So it turns out that Faraday's law of induction is actually very important to our technology. For example, it's how we do a conversion of energy from mechanical energy into electrical energy. Let's look at a schematic version of the simplest version of one of those devices, which is an AC generator. So you start with a magnet or magnets that produce a permanent magnetic field. And then we're going to put in a coil. And that's just a coil of wire. And what we're going to do is we're going to rotate it around its axis. And because we've got this area of coil and we're turning it through the magnetic field, and what that's going to do is change the magnetic flux that's going through that coil. The magnetic field is going to be constant. The actual area of the coil is, of course, constant, but the angle is changing and therefore the perpendicular area is changing. Indeed, it's changing sinusoidally. So this A loop is the total area of our loop here. But it's changing sinusoidally because the angle is changing. The angle is going to go through 2 pi radians every time we go through a period. And so that cosine has to be 2 pi radians every time we go through a period. So time divided by period. So obviously that flux is changing. And so obviously it's going to be time dependent and therefore it's going to produce a voltage in that coil. And if you put many turns on that coil, then you'll get a stronger voltage in that coil. If we look at the flux as a function of time, we start at time equals 0. Cos of 0 is 1 and so we start at the maximum of the magnetic field times the total area of the loop. And then cos is just goes like this. Now if we want to see how that flux changes in time, we have to look at the slope of this graph. And we can see that initially it doesn't have any slope at all. And so this will be 0. So while the coil is in this position, there will be no voltage through the coil. But then when we get to here, we'll have quite a high slope. And then at this point we'll have none again and then a strong slope going other way and then none and so on. And so we can see at the point where the slope is the maximum in the negative direction. We've got a maximum slope there. And when it's flattened out, we have zero change in our magnetic flux. And then we've got our maximal change and so on. And of course the change in the magnetic flux is precisely just proportional to the voltage. And therefore this is a picture of the voltage we're going to get out. If we do that mathematics properly, we'll find that that's also a sinusoid. And you'll see that it's alternating. And that's why this is called an AC generator. It's also known as an alternating current generator. This is actually how all our power is transmitted. In Australia, the frequency at which this is oscillating is 50 hertz, 50 times a second. Now some devices don't like the potential to oscillate like that. They're like a nice constant potential. And those are called direct current devices, DC. And to make a DC generator, what you do is you basically take an AC generator and cheat. So all the business end of the generator with the magnetic fields and the coils and whatnot is basically the same. But then once these wires come off here, what we can do is we can construct clever devices that switch which wire these cords are connected to every half turn. And so what that's going to do is it's going to take our old alternating current and it's going to make it look like this. And there you can see you've got a much flatter looking voltage, although it does have these dips here. And the way you can fix that is you can put in extra coils. So you might have back in your generator, you might have another coil that's at right angles. And the currents are going to come out of phase with each other, so they're going to look like this. And if you're really careful, you can organize them to add together such that you get a very smooth current indeed. DC and AC motors are just the exact reverse process. If we look at that coil in the magnetic field, instead of using force to turn the coil to try and make electricity, I'm going to apply electricity to try and cause a force. So I'm going to put a current through it. So the current is going to be coming out of the screen here and into the screen there. It's going to be the same current that's going around that coil. And we can see that there's going to be a magnetic force on it. So we're going to use the right hand rule to try and figure out the direction of that force. And so we'll do that one first on the left. Okay, so we take the fingers of our right hand and we point them up out of the screen to be the direction of the current. And then we swing them around in the direction of the magnetic field. And then our thumbs are pointing up and so that's the direction of the force. And on the other one, we're going to have our fingers pointing in and then we're going to swing them around to the magnetic field and so our thumb is pointing down and so that will be the direction of the force. And so if this is two sides of the coil, the coil is going to start to rotate. It's going to have a force turning it around. It's going to have a torque trying to make it go around in a circle. And that's just what it will do. When it gets all the way flipped over, the forces are going to be slowing it down again. And so if we're cleverer and we use alternating current and we swap the sign of the current, then it's going to be still pushing it forward. And then the current will swap sign again and it will keep pushing it and pushing it and pushing it. And that's how an AC motor works. If it's a DC motor, then the current coming in is constant but we use a special tool to swap which wire it's connected to each half turn and then we get the same effect as the alternating current and that's how a DC motor works.


Hi, SLP. How are you doing? Hope you're on mute. Oh, just kidding. There we go. You should be able to now. Yes, thanks. Thank you. It's five o'clock like magic, but I know it's not like magic. It's great here because of the generosity and kindness of the public theater and howl around. It's watch me work. I'm SLP get together most Mondays and we work together and we talk about your work and your creative process. And we've been doing this for, I know I have my notes here because I can't remember for a long time. Like over 10 years we've been doing this. It can't be that long, but it is more than 10 years. We were doing it every day in a row during the lockdown in 2020. And now we're back to like once a week. It's easy. All we do is work together. And Lolly can tell you if you have a question after our specific work time, which is going to be 20 minutes, Lolly will have a some answers to how you can get in touch with us and ask me a question about your creative process. Go Lolly. Yes, if you'd like to ask a question, if you're in Zoom with us, you can ask questions by clicking on the raise your hand button, which could either be in the participants tab on the bottom of your screen or in the reactions tab. If you have any trouble finding it, please send me a message in the chat and I can do my best to help you. If you're watching the stream live on HowlRound with us, feel free to send us your questions via the public feeders Instagram or Twitter account or via watch me works Twitter account, which is at watch me work SLP with the hashtag HowlRound that's hashtag H-O-W-L-R-O-U-N-D. So that's how you can ask a question. All right. Thank you, Lolly. And so we are going to get to work. I got my timer set for 20 minutes. Here we go. We're back. We are back indeed. We are back indeed. Here's the moment when I take questions from you. You don't make me rhyme anymore. It looks like we already have folks on deck to answer questions. Okay, you can call them, Lolly. You can call them. Okay, Kimmy, I'm asking you to unmute. Can I do it? Hi, I've got, I miss you so much. I miss everybody. Thank you so much for having me and I'm well. I got hypnotized for depression and it is a game changer. I didn't know you could feel this way. It's good. It's a good feeling. So good.  Are you still under hypnosis? I'm not humping anybody's leg, but I'm feeling happy. It was amazing. Congratulations. Good for you. Thank you. It was, it was, it got so bad. I called Suicide Hotline. They asked me to call back. They go, do you have a gun? And I went, no, but I have a rope. So I thought, wow, they're really overwhelmed.  So yeah. And I wasn't, I wasn't happy about medication. So this is just, it's been a whole different world for me. And now all of that, all of that angst and childhood trauma is out of my way. And I'm just now writing like I've never written before. Amazing. And how did you find your hypnosis? My friend had to quit smoking for dental implants and he turned into a whole completely different person. And I thought, well, God, if they can get you to stop doing something addictive, they got to be able to help stop you from being sad.  I've tried everything else. And yeah, I'm out. Anybody needs a little help? Just let me know and I'll send you the link. Could you, could you put the, would you mind putting the link in the chat? Because, you know, it might be a hard question to ask, you know what I mean? It might be a hard question to ask. That is so generous. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Yeah, it was, it was amazing. It's only $150. It was over the phone. Yeah. You don't have to look at them. Oh my goodness gracious. Yeah, it was, it was great.  Religious experience. It was religious experience. It was. I'm walking on water and everything. I'm so happy for you. Thank you.  You know, I'm, I'm, I'm working on some really powerful things that are not going to go over well with people. And it, that makes me like art, you know, Duke Ellington said that art is really outrageous and it's tough and it's hard. And when it's not those things and you don't want to have anything to do with it, like that's a paraphrase of his quote, but you know, it's the stuff that I, I don't want to talk about my childhood trauma, but it certainly has informed me. So I'm digging into deep stuff. And one of the things that I wanted to, to, to ask you about is I picked up this book that was copyrighted in 1997 by Dorothy E. Roberts called Killing of the Black Body.  And the first thing I thought was as I'm reading her text, it's a, it's an intellectual book of, of how Black women have been blamed for reproducing racism as per the white man. And, and I see this as a play, but is this something, even though I'm a woman of color, but I'm not a Black woman, is this something that would be offensive if I took on the material? And also, even though it's, I'm using her book as reference, is it a, is it something that I have to option? And if I do, how do I go about that? And yeah, so that's all that. All right. Great questions again. Congratulations. Did you put the link in the chat? I'm going to get it. I'm going to, I'm going to do it right now. Yeah. Awesome songs. Okay, great. I would very strongly suggest if, you know, unless something is in the public domain, which in many cases, but not all cases, in many cases, that means it was written over 100 years ago, I believe, but you check with you, you know, okay, okay. But, but not all cases because there's some operas that were written in the 1800s that are still copyrighted. So be mindful. But if you're ever working with someone else's work, you need to get their legal permission. Okay. Okay. You, you, that, that, that is, you know, you just got to do that. It's, it's not only, it's not only because we want to be, you know, lawyered up and all that ridiculousness. It's not about that. It's just doing what's, what's the right thing to do. Okay. It's got to do the right thing. Okay. So, so, so we credit that person. We, we might option, like you said, that, that, that material and yeah, it's an amazing book and you would want to definitely credit, especially she practically pretty much kind of sort of just wrote it. 97, right. Also, would it be offensive to people? It depends on the person and the, the, the, instead of would it be offensive to people? I think you should ask yourself, is, is this a story that you feel that is yours to write? It's like, it's more like that. So you, you know, if you take a survey of people, everybody's going to have a different opinion about what you should be doing. That's less important. The most important thing is that if it's a story that you feel you need to write, then, then that's, you know, it's between you and, and yourself. Yes. Thank you. Cause it's speaking to me. You know, it's, it's a compilation of history from her research and also she cites so many different, you know, buck versus bell and loving versus Virginia, you know, those kinds of things. And I think it's, I know for my own research, Skinner versus Oklahoma, where they're talking about the sterilization of black men, I believe it was, you know, just truck drivers driving through town. So I just wanted to, these stories need to be told. I have such a passion for them. But again, I didn't want it to seem like I was mining someone else's life for my own art. If that, I'm trying to be respectful. That's great. That's great, Kimmy. It's so important that we even just acknowledge, it's so important that we acknowledge that because there's a lot of, there's a lot of work out there that does exactly what we're talking about. And you know, really great though. But yeah, you guys, that's between you and you, you know. Okay. If you, if you feel like this is something that you need to talk about, then that's the kind of thing you have to do yourself, you know. Thank you for your time. It's good to see everybody's faces. That's amazing. The hypnosis is, put it in the chat. I am good. I'm going to go get it right now. We're all going to call them and get hypnotized and we're going to feel so great. We're going to be dancing, dancing like, and I'll put my information in case anybody wants to reach out and ask a bunch of questions. So again, so if people feel uncomfortable just in the chat, you can talk to me personally and I'd be very happy to answer any questions. I'm a little open book at 60 years old.  I have no secrets at this point. I'm glad the writing is going well also. It is. Thank you so much. Bye everybody. Thank you. Thank you, Kimmy. Okay, Melania, you're up next. Oh, Melania. How you doing? Hello, Susan. How you doing, girl? How you doing? Fine. I'm here. Happy we are on vacation. Oh, nice. That's nice. Yes. And we went some days, a few days to New York City and I passed by the public theater and they were all so kind, so nice. And I saw the mezzanine where you did. Why didn't you, why didn't you send a text to me? I would have met you there and we could have done a reenactment. I didn't know how to reach you and I didn't want to bother you. Oh, bless your heart. Oh, so glad. You had fun in New York? Yes, it was very, very nice. It was beautiful and what I want to thank the public theater, had around everybody. When I went there and I said, yes, because I love watching me work and everybody loves you and they said, yes, please come. I presented my, you know, my vaccination and then they allowed me to take pictures so I was there trying to imagine how it was. Oh, that's so great. Yes, so it was beautiful. And another thing that I would like to share is that after all your help and from this community, I presented, you remember I was working on a novel that I had to present the idea and talk about the flashcards because I was a little, I did. So my, I don't know the results because I have to wait four months, but I presented the work. I did it. I show up and if I could do that, it's because of you. Congratulations. Congratulations. That's fantastic. I was when I, I did the click. Yes, it was. We are right. So thank you. So great. So great. All right. All right. That's a lot. That's a big hurdle you got over, right? Big nine. Yes, because to me what was important at the end, I have this situation with perfectionism, you know, that I need to be perfect. And I am working on that, trying, you know, to change it, but at the same time to embrace what happens to me when I, and all of this, when I try to be perfect, that is something that is not human and I am a human being, so it's impossible. I get stuck and I can't create because I don't give me the permission to do it. Right. Right. I did, I did my flashcards. I said I have permission, talk to the hand. It was all this loss they think with this loss. I run away when all the techniques and I could do it. So I am so thankful to you Susan, because and all this community, because I feel inspired. I can, that it's okay not to be okay. And at the same time we can create together. And it's okay because it's what we have in our hearts, you know, so presented. Be, be proud of who we are. Yeah. Yeah. Right on. Yes. That's so great. Thank you. Thank you. Oh my goodness. How are you doing? My goodness. What a day we're having. Such joy can come from just doing your thing, you know. Such joy. Anybody else have questions? Feel free to raise your hand. How's your work going, Rebecca? Just curious. Can she, Rebecca, answer? I just wanted, I just was. Yeah, I think it should be able to unmute. I'm unmuted now. How's it going? Hi, Susan. I have been doing a walk and read towards the edit of the third draft. Right on. And I realized I'm really happy with the first, let's see, the first 80 pages. Okay. And I decided I'm just going to go ahead and do some pitching of it to some agents because they only want 10 pages. So and I'm, I'm trying to figure out. And I think the section, there's a section that is a transition piece between 1937 white press reports and 1937 Negro press reports of the events. And I can't remember the name of the book. There was this, it was a fictionalized account of a murder in South Africa where the a young white woman was murdered. And the mother of the young man accused of the murder, who's a black man. And there's like this conversation of perspectives. Right. And that's what I'm using the newspapers for. And in the middle is frankly, the, the, in my memoir, and I guess it's kind of a who done it, is the person who's accused of the murder. And who's my uncle. I never knew him, but he would have been my uncle. And I'm, that part, that part, half of it just like does not work. So that's where I sort of have stopped. And I, and I think I've got a chunk of stuff that I either need to lose completely, that I worked on really hard, or, or just need to move. And, you know, my, my writing style is kind of, let's start out here, like with, you know, an example is like the era before the, the Ice Age in North America, and then kind of move into how do you get to the Ohio River. So that, that's kind of the way I work. So, and I think I talked about this section on cotton and the cotton gin. And, and so it starts out here, and it's, it's to get at one idea. But it's either in the wrong place or it's got to go. So I, I'm trying not to get stuck there again. Right, I hear you. Yeah. And so, but, you know, I'm tired of being tormented by the ancestors. So I have to get this done. They are insistent. And so that's just kind of the place I'm at. But I'm, I've been happy with the walk and read. I do about 20 minutes at a time.  So I get to meet that goal too. So that's, that's kind of where things are at. That sounds fantastic. So are you, it sounds like you're ready to send it off to an age? I am. Yeah. I think, again, I recognize it doesn't have to be perfect or even finished from the perspective of nonfiction.  I'm going to miss my moment. And of course, I'm never going to miss my moment with this particular subject, sadly, in this country. So so I, I feel like starting to pitch it and see if there's any interest would be helpful. And even someone saying, wow, this is really interesting. No, we're not going to, you know, pick it up is helpful. So I'm, I'm willing to sort of let that happen, or whatever happened with doing it. This year, I had a fellowship at Columbia. It's basically on kind of reparations and and I was applying for different things that I realized, oh, I guess I can apply for things and we'll, we'll take a long time to get there. So so I think that's where I am with with the manuscript as well. Yeah, sounds like you're in a really good place. It feels it feels pretty good right now. I I'm just trying to keep up a daily engagement with it, sort of one way or another, either the walk and read or are making the edits. And I think I'm going to extract the cotton piece and kind of set it aside and see if it ends up fitting somewhere else. Right, right.  It's, yeah, and I'm not even quite sure why it ended up where it ended up. So you mean in the placement of the in the placement. Yeah. Is that I write one of I had a friend read one and a half to draft. And she was really clear that I needed to get to the point sooner. And that's really worked. Okay. But it's, it's not strictly a memoir and it's not strictly a who done it. It's also how did we get to this place? And cotton really figures in for my family and for for black people in you know, the Jim Crow period and early Jim Crow and and the there is something that happens to a cotton worker that mirrors what happens to my uncle. And sort of that's to me the the conceit I'm getting at is there's some things that redemptious redemptiveness use against black bodies. So and so that's so so it may just be too long, but I also think cotton is beautiful. The flower is so pretty. So there's all that. There's this and then there's this. But that's also you know, when you you know, find you know your agent, your editor and all those kinds of things. Hopefully they'll also be able to give you specific and very helpful, you know, things to think about when you continue to focus it down.  So we're really cool to hear about it. Yeah, very, very cool. Cannot wait. Me too. Yeah, really, really great, really great. Thanks. Thank you so much, Rebecca. Looks like Nancy would like to ask a question. Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah, it's not exactly a writing question, but it's a business of writing question. A number of years ago I wrote a screenplay and it's okay. It's okay. It's a it's commercial, but it's fun. And I had given it to an actor, an older actor, well-known actor, and he said he would do it, but he he did write a note of intention, but he didn't help raise money and everything kind of fell apart, as these things do.  And I jumped up and I don't, you know, she was surprised because mostly the young people wouldn't have noticed her. And I had rewritten a version of the script with a woman in the main character. She plays a town mayor in Scotland. And because I thought, oh, Joan Darling, not Joan, Joan Rivers, for sure she died. And and then I was like, I didn't say, I talked to her about her show, she did a show at Town Hall. And then I let her go off to have her dinner. And then it occurred to me, wow, she could be great. So I found out her manager's name for my friend who lives in LA who subscribes to this thing. And I wrote notes. And because we knew someone in common, they responded. And of course, they asked me, well, who's directing? Who's, what's the budget, blah, blah, blah, all those horrible questions that I had no answer for. And, and I kind of worked it out with a friend who used to teach, you know, in film school. And I said, well, if I could have a note of intention and blah, blah, blah. Okay, I probably won't hear from them because I don't have an agent. And I've, I've really been trying with this film for a long time. And it has a new life, I think, because of what's going on here politically, even though it's a rom, it's sort of rom-com, but it's, it's got an edge.  And he was always in mind. And I never, ever approached him because they all, I never meet him. He's famous. He's never around, but his partner is. I wonder, is it too gauche to leave a note at their door? Because if, if he were interested, and then I could go back to the manager and say, blah, blah, blah, blah. And maybe from that point, I could start cobbling a team together because I make these small little documentaries that take years and don't make any money. I don't, I'm not in film school. I don't have a team. I really don't know anybody. I'm out of the loop. And I, but I don't want to completely embarrass myself since I live on the street. And I wouldn't want them to have to avoid me. Oh, there she is. That's, I think all those are great questions. And I would, would suggest, I mean, and I know embarrassment is a real thing.  But I, two things. One, I think make the move. Leave the note. Ask. Because I'm, I'm assuming this, this person who is, you know, well known and well respected is a grown up and knows how to politely decline a generous and serious offer from somebody. You know what I mean? Yeah.  Or, oh, well, no. Or, oh, let me read the script or let my, my spouse read the script. And there's so many ways of, of, so that's one. Make the ask. Okay. Okay. Keep your note, you know, professional and to the point and reference.  Keep it short because, because you don't want them to go, oh, I don't have time to read the cover letter, you know, reference. If you said, you know, somebody in common, I got, Oh, well, I, I know his partner, his husband. Great. Great. Okay. Okay. Great. Okay. So, reference the fact that you know his husband. You're not just some stalker weirdo, right? Okay. Right. So that's weirdo, but not stalker. There you go. I love it. Love it. You're welcome to the, welcome to the club or I'm welcoming myself to your club. But the other thing, two, other things, Nancy, make sure it's copy, write it or written or whatever. Make sure you have it registered with whatever entity one should have. Fantastic. That's number two. One more thing, which is really a small thing.  Be mindful of your language when you talk about how you don't have the connections, don't know the people, hear yourself. Don't talk yourself out of any possibility that might come your way. You know, when we say things like, I don't have, I don't have the connections. I don't know anybody. I don't have a team. You know, you have a team. You know what I mean? You have connections. It was, you know, just, just I got what I need to get this off the ground. Just it's, it's a form of who was it? Kimmy was talking about hypnosis, right? She went to a professional or she, she called up a professional, right? Okay. That's a professional thing that you go to school for you learn, but we have a non professional lay persons form of hypnosis that we do on ourselves every day. And it's called self talk. And you've got to, we all got to catch that. You've got to catch that self talk and do your part in hypnotizing. I'm using air quotes because it's not real hypnosis, just the daily track that you're running in your head. We all need to need to just catch when we're talking ourselves down or small in ourselves up or, you know, I'm too tall. I'm too, you know, my feet are too big. Oh, no one will ever, whatever, whatever, we know. Okay. And we all do it. Yeah. And, and so, so just be mindful of that. Because I think that will actually increase your chances for success. I hear that. Right. Love and clear. It feels good. And it doesn't cost you anything. We love, I love things that feel good and don't cost you anything like watch me work. Hey. Okay, but it sounds a great Nancy. You've got someone who lives on your block. You know their spouse.  Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, my astrologer said I should pay more attention to my intuition and that's yeah. We're talking about yes, and you've got the Aurora Borealis in the background girl. What more do you need? Yeah, I'm here in the Yukon on Ninth Street. Yeah. Hey, got the Northern Lights. Beautiful. Thank you very much. Thank you, Nancy. Thank you, Nancy. So we have time for another question or two. Does anybody have one? Are you doing, Jim? I don't mean to call you out. I'm just curious. It's good to see you, bro. Hey, will Lolly unmute? I just want to say hi. If Lolly won't unmute you. Will you unmute Jim? There you go. Can I say something then? Sure. But I don't want to sound too fawning, but I just wanted to thank you because I started coming to watch me work after Donald Trump won the election because I knew I needed something and I knew I was about to, I had just turned 65 and I was about to leave the career I made in doing AIDS work to go back to the career in theater that I had been deflected from when I got to New York and all of a sudden we're in the middle of that epidemic. I cannot regret doing that work because it's become famous and it actually saved a lot of lives by changing AIDS research and regulation. So when I came to your class, watch me work because it's really a joint project and that's why it's so wonderful. I had been taking at least smart enough, even when I was doing other work, to be taking notes, three plays I knew I wanted to write before I died. And I just wanted to say thank you so much because the first one I wrote in person under, absorbing the aura of watch me work and then the next two I actually drafted during the lockdown and not only that because I was so you know and they're not perfect but I knew I had to write them, had to get them down on paper and write them and I was so happy with them that I thought, well the Greeks when they had a trilogy they wrote a satyr play with it and so I've even written in the last year a draft of kind of a burlesque spoof because the three plays are social or very or as close to tragedy as modern writing can get because they are deal with three just social justice issues that I have been involved in in my lifetime and I have to tell you at 70 now it's hard, it's good to look back and be happy for what I've done but it's also hard to look back to see where our society is right now but in some ways the thing that has gotten me through has been a being able to get on paper the plays that I would have written had my career not been diverted so I will not go to my grave being having any regrets that I didn't write them and the first one had a wonderful reading and all that COVID has others have possibilities for reading with a director I know over Zoom but I'm sorry for all of this but I was privileged enough to see the death of the last black man back in Brooklyn in 1990 was 89, 90 and that changed my idea of what theater could do so this is in some ways just to thank you not just for that but very specifically these last five years for kind of being even if it's in a distance the muse that allowed me to have the career that in some ways was taken from me because I went into AIDS work so I'm sorry for all that but thank you oh Jim that's so beautiful oh thank you what a blessing you are to me really really every week you're here and doing the such beautiful work and like I said this is this is why um this is why I love this class I'm now crying I'm my mascara gonna run uh oh but no because we we inspire each other and we encourage each other and on the days we feel like I don't have a team to show up and even when it's not a Monday at five you show up anyway because you know that I know the gym's showing up somewhere I know the Lou's showing up I know the Milani's showing up Rebecca's been showing up you know what I mean I know that you guys are showing up um somewhere out there we're each taking a step or two or or 600 steps forward um toward this and Jim you're right even if we look back when we're very very old and and happy to to uh let go and transition into the next realm we look back and say at least I did my work did I did my work you know and that's the the the thing that we are encouraging in each other because there's something beautiful and deep about that and I do this it's funny I do this this is um when my my son was uh whatever before he could talk now he talked to my element but before he he began to speak when he was little you know they teach you um as mom or dad food when you know so the kid says in Milani's laughing like food food and are you hungry you want food but it is food the the work we do is is food we're feeding ourselves and I don't know how we're I don't know how it all works out I didn't go to grad school I don't have a higher degree in this but I do have um a lot of you know time on the track or on the path and so do you guys and we and we each get better you know it's cool right and it's like an experiment like I don't know what we're doing let's show up and see who's there you know um and Jim you you know in the lobby or Milani online online on the in the lobby remember and we would show up when there was like sometimes it was only like me and Jim in the lobby and Milani would call in we were like yay you know or crystal would come or whatever Rebecca was there you know or um you know or Lynn and um anyway blah blah blah thank you Jim thank you thank you appreciate that thank you so much for sharing Jim um thank you all what a lovely session today was very like heartwarming to be a part of I feel very honored to be in the space um it is six o'clock I think that's a beautiful note to end on um and we will be here every Monday at five p.m eastern now through august 22nd um we're getting those signups up on the web very soon so you can count on seeing us weekly if you like um thank you all very much yeah thank you blessings kisses hugs blessings see you next


Well, hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. Today I wanted to share my Christiane designs, the Celebrations Collection binder. I actually got this a couple of days ago and I've been like really, really good and I haven't even opened like the front cover yet. So I'm very excited. I wanted to share my first impressions on camera. I also have, this is the binder that I had purchased last year, same version. It's the Celebrations Collection by Christiane designs. And so just kind of going through and like looking at the different things that she did last year versus this year. And some of these I've used a ton of and others I haven't hardly used any. So, but that's all right. I just love to have it, you know? So anyway, this is the one from last year. I may reference this a little bit in the video but I just wanted to bring it out just in case. But this is the new bad boy for this year. She usually releases these in December. I know last year I believe this is a release in December or maybe it was actually before then because I got it in December. So it might have been before then. I believe that these are like a limited run. So I don't think that these are available any longer but make sure to check out the Christiane designs group on Facebook. I will link that below as well as her website because that's where like all the new release stuff happens. You can also follow her on Instagram too if you don't have Facebook or don't use Facebook. But here is page one. I need to like center it properly in the frame. Oh, there we go. So here is page one which I'm very excited about. Love all of these like scripted birthdays and anniversary celebrate and the little steves right there.  They're called planter Steve. I don't know why but someone named them and that's what it is.  I like that there's like these little guys too. I like those and a lot of different like functional ones. Like here's more like a winter, a spring, a summer and like a fall. So that's kind of nice. And then here's a little bit of a more decorative sheet. I know that she had partnered with Cindy and I will put her YouTube channel below. She does amazing lettering as well as like hand drawn things. So I'm not sure what is Cindy's and then what Kristen from Kristian Designs just designed herself. But I will link Cindy down below too if you guys are interested to check out her YouTube channel which by the way is hilarious and she does some fun amazing things on her channel. All right, so here's all the seasonal like planter steves. So we've got different celebrations in different times of the year as well as some little kind of like mini boxes that have like this is like a little monster. This is like a little political guy.  There's a bunch of those. That's really fun. And these ones are very similar to another page. So let's reference back y'all. So they're kind of similar to this page from last year but I heard that she was doing more like jewelry tones like a totally different color palette this year than this previous year, which is actually kind of fun because, you know, why not?  But I do love these color choices. I think those are gonna be really, really nice. And I think if I remember right, like the January scheme or like those schemes are gonna kind of like meld with these, I don't really know. I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm speculating. I shouldn't be speculating. Oh, and these are like the different days, not of the week, but like different things that are coming up throughout the year. So like Australia Day is like January 26th. This January 26th does not have to obviously go on the sticker. The sticker just the thing that says Australia Day. But I like that she put in all of the different dates so then you wouldn't forget. Like Earth Day is April 22, so you can like peel it off and like put it on April 22 if you'd like. And like Tax Day, let's not forget that. We got Canada Day and lots of other fun ones. So I really like this. Oh, and here's an extension of that, perfect. Love it, very cool. Oh, and here's like months, so interesting. Okay, so like Black History Month is February. Women's History Month is March. Pride Month is June. You know, there's lots of different fun things and there's also a couple of things that have actual dates on them. Like Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, Arbor Day, like that kind of stuff, neat. More of the same, but obviously different. So yeah, like Cyber Monday, The World Series, Donut Day. I mean, hello, we need that, right? Okay, and here starts kind of the, I don't know, these are kind of more like those weekly kits that she makes, but these I believe are exclusive to the binder. I'm not sure on that, but don't quote me, but that might or may not be true. But this is like perfect for Minnesota because it's always like icy and cold in the winter time. So it's got a really nice weekend banner. I love her embellished weekend banners.   So this kind of runs the gamut of whatever your planning style is. You can use something in this, if not all of this. And then here's the spring one, which is more of those spring colors, which is beautiful. Love all of the colorfulness in this one. And yeah, I just, it's so nice. I just, I love her stickers so much. And here is the summer one, and it has like a little camper and a little tent and things like that. So if you go out camping in the summer, this is kind of a fun one. And here is the fall, which I love these colors. I love the purple and that kind of like darker, soft blue. Like, I don't know, I like that. I think that's really nice. Pretty. Okay, and then here is a birthday one. So this has like, it just says like party time over here. And then it's your birthday with like a little frame. So you could put a little picture in there or something.  So then you can like put in the right number, hopefully. And then another little weekend banner. So I might use this the week of my birthday, actually. And the week of my birthday is in January. So that'll be coming up soon. And then this is a New Year's kit. And it looks like it says weekend, it says 2018. So you can use this either this year or next year. Probably this year I would use it. But love the muted colors and the blush pink and the brown are really nice together. I really, really like that. And then we've got more of a Valentine's theme with some nice muted colors. And I just love the weekend banners. Like I don't know why I always just go to the weekend banners. I'm like, mm, so nice. And then we've got a St. Patrick's theme. Again, loving this. I just love those. And then also I love the functionalness of it. But I like that you can take a half box that's plain and like put a little horseshoe or something on it or whatever. Like it's just, it's so functional to me but also still has a little bit of a decorative element cause why not? It's a little bit fun, you know? And this is like a Mother's Day, Father's Day sheet. I don't think she did anything like this last year. Let me take a look and see. She may have. Oh, you know what? She did. But she did two sheets. So I'll show you. So this was the Mother's Day sheet. Obviously I used a bunch of it. And the Father's Day, I didn't use any of it. Sorry, sorry, dad. So yeah, but she did one sheet each but this year she actually combined them together. So this is a really, really nice to have. And again, weekend. Love it. Fourth of July. Oh, these are really cool colors. I really like that. And obviously I'm gonna just keep talking about the weekend things. But yeah, I love like the little red, white and blue and the little thing that says July 4 there. Love everything about these. I mean, it's Christian design stickers. Like how can you not love them? And then we've got Halloween. Love this. This little like spooky house with trick or treat. That is so cool. And usually the week of Halloween, I get a little like more decorative in my planner. But I just, I love the way that all of these look and I'm probably gonna use all of these to stop coming here. Here is the Thanksgiving one for this upcoming year. Love this. Love this turkey.  Oh, he's right there too. Oh, that's so exciting. So yeah, just love the way these look. These colors are so nice. There's so much brighter in person than on the camera because I'm looking at my viewfinder, but it might not be coming out just perfectly. And then these have some more like bubble letters of the different months.  Very nice. And then these were the add-on stickers for like more religious holidays and things like that. She didn't wanna include them in the basic bundle here. And then I think there was a couple other like extras that you could buy as well. But these are all of the extras that I purchased. So I got a Christmas one, which is very, very nice. So love that. It says Mary and Bright. Again, the weekend thing. So cute. Love the colors. And then this one was actually like a vacation one. Yeah, this is a vacation one.  Like these would be awesome for a vacation. More weekend banners. I believe I ordered these special. Yeah, these are special order as well. And just more weekends because you can't have enough weekend banners, you guys. You just can't. And then this I ordered two. No, I ordered one of these. And these are the little like candle flames that I thought were really cute. So if someone is having a birthday party and say they're 37, for example, I would need a three and a seven. Or if I have another birthday party later, that's a 37. I can put another three and seven. So I just have like extra numbers here, which is kind of nice, which I love. And then this one was also a little bit of an add-on too, which had all the hellos.  And it's like, hello January, February, March, April, all of that good stuff. And then two little celebrates. I believe she had other more religious ones too. I think she had a Hanukkah and an Easter. And I did not get either of those ones this go round. But I just love the way all of these stickers look. They're just so nice and the quality is amazing. Well, I can't do this. So just to flip through real quick and kind of show you all of the stickers again. But her site has some amazing things, even if it's not these specifically, but she's just got wonderful quality things. Customer service is amazing. I always recommend joining up her Facebook group. There's lots of different announcements on there all the time about shipping lead times, production things, new releases, things like that. So I definitely recommend checking out her Facebook page if you want more information. But I think that is going to be it for today. Thank you guys so much for watching. I really, really appreciate it. If you have any questions, feel free to post them down below and I will get back to you. Also, if you liked the video and you want to see more planner or sticker related hauls or content, let me know by giving the video a thumbs up. And if you want to see more about my weird adventures throughout life and stickers and planners and all that good stuff, feel free to subscribe. I don't have a normal posting schedule, but I try to upload at least once a week, if not more than that. So hope you guys enjoyed the video and I will see y'all in my next one. Bye guys.


So the reason that you clicked on this video is because you want to know whether getting a history major or history degree is going to be worth it. Is it going to be worth going $40,000 in debt on average and spending four years of your life in college? Well we are going to be answering that question in this video and we're actually going to be ranking this degree in four different important categories. But before we get into that and after you've gently tapped the like button in order to defeat the evil youtube algorithm, first we have to make sure that we define what exactly a history degree is. History is basically understanding what happened in the past, what events happened, and what we can learn from that so that we don't make the same mistakes in the future. Now history is actually one of my personal favorite subjects. I love reading books about history, you know historical fictions by James Michener or Leon Uris. I also love listening to podcasts about it. I enjoyed Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast for instance and I also think that there is a lot of value in understanding history and all of the skills that it's going to teach you. Being able to look at the successes and the failures of the past, model that, and then figure out how you can either recreate the successes or avoid the failures is extremely valuable. And a lot of people are passionate about it and that's why so many people graduate with this major every year. In fact, one of the most common majors at 22,000 graduates per year here in the United States with bachelor's degrees. Now this is honestly one of those majors where there's not a lot of career paths that people go down with a degree, but a few that I can mention would be museum worker, teacher, history professor, or a writer, or an author. Now when it comes to salary or earning potential, you can expect to make around $45,000 a year starting out and $80,000 in mid-career pay with this degree. You can compare that to a high paying degree and a low paying one and you'll see that it's on the lower side, but surprisingly the mid-career pay isn't bad. It's not amazing, but I was surprised that the mid-career pay was decent. It's better than I thought it was going to be. Now if we look at specific careers, you can see that archivists, curators, and museum workers are paid around $49,000 a year and that's $23 an hour. Another relatively common career path would be a writer and they're paid around $63,000 a year or $30 an hour or maybe you become a high school teacher and they're paid around $61,000 a year and since that's salaried it's not by the hour or a historian that makes $63,000 a year which is $30 an hour and also just throw up a few other career paths that are somewhat related to this one and you could potentially end up going down. But overall when you look at a lot of these career paths, they aren't super high paying okay, they're decent but they're not amazing. Now liberal arts degrees in general will make around $2.1 million over a lifetime compared to the average for all college degrees and all different types of careers which is 2.4. That's according to the latest US Census Bureau which is, you know, a lifetime of work is around 40 years or so so that's the last 40 years so who knows what's going to happen in the next 40 years it could be completely different. Another thing to note here is it's much more common to go back to school and get a master's or a doctorate with a liberal arts degree just because of the fact that it's pretty tough to find a job with just a bachelor's. So in many ways this is an apples to oranges comparison just because of the fact that obviously you're going to make more money if you get a doctorate or a master's. But with that being said overall when it comes to salary this one is not amazing I'm going to give it a 6.5 out of 10. Next we're going to be talking about satisfaction and this is basically how much you enjoy doing your job which would be job satisfaction as well as a second part which arguably is even more important which is meaning and that is how much do you think your career is going to positively impact the world. Now depending on the person one of them might be more important than the other but when it comes to meaning you can see that history degrees are going to have about a 46 percent meaning score and you can compare that to a good one and a bad one and you'll see that it is on the lower side. Now it's pretty tough to become a historian especially in the traditional sense which would be getting a master's or a phd which is going to take a lot longer and probably cost a lot more however if you are able to become one you'll see that the meaning score goes up to 63 percent which is a little bit higher than average if you can compare that to a really good one and a bad one. On top of that you see that the job satisfaction is 77 percent which again if you compare it to the top and the lower one you'll see that it's above average. So history is one of those things that's a lot of fun especially if you're someone who enjoys history however when it comes to meaning it's a little bit questionable how much you're positively impacting the world. Next we're going to talk about how much your degree is regretted and zip recruiter did a survey on this and it showed that social science degrees are the fourth most regretted type of major and the main reason was because they're too general and practical hard to find a job without further studies. Now I'll keep this brief but one thing I always like to say here is this section and honestly this entire video is going to be relatively subjective depending on the person. It's going to have a lot to do with your personal strengths what you want to do with your life what you enjoy your passions and then also it has a lot to do with the people you work with the company you work for industry you work in the place in the world that you live there's a lot of different things that are going to go over there's a lot of different things that are going to affect how much you enjoy your job and how much meaning you get from it. However with that being said and I might be a little bit biased here I think this one is going to have an eight out of ten score when it comes to satisfaction. Next we're going to be talking about demand and this is probably the most important out of all of them just because of the fact that this is the one that influences every other type of statistic. So for instance if a skill is high in demand that means there's going to be lots of companies that are going to want to hire you for that it's going to be competition for you and then they're going to have to raise their prices and they're also likely going to treat you quite a bit better. So for an archivist curator or museum worker there's around 37,500 jobs available right now and over the next 10 years it's expected to grow at 11 percent which is much faster than average meaning there will be 4200 new jobs created. For writer or an author there's 131,000 jobs available right now however it is declining at 2 percent over the next 10 years. There's over a million jobs available for high school teachers and it's growing around average at about 4 percent and for historians it usually is going to require a master's degree or a doctorate and so there's only 3,500 jobs out there and it's only growing around 3 percent. Now one good sign is when you look up history degree on monster.com you'll see that 48,000 job listings pop up so that means 48,000 different people who posted jobs decided to put history degree in the job description somewhere. That's a pretty good sign and you can compare that to a degree that's really high in demand and one that's low in demand and you'll see that it is on the higher side. Now interestingly enough a lot of the time businesses are surveyed at what types of college degrees they're looking for and someone that they would potentially hire and almost always the ones that are going to be on top are going to be business and engineering so you see in this survey for instance it's around 80 percent for both of them and then you see social science and humanities which this one sort of falls under either of those depending on the way you look at it is only around 19 percent and 5 percent so not that many businesses are actively looking for people who have social science liberal arts and humanities degrees. That doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't going to hire you though they're just not actively looking for people. Now I do think the skills you learn from history are extremely valuable but it is a relatively general degree that isn't going to directly help you get a job unless you're going for a very specific career like historian. So overall all things being equal I'm going to give this one a 6.5 out of 10 when it comes to demand. Next we're going to be going over x factors and that's basically anything else that's important that I didn't already mention. Now history does fall under the category of liberal arts as well as social science and you see that social science degrees make 2.5 million over a lifetime whereas liberal arts degrees will make 2.1 million. Both of these are around average or slightly below average when you compare them to all other degrees. It's also good to mention here that a lot of people who get liberal arts and social science degrees end up going back to school getting a master's or a doctorate so it's kind of like comparing apples to oranges in many cases because obviously you would make more money if you get a master's or a doctorate but at the same time you also have to spend more time in school and take out more student loans. But with that being said when you go down the list with a liberal arts degree you're going to see that some careers are going to make more than others. So for instance if you learn some leadership skills and go into management you can make around 3 million over a lifetime which is pretty good. However if you go into production, transportation and moving you'll see that it only makes around 1.6 million. Now when you look up the skill itself of history of course it doesn't pop up on zip recruiters skill index because it's just too general and to be honest with you it's not really a skill that anybody is going to be looking for unless it's an extremely niche career. But something like post-secondary education for instance you'll see that the skill index has that at 26 out of 100. Now I don't necessarily agree with that. I think that it is more valuable than that but this index mostly just measures how much people are willing to pay on the open market for these types of skills. Now you can compare that to a really good one and a really bad one and you'll see that it's definitely on the lower side. And that kind of makes sense. I mean history is extremely interesting. I think it has a lot of value but that value doesn't necessarily directly show. So it's sort of intangible value that will probably improve your life in many ways but it isn't necessarily going to directly help you make money. And that becomes a huge issue when you consider the cost of a college degree here in the United States of America. Now one thing that's great about history degrees is it will teach you skills that are not very likely to be outsourced. And if you are able to secure a job as a historian again that's not going to be able to be automated or outsourced very easily. So for instance if you became a curator there's only about a 0.7 percent chance of being automated according to willrobotstakemyjob.com. Now when it comes to the skills in general it will teach you a lot of soft skills that are going to be valuable to you like communication, being able to give speeches, being able to read a vast amount of information and understand it, being able to formulate an argument and then present it. All of these things are extremely important when it comes to critical thinking and they'll probably help you in other areas of your life maybe even financially it's just that they won't directly help you. So overall when it comes to x factors unfortunately I have to give this one a 6.5 out of 10. So when you add all those up and divide by four you're going to get an overall score of 6.875 out of 10 and that's one of those where it's kind of in the gray area if you have a really good plan going in you know exactly what you're trying to go for it could work out for you. I could be wrong about this but I think this is similar to philosophy and a couple other degrees where a lot of smart people end up majoring in this and that might change the statistics on this just a little bit so it might be a little bit less about correlation and more about causation or vice versa depending on what degree you're talking about. So you could argue that with many of these degrees when it shows how much a person makes it's not necessarily because they got the degree itself it's just because they're smart and they probably would have been successful regardless of what degree path they went into. Now when I do research on these videos I like to look at a bunch of different YouTube videos and forums from people who have gotten these degrees just to figure out the general idea of what is going on. Now some degrees there's a lot of positivity other degrees everybody's like absolutely do not go into this degree path and history was unfortunately one of those where many people recommended to not go into it. So for instance there was one comment I read on Reddit where they said I have a bachelor's in military history and a master's in Byzantine history because I withdrew from my PhD program before reaching ABD. I also have an MPA 20 years of work experience and I'm in law school now. A history major alone is not worth the cost it won't get you a job and unless you're very good go to a very good school network like hell and get very lucky the PhD university route is a one-way ticket to adjunct hell. Teaching high school is far more competitive for the humanities than for STEM majors so you'll likely only be able to find a job in a rural area and even if not money will always be a worry. This is just one man's advice but unless you already have a job lined up i.e. you're working with a dad when you graduate regardless of your degree or your career plans involve law school, med school, military, something else that isn't degree picky do not get a history degree unsupported. If you want one get it as part of a double major and make damn sure the other degree will help you get a job. Accounting engineering, search engine optimization something very dry very boring and very likely to get you hired when you graduate. I don't usually include people's comments in these videos but this one was so well constructed that I had to include it and I pretty much agree with everything that he has to say. If you're interested in history if it's your life passion don't let someone like me tell you that you can't do it however you need to absolutely make sure that you know exactly what you're getting yourself into. For me personally history was one of my biggest passions and I chose to just keep it as a hobby. I think a lot of the time if you try to make one of your passions into a career you're going to end up resenting it just a little bit because you're going to have to end up doing things with that passion that you don't necessarily enjoy. So for instance when I took certain history classes I realized that I was having to write essays and I was having to read about time periods that I'm not necessarily interested in and then on top of that they made me memorize dates like they made me memorize exact dates and that's not something that I'm interested in either. It's a lot of work and then you just end up forgetting the date right after the class so in my opinion it was a waste of time. For me it's much more enjoyable just to listen to podcasts, read history books and I went into a career path where I make pretty good money and I have a lot of free time so I can do that pretty much as much as I want. If you're dead set on taking classes in history I would recommend considering minoring to just taking extra classes studying it on the side or maybe double major in it and then major in something else that's a little more practical. Additionally you can consider either not going to college at all or going to college and doing something else and then starting some kind of side hustle that's related to history. Something like starting a YouTube channel, a blog, becoming a writer, starting a podcast, something along those lines where you know it is going to take some time but eventually you could make a full time income. If you did that for four years you'd probably learn a lot more practical skills when it comes to history than if you went to school for four years and you'd have a much better chance of being able to do it professionally. But that's just my two cents you know that I try to be as honest as possible with you guys and give it a fair assessment. Now if you want an easier time doing research on these different college degrees and trying to figure them out I did create a college degree ranker which I put in my description and my patreon down below and you can check that out it'll make the whole process so much easier. If you haven't done it already go ahead and gently tap the like button hit the subscribe button ring the notification bell comment down below any thoughts comments criticisms etc that you have on the video. Sharing the video helps quite a bit and before you leave check out my other videos right here. I made them just for you.


In recent years, the Government of India has taken many initiatives to usher in an era of e-governance to improve the delivery of public services. The National e-governance plan includes many high-impact e-governance projects that have been identified as Mission Mode projects. One such project focuses on reforming passport services in India. The Ministry of External Affairs is responsible for issuance of passports to Indian citizens through a network of 37 passport offices across the country and 178 Indian embassies and consulates abroad. A passport is an essential travel document for those who are travelling abroad for education, tourism, pilgrimage, medical attendance, business purposes and family visits. During the last few years, the growing economy and spreading globalization have led to an increased demand for passport and related services. This trend is expected to continue with increased intensity in the foreseeable future. Hence, an urgent need was felt to provide improved passport services to Indian citizens. To address this challenge, the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, has launched the Passports SAVA project in a public-private partnership mode with Tata Consultancy Services. Passports SAVA endeavors to streamline the passport issuance process through a wider reach, improved processes and faster service delivery by effective use of information and communication technology. Rahul Sharma registers on the Passports SAVA website and completes the online form. He also schedules an appointment to visit the nearest Passports SAVA Kendra. On the appointed day, he reaches the Passports SAVA Kendra where he is guided through the application process up to granting in seven easy steps. Starting with a thorough security check, he enters the pre-processing area. At the pre-processing area, his appointment slip and documents are checked by the staff and a token is issued. He proceeds to a comfortable waiting lounge. Here, he can enjoy several facilities while waiting for his token number to appear on one of the electronic displays. When his token number is displayed, Rahul proceeds to the Stage 1 processing counter. At this counter, Rahul's demographic data is verified by citizen service executives. This counter is also equipped for document scanning. Biometric scanning, photography and collecting the passport application fee. He next proceeds to the application verification zone. Here, officials from the passport office verify his documents for authenticity and completeness. Once the verification process is completed, he is guided to the waiting area of the granting zone. When his token number appears on the display, he meets the granting officer who checks his application in the system for duplicity and other background information and then takes a decision on granting of the passport to Rahul. Finally, he receives a letter confirming his passport approval at the exit counter. In just seven steps, Rahul has completed the requisite formalities at the Passports SAVA Kendra. His passport will now be dispatched in a few days once the police verification process has been completed. Passports SAVA Kendras, with a comfortable and pleasing ambience, have been set up in several cities and towns. A total of 77 passport SAVA Kendras are being established across India as extended arms of existing 37 passport offices. 15 mini passport SAVA Kendras are also being set up to bring remote areas under the coverage of passport SAVA. A call centre has also been established which operates around the clock 365 days a year. It uses a toll-free number and handles inquiries in 17 Indian languages. The whole process was very well structured. Serialised work is going on, you don't have to wait long. The process is going on together. The attitude of the people working here is so nice. And they are all very helpful, very nice to talk to, take care of, even of my daughters also, they are very polite. I have a passport office like Erlila. There are a lot of boats and enquiry counters. There is a lot of time. 10-15 minutes for each passport section. First of all, we have to go to Chandigarh. We have to take a long journey from there. Where we have to go, where we have to take care of, which enquiries we have to meet, everyone helps. The service is excellent. The staff is very cooperative and courteous. And the ambience is comparable to any office, any part of the world. My overall experience is excellent and awesome. And I can't imagine it to be more systematic than what it is. Passport Seva is an important initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, to bring it closer to the people, dedicated to the service of the nation, by ensuring improved service delivery and better governance. The Ministry of External Affairs and its service partner, Tata Consultancy Services, are committed to transforming passport services in India.


In 2017, during a catastrophic season, three major hurricanes hit the Caribbean region back-to-back, displacing hundreds of thousands of families. Many have not yet recovered with this season during the air. We anticipated a hurricane but this was beyond our imagination. So directly after the hurricane was communication in water and food came next of course. As our Japanese working in human-tended fields, we understand that solutions work from the ground up. Building on such user experiences and mapping on the timeline of the whole recovery period shows that food access, communication and human well-being are among the top priorities during relief efforts. These issues worsen over time, leading to a lengthy recovery period. Therefore, we have designed the ARC, the Agri Recovery Kit. It is a preparedness and relief invention that provides nutritive foods, communication tools, knowledge access for families or communities who are displaced in the early stages of a recovery period following a disaster. Our kit is low-cost, locally-sourced and the first of its kind in our region to be both solution-oriented and humanitarian. It is fully customizable to facilitate social, cultural and geographic variables. Our model allows a multitude of revenue streams as a commercial product for disaster preparedness but also as a complementary outlet for relief agencies and support groups. Join us Team ARC in our exciting new socially-aware entrepreneurial venture in merging humanitarian and development aid.


Chances are you've spent quite a bit of time putting together the perfect proposal for your clients and now there's radio silence and you're wondering if you can get an update. We're gonna talk about some best practice tips and tricks for getting better updates from your meeting planner clients. Today we're talking about proposals but before we dive in on following up on proposals we've sent, I just wanted to introduce Mandy. This is my neighbor's dog here, Mandy. She's taking a bit of a nap but she's staying with us for the month so you might see a little bit more of Mandy. She's adorable and she's been sleeping here in the office with us all day and yeah, she's just been such a nice little blessing to our little family this month so and is getting along well with the chickens which is really important but we're not here to talk about chickens, we're here to talk about proposals which can be stinkers in and of themselves especially when your planners don't get back to you with answers in a timely manner. Planners are busy people and there's a multitude of reasons why they're not getting back to you and first and foremost I don't think you should take it personally. Chances are they are being inundated with requests for updates so hopefully what these tips and tricks will do will enable your particular update or your particular request for an update to be pushed to the top of the pile so I'm gonna list off a few dos and don'ts when following up on a proposal and if you do try these and you do see a better response, right? I would love for you to let me know so please email me, I'm gonna have my email in the blog post below here and you can let me know if these tips and tricks worked for you. First, let's talk about some don'ts when you're following up with a proposal. Most proposals have a timeline or a due date attached to them so whether that proposal came through Sevent or Meeting Broker or even through the email itself from the meeting planner, chances are that there was a due date attached. My advice is to not follow up with the planner until after that due date has passed. They're likely tending to other priorities which is why they had a due date to begin with and chances are they haven't had a chance to even review the first proposal. Now for those of you that follow my blog and my blog regularly, you know one of my pet peeves for meeting suppliers is when we minimize our position to that of just being a supplier and not being a partner in the process and often I will get requests for updates where the email says just following up. Those three words just following up. Friends, can I encourage you to get rid of those words out of your vocabulary just following up. You shouldn't just be doing anything. Everything you do is very strategic in the meeting process and I really want you to consider yourself a partner in the process and not merely a supplier and when you use the word just you've minimized your role and minimized your expertise. So please let's get rid of the word just following up. Your follow up is important and an update is important and it's part of the process. Also don't assume that the planner has read your proposal in detail, especially if there are parts of your proposal that are with limitations. So it fell outside of the parameters of the actual proposal itself. It could be something like you didn't have enough guest rooms to house the entire block or perhaps your ballroom was literally just a little bit too small and couldn't do all 600 people but could maybe do 580. Make sure that you put that in the update because there's a good chance the planner didn't pick up on those tiny limitations when they first read the proposal. So make sure that you readjust, readdress those. Also don't ask for an update every few days. If you have time to ask for an update every few days perhaps you and I should connect on some other strategic projects that we can work on this summer but only look to get an update maybe once a week from the planner. Again, the planner is quite a busy person so answering emails every few days is gonna come off as a little bit annoying if it happens for too long. The other thing that planners don't take kindly to is when they're being bullied into a decision. And sometimes we'll see meeting suppliers bully us with unrealistic timelines or literally being asked to make a decision or we'll lose the space especially if the bullying is dishonest. Unfortunately I've seen that quite a bit where a meeting supplier will impose a strict deadline the deadline passes and yet the proposal is still valid. So it's created anxiety and stress in my life and in my client's life where none really needed to exist. Which brings us to some dos when following up on your proposals. Do reread the initial RFP before you hit send on your email. You might find some cool tips in there or some tidbits about the program that you can now put into your email and acknowledge the business that that planner or program has had with your organization before. Perhaps they've worked with a different department or a different seller. Make sure you acknowledge that and start building that trust relationship and that knowledge based relationship with that background information. Also provide realistic timelines. Again, these aren't bullish timelines these are realistic timelines and be honest about the time that you need to update your team and hopefully the planner will be able to get back to you in a timely manner. Now if all these other dos have failed and you can't find any more nuggets and tidbits about their organization or their program to show that you're really listening to their needs you can provide value in so many other ways. So when your follow up provide value that would benefit the planner in their day to day activities as a meeting planner. Perhaps it's a link to a blog post that you think might showcase some value for them or taking your own expertise or your organization's expertise provide them value that they can use as a meeting planner to better their program or their career. So there's a multitude of ways that you can provide value outside of your organization's direct services and you can pass those on to the planner. And finally, when you're following up on a proposal please ask for a call to action. If the planner isn't clear on what it is you're asking and how you're asking they're going to stumble through how to respond to your follow up. So have a clear and concise call to action something easy that the planner can respond to and chances are you can get those answers quite quickly and you're able to update your team at the organization. I hope these tips have helped but there's probably things that you've experienced that also work when following up with planners and I would love to hear from you. Will you do me a favor? Please comment on the video below on strategies that you've used with meeting planners to get updates in a timely manner and I will make sure to get that information out on a future blog post or blog. Thanks for watching. I hope you have a great week. Bye for now.


We can deploy the Internet of Things for the developing world today because we can leverage off of all of the work that's been done on the industrialized Internet in the developed world. What that means is that we have devices that are affordable, available, scalable, simple and durable. And that means we can really improve the lives of millions if not billions of people across the developing world and drive the sustainable development goals in a way that's much faster to get the benefit sooner.


When you get late into the year, weather starts to become an issue. Does Ryan have to be wary of that in terms of how he grips the ball, how he throws the ball? What kind of things do you talk about when things get a little colder and windier this time of year? Colder, not a whole lot of discussion about that. Ryan's been pretty good with cold weather. That's not really a huge thing we talk about in there. Are there, I mean, does the ball get different? Is it harder, heavier, anything like that that you have to be aware of or?  But it's just one of those things as a quarterback, you kind of just deal with it. For most quarterbacks, it's not as big an issue. Then maybe, you know, when the ball's wet, you know, wet is different than cold. This time last year, he was sort of just, you know, several games into it and kind of getting on his roll. This year, having, you know, I guess, how settled in is he? How comfortable does he look in terms of having had a whole season that was 13 games to this point? Yeah, I think Ryan, you know, he's a guy who has a routine each week in his preparation. He's pretty consistent in his approach every week and it really doesn't change. It's just a consistent approach and it's been the same since he got here, even when he was not starting, you know, in the last year. So he's a routine based guy. Does that make it easier or harder for you to work with him? Do you ever want to try and shake him out of his routine a little bit and give him something else to think about or? Oh, no, no, the routine been working pretty well. So I think it's good to have a routine in anything you do and especially one that works. And last one for me, Logan Woodside's getting a couple snaps here late in games, you know, the fake punt too. How valuable is that even in small doses for a guy like him? Yeah, you know, for Logan, it's great to get in there anytime you get in the game and take some meaningful snaps in a regular season. It's helpful for your backup and, you know, he's got a few opportunities to do that. Thank you, sir. Got a writing question here, free coach. So the offense obviously has the opportunity to reach a number of significant individual milestones this season. So how much of a testament would it be to individual and collective success for Ryan, the receivers if Corey and AJ can both reach a thousand yards? Yeah, you know, we really talk about winning more than, you know, individual stats. I think if you win, then, you know, those types of rewards and stats and things you're talking about, they come with winning and they don't mean as much, you know, unless you win. I don't want to speak for those guys.  Hey, Tron. What's up, Coach Pat. Hey, Tron. A lot was made about regression for Ryan Sannihill coming into this year, but it doesn't seem like that has happened. What are some ways that you could say he's actually progressed rather than regressed? Well, I think he's maintained that consistency that, you know, he had from last year, I think one of the things he's done and did more cognizant of is, is throwing the ball away, you know, taking care of the ball.   And I think he's done a better job of that. I think that's one thing that he's done. Is that kind of thing hard to break? Because it seems like there's something that you kind of want a player to try to make plays, but you want them to balance it. Like you said, is it hard to break that habit of, you know, always trying to do something, but keeping it from being too much? I think it can be, you know, something when you throw the ball away, you can feel like you're almost giving up on play. Which not, you know, we strive to play complementarily. We have an excellent punter and a good defense.  And one of those key things is throwing the ball away, not taking sacks, not taking necessary hits. So we can play it in a complementary way in all three phases. You mentioned managing the game. What do you make of that title, right, of game manager? Because some quarterbacks, not quarterbacks, some media will use it in negative context, but I personally think that... Yeah, I think from, you know, I think it's overused that term. He's a game manager. I think every quarterback manages the game in his own way relative to what the game plan is, relative to what the situation is during the game. There's different ways to manage it. So as a quarterback, you're constantly managing the game, managing the clock, managing the situation, you know, working with your teammates, getting the call. I mean, that's all part of managing the game. I think game manager, yeah, that could be a term that's kind of overused. Gotcha. And in regards to Deshaun Kaiser, very talented player. How has your work with him come along? That's been good, you know. A lot of time spent with him. You know, a lot of it is Zoom. And so it's kind of like when Trevor is here, it's kind of on the fringes of everything, working around an almost scheduled work and then working with him and then working with him later on the field and just making sure he's ready to go. He's done a good job. It's not an easy job to be a quarantine quarterback and make sure you're doing your own homework too to make sure you know the plan each week. And I think he's done a good job of that thus far.


Hi, I'm Rai Jones, one of the community architects for Hyperledger. I'm here today with my co-worker, David Boswell, to talk to you about getting involved with Hyperledger. Thanks Rai. The first thing I want people to know about how to get involved is that we want you. It's an open source project and it wouldn't exist if people like you didn't step up and get involved. Hyperledger is a technical community that is 100% open and it is led by a diverse group of technical contributors. And if you've never participated in an open source community before, that's okay. You can still get involved. And here are a few tips that will help you get comfortable. First, feel free to alert. There's no obligation to get involved in conversations and contributions right away. We encourage you to dial into a meeting or join a mailing list and just listen in to understand what's happening. And please don't wait for an invitation. Everything is open and we mean that. All our meetings, all our mailing lists, all our chat channels, you can just show up. You don't have to have anybody invite you to them. And lastly, be aware that we have a code of conduct. If you do get involved in the community, we wanna make sure that you have a safe and pleasant experience and we do take the code of conduct seriously and do enforce it. So feel free to take a look at that. We'll put a link in the description below. Hyperledger meetups are a great way to get started in the community. You can interact with and collaborate with community members near you. We have meetup groups in over 80 countries all around the world, so there's probably one near you. You're welcome to attend a meetup, speak at a meetup, support a meetup or organize a meetup in your area if there isn't one nearby. There are some other activities that happen in different areas around the world. And we also have a number of regional chapters where community members have organized to do a series of different activities with other community members in their areas. So for example, if you speak Spanish and wanna meet with other Spanish speaking community members, the Hyperledger Latino America chapter is maybe something you wanna take a look at. Hyperledger projects use a common set of collaboration tools, links to these tools will be provided in the description of the video below. The general steps for contributing code and documentation are outlined on this slide. If you wish to start a new Hyperledger lab project, the instructions will be linked again in the description below. Hyperledger is a diverse global community that speaks a variety of languages. One of our current projects is translating fabric documentation into many languages. If this is interesting to you, a link on how to get involved will be in the description of the video. In addition to coding and documentation efforts going on in the community, Hyperledger also has special interest groups and working groups. Our special interest groups are places where people collaborate to address common challenges with applying blockchain and DLT technologies in a range of different industries. For example, we have a telecom special interest group that has written papers about how blockchain can be used in different telecom use cases. We have a climate action and accounting special interest group that is working on a collaborative coding project to build tools to help with carbon accounting. And we also have a Hyperledger healthcare special interest group that has done a series of guest presentations with speakers from around the world who are sharing about the work they've done with blockchain and the healthcare space to help other people learn best practices about how to deploy blockchain themselves. To get involved in a special interest group, it is an open process and you're welcome to get involved by subscribing to a group's mailing list or chat channel and introducing yourself, dialing into an upcoming meeting to take part in discussions and to share what you're doing. And many groups also have a group directory on their wiki pages so that you can meet and learn how to get involved with get introduced to other people in that group. Working groups are similar to special interest groups, but they are focused on cross cutting technical themes within the community such as performance and scale or architecture. And the same as the special interest groups, you can get involved by subscribing to the group's mailing list or chat channel, dialing into an upcoming meeting or adding your name to a group's member directory on the wiki pages. If you have any questions, please feel free to send us an email info at hyperledger.org.


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Day two of the Mustang Classic and a big win for Denison, 17-6 as they go two for two. We're here in Owings Mills joined now by head coach Mike Caravana. Coach, a pretty good trip for you guys to Owings Mills this weekend. Yes, it was a long week, obviously given the snow and such, but the guys persevered through and we had a good focus these last two games, so we were very happy with how we performed and the effort that we displayed. How many 11-point games have you been a part of in your career as a coach? Not many, but Liam, like I said yesterday, I mentioned to you, and I've been trying to tell everybody he's arguably one of the better attackers in the country. We're in the Midwest, sometimes we don't get the positive publicity that we think we deserve, and he's an outstanding player, so hopefully today and yesterday he might have had seven points yesterday, so 18-point to two games is pretty impressive at the level of competition that we're playing at, and so we're fortunate to have him, but today he just shot the ball a little bit better. Yesterday I think he actually could have had a couple more points, and even he was a little bit frustrated with himself about that, but he shot the ball better today and that made a big difference. Coach, your defense, just getting the ball on the ground, getting out of sticks after they won a lot of face-offs and getting it back, how impressed were you by the performance of your defenders today? Well, it really has been a work in progress. After our first game versus Washington League, we didn't really pick up the ball very well off the ground, and we've always been a good team that's done that well. When we played well, we've been able to do that, and then our ability to clear the ball was very strong as well, so we tried to recruit kids who can do it who are athletic who can get to the ball first, and then they got to scoop it the first time, so it's been a point of emphasis, and it's wonderful to see the guys' hard work pay off, certainly these last three or four games that we've played pretty well. Now, winners of five in a row, how good do you feel as you head back to conference competition after a nice weekend here at the Mustang Classic? Well, I think when you leave a conference, I mean, a tournament like this, you kind of know where you stand. You have a real good sense as pre-season kind of over as we all get into our conference play. You really kind of know what you're doing well, what you need to get better at, things like that. We've got a lot of things still to get better at, certainly without question, but we're very happy what we were in a month's time. We've had a real good month in terms of getting better. We figured out various things with player personnel, with strategy, with things like that. So we feel like we're moving forward, but we've got to keep developing other players as well due to injuries or sicknesses that can occur, and we've got to keep improving our game the best that we can to make sure that we keep just getting better as the season goes on because we do have some tough games coming up. Coach, great to have you again here at the Mustang Classic. Appreciate it, and best of luck moving forward. Thank you very much. We're glad to be here. He is Coach Mike Caravana after a big 17-6 win today over Nazareth. I'm Glenn Clark. This is GoMustangSports.com.