Good afternoon. I'll call the meeting of the Board of Public Utilities for the City of Santa Rosa to order if we may have a roll call, please Board member right here board member Walsh here board member Bartholome Board member Badenfort Vice chair Anoni here and chair Galvin here let the record reflect that all board members are present with the exception of board members Bartholome and Badenfort Thank you item two on our agenda as statement of abstention by board members. Do we have any? Very good. I'll take care of that. We'll move to item number three We're happy to welcome back Chris Grable who's going to be sworn in as our newest member and Want to come forward, please? If I could have you please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. I Chris Grable Do solemnly swear or affirm? Do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California and the Constitution of the state of California Against all enemies foreign and domestic Against all enemies foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter give you an opportunity if you'd like board member Grable to say a few words yeah I'll keep it short and keep it to gratitude I'm truly grateful to to be back and for the opportunity to serve with you all for for the betterment greater good of the community and to do good work with and with such an esteemed board with the expertise that is contained up on this dais it's a it's an honor and I'm really grateful to be back we're glad to have you back as well so welcome I hope any of the board members have anything they wanted to say yeah welcome back all right we'll open it up to public comment then item 3.1 if you wish to make a comment please move to the podium seeing nobody moving that'll take care of item 3 well now we have no study session item 5.1 is the approval of the minutes for November 2nd 2023 so I'll open it up for public comment on the minutes approval seeing none the minutes will be approved and entered we'll now move to we have no staff briefings no consent items no report items we'll move to item number nine which is public comments on non-agenda matters if you wish to make public comment please move to the diet to the podium seeing none we have no referrals no written communications any subcommittee reports no any board member reports or vice chair anoni I just wanted to comment on what a nice celebration it was of the 20 year anniversary of the geysers project and a lot of people convened up in Middletown and a lot of folks that were instrumental in getting the project completed and planned were there and it was just well put together by all the staff that worked on it and it was good to recognize such an important project so I would agree I thought the visitor center was quite impressive and to see some old faces from the old board and old council members it was it was a fun morning enjoyed it okay we'll take the public comments on board member reports if there is any see no one directors report chair galvin I have no report on behalf of the director just wishing you a happy Thanksgiving all right then I'll turn it over to our assistant city attorney to announce our closed session thank you so we will meet in closed session on two items 15.1 is conference with legal counsel existing litigation ATTF product liability litigation and the second is anticipated litigation under the same matter 15 points 15.2 all right we will adjourn then and we'll reconvene up in the mayor's conference room and then we'll be back afterwards to report out and adjourn the meeting chair galvin if we could please open it up for public comment before you recess to closed session thank you secretary Montoya I'll open it up for public comment on our closed session items 15.1 and 15.2 see no one rise there's no public comment we'll now adjourn to the mayor's conference room all right we will reconvene our board of public utilities meeting and ask our assistant city attorney to report out please on our closed session board met in closed session on items 15.1 and 15.2 and there's no reportable action very good that will take care of our agenda for today so we will be adjourned I wish you all of I'm sorry if we could do the announcement of the roll call for after closed session okay board member right here board member Walsh here board member Grable here board member Barthelot board member Badenfort vice chair Anoni here and chair Galvin here all right and let the record reflect that all board members are present with the exception of board members bad Badenfort and Barthelot great now that concludes our agenda I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving and we'll see you in a couple weeks


Walkers in Ocean State have commanded Governor Goya Gaoyetala for his commitment to their welfare and well-being since inception of his administration, describing him as a father. This is even as the governor lauded walkers in the state for their hard work, sacrifice, selflessness and commitment to duties towards building a better and more prosperous state. Speaking during the celebration of the year 2021 Worker's Day, organized by labor movement in the state at the city stadium in Oshubu, state chairman, Nigeria Labor Congress Jacob Adikomi, attributed their successes recorded by the labor movement to the unalloyed support given by the state government in the last two and a half years of this present administration. According to him, Gaoyetala deserves to be commended in view of his uncommon leadership trait that he has exhibited to tanning around the fortunes of the state. The state chairman and joint negotiation council, Bayo Adejimo, also extolled the leadership quality of Governor Gaoyetala and retreated to work his commitment to continue to support the administration and the actualization of its developmental agenda aimed at boosting the economy of the state. Significance of Worker's Day celebration was over, could not be over-inversed. The day gives the labor movement the platform through which the contributions of workers towards the state and national building is showcased. Mr. Governor, we both say in you we have a father not a boss, though you are firm and highly principled, but the father in you has made the movement to recall some successes and push my hands on the face of our team members without a single day of strike since the session of your athletic administration, we touch which load up is the fulfillment of the promise of God, Ileri Oluwa. In his remarks, the Gaffnell said the administration was unapologetically people and workers-centered, hence the uncommon commitment and dedication of government to good governance. The Gaffnell charged them to reciprocate the government's gestures by ensuring increased productivity and efficient service delivery, a spot of effort for a government to generate more IGR to make the state financially sufficient. That is why we have, without fail, ensured your salary is up from the paid. That is the reason we have ensured that we have implemented the minimum wage ahead of many other states in the country as a reward to your tireless commitment for building a better state is on account of this. Our pensioners have been paid gratities. Our challenging financial conditions are notwithstanding. He posited that the government has also been empowering the team in youth in entrepreneurial and productive benches to make them contribute to the Quote that the social economic development of the state and take their place in the competitive world. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


we could also obtain y n point by point for each n. Here all that we need to do is to reinterpret the expression for convolution. So what we are saying is take note of the expression for convolution once again. Instead of now thinking of x of k as a constant and h of n minus k as a sequence, I told you the interpretation is important. We will think of both x of k and h of n minus k without the summation as sequences indexed by k. So x k is a sequence indexed by k that is easy to understand h n minus k is also a sequence now not indexed by n but indexed by k okay. So think of h of n so the difference in that approach is think of h of n minus k as a sequence in k not in n for fixed n you see because you are trying to calculate point by point and how do we obtain that sequence we need to interpret that. So towards interpreting that we will follow two steps we will first go from h k to h k plus n for a fixed n and obviously for a fixed n h of k plus n is essentially the in the sequence h of k shifted backward by n. So h of k plus n is h of k shifted backward by n and the next step is of course to replace k by minus k. So when we replace k by minus k what we are doing is to reflect about k equal to 0 replacing k by minus k essentially means switching every pair of points for example switching 1 and minus 1 switching 2 and minus 2 switching 3 and minus 3 keeping 0 where it is. So it really means you are making a mirror image of that sequence with the mirror placed at k equal to 0 remember the sequence that you are mirroring is h of k plus n alright. So we are mirroring h of k plus n and we can now visualize what to expect in fact I do not need to take a specific example we can write in general in general you know when you have at 0 something you might have h of 0 and so on is not it h of 1 h of 2 and so on this is the sequence here h of minus 1 and can go on behind if this is h k then h of n minus k is going to be obtained by shifting this backwards so maybe we will first write h of n plus k shifting this backwards so this appears at minus n and this can go on and then reflection now when you reflect minus n goes to plus n h of 1 which appears here after minus n will now appear before plus n. So what you do is move this to the point n and then switch or mirror all the points around that point n alright. So what we have is as follows h of n minus k is therefore at n put h of 0 at n minus 1 put h of 1 h of 2 and so on behind and here you have h of minus 1 h of minus 2 and this can go on this was not too difficult to see generally but we can of course fix our ideas by taking the same sequence that we did a minute ago for h n namely if we consider h n as we did there or you see of course here you can call it h of k if you like to be specific and h of n minus k is essentially at n put 1 and then therefore at n minus 1 you will also have a 1 simple. So essentially what we are saying is that this h n or h of n minus k more precisely has a 0 at the has 1 at the point n and 1 at the point n minus 1 and therefore if us if a system had the impulse response given by this h n if an LSI system have this h n as it is impulse response remember this tells me everything about the LSI system once I know this unit impulse response I know everything about the LSI system. So once I write this I have specified it completely if I have an xn what I am saying is y of n is essentially x of n times 1 plus 1 times of x of n minus 1. So the impulse response also gives me an interpretation of what the system does in fact more particularly a finite length impulse response immediately gives us an interpretation the moment you have a finite length impulse response a finite length impulse response means an impulse response where the number of non-zero samples is finite. So here for example the number of non-zero samples in the impulse response is only 2. So the beauty is that with this interpretation of the operation of convolution I also have an interpretation for how the impulse response describes the system for a finite length impulse response it is very straight forward it tells you that the output at any point becomes a linear combination of the input at that point and a few points around it. Now the key issue is whether you involve only points from the so-called past or also points from the so-called future I am saying so-called because past and future have a meaning when the independent variable is time not otherwise but if the independent variable is time it is very easy to see that if the impulse response has non-zero samples for negative n then you are going to involve so-called future samples and if the impulse response has non-zero samples only for non-negative n that is n equal to 0 and positive n then the output at a given point depends only on the input at that point and on points before it so to speak points from the past all right we will come to that a little later but let us use this expression let us use this idea to recalculate the output that we did a few minutes ago. So there we had x of k given by 261 n minus 1 is not it now you can visualize h of n minus k so I will just write it down on the side you see when I want to calculate so h of n minus k look like this 1 1 at n so now I can recap I can recalculate y n using this very easily you see I can visualize that when n is minus 1 I can visualize this sequence being brought here and the 1 comes in contact with 2 you multiply them point wise the 1 gets multiplied by 2 2 plus this one gets multiplied by a 0 so the output is 2 here on the other hand when n is 1 and sorry when n is 0 then this 1 clashes with a 6 and this 1 clashes with a 2 and therefore you have 6 plus 2 that is 8 similarly when n is 1 you have this one colliding with this one and this one with the 6 you have 7 there and when n is 2 you have this one colliding with minus 1 so the product is minus 1 and this collides with 1 so you have 1 into minus 1 plus 1 into 1 that is 0 and finally when n is 3 you have 1 colliding with a 0 and 1 colliding with a minus 1 and therefore you have just a minus 1 there for n less than minus 1 it is very easy to see that these 2 ones collide only with 0s here and for n greater than 3 it is very easy to see again that these 2 ones collide only with 0s and therefore there is no non-zero sum at all no it is convenient to give another mnemonic to this operation and that mnemonic is to think of one sequence as being static and the other sequence as being dynamic here you might think of this sequence as the passengers on a platform and you might think of this sequence as the passengers inside the bogies of a train that moves and you might visualize that this train moves one step at a time and there is a handshake between the passengers on the platform and the passengers on the train at every point the output is interpretable as the net effect that the train feels due to this handshake right so it is a combination you know some passengers are stronger some passengers weaker you might think of that as the number put there of course some passengers make a handshake outwards and some passengers make a handshake inwards that is the positive and negative part of it so altogether at every point there is a net impact of all these handshakes and the train moves one step at a time and the net impact is interpreted as the product of the strength of the person inside with the strength of the person outside summed over all the passengers which does make a handshake and of course after some time you run out of passengers now this is easy to understand when you have a finite number of passengers train has the finite number of passengers and the platform also has a finite number of passengers but it is not too difficult for us to extend the idea to a context where the train has an infinite length and the number of passengers on the platform is also infinite it takes just a little more visualization to arrive at an interpretation for that context is that right so this is another convenient mnemonic to interpret convolution is that right convolution is a very fundamental operation in the study of linear shift invariant systems convolution is an operation in its own right what I mean by that is other than the fact that it occurs in the context of linear shift invariant systems in a very very meaningful way you can think of it as an operation between two sequences independent of the context what I mean by that is you could have taken two sequences multiplied them point by point to get an output sequence that is also an operation between two sequences you could have taken two sequences added them point by point and that gives me an operation between two sequences of course those are what are called point operations that means each point of the output involves only the particular point of the input and the particular particular point of the two sequences if you have sequences point by point then you are operating on in a point wise way so the output is a point wise function of the input and the impulse response or the output if you do not want to call it them input and impulse response if you have two sequences the output is a point wise function of the points of the two sequences. However, convolution is not a point wise function. In convolution, we must now see from this example that in principle, all the points of the input and all the points of the impulse response have come into the picture to create a point of the output. Again going back to the mnemonic of the train and the platform, the impact felt by the train at every move is dependent on all the passengers on the platform and all the passengers in the train. It is not passenger by passenger. Is that right? So, it is truly convolution is truly an operation between two sequences and not point wise at all. This must be emphasized and understood very clearly. So, are there any doubts before we proceed? It is a very important operation and we must be absolutely clear how this is done. Now I put before you an exercise to do and I also introduced the verb form of convolution. Convolution is a noun. It is a name of the operation. The verb form is convolved. So convolved xn which is 7 minus 4, 3, 6, 2 with hn given by 2 minus 3 minus 6, 0 and let me put another point there to make you work a little harder.  Next time we are going to take note of this relation between the input, the impulse response and the output and we are going to fulfill our first promise namely the whole reason why we want to look at linearity and shift invariance was that if I gave a complex exponential as an input I would have expected a complex exponential to emerge. But we said we need one more thing that is stability. And the next lecture we will begin by seeing what happens when we give a complex exponential as the input to an LSI system and then see whether we are happy with the system being only LSI or we need something more that would bring us to a few more properties that we desire of linear shift invariance system. Thank you.


Hello, Welcome to SSUnitech Social Decide and this is continuation of PySpark tutorial. So in the previous video of this video series, we have seen about the introduction part of the PySpark and why PySpark is important to use inside the Azure Databricks. So if you haven't watched that video, I will provide the link of that video in the description of this video. So today we are going to see about the data frames. So what is the data frame? So before going to jump into the practical session, I would say this is very important to understand about the data frame because here inside the PySpark everything will be handled by the data frame. So what is data frame? So data frame is a distributed collection of a data organized into the named column. So for example, if you are having some data, so that data should be going to organize into the distributed format as a table, so that we will be having the columns and the rows. Next it is conceptually equivalent to a table in a relational database. So as I told you, it is very similar to the table that we have already seen inside the SQL server. So that we will be having your table name and then the column names and the rows as a data. Inside the PySpark or the Python or R language that is called as a data frame. And it is also an API. So in the simple word we can say like the data frame is an API. How the data frame will be going to work in the real time. So here we can first understand about the flow, how data will be processed. So for example, first we are having some of the source data and the source data will be on the CSV file, JSON file or any other format. Once we are having this data, so first thing come into the picture for reading the data. So how we can read the data. So for reading the data we are required an API. So that API is called as data source API. And here we are using the method that is the reader method. So in the simple word we can say first we are having the source data. We should be going to read that data. So for reading that data we are required something. So that something is the data source API. So this data source API will help us to read the data. So once we will be reading the data then we should be keeping that data in some place. So that is called as data frame. So data frame will come into the picture after reading the data. Here we have read the data and after reading it we are storing that inside the data frame. After storing the data frame we can also create another data frame by using the source data frame that we have seen here. So here we can say we are having this data frame one. So data frame we can simply understand a table. So this table we are having over here and after making some transformation on this table we will be creating another table. So for making that transformation we are required data frame API. So this data frame API will help us to transform the data. So after transforming the data we will be loading inside another data frame. So here we are having this data frame one that is a table one we can say. Here after making some changes on that table we are creating table two. So that is the again data frame. So once we have made all the changes and we are having a final data frame. So that data frame should be going to load inside the sync. So that sync will come into the picture as an write method. So as we are going to load the data or we are going to create any file and dumping the data there. So that is the part of the write we are writing something inside the sync. So here we are writing this table two into the sync. So that sync could be your ORC format or the packet format or any other file format or we can also dump inside the SSMS. So this is the flow that normally we are following in our upcoming videos. And this is the format is very important. So for writing the data into the sync we are again required some of the API. So that API is data source API as we can see but we are writing inside the sync. So we should be going to use the data frame write method for reading. We were using the reader method. So here we are using the write method. So let's summarize we are having some of the source. So first we are required to read the data for reading that data we are required some of the API. So that is the data source API. And after reading it we should be going to store in some of the temporary location. So in SSMS if you are familiar then you can understand something like the temporary table. So here the data frame is very similar to the temporary table. We are creating a temporary table or the data frame that is the table one I am calling here and then we are doing some of the transformation on the data that we are having inside the table one. So after making that changes we should be going to create another temporary table where we will be having the transform the data that we can see the table two. So that is the gain data frame. So after making all these changes we are going to write that data into the sync. So we will be writing this table two data because this is the actual data we need to process and loading into the sync. Here we have the raw data and this raw data we can see in table one and after processing we are having table two that is the formatted data and this formatted and transform data will be going to load inside the sync location. So I hope guys you have little bit idea about the data frame. In the next video we will be going to see how we can utilize this in the real time. So we will be seeing how we can create the data frame how we can read the data and how we can write the data everything we will be seeing by next videos. Thank you so much for watching this video. 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This study examined the effects of immersion in artificial saliva on four parts of a fixed orthodontic appliance, needy archwires, stainless steel, SS, brackets, bands, and ligatures. The results showed that the SS brackets and bands had different surface morphology when compared to the other parts due to differences in their manufacturing process. Additionally, the presence of salt precipitates, primarily potassium chloride, was detected on the surfaces of the SS brackets and bands. Furthermore, the ICP-MS analysis revealed that the SS brackets and bands released significantly more ions than the other parts, likely due to their welding process. Finally, the ion release did not correlate with surface roughness. This article was authored by Myrna Petkovich-Didovich, Ivana Jalovica-Bedavinak, Zelchka Fikei, and others.


So we didn't have the faith-based tech connection chat last month and I was excited to meet with you today to find out what's been going on, what's been happening in your community. Mark, I know you work at a boy's ranch. We definitely want to know what you're doing, how are you doing your fundraising this year, your strategic planning, whatever you want to share. I want to hear about it because we always pick up little nuggets from each other. So Mark, look, I'll just let you start. What's been happening, Mark? Oh, that is crazy. So I am the IT director for the Goods Road and Boys Ranch. We actually, in the last two years, have expanded a lot and for me, I'm more on the end of trying to get everybody the tools that they need. So we have a boys ranch. So we house about 80 boys and then we also have group homes for youth that are aging out of foster care. And then also we actually have a school-based program. So we have therapists that go into schools. And then on top of that, we actually have in-home. So we actually have a stabilization program that works with foster kids that trying to get the, to stabilize new families that have foster kids and some with before kids ever have to get into foster care, working with those kind of families. So for us, for me, when it comes to technology, I kind of glean as much as I can. There's a lot been happening lately, especially in the fundraising realm. I'm kind of on the side note, for a long time I was at the forefront when it came to using things like e-tapestry and Blackbot. My new thing, which is kind of trying to, oh man, our big thing is trying to activate the good wherever we can find it sometimes. And so in its weird realm, we've been looking more into cryptocurrencies, which is kind of interesting little, maybe nothing, but that's kind of where my guide has been. It's kind of all over and maybe technology is probably good for people with ADHD, which I don't have it, at least I've never been diagnosed, but there's just a lot going on. Yeah, that's awesome. Thanks for sharing that. I don't think you're wrong with cryptocurrency, despite what we hear, you know, the markets crash and everything. And I don't know if you guys are using every.org where you can accept cryptocurrency yet as donations, because you just never know what millennial is saying, hey, I made all this money in cryptocurrency.  So I don't think you're wrong with that. And you guys are doing a lot. One thing you said at the beginning that you're trying to get everyone up to speed. So you got, for what you're doing, I know you have a lot of moving parts. So there was a guy that said something that made me curious. He said he was an IT person, but whenever he gets new volunteers, whenever he gets new person on board, you know, he always has to train. And, you know, my manager Nick was like, great suggestion. Just let them take a course at TechSoup. We have all these different courses. So what are you doing to help your people move forward? Well, my big thing is I, when I first started, I'd been doing this for about two years. Prior to this, I was a missionary. My wife and I have worked in Chicago with South Asians, which is a large tech community in Chicago. So gleaned a lot of different things. When it comes to learning, the premise for me originally was to sit down with somebody and teach them. But we tried to do as much as possible to get, so basically I helped the supervisors. And then when it comes to orientation, we've been working on creating a mentoring program. So we use Office 365, which we got through TechSoup. And their training, Microsoft allows some awesome training resources. When you set it up for your organization, it gives you some great tools to be able to just almost be hands off on some of that. And it allows them to do learning on their own. And then you're just there to answer questions. And I think that's probably the best part is when you can guide people through learning on their own. So it makes it a little harder. The teaching part, if you can give them the resources they need. And sometimes just the resources is just a quick email and a way to get a template. Sometimes it's just making sure, which I really love with TechSoup, the option. So most of our subscription base we've gotten from, so QuickBooks, those kind of things, you guys have given us everything we need to be able to go forward with those. And it makes it easier for those that aren't technology minded. Awesome. Thank you for sharing that. And I want to know, I'm curious to hear from everybody else because you said some key things because Microsoft does have those classes that I have Office 365 and having those little classes, even they're short and they're bite-sized classes so people can learn. How many of you are using your technology tools as a way to train people where you don't have to do the work? Like you can't work 24 hours. Who else is using those tools to train their people or allow them to get training? Anybody else? Okay, Mark, you might be the teacher here. So you just laid out some nuggets. Go ahead. Can I share something about that? Yeah. If you're set up with the Office 365, the Microsoft has a site called Learn and you can set that up as your own stuff. So like I have a personal live email account, Outlook, Hotmail, whichever you want to call it. And it allows me to go in and take classes through Microsoft and they're pretty quick based. So like a five-minute lesson, 10-minute lesson. And then it gives me the tools that I need to be able to walk through my employees and how to do things. And that is totally free. It's like using GitHub or any kind of open source training. And they actually will give you all the training you need to be able to take courses to get certified. So if you're working with your employees to be able to get them to the next level, but they want to do something more, for me it's IT, but it might be office management or just using Office 365, they'll give you everything to get certified in the software and then use either IT or HR or whatever you're doing. You can actually use that and then get them involved. They use the badge system, which is kind of fun for people to get a badge. So. Wow. Thank you. That's good information, Mark, seriously. So who else wants to share? Let's have this conversation. What are you doing for the summer? How are you keeping your community engaged? What are you doing for fundraising? Anybody else want to share and use the raise your hand option or you can just wave at me? Well, I don't see anybody.  So I would love to hear from Kevin. I don't know what generation they call you, generation Z's, whatever, you guys, they always come up with me, but can you give them some thoughts about how they can help their nonprofits or what do you think about the nonprofit world? I would love to hear that, Kevin. Yeah, definitely. It's definitely generation Z or Y. I'm very confused as to the naming, but that's besides the point. So just off the top of my head, if you're trying to reach out to younger generations and for a little bit of context, I'm 21. So that's my input. That's where I can give my thoughts. Big things that I see more and more charities doing, which I think is really important, that really separates this generation, is social medias. And the most recent one is TikTok. I've seen brands just skyrocket just due to solely having a great TikTok presence, being able to recognize and follow trends. And then you may not have the time to follow those trends and just be on TikTok all the time, because that's kind of like a little bit of a time wasted for just sitting there. We can do other works, but I'm sure you have children or grandchildren who are on those sites and you can just ask them like, Hey, I need some help with TikTok or Instagram. And they'd probably be willing to lend some advice. TikTok, Susan said TikTok, my apologies. And then another thing, us kids, we have a very short attention span. So you need like a snazzy graphic and title when you're posting stuff, because I'm going to be honest, for work, if you send me a long email, I'm probably not going to read that. I'm going to read the title first few sentences. And if it looks important, I'll skim it, but I won't really read it. So a little fault of mine, but I've noticed that's a trend with younger people. We don't really, if it doesn't immediately pertain to us, it's in one ear out the other. So you really got to grab us. And then I think the most important nugget of information I have is just utilizing local schools. So on top of this job at TechSoup, I do some more work with another charity known as RSF. And the way they recruited me was the owner or CEO of RSF was an alumni at my college. He was looking for marketing help. So he reached out to the dean of the business school and was like, Hey, I need help with this marketing project. And I know your school requires all the business students to get internships. So I'd like to recruit some of your students for an internship. And from there, he was able to give a pitch to the marketing students. And he ended up recruiting three of us and we were able to help expedite the process. So going to your sons, daughters, or grandchildren schools, or even your own past schools and asking, Hey, can I give this pitch to help, you know, the students as an alumni, I'm looking to help give back to the community. Part of the community is these schools and give them the, give them some expertise, some advice that'll help them in their careers. And then I'm not sure I haven't talked to my boss, Aretha here, but probably some of the reasons I stuck out as a candidate was because of that project I did with RSF, which wasn't non, which was a charity. You can this also translates to high school students. They are looking to do some volunteer work because that is really important for college applications. So that's my, my thoughts. Feel free to pick my brain on anything I said or any other questions you have. That was awesome. Kevin drops some nuggets there. And there was a comment in here from Susan. She said, Do you want to engage at all times also? So do you want the engagement at all times also? Susan, would you unmute yourself and, and ask that question? Because I'm not sure if I'm even saying it right, the way you want to ask. I don't know if you're able to unmute yourself because several people said they were at work. So if you want to rewrite the question, please do that. Anybody else have any questions or comments, thoughts about what Kevin said? Please use the raise your hand. I'll answer how I think you're asking it, and then you can let me know if I did it correctly in the chat. So she asked, Do you want the engagement all the time also? I'd say just a consistent like upload, like don't spam bombard me, but enough or like if it's like a daily thing where I see it every now and then, first repeatability, I become familiar with your brand, you're starting to like come up in my head. An example I'll give is, I'm not sure if you're familiar with this is there's a game called Raid Shadow Legends. And I get ads for it all the time. And while I might somewhat like meme about it, like, oh, it's, it's this game. It's always there. But whenever someone asked me about a game, that's the first thing in my head. So if you're able to get in my head, maybe make fun of yourself a little bit, but not too much because you got to be serious a bit, but show your authenticity like, Hey, we're doing this great thing, but we like to have fun. That really resonates with us younger people. And Kevin, you mentioned about graphics. I would love to know what everybody is using to make your graphics. Do you hire somebody? Do you use Canva? What are you using? Go ahead and type in the chat room and you can feel free to unmute yourself. I will tell you that there is a wonderful website called Poster Mind Wall. Does anybody use that one? Michelle, you do? Isn't that awesome? I mean, you can have all kinds of, it's already done for you. And I'm going to show it to you. So everybody's using Canva in Adobe. Do you pay for Canva or are you just using the free version? So Scott, you hire somebody that uses Canva.  Hi, I was paying for Canva, but through TechSoup, I was able because I'm a nonprofit and I have documentation, I was able to get it for free just because I'm a nonprofit. And that has been amazing because I can extend it out to my team. Awesome. Awesome. Thanks for sharing that. I'm going to show you Poster Mind Wall. First, I'm going to put the link in here because I think that you all should definitely use this. It is not free. It is $39 a month, but if you use a lot of graphics, this is something that it's already done for you. I'm waiting for it to come up once I get templates. Okay. And I'm going to share my screen in just a moment. And the reason why is because what Kevin is saying, making snazzy graphics, something to grab my attention. I know Canva is wonderful. I use Canva.  So you want something bigger and better. So let me know when you can see my screen. This is not the one I want to share. One second. One second. This is the one. Anybody have any questions in the meantime? While I'm waiting for this to come up. Okay. Can you see my screen? Give me a nod or a thumbs up. Okay. So this is Poster Mind Wall. And they've already got, like, you've got images in here. If you click on it, you can just replace the picture with your picture. You got album cups. You got posters. You got flyers, social media graphics. You have Facebook cover photos, thumbnails, anything. If you put a keyword in here, like somebody give me a keyword. Give me whatever you want. If you say, I would type in a chat room. It's awesome. Give me a keyword. Somebody give me a keyword because I can't think of it. Okay. Food and security. Oh my God. I don't know that. She's looking, think about Grant writing now, but I get it. So let me put a food and security. Hey, you never know. Just click on that. I type it in. Let's see what they come up with. And anything. Oops. I clicked it too fast. And security. There we go. Search. So anything that has food in it. So you may not use all of these, but my point is you grab ideas. If you have a barbecue, you grab these, you change your name. If you click on it, you'll see how you can change the words, the links. You see all these. So anything you can think of it comes up and it just goes on and on and on. So if I were to say, you know, Merry Christmas, this is, this seems like a good one. If I were to open that, I hit edit design. I can just go in and change my name, change the address here. I can say on, on zoom. It's, it's done. I can delete all that. I can change the phone number, change this to say our church name or grandma's menu or whatever, you know, whatever you can change all that. You can even change the, you can replace this with another picture of your food. This is amazing. I'm telling when somebody told me about this, I was like, I got to do this. So I use it. Well, I, I signed up for the subscription. And though I did, I may not use every month when I do, I'm happy because I didn't have to pay anybody, whatever, 50 dollars, whatever the going rate is to create a graphic. So you may want to look into that. Can TechSoup be a vendor? I will reach out to Gail. Gail is a person that kind of on boards like new technology. Thank you for saying that Sharon. I'll reach out to her. It's about relationship building. We have to know, you know, what they'll be, what they will give you all because not everybody, you know, but a lot of companies say, yeah, we'll, you know, we'll reach out to the nonprofits this way. So I'll reach out to Gail and ask if she can reach out to them. So thank you for mentioning that. But yeah, push to my wall is amazing. Anybody else have any comments or say you can also pay only when you want to download or download with watermark free? Yes. Yeah. Maybe that's why I don't have the watermark because I pay. You can also put videos on these too. I don't know if you saw, you see some big names out there in ministry. You see people who made their graphics, their graphics are on, pushing my wall and all you have to do is replace it with your images. I'm telling you, it's incredible. Michelle, she's nodding her head because yeah, she knows. So anybody else have any questions about what Kevin said or questions for Kevin? That was some good information. Okay. So who else wants to share? This is, this is, this is summer kickoff chat. You know, we're just chatting. Some people are at lunch. That's why they're on mute. They can't talk. But what else are you doing to empower your organization? Joseph, do you want to say something? I think they have to do the mute itself. I see you, Mer, Mer, I don't know. Meera. Hi. Hi. How are you? Good to be here. Thank you for hosting this. I had a question. What programs are available? What do people use to organize their photographs? Oh, anybody here? Michelle, she's got her hand raised. Did you want to answer that question or was that a different question? Different question. Okay. So what are you doing to organize your photographs? Now, are they in your phone or you mean on your computer or what? You know, the organization has a whole bunch of photographs. You know how we do things, Arita, because we're all nonprofits. We have tons of pictures from generations from years and years and we trot them out whenever we have to put out an appeal or put together a slight presentation or there's a gala or there's some event going on and you want to highlight past events of the same kind or whatever it is. Or there is a handout or brochure, whatever it is that you're doing. You want to have some photographs, but as a haphazard, they're just thrown in a folder. There's somewhere sitting on some computer somewhere in the hard drive, wherever it is, on the web, on the cloud. I just wondered if people had any experience of using a program where you can maybe organize it so that retrieval is a little bit easier. Otherwise, you're not waiting through all these photographs except taking some out and so on. I just wondered what everybody else did. That is a great question. A lot of people put comments in the chat room, Google photos, Dropbox. I just upgraded my Dropbox because I have high-resolution photos and videos. Kevin Maul, he says Adobe Creative Cloud and OneDrive. Thank you, Kevin. Joy says she uses OneDrive and she organizes it by folder and Port of the Hard Drives, Metafolders, and Data. Awesome. Brian put a link in here. What is that, Brian? You want to tell us about that? I see your hand, Ashley. You want to tell us about that, Brian? Hi, yeah. My Leo, from what you're saying, I think it allows you to store your photos. It's a photo organization, pretty much. You can use what service you want. I saw a lot of people saying Dropbox, Google Drive. You can pick whatever you want, but it's just a program where they have a phone app and a desktop app where you can organize it how you want. It just plays well with all your services. Thanks for sharing that. I see Norma, this is great. I created a folder then a subfolder with the titles that reflect the folders. Most of the photos are reused based on the needs. You categorize them accordingly. That was a good one. Thank you for asking that great question. So, Michelle, I'm going to ask you to unmute and then Ashley. So, one of the things I wanted to go back to is about posting. Canva allows you to schedule your post so you can schedule that it posts every day at 10 o'clock or whatever the case may be, which is very helpful as a non-profit as a one person non-profit. It allows me to do the graphics and such and then schedule them to be posted. I'm not sure if it posts to TikTok, but it definitely does to Instagram and Facebook. Very good. I didn't know that because I haven't been on Canva in a while. So, thank you for sharing that. Now, can I import what I made from posting my wall into Canva and then still have it posted or have to use a Canva picture? I have imported from Adobe because they have some things that I'd like better than Canva and yeah, it all kind of works together. It's like chicken soup, everything in it. I love it. I love it. Now, that is a good tip. Thank you so much.  There you go. Hi. Hey, I'm still here. Yeah. I was just going to respond about the photo organization. What works well for us is to have everything in a dated folder. So, I started out with 2022 and then I have 01 January and then in January, I have all of the events that we do in January that we've taken pictures of because we're at church and so, you know, Easter happens every year and next Easter, we're going to want to use pictures from last Easter to tell people to come and join us for this Easter. So, having it organized in that way is just really clear for everybody in the organization where to go to look for things. The other thing that I like about Dropbox is that you can search and so, being really intentional about folder names and file names is really helpful with that because then you can go in and search for Easter or search for Halloween or whatever the event may be to find the corresponding photos for those. Then within that, I'll also go back in and I choose my best of because we do an annual report in January. We do a stewardship campaign in the fall and so, we're always going to want those really like top-notch, very favorite pictures to use in those print pieces and so, I go back in and I have a best of folder that that's the first place that we look when we're looking for that great picture that's going to be, you know, the front page of the annual report this year. So, that just kind of helps streamline everything and also have everything all in one place because there may be a picture that somebody else thinks is perfect but I didn't like but we all have our opinions. I love that best of folder. I'm going to start using that. Thanks for that tip. That's a good one. So, I saw a comment in here from Ben. I think, was it going to go away? Somebody, you can, you can schedule posts through meta on Facebook and Instagram. So, are you using the meta nonprofit, Ben? I mean Sharon, Sharon, you are. Tell us about it because they're going to come, they're going to do a webinar with, they're going to do one in July but we moved it back until September, I believe. So, make sure you pay attention to this because they're going to come on and tell us how they can, we can use meta. Go ahead. Yeah, we, I have a person luckily who does a lot of my social media stuff but we've been, you used to be able with Facebook just post through Facebook and then all of a sudden they changed us to a business page. So, that kind of changed everything. All of a sudden we were in meta, all of a sudden you can do all these things, you can post everywhere all at once and what's nice about it is if you have multiple people, you can go in and see what other people have scheduled to be posted so you're not over posting each other which I think is really annoying. So, it's not too, there's a bit of a learning curve I found but I'm old so that could be why but it seems pretty efficient and I like that it posts at both places and I think you can post elsewhere in addition to those two. Oh, good to know, good to know. Speaking of Facebook and meta, I wish I had a poll here because I'm wondering who has migrated from Facebook to another social media or who's still using Facebook because everybody I know is still using Facebook and still find Facebook to be the place where our age group will show up. Anybody else comments on that? Michelle's shaking her head, no, let me hear it, Michelle, let me hear it. So, I'm a senior too but I kind of reverted to Instagram because I find that the generation that I'm going after Instagram and TikTok are where they're at and anybody over 55, you're not old, just saying. Well, thank you, thank you. Okay, I want to hear your thoughts because you mentioned TikTok, that's all you mentioned today. So, why TikTok? Why TikTok? With COVID, it just came out like a perfect time. I just see a lot more people on it, a lot more like this feature called duet, so a little more interactions compared to Instagram where it's just like reposts. They both serve their different functions. So, if you're making more videos, that's your TikTok. If it's more of a simple post, I'd say Instagram. I'm not sure as to which one would be best for which organizations, that depends on what you're looking to do, like if you're doing for how-to's, I'd probably guess TikTok, but also keep in mind that your TikToks can also be posted on your Instagram. So, you can grow both at the same time. Okay, so now I need a TikTok account. So, I'm hearing in the comments, they want TikTok training, Kevin, so I guess you got to bring it. There's a social media intern for that. I love it. Okay. Is TikTok for church services or Instagram? Oh, Michelle, you use it? Both? She says both. Who else is using? Okay, Ms. Bree says both. I have been seeing, like, I'm a fanatic about Instagram. Now, I rarely go to Facebook. I hope Facebook don't hear this, but it's just me personally. I'm not representing TechSoup, but I love seeing videos on Metta, I mean on Instagram, because Facebook stopped letting you use other people's music, you know? And so that's why I like Instagram, but now you're saying TikTok matches with Instagram, it posted both places. So, go ahead, Mark. Yes, I want to hear it.  Facebook and Instagram are one thing. They're not two. They are. They are one thing, but they're working differently. I can't post my video with music on Facebook. It shuts it down. So it's, I think both of them in TikTok, I, okay, I'll tell this one silly, funny story. So when I had a TikTok for about 30 minutes, until somebody in my remote family said, I thought TikTok was bad. But my kids love vines. If anybody remembers vines, which all, that's all TikTok is, but for a billion people, compared to vines sadly going away. I think, I think you're going to find anytime you get that video aspect where you can explain things. I think, I really think Instagram is going to expand and you're going to have less time constraints and be able to do more kind of what you can find on TikTok. One of my favorite tech guys who's like 65, 68 years old, he might be older than that. If you ever had a chance to check out Leo LaPorte on tech TV, it's got some really funny things, but his son has this really great cooking TikTok channel. So you could do a huge amount of getting your message out through that. Now for our organization, our development director said no, and she's 23. So I think when it comes to church use and those kinds of things, it depends on where your church falls on that conservative mindset. Kevin, I gotta admit to you, I do love Linguini the Snake, which is a very, very funny TikTok star. That's awesome. Somebody asked, can you stream your church service on TikToks? The whole service? Michelle, you're saying, yeah, I thought it was like limited.  Charles said TikTok is also risky. Cyber security wise, they collect a lot of data on your users. US intelligence has begun investigating where exactly that data is going. Honey, we're on Zoom. I think, sorry to tell you, I think everybody's collecting our data. We have everybody that's cyber security everywhere. We just have to learn about it. Anytime we have a course, and I think we're going to have one coming up, we will in August. Make sure you attend that course to just grab all the nuggets that you can. I don't think there's nothing we can do as individuals about cyber security, except report it and be aware of it. Mark, I see you guys, I see you chomping at the bit. I want to hear it. Go ahead. I want to hear it. TikTok is always an issue. I also teach at Avenger University, and most of my stuff is cyber security. TikTok is, one of those that everybody talks about, is an issue. Something will always come up. I think in the last few years, we've heard a lot about TikTok and those kind of things. I think it's going to probably be cyber security wise. I think some of us, that's one of the reasons why we're not on it, but there's some that just aren't afraid. I think the same thing goes with, it's going to be Google or you're going to have Google or Bing or any other person or any other ISP going to be following us. I guess you end up having to try to decide what your risk tolerance is when it comes to that. And if you're afraid of what you're going to share, being faith-based, I don't really worry about what I'm going to share, because things that shouldn't be shared, I'm just not going to do it. It's a hard part. No, good. That was good. That was good. And I get it, Charles. I just said, I teach you guys. So it's just your job to be paranoid. I get it. I totally get it.  Sharon asked about doing a video e-blast. She says, has any, she's thinking about doing those to her recurring donors. Does anybody using a video, when you say e-blast, she means email, right Sharon? Okay. Yeah. The, I use network for good and network for good gives you the option of being able to send out video e-blasts. So I was thinking of sending them to the people that I'm not going to do an ask of, but send them something just kind of, you know, good news kind of thing and thanking them for being recurring donors. So I don't know if those are well received. I've never done them before. So has anybody done video emails? Ashley, go ahead. Yeah, we have had good luck with those and being very short emails or short videos. I mean, and the way that our email service provider works, we can't actually embed the video in the email. So it's a click out either to our website or to the video directly on Vimeo or YouTube, depending on where you've got your account. But yeah, we have, we have a lot of click through success. And then we have seen an uptick in giving when we send an email that says, Hey, thanks so much for this. And you've done this great job. And don't forget, we're also doing this other thing. And we get a lot of response from folks who then click through to give on that as well. So that it has been really successful for us. I think the key on that is to be short on those videos. People don't want to watch for more than 90 seconds probably. Very good. Kim Wilson said a lot of mentions for videos. What are your best practice for making videos? Is it hiring a professional? If not, what are you using for content creation hacks? Anybody want to share? Not in terms of content, but getting videos made, we developed a relationship with our local community access channel. And they are always doing trainings and wanting to bring more people into the channel. So they will do videos for you with some of their trainees as a way to get them to learn the equipment and all of that kind of stuff. So it's a good way to get a professionally done video at no cost. Yeah, thanks for sharing that. And Donna, I see your hand. Go ahead and unmute yourself. And don't forget about what Kevin said. Reach out to the schools, you know, for interns. Hi, Donna. If you're speaking, we can't hear you, but I see you unmute it. Maybe you're having trouble with your sound. Okay, we lost her. Anybody else had a comment on that? Okay, Donna's having trouble with her sound techniques. Yeah, we can't. Avoid that. Curious. Kevin says, have you hosted PHP Mail Service that prevents video embedment? Oh, Kevin, I think you might want to explain. Yeah, I was just curious. What type of mail service? I'm assuming it's a hosted email provider and not something like Exchange or Gmail. Right. So we use, we send our emails through touchpoint, which is our church database management system. And so that's how we blast out all of our emails. And so we're not able to do the video embeds that way. Okay. Yeah, I figured that it was probably a PHP Mail server because I've had a lot of questions about mail blasts on those. And I haven't zero experience with them. So. What's up? See, I love this summer chat. This is so good. Anybody else have any questions or comments? Mark, I see you unmuted yourself. Yeah, go ahead, Mark. Good resource. I don't know if anybody has ever used TechSmith. They create a screen capture software called Snagit that will actually, it'll actually allow you to record your screen as if you're doing tutorials and stuff like that for teaching. But it also allows you to, rather than creating a video, it'll do MP4, which is perfect for websites and that kind of thing. But it also lets you create animated GIFs automatically. So it'll take your video and turn it into a GIF, which is just another, another image. Your email server servers will actually just see it as an image, depending on what they're using as a client. So if they're using Outlook or Thunderbird or whatever you want to call, whatever they're gathering their email in, that's the only thing that will actually block the images. Most people, most software is going to be created. So Outlook and those kinds of things are created that when you get an email, it blocks the images because the basic tenant premise for images is if you can see the image whoever sends you that email can also see you. So it's like a two-way window. So most software programs for your email will block any kind of images that come in. So as a, as a non-profit that wants to send out an email blast, sometimes if you can get rid of the video portion, put in just a graphic as a GIF, it'll get beyond the, the filtering software for those kind of things. And then they purposefully can unlock it. So. Okay, thanks Sharon. Donna, let's see if you were able to unmute yourself. Go ahead. Sorry, I just didn't have permissions on. Can you hear me? Yes. We just, we've been doing training through Zoom online, just live classes on Zoom. And we just done our first Podia class, which is, they let you do online trainings. And we created the videos from like a PowerPoint presentation, but we did it in Canva.   But when she's recording in Canva, they allow you to have a little script. And so as she's going through each one, we made the slides where there was just that amount of text per slide. And so we were just able to record very easily. And then we just uploaded these videos to Podia, and then people take this whole class, which is a series of videos. And we're getting feedback on it just now. So it seems to be going well. But good. That thanks for sharing that. That's a new one that I hadn't heard of. Yeah. Well, this has been very fruitful. Where can I find a social intern? Somebody sent me that message. Anybody want to chime in and give us some suggestions on social intern? Yeah, Sharon, go ahead. If you have a new organization near you that will sponsor you to do Catch-A-Fire, C-A-T-C-H-A-F-I-R-E. It's actually an organization that matches skilled volunteers with nonprofits. So what you do is you put your project in, let's say you want to do a video for whatever, they put it out to all their volunteers, and then they get back in touch with you and say, I can help you or I can do this. We actually had them come and they can facilitate like a strategic planning meeting. They'll do stuff to help you with your annual appeal or your annual report. I get mined through a group here in Connecticut called the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. They kind of sponsored it. But if you go to catchafire.org, they have all the information and it's free. So you do it initially by phone and then you set up an actual regular meeting. We've gotten a lot of very skilled people to do stuff for us through that organization. Awesome. Thank you. I'm trying to see who's unmuted so I can mute them. Norma, you're unmuted. Did you want to say something? Yes, in regard to the interns, our nonprofit has used interns successfully for 18 years developing projects for us, our logo, our social media is being managed by interns, and the downside is you have to retrain someone with every semester. But the good side of it is that you can offer these interns really powerful experiences. So I have engaged in a number of professional trainings that I recorded, for instance, blog writing, YouTube video development, et cetera. So I start my interns off with reviewing those training videos. So I'm not repeating everything. And they come with a skill set already. And I always ask them what their goals are for the internship period, so that I'm giving them the proper exposure to what they want to add to their portfolio. And then interns are invited to also volunteer to continue beyond that semester and maybe do blog writing and things like this, that they can still put in their portfolio as they seek employment. They have now got their names associated with an absolute project. So I hope that helps. And my interns now, the past three years, have been all remote. I do get a chance to take them to lunch or visit them, but I find with managing the communications end of things, I prefer remote so that they can be creative and take their time blog writing and not have to worry about the office environment, so to speak. And I'm cultivating them to also begin to do contract work on sites such as Upwork.  So they'll continue to spread your message, which in our case is drug prevention. Awesome. Thank you for sharing. Amy, you were muted. Did you want to say something? And I'm trying to see, thank you for putting that in the chat. Someone is unmuted, and I cannot find them because there's so many people on the screen. So please make sure your mic is muted for the quality of the recording. Thanks. Go ahead, Amy. No, I just want to thank both Norma and Kevin and Sharon for some great advice. Thank you. Yeah, I thank you too. I'm sure everybody else too, even when people are silent.  So thank you all for your input. We have a few more minutes. Any other last questions, comments, insights that you gained from today you want to share? Feel free for three, two, one.  I want to thank Kevin Mulhall for always coming in and joining us and adding some great advice in here. The webinar producer intern Kevin Mulhall. He's way in California. I'm in Florida, so this virtual is working out great. And I want to thank you all for being here today. As I always say, listen, you're taking care of so many people, but please make sure you take time to take care of yourself. And we'll see you next time. Thank you. Thank you.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video So this is for the 2020 release of Becky and I'd seen a portion of a trailer for this before it came out And it caught my attention because Kevin James as a villain that has never happened before I mean there have been these kind of more light comedic actors who have taken on more serious roles in the past I know Robin Williams had done that at one point He was probably like the first one that I became very aware of that This is a very weird role for this guy So just to see this happen kind of again with someone like Kevin James I was like whoa, and I will say up front He did a very nice job in that role and I really would be interested in seeing him again in that role But anyway, let me jump back into Becky. I'll tell you the good. I'll tell you the bad about it But overall I enjoyed this film and I would recommend that people check it out It's directed by Jonathan Mallott and Carrie Murnian who also directed films cooties and bushwick I have seen cooties and I did enjoy cooties So I don't have a review for it on my channel unfortunately at some point I'll get there because I watched it like many years ago Written by Nick Morris ruckus sky What a name and lane sky who also wrote scripts for a rattle the cage and the devil to pay Now I was just talking about Kevin James But apparently originally the villain in this film was supposed to be played by Simon Peg Which also would have been an interesting choice But I'm kind of glad that he had scheduling conflicts and couldn't do it because then we got Kevin James And I think Kevin James was really good for this part That rolls me into the synopsis. What is this film about? So it's basically about a white supremacist in jail who ends up breaking out That is Kevin James character with some others and they're looking for something they're on a mission They're looking for something they've had this plan for years about getting out of jail and going after something and that butts up against a family Obviously there's a character named Becky in this because of the title It's her and her family who it ends up butting up against and it's not just her old family It's kind of a fusion of you know her mother's not there anymore and her father Who she's having problems with is with another woman and that woman has a son And so it's this kind of issue of the melding so what's going on from a you know Danger aspect with these convicts getting out and showing up There's also at the same time this kind of issue of conflict within this family unit Because obviously Becky's not happy about her father moving on in essence But then there are other things that end up coming out a little bit Which honestly it's not like said outright, but when you think about what's going on in the film and motivations And why things are happening you come to a realization about the family dynamic that you're just like That's interesting so be on the lookout for that They really do telegraph where the film's going with the opening conversation. Yes There's an opening conversation that really Sets up where you'll end up at the end because it is one of those films where like it Starts with where it ends and then ends with where it started Which I like I like that use of that narrative device So I'm down with it It kind of gives you like a bit of a teaser before they you know bring it back and get a little bit slower And then work their way back up. So that's cool Happy to see Joel McHale in this. I really like Joel McHale as an actor My favorite role of his I know a lot of people will be like, oh, it's gonna be community No, because I haven't watched all of community yet. Just a little bit but I will say that I Really love him an assassination nation and if you haven't seen that film definitely check it out He's not a huge part of that film But his role is really good and he did a great job and that's just a great film in general So they stack establish the struggles of the main character very effectively very early on So you really it's not that you just understand the character early on But you know what they're going through you know the conflicts that are in place and It gets that stuff kind of out of the way kind of fast. So you don't have to you know Keep having it talked about over and over and over again They do do a good job of kind of addressing something like that and then being like okay moving on which I do appreciate Well relatively early in they do something that people really hate seeing in the in film in general And it happens a few other times stuff kind of like that If you don't like harm to animals people this might not be your movie. I'm relatively I'm relatively okay with it My problem is when I can tell that animals have been treated poorly on set as it being a part of the film That's my problem because I know that any sort of violence against animals in the film is not real and that's okay But I do fully understand why it's hard for people to see stuff like that. I do Intense times they use a very low discordant music that is effective in increasing the tension But they do go too hard on the music at times especially in times like that and that's one thing I will always harp on it's that we don't need to be screamed at by the score We are intelligent enough audience members if you just play it low or medium We'll get it. We know where you're going. We know what you're trying to say We know the mood you're trying to create You don't have to nail people over the head and scream at them with your score and this film does a bit of that And it really bothers me. Maybe it doesn't bother you. That's fine. Just telling you where I stand There are some cool and interesting shot transitions in this That's one of the biggest things the directing and cinematography very polished looks very very nice And along with that these cool shot transitions. I always appreciate Creative fun interesting shot transitions and it makes you take notice of directing and cinematography in a film And with this film you take notice of those things. So that's a big plus There is something gross Involving a vulnerable body part that some people will have to look away from I'm looking at you subscriber uncle Pete Just letting you know it's in there. You might want to cover your eyes when it comes up You'll know when it's coming pretty much. I appreciated this particular scene. It is a gross out scene It is particularly brutal. I enjoyed it, but I know there are people out there who have to look away just saying There's a point where things turn and that's what everyone's waiting for I Like the conversation that triggers this turning point as well You know those films that you're watching and you're like, I know where this is eventually going So you're really waiting for that moment where that that where it starts to like go go from like a fast walk to a sprint When that moment happens in the film you start getting more excited at least I did and you're like here We go strap in let's do this and then it's more fun Not that it wasn't fun before that but the fun goes way up in my opinion You get some good violent payoff. That's kind of speaking to that turning point of when things start to get more fun there's some really brutal violent good payoff for this film and Yeah, I mean you can figure out who is exacting revenge in this Hmm title maybe yes, and it's fun There's a quasi subplot that seems like it was added just to fill out some runtime now Obviously if you watch enough of my reviews, you know that one of my pet peeves is padding Runtime just to hit a specific time or get around there So this is about an hour and a half So you can see those moments because there are some pacing issues with this film where obviously there's some stuff That's padded now with one of the convict characters There's an aspect of that character that seems very out of place in my opinion It feels very forced it feels very so what and for that reason it feels like it was thrown in there to pad the runtime Ultimately it comes into play at the end of the film But I would argue that we're better off with a film that doesn't have that aspect to it That should have been dropped in my opinion It kind of cheapens the story to a degree it actually cheapens the actions and the heroic Feats of one of the characters in my opinion the main character Which kind of sucks because it's about that character. You want to see all about that character You want all the glory for that character? So It just kind of cheapens things in my opinion. I wish it was left out There is a cool moment toward the end that is cool for what happens, but also because of how they chose sorry chose to shoot that film or shoot that scene you will know what I'm talking about It's a very interesting cool scene.  It might it's one of my favorite moments of the film Very solid ending, but there's unfinished business that will make you mad that they did not resolve There is an item that is featured within the film that ends up becoming important But it it's left to mystery then like it's it's it's kind of like I understand that this is important Now tell me why this is important and they never tell you why it's important I hate that a lot of people hate that and You might be pissed off by the end of the film because of that, but it's a good film It's definitely worth watching just know going into it that little thing will drive you crazy That they do not explain. I mean, I guess they're trying to set it up for a sequel Maybe leave it open. I don't know but Come on, man You got a satisfying our imagination. We're curious. We need this Like I said some pacing issues here and there but relatively okay with the pacing in general I already talked about Kevin James doing quite a good job But Lulu Wilson the titular character of Becky Really nice job. Her acting was on point. She did a phenomenal phenomenal job in a role That's pretty demanding honestly I would love to see Lulu will Wilson and more stuff because she has got chops Quite enjoy what she did there. I Find myself wondering if this was going to be as Straightforward as it seemed story wise or if they're gonna end up being some sort of twist that comes up at some point No twist They definitely did miss a lot of potential opportunities with the story now that said it's still a good film It's just while I was watching it. I just saw all this potential I'm like, we would be really cool if they did this right now We're really cool if they did this right now. They didn't take any of the side paths It's basically like they found this main road and they just stayed on the main road the entire time They saw the side pass as they were going by like they're like you're seeing signs when you're on a highway of like You know rest stop here comes a Starbucks here comes a Papa John's here comes a Dunkin Donuts and they chose to get off at none of those They just wanted to stay on that road. I I think it would have been fun to hit some rest stops honestly because you could throw in some really interesting stuff, but They they missed out on a lot of opportunities like this was a good film It could have been a great film if they added more to it, but You know, maybe other people don't feel the same way and that's fine and you can tell me about it There is some good subtext about Discovery of who you truly are and what you learn about those close to you in the process of finding out who you are basically And just also just working through things, you know working working through things personally working through things with your family and Being okay, you know working through things both emotionally both within relationships, but also When you're in danger and physically So I like the that those kind of are together throughout the film moving forward, so Pretty good film. I did enjoy it. So out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm gonna give it a very solid three and a half star rating I did enjoy this. I would recommend it. It's worth it and Could they do a sequel I think so Not a hunt. Well, I was gonna say I'm not a hundred percent sure what they would do for a sequel But it just a few ideas did just pop into my mind with what they could do. So could be interesting Just saying Anyway, thank you for checking this out. Put your comments down there if you see Becky You can go ahead and put spoilers in the comments. That's fine. Did you love it? Hate it in between. Let's talk about that Also, do me a favor hit subscribe if you are not subscribed already if you are subscribed already Thank you very much. You are awesome. If you're not subscribed Please do so because of a few things one cost you nothing to It takes like a second and it's totally painless and three It really really keeps me motivated to keep these videos going. I make no money. 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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My paper is on transportation and climate change in Nigeria. And I've co-authored it with a colleague at the Ministry of Physical Planning in Lagos. Our focus, really, is on CO2. And the study context is Lagos, Nigeria. We want to start with global figures before we go down to what's happening in Nigeria. Globally, we have transports responsible for as much as 23% of energy-related CO2 emissions. There are different figures for this, but this is from the African Development Bank. And then set to account for as much as 30% of greenhouse gases. CO2 emissions are predicted to increase by as much as 120% by 2050. And the IPCC cautions that we would need to reduce by 50% in developing countries, CO2 emissions, if we are going to have sustainable levels. Though there are thoughts that CO2 emissions are low in developing countries. And like somebody said at the plenary, why do you even bother to measure them? But the issues are that the lifestyles and the economic activities are centered around patterns that promote modes that are polluting in the transport sector. So even if we don't have clear-cut issues now, we want to avoid them altogether in the long term by taking caution now.  We have an example in London, 80% of CO2 emissions. Incidentally, this transport mode forms the major mode. It's the major mode for internal movement in Nigeria. Now, this graph is on fossil fuel consumption, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel consumption in Nigeria over a century, from 1910 to 2010. We know that transport is a major user of fossil fuels. We've had significant increases of over 54% in the last century. And in the last 20-hour decades, we've had a steep upward climb in total CO2 emissions from fossil fuels from about 1997. There have been large contributions from liquid fuels from about 1970. Now, this is for CO2 emissions from different economic activities in Nigeria. We don't have this data for several years. But we have two years. We can look at here, 1999, 2003. And we see transport standing out clearly as a major contributor in CO2 emissions, 38% in 1999, 41.6% in 2003. Now, we want to conceptualize the issues before we go on. And this study, the conceptual background to this study is an urban form, transport demand, and climate change. How does one lead to the other? Now, we have several urban spatial structures. We talked about that at the last session. They are monocentric structures. We have polycentric structures. The monocentric ones are the ones we have one single CBD, a central business district. And then the polycentric one, we have several central business districts. There's really no one that is outstanding. But for the composite one, there's a major central business district. And then you have all the major commercial business districts that have developed around the CBD, or in different parts of the city. And this composite structure seems to fit the Lagos pattern more than the other two. Now, the urban spatial structure will determine the land use patterns. These land use patterns will naturally dictate the transport network form. And the transport network will determine which modes are preponderant in the city. These modes could be individual. They could be transit. Now, the transport modes will also affect the daily trip patterns, the total vehicle kilometers traveled and the passenger kilometers traveled. And these are the things that will now influence global, the GAG emissions. So this is the link between urban morphology, transport demand, and climate change. Now, this is the study context, Lagos, Nigeria. The fairly small territory, but very complex urban area. The most complex we have in Nigeria, about 17.5 million. It's been designated a mega city by the United Nations, actually. And that mega city region is just a part. It's just a part of the entire city. It's about 37% of the land mass. But that part houses about 90% of the population. We have very high population densities, as much as 5,032 in the state as a whole. And in the mega city region, we are looking at about 20,000 people per square kilometers. We've had the same economic growth in Lagos. And the CBD, the Central Business District, is the Lagos Island, actually. But we also have commercial business districts in several parts of Ikeja, Agegei, Koroju, there. Now, we looked at the vehicle inventory in Lagos. This gives us the vehicle inventory. All vehicle types are represented here. We have private vehicles, public transport. Everything is represented here. And we've had a total increase by as much as 234% over a decade. This has been composed mostly of private cars. And we know that private cars are regarded as the most polluting modes in the transport sector. Motorcycles have also increased tremendously. But public transport comes to be in short supply. Now, this is what we call the vehicle profile and the model split paradox. You can see the different types of vehicles accounting for so much percentage of the vehicle fleet. Look at the private car. As much as 78% of the vehicle fleet. But only 7.8% of trips. The buses, about 10%, accounting for 70% of the trips. The BRT, that's the bus rapid transit. It came on about 2007 in Lagos. But it accounts for only about 2.3% of the trips. Now, the territory itself, the territory of Lagos is about 22% of water. But only about 1.03% of commuters use the inland waterways. That mode is really, it's not developed as such. Now, what are the implications of this for development? Like we've been told, climate change is not really, it's not all about the environment. It's about development. We have public transport in short supply. We have private cars proliferating largely in the urban space. And what it means is that it's the most polluting modes that are the most popular modes in Lagos. Now, these are the climate parameters for a 30-year period. 1976 to about 2005. And we have divided into two halves, 15 years this way, 15 years the other way. And the summary we have here is that we have high average rainfall and temperature records for this last half of the 30-year period. And we've also seen that there are wider variabilities in these parameters in the last half of the period we're looking at. Now, what are the implications of this for development again in Lagos? Increasing volumes of rainfall, of course, coupled with the flat topography of the city, predisposes to frequent flooding. We've had flooding episodes, several of them in Lagos in the last few years. And there was a survey in 2010. We were told 38% of household street access were actually affected by floods. And these are pictures from Lagos. These are some of the implications of increased rainfall, hydrologic change. Seeing flooding episodes, we have the erosion of beaches. This is Kuramo Beach. This happened just about two months back. It was inundated. And we had that episode in August. That's the erosion of beaches. Now, there's also the inundation of highways and the erosion of road bases, the erosion of beach supports. And we find that a lot of transport infrastructure is affected when we have these floods. And so there's a kind of a reverse effect. Transport is contributing to climate change. And then the extreme weather events that we have from this climate change is also affecting the transport infrastructure. So we have that problem. And now, for temperatures, we said warmer temperatures, of course, will have to drive us stress through physiological discomforts and fatigue. And we expect that human errors are more likely to occur. The consequences from increased rainfall seem to be more direct than the consequences for increased temperature. That is for the transport sector. So we want to link the two scenarios in Lagos, the transport modes and the climate change situation. And let me just say here that we cannot direct entirely and describe the changes in climate to the transport sector. But we do know that there are linkages from the data on transport contribution as an economic activity. And there are also reverse effects. We have said it, the floods depreciate transport infrastructure. And then you have less road space for cars, more congestion, more pollution. And this is CO2 emissions from major transport modes in Lagos. Now we can see here the commuters on the third column. And then we have the model percentage of commuters. And then on that side, we have the model percentage of emissions. And we can see, again, the private car accounting for about 7.08% of commuters, but as much as 31% of emissions. Now in terms of total tons, the mini bus appears to have the most. But in terms of CO2 per passenger kilometer traveled, those modes are actually more efficient than the private cars. We can see the BRT seems to be the best of them. That's the bus rapid transit. And we said this table actually contains the best case scenario. Because what we did was that we used data for commuters for Lagos. But the vehicle emission capacity was based on the model by Bittorre Hall. And what it used was for New York City. And we know that the cars in Nigeria are fairly old. They are mostly used cars. And emissions are likely to be even higher. So we calculated the total kilogram per air per commuter from the major modes was about 517.03 of CO2 equivalent. And what's the message here? Lagos commuters appear to be contributing a lot to the pool of CO2 emissions. And we can do better than that. Now these are the suggestions for policy. We want to reduce, well, to reduce daily distance traveled through changes in land use we said may not be as popular. Most times it's not effective. So we are looking at alternatives to promote public transports. And to do this we need to make that mode competitive and attractive. We need to provide incentives. It has to be cheaper. And apart from being cheaper it has to be convenient because a lot of people will not take it in Lagos if it doesn't offer the convenience. And it has to be prioritized. When we have bus priority lanes then we know that we can reduce trip time for commuters. That would be for the short term. Now in the medium and long term we said the light rail transit will have to be developed because there's limited road space to work with. Now model shifts towards public transport will happen in Lagos. Only if price and transit time as well as convenience are more competitive with other modes. Thank you so much for listening.


Okay, I'm Matthew Miller. I work for Red Hat and I am the Fedora project leader. My name is Jonathan Dieter I am a system administrator for a school in Beirut, Lebanon My name is Shimantro. I work for Red Hat for Fedora QA team and yeah, I am a quality engineer All right, my name is Mike DePaolo. I contribute to Fedora in my free time. I'm a packageer and ambassador I'm also contributing a little bit to modularity and to diversity. Okay, so I'm Yonah And I'm part of the Albanian local community because I come from Albania So my name is Pravin Satpute. I'm from India So I'm Mike McGrath. I work for the platform engineering team as a manager I'm Ralph Bean and I have been coming to Flock for five or six years now I used to work on the Fedora engineering team at Red Hat So it was my full-time job to work on Fedora and come to Flock and work with the community So my name is Kanika and I'm from India I've been contributing to Fedora for two years now. My name is Justin Flory I've been a contributor to Fedora since November 2015 or so. His name is Ricky Elrod I am on the floor engineering team at Red Hat. My name is Brian Exelbeard I work for Red Hat as the Fedora community action and impact coordinator They're basically there's a technology technology side and a people side I think they're both very strong. I think Fedora, you know, we do really try and follow the leading edge of open-source technology and commitment to the open-source part of that and It's not just in not just that it's the bleeding edge But we try to make sure we're following the leading edge of it and exciting stuff But also getting it to people in a useful way. So I think that's appealing It's kind of fun stuff to work on at the operating system level. So that that's neat But also, this is a really amazing group of people and you know, we've got thousands of people who contribute every year Two three thousand people to some level and a core group of you know, maybe four or five hundred people who are working every week on the project And they're really great generous people who have a real passion for the things we're working on So I think that's pretty appealing too. It's fun. I Happily install most of the any of the non-violent games in the Fedora repository or on our systems and I'm like have at it The major part of error is what I love about it is it's a bleeding edge So I get the latest and the greatest of whatever that I want. So be it building Bleeding edge stuff on IOT or bait big data I have whatever tools that I require in to make sure my project is up and running One of the things that I think is critical about Fedora that we are doing a better and better job messaging on is The Fedora community is way more than the production of the operating system There's a lot of things to do and you can get involved in them, you know There isn't like territorialism like you can't contribute to this component only be contributed to this component. I Think Fedora value the contributor The thing that I think is really important about Fedora is we provide a Facility for people to do what they want to do and they can get a lot of support from their fellow community members Because we bring the right kinds of people together And I think the the the amazing thing for me is not just how many old faces I still see that are here, but how many new faces I see and How important it is to the community to get people involved and get out of their way? And I think there's not just that common sense of shared purpose towards building Fedora the operating system and the distribution Making sure that our users are are happy, but there's this short. There's a shared understanding that we're all people We're all flawed. We all have something to bring to the table And so let's let's come and talk and figure out, you know, what needs to happen what we can do and You know everybody sees everybody else has important I think it's a very unique a very unique experience. Everybody's kind of at the same level here. It's great The community by far. I mean people are The people I work with are some of the smartest people I know They're very resourceful. They're they're nice. I mean, I just I can't say enough about it I just I love the community. It's like a family Fedora, I will say Like anyone who is coming to the Fedora, so he will not feel that there is not for him anything So there is For everyone there is something in Fedora, so It's it's it's passionate, but very friendly and you see that especially at flock I mean, it's a really a really tight-knit group of people that like working together and love working on what they work on And it's a fun place to be. It's it's what I Could easily see how passionate people were not just about the work that they were doing but also about supporting each other as Like a empowering and inclusive community to build better software together Let's say the community. It's one of the main reasons why I'm still part of it Because they are really friendly. They're they are really Friendly to the newcomers especially so you feel really welcome at the community Because you know when you go to a community to a new community And you want to be part of it first of all you are afraid that someone might say Okay, but you don't know this question But not at all. They will be really friendly with you. They they will support you for everything that you might need and They will show you even the right direction where to go And which teams you can be a part large community of people who kind of use open source as an excuse to change the world Which that's an easy thing to say, but we do it a lot through non-code contributions. We have a huge outreach program We have huge marketing opportunities writing opportunities There's ways for people to become involved in the ideals of open source Even if they choose not to actually commit a line of what we as engineers would call source


Good morning folks, Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 11 a.m. update, we got, well, mostly a sea of red. We've got the trainees that are trading to the upside, the other U.S. indices trading to the downside. Dow's down 166, S&P 42, NASDAQ 103, Russell's down 13, Semi's are out 43. Tables up 22 bucks, tradeout 2002, silver's up 78 cents, that's a 3.5% move, tradeout at 2382, lights recruit up 80 cents, 89.16 is the print there, natural gas off force since the 30th Treasury up 26, tradeout at 108.15, let's try to figure out what all that means by looking at that nine panel. Market update chart, ES mini upper left hand side, what do we know about it? Well, it's price target would appear to be the buy the D point pattern. That's the low, that's the swing point low, I believe it was October 4th, let's find out that was October 4th. The low out there is 42, 35, 50, you close below that today, you'll negate a Gartley buy pattern on the weekly timeframe chart. That would be a pretty bearish message. In the case of the NQ, it's about to tackle and maybe it already has the first support level, which is at 14, 677 and the low so far today, 14, 680. Now that's the bottom of its profile, the price close below that the next area would be its TD9 count bottom pattern and that's at 14, 586. The price close below that will generate or it will generate a weekly A to B equal CD to the downside. U.S. dollar index not really doing a whole lot out there, so that's not impacting the markets. If we take a gold, gold is going to complete its TD9 count top today, whatever that high is. If we start trading above that or close above that, next week it'll negate that signal. Silver's already suggesting to you and I, at least as of 1101 in the morning, that TD9 count is likely to fail because Silver's TD9 count will fail today with a close above 2349. Now, its next area of resistance is 2392. If price can close above that, it's off to the races to continue moving to the upside. Light's read crude is targeting the top of its daily profile. That's at 91 and a quarter, we're trading 89 and change out there. Right now, natural gas is testing a swing point. It's swing point from back on September the 26th. The high of that swing point is 290, 2.906 to be exact. Of course, this is the November contract. I'll switch it to the December contract, I meant to do that last night in any event on the November contract, a close below 29.29, 2.906 today. That's going to suggest, well, at least you go test the low and the low of that swing point is at the 279 level. The 30-year treasure, folks, is a monthly chart with the A to B equal CD pattern. This next price projection level, 96 and change. Folks, stay tuned for the Trader Z show. If you're up to start your Friday, have a fantastic one, a fantastic weekend, be safe out there, we look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care.