Welcome to hope today. It's Tuesday it is a great day to serve the Lord. By the way, this is my annual warning to the men tomorrow's Valentine's Day. You have been warned. Don't forget I'm Tom Hollis and Amanda Brocker is here with me and we are going to be talking about friends. We sure are. We have Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston with us. They're going to talk about their book here for it. The good the bad wait the good the bad wait and the case. So you need this book just for the queso recipe. We are going to dive into what do healthy friendships look like and how can we really be here for each other? Tom, it's such an important topic. I think in our social media world where we're this deep in our relationships, we almost need to learn how to take it a little. Well, I think we do. We do need to learn and again, social media in many ways is contributed to a shallowness of our relationships and we need to learn how to be friends again. And it's a wonderful thing and to have that real connection, that real person that you're in the same room with and not an electronic connection. That can be okay, but we all know the problem is there. But I just wanted to talk. We talked a little bit yesterday when Anna was here about the Super Bowl and about so many things related to that. One thing I wanted to bring up was that you happen to see that he gets us commercials at all that were on there. And that caused a lot of controversy because it's all about that whole trying to present Jesus without all the religious facade in front and that he understands where we're at. And I think it's a powerful thing. We've had the person that's led that campaign. Bill McHenry has been on the air with us. And we're so glad we've run those on Cornerstone. But the ones that were there yesterday were actually on Sunday were very controversial because they talked about Jesus didn't teach hate and it talked about Washington people's feet. I think it's great. It's great. It offended people on the right and the left. What could be better? You know, hey, get some thinking about Jesus. Yeah. If we've done that, then we've done our job.  And when we think about the life of Christ, he himself was very controversial in his day. Yeah, absolutely. And so, you know, whether or not bringing it back home here, whether where you find yourself, I wanted to say this, Jesus does love you. He cares about you no matter where you find yourself today, no matter whether you've served him, he walked away or you've been serving him and grown cold or maybe you've never known him. He loves you today and he cares for you. By the way, if you need prayer, we always have prayer partners available standing by ready to pray with you. You can call the number on the screen and get someone that will bring you the love of God and bring you hope today. I know just thinking about the Super Bowl, I think of queso and y'all, the recipe that is in here, you're going to want to get. But you know, I couldn't help but just move on. So today I'm sporting my, my gold and my black because go Steelers. This is your year. We're just going to declare it now in Jesus. That's a lot of faith. You have great faith. Oh woman, you have great faith. I've moved on. I've seen enough red. There was a whole lot of red. I'm like, where is our black and gold? But anyhow, well, life can be full of many ups and downs. And during those down moments, God can use people in our lives to be there for us and to comfort us. Our next two guests know the importance of friendships and how valuable a good friend can be. Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston are best friends and I love the title of their new book here for it, the good, the bad and the queso. Amy and Jess, welcome to hope today. Thank you for having us. Absolutely. All right, you have to tell us, you know, what sparked the creation of here for it? We just wanted a title that sort of encompassed. Friendship isn't going to be perfect, especially like if you're going to have a deep, long relationship with anybody, there will be bumps in the road. You will go through hard things. They will go through hard things. There will be circumstances that change. And that will change you as well. But that's part of having a friendship that lasts and that endures, meaning that you're going to have to be there through the good, the bad. And then hopefully the queso, which is just this idea of just like a shared, happy, fun experiences, just the mundane, all that middle ground, we want friendships that are there for all of it. Amen. Talk to us a little about like your definition of an authentic friendship. What does that look like? Because I do feel in this day and age, we have a lot of shallow, I don't even know if we want to call them relationships because I don't know that they've got to that depth. But what does authentic friendship look like? I think first of all, we have to relearn to take off the filter because we're so used to Instagram or Facebook making things pretty and look like we have it all together. But to have authentic friendship, we have to be able to lay that stuff aside and be our real selves. Because if we're not showing up authentically, they may not know it, but we'll know it. And we won't feel totally loved and known in that friendship because of that. But I think that's one of the first steps is we really have to set aside and unlearn the filtering. And then I think it means showing up for each other, just like Amy was saying, it means being there for the good, the bad and the case though. That's right. So when you talk about listening and vulnerability, how does that in itself play a role in our healthy friendship? Yeah, I think that's something we haven't done very well, especially listening. I think we have become people who really feel the need to speak our mind and we feel like we need to share our opinion and our story. And we do feel like the spotlight I don't need to be on us.  And that's really not the goal. The goal is really to connect. The goal is really to be sitting in front of someone else and learn who they are, learn how to make them feel liked, learn how to make them feel treasured.  And for this moment in time, we have the privilege of connecting with them. We need to learn how to listen to what they have to say. And then vulnerability is the other part of that equation. We're kind of like Jess said, where we are showing up offensively and genuinely, and we're not shared of, we're not scared of the truth, and we're not scared to really share our hearts and our struggles and just the whole of it in this, in a safe space. And it's so, it's so important to friendship. Jess, if I could ask you, you know, sometimes people's personalities, you know, they're more of a behind the scenes person or an out front, like, how do you help people no matter what your personality type is that when you walk in the room, that it's not too awkward? You know, how do you make it? Well, it can just be weird. Yes, it's so weird. But I think the first thing that we want women to know and men is that it's okay if it's weird. It's okay if it's awkward. In fact, I tell myself when I'm getting to know new people, it's going to be awkward. And to just be comfortable with that, it's not a sign that you shouldn't be in that room. It's not a sign that that's not going to end up being a great friendship. It just kind of is awkward as you're getting to know people. So I think it's really important to just keep pushing through. Don't overthink it. Don't overly focus on the awkward and just move forward because it's awkward for everybody. Some people may be better at hiding it. Like a really outgoing person may not look like they're uncomfortable or awkward, but that doesn't mean they're not fighting their own insecurities. And I think the other thing that's really important is don't wait. Don't wait for someone else to introduce themselves to you. Even if you're shy, take a bold step and start a conversation and invite someone to get coffee, whatever that looks like for you. It's important to be empowered and to know that you have what it takes to initiate friendship. So I'm going to speak from the guy perspective here. I'm the guy in this group today. So Amy, let me ask you, well, how is it different for guys? You know, my wife, she's out. She's walking with my sister. She's having lunch with this person lunch with that person. She's developing these relationships. And I remember my best friend was speaking at our men's retreat a couple of years ago and he goes, Tom's my best friend. I see him like once a year. That's kind of the way it is for guys. How can we develop and really set aside those times? Because we all tend to be so busy no matter what stage of life we're at. Yes, I can really only speak from a woman's experience. But I'm married to a man. I'm raising two of them. And we can go through the same thing. Men want to belong. Men want to have a safe space. Men want friendships too. We are very, very social creatures. It is how we were formed. It is how we were made. That is just something in us.   There are studies that show that it takes like 100 to 150 hours spent with someone before you feel like close friendships develop. And that's that's pretty significant amount of time. So it really is about carving, carving time and saying, okay, this really is important. These 15 minutes, 20 minutes, maybe I'm going to make a phone call, maybe I'm going to make a text. Maybe I'm going to, I don't, I don't know, go hang out with someone after work, play tennis. I don't know. Whatever you want to do, it doesn't matter what you're doing, but that time matters. And it is like sacred. You literally have to carve it out. But one of the things we can do, I think it will, if we'll kind of watch how much time we're spending mindlessly scrolling on social media, and if we can say, hey, I can cut that back by 20 minutes, then there you go. There's 20 minutes you can give to instead of giving it to social media, which is not really life giving. There's no back and forth there. There's no deep connection there. Like I'm going to give it to something that matters. I'm going to pour that water into this space and hope this plant grows and just being very, very intentional about it.  But I noticed like in a relationship and you ladies address this, like it needs to be where you're really listening on both ends, not one and talking all the time and the other one listening all the time, but talk to us about that. Because I just think that it's something simple, but we need this type of help and instruction because of the day we live in. Yeah, I think it's important. I think sometimes God highlights somebody in our life that we're just supposed to love in that moment. We're just supposed to love on them. And we're definitely just, we're being the primary giver and they're being the primary receiver. But I think something I had to learn was that that's something else. That's not friendship. If it's all giving and no receiving that is maybe God highlighted that person to me to just love on, but that's not friendship. Does that make sense? Friendship, it's important to take a step back and notice, is this person reciprocating? Are they invested also in me? Are they a safe spot for me to open up and share what's going on in my life? Will they be there if I go through something difficult? And that's not a mean thing to assess. You're not being mean by thinking, well, I don't, by really evaluating if somebody is a good friend, just it's looking at the reality of it. And if they're not a friend, it's important to invest maybe elsewhere, that friendship, energy, because ultimately you want, you need people in your life. Jesus needed good friends in his life. We need good friends in our life too. Yeah, let me ask you about the vulnerability. It's such an important thing. And so often, and again, from a man's perspective, sometimes we're a little bit harder to be vulnerable. But when we open up, any Christian opens up to one another, it's always a powerful time. What are some like ground rules, some things that we should know about being vulnerable, the power of it, but also the dangers of it? For sure. So vulnerability is something you don't necessarily want to dive right in. You and I have had a, sometimes I can have a hard time doing this, in meeting someone and you don't really know them that well, and you just dive straight in. You're like, man, here's the hardest thing I've ever been through. And you hit with them. And that is foolish. That's foolish. This is not a person that you know well they are. That's just the connection that you're trying to form with them. It is likely going to just scare them.  I would love to not hold that. So it is important when, when working with vulnerability to remember that it is like walking into a pool. You start shallow. You start with small things and you buy time through time and trust and shared experiences. You can go deeper and deeper, little by little, but you don't just dive in right away and go, well, I'm here to be vulnerable. So listen to my childhood stuff. That's just not a very wise thing to do because we are supposed to guard our heart. So I always think about it as a pool that, that gradually gets deeper. That's how you want to enter vulnerability. Well, we were just laughing here a little bit because Amanda is like this, this is an open book person. I've been on the air with her so many times. I know you just never know what's going to come out, but it's a really good thing. I have done that and then I've heard like crickets afterward and it was just like, that's the worst. That was a little too much.  Anyhow, clean it up, clean it up. I didn't operate that way too, Amanda. It's okay. Yes. And so it's more outgoing personality. You want people to feel welcome, but then I think on the other end, when they're not that eye personality, they're just like deer and headlights, you know? I'm looking at you.  Yes, so we're growing in this, but you talk about, you know, the connection piece and how important that that is and that there's levels of connection and you ladies have done a fantastic job rotating the questions. We're trying to give names, dance or what, but you wrote it. So just keep on being awesome today. You can tell your best friends. Yeah, I think it's good to recognize our levels of connection and all of them are really valuable. Like I love going to the grocery store and being known. Like that's a connection. I love going to the coffee shop and knowing each other's first name and a story about our dogs or whatever. I mean, connection is really powerful in healing and then there's those deeper levels of connection that are just precious and I think it's so important to recognize those deeper connections, invest in them and protect them because you don't get those all the time. There's not always people that are ready and available to handle your deep part of the pool. As you're waiting in there, you sometimes find, wow, this person can't handle this much real. So I think our friendship is going to stay in the shallow end of the pool and that's okay. That's still a connection that can add value to your life. But those friendships that are really there for it, for the deep stuff, are precious and we are busy, as Amy has said, so busy. We just keep getting busier, I feel. And with social media, there's so much chaos and so much happening all the time, but in order to maintain those deep friendships, we have to carve out time. We have to carve out base in our lives for that and we really need it. Yes. We have like three minutes left, but I was just thinking about if each of you could just share a story of where friendship really mattered and what that looked like in the moment. We'll start with Amy. Well, I mean, anytime I have a, you know, a million different stories of times people showed up for me.  Like I couldn't, I didn't see another face for a week and a half and those were just beautiful reminders that people love you and they're thinking about you and it's just, it's so precious. I went through something hard, got some bad news and not about me personally, but just some hard stuff earlier this year. And again, I just had people show up with a plant or a written note and just, I think it's so easy and we get so focused on who isn't there, who doesn't show up and we get bitter about who didn't, who didn't meet our expectations in that moment. I think that's really easy to get bitter and unhappy and look at who wasn't there. But man, if we can just adjust our focus and be like, who did show up, who did offer to pray for me? Who was there in my time of need and you redirect and you go, this is where I pour, this is where I pour, this is where I focus because those gifts are a treasure and they are precious and that means that they are rare. That means that they don't happen very often. So you just appreciate them and love on them and give all your praise, you know, for what you do have instead of what you don't. Yeah, I would say just there's been so many moments where friends have shown up for me in big ways that are transformational. Amy showed up for me in ways that are transformational. I think one of the biggest things that sounds so, so simple that was a gift from friendship that changed my life was I have a personality that feels like I've got to be fun and bring energy to the room no matter what. And so I found myself, if I was having a hard time retreating and kind of being on my own because I thought the expectation was I've got to bring life and energy and happiness and joy to the room. So if I don't do that, people aren't going to want to be around me.   I might not be very fun to hang out with.  And I think that is that I know that that's something that really changed my life in a very simple way knowing that I'm loved in all the ways. Well said and thank you both Amy and Jess for just number one writing this amazing book and the awesome queso recipe that you've shared with us. And for just the content and giving us a true look at what real friendship looks like, you know, before we went on air, they were like on their phones like trying to help each other sign in. It was just a real moment. I thought the only thing we're missing here, Tom is the queso, but this has been just a treasure to have you on hope today. Oh, thanks so much. Thank you for having us. We love talking about friendship because we do just pray women get it. And men, sorry, men too. They're sorry. There's both. We pray everybody gets it. We pray everybody understands it just takes it for the gift. Like this is a gift God has given us. And sometimes we treat it like a burden and it's not. It's a gift to have friends. Amen. Well, thank you again. Stay with us because when we return in 60 seconds, we're going to look at a familiar scripture that talks about the importance of friendship. We'll be right back. Jesus's two greatest commandments are love God and love others. Learning how to love better is a lifelong journey. This month with your best gift of cornerstone television, we'd like to send you love like that five relationship secrets from Jesus by Dr. Les Parrot. Discover how to truly love those in your life with this revolutionary guide. Blending the latest research in psychology and sociology with biblical insights, Parrot shares five practices being mindful, approachable, gracious, vulnerable and empathetic to help you forge meaningful, fulfilling connections with others. Love like that will revolutionize every relationship in your life. Ask for your copy of love like that five relationship secrets from Jesus by Dr. Les Parrot when you give this month to support Christian television through Cornerstone Network. Give online at ctvn.org slash donate or call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Hope happens here. Well, I love that, you know, the conversation we just had with Jess and Amy about friendship. And we have a scripture that we've shared a lot here. It's actually the main scripture of one of our programs, but we've got a scripture that we're going to share with you and it is found in Proverbs 2717. And it says, as iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. Now think about that for a second.   But that is what causes the sharpness. Now, our friends can do that to us. And if they can do it in a in a difficult way, or they can do it in a right way, right way, I mean, both can be right. But you know, those kind of things, they when it's tearing and wearing away that portion of us that is rough. Listen, we don't all have all the answers. We don't have it all figured out. I've been a Christian for a long time, and I'm still learning how to do it because and I need people in my life. I need people to, you know, rub me the wrong way sometimes or the right way and just say, hey, I just want to I just want to strengthen you today. I want to be there for you today.  That is sharpening me and grounding me into the things of God and making me more effective when I go out and talk to someone else that maybe I'll be able to do that to them.  A true friendship is where you can say that to the person and they're going to, they might mull over a little bit, but then the Holy Spirit, because if you're a real friend, you have someone's best interest in mind. You're not giving them this bit of information to tear them down. That's not being a friend. But I think on the receiving end that we would actually take those words of wisdom. I feel like the Bible Jesus is our friend because sometimes the Bible makes me say, ouch, you know, like I need to change this. So in a friendship, and then they talked about the different levels and how the closest connection is eye level, like looking at someone and being present in their life. The next is a voice where you pick up the phone or FaceTime, you know, and you're communicating with them. And those are our two deepest level of connections that we can reach out. So make friends. It's fun. Don't say too much though.  You know, there is a value in small talk. There is a value in being able to talk to someone. I know how you say, I don't, I don't do small talk. I'm talking about serious stuff all the time. Well, you're boring. Okay. You know, small talk is good. It's something that you can, you know, really find out something about that other person. Do that. Be a friend to someone. If you want someone to be a friend to you, and I know people that are lonely, and maybe you're one out there, you say, hey, I don't really have any friends. Make yourself a friend. And that may just mean be in proximity, go to church, go to, you know, the bowling league or whatever people are doing these days, you know, go to a prayer meeting, whatever, to do something to get yourself in a physical proximity to another person so that you can begin to share because it's what God wants. He's made us for fellowship and He's made us for Himself and you are going to have a great day when you do that. 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Hello. My name is David. I was working on a project called Project Lighthouse, which I initially planned to introduce to you today. Things were a bit complicated. There were a few interesting plot twists. Between the time I submitted this talk, then the time I finished the slides, and the time when I'm presenting. Let's start with the trivial plot twist that the prototype has broken at some point. I'm not going to make a demo of this. What's Project Lighthouse? Project Lighthouse was a project of Mozilla's connected devices branch. It dedicated to helping blind people live in their daily life. This talk, at some point, I considered renaming it how not to die when you're preparing a hardware prototype, which is pretty ironical given that connected devices died two days ago. So I'm still going to present. So, what about us? We were Mozilla connected devices. Connected devices was a set of internal non-profit startups inside Mozilla. The idea, when it worked, was to have great ideas, make great prototypes, try to convince people to give us money to turn the prototypes into actual products, and hopefully to make products that would help users. Connected devices has produced a total of zero products, which might be so much related to the fact that we don't exist anymore. Well, that's life.  And since we were the rebels, we were still using the dinosaur and not the new funky word logo of Mozilla. This might be the last time you see the dinosaur. So, I didn't really tell you what this is about. I mean, what Project Lighthouse is about. Because initially, Project Lighthouse was about, we know how to use cameras, we know how to program this kind of thing. Can we do something not creepy? Because if you look at the use of cameras in connected devices in IoT these days, just about everything is about watching you do something and telling someone on the cloud exactly what you're doing. Which is, incidentally, one of the reasons why some many big companies are interested in this, for strategic reasons, for insurances. And there are many companies that have interest in knowing what you're doing at home, either to sell you things or to charge you for things you're doing. And that's one of the reasons why there is so much focus and so much money involved and invested in Internet of Things these days. It's not just because it's fun. It's also because being creepy is profitable. But we wanted to do something not creepy. So, what can we do with a camera, a Raspberry Pi and a microphone and a speaker that happen to draw more juice than the alimentation of the Raspberry Pi can provide? Which is pretty much why I cannot do the demo today. Not the only reason. And can we do something useful? So sometimes the solution meets the problem. Because there turn out to be some people who have interest in having a camera and something interesting done with the camera. Some people's life can be changed with the camera. So according to the World Health Organization, there are close to 300 million users, sorry, people who live with a sight impairment. About 30 million of them are entirely blind. But still, that's many people who have trouble in everyday life recognizing objects, for instance. This means that in shops these people have lots of trouble. They need help to find out exactly what they're buying. And since shops tend to, at least in big shops, tend to change the place of things regularly to force people to revisit everything. If you're sight, if you're visually impaired, you're in trouble.  They are trying to force you to not know where you are anymore. There are basically, basically the solution is find help. So there are a few devices that I know of, essentially two specialized devices to help people in this kind of situation. They both are pretty much more than $2,000 for something that actually contains this kind of hardware. So the idea is, that's worth about $30, maybe $40, I don't remember. Plus the battery. So the idea is, can we do something open source, open hardware, and cheap? And we set out to try that. So more specifically, we wanted to help visually impaired people recognize household items. Because if you have two packs of the same size, it's pretty hard to know. Well, if you have two cans, one is Coke, and one is, I don't know, Fanta, you have no way of knowing which one is which if you don't see them. But in that case it's pretty easy for a camera to make the difference. Other things are much harder. But we tried to see if we could do that. So we actually got good results with the one above and pretty bad results with the one below. But we only had a few weeks of development. So how do we do that? So we get one of these. One of these, that's a small camera. A little software, two developers. Oh, sorry, yeah. Lots of open CV, Python. So two developers working for a few weeks time. And we actually managed to... Oh, yeah. And the final ingredient. Users. So I have pictures of actual users, but I'm pretty sure that I do not have the right to put them in an image. So I use supervillains instead. So we have 24 test users. So we actually tested something that was a slightly more refined version of this. This was prototype number one. There is a prototype number two that still is somewhere in California and probably going to stay there. So I could not show you. It would have been a bit easier to make the demo because it does not rely on so many outside stuff. And so I call this presentation lessons learned. So lesson number one learned. If it hasn't been tested by users, it doesn't work. Just because it's cold, just because it has code, just because we had fun developing it doesn't mean that it works. So we were lucky after relatively few iterations, we got something nice. So that was prototype two. It's a bit ugly, but not quite as ugly as that. And our lessons were yes, not all of these 24 users were interested, but enough of them were interested that it was worth doing. They thought it would change their life. Not everything in their life, but at least shopping, which is an important part of life if you need to, you know, eat. So we're supposed to work on making on keeping it cheap, making it simpler and have a better form factor. Okay, so that was making a prototype. How do we get from there to a product? So we put some designer to design some stuff. We put a factory and that's pretty much not how it works. We thought we could do that, but the truth is it's a bit more complicated. So I found a document on a blog that details a little bit more of the process. From the time you get the hardware prototype and a good industrial design to the time you can actually ship it. So forget the marketing on the top, forget the app development on the top. You still get all these three, four lines and our estimates were that they could take about six month time to get done. Could actually be worse. When I wrote this slide I was preparing to tell you that it's probably going to take more than six months. In fact, it's going to take forever, so I was right. So the question here is what do you do? Are you going to sit down during six months and do nothing? How can you not waste your time? So again, this lecture is about lessons learned. So we eventually came up with a solution and it's actually a simple one. You are building a device. You want to test it. So test things, if possible, with devices that people already have. Most people these days have a smartphone or a tablet. Some have a smart TV. So if you can find a device that your users already have, you can parallelize things. You can have someone, possibly you, working on the hardware, finalizing the hardware, getting the providers, getting the supply chain, getting everything together, testing actual hardware components, et cetera, et cetera. Something that's going to take you insane amounts of efforts and time. And you can also work on the software at the same time, which is the things that some of us do best. Me, yes. So in this case, we set out to use a device that blind users have. And this device is called an iPhone. It turns out that a huge number of, we actually have numbers of blind users, not vision impaired users, but for blind users, it turns out that many of them have iPhones. In the US, it's like 85% of those who have a smartphone have an iPhone, and many of them have a smartphone. I don't remember the exact numbers. So this means that we got ourselves working on a third prototype that was that. We're all foes them. We are in open source stuff. If you want to develop for open source for this, yeah, all right. Let's just say that I have seen many platforms on which developing open source software is nice, simple, easy stuff works. This is not one of them. Apple is going to extreme length to make sure that everything is locked down, and you have to go through them for everything. So part of the lessons learned. Yes, you need to go where your users are for testing. If you can avoid that platform, it's worth trying. We actually only got three weeks of work on that. Sorry, five weeks. Most of the time for me was spent actually getting Xcode to work, getting unit testing to work, and trying to actually release binaries. We have not succeeded at that yet. Everything is locked down really tight. So at this stage, it would be a great time to discuss the next steps. What have we done? We have an early prototype of that. Oh, I could actually do a demo of that. Do you want to demo of that? Let's see if it works. So you don't hear anything. Do you? Plenty of people behind the camera. Oh gosh, completely from the look. Okay, so a complete failure. So it was trying to find out which was the interesting object in the scene and apparently the interesting object might be somewhere on the floor. Anyway, it's not the interesting object. Well, I think this really is a very good day for me because also the microphone is dying on me. Okay, let's forget about this demo. So let's pretend that I have a very nice demo. Should the next steps be? Okay, fair enough. Make the demo work. That would be a pretty good next step. What should the other next steps be at that stage? At that stage, assuming that we have software that works nicely, assuming that we are still on track to get hardware. Oh, actually, we do have many nice hardware designs. I did not include them in the slides because I think they involve commercial partners. So we probably do not have the right to put them here. It probably doesn't matter anymore. But hey. So at this stage, our next steps will be... Okay, so make it work for real. The prototype apparently doesn't work at FOSDEM. So open an issue doesn't work at FOSDEM. So we have been working so far on making some basic computer vision algorithms. Obviously, making better computer vision algorithms would be helpful. But the nice thing is, since we have the ability to prototype on this ugly stuff, we can iterate and paralyze. So people working on improving the computer vision, people working with actual users on improving the usability and the accessibility, people working with users, not necessarily the same ones, on coming up with new features. We were also planning to go further because at this stage, this is an IoT session, I was talking about T, but there was no I. There is no I in team. So one of our plans was to make it social. Not in the bad way, let's add Facebook everywhere. But in the good way, as in sometimes, people need more help than just identifying something easy to identify. Sometimes people need help to find, oh gosh, I'm wounded. Does it look bad? One of my breasts feels large. I'm maybe sick. I mean, that's a pretty good one. And that's the kind of reasons for which you need more help than just what a dump machine can help. So we wanted to help people share their questions with people they trust. And possibly in cases that were more broader, share questions with just about any volunteer. So we were in parallel starting to work on a platform for crowdsourcing questions from people with site impairments, such as, what is that object? What am I doing here? And that is probably not going to be released ever because there is no single line of code written yet. And nobody paid to do it anymore. But that was the plan, in parallel. As I said, if you don't want to die, you want to avoid multiplying devices, real devices. But you can, again, fake stuff using existing devices. Once you have software running, I mean, one of our industrial designs, for instance, was actually a necklace, a relatively heavy necklace, containing, well, basically, this. And that's something that we can fake easily if we have software. We can easily make prototypes that don't have to go through a factory for that. You can pick a real necklace or anything that fits around your neck. Try it and attach stuff. That's not sufficient for commercialization, but that's more than sufficient to find out whether it's too heavy for users or whether users actually manage to point the camera in the right place because we actually got tests. And tests actually say that blind people point cameras very well. That was a very good surprise. They have difficulties in judging the distance, so sometimes it's too close, but it's centered. And that's good because that's something that needed to be tested. So anyway, if you want to avoid relying on having a finished hardware device before you can iterate, and one of the ways to do it is to have fake devices. So just something rigged together using a device for which you already have software. Also, one thing you do not need to forget if you are working and if you want to somehow release a hardware device is that it does not stop there. You probably have lots of legal things to cover that we are not used to in the open source world. In this case, people could possibly have accidents because of this, physical accidents. People trying to use it to identify medications, for instance, could end up with the wrong medication, or they could end up with rat poison, eating rat poison because we had told us that it was beans, red beans, something like that. That's pretty tricky. So of course we want to make sure that the software works. But many of these things have real-life implications, which among other things involve lawyers. In this case, we should also have been in touch with a number of people such as organizations helping blind and sight impaired people because that was the best way to get in touch with our users. And one thing that's often overlooked is the Kickstarter. Kickstarter, people generally see it as a way to raise money. The secret of Kickstarter is that Kickstarter is actually a marketing tool used by companies to measure interest in a product before they develop it. If people are willing to invest $10,000 or $10 million that depends on the product, this means that you can sell the product. I know of a number of cases in which Kickstarter has been used to sell a product that had no kind of existence in the real world just to measure whether it was worth trying to build such a product. Some of our potential partners did that, for instance, and we had surprises. So, again, if you're trying to build something and turn it from hobby to something that you can distribute, Kickstarter is a pretty good tool for that, not just for raising money but for to check if it's worth doing. That slide might be slightly deprecated. Okay, regardless, you can find all the software prototypes of Project Lighthouse on GitHub and we have a discourse forum if you want to, I don't know, sympathize with us. Thank you very much for listening. And if you have questions, I will be happy to try and answer. Yes? What's going to happen with the prototypes of all the work involved in the Lighthouse? Is there a release on the insert, the software, or is that...? So, what's going to happen with the prototypes of Lighthouse? Will they be released? So, the software prototypes are on GitHub already. I mean, we need to put a license because we just forgot that in the rush, but they are on GitHub. The hardware design prototypes, I don't know. I would like us to release them. I do not know if they belong entirely to us. If they belong entirely to us, I think we can release them. If they don't, we probably can't. Yes? I was just wondering, if so many blind people and I imagine that you could have a smart phone? Yes? Did you consider just thinking about it, not bothering you? So, the question is, if so many blind people and vision impaired people have smart phones, why not just make an app? We also considered that. Yes, that was a separate track. I'm an IoT session, so I was concentrating on the IoT stuff. But yes, we considered continuing the app track past the prototype phase. Great. Thank you very much.


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Hey, guys, it's Kevin. Today we're going to talk about how to add a ink tank to Canon printer that has 280 cartridge. So it's a PGI 280, CLI 281. And we're going to use this TS6330 as an example. You'll find a resolver. It looks like this. You'll have a big tank on the side, and the tank will supply the cartridge. So you don't have to replace any cartridges. The reason it's going to work is because 280 cartridges doesn't need to reset a chip. You can see the side and it has a half a tank. And then after you've depleted, it become the cross symbol. You can see the black and the yellow has that cross mark. And then after that, you can turn off the ink monitor. After you turn it off, you can see the IM and PGBK they are grayed out. And when it's grayed out, the printer doesn't track the ink level anymore. So you can just see how much ink left in the external tank rather than to check the ink level. So that's very ideal for a CS. You can see even with the ink monitor turned off, I can print normally. Oh, by the way, you cannot turn it off right now because you haven't printed enough pages. So eventually what you want is something look like this.  I'm going to put a link to a video above that shows you how to turn off the ink monitor, how to deal with the different errors, and how to refill it. So we don't have to recover. We don't have to cover it again here. And to refill those cartridges are extremely simple. Just flip over and drip ink on it until it's saturated. So why we still want to do a CS? We want to hook up with the ink tank because we don't want to refill this cartridge every 100 pages. We want to refill only probably once every 2,000 pages, or 1,000 pages. Therefore, we don't really need to do a complete CS for every single color. Not every cartridge needs to be hooked up like this. So in this video, I'm going to just do four simple colors. I'm going to do the black, sand. Don't confuse with the photo black, sand, and magenta and yellow, so four colors. So even if you have a five-color printer, you can still only do four colors on this five-color printer. Two, so we don't have a package that has everything, is that you can go to bchtechnologies.com and go to printer modifications, Canon, the whole printer. And find a bracket. For example, this is a five-color bracket for 280 and 281. And if you scroll down, there's a combo suggested thing. So you might want to add the ink to it. And we need to pick up an elbow and a plug set. All printers are white, so we pick up a white tank for color tank. And the important is that we need a priming kit. So without the ink, this is how it looks like. We need a bracket. We need an elbow and a plug. And we need an ink tank. And we need a priming kit. This is what a tank and a bracket look like. And elbow and sleeves. Other than that, you need a flathead screwdriver or a butter knife and some kind of heating source, such as a stove torch. Also, if you don't want to get the ink everywhere, you need a pair of gloves. And another thing very important to have is the protective clips. And for those, go to accessories and go to storage, protective clip.  And also pick up a couple of small ones. When picking them up, make sure that clip is for PGI 280 or CLI 281. To free the printhead, you can turn on the printer, then turn it off when you see the printhead is moving. Or you can just turn this wheel counterclockwise a couple of times. For the cartridge, you can use those refillable cartridges. Or you can just use the OEM cartridge, either startup or Excel or whatever cartridge works. Let's put the silicon pad on the protective clip first. And for the cartridge, put a tab inside the dot hole and then press it down in the front. And let's see it again. And pad, loop, press. For the OEM cartridge, we need to seal the air hole. The air hole is where the air breath when it prints. So it's normally in the middle of the cartridge. And then it has air channel go all the way to the front and form a Y in the front. So we can just peel this label off.  It's the refill hole. That's where the cannon filled the cartridge. And it's normally blocked by a plastic ball. So let's expose that. So we're going to fill one hole and open another hole. So let's use the super glue to glue this whole shot. You can use hot glue or just use your hot iron to heat-shot the hole. You can put some soap water there and then just squeeze the side, make sure there's no air bubbles coming out. That means it's airtight. The refillable cartridge air hole is like this. And we do the same thing. Glue the shot or use heat to shot it. To open the refill hole, you can push the ball in.  And you can drill through it halfway and just poke it out. I don't want to sell you another tool which you already have. So I'll just put a link here in case you need it. Try to put a sleeve in this hole. If you find the hole is not deep enough or you have resistance, just use a pair of scissors, enlarge the hole a little bit. The sleeve should fit into the hole completely. Those small plugs, they are called shipping plugs. When you move the printer, for example, you're going to put it in car or move it around, you plug it. But in the normal operation, do not plug the small plug. The big plug needs to be plugged. The big plug is the refill plug. So we look at the printer and the first tank, the tube is on the bottom. So we're going to mark that tube. Just get a permit marker and mark it. Mark it when it comes out and mark it at the end. We'll use some double-sided tapes to glue the tank on the printer. And we'll put it in the back a little bit. The tube is going to run on top of this bar. So we're going to make a hole on the outside and put a tube in. And we need some double-sided tape to glue the tube on this bar. So roughly divide the printer in the middle. And you'll need to glue all the way to the middle. Move the carriage all the way to the left. Then make sure your tube is tight. But also the printhead has to be able to touch the left side. And mark where you want the tube comes in. So I already marked the first tube. So I know which color is it. And use the bracket as a template and decide how long you want the tube to be. So we'll be sitting on the printer like this. And I only need this much tube. So I cut it and put the eyeball on it. Then we'll do for the other colors. Remember, the second one is empty because we only got four tubes. So we're going to skip the photo black. Now we can fill the first tank. And then put the refill plug back. And then just repeat it and fill all the colors. When you close the tank, make sure you're deep the tank and make all the ink flow to the bottom. And then close it. And here's a little trick. So if you push the sleeve like this, the sleeve will probably going to fall in. And then you had to buy another sleeve. You want to put half of the sleeve on the elbow and then insert it into the cartridge. And now we can take out our priming clips. So I'll put a front inside and then press the back, the tap will lock.  You can see every time I draw, it just remove air from the cartridge. And you're going to see the ink flow in from the tube and fill the bottom of the cartridge. For the OEM cartridge, you can now see how much ink in the cartridge. So basically, you stop when whatever you draw, it just ink coming out. No more air comes out. For each cartridge, you'll finish priming and put the protective clip back right away. After you finish priming, then you just remove all the protective clips and put the cartridge in the printer. And I like to glue the bracket on the cartridge. So just put a double-sided tape on it and then press the tube in. And then you can power on the printer and take a look. And if you see this air, 5100, about a foreign object, and that because your printer cannot move freely inside the printer. So as I say, it touched the left side, but it cannot go to the right side because here it got stopped. And the reason is that those elbows are too high. And then there's a piece of plastic stopped, stopped it going all the way to the right. Remember, you have four elbows. So make sure each one of them can fit underneath that piece of plastic. It will take some tries and some basic troubleshooting. And then make sure the cartridge can move freely inside the printer. And after that, you can just close the cover and you can start printing. Again, you cannot turn off the chip at any time. So for example, for sign, you have to keep printing and printing and printing until one day you get this error. It gives an OK as an option. So you just press OK. And then you'll see the sign has a red cross next to it. And keep printing and printing and printing. I give you this screen. This error, it doesn't have OK as option. So just press and hold down that orange triangle. Just hold down to it until it disappears and goes back to printing. After the second error, we thought that the OK button. And after you've done that, the ink level will be grid out. And the printer doesn't keep track of ink level anymore. So you just keep an eye on the big tank. Whenever the ink is slow, just add more ink. For the colors that I didn't put the tank on, such as photo black and photo blue, I just review it once a year or once a half a year. Don't care about those colors too much, because mostly I do the office printing with this printer. I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally at Greensboro, North Carolina. Cheers.


Please be seated Well, it's a pleasure to greet such an impressive group of US and Soviet young people I Hope those of you from Moscow are Enjoying your visit to the United States and that you're finding it an exciting as well as an educational experience. I Had only five days in Moscow this summer, but my visit to your university was a highlight I'll I'll always remember and it's great to see those of you here from Yale I also had an opportunity a few years back to visit your campus as a chubb fellow and It's a warm memory Particularly when contrasted with some of my visits to other campuses back in the 1960s Which were shall we say even warmer? But that's all history and we don't want to give our Soviet friends the wrong impression But perhaps some of you have already told your Russian friends that Yale was founded 75 years before our Republic was and It's motto luck day veritas Sprang from a belief by Yale's founders that not only the pursuit of knowledge But also the spiritual insights of religion were an important part of education And that's why Yale added Luxe on to Harvard's motto, which was simply veritas And they've been trying to lick Harvard ever since And So I'm delighted this exchange could be taking place between two such important centers of learning in the world Believe me having Yale and Moscow State University students here today Fulfills a long-standing goal of this administration and a personal wish of mine Some of you may remember what I said to the nation before I left for that first summit with General Secretary Gorbachev in Geneva That if Soviet youth could attend American schools and universities They could learn the first hand the spirit of freedom that rules our land and understand fully that we do not wish the people of the Soviet Union any harm and If American youth could make similar visits they would gain firsthand knowledge of life in the USSR and Most important a better realization that we're all God's children and all of us brothers and sisters in peace Everything that's happened since then convinces me We were right about this in the three years since Geneva where we concluded new exchange agreement We've had an explosion of people-to-people contacts American musicians and farmers and baseball players Visit the USSR and Soviet musicians and farmers and hockey players visit America Less than two weeks ago more than 200 Americans from all walks of life spent five days mingling and interacting with Soviet citizens in Tbilisi Youth exchanges have blossomed more than any others the university pairing program from which your project was the model now includes some 200 some 20 pairs of universities and Last week in Moscow. We reached an agreement to begin a high school pairing project That will enable even younger Soviets and Americans to visit and experience each other's countries Perhaps some of you who heard me speak at Moscow State University on May 31st may recall what I said then That as important as these people-to-people exchanges are they still require official interference or coordination Nothing would please me more than to see official sanctions become unnecessary To see travel between east and west become so routine The Soviet University students could take a month off in the summer Put packs on their backs and like so many American students do Travel from country to country in Europe or North America with only a passport check in between Today this is a dream, but it's not an impossible dream It's a dream for your generation to seize upon and transform into reality Well in any caddy case, it's wonderful to see all of you here today And I can look at you and I can't tell which or which Last week at the United Nations I noted the strides that have been made by that organization in addressing such concerns as human rights and regional conflicts And I think exchanges such as this can assist dramatically in that same process And I want all of you to know how much we're pulling for the success of this program By the way, I've heard that Mark Twain is very popular or very popular writer in the Soviet Union And I'm reminded he once said It is better to be a young june bug than an old bird of paradise Well, you young june bugs Are getting together and frankly some of us older birds Think that's just fine So welcome to the white house. God bless all of you and now I understand that you have chosen to Dmitry and Alec to Say a few words Mr. President We have brought with us our best recollections About your recent visit to Moscow And about our experience of listening to you personally when you spoke before our students in the university And we are very glad to observe the improvement in relations between our countries And on our part We pledge to do our best To maintain this positive process in our relations. Thank you, mr. President That's very good to hear Thank you, mr. President On behalf of Yale University all the students there and students around the country I'd like to thank you personally for what you've done to improve relations between our country and the soviet union And I think that on cultural exchanges such as these all of us have collected memories that we will treasure for the rest of our lives And um Finally if you are ever in the area of New Haven you are certainly more than welcome to come back to All right, thank you. Well, thank you And again, I must leave and go back to work, but I just want to tell all of you here I've said repeatedly and you can all Be missionaries with regard to the experience that you've all had among your Colleagues and the other young people in each of our countries and that is I've said if all the young people of the world Could get to know each other There'd never be another war so Carry on and god bless all of you. Thank you


But this is so coo-ling like a bat! BEE! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Jaws and Roll Evolution 2! And the DLC! So it escaped my attention that I did miss one of the animations or the big animation in the DLC and that was because I had too many things in the enclosure and this one particularly needs a little bit of wiggle room to move and that's why the Uteranus or sorry not the Uteranus, the Alasaur and the Dinochiris just wouldn't seem to work together because they needed that extra space so I've deleted everything out here and now we'll get to see just what kind of show that they can put on! First we need to get rid of this little guy. And here is our combative jizz! I will get it to work this time just you watch! Ha ha ha ha!  You got this. Give it to me. Alasaur's about to die. Oh okay, okay fair enough. Alasaur can gain one more hit you know before we sort of incite the final incident. But will we be able to? Because they're in a corner again! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! That is it! That's the lock! Oh I look so depressed! I would have died but I'm in a corner. Oh well. Alright guys, I know we'll put you in a place where it's in a big open space. There we go. Replace them in a big open arena. Now that phase was no other option.  We'll see it normally and then maybe we'll do a slow down version of it. But this is so cool! Look at that! Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh they're kicking the head! Wow! The dino chyrus, dino chyrus, whatever you want to call it. It sensed the fear.  And then chased after it. But that's the first time. I think we've seen basically a large carnival kind of just give up and try and run away. But the dino chyrus doesn't give up though. That's amazing. I love that it's almost an accidental death. It's not like a deliberate one. But it looks so freaking cool though. Oh here we go. So the allosaur after a roar is like, oh god, I'm out of here. It tries to run away. The dino chyrus sort of just stumbles upon it, trips over. It doesn't mean to do this. I don't even know what its end game is. And bonks it on the head.  Ah, cool. Okay. So if the allosaur just didn't run away and it just played dead then maybe it would have been okay. But it ran. Okay. What I want to do is actually get a good view of it as if the allosaur is running towards us, the camera, and the dino chyrus just like, trips over. It's going to be beautiful. Okay, let's see. Which way is he going to run? Which way is he going to run? Okay, he's running. I think he's going to run this way. So let's just see how it does this. Oh no. Yeah. And then boop with a kick on the head. Beautifully done. Yeah, welcome. Now, if that was all we had to offer in this video, it would be very short. So, because this is a feather DLC, why don't we put a little bit of a twist on things and do a battle royale feathered and only battle royale. And here we are in the battle arena. Our contestants, dino chyrus and morris intrepidus, overaptor, pyreaptor, cyanopterus, er, tyrannosaurus rex, eutoranosaurus, and pherizinosaurus. I think they are the only ones that technically are feathered. The T-Rex, of course, we're using the 75 million-year-old skin. But apart from that, I don't think there's any more. Now rules go. If you're a normal-sized creature, there is only one of you.  So, let's see how they do, shall we? And of course, first, without further ado, we have to release feathered rexie. Sort of an afterthought. And if I'm gonna be honest, the design kind of seems a bit of an afterthought as well. But there it is, the original rexie. Eutoranus!  There is anosaurus next. What kind of color there is anosaurus? Well, doesn't really matter, because they're all feathered skins. But a lovely bluey-green one, then. Nice. Look at it, as tall as a tree. Why? God knows. Just is, but I kind of like that skin actually. That's really nice. On to the next one, our Dinochirus. I love how the camera's facing the other way. You know, where we're gonna only look at dark shadows. Well, well done there. How about we get a better look at it from a nice angle. Yeah, there we go. Dark color with a white stripe running down. Is that gonna make it more fast? I don't know. We'll find out. Our next one, you know, like a baby rexie. I suppose you could do like this guy, Morris Intrepidus. You could do Eutoranus. And then feathered rex. You could have a whole life cycle of feathered T-rexes. If you wanted to. I suppose. I mean, they're kind of all relatives of T-rexes, I think. On to the Overraptor, which is the only kind of small feather creature that doesn't hunt in a pack. Uh, so here it is by itself. Unfortunately, again, a dinosaur that I'm pretty sure has like no animations with anything. So it can't really kill anything either. It's dead weird. Next, a pack of a pyroraptors. Oh, oh, they're all the Dominion skin. I'm pretty sure I set them to random. Maybe I didn't. Well, there's two of them. There should be a third one. There's the third one. Gorgeous. And last but certainly not least, our newest additions to Jurassic World Evolution 2, the Sino-Soroptrix. I know I said its name wrong before, but I'm making up for it now. And they're beautiful.  Who will be our first casualties of war? We have tiny little Morrison trepidus here running around, right? And we have this Sino-Soroptrix. They should have a battle animation. Copies in Evolution 1, the first game, had attacking animations with each other. And yet for some reason, Frontier decided to go, yeah, none of that. And we have even more tiny little things running about. It's so weird. Well, I think this little Morrison trepidus is about to meet its end. There you go. Well, one down, only three left to go, innit? The first casualty has been decided. Oh, and I... Oh, do we have... Oh, yep, yep. We've got Deena Kairis facing off against Rexy. I'm kind of excited to see how this one's going to go. Oh! Oh, the first hit from Rexy herself. Yeah, it's not looking good for the Deena Kairis, although I would love to see if that animation translates to a T-Rex. Like, a T-Rex tries to run away, and it's like, no, you don't. You get hugs! Each have, you know, they've given each other scars, but I really think the T-Rex is going to be more powerful here. And definitely she wins. Reign Supreme of the Feathered Kingdom? Yeah, there's only one Morrison trepidus left. Oh, no! No, that can't be good for those guys. We could be in this situation here with only one winner.  Oh, Yutoranus picking a very clever fight against an already beaten-down Deena Kairis. I will be very surprised if the Yutoranus somehow doesn't win this one. Is there going to be a straight-out two hits from the Yutoranus? Oh, it is, but... Deena Kairis is surviving and actually gets a hit in. Look at it! The little brother of the... Oh, no! There it goes! Taking out your one salvation against the T-Rex and you've killed it.  T-Rex contests the body and gets a reward. And also, we've got a power-up to hunting down a Sino-Optrix. Oh, no! No, it didn't get it! No! Little Sino-Optrix. Oh, well. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. In real big danger now. We can do this one in slow motion. Oh, there. Picks it up, shakes it, and I think it eats it whole.  You hate to see it. No! Oh, bless it! It looks even worse the fact that this thing is all furry and cute. And then it's killer. It looks like this, for God's sake. Could you get more villainous if you tried? And said, No, you definitely couldn't. No! The only dinosaur that has multiple species is the power-upta now. And because we have the ability, let's see this in slow motion. Rexie being taken on by the power-upta squad. Oh, yes it is! I was thinking maybe it was just going to be one. Oh, is she going to be able to cling on? No, no. Not being able to cling on for too long there. The other one helps out, but where is the third? I didn't even see the other power-upta. So far it's only going to be two of them. And I don't know if they're going to be able to take on Rexie. And it's taking too long, let's put normal speed. Yeah! So far Rexie hasn't managed to grab any of the power-uptas. And the power-uptas aren't looking like they're taking damage.  No! Oh, they're both dead! No, that's it! The third one was the smart one. Maybe they could have been able to have like stood a chance if they had all worked together. But no. Two deaths right there and Rexie's taking no damage. Leaving the one smart power-upta by itself. All right. Yurt's weighing its options and it's taking on the Therizonosaurus. And that was a bad idea. Oh no! I think it's regretting its decision. Oh yes, very much so. This thing's a lot longer, a lot more vicious. It's got longer fingernails, that's for sure. More feathers and probably, probably more teeth. I mean, this is Jurassic World we're talking about here. And it loses. Got too big for its boots. I thought it could take on Dino Karras, and it did. But Dino Karras was already wounded, and now the Therizonosaurus looks like it's going up to finish the job. And while we weren't looking, the pyro raptor finished off the final member of the Moris intrapodal species. So now it's only Sinosauropteryx left. Oh, wait a second! The Iteranus just died! Well, there you go! It scars were too much from the Therizonosaurus and it seemed to have just died. Probably by embarrassment. This leaves T-Rex and Therizonosaurus to juke it out for first place. Oh, I didn't mean you had to do it now, but all right, I guess we'll do it.  Ah, oh, looks like T-Rex is going to win this one. Both have won one battle, I guess. T-Rex made a kill? I don't even know if T-Rex made a kill. Well, Therizonosaurus is bringing the battle a little bit too close to me for comfort. Rex goes for another hit, but is there going to be another Therizonosaurus going to get another hit in? Oh, yes, it is. It's very close. But it does appear that Rexy has won this one. And in true Jurassic Park or World Style, Jurassic franchise style, Rexy is going to win this one. And the last Sinus Rotrix gets eaten by a pyroraptor. Lovely little fairy-noodle. Hold on a minute. Wait, pyroraptor can hunt the overraptor? I didn't know this was a thing! Oh, my God, it can! Wow! Oh, okay. Lord knows. Anyway, it's dead, so that's interesting. So we're going to end it with two winners. Pyroraptors basically won the Mini Cup and survived not attacking a giant dinosaur all at once. It's all about brains, you see. That's what it is. Survival of the fittest, or in this case, the smartest. And the final bout begins. Therizonosaurus against Rexy. All fully recovered. And... ooh, is there going to be a repeat? I feel like Rexy should kill Therizonosaurus in two hits. But... ooh, it's probably because it's had a full chance to recover back to 100%. And this is how it's going to end! The final hit? Oh, not the final hit. Okay, is it going to take two? Is Rex going to get the second hit in? And boom, there it goes. Down on the floor. Rexy reigns victorious as the biggest and deadliest feathered dinosaur in Jurassic World Evolution 2. Well, anyway guys, if you enjoyed that video, do look out for the DLC coming soon. I think it's in the next couple of days it'll be out. And thank you again Frontier for allowing me early access to sort of showcase all these new different things and the love that they've put into the free update, which is like the viewing log platform and the dome stuff as well, which I haven't really showcased in these videos. But they exist, trust me. Anyway, if you enjoyed this video guys, leave a like, and until next time, I'll see you guys later. Oh, bye-bye.


This study examined the co-digestion of two waste streams, organic fraction municipal solid waste, OFMSW, and biological sludge, to determine the optimal conditions for methane production. The biochemical methane potential, BMP, test was used to measure the methane yield over time, while other methods were developed to reduce the cost and time associated with BMP testing. These included a model based on the elemental composition of the waste stream, which predicted the methane yield more accurately than the BMP test, and a model based on the Gomperz curve, which could predict the methane yield after seven days of experimentation. The study found that the optimal co-digestion ratio was 80% OFMSW and 20% biological sludge, and that the methane yield reached maximum levels after seven days of experimentation. This article was authored by Anilpha, Arkano, and MFDZ Polanco.


Although summer is during to a close, the South Portland Recreation Department still has many projects in the works. Leslie McVane talked with Parks and Recreation Director Rick Toll about the ways the department is making information about these projects available in an online interactive format. Well, Rick, summer is winding down and fall is fast approaching. The South Portland Recreation Department has some things going on, online especially right now. Yeah, we're fortunate in the fact that with the internet access that we have here in the greater Portland area, you can access our programs and recently we updated our brochure as they call it, but we're trying to, an evolutionary process, modernize it quite greatly. You have a new playground. Oh, absolutely. We have a wonderful playground system that we're about to install in the Wainwright Recreation Complex located off from Highland Avenue and Gary on my other drive. That system is manufactured by landscape structures. Our park staff will be putting it in and it's not only recycled material is going to be used in a high content of that. It's also got a rubber bonded rubber surfacing in it instead of the engineered wood fiber or mulch as most people call it that you'd characterize in a playground. So it creates a much more stable and uniform surface and it lasts a lot longer. We don't have to keep taking the mulch out and then keep putting it back in. So when kids fall off, they sort of bounce back? Yeah, they do.  It sounds kind of great. It is because when they fall directly, instead of, you know, how kids when they run and they make paths and grooves, instead of having that situation, it'll be consistent. It'll always be that uniformity that you like to see in a safety surfacing. I'm looking forward to seeing that and there's a way to interact online. Oh, absolutely. Introducing the new playground design to the city as a director, I wanted also to be something that the public could interact with. And if you go on southportland.org on a website and you go to Parks and Recreation and you look on the tabs on the right and you click on it, it'll say the Wayne Wright Recreation Complex Playground Project and you'll go into a website with a password and it's really neat. You interact with it and it'll give you a 360 degree view of it, it'll give you the layouts of it. I encourage parents to do it with their kids because if you have inquisitive kids that like to build things or how stuff gets done, it's really neat to see in phases how all that happens and how it's supposed to be built and the colors are really nice. The kids will like it. I encourage parents to try it. And I think it's important to involve the kids. We saw that here in Portland on the east end. Yes. They might take out the monkey bars and the kids protested and they might get put right back in now. Well, and I think, you know, as you update equipment and some of the laws have changed and I mean, ranging from when the, remember the steel slides that you and I probably went on and boy did those this time of the year. Oh my gosh, they hurt. It was so hot. Yeah. And so ranging from that to a lot of updates, but this is really neat the way we do it. All right. Well quickly before we end, update us on what's happening with the Mill Creek Park. The park is moving along quickly. It'll be done within the next four weeks or so structurally. The plantings are now starting to be put in place. We've done the gazebo area, which is phase one. We've completed the plaza so you can stand on that and look over the park. And now we're moving on to the formal gardens with the granite pathways and all the vegetation that you'll see. And we can follow up on that because it's really neat. And then it's moving over to the veterans green. We had the groundbreaking with the mayor and the city manager to appreciate and thank them. And those paths will be put in last but not least so that we do the least damage to that area. So those two phases are coming and we look forward to those being fun too. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. And I hope people go to the webpage and interact.  Thank you. Thank you.