Here in the last week or so I've really spent a lot of time working on what I'm calling DTOS, which is DT's operating system It's basically going to be a deployment script.  You're gonna have do me max, of course You're gonna have several shells installed on the system including the fish shell, which is my favorite You're gonna have the alacrity terminal already configured to my liking and it's gonna be essentially DT's computer on your computer So I spent a few hours every day for the last week really working on this and it's not necessarily a Script that is the problem anybody can write a quick deployment script that clones your dot files Repository and then just splats that thing out onto somebody's home directory I can do that in like five minutes But I wanted to do this thing the right way because eventually I want to build a proper ISO So we can actually release an ISO a proper Linux distribution and a proper Linux distribution of course needs a repository of software That's how you deploy this stuff. So I created DTOS dash core dash repo so our own repository of software I've got it hosted over on my GitLab and Some of the packages may or may not work So right now even though they're public repositories because I have them public so I can test them out I don't recommend you guys using this just yet I'll make an announcement when I feel like things are ready right now I'm not publishing any kind of deployment script publicly yet because things may break You know, I'm testing things out in a VM today, but here what I'm doing today is I'm actually going to run through a very Early rendition of the deployment script in a VM. I spun up a quick VM of Arch Linux I ran through like the base install of Arch Linux which takes like 10 minutes and then I'm gonna try out my deployment script And see if it actually works So let me switch over to the VM of Arch Linux I installed DWM as a window manager that way I had a graphical environment to log in to and I'm gonna do a git clone I'm gonna clone this private repository of mine over at gitlab.com slash DWT1 that's DT's GitLab, of course DTOS is the name of the repository and again This is a private repository. So unless you have my password then there's really nothing you can do with it So it's just for me when it's ready for public consumption, of course I will share this with you guys, but right now the script is gonna have errors I know it's gonna have a lot of errors and it could be potentially dangerous That's why I don't want to put it out there publicly just yet. Anyway, now that I've clone that repository You see in my home directory now when I do it LS I have DTOS here That's the only directory in my home directory at the moment and a CD into that and you have DTOS dot SH If I open that in Vim you guys can actually see the script the very beginning of the script We check if our user ID is zero, but that means you're the root user I don't want you to execute this as the root user So if you are the root user, it actually will not let you run this script And that's for safety reasons because later in the script I'm gonna call on variables such as dollar sign home, you know your user's home directory Now well the root user his home directory is of course slash root I don't want to play around in slash root, right? So that is why make sure that you run this as a normal user, not the root user We get a some welcome information here and then we play around a little bit with Pac-Man dot com What we need to do is we need to add the DTOS core repositories to Pac-Man dot com and then we need to add our key servers to GPG dot com And then later what we need to do is receive my keys So my packages that I build I have a key right and then you can't actually install those packages unless you trust that key So that is what this information here is doing and then once once we've added the DTOS core Repositories and the keys then we run a sync of the repositories with Pac-Man dash sy and then I've got this very long Array of software here including many packages that are DTOS packages from the DTOS core repository And then this array is going to get fed into this for loop here So what we're going to do is for every package in this array I want you to run that through sudo pac-man dash. Yes, so install right I give it this flag dash dash no confirm because if you don't do that After every single package it tries to install it's going to ask you yes or no Do you really want to install it? That's annoying, right? So give it dash dash no confirm here and then we install do me max we install do me max the old-fashioned way Where we clone do me max and then we run doom install I was I was toying with the idea of actually packaging do me max as a binary and hosting it in the DTOS core repository I couldn't get a binary package to work at least not yet So right now I'm just going to do the github install for do me max and that actually takes a few minutes I warn you guys that it takes a few minutes here in this echo statement Just so people are not wondering why do me max takes you know five to ten minutes to build the next section says We're going to copy the DTOS configuration files over from slash Etsy slash skill into home And so what we're going to do here is all of my DTOS packages like DTOS dash X monad for example or my X monad configs Where do I place them? Well? I don't just place them in your home directory because you may not want to overwrite your own X monad configs I actually place them and slash Etsy slash skill and then you can go into slash Etsy slash skill find dot X monad in that directory and copy that over to your home directory if you want my X monad configs But if you're running this deployment script, obviously you want them So what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy everything from slash Etsy slash skill into your home if you run this deployment script So again make sure that you actually want my X monad desktop before running this script And then all we're going to do after that is recompile X monad and then you get an exit message And that is it. So the script itself is not very complicated You could probably write a script like this in about 10 or 15 minutes But what has been taking me hours and hours every day is trying to figure out what packages I actually want in my repository I've got to create package builds and then I build binaries assigned binaries and then I add it to the repository That's really the tedious part is actually maintaining packages and trying to figure out what all I need packaged because I don't want to Want to think about this script is I don't install anything from the AUR in the DTOS shell script What I'm doing is if there's a AUR package that's not in the core repositories and I need I'll package it myself and put it in The DTOS repository. So that's why on in that script. We're only using Pac-Man We're not using yay or paru or anything like that and I was really trying to avoid using get clone for anything I don't want to go clone any repositories the one exception I'm making right now is doom emacs, but I'd like to figure out how to package doom emacs as a binary eventually So let's run this script and see if it works I'm going to ch mod plus X to make DTOS executable and This script probably will not work. I have not got this thing to run without errors yet And I know I'm getting close. So I'm just going to run this one on camera and see what happens So let's go ahead. All right. This is the welcome screen. It just tells you a little bit about DTOS I'm going to hit okay. Stay near your computer because you're going to need a root password So Pac-Man is going to ask you for a root password Pretty much as soon as you begin the installation and then are you sure you want to do this? You can exit if you're unsure or you can begin installation and then of course the first thing add a password here because we're going to Start editing some important files like slash Etsy slash Pac-Man.com. So give it your root password So I added DTOS core repositories to Pac-Man.com I added the key servers to GPG.com and then we're installing all of our software and We're getting some warning messages because some of these packages were already installed so it doesn't reinstall them It just skips them. That's fine and Then we're installing do me max and this portion of the installation actually will take about I don't know five or ten minutes So I'm going to pause the video for a few minutes I'll be back once we get near the end of the doom emacs installation It looks like it's getting close to the end of the doom emacs installation It's asking do I want to install all the icons? So that's fonts for doom emacs This is one of the reasons why Problem one of the problems with packaging doom emacs as a binary is it's interactive There's a couple of yes or no questions during the installation. It says installation complete So it looks like the script actually completed just fine Of course, the moment of truth is to actually quit out of DWM log into X monad All right, I installed SDD M for a display manager I'm going to choose X monad and let's see if we log into my X monad desktop So we actually did so it did install my wallpapers and it set one of them It also launched trayer, which is our sys tray. It did not launch XMO bar I know why it doesn't launch XMO bar It's going to be a font problem that would probably be easily corrected But alacrity is here alacrity with the starship prompt also installed my shell color scripts program where we get a random show color script. Let me go ahead and make the Screen resolution a proper 1920 by 1080. So the script is getting close, right? That's some of the problems left now. It is Are easy to solve. I just need a little more time You guys keep asking about it the work involved What's really taking of course the largest amount of time is of course I talked about packaging software Let me show you guys what I'm talking about with packaging software So let me switch over to the desktop here on my real computer. That's not the virtual machine if I go to my get lab I'll show you I've created some repositories for example DTOS dash package builds and DTOS dash core repository so package builds of course are the package build files and These are all the package builds for packages that I'm maintaining and once I build these I created a script to automatically build these packages, right and then once they're built I Send the binaries to this repo DTOS dash core repo and there's the binary packages as also the SIG files as well because they're signed files. So this is really what I've been working on the last week or so We're getting pretty close here I packaged most everything that I think we need at this point the last thing I need to do is Just tidy up some of the you know one of the things I need to do is figure out exactly what packages we're missing Like xmo bar obviously did not work and when I ran the script the script actually Completed which is what's a first for me. I'm glad we got to share that on camera But still xmo bar is a little buggy. It's gonna be a font problem What it is is xmo bar is really picky about if you use fonts that are not installed on the system It won't law launch or if you use glyphs that your font doesn't support in the config It won't launch and of course my xmo bar if I show you, you know, it's actually Got a lot going on with it as far as unicode glyphs And that's gonna be the the issue that I'm gonna have to clean up here But the fact that I got the installation script Kind of to work this time. I figure We're just a few days away from a public launch. Give me another I don't know a week or so and we'll go ahead and put this on a public Repository on gitlab for you guys to try out now before I go. 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Housing authority as part of the city. So they as part of the housing authority retreat, I think set the goal of six affordable housing units in the next four years. Projects not units. I call units is multiple six, six affordable housing projects within the next was it three years of three years. And so obviously that you're going to need a significant capital. Investment in that to accomplish it. The other thing that we talked to the council about is looking at the safe harbor areas in the qualified census tracks. And utilizing the money to really work with the neighborhoods in the qualified census tracks to really create more sustainable and resilient neighborhoods. Tying into some of the plans that we've worked another component of that was early childhood education. It's being part of this. We were looking at our funds versus CV funds that we have from CDBG and general fund. And so One of the recommendations we made to counsel on this budget process was to put a half a million dollars into early childhood education. And so Thus far the council said to move forward with that. So that'll be in the budget. And what was the other one Karen? I know I'm missing one category. The whole neighborhoods household assistance and individual assistance. And what we talked to the council about is we really think that's one of the areas That is probably right for partnership because you all are already doing that. And obviously you got more money than we did. And and so how we use that to help individuals and households that are still reeling from the pandemic and how we can work together because You already have many of those projects, many of those programs and you haven't set up where you're administering it. And I think That's a really good area for more discussions and partnerships. And so That's from a staff perspective. Oh business assistance is the other piece. Sorry. But that's from a staff perspective. We still have to bring that back to the council for defining and I think when we look at business assistance where it's sort of hanging for us Is the whole duplication of benefit component in this and the fact that if they got a PPP loan or they used any other federal funds and they may not qualify for this And that's for Peter who is our federal fund expert to kind of work through all of those issues. And so that's from a staff perspective. I don't know if the council has anything they want to add to that When you mentioned early assistance to early childhood education and right now I think it's getting daycare back on his feet is is probably the first order of business. What I would like to ask is when making that the decision that you did or the recommendation that you you did about how much to allocate to that in specific. Do you have data about how many families that could be sending a member to the workforce that are not That that would pull back into the workforce roughly So part of what we've talked about and we've talked to the accounting group on this is I think about 150,000 is actually for data collection So that we can start getting that information because I think generally we have some high level data But we don't have what we need to determine really what is the need What different categories to folks sit in and so County may not know this we partner with what works cities which was funded by the Bloomberg Institute and they came in and it was about data informed decision making And so they're part of this conversation so that we can really refine the data and bring more detailed information to council which will then feed Other conversations and what we really need to put into it because it was hard to say at least from an administrative point of view What's the number because there was just so much uncertainty in the data They're not talented in the homeless point of time survey That's really a seed in the health of this nation Those children would be totally not being traumatized by Imagine you're a general and you can't take a shot in a place to study You have to hide all this from your family And you've got to do something about it The homelessness and the racial only issues that they need to do is getting out of the additional time that they're not And this is really great figures in any way So from the time that they are babies until they are in college They're almost possible to do something to make their lives better So they've got to come all the time to do it And it's very difficult, we don't know that Although the biggest pressure is about housing and housing prices And we see one of the worst things coming down There's investors coming in this way still And coming from something that some people hide Into something that they would like to live in and really catch on I think only by doing something about that on a stable Could be something about investment So, all right, I'll just repeat If our kids are no longer paid for meals Rather than everything else If they don't have meals If they look at what some cities like Nashville would respond And program for both cradle to career Going just at every stage that they're going to make sure that Opportunities are going to come along And everything we need to do that they're going to do something about So that every kid has the best chance to do something about it And each of you So I really appreciate you Polly raising that issue of children and child well-being And you know the housing poverty You know the connection there And in the long-term effects of poverty On the whole trajectory of a kid And there's a lot of data about the benefit of early intervention And quality early childhood education But also the effect of toxic stress on kids when their parents Are dealing with economic insecurity And how kids absorb that And it affects their executive function So that's something that has always been very important to me And I think embedded in this issue is mental health We saw statistics I can't cite them to you But the spike in emergency room visits for Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts for children Was just heartbreaking So you know we through this process that Marta is leading our collecting feedback And you know we just know from the comments that have been coming into the commissioners That mental health services are going to be real high up there I think the trick here and then I'll put this Hand it over to Marta Is to go from identifying the problem to identifying the solution And we don't need to tell you this You're under the same limitations as we are We have to get this money not just you know allocated or identified or earmarked We have to get it spent and so You know we want to do that wisely you want to do that wisely And it's I've just always found it's far more easy to identify the problem Than to really identify those evidence-based programs that will address that problem Do we want to drill down on the early childhood issue right now Kind of where that's where we were I don't want to go further with that if we want to go somewhere else I just had one more ARPA question if that's okay Yeah I'm trying to do about 15 minutes for each of these and then it will we'll get it all done. All right, thank you for I was just as a curiosity Because we're talking about this right now is the timeline and I didn't hear you speak to that and it sounds like those are staff recommendations Is what you are sharing so there's a whole process I'm sure and and we're going through that too, but I didn't know if you started thinking about a timeline yet and I'm in the hopes that Our report that will be done at the end of October can inform From a community perspective We would love to at least offer that as a resource as I've shared in our mayor's meetings With a lot of you and in the consortium as well So just want to make sure that you all are aware of that part of the timeline and maybe that could be helpful Yeah, yeah, we are because Peter was talking to us and I think the outside date is 2026. Is that correct Sandy? And so when you saw the The six projects in three years was predicated on really having The last one out the door in construction with enough time to spend down and actually meet that timeline And one of the things that I failed to mention is I failed to mention broadband because broadband is in there, especially digital divide It's a little bit different for us because we already have it in place and so we're looking at how we fill gaps And then what we did talk to council about is that these are one-time dollars So trying not to bring in ongoing expenses because of the one-time dollars and then creating a different issue down the road And that was the other thing we talked about with it I had something I wanted to add and I'm glad that Claire at Commissioner Levy mentioned this around mental health and that's you know, that's one of a huge factor that we are Seeing with our students with our families and Especially during this COVID crisis it's been ongoing But I think through the pandemic it has exacerbated and it really brought to light a an issue that has been a problem for quite some time and So one of the things and I was grateful for Karen Her name tags turned around. I think she knows who she is There you go. So yeah Karen sitting in on one of the quarterly meetings for mental health partners and One of the things that we discussed was the the turnover the high turnover and being able the inability to hire and retain Therapists so that inconsistency Within the program. It's really It's it within the organization. It's really difficult for patients to have that sense of Consistency and connection with with therapists. I know that it isn't ongoing funds But if as we're as we're looking to put money into certain Areas, you know, I would say that it's really I would like to see money put in towards mental health getting us through this pandemic I mean, I think we're all in crisis and we're in crisis mode. I was just telling Councilmember Peck that I think last year was difficult teaching This year is is worse and I in the 28 years that I've been in the profession This is the single most difficult challenging year that I've ever had and And and that's me. I'm thinking I'm able to juggle many things. I you know, I have a son with autism I'm I have a lot of resilience. I'm thinking of people who Early career teachers People who are experiencing other traumas going on at home as well and dealing with loss It's unmanageable and so, you know, I can tie in what we're experiencing in the Education field and tied into, you know, what our our health care workers and our mental health Psychiatrists and therapists are dealing with and if there is something that we can be thinking about As we're looking to allocate funds to help address some of those issues as well So that's my two cents I'll give it to you That's it I just wanted to ask I think about the both the commission and the city manager Whether on the front on the spending front Whether there's been any thought given to some form of bootstrap spending Because it's one thing to answer the to ask the question You know how much should you allocate to this or that program and say we need to study it and get more data But the need for doing things like getting daycare back up and running is immediate We aren't going to be on the road to recovery until those problems are solved So it's just a question and I'm handing the microphone to Joan because she and I were waving at the same time But I hope we can answer the question Thank you. So I think all of the issues have been addressed and they kind of all roll into the same thing But it is the mental health and anybody who knows me will know that I've been on the subject for six years Mental health affects everything and and we do have an option next week in our budget process to decide where we want to use a half of our Marijuana tax on mental health But what we need from my perspective and I know that the previous commissioners have heard this is From my perspective is a facility. So when we're talking about Hardcore dollars spent for sustainability not band-aid type issues but things that we can carry on after the funds are gone I think that what we need is a one-stop shop facility where our mental health partners our Outcome shoot what's it called recovery cafe for addiction where we can have Hope and the hour center and people who are experiencing homelessness Have a place to go instead of roaming around the city looking for different Different Social things to help them. We have all of these things in our city But a person who's experiencing homelessness or depression or mental health They have to find these places. There's one on Kauffman. There's one on Over on Martin Street. There's What I really would like to see our hardcore dollars into a facility Where we can actually help people And this is a larger discussion But I think that would be something that is sustainable that we can use in the future And it isn't just a band-aid. It is moving forward I was just going to answer her question when you So yes, because not all of it is for the data analysis And so I think there is room within the half a million We also have we can look at our CDBG funds and then as we look at the funds in general on On the ARPA we have capacity and then on the mental health side again I haven't been briefed yet Karen just told me there is mental health work in some of the projects that they're submitting Answer the yeah Okay regional transportation as you all know we have the 119 VRT that is in progress and we are doing our First in Maine transit station, but I also want you to be aware of the opportunity for rail And I don't know what funding that ARPA or the county needs to put into that if anything but I would like I would like that to be at the top of your List of Transportation we need We need facilities we need Stations Whatever I just want that to be at the top of that we are we do have two regional transportation options coming with BRT 119 and the Northwest corridor as an alignment to the I-25 rail through m-track 238 For a corridor that did not get commuter rail sounds like You know, and then there are some other spots that are on the earmarks for those appointments One of which is I think in the car mall organization I used to know that the car on the half of the border and Unless somebody Objects That's an opportunity to Really bring some money to this issue, which I think is the big thing that's been lacking Feel this 30% design study Then initially people thought was going to be three to five million dollars When R2D staff started looking at it and now they're saying a lot of the cocaine So money is a thing. I think it's the most realistic opportunity, but we I know Markets are representative on a team corridor We've been really successful getting money for that The bike head route We sent a letter which we copied you on to R2D Really, you know, Stringlessly objecting to the lack of money coming to Lover County for restoration of service And it was really nice to see Shoshana Lu and Gutter Polos support our land So I think I'm sitting down I just want to thank you Claire for that and I also am going to apply to be one of the dr. Cogger pointies for that board So thank you Representative Please ask of the key pushing on this issue. We are constituents one And that's just important they're there And then the bus routes I mean people who have lesser means really got hurt It's just bad remember that's 0.6 tax that the faster But we just need to keep Some of these suffix go faster than others Suggested Claire I think it was when we first were going to have this meeting When it was scheduled at first and the discussion about the front-range passenger rail and Amtrak wasn't really a reality at that time Claire could you Claire could you talk if you have any more information to share about what the timelines might be for Fleshing out the board or filling out the board for the front rail passenger district Review for us the counties that are involved and what are the steps that you anticipate as we talk about options that you would Anticipate that we all should be aware of right? What what are the thresholds? We have to pass to go from a piece of legislation to an option right that's actionable And I believe The governor has to nominate his six slots mid-March Those he is doing that through the mutual board's Commission's nomination process So So so that board will be seated and then it will become a special district Title 32 so all the regular provisions to the title 32 of us are superseded by the act And it does have authority to impose a sales tax and Well, it's not a party for both at the war on the sales tax And it would be up to the district the board to decide What to put on the ballot? If there are some requirements in the middle to Produce a detailed financial analysis before going to the voters for a task Well That Make sure I Think I'm trying to think of some of the other conditions that we're in the bill And then there are additional provisions that allow a specific station sometimes To do stationery So That would be more and that would be formed through the PID or Was Originally Which is close to two million people three Board seats, and it gave ice peak hog Which has I think about the quarter million That that has two The south central will basically the Pueblo area had one Is so it was not not fair at all in terms of population distribution But I know the thing we were really kind of working Hard on is to make sure that you know that we actually know what kind of civil commitment it's going to be before going to the voters because You know there's a concern You know what looked like disproportionate representation from the southern part of the state That's really interested in having a connection up with the south of the city That the resources would With that off from the tax age Authority up here all the money up here we go to down south and And so we put language in the bill that The area for the first Facing improvements have to reflect the audience with the ridership and the highest you know potential for Negating So we could The North Carolina area Where we have the way that suggestion we generate the most impact gas emissions We need to go through many The subjects for this district the formal legislators putting this out This is the biggest specialist And so the concerns the clerk was talking about are very real And as far as timing that taxed the big milestone and did the federal government make the talk about an extractor But the concern that we get our viewers here and we have federal money so that we don't tax people and don't get much We try to address My concern is that we've been talking about public transportation And connecting color all of colorado From Kansas to Utah from the Mexico to Wyoming Since the 70s and we haven't done it and it's only gotten more and more Expensive and now it's prohibitively expensive In every single way. So now what we're doing is breaking it up into special districts and We're already part of a special district as we know and long one has gotten less and less every year Um So it's going to be a very hard to get people in long want to vote for yet another special tax district when we have seen our service cut and cut and cut and now people talk about Bus rapid transit. I was one of the first group of women to drive a bus in uh boulder in 1974 or something like that Uh And I can tell you there is no such thing as bus rapid transit a system that is not discrete from the roads is never going to be Any faster than any car So although it may have less stops it is still subject to all the same problems with car accidents with weather conditions with everything so unless you have light rail or rail of some kind or or Something that is just that is separate from the road system It's not going to be very good public transit We could have that and I was very excited about governor polos who does seem to have A vision for what we can do we can't keep paying for more and more and more roads Even if they're electric vehicles They're still going to be on the roads And we can't keep we have no way to finance it unless we change uh Something about the gas tax with electric vehicles going to be more and more prevalent, which is a good thing So we really need to it seems to me advocate for transit systems how whatever means that is that are their own discrete path and um Every other country does this in many places in this country do it colorado has problems because we don't have The mass of people to support this but we really did have better Transportation in the 70s You could get on a bus and go to to meeker colorado To do the same thing now you would have to either go to grand junction and rent a car Or go to steamboat springs and then the car. This is ridiculous that we're going backwards. So I I would like to see us band together with uh I'm addressing this on a statewide basis because Frankly what we saw what we've seen in the the rtg district is that Only denver has got this despite the fact that we voted on something which was supposed to be evenly built out it hasn't been And the meltdown of 2007 was used an excuse for that but they've never gone back so I support I think we need to support any efforts to make it better but I really do think we need to be thinking more on a statewide basis and more in terms of light rail or Something that is separate from the the road system as our basic Connector and then buses off of that. Thank you. Um, I just looking like to get the central issue about the new proposed special district out on the table Because it is very large and there's a lot of people in it. Um It could be that boulder county will never vote for it. What happens if if the District passes but not in boulder county Right, so the we could be voted into this district even if the public of boulder county does not Um Does not go along with it. I just wanted that to be on the record Is I would just like to say I don't Like the characterization. It may have begun that way, but don't like the characterization of This was something about people not wanting it to be near them. I think it's something about markets You know with a composting facility You have material that goes into the composting facility And you have the material that comes out of the composting facility and On both sides the point of the whole thing is a to reduce methane emissions from what would Otherwise be compost or what what would otherwise be landfill waste? Excuse me but then You have the carbon footprint associated with getting the input to the composting facility to the facility And you have the carbon footprint of getting the resulting products of the composting facility the compost The tea all of that stuff Um to where it's going to be used And I think the fundamental local objection To the first proposal was that there was no market for the products here in boulder county So I I don't really like the idea Of of saying it was because people didn't want it nearby. It was because there was no market for it nearby Is there I'm not certain I'm not certain what the take is from the we heard a lot from the neighbors And I'm certain that the markets are an issue. What would be helpful to me We we kind of I was I was kind of surprised by the whole proposal And I don't know what the disconnect was between our staff and in your staff So it would be helpful for me to know if if they're what's the level of discussion Is there is there momentum going forward? It's good to know you've hired somebody Um Is that is there going to be a conversation into which we're invited or You're going to flesh out options and then kind of ask for reactions from municipalities How will this unfold because we can't solve it ourselves? It's only going to happen When we do it as a partnership And and and we need to do it. I mean that's there we just can't get to the commercial Aspects of this on our own And and yet we need to get we need to get there. So, you know, what are your thoughts about What's the time frame? Are there steps? What do you need from us? To move it in a some direction This is about the fact that we all live in a country and a county that And that really I want to pull it back to that because it really isn't about specifically A public facility or a neighborhood or not. It's really about housing voters who decided And residents who agreed that we're wasteful and then we need to look at options about how we're going to Be more efficient more effective Say in one little area you can talk about But this is one of those responsibilities. I just want to make sure that we don't forget that piece of this conversation And it's your question. Oh, what's that next? What's going to happen? Yes, you hired somebody I'll say just how the voters are excited about that opportunity to do the community engagement to go through a public process And to set this conversation up whether it's a partnership, whether it's a smaller project So to have you incorporate participation, there's a lot of other pieces of it. I just want to make sure that One that other piece of it really is the focus and ensure you all as well as those who are watching participating online that there will be a public process believe that this work is really committed to ensuring that you do all of our work and you do waste And I have no more county administrators to talk about as all that. It's great that Dan is here with us Of course Watch her tell me I can't talk I mean one key thing in what Mark said is that that we are asking this staff to do It's really look at whether it is a facility that would be facilities that work site and in their perspective and I think the previous project You know kind of Was driven by the thought that we need a facility and we need to begin more time that there's something virtuous about About to compare our own ways and that sounds very virtuous But I don't know if there's that composting is what we're calling is apparently a better than composting anywhere else other than the Greenless gas emissions, you know driving care and like that. So there is that but We need to just really open this Maybe it's a series of smaller facilities. Maybe it's Um spending more time with with the ag community in Fighting ways to actually do it directly on the site. So we just really have to open the conversation up I really want to hear The thoughts of long on on this Because if you were you know, you are really important partners for us, but Now a lot of people I just wanted to add two things First of all, I'll give you a name. Noah Hyland is the person that we hired Staff would be familiar with the New York City of Boulder and so has some good local experience and is Really strategist around zero waste General he will be the staff person Who works in the resource conservation advisory board? So long one has a number on that board and a lot of these conversations about You know, where are we going if you're a waste infrastructure? All of that We'll go through our care as you Could not that he's I just wanted to make sure that And that Um Really unfortunate that in small group of very wealthy people with a very savvy public relations person and a whole slew of lawyers were able to derail this but um, I do think that there was a problem in that the previous city the previous commissioners did not really Uh Alert some of the places. I know Erie was very upset all kinds of things but as for a market I mean every every municipality around here needs mulch and very this stuff for their work and gardeners need mulch and we have the The footprint of driving it to Somewhere in our stuff to somewhere in boulder county as opposed to where we drive it now, which is Far far away It is much smaller. It is makes perfect sense And we do need a regional composting facility and I I hope we can arrange that because it is so much better and less expensive for everyone to do it this way um And I I certainly think there's just as much of a market here as there is Currently which is The facility we use is far far away But he manages to have a market for them. So I don't see that that's actually an issue But I I really do support us having one In boulder county. It just makes sense for the future If I could clarify I have a whole folder full of letters from organic farmers who said I can't use that compost I have a whole folder full of letters from Organic backyard farmers who said I can't produce I can't use what that facility Would produce they gave their reasons and so I'm not saying we shouldn't have a regional facility Maybe we should and maybe we shouldn't but We should have a regional facility where The produced compost will be an acceptable product to our local people and I Don't think we can overlook that All compost is not the same all green activity is not the same and Just because people have good lawyers doesn't mean they're wrong We should have a Timer Are we going to move it to reach out to you that We have a public center We have And we can create That looks like Better And That couple is what Couple with new however this morning and an ornament that looks like and looks like Byers very And It does not eliminate investors from the market It is priority when you say that you lack a workforce Our teachers are responders and they're going to be given The other option would be to some type of That Again So thank you for that I I really believe that we need to be looking at it It's not going to be one solution There's going to be many and just for concentrating on one one piece is not going to solve the problem And I really appreciate that you brought in these these other Our creative approaches. So that that is definitely something I want to take a deeper look into on top of You know continuing what we're doing to increase our stock to increase higher density An immediate of options for For folks to be able to to buy it buy a home, whether it be a condo, whether it be a single family home But you know, just definitely continuing that what we're doing but also Looking at other options as well. So Yeah, I am interested in knowing more about that. So, yeah I broke the mic Whether to whether to revisit the idea of a countywide revenue source for housing and You know, we are going to be going out with a poll I've been hearing Soon I've been hearing that for About six months, but I think it's going to be soon To just try to test the waters on what how people are feeling here post covet or we're not post covet We thought we would be but are you know, are people feeling still Uncertain enough about the economy that they wouldn't be supportive of new revenue sources for any number of things and housing and transportation is going to be part of that but you know, when we talk about Solving the housing problem or at least addressing it We really do want to have housing in every community affordable housing in every community But barring that and because sometimes, you know, we do have just a mismatch of jobs and housing and You know with two income families, maybe one person gets to live close to their job, but the other person doesn't There we have a problem here with the cost of transportation and housing and the drive till you qualify Might mean that you have an affordable mortgage But your transportation costs coupled with your mortgage are now unaffordable and you are Dependent forever more on you know, a working car and so All the more reason to try to locate housing in the community in which people work but I think we also it comes back to that transportation issue and having better multimodal transportation options so that If people don't live in the community in which they work for whatever reason choice, maybe it's not affordability That they have affordable transportation options as well. So I we You know, we do have to think about those two issues as being linked Claire, I'm glad you mentioned transportation because councilwoman former mayor toward the transportation oriented housing Which is really interesting because I think we all know that it costs a nine to twelve More thousand dollars a year to have a car And if then you're you're only making twenty thousand dollars a year There's nowhere you can live And so if you can have something that is on a on a transportation line Uh, you have much more of a chance of doing something but I I really think one thing that we need to prioritize in the country And certainly in bolder county is home ownership because that is the only way we can't to um Get out of a cycle of poverty, you know, we lost at least Approximately ten percent. I think I'm sure martin knows about this and aron knows about this better than I do but during the The last giant meltdown of 2007 and eight We lost a close to 10 percent of home ownership and it hasn't really come back. In fact, it's getting worse and worse so we have to find ways to Increase home ownership for the stability of of every community If a child for instance going back to kids Has to move every three years or every year when the landlord jacks up the rent then um That's no life for a child. It's it's very disorienting and That family is going to be living in poverty or constantly stressed out financially so Not everybody will will always have plenty of renters, but we used to be a nation where everybody Are most people aspired to having on owning a home? and People seem to be Giving up on that in despair and that's a that's a very bad sign for our community So I think if we can explore things like land banks land trusts Cooperatives which Are difficult but better than not owning anything because intergenerational wealth particularly for people Who have been traditionally marginalized by everything is Critical to Actually having a stake in your life Anybody else I get really stoked seeing the spoke on coffins street going up that night That's so great every time I come drive up the long line. I look around and it's just like wow It's happening so Thanks for your work and with us on doing that one And bit by bit that helps right so but let's get to um early childhood education And then I'll do a call for public input. I don't see many folks, but I'll do it anyway So if anybody wants to kick us off, please do I'll just start we It's this has been a priority for this council for several years and Marta and Claire were both with us What 10 days ago or so? When the governor came and spoke Both to promote what he's done with his initiative in the early childhood office But to also reinforce where we are as a community Working in partnership with the early childhood council in Boulder County We have an action plan the data that the investment that Harold talked about earlier Hopefully a year from now We can answer the question of how many parents and how many kids are unserved What the needs of our employers are right in terms of Their employees because this the problem Is not just a Longmont problem. You know this better than we do. It's a regional problem. It's at least a county problem The Longmonters who work in you know other parts of the county or You know those folks who work here at every all of them with with children, especially at their preschool age kids So for us It's it's not just a childhood education. It's child care right through that continuum To the time kids are in school and then the needs of kids school age kids, you know When they're when mom and dad are around in And kids need supervision We asked folks in the event that we hosted 10 days ago to reimagine A whole industry And as we started this conversation talking about the best and highest use of ARPA funds Certainly this is going to be part of it But but it would be a mistake to think that's going to solve a problem Uh The the the needs are so the system we lack a system We need a system not unlike the k12 system right where it's funded on a stable ongoing basis Where they were where the where the work is the employees are professionalized Uh, how much of that can be at a county or local level in our plan? We've got some options that we think would would help set us or meet state state standards for the preparation and the Credentialing of employees without getting caught up in some of the regulatory Disincentives that occur at the state level, but at the end of the day This conversation that's unfolding here. I know it well, I don't know I believe at some point it's going to end up on your agenda Because we're going to talk about solving this on a county-wide basis Maybe it's on the maybe it's on the desks of the school boards at bowler valley and savering valley school district But I suspect more likely it's going to be something where There's a group going to come to you to say we this only gets solved I know this was something that was presented to larimer county larimer county commissioners In the fall and and they passed on putting something on the ballot, but I can just say that's an active conversation And um, it's going to be really helpful sooner than rather than later to get some idea where Where you are how you think about Both the nature of the scale of the problem and and the options for solving it from your perspectives On a county-wide basis Tim thanks for that. I wondered if you had any updates originally when I was working on that committee with y'all The invitation was about a special district and potentially county-wide and just curious if that's still in the conversations is a solution to get to The early childhood funding because it's changed some it's gotten more significant and the needs gotten more dramatic Yeah, we had martha early on was it one of our troops showing up every week um, and one of our working groups was We're really organized organized around a question special district. Yes or no. I mean there was we never answered that question There is no conclusion to that On a on a range of options or continue a continuum, right that's somewhere along So continue with other possibilities. We know we know counties Counties have created have Successfully proposed dedicated sales tax or property tax. I'm not certain and In some of county or you know gilpin counties what those counties that have done that I know what was proposed in what was going to be proposed in larimer county was I think it was actually I think it was a county initiative as opposed to a special district Um, I'm not surprised that commissioners passed on it just based on how I understood it to be organized and how money was going to be distributed But but there's something to learn from that experience what they proposed and you know how that was analyzed by those commissioners Um, and I don't know martha what what ultimately a proposal is going to look like, you know, it's going to be Everybody understands you've got all kinds of things potentially that you've got to consider putting on ballots or not Um, but I do know this we won't solve this problem With one-time funding no matter how much money it is and we and it won't We won't recover fully from this pandemic unless we can stabilize a workforce And we won't stabilize a workforce by dragging Dragging the pre-pandemic child care system into the future. It's just not tenable So I was I guess I was just going to say the obvious really which you you sort of said already tim is just The the problem can't be addressed without an infusion of public money um, you know people Complain rightfully so about the cost of of child care, particularly infant and toddler But yet our early childhood workforce is making poverty wages subpoverty wages And people wonder why is child care so expensive when child care workers are so poorly paid It's because it's very labor intensive. You need a facility. You need constantly, you know to renew your equipment You know, it's expensive and the you can't The only way you can solve that is public money and you know denver has the the I think it's a mill levy. I don't think it's a sales tax for the denver preschool program So I think we're going to have to go that direction. I just don't think there's any way Not only for the workforce and the workforce is really important But for the well-being of kids They need quality Child care they need to be taken care of by people Who are committed to that profession and and and not be able to form bonds and relationships and not have that high turnover so You know we've there are so many needs and every time we talk about the kinds of things that need to go on the ballot Child care is one of them. And I guess it really is something to think about whether you know with a special district that would be You know a subset of the county and whether that's the way to do it Whether to do it countywide I don't think we know We would really love to continue this conversation and get your thoughts. The need is certainly there throughout the county I don't think anybody would say we're we're good. We don't need any more help. So We'll see where that goes So, um, I'm really proud that uh, along one has this is one of its uh visions for In our work plan as as what we work for our city But when we discuss this I don't want us to forget that child care is not just in centers It is also in homes grower infant through 18 months old 18 month old and I and I do know that this is part of governor polis's vision as well so when we Talk about the expense of child care. It has to be equitable A lot of people do child care in homes because of the cost and because of the consistency Of the child care provider From birth through kindergarten um, some people stay with the same child care home for five years whereas in a child care center that the uh teacher whatever you want to call them the the caregiver changes Depending upon who the shift when they're employed etc And it is a choice of a parent as to how they want their child cared for So when we discuss this I don't want us to forget that part of it that um If there is a tax in Some way either through an initiative through a special district etc It's going to have to really Take the cost of child care to the lowest possible amount um Because that is where the stickler is at the end of the day for parents so Is there anybody here for public comment? I see no one So, uh, we'll close that part of the meeting and continue on Okay, well, um, I just want to make a comment on child care. Um I think once again, we are this is a very Very strange time, but we are also extremely lucky to have a governor who not only Is future thinking in terms of transportation But also has been involved with daycare Since he was born literally I worked for his parents Who had a baby and then realized? They didn't know what they were going to do with that baby all day And so they started asking their employees and their employees said Yeah, we've got the same problem. We don't you know, and so they started a daycare in their building And I have been trying for years to try to get businesses to understand that they could pool resources I mean their employees would be less stressed would have more time would be happier and Um In every way things would be better if they would pool resources and and Create sort of little regional uh, child care centers or if they have enough room They could turn them, you know part of their office into child care um, a lot of things have been done on a statewide basis as a councilman peck said It isn't just a matter of incentives and money It is a matter of the fact that it is it is a very difficult job and um People uh the daycare centers often make a lot of money a lot of money But the people working there who almost exclusively women um Are paid extremely poorly and they also have to keep up They have a lot of education they have to go through a lot of hoops. They have to go through A lot of that has been changed by our terrific state legislators and the governor by Helping people who are going through daycare education to get there In a more timely way and helping them with financial incentives You can't have a daycare center without daycare workers and so It is many different approaches like everything. It's not just a matter of taxing people and giving them, you know Having money available It is also that you have to have daycare workers.  They want good care That's you I mean the person taking care of your child is you in absentia. So You want them to care about your child and also educate your child and That takes a very special person So Money can't buy that but you know if you help people good people actually get their certification and you help small family people who are educating people in their homes to Do a little better and make it easier for them there If you help out for instance, we help Provide masks and various things for daycare centers If everybody helps the daycare centers a little bit we can have a better situation for everybody Um So that's what I would like to see is an appreciation for what can be done on a statewide basis We have already passed a whole lot of things in the last Three years that make it much easier for daycare workers to actually be daycare workers And that's a very important part of this Just one more one last comment Um The data on the number of license providers is pretty clear that that number has been declining year over year Polly's right. We're not going to solve this or jump right. We're not going to solve this through licensed providers only um, but the One of the interesting data points we heard from larimer county The larimer county Council had offered 48 Had made the 48 job offers last year Uh, they they made they hired 48 people 45 of them had already left in the first year So you think just to be at the cost, I mean you you know, you understand this in terms of the cost of turnover But that's a result of our failure to professionalize compensate support a whole industry and and those people who we we have tried to recruit to be part of it. So um, I mean that that that's just not sustainable And obviously that's going to take money and that's going to take Uh Public money I suspect if we're gonna if we're going to reimagine and then respond to what we imagine in terms of a new era of child care Child care or any of these other topics are on the bottom of the agenda It's the hockey puck drop get your stick ready Take a swing at it Everybody wants to go home I'm interested in I just want to bring to your attention that uh, we have a Boulder county has an opportunity to uh, possibly look at having an equestrian center at the boulder county fairgrounds And I would like that to be at some point in the future In 2022 to be a discussion That we open up with the commissioners To see if there's a possibility or any interest in furthering that discussion. I brought that up six years ago So I just want to revisit it The other thing is safe lots for sleeper vehicles We have a lot of people. We have three safe lots for cars And um, there are 33 people who are living in their cars Right now that are waiting to be vetted to get into those safe lots We have so many people who have been Unhoused for various reasons. I would love it all to be covet so we can throw a lot of money at it But I don't know if that's true That is a something that we need to look into further But we also have people living in their sleeper vehicles be they vans campers Another type of a sleeper vehicle because they have been on house Again for various reasons a lot of it because of covid Because their rent has gone up and some landlords or managers want back pay their back rent from the rent they lost over the time that That they were not paying rent So we had asked at one point to use the camp lot At the fairgrounds because it does have a dumping station For people who live in their sleeper vehicles But they are residents of our city. They are not transients And there are some People living in those vehicles Who have children who are going to school in the st. Frame Valley school district So I'd like to re address that issue As we look for housing for those people We would like or I personally would like To open up that conversation once again To see if we can temporarily Use that camp lot at the fairgrounds or perhaps another lot and and charge Dumping fees so that they wouldn't actually camp there But perhaps could use the facilities so And then air quality air quality is bad As we all know That's the bigger conversation. I would just like to Push that out there that I think that the county and cities need to Have a joint conversation about how we can I know we're discussing it with greenhouse gases and EVs And buses and trains and getting vehicles off. But how can we How can we address it in other ways to bring our county? Into the focus as being a solution As looking for solutions So that's it. Those are my three issues I don't think thank you I don't think we're going to be able to do justice to any of these topics at the bottom We just don't have the time, but I think it's a great start Yeah, thank you. And I want to just respond to especially for public for the I'm on the master plan executive advisory board for the fairgrounds And that public process has started With two weeks ago that group put together meetings with all the current users of the fairgrounds So just so that folks know that the public then the open groups for community members who have new ideas Who maybe aren't users currently of the fairgrounds the groups of our community Around the entire county because it is boulder county fairgrounds folks in the mountains some of our other Sectors of communities who aren't currently using that facility for events We are inviting those folks as well. And so there'll be a whole public process In addition to what's already started. So I just want to make sure that folks know that and certainly for the public And if that's the ideas that they want to bring in and others we would be really really interested in hearing all of this Is that plan develops? preferences for the for the next Meeting I was very happy to see barrier free homeless shelters or lower barrier homeless shelters On this agenda. I'm sorry. We didn't get to talk about it, but I think it's an important thing uh because they're just they're what it's doing is it's it's increasing the service defiant segment of our unhoused persons because They're asked they're being asked to give up too much to get into navigation And I you know regardless of whether it's constitutional it's inhumane um, but I would like to ask The commission as a group and maybe this can be the commission's closing remarks How you feel about the ac i'll use summer statement About boulder county's coordinated entry program Okay, I should have thought of sending it to you beforehand. I'll send it to you afterwards and we'll talk about it at a later date Sorry to blindside you 30 It's about 7 30 so I think we'll call it a night So thank you everybody for doing this. It was a year off and now we're back and it's great to see everybody again Thank you for being public servants. I think it's the highest calling um being raised by a couple parent by a couple teachers um, so Thanks for being part of this. Thanks for delivering service and look forward to working with you on these issues including arpa


Thank you so much, Chris. Something is building here in Brooklyn. The team is following the lead of the head coach, Jack Vaughn. And you can feel it in the way that we've seen the effort and the execution and the attention to detail. And it's now showing up on the scoreboard. That's five straight wins here at Barkley Center. And any time there's a bit of a slippage, we see a timeout of Jack Vaughn having a great feel of how to get everyone back together. And so much of what this has been is a product of defensive stops, allowing to get some runouts, ball sharing, the amount of assists Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving put up the big numbers in terms of points. But we saw some very, very impactful plays, in fact, impactful buckets from everyone collectively. And I think you feel that energy and the understanding that everyone needs to play a role. And there's been a better understanding of staying ready, regardless of what it looks like, what the team looks like, just some smart moves too in terms of matchups, going big, going small. You like how Jack Vaughn pushed the buttons, especially down the stretch and the team responded. And limiting the turnovers, another huge key for Brooklyn. Obviously, every head coach is looking for that, trying to cut down on the mistakes. But in particular tonight, the Nets were very careful with the basketball. And there was a cohesiveness at the other part of the equation too, for Brooklyn right now. You don't know who's going to play. And that means everybody's got to be ready. And we've seen that, Cam Thomas in the second half. He did not log a minute in the first half, comes in, and carries out a role that Jack Vaughn was looking for. And I think it's just knowing that that opportunity may come at different points throughout the course of the game, may come at different points throughout the course of the season. But now I think they're starting to understand top to bottom of systematically how this group wants to play, what's expected in terms of roles, the switching nature of the defense, communication, where to be moving on a string, and also offensively, the sets, the play calling, the nuances of the actions that are taking place, the chemistry continues to build. And that's a part of it, especially with changing lineups, new group, players being in and out. And I think the more that that continuity builds, it's an opportunity for Brooklyn quite frankly to being here at home during this stretch of time. And I think you just nailed it. Toronto's coming up on Friday night. When you looked at the schedule before this season started, we knew this would be a very important stretch. You've got to take care of business on your home floor. The Nets didn't do that last year. And that became an issue come playoff time where they needed to summon something against Boston. They just couldn't do it. That's important to establish it. Nets are starting to do that now. And the uptick continues. It's Toronto. It's Boston coming out on Sunday. The team is probably playing the best in the NBA right now. And when it comes to Toronto, they've got some healthy bodies back that Brooklyn did not see when they were up in Canada just the other week. But regardless of who's on the floor, again, it comes back to the understanding of how this group wants to play. And when you have one of the best basketball players on the planet and Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving to go along with it, the rest of the crew, you've got to understand that regardless of opponent, they're going to come and bring your best. And I think the Nets are starting to realize that and starting to come with the requisite level of energy and attention to detail. Some magical moments from Durant and Irving, but great team victory here for Brooklyn.


Selling merch is something so many musicians do so badly. If you watch the comments of Instagram or Twitter replies to the musicians, fans can play to them about how bad their merch is and how they wish they could just get their act together. But if you make some basic choices, you can do it well so easily. So in this video, I'm going to tell you the best options of how to sell merch whether you have zero fans or tens of thousands. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon, a music marketing nerd who's teaching musicians how to go from zero to ten thousand fans on YouTube and this is Muse Formation. So one of the biggest miskeptions people have about merchandise is it only works if you're a huge artist, which is totally wrong and has been changed drastically like much of the rest of the music business by streaming music. The fact is, even if you have ten passionate fans online, you can often sell two of them merch if the desire is good and you make them aware of it to both fund your music and create walking advertisements that help create curiosity about your music and get you more fans who will buy your merch. This makes merchandising your music one of the biggest wins for you. Obviously, there's a lot to discuss around merchandising your music. But today I want to talk about the strategy behind selecting which merch platform is best for your merch. And in future episodes, we'll get into a whole lot more on strategy to increase merch sales and do it as well as possible. Even if you have zero fans, if you plan on going hard on promoting your music, you should enable merch sales so you can take advantage of people who are excited about you to both become a walking advertisement for your music as well as fund it. So even if you have no interest in your music, I think it's always a good idea to get a merch store ready. Since if things start pulling up for you, you enable every fan who has that rush of loving your song to be able to buy it and you're able to take advantage of enthusiasm right as it hits and not miss any opportunities. So many artists miss out on that initial wave of enthusiasm when they first blow up and countless dollars they could have used to fund their next single to build upon that enthusiasm and are left crying about it. But let me also say without getting in the weeds too much, that only happens if you put up good designs that work emotionally with your music. If you just make a MS Paint design and do the comic sans, it's not going to work out well. You need to research the community that you're in musically and the scene around your music and make sure you're putting out merch that's as good if not better than the merch around you. So let's say you have no fans. Here's how I would do merch. We want you to make a merch store through a print on demand service since that means they'll only print shirts or other merchandise whenever somebody orders it and you'll have to put no money down so you waste no money doing this just the time it takes to upload the designs to the website, which I imagine you have a decent amount of. You can take the designs you already have for your singles or your logo as long as they're good and turn them right into things that can be sold and make money off of. Right now my two favorite stores for doing this are Printful and Manic Merch. Until recently, the problem with print on demand services was the prices to do it were astronomical and fans would complain that the merch people would sell through them were more expensive than their favorite RS merch, but now you're able to make high quality merch at a competitive price to other RS and what they sell. As far as the two services I just recommended go, Printful has a lot of bells and whistles and a lot of really fashionable t-shirt designs and things that kids like and if you're selling to highly fashionable people, they're really the way to go. Whereas Manic Merch is a more simple bare bones merch provider that can be set up super easy and has a bit better profit margins. The key with these stores is to price your merch so that you make a small profit off of a high quality design. Now what does that mean? As I've discussed in plenty of videos that making visuals that align emotionally with your music not only helps your promotions go further, but those designs can also help you sell merch, which is why it's important to invest in design since it makes people take you seriously as an artist and it helps you sell this merch that helps fund your music in the future. Of course the downside to this is that these stores don't really have a lot of options for customizing to look like your own store and don't feel as fancy as the nice merch stores of your favorite artists. The way around that is to get a store through Big Cartel or Shopify, which can integrate with Printful so you can still take advantage of print on demand services, but you end up paying Big Cartel or Shopify's fees on top of it, but the store can look much better and you can sell digital downloads as well. But the problem is you then pay fees for another store on top of Printful and lose profits, but if you're worried about how your aesthetic looks, then this can be worth the money. But if you have no fans, you can always upgrade to this as you have a demand for your merchandise and more people are gonna be seeing it. The other option I recommend is if you have some traction and have a few hundred people who are starting to buy merch from you, is to go the traditional route and fulfill merch yourself, which you pay for upfront, store it somewhere and then pack it and ship it yourself. I particularly like this option for musicians out there who are gonna be touring road warriors or have some momentum and wanna connect with their fans a little bit more through the merch they sell. If you're a band that's gigging regularly and already has merged, this can be a great option and you can obviously make more money doing this as you're not paying for the print on demand services to ship it out and fulfill it for you, which costs so much money. But the other advantage to this is what we will talk about extensively at some point. Tony Shea, the founder and CEO of Zappos, talked about this concept of random acts of wow. Where the company would do little things that would excite customers so much that they would then talk about Zappos on social media or tell their friends, like, I can't believe they did this for me, like ship it even sooner and make sure that the product had a little extra treat. With the Group Man overboard that I used to manage, we had a huge, huge merch line and we took a hint from this. We ran our own merch organization and the band would customize writing messages to fans that often made a play on their name or wrote a personal message to them about something in their merch orders. We dropped stickers and postcards in with the orders and the amount of shares we got about people being like, wow, I can't believe they did this, really did great advertisements to keep growing our merch brand, which really, really blew up over time. If you want to do this yourself, I recommend selling on Bandcamp or Limited Run. I find Limited Run to have many cool options and with them you get a free mailing list provider that kills two birds with one stone and can cut down on the fees you're paying each month for that. Since they both allow physical items and digital downloads to be sold, they are both a great solution. Just remember, if you're planning to fill these items yourself, there's tons of headaches with it. Bad shipments, wrong sizes and tons of other issues that you need to take care of that will get fans angry with you if you don't handle them properly. While this may seem minimal, when about two out of every 100 orders have an issue with it, it can really bring you down. But I will say this, I really like it for artists that's starting to do well as personal interactions you can have with their fans can really grow them into super fans as I'm always talking about building relationships. The fans that buy from you open a door for you to build a relationship that can really, really grow if you do it right. But once your merch store is doing really well and you have hundreds or thousands of paying fans, you don't wanna fulfill it yourself because it takes too long. So I like to do this through Printful or through a merch fulfillment company, but I highly recommend moving your store to something like Shopify as they offer the best tools in the game in exchange for some pretty high fees. Whether it's having excellent SEO so fans can find your merch easier onto just a great trustworthy interface that keeps the people order from you up to date or just having a clean interface with that customer's trust who wanna buy from you. In fact, in a future video, I'm even gonna argue that Shopify is the best platform to build your music website on for most artists. Since you could kill two birds with one stone by paying for just Shopify instead of a separate website since Shopify is all the functionality and more of the best website platforms out today. But it's true power lies in the ability to market and present merch in a professional way. And if you're gonna be selling tons of merch, they are at this point are the best tool in the box for helping you sell merch more effectively. I would work up the scale on your merch and dies over time and choose the roots I outline here. If you have any tips or questions on merchandise companies or how to do this properly, leave them below in the comments. Thanks for watching. Am I missing anything? Is there any other way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I wanna answer them. So leave them in the comments since I answer every comment in every post. I hope you liked this video and if you did, please like, subscribe and get notified. 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You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reeve Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reeve at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. The Mountain Art Center will be holding a fall gospel singing on Saturday, September 24th. It's all church, having a good time in the Lord, praying somebody gets saved, and it's not an entertainment thing. It's coming together as churches and people, once you're a good gospel music. The singing boasts an impressive lineup of talented performers. Yeah, we have a pretty good lineup this year. Of course, we have everybody knows the legendary Spencer's, Mom, Paul, JB, and Barbara Spencer will be here, along with their son Kevin Spencer will be here, and then we have brother Mike Blanton in evidence, him and his wife Teresa are local from Johnson County, so everybody knows him. He travels all over and preaches and sings, and then the group that I sing was Steppin' Out on Faith. We're a regional group here, we'll be singing on that night also. Tickets are currently on sale for the fall concert. You can get your tickets by calling<PHONE_NUMBER> by going to macarts.com or by buying them at the Mountain Art Center box office. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.


There's a lot of science out there that says coffee doesn't break the fast, but I'm kind of like, is that true? If I have almond milk in it, I don't, is it true? Is it not true? Do you know? Yes. So let's unpack that a little bit. I mean, it's like the funniest thing because these cultural memes of these roles, like I made some of these roles up basically. I remember like talking about a 36 hour fast and like that kind of just became a meme to like hit 36 hours. So why is coffee an interesting substance? Well, it's a caloric meaning that doesn't trigger a lot of the nutrient sensing pathways that you care about triggering or breaking a fast. And as you unpack the metabolism of how fasting works, it's what pathways in your body detects nutrients in your body. So there's mTOR, which is a protein insulin sensing pathway. And there's pathways to detect other substrates or other other compounds. So in terms of the green levels of fast breaking, coffee is usually considered not breaking a fast because it doesn't trigger mTOR. There's no calories in it. So you're not getting any caloric intake. But for me, I think that cycling off of caffeine, giving your brain a break from just having constant adenosine blockers, which is what caffeine does. It blocks the tiredness neurotransmitter from binding to its neurotransmitter receiver. I don't necessarily think that it's a good thing to have constant caffeine consumption. So I actually recently cycled off of caffeine for over a month now. And that was because I thought I felt like it was overdoing caffeine. I would have close to 400 milligrams of caffeine a day, which is like two, three, four cups of coffee. And would get caffeine withdrawal headaches. I'm like, okay, do you need to be triggering emergency levels of caffeine to just feel normal? I didn't like that. So I dialed back down and we can talk about why it might not be good to just constantly drench your brain with adenosine blockers because that would inversely upregulate adenosine receptors. So when you're off of caffeine, you're more sensitive to being tired. Do I want to be in that state? And that was inspired by some of my friends who are elite performers who were like, yeah, it sucks not have that boost, but I don't want to be out on a mission or in competition, don't have access to caffeine. And like, I'm just literally more sensitive to being tired because that little adenosine boost, I'm going to have much more receptors to pick that up. So that got me a little bit around adenosine or caffeine at the very least. But people talk about other sorts of crutches. I think caffeine is a good kind of entry point to get into fasting because caffeine is an appetite suppressant. It doesn't trigger mTOR in these nutrient sensing pathways. So it's like a very reasonable thing to start and push out your first calorie intake.  Like butter and coffee or MCT and coffee. And the reason why that doesn't necessarily break a fast is because fat doesn't trigger an insulin response or an mTOR response.   So fat sometimes people incorporate in because then they're a little bit more satiated, they don't feel as tired, maybe helps boost ketosis for incorporating MCT oil. So people consider it a fat bomb or a fat fast where it doesn't like break the fast in terms of mTOR insulin. But it obviously breaks the fast in terms of taking in calories. So you're no longer burning your stored fat.  And then people talk about bone broth, amino acids. Again, amino acids trigger some of the nutrient sensing pathways. So you can cut quite specific and nuance and what you consider breaking a fast or not a fast. To me, look, just a strict water fast, meaning just drinking water is going to be the best. And it's better to have some sort of fasting behavior. So if you really need the coffee or the bone broth or MCT oil coffee, great. It's better than just eating a freaking fruit loops in the morning and a donut. So 100 percent. So it's all about what we can do. Get away from processed food. That's that's certainly one thing in general. So it sounds like almond milk for sure breaks my fast. It's got mTOR. I would imagine there's. It's a little bit. I mean, if you look at almond milk, it's basically. Bashed up almonds with some sugar in it. Yeah, I drink a four ingredient almond milk. We actually invested in this company. It's it's basically just almonds, water. They add a little bit of date syrup and then sea salt. And that's it. And so it's cool. Yeah, I mean, that's much cleaner than a lot of the stuff they see have canola oil or some weird because like the mouth feel is off. Yeah. And I don't I don't like stuff like Otley, which has like canola oil in there.  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The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 to 1919, which caused almost equals 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered. Understanding the 1918 pandemic and its implications for future pandemics requires careful experimentation and in-depth historical analysis. This article was authored by Jeffrey K. Taubenberger and David M. Morins.


Now let's talk about some of the hand positions in the first four. So the first hand position is the yajichong kyun, or the straight vertical punch. Now a lot of people say that your vertical punch should do this at the end, do this at the end. Don't really worry about it. What you want to do is focus on driving the bottom three knuckles straight into the target. So don't worry about it going like this or like this. When you come out, just drive the bottom three knuckles straight from here, straight into the target. When you have that, then you have the correct technique. So for the palms, make sure that your palms are like this, and your finger is tucked nice and neat next to your hand. Make sure it's not hanging out like this, or even slightly like this, because this can easily get caught. When you're trying to palm somebody, you can get caught in somebody's arm, and you can easily sprain or dislocate your thumb. So make sure your palms are like this. One good exercise for training your palms is to try to extend your arms straight out, and try to pull your fingers straight back and touch your shoulder with it. Alright, so what that does is trains your tendons, and trains your ligaments to become a lot stronger. And that way you can get a lot more inch power and short inch power that we practice a lot in Wing Chun. Another position that you'll see is the Tan Sao, Fok Sao, and Wu Sao. So when you do your Tan Sao, Fok Sao, and Wu Sao, try to keep your wrist in the same position. All you're changing is the hand shape. The rest of your structure will remain the same. So none of this is moving. The only thing that is moving is my hand. So here we go. We got the Tan Sao. We got the circle hand. We got the Wu Sao. We got the Fok Sao. It's all the same. So none of this is moving. All we're changing is the shape of the hand. Another important point is the position of the elbow and the structure of the elbow in the whole form. The reason we want to slide the hand or the arm across our body like this, is you want to keep the elbow as close to the centerline as possible as we're moving it out. Now you want to keep it as close as possible, but you don't want it to be right in the middle so much that you lose your structure here. You want to keep your structure because what this does is it tends to make your spine distort a little bit too much. So just go close enough so that you can feel that this is sinking down, but not too much in the middle, but not too much flared out. A great way to do this is to do push-ups on the ground while we're close. Find the position on the ground where it's easiest for you to do a push-up with your elbows real close to your body. Now if you can do a push-up, you can experiment. You can try holding a position like this. Now is this going to be easier or is this going to be easier? I think you would find that having your elbows close to your body will be easier. You can even rest it onto your chest. Now if you put it up here, what happens is now you're using your shoulder muscles and you're not engaging your back muscles to keep your energy forward. This will just be using your shoulder muscles and your chest muscles.  So more muscles are engaged and also the structure will connect your wrist directly into your spine a lot better than if you do this. That's why we have a really close elbow whenever we do our hand positions in the first form.


Hello everyone, welcome back another AI video and this one's very quick, very simple. I want to show you how to use the new Llama LLM or large language model. Meta has recently released the open source version of Llama and here it is. All you need to do to test it out and give it a test run, please note that it's free to use versus ChatGPT4, which is paid. Go to labs.perplexity.ai, link is in the description below. When you load it up, you're going to see a screen like this, but I highly recommend that you go to the bottom right here and take a look. You'll see that when I click on that, there's 7B Chat, 13B Chat and 70B Chat. I recommend selecting 70B Chat because that is basically 70 billion parameters versus the default, which is 13 billion. So you'll get better responses. It might take a little bit longer, but if you want to do a comparison, say between ChatGPT and Llama, this is how you can do it. And keep in mind, this is free to use. So give it a run, click on the link. It's good to go. Thanks for watching.


So a lot of the questions that I usually get are surrounded around some negative experience, you know, how do I avoid a bad grade on step one or step two or the MCAT or how do I make sure that I'm successful to get into residency or do well as a doctor? There's always kind of this fear of failure and so the question's always framed and how can I avoid this? But one thing that sometimes students don't realize is that there is some element of success in failure and I am a living example of it. You know, my whole platform through various forms of social media and the YouTube channel has been around the idea of like, it's okay if I make a mistake because two things happen. One, I realize what the mistake was and two, I'm able to frame that mistake to then a piece of advice that I can give to a complete stranger or somebody who asked me in the future and saying, you know what, if I was to be in my shoes again, this is how I would do it differently. And so over time you start to build this muscle where you try different things with the best practices that you've learned from your past experiences and you also kind of have a repertoire of lessons that you've learned that you can offer to other people as well as yourself if you find yourself in the same situations.


Gender equality in science. Women make up 50% of our community, that should include science. Things have improved dramatically since 1919, but not enough. Then what is so positive in this? Well, it is no longer extraordinary for a woman to be a doctor, or a scientist. The gender discrimination that extraordinary women like Rosalind Franklin or Marie Curie faced about the merits of their scientific contributions would not happen today. According to Oxford University Press, the inequality toward women is endorsed within cultures and entrenched within institutions, hold power to reproduce that inequality. The statistics from National Science Sport and SB, present the change at that time. The number of science degrees awarded to women rose from 7% in 1970 to 24% in 1985. In 1975 only 385 women received bachelor's degrees in engineering compared to 11,000 women in 1985, indicating the importance of legislation to the representation of women in science. Elizabeth Finkel, journalist and scientist, claims that even if the number of women participating in scientific fields increases, the opportunities are still limited. However, when the women try to prove their competence and power, they often face obstacles. In any case, in most cultures around the world, men are still more likely to hold positions of economic, cultural and political power and earn the biggest salaries. On the contrary, and looking at the bright side, these differences are formed by the society and culture, they can exist in many variations and can change and adapt within time. Nevertheless, public debate on positive regulations for women in science is missing.