Hi everyone, I'm Karen Bricker from Mountain View. I'm the Youth Services Manager, so I have the absolute joy of overseeing children's and teen. And then I also oversee outreach. And we are one of the libraries that still has a bookmobile. We have a bookmobile because Google bought us one. And we have a Google bookmobile because many years ago, I started taking the bookmobile to corporate sites. So in addition to going to senior centers and doing childcare centers and story times, we don't go to neighborhoods anymore, but we also go to corporate sites. And let me tell you, the Googlers are great consumers of tangible library materials, not just virtual ones. So I wanna tell you about Alligator Zone. And Alligator Zone is a different approach to working with the startups. So Alligator Zone is called a social impact venture. It is a venture of Silicon Glades, which is Silicon Valley and the Everglades in Florida. And what is Alligator Zone? It's a place where kids meet cool startups. Families have a chance to meet entrepreneurs and to be among the first to hear their innovative ideas. Oops, we're not even in, sorry. Okay, Alligator Zone. So Alligator Zone is a place where, again, as I said, kids meet cool startups. Families have a chance to meet entrepreneurs and be among the first to hear their innovative ideas. Their questions and suggestions can help entrepreneurs steer their projects successfully across the Alligator Zone, avoiding the issues that can sink startups. That's the whole idea of it. So kids and families get to participate in innovation in a unique and exciting way, and they really, really enjoy doing it. So how did this start? I didn't go beating the bushes for startups as Cheryl did. Instead, I got a phone call from a man who lives in Tampa, Florida. His name is Ramesh Sambasavan. You can see him, okay. And that's Ramesh up there. And he had actually done, he's an entrepreneur himself, and he had done, was working here in Silicon Valley as well as in Florida. And he has a couple of young kids, and one day they were in Miami. He was there on business, and it was raining really hard, and they were in a hotel room. And the kids were watching Shark Tank. And Ramesh looked at his kids, really engaged with this, and he thought, what if I took my knowledge of startups and entrepreneurship and brought it to a young audience? Because kids are really excited about new things. They have lots of questions, and validating those questions through this kind of program would be a lot of fun. And so that's where the kernel of Alligator Zone started. And actually it didn't start on the West Coast in Mountain View. It started in Sunnyvale with Liz Hickock. I don't know if there's anybody here from Sunnyvale. Okay, but I wanna give you credit, because Liz was the first program of Alligator Zone in Silicon Valley, was at Sunnyvale, and Mountain View was the second. So Ramesh called me up, and he said, I'm here to do a program in Sunnyvale. If you have any time, I'd like to meet you. And I was working on a Saturday, and I said, if you can get here at eight o'clock, we can sit down and talk. Do you ever have the experience where you meet somebody and they are so compelling, so interesting, so exciting, and they communicate their vision so clearly that you absolutely want to work with them? That's the way I felt about Ramesh. He is an energetic, exciting person who has this dream and is trying to spread it widely. And we're really happy to be part of it. So our first Alligator Zone was at Mountain View in November of 2014. So Ramesh has been doing this for about 15 months. And at first, the first couple of programs that we did, he came out from Florida. He had other business meetings too, but he was with us at the time that he was doing the programs. And the first one we had two presenters, that's his model, is to have two different entrepreneurs. And we had about 45 kids, eight and up, teens and parents. So now Alligator Zone is in 12 libraries in eight cities in three states. So we have Florida, California, and Pennsylvania. And libraries hold the programs anywhere from two to 12 times a year. Now what Ramesh does is he has the connections with the entrepreneurs. So he's making all of the contacts with the entrepreneurs. And what we do is provide the space. I do the flyers and the marketing for the program and we register, although he also does his own registration, so we put them together. And so it really takes, I would say, for each program I'm putting in at first maybe 10 hours, now probably five hours, and I'm in the room. And when Ramesh had talked about how difficult it was to come out all the time for as the program was growing, I said I'm happy to facilitate it. So I started facilitating it for us. So here is a slide. Renan Lachman is the founder of Play World. And Play World is the Netflix motto for Legos.  They, depending on your subscription, they send you one kit and when you're done with it, you return it and they send you another one.  And he thought, what if you had this kind of churning of the toys, the kids would be really interested in it, you wouldn't have all the stuff to clean up. And what was interesting was when he presented, of course the kids were fascinated by it and they asked questions like, what if you substitute a non-real Lego piece? Well, what we get into trouble, we get a fine like you do at the library. What if you don't return all the pieces? And they are, they know whether the pieces are there. They think it's more trouble to assess a fine on someone than to simply forgive it. So it's interesting when you think about libraries and how much effort we go to when somebody has something or a piece of something that has not been returned and how much staff time goes into doing that. So I thought his model was very, very interesting. They have industrial washing machines, they put everything in bags. The kids had lots and lots of good questions about play and it was a very successful presentation. So this one is Dr. Alistair Hood and play of course had lots of appeal for kids. I wasn't sure that this one would have as much appeal. What it is is an app that allows you if you are a business that has multiple sites to be able to see what your fuel consumption is, your water consumption, your natural gas consumption, to be able to monitor your use of energy and see where you need to put your efforts to be more conservation minded. But the kids were fascinated by the metrics of it, how it worked, asked lots of questions. There has never been a presentation whether it was really kid friendly or not particularly of kid interest that the kids have not had questions. We've had to cut off the questions because they've been so interested in them. Then this is Panteligent and this is Umberto Evans and Panteligent is an app that helps you cook. So for people who don't feel comfortable with cooking, they have the pan, they have the app and they cook salmon that night and that was a big hit of course. It provides, the app provides recipes again. So there's a wide variety of the startups that have come to present at Mountain View. And the last one I wanna show you is Oddvisor and that's Mike Martin with Oddvisor. So this is advice in three minutes from experts. So you decide what the topic is that you wanna learn about and you get advice in three minutes through this app. And so the kids here were thinking, well, what would I need advice about? And they asked Mike Martin, would you ever do anything about bullying? That's an issue with us or doing homework or they had other ideas that they would like and Mike was very receptive to that and was interested in perhaps expanding Oddvisor into some other areas. So that came out through the kids' comments as well. So the other thing that we do is that we do an evaluation. And the evaluations have been very positive. The parents have been very positive about it. They have been positive for themselves because some of them are entrepreneurs or hope to be entrepreneurs and they've been very positive about the effect on their kids. And it's been fun for them to see how engaged the kids are and how many good questions.  Some of the adult questions maybe aren't as good as the ones the kids ask, but the kids have been wonderful about doing that. So we are gonna be doing a program on October 17th and it's gonna feature I think two very kid-friendly startups. One is Titanium Falcon and it is a gaming ring. So it's wearable controller for gaming. And the other one is going to be Dash Robotics. And so it is something that you build your own robot. You program your robot, but you play with it and the robot can evolve. So again, what we do as a library is the marketing, the space, we may serve as host and then we do that evaluation form and the tabulation. But it's, again, as I said, very expensive for Ramesh to fly out for all the programs and he's a problem solver. So he's looking for another way to handle this and what he's come up with is a student ambassador program. So through video conferencing and questionnaires and time spent with teens who expressed interest and their parents, so they're part of it too, Ramesh is preparing teens to do things like host the program. He's always had kids read the introduction that he had written, but they will host the program. They will take video, they will do video interviews of the presenters afterwards. They will take photos during the program and they will write blog posts about it. And he's tried this out at Sunnyvale and then at the Rinconato Library in Palo Alto is the latest one and will be the third one that gets to experience this. I love the idea of empowering students to take these kinds of responsibilities on. And so I think it's gonna save him time and money in coming out to California to other states, but I think it'll be really wonderful for the kids and the families too. So thank you very much.


What's the word, y'all? We got ourselves a series, ladies and gentlemen. After the Boston Celtics won game four, I came to this channel and I said impressive win, but I'm not talking about the series no more until the Celtics take at least two games or to Miami, he wrapped it up. And here we are going to a game six, going back to Miami, where he fans are feeling a little bit of pressure as they should. They should feel pressured, but they still get two chances to win one game. So we don't know exactly what's gonna happen, but the Boston Celtics are two games away from pulling off the biggest comeback in NBA playoff history, but in the same token, the Miami Heat are one game away from being in the final. So again, I don't know how it was gonna go, but I'm excited that we're getting the series because in the Western Conference though, we got four real good bangers between the Lakers versus Nuggets. It was still just four games. And right now with the Boston Celtics when they're playing, they're trying to extend this thing. Jayla Brown said, don't let us get one. And then they got one. He said, don't let us get another. And then they got another. There have been teams in the history that have done this, right? That have been down 0-3 and then made the run to get to six or made the run to even get to seven, but nobody in NBA history have won that seventh game after being down 0-3. It's happening baseball. It's happening hockey, but it has not happened in the NBA. And I remember even before this game, I was listening to a bunch of podcasts that I respect and they were saying like, hey, if there's any team to pull off the biggest comeback in playoff history, it is this one and I understood it. Because again, I try to be as candid with y'all as possible. But before December started, I picked the Boston Celts to win. Not because I thought that the Miami Heat weren't good because obviously they've been showing through the first two rounds that they are a hell of a team, even though they ended up in the play-in and lost the first play-in game. They showed us a would beat in Milwaukee and then beaten up on the New York Knicks that this is a real legitimate team. So I didn't pick against the Miami Heat thinking that they were gonna be weak, but it was more, the Boston Celtics have the recipe to win a series like this. The first three games, they used none of that recipe. None of it. Through the regular season, the Boston Celts were top three and totaled three point makes and they were top seven when it came to percentage. This is a high value, high percentage three point shooting team. And when I made my original prediction, I'm coming off the idea that in that Miami Heat versus New York Knicks series, though the Heat again pounded their chest in, they shot 29% from three that series. I know Emma Walkie was killing it in that series, but like, they're coming off a series where they did not hit a ton of their threes and the Boston Celts as though they hadn't impressed me and they're serious against Atlanta or they didn't impress me and they're serious against the Philadelphia 76ers. I just kinda look at the volume of three point shooting and what the Boston Celts could have been and said, hey, that's the winner of the series. Again, I'm one win away from Miami Heat from being wrong and two wins away for the Boston Celts of being right. But again, I don't come here thinking right or wrong when I'm making my predictions because it's basketball at the end of the day. I think it's actually more fun when I'm wrong because that means the unexpected has happened. Either way, they mentioned on the broadcast that the Boston Celts of so far in this playoff run are undefeated when their team hits 15 threes. Makes sense. Again, we're talking about Missoula ball and Missoula ball is highly analytical. It was like, we're gonna shoot a lot of three point shots. We're gonna get to the basket sometimes, but more than likely, we're gonna live and die by the three pointer. And that's one of the reasons why they wanted the best offensive basketball because three is greater than two and they got a decent amount of elite level shooters. You saw that specifically in the first quarter. I mean, well, you saw it throughout the entire game, but the first quarter is where the momentum started. And I mean, the game was over from the very beginning. Like, I did always feel like the Miami Heat were good for a really good run because the Boston Celts do have a history of getting up by 10 to 15 points and immediately not being able to know how to shoot the ball. And when they don't shoot the ball, then they don't know how to get to the basket or they don't know how to take the midi. But today, again, the shots are falling. But I did think the Miami Heat was gonna go on a nice little run, but they didn't and we're gonna talk about that after we talked about that first quarter because yeah, it was something, man. The TD Garden is rocking and every once in a while. And I understand Jason Tatum has been all NBA first team two times in his young career already. Like the league has determined that Jason Tatum is one of the best at basketball. He's been a top two player at his position according to the voters for a few years now. Again, that has to do a lot with some injuries here, but I'm just saying that the resident may say that Jason Tatum is him, even though he's had time specifically in this series where he couldn't score in the fourth quarter or he has some turnovers where he's traveling, yada, yada, yada. But there's times where you see him come out in the first quarter and you're like, oh my God, this man Jason, I understand all of the hype because it is real and this is what you got today. Now it didn't stand for the entirety of the game but they didn't need it to, but in that first quarter I think he was monumental in setting the tempo and the idea behind the game. He was getting to the basket, he was hitting shots and there was a ton of energy. When I watched this game and there was one specific moment where I was like, okay, the boss's cells look like they're gonna wrap this up. When we're talking first quarter, it was a play where Al Wolfer was on the glass like he was Dennis Robin. And I'm like, oh, he's putting in that type of effort. Oh, Marcus Smart just hit two threes in the first quarter. Yeah, this might be a quick win for the Miami Heat and it ended up being so much so the air exposure didn't start thinking towards game six and didn't even play Bama, Jimmy Butler in the fourth quarter. So Tatum had an amazing fourth quarter and that's what's gonna be talked about a ton because he had to be done. He's talking to the crowd, yada, yada, yada, but we cannot look past where Derrick White also did simultaneously in that first quarter, also hitting, I think, three threes in the first alone. He's just been really good and it's interesting because, you know, when we get to playoff basketball, a lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it is picking matchups and finding mismatches that empower your best players to play their best ball. And in this series so far, we've seen a lot of Jimmy Butler going at Derrick White and it's not saying that Derrick White is a bad defender because Derrick White made an all defensive team this season but out of the starting five of this team, out of the collection of players, he might be the weakest link as far as when it comes to the size and everything. Like, no, I know Marcus Smart and him are very similar in height, but he is built differently. Marcus Smart built like a, like a firehunter. So Jimmy Butler was going to him. If you look at the percentages of Jimmy Butler when he's guarded by Derrick White, they're pretty damn good. So to see him come out and again continue to shoot so well, it's just like none of, none of, none of Fies? He completely eliminates a lot of the hunting of him because he's getting it back 10 times 10. Also in that first quarter, they were turning the Miami Heat over like no other. I don't know how many they ended up with, but it was like clockwork, boom, boom, boom, boom. How long it gets to inserting to the starting lineup? And like, yeah, never played basketball before. I mean, he had been really good previously coming off the bench. I guess he just can't start. He's just a super sixth man because he put him in the lineup, then he struggles. They can go to comes around and this is where we get to see Jalen Brown pretty much his best quarter of the series. I mean, for the first couple of games, even the one that they won, it felt like he was, his powers they got taken away from him on some space jam type stuff because he was doing things that he normally don't do. And Regimental was talking about in the call how he thinks that Jalen Brown's hand has been messed with him. That's how he's shooting such poor percentages from the free throw line, like his jump shootings at an all time low. I think he was shooting like 20% on jump shots, which is mind blowing really think about it. But that quarter was like, okay, that's the Jalen Brown that made an all in the B18. And then you get around to the second half. All you have to do if you're the boss of Celsius is maintain some energy, play the defense and you win the game and that's exactly what they did. On the other side, man, I was pretty disappointed in the performance we got from Jimmy Butler. There's times, and again, I've been watching Jimmy for a long time since he was drafted here in Chicago and I got to see his progression as a player. There's times where Jimmy Butler basically decides that he doesn't want to shoot the basket. And it's mind blowing to me considering the stakes in this game that he ended up with, I think 10 shot attempts on the entire game.  Like one of the best features for Jimmy Butler is that he draws a ton of fouls. Whether you like it or not, it's a feature of his game and he's damn good at it. This is one of those games where he was looking for that more than he probably should have been looking for a pump fake, pump fake, pump fake. Oh, they not biting on it no more. All right, let me give it off to somebody else. Instead of the aggression that we've seen throughout this playoff run for him, this was probably his weakest game of the playoffs completely so far. He went to the podium after the game and he pretty much guaranteed a game six wins. So I'm guessing that means that he's gonna come out with the aggression that we've seen from him. But this is a game that, especially with Gabe Vincenbien that was a huge blow by the way. I know people are sliding on the rug. Gabe Vincenbien was after 17 points per game on 58% shooting, 50% from three this series. Like Gabe Vincenbien is one of them boys. He's been one of the best players for the Miami Heat. So with him being out, of course, Hiro still being out. We need our two best players to be that and you didn't get that from Jimmy or Bam today. We mentioned how the bosses cells are undefeated when they hit 15-3, so they did hit 16. The Miami Heat are also undefeated when Bam Manabayo scores 20 plus points. And today it was an ugly one, man, for sure. A lot more turnovers do you want from Bam Manabayo. And again, he wasn't scoring at the same rate that he had been in some of those previous wins. So when your top two players are not performing to their capabilities and you're also under man, it's just gonna be really, really hard to win those games. And maybe the crazier thing is they shot the three point ball pretty solidly. The value was probably lower than what it normally would be. And again, that's some of that's because Gabe Vincenbien is not there to help out every like he opens the game up so much. Duncan Robson had a good game which is something that you're maybe excited about going into game six that maybe he gets a little bit longer of a leash to get more minutes and stuff. But this is a really rough watch if you're a Miami Heat fan. As a new true fan in all of this, I'm excited either way because I want people to continue to recognize that no matter what happens for the rest of the series, you will be seeing history. If the boss itself just come back from down, no three. Well, that's the first team in history to ever do that in the NBA. If the Miami Heat close out this series, then they're one of the few teams to be in eight seed and make it to the finals. I know last video I mentioned the Knicks and I forgot or didn't recognize it. Knicks actually won the conference finals and ended up in the finals so it's just a part of history that's past my brain because I was barely born back then. But they could be one of the few teams as an eight seed to make it to the finals. So as a new true fan, this is just good because at this point, I mean, if the Miami Heat have one game four, we basically would have four to six, seven games left of basketball for the year and I don't want that. I feel like it was just yesterday. I was at the Warriors ring ceremony, taking it all in that I'm here for part of history and the season is close to over. So I'm taking all games. Even if it is a game like this that maybe wasn't entertaining to watch, if you didn't watch it second half at all this game, you ain't miss a single thing. You know what I'm saying? More basketball is better than no basketball. So yeah, I'm excited to see the next game in a few nights. Couple videos ago, I was telling y'all that we did an icy collaboration with Enjoy Basketball. And I just want to give my thanks to y'all because we sewed out in like five hours, which is ridiculous. Every time we do a merge drop, I'm always so appreciative and surprised at the amount of support y'all really show. I mean, we had hundreds of people on the site before it even went live. Just y'all just waiting in line so you could be one of the first people to get something. So I appreciate you, man. And I know I got a lot of tweets, a lot of DMs on Instagram about people missing the drop and I apologize for that, especially when you come to like a deal where you're collaborating with a different brand. It's not always in your hands the amount of quality that you get or quantity that you get. But it does show us for whoever we collaborate with next, like, hey, we had this amount of units and we sewed out in five hours, so less up that times 20% or whatever. So more people, you know, could get the drop. So again, I just want to thank y'all for all the support. The link is in the description so you can enjoy Basketball Newsletter. We dropped Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Right now we're on a roll to 50,000 newsletter readers, which is such a crazy number to say aloud. 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He said they engraving hope all is well I know we like to blame hardball when the offensive coordinator is doing bad saying let's look at the root of the problem point it back at hardball, but Hardball has also had a lot of OC's and DC's under him and they have went on to become head coaches Yeah, I understand he's made some bad decisions this year like why put Tyson Williams in the doghouse all year long doesn't make any sense To but I don't think it's fair to point the finger back at hardball when we say fire Greg Roman when hardball has had plenty of success With other OC's like Gary Kubiak. I Think for the most part hardball lets his coordinators do their job So how can we say hardball is the reason for the offense being bad? That's a really good question I love this question and I appreciate this question the answer to this question for me is because We're always saying the same thing We're always saying all this offensive coordinator is bad all this offensive coordinator stale Oh, this offensive coordinator. He ain't doing nothing. Oh, this offensive coordinator ain't no good We have said that time and time and time and time and time again Who hires those offensive coordinators nine times out of ten? except the that that tenth time when When when when Bishadi and all them stepped in when the front office stepped in to hire Gary Kubiak Who hired all those guys? hardball hardball brought him in and That that's been the thing. It just for me with the offensive coordinators. I Just feel like he brings in somebody that that that's not gonna go on to do bigger and better things He usually brings in guys that have already peaked that have already had their ultimate level of success and that's it Before the Ravens night like I said nine times out of ten before the Ravens so it's just That's why it goes back to hardball because he does have Accountability in the grand scheme of things Because he's the leader in my opinion. That's like a kid. That's always acting up man This kid is so bad in school. Why is this kid always acting up over in this class? He acts up in that class. He acts up in that class. He acts up Who's the parents? What are the parents doing do the parents not have control over their kid? What are these parents doing and what are these parents teaching their kid because they have the ultimate responsibility over their child? It's the same way with hardball in the offensive court. Yes, he lets his coordinators coordinate But sometimes that can be a problem If you see think if you just letting somebody do something like the parent in the kid for example If the parent just continues to let the kid act up How responsible is that parent really being if hardball just lets his offensive coordinators act up? How responsible is hardball really being next question came from a boy? Enonic who ain't seen a question from a guy Enonic in a while man. Appreciate he said good afternoon. Oh I hope all the team keep it cleaner doing well staying Raven strong and C 19 free I've been quiet this season but always watch the viz just watch the viz on the Ravens need to make some serious changes And I'll have to admit this has been one of the most frustrating seasons. I've endured as a Ravens fan in a long time Every season we lose two to three games due to coaching decisions and overthinking Hobbes vs. Andy Reed Roman vs. Roman analytics etc And in a season wrought with COVID and the injury bug those losses have more than tripled We are wasting NFL careers here if this were a corporation I'd say fans comments are focusing on the need for changes made by their directors Aka the head coach offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator and not changes initiated by the AVP EDC the GM or the CEO aka the company owner Steve Boshati I'm not gonna say I know or understand mr. Boshati's management style or his corporate goals But he has got to be aware of the product on the field in my mind Until he makes or calls for the changes necessary. I'm not sure the serious changes you referred to in the video We'll ever take place. What do you think? Can't wait to see you get the 50k. I appreciate that. We are Little less than a thousand away. That's gonna be weird seeing that but No rush whenever it happens. It happens.  Thank you Yeah, I do think any like serious serious changes would have to come from the top I know in that video a lot of people they were like, oh, well, you want to get rid of hardball, man and I Never once in the video said fireball not one time Now one time did I ever say fireball? But I did say that if something were to happen a hardball, which I don't expect But if something were to happen a hardball, I do think and believe the Ravens would be just fine a lot of Ravens fans their concern is If some were to happen a hardball, which again, we know it's not But if some were to happen a hardball, who would you replace him with? Who would you replace John hardball with that? That is the Million-dollar question from so many Ravens fans. Who would you replace them with? That's what I see everybody say But and they he's a Super Bowl champion. He's a leader again great qualities amazing qualities Brings the team together they fight for him great qualities Billik Ryan Billik He was a leader brought the team together Also a Super Bowl winner Super Bowl Super Bowl head coach for the Ravens And what they do they fired them they got rid of them and what did they do? They replaced him with a special teams coach. Yeah, he coached defensive backs before too They replace him with a special teams coach They act they wanted to hire Jason Garrett They wanted to they wanted to hire Jason Garrett But that didn't happen John hardball they replaced him with a special teams coach who wasn't even their first choice John hardball wasn't even the Ravens first choice So when people trip out about oh man, who would replace hardball Ravens would find somebody They will find somebody this would be a very attractive job people if they and we understand if hardball ever got fired We know he won't at least this year, but if he ever got fired We know he would have a job like that. We all we already know that can we seen other head coaches who have accomplished less Get get jobs like that. So we know hardball would have a job. We'd be happy for him if he got a job too but Ravens would not all what Ravens would not just crumble because hardball was going they wouldn't they wouldn't and Like I said in the video about the changes It would be very hard like like it will be so hard for a head coach to come here and just fail It will be so like again you I was just explaining to somebody in the comment section the other day You got Lamar you got JK you got Gus you got Hollywood you got Bateman You got Mark Andrews you got Duvenay you got crochet you got Boykin you got uh, what's we got Zyla We'll see what happens with bozeman. You got McCurry. You got Ben Cleveland. You got Ronnie Stanley Hopefully coming back healthy. You got a possible Jawan James somebody mentioned and send me a DM today They're like oh engraving I was listening to the video and you mentioned all these people who a possible new head coach could have And you forgot about Brandon Knight I'm like, oh man Yeah, Brandon Knight because the Ravens still have his rights the one that they traded I mean not traded they signed off the Cowboys practice squad, but he found out that he was gonna be a Raven He was like no, I'm straight. I'm a our attire But I'm not he did say he got to work on like his mental health and stuff. So shout out to him, but You got like so many nice core players Then on defense you got an Adafi away. You got a Bowser. You got a Mada BK You got a Marlon Humphrey. You got a Marcus Peters who even though I think they'll restructure his contractor Did some I don't think he's gonna come back on whatever contract. He's on but you got a Marcus Peters You got a Brandon Stevens who's been getting more and more comfortable as a safety You got Chuck Clark who had the game of his life last week Now that'd be nice if we get a lot more of those but we know it's tough NFL is tough and it's tough to play defense But anyway, you you the if they if they did get a new head coach He would have such a nice core of young players That it would be very hard For him to not have success And yeah, he would implement his own scheme So Ravens will need to change some things.  They need to change some things And like I said, even if and I don't expect them to fire hardball, but Even with it's a possibility that they could change it with hardball It would just take a lot of just willingness To to change what they've been doing their style That old school philosophy let it go It's time to up this thing man It's time to up the passing game and it just because you really up the passing game. It doesn't mean that you forget about the running game Doesn't mean that at all But it's time for Ravens to really get with the times They have to But yes for for that to happen. I truly believe the call would have to come from upstairs It would have to come from upstairs To where they were like a look We know that this been an injury riddled season. We get it But again, that's an I think that's another thing that a lot of people had a a lot of misconceptions on with that video about the changes They thought that we were speaking about changes Just because of how this year has been no my friends No That video was far beyond just about this year It's about the entire Ravens philosophy moving forward And especially on offense like 85% on offense Defense. Yeah, y'all have 15% I mean, it should be more but Biggest thing is offense because you have this dynamic play in Lamar. You have these crazy talented wire You got some really talented some good talent at wire receiver a good mix of a lot of things Bateman got good speed but excellent route runner Hollywood good route runner good speed. That's deep threat Then you got James crochet not the fastest But he he catches everything that gets thrown to him And even when it looks like he ain't about to catch it if it looked like he about to drop it He'll still catch it You got Devin DuVernay who was just like this gadget just a straight up weapon You got mark Andrew. What else I need to say about mark. I don't even need to say nothing You got mark andrews You got jk dobbins an excellent runner who has excellent balance He has excellent balance good speed and underrated power You have Gus Edwards who has underrated speed especially for his size like you think oh, this is this a big fella He ain't gonna be moving like that wrong You got Gus Edwards. He'll run somebody over there But you got like these these weapons these weapons But how will they be utilized? Will this current staff Will they maximize these weapons will they maximize just the usage of these weapons? How is the decision making gonna be because we know every head coach sometimes they're gonna make some bad decision It happens But how willing or unwilling will this staff be To adjusting to making changes to really maximize this offer. That's my concern It's not about this year. This year is included, but it's not just about this year It's just about the recent history period the whole tenor period Because again 2008 to 2012 lovely lovely Amazing. Oh my goodness. We just went in went in went in went in all we do is win win win no matter what But and I and I and I know I would always see this argument. Oh, man after Ray Lewis and airy left John Horbaugh ain't do nothing I always see that argument and I would think Hmm, but wait Wait a minute Hold up Is that Because after they did leave like when they were here Ravens like they They were doing that thing They were doing their thing And after they left It's like everything like came to a halt Everything stopped. It was such a a seismic shift In the Ravens organization. It was such a huge change and it was like whoa this Whoa, what's what's what's going on here? What what what happened? It felt like we got blipped. I was like, whoa Where are we? Whoa eight and eight. Whoa. What was eight and eight? What's that gross? Uh, but then um Then after that yeah 2014 They got to the playoff. They got to win in the playoffs 2014. That was cool But after that that was it all up until what last year, right? Yeah, last year was the first win and the playoffs had success 2019 I had some end of the year success in 2018 um This year's a little shaky, but it's just But the the problems the the problems that like we talked about earlier in the video It's been those consistent problems man offensive coordinator offensive coordinator offensive coordinator Offensive coordinator. Oh man. What's wrong with the offense? What's wrong with the offense and we keep bringing in new guys at offensive coordinator Keep changing guys at offensive coordinator keep the new guys offensive coordinator But Who's been in control of bringing these guys in? So this is why I just say like changes need to be made Significant changes need to be made. But yes, it's gonna have to be from upstairs the way what it seems unless unless like Harbaugh as the the leader of the team unless he just has this huge change All of a sudden and he's just willing like, you know what? I'm not gonna hire Somebody who has peaked. I'm not gonna bring in somebody that I work with before Under Andy Reid on the Eagles. I'm not gonna bring in one of my boys Even though, you know, hashtag good hardball even put this boys on and I respect it But it's not what's best for business I would love to see hardball do what's best for business When bringing people on and if he can't do what's best for business Then bishadi and edc They'll have to do it next question came from my guy Brandon. He said angry. I just wanted to know what you think about the draft I got a feeling edc is gonna make some magic in the draft. Look at all the fourth round picks. We have We'll see we'll see Um, we gotta just hope that uh with all the fourth and fifth and whatever picks we have that they make the team But anyway, he said, uh, we're notorious for drafting backwards in the first round But I think we have the ammunition to trade up and grab a game-changing player A lot of mock drafts have us taking the linebacker, but I would rather have a monster offensive lineman That's all for me. Hope you're in a fan or good Uh, appreciate it. Uh, as far as the draft, um It's it's very important. Uh, I I right now the way that things are going I don't expect Lamar to sign a contract this off season Um, so it's important. I mean, it's always important, but it's very important that Eric Dacosta really hits, uh on this draft um, because it's With the drafts It hasn't always been, um, the best Uh, like this. Okay, this draft. Let's look at this draft for example Bateman, Adolfi away being Cleveland Brandon Stevens. Okay all impact players, uh, tylen Wallace He's been on the field a little bit more, but Understand with with sammy walkins with hollywood with rashaab bateman Mark andrews and this raven scheme I didn't never expected him to go off this season Didn't expect him to go off didn't expect him to be a major contributor or anything like that He's been on special teams and when he's got in he's done. He said oh approach a duvin a2 so It wasn't expected that he would have some major contribution but then Sean wade we know what happened with that uh, dylan haze I think early on I think he was just a stash, but then they brought him back with any guy hurt again So injury so and then ben mason and we know what happened with that just in case y'all forgot anybody forgot um Sean wade he was traded to the patriots because the ravens felt like they had too many corners and at the time Okay, they did have a lot of corners, but I said I hated the trade because our secondary depth always gets tested Always gets tested, but is what it is uh, and then ben mason They cut they cut ben mason In hopes to resign him to the practice squad.  I've been a patriots fan on my life and he went there right now. Um, I don't know what Sean wade is doing. I don't know what ben mason is doing Uh, but it's just those are how it worked out with those guys. So there's this draft right here. I mean this year um early on It was pretty good It has some impactful players because that's what you look for From a draft the the players that are going to make an impact on your team going to help out your team The two first round draft picks for sure, especially a dot for your way Um, now last year patrick queen. Okay jk dobbins madda bk We've been hoping for a little bit more. Um, but the devon duvenay malik harrison He hasn't really had a big impact. Tyre philips has had a big impact But I don't think it's been the the most positive impact got some improvements that he can make So it's been a bit rough for him over these past two years Ben bretterson, he got traded to the giants Broderick washington.  He's been active inactive active inactivists Lot of inconsistencies geno stone.  Yes Jk dobbins. Yes madda bk. Yeah devon duvenay. Yes malik harrison. No tyre philips Yes, but not in the best way, but yes Ben bretterson, not at all. He got traded broderick washington now a little bit Uh pro she kind of geno stone Uh a little bit So this draft you getting you getting some impact. Um, now you go to 2019 hollywood impact fergusson, no Boykin No, not really Uh justice hill No, uh, ben powers. Yeah a little bit. Even marshal. No, daily mac. No trace. McSawley a little bit But again trace.  McSawley. So that's kind of a uh, whatever about trace But my point is that uh We we need to see impact players uh from the draft We need to see impact players from the draft and it seems as if every year Eric the costa gets a little better A little better And I mean you look at that and I hate going back here man because it's like it's not that it's not fair But it's almost like not fair because ozzy nuisance last draft in 2018 my goodness man What were you thinking ozzy in a good way? What were you thinking? Like All right. Hayden Hurst Who for the Ravens he was a bot but we understand injury happened and mark andrews was like oh my chance. Okay. I'm taking it Now we 56 million later Broken Ravens receiving records later. Anyway Hayden Hurst Lamar Jackson. Well, he's kind of good Orlando brown jr. Mark andrews anthony avan kenny young He was all right. I like Kenny young, but Ravens were like, no, we like Marcus Peters better now Okay, I didn't edit that Jalil Scott Jordan.  Well, he did they were like, no, you're out of here. Um, Bradley bow Bradley Bowman was a six round pick. I didn't know that I did not realize Bradley Bowman was a six round pick and so many times when I go back to the 2018 draft I forget that Bradley Bowman was in that draft. I forget that all the time. Wow, that's crazy, man And Zach silo a lot of Ravens fans like Zach silo But it just didn't work out. He went over he bought for the dolphins and I think he's still on the dolphins But yeah, just didn't work out.  Oh, you talk about impact players in depth Oh, yeah, those those first five picks and then it's like it was top heavy And bottom heavy and in the middle it was like Because the top Hayden Hurst Lamar Jackson Lando Brown Mark Andrews Anthony Avery Then the bottom the Sean Elliott Bradley Bowman was Zach silo. Well impact players in the league not necessarily one of Ravens for Zach silo, but In the middle, it was Kenny young Jalil Scott Jordan Leslie So he ain't smashed the draft all the way through but where he killed the director. No, he absolutely murdered him He absolutely where he got it, right? Oh, he got it way, right all the way, right? So, um back to my guys question my guy Brandon question about the draft Yeah, it's about impact players You you got to get impact players in this draft It's important. You got Lamar's contract coming up You got players that are going to be leaving via free agency via cap casualty via all that so you got to get this name


Also then be on the trial balance. Let's check and see if it is back on the trial balance. There's the 20. We're out of bounds by 20. We see net income went down by the 20. Now we're gonna record the other side, the checking account. That's of course our first account on the trial balance and also the first account on the general ledger. We'll scroll down to that first account. We are in cell A in 19, A in 19, A in 19. Selecting equals and pointing to that $20 bringing the balance down from 99, 17 to 98, 997. So this is gonna be our new balance. We basically made an adjustment. That 98, 997 here. Also we are in balance there and that 98 is scrolling back up, scrolling back up. That 98, 997 then is our new balance that we have adjusted due to the bank reconciliation process. So if we go back to our bank reconciliation we can see what we have there. We're gonna scroll all the way back keeping in mind that 98, 997. Scrolling all the way back to the bank reconciliation taking a scroll to the right, taking a scroll to the right till we find the bank reconciliation. Here's the January one. We want the February one. So we're all the way back over in cells or columns. E-M through something like F-B. And if we go back over just a little bit we see that here was our adjustment. We started at this 99, 116 which was right there. And then we made these two adjustments saying this is what we need to do to get to our ending balance of 98, 996. We have now done that. We've made those adjustments. We've decreased the checking account. So really we're actually here now. This is our new balance that is actually our balance. So note that this portion is now somewhat obsolete. It's no longer valid because our balance as of the end of the month is now this amount. It is the ending balance. And that means that the bank reconciliation as it is in something like QuickBooks is really just this half of it because we made the adjustments we need to make. Therefore we have the bank balance here. We have the outstanding items are just gonna be the outstanding checks and deposits. And that will give us our adjusted balance. And if we examine that one more time the blue accounts remember are that beginning balance. And then we tick and tide everything out. So all of these I'm gonna make these green. I'm gonna highlight these because we found a home for those. Make those green. All of the items here, the 14 and the 24 we marked off we tick and tide them out. We said those are we found all those and therefore they're good. And that means that if that's the case if we found all those then the ending balance has to be the same. So we're saying here's the beginning balance and we're tying it out to these two items which are the beginning balance and blue these two items in green then has to end at the ending balance of the 99 to 296. The only difference are those amounts on our books that we wrote in February that aren't on the bank statement. And of course those we expect to clear in the next month those are the reconciling items those are the outstanding checks and outstanding deposits.


Hi, this is Jack Luften and this morning I'm having a conversation with Donald Schwartz, this new CEO of American Revers. How are you doing? Hi, Jack. Thank you for having me this morning. I'd like, there's been quite a bit of activity in your company stock in the last few days. Can you tell us what positive things are going on? Sure. So my arrival really coincides with the Americanization of the company. The Hallow Creek Project, which is our flagship project in Albany and Platt County, Wyoming, really has been advanced here over the course of the last year. And myself and the new CEO, or new CFO, Jose Rico, we've both been in our seats for a little over a month. And part of the last month, we've also been looking at a new prospect called Beaver Creek. It's north of Hallow Creek, the flagship project I just mentioned, near Buffalo, Wyoming to the north. And we've had some very positive high-grade assay results up to 13.9 TREO at Beaver Creek that we announced earlier this week. And so right now we have a lot of momentum and it's a great time to chat with yourself. These samples are grab samples. You haven't done any drilling yet, have you? That's correct. So right now the work that we've done is primarily just the grab samples, the XRF machine out kind of scouting how long, you know, a long strike. We think this deposit may be.  So we've got folks scheduled to be back up there and start working on that sort of before winter hits. What is your plan? What's your business operating plan? What's your target? When do you think you might be able to, what are you going to get a, let's say, a jerk report done? And when do you, when might you produce some material? So the, the jerk resource report at Hallick Creek was published this past spring.  The, the Beaver Creek, I think we'll have a jerk exploration target sometime this fall with the idea of exploration both at Hallick Creek and at Beaver Creek for additional resources coming. We are starting our drilling program, actually have started it this week at Hallick Creek. So we are doing right around 23 holes and right around 2000 meters of drilling this fall. So we will have results October, November timeframe at Hallick Creek. In terms of next steps, we've, we've started to engage with Wyoming DEQ in terms of what needs to be done. We have a general counsel who is very familiar with the state of Wyoming and, and I have developed and permitted and managed minds in Wyoming before. So we're, we're kind of getting started and more to come on that front this fall. What are you planning to produce? Yeah. So at the moment we're using wood out of Perth to work on sort of what I would call the traditional desktop scoping study where we, we're looking at the sort of volumes, capital, you know, what the next steps might be. Our, the idea is that we're going to kind of take the results of the drilling program from Hallick Creek this fall and roll that into a PEA or PFS in early next year. What, which type, which wearers are predominant in your deposits? Sure. Both, both Beaver Creek and Hallick Creek, it's the neodymium, praziodymium magnet metals. So what we're trying to accomplish with the PA is exactly how far down, you know, concentrate metal. That's all to be determined, sort of based on our economic analysis and the work that we're doing in the background now. The highest point where I live in in suburban Detroit is 650 feet above sea level. I suspect that that it's a little bit higher in where your deposits are. Is that an issue like access, water, power, etc.? No, so, you know, interestingly enough, the one of the bigger decision points and why I chose to take this, this job was to how a creek property is maybe 35, 40 minutes outside of Laramie and maybe a half hour to Wheatland. So if you look at some of the other just major mining projects in the world, a lot of times they won't get built because of the associated infrastructure. So you're right there. The interconnect from the Midwestern Power Grid and the Western Power Grid, you know, essentially happens right there at the project. So you have, you have good power, you have water and the Interstate 25 runs just parallel to the project and the BMSF railroad is right there. So infrastructure wise, we're in a very good position. And I guess that there are a lot of men and women of Wyoming with mining experience to be heard. Yeah. And, you know, unfortunately, the coal industry is in a, is in a big state of decline. And historically, I've been a major employer of folks in Wyoming. So we're working with the University of Wyoming and starting on that process to evaluate things. But, you know, I anticipate there'll be a lot of mining expertise, permitting expertise and mining equipment available to us. Okay. Well, thank you for, you've really covered everything at the stage of your development. We look forward to maintaining contact with you. And, and please let us know whenever there's a development you'd like to let the public know about. Okay. We'll do Jack. I really appreciate you taking the time. I know you're a busy guy and well respected in the industry. So it's a pleasure to have this chat with you this morning.


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Open Data Hub makes popular AI and machine learning frameworks and tools available through a common UI. But the real power is the integration you get through the use of the deployment operator. Operators have made it far easier to deploy applications to Kubernetes clusters. And the Open Data Hub operator takes out a step further by allowing you to select which tools to deploy and stitching together the common integration points for those applications behind the scenes, such as making a spark cluster available through a Jupyter notebook. We also use Open Data Hub as a framework to enable customers to deploy third-party applications onto their platforms. And as I mentioned before, Red Hat has built an entire technology partner ecosystem on top of Kubernetes. AI and machine learning is represented by over two dozen technology partners, several of which can plug into the Open Data Hub or can be used to extend the core capabilities of the open-source tooling. Red Hat began the Open Data Hub project back in 2016 in response to our desire to apply analytics to our own business processes. Our data scientists needed access to data and tools at scale. Our initial projects targeted improved product quality through the analysis of continuous integration logs, as well as improved customer support through the use of predictive analytics. And it grew from there. When we shared with customers what we were doing, we found we had very similar goals, and they were also interested in how the combination of open-source and open-shift could help provide answers. We incubated the project in our office as CTO and worked with our partners and open-source communities to take on more use cases. Today, our consulting services team has adopted the Open Data Hub project as a way to communicate with customers around the importance of upstream innovation in the AI and machine learning space, as well as how to help them implement their projects on Kubernetes. We are always looking for areas to improve. Right now, one of our core focus areas is helping customers put models into production while ensuring trust, repeatability, and transparency in those models. I expect to continue to see a rise in the importance and transparency required of AI and machine learning. And as a result, you can expect to see more from Red Hat and our partners along these lines in the coming months.


Oh yeah, what's up money geeks Mr V here welcome to another video guys so in today's video we are going to talk about ticket symbol SKLZ skills so we did a video in the past where I covered skills when they were going public through the merger with flying eagles so if you didn't watch that video I'm gonna hook it up here so you can definitely go check it out but in today's video this is kind of like an update that I want to give you guys because it's some major news I want to make sure that you guys are aware of this because this can potentially impact the price of the stock moving forward and I don't want you guys to miss out on this opportunity but before we get started guys if you're new to the channel we'll talk about how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth so if you have something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content so for some of you guys that are not aware of SKLZ skills it's a platform or a gaming platform that creates competitive gaming for people and so they have a platform for players for people that just want to play the games and they also have a platform setup for developers if you want to create games so it's the best of both worlds so for people that have the technology and the knowledge to create games you create your games and put it on the platform they monetize it for you and you make money why they make money if you just know how to play you go there's a laundry list of games that you can pick from and play it and most of it you can play competitively where you actually win prizes as a matter of fact more people spend more time on skills or spend more minutes on skills than they spend on facebook on tiktok or even on youtube and this information came from SKLZ investors presentation so they did their research and so there's more people spending a lot more time on skills so i just want to give you guys that background but what i wanted to really bring to you guys today is this massive news and this is something that everyone has been waiting just to see what was going to happen if this is what's going to happen actually so i invest with katty wood actually invested and bought two hundred and fifteen thousand and some change stocks for skills and so the value there is about three point nine million so if you can see right there that is actually invested in the stock so this is this is crazy if you see yeah some of the other investments they invested in open which we covered here on the channel they invested in long view acquisition this is again something that we cover here on the channel so if you look at the stocks they've invested in most of these stocks we already have them covered so if you guys have been following definitely you will be covered buying some of these stocks again if you look at some of the other my etf that bought skills you see right here there is round hill esport and digital gaming etf bought some shares and if you see right again round hill sport betting and eye gaming etf bought some shares of skills so people are starting to recognize it and my personal figure is that even war street hasn't even gotten their hand around it when they start to realize that based on the numbers alone in terms of how many minutes people spend on their on on their games or on the platform they're going to see that this is a platform that has a little eyeballs and they can sell a ton of at and they're going to start coming through drooling because that's what happens with youtube it's all eyeballs facebook is all eyeballs and so when you get those eyeballs tiktok is all eyeballs where you can have those eyeballs looking at you it's a good place to sell and make a ton of money say at to make a ton of money so uh when we're doing this video right now skills is sitting at about 23 dollars and 30 cents and here's what happened to them alone in stock actually just after uh kati wood and an act invest actually bought their the stock this that stock actually went up about 21 percent which is crazy that's about three dollars and 88 cents and then after hours again it went up another a dollar 22 so again that is a huge catalyst for this particular stock so it just will give you guys some perspective we go back again this is one this is just one week if you look at this from the from one week this is january fourth this stock was sitting at 18 dollars and 16 cents so again just the fact that act invest got in see how much the stock has moved already and sitting right now again at 23 dollars and 30 cents so um i'm anticipating that these news is still going to keep a lot of people are just going to learn about it and so it's going to keep driving the price of the stock even uh more so i'm looking again that this thing is probably going to go test 26 27 before the end of the week because this is a huge huge catalyst so now one thing i wanted to show you guys again here is just this website called lucidtracking.com if you go to this website this website will show you all the the stocks that kati wood and act invest ETFs are buying so you can definitely go see so if you look at that transaction right here it's showing on this website so it's lucid tracking so you can definitely go check them out if you go there again like here you can just see what they're buying they have some premium features but i don't really care about their premium features i'm just using the free the free stuff for now i mean if you have money you can definitely pay to use the premium but it just shows you kind of an overview of what kati wood and and act invest are buying so i wanted to bring that to you guys so again guys this is a huge news so if you didn't buy it when we did the video initially here on the channel and then this would probably be an opportunity that you can easily swing trade because this is going to be huge momentum that's going to drive the stock as more and more people learn about the stock as people start to see that kati wood is interested in this stock is actually putting it in her ETFs this stock is going to take a step forward but again like every momentum there's going to be a cooling period so if you're just looking to swing trade it makes some quick money this is the opportunity but if you're looking long term i'm pretty sure this thing's going to pull back a little bit and then you can get it in but again i wanted to make sure that you guys are covered that you know exactly what's going on and why the price of the stock is going up so let me know in the comment section do you own a position in skills and if yes are you swing trading or are you holding long term again let me know in the comment section if you're new to the channel we talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth so if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and your notification bell so you don't miss 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