcing this, we advise them that the government should close down all our schools in the north. In the north-west and part of the north-central.


Good morning folks. Steve Rhodes coming July from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year 11 am update and currently have a bit of a mixed bag out there that makes coming from the NASDAQ 100 off 26 summized down 20. The other US indices trading to the upside dows up 140 S and P 8. Russell's up 10. Gold's off 29 bucks. Silver's down 19 cents. That's one and a half and eight tenths of a percent respectively. Let's be crude up to an half percent or a buck 69 trade out at 69 33 natural gas off 11 cents on a 30 year treasury. Pretty not at 13104. That's down one point and seven ticks. Let's try to figure out what all that means by looking at that nine panel market update chart. We begin the upper left hand corner. We've got the ES mini. What do we know about it? We have an A to B equal CD to the upside that has been confirmed a Gartley sell pattern that took place on the trading session of March the 22nd. Right now we have price at just dealing with the resistance. That is the top of its profile 4007. We have seen one close above the top of that profile. So we would need two consecutive closes to suggest that price wants to move higher. More importantly price must take out the high of 40 40 73 75. That's the high from March 22nd in the gate. The sell the D point pattern spot ball today. She's just sitting right on his 50 day expansion moving average. We've pretty much been that same spot give or take for the last four trading sessions out there when you're trying to end it because it's actually so close to it. It's not giving us the clearest of signals if any signal though it is more bearish and it is bullish. The case of the NQ the NQ's formed a roadsman to mitigate her top that pattern only gets negated until price close above 13082. If we did that that would then go ahead and kick that A to B equal CD to the upside back in at the give us a price project of 14,003. We don't have that right now. Conditions here are neutral. All of the TAS market breath dials for the four time frames that we monitor for the NQ are all bullish. So it's at 13082 level that is your key resistance level inside the US dollar index as a confirmed by the D point pattern. A price here is consolidating with inside its daily profile a close above the center of that profile. That would be a 102 82 would signal and move up to the 104 40 level. Goldilocks no pattern to speak up other than price pulling back and testing its oscillator and change line. You don't see here that here but you will when we go take a look at the charts of gold during the Trader Zen show. Silver's got to confirm TD9 count top. The only way that that gets negated is a close above Friday's high and that's at 23 36 lights recruit a nice rally right up into resistance. That's the top of that daily profile. That's at 7096 level. You close above that. You're headed higher with 72 74 being the next battle ground. Folks stay tuned for the Trader Zen show. If you'd like to start your Monday please have a magical and a marvelous one. We'll look forward to speaking to you again soon. Take care now.


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby-cheating video and today we're gonna talk about my top four tips for painting for Golden Demon The strict techno man sir that is Vinci V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V style It's mid-December here, and that means Golden Demon is coming up shockingly fast I'm deep in the middle of prep of my various projects and as I'm working on them I thought I would share my top four tips with you For Golden Demon figures now I'm not gonna say this is how to win a Golden Demon because that's stupid What I am gonna say though is These are the best ideas I have to help you put your best foot forward in the contest Let's talk about what they're number one choosing the right figures This is really important and often overlooked a Good figure for Golden Demon is one that's generally open. They can be painted without Too many sub-assemblies or at least with reasonable ones where you have the ability to display Your skill on the miniature So when I say open what I mean is its pose should be one where the figure is well displayed and has a good viewing angle Not every figure is like this Some are rather hunched or shrunken down or in weird positions and just don't really lend themselves to painting Make sure your figure is open has an expressive angle and has a story you can tell we'll talk a little more about that later But also it's best if the figure has a mix of different materials or textures Wherein you can show off your skill at tackling these different items So if it has skin and armor and leather and fur and hair and cloth You get the idea Finding the right figure can often be challenging because not only does it need to be or should it be all of the things I just talked about But most importantly it should also Be one that grabs you aesthetically You're gonna be working on this figure for a very long time As such you better love it You will simply push yourself harder and do better on figures you find aesthetically compelling Than ones that you don't tip number two Use the right tools Now this one might sound kind of silly, but I actually think it's very important When I sat down to paint these models. I'm gonna show you today. I Didn't bust out an old brush. I didn't use things that I'm unfamiliar with I Got out a clean brush crisp sharp new One that I knew was gonna perform well And that's what I'm gonna do the majority of the work on this figure with all of the figures for this unit At the same time I used paints that I know that I've used before Whether we're talking about the actual techniques you apply it with or the tools themselves Make sure they are things you are both familiar with and that you know how they're gonna respond how they're gonna react How to fix things when you encounter the inevitable mistakes and screw-ups and Issues that you will face along the way. It simply happens and The more you know your tools The better you will do having good clean High-quality tools good paints good brushes, etc.  Sure Absolutely if your motes are if you're Jack Kerouac if the first thing you bang out is incredible If you're that naturally gifted why not? But for the rest of us us mortals Don't ever fight your tools So use things that are good that will perform and that importantly you know how they will perform Tip number three tell a story a Warhammer story You have to both always be telling some kind of story some kind of narrative something With your figures, but also it has to be a Warhammer story Live in the IP know the lore know the important things about the miniatures This is often more of a thing in 40k than it is on the age of Sigmar side, but it does matter in both Ultimately one of the things the judges look for above all else is that you understand their world and are telling stories within it That doesn't mean you can't be creative But it does mean you have to work within the established lore So don't just put a bunch of 40k stuff onto your age of Sigmar guys as I am very prone to do and Expect that to do well. That's simply not part of the mortal realms as it's construed Make sure when you're working on something like a space marine that you have those battle honors or chapter colors or I Don't know whatever it is put the things in the right places where they go and belong Live in the IP, but just as importantly tell a story Now this matters more in certain categories than other things like duel and diorama is really all about the story But even with a single figure or a unit or a monster Things like your base and the color scheme that you choose to use will still have a narrative to it You can still tell a story is your figure clean or beat up? Are they roadworn? Are they dusty weathered right? What does the base look like? What environment are they in? How is that reflected on the figure all of those things matter? The judges want to see the stories. You're trying to tell within the Warhammer number four paint clean paint precise This is really important Style doesn't actually matter that much at least broadly construed when you look at the past two golden demons that occur that have occurred both at the US and adepticon as well as the most recent one in the UK There's actually a wide variety of styles on display It's certainly not all just heavy metal plus plus plus plus plus plus plus No, some of them are of course, but there are many different styles on display The important thing about them is that they're consistent and they have a high level of technical skill on display polish and finish Even if it's meant to be something dirty and disgusting a nergal model. That's rotten and rusty consistent even an appropriate application Of that weathering and rusting is what's going to carry the day and make that figure stand apart So when you're painting as you see me doing here working up this small section I am working very carefully and very precisely. I Am trying to be very clean. I am trying to be very accurate very smooth That finish that polish that precision all matters Regardless of the exact style you're trying to work in a high finish a high level of technical skill on display is really important The judges are looking at a lot of figures in a very short amount of time and Golden demon is very different than most other miniature painting competitions in that it values the technical side Of painting much heavier than the other elements. That's not to say those other elements aren't present That's not to say they don't matter. It's just that the technical is by far the heaviest So working carefully Working precisely smoothly getting those blends as crisp and precise as you can all of that really really matters It wouldn't be a tip video if I didn't have a bonus tip. So bonus tip number five This is more about the psychology as I've been talking here in the last couple minutes. I've been showing you a figure. I'm working on This is one model out of many models in a unit and you see me working on just this one small area of his back and I will work the entire model like this carefully precisely But I will also then go back and glaze it and stipple and blend more and more and more and more and That's tip number five When you're painting for golden demon, you are not painting to time. You are painting To a particular goal that goal is a high quality quote unquote perfect technical technically consistent finish What I mean by that Is you can either paint a time. I'm going to paint this figure in one hour 20 hours 30 hours 40 hours Whatever or you can paint to finish. I will paint this until it is as close To perfection as I am capable of Regardless of the hours it takes And my best advice for you is to try your best to go down that second road Which means that's why I'm working on it now in December long in advance three months in advance And I spend 30 40 hours a week painting I'm working on this now because I'm going to need lots of time to continually refine what I'm working on To pay attention to every little detail to make sure that everything is as close to perfect as I can get it And then I have put in the maximum amount of effort into every element of this unit So don't paint to time paint to finish Give yourself the appropriate amount of time to work on that one project Make it something you're truly proud of and it will stand apart from the other Items in the case and in the judge's eyes So there you go. There's my five tips for golden demon I hope these help you out I think there's something that can really give you an opportunity to put your best foot forward And certainly they're the rules that I follow as I'm working on my miniatures In the end things like sticking to a heavy metal style I've never found that to be compelling and when you look at the winners that clearly isn't what matters The things I've listed are as near as I can tell what will separate you from the pack and give you the best chance of bringing home a trophy If you liked this give it a like Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future. If you've got any questions drop those down in the comments below Always happy to answer every question that's asked If you want to take your next step on your miniature hobby journey There's a patreon link down below focused on review and feedback that gives you a chance to join an awesome discord community full of enthusiastic hobbyists As always, I thank you so much for watching this one And we'll see you next time


OK. So let's try to calculate the potential of this concentration cell that we have. So it says a concentration cell consists of two silver, silver one half cells, and half cell A. Electro A dips into a 0.010 molar silver nitrate solution. So remember, silver nitrate nitrates the spectator on it. We just give rhythm. So then it says in half cell B, electro B, which is a silver electrode, right, dips into a 4.0 times 10 to the negative 4th molar silver nitrate solution. What is the cell potential at 298.15 kelvin? So that's 25 degrees Celsius. So we can reduce our Nernst equation. So we're going to have to use the Nernst equation again. So remember, these things flow from concentrated to dilute. So let's write our cell equation. So it's going to look a little strange from the ones that you've been writing before, because you're going to have on the reactant side and on the product side the same thing, the silver plus. So it's going to be AG plus A plus. Remember how we do this for these concentrations, put our semicolon there, and then write our concentration like that. And that goes to, well, AG plus 4.0 times 10 to the negative 4th molar. So how many electrons does silver need to be reduced? Just one. So even though you can't really see it here, remember that potential is silver, plus the one electron goes to the silver electrode. The reason that we don't have those two silver electrodes in here is because it would be on each side of this equation. And what happens if we have something on both sides of the equation? So we cancel it out. So we've got to watch out about that. So it's not going to be shown in the equation necessarily. So we've got to just think, what's the half reaction? And it should be fairly straightforward. We see that that's 1 plus. So we could imagine that only one electron. So let's write that and down. Let me just move that. Is everybody OK with what I just said? So let's write the Nernst equation, because that tells us what the cell potential is. So what about the standard cell potential? So let's think about that. So again, like I mentioned, we have the same thing, oxidizing and reducing each other. Those potentials are going to cancel out. And so it's going to be 0 overall. But let's just put 0.00 volts to keep our significant increase, so we won't think that we have to cut this down. So we've got that. Well, log of Q. Well, what would Q be? Help me out. Thank you. AG plus over AG plus, right? But the way I like to write it is with a little C and with a little D to say concentrated and dilute. That really kind of helps me to keep things in order. So what's on the top there? Dilute. Dilute again. So AG plus D, C. And could we solve for that equation? Have any units? So let's not throw our similarities in there, even though in this case they would cancel. You should be able to solve what the cell potential is now. I want to do the equation so we can always take this to 2M for this, because these are oftentimes very small numbers. So something like if we only had 1, we would get a 0.0 and that would be 0.1. So any other questions on this one? So it's the same thing. It's almost even easy. It just looks a little more confusing. So don't let it scare you.


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