number one you got to fix mindset. to grow and change your life. And then number two there's a person that's like a sponge person can be the next person that is a billionaire you can take over the world and nobody can educate. I didn't need a degree. It didn't matter what my last name was. It didn't matter if I had a wealthy family. It didn't matter if I was once a loser. None of that mattered. What mattered is who do I want to become. It's about who you are. It's about who do you want to become. So I'm going to ask everybody who do you want to be. Not who are you. Okay. Don't look in the mirror and see yourself for who you are now. Who do you want to be.  I can tell you for a fact that anybody that was around me got no value out of me. I didn't like that. I looked in the mirror and didn't like who I was. And I decided to make a decision which I'm going to ask you guys to make today. Who do you want to be. The only thing that's holding you back is you. Raise your hand right now if you're not too good to change. Raise your hand right now if you have the growth mindset and I don't care who's looking at you. I know you got your buddy next to you right. Here's what I'm going to tell you. In three years from now you guys probably won't be sitting next to each other anymore. Okay. Alright.  Listen to me. Make decisions for yourself. What's the great separator. How do you get to where you want to go. It's by deciding to be a contributor. Bring it guys.  And it's time. So this is the goal. The goal is it's about how to do ourselves every day. Period. So I want you to make one commitment. It's for today to do better than you did yesterday. And then in tomorrow. When tomorrow gets here. If God wakes us up we're alive. We're going to do better tomorrow than we did today. And we're going to run this way. And you guys what tripled your skill. And you didn't chase being the best. You didn't chase beating Tommy. You didn't chase crushing your competition. You chase getting better. You're a public speaker. You speak for a living. This mouth. You speak with it. You'll get what you want because of this mouth. This mouth. If you want to use your hand. If you want to be passionate. If you want to have energy. You're going to need to do more than just speak with your mouth.  Do you want a different life. The question is I talked to a salesman. I say do you want a different life. He says yes. I say do you want a different life. He says yes. And I said why can't I hear it in your voice. When you talk to people that it sounds like you want a different life.  Winners speak with their heart. And you can tell when you talk to them that they care about everything that they're around. They care about everybody they're talking to. And they're consumed with winning. They have they don't care if they're broke. Matter of fact winners go back to broken on E and zero every day. Me and my wife we go back to zero every day. No matter how much money we got in the bank my wife knows the way that I work when I'm stuffed is that I'll go make as much money as I want.  It isn't to be the best every day. It isn't to be better than your competition. And I know that you're like Andy what do you mean are you telling our guys to be better. Listen to me. This is how I changed and grew. And it isn't to beat the people around you. Okay. This is the goal. This is the great separator right here. It's to wake up every day every single day and be better than yourself yesterday. That's the goal. That's a great separator. I want to ask you a question. Are you this is between you and you. Are you getting better every single day. Because if you are this is the great separator. This is when we're looking up in six months from now. Some of you you're doing things that no one ever believed you would do and you're so far along and they're going to say how did you do it. And you're not going to have the story so I wanted to be the best.  And it was consistent and there was a compound effect and this is how winning gets done. So I'm going to tell you from somebody that sucked at selling that didn't have this energy that didn't believe in himself. How I smashed everyone was I played by these rules. So for some of you I keep saying be the best be the best be the best and then I thought I thought dang man that really wasn't how I became great. I didn't just magically shoot across and become great because I didn't ever see myself being great but I had a good leader that told me the great separator Andy was this. So wake up every single day and be better than yourself and he goes listen to me. As long as you know that you did that don't lie to yourself man as long as you know you did that he's like eventually you're going to look up and you're going to be number one in all those areas.


Okay, so let's do this problem. So it says, a research chemist adds a measured amount of HCl gas to pure water at 25 degrees Celsius and it obtains a solution with the hydronium ion concentration as 3.0 times 10 to the negative fourth mole. Calculate the hydroxide concentration and then it wants us to say, is this solution acidic, basic, or neutral? Okay, hopefully you can look at this number here, the hydronium ion concentration, realize it's bigger than 10 to the negative seventh and say this solution is acidic, okay? But we're just going to eventually compare the hydronium to the hydroxide and without a doubt say that the hydronium is bigger, okay? So let's go ahead and do that. So in order to do this you have to remember the equation that relates hydronium to hydroxide. Like you guys remember that equation, what is it? Kw. Kw, very good. Times what? Concentration hydronium. Yeah, concentration hydronium ions, times what? Concentration hydroxide. Thank you. Okay, so in order to do this we have to rearrange this equation and you have to remember what Kw is, okay? So let's write Kw over here. 1.0 times 10 to the negative 14, okay, no use. So we want OH minus, so rearrange this equation. OH equals Kw divided by H3O plus, like that. Is everybody okay with doing something like that? Again, if we just calculate this out and plop our units there we get per molar, which is not the right units, okay? So watch out for that. We have to remember these are going to be a molar units, okay? So whenever you have those Ks they always mess up your units, okay? So 1.0 times 10 to the negative 14 divided by, I'm not even going to throw those units in there so we won't get no views, okay? Divided by H3O plus 3.0 times 10 to the negative 4. So you should be expecting this to be like, I don't know, around 10 to the negative 10th or something like that, right? So let's, let's get something, one second. Yeah, so we get 12 to 2 safe things, 3.3 times 10 to the negative 11. And we have to remember now to put molar in there. So that's a very, very small amount of hydroxide ions. So the hydroxide concentration is written there. So if you want to now really compare the hydroxides of the hydronium, hopefully you can see here that negative 4 as a super-script is much bigger than negative 11. Okay, and then from that analysis you can definitely say now we are an acidic solution. Is there any questions on this one? So again it's just that comparison, okay? And you need to have, have an understanding of the KW equation and remember KW is 1.0 times 10 to the negative 4. Okay, wonderful.


So, hello everyone. My name is Eric Onunes. I'll talk about automating secure boot testing. So, I work for Red Hat. I'm the kernel QE team for hardware enablement. I work mostly with ARM platforms, ARM servers, Red Hat support for ARM servers. And after some time I started picking firmware testing. So, I worked with the firmware update testing, UEFI related things and also secure boot. So, as you most people have worked about, have heard about secure boot so far. So, secure boot is a technology where the system firmware has a database of keys. And it will only boot the next phases of boot if the boot loaders or next phases of the boot are signed by some key that is known by the firmware. So, we have pretty much every major distribution follows the path that is in this diagram. So, UEFI firmware contains database of keys. It will load, in this case, SHIM. So, SHIM is something that we need for secure boot support in Linux distributions because pretty much every computer or laptop that you can buy today will only come loaded with Microsoft keys. So, in order to not have everyone load the Fedora key, the Red Hat key or the Ubuntu key or whatever in our laptop, to make Linux distribution just work. We just have the SHIM that is some small boot loader that is signed by Microsoft and it will contain the keys to load whatever you need to load for the rest of your distribution. So, we load the UEFI firmware, loads the SHIM that is signed by Microsoft. We can load that because Microsoft keys are probably in your laptop already. And then the SHIM contains the keys for distribution. For example, Red Hat keys to load the grub that is signed by Red Hat themselves. Then the Linux kernel that is also signed by us. We don't need to rely on Microsoft signing every release that we do for all of those other components. And some other important mentions that, for example, kernel modules have to be signed to, otherwise you could load unsigned kernel modules that could run arbitrary code in your kernel and secure boot would be moved at all. So, some of the problems that I have to deal with is that it's difficult to automate testing for secure boot. Because pretty much every firmware from every vendor will have different menus, different settings, different names. For example, it can be secure boot or only load signed binaries or something completely different or maybe just a graphical user interface for that. It is not really helpful to do automation for that. So, not only for enabling secure boot, we may also have to do the same thing for loading custom keys that we may need for other steps like testing, for example, that kernel module signed with custom keys work. And that's why before I started working with this, we didn't really have any secure boot automated testing for, for example, CI that will test for every beta release, for example, that we do that secure boot would be working completely. And if anything fails, for example, if a key, some signing step is broken or if we have a grub rebase, for example, that has some broken code that will fail to load the linsear, for example, or verify the signature correctly, then we wouldn't catch that. We would only catch that much later with some manual testing. So, if you load the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation guide, something that we need to do. And this is part of what I want to automate is that we first need to disable secure boot. So, for example, having a machine where secure boot is enabled at all times and I would just test many times on that same machine is not something that is feasible. We need to disable it and enable it every time and that's part of the problem as well. So, first we need to disable it, install it. By the way, this is for the beta release, it's not for the final release, but that's what I need to test anyway. So, first we need to disable it, then you can perform the installation as normal. Then you need to load in the keys, for example, this is using the mock, which utilizes user space utility for that. We may use that or not, for example, we may just load in the keys directly in the firmware. And then we need to reboot and then we have the secure boot system installed. So, the first solution that we attempt on that is to test on virtual machines using OVMF. The biggest advantage of using OVMF for that is that it stores the variables in the NVRAM file. It's the OVMF vars file. The OVMF vars file is a template provided by OVMF themselves. And basically if you use something like lib-work, it will copy the OVMF vars file template to machine-specific directory. And it will use that. So, it's possible to manipulate that file to have a machine where secure boot is enabling firmware or not, for example. We can do that from the host machine. And then we can accomplish installing with secure boot disabled and then in automated and programmatic way, enable it and then boot the machine again with secure boot enabled. Unfortunately, there's no way to do that. There's no tool to do that with the, like, some user space that will go and tweak the file to just flip the bit that will make secure boot enabled. So, a workaround for that is to have a pre-prepared file of NVRAM file that will have secure boot enabled. So, we can just install it with secure boot disabled and then just copy over a file that has all of the NVRAM settings with secure boot enabled and all of the keys loaded. And then we can just boot the machine again and we'll have secure boot there. I just wanted to mention here that we're using a tool called Beaker for that. It's a Red Hat Community project. So, Beaker is great for hardware enablement testing. It allows you to locate a machine that has, for example, some PCI hardware that you need or that has number of cores or a certain amount of memory or certain architecture and then you can just send a query and it will reserve a machine for you or just run a set of tests that you have for that. So, I have a set of tests that will verify that secure boot is enabled, for example, that we can, and I have plans for extending that. We'll see that later. But basically, I have some Beaker tasks that will do that and some machine that we reserve. It also takes care of installing new systems, which is great and has support for virtualized workflow that we need for secure boot testing virtual machines. So, this is the outline of the solution that I have currently implemented. Kickstart. A machine basically do a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation on the host and then some gas machine. Beaker will automate that for me. Then we perform some test checks that UEFI is in use and secure boot is disabled that we should make sure for that for the installation for the first time. After that, we switch the gas invariant file and then we boot the gas again and secure boot must be enabled. That's basically the first step and it works. So, it has some problems that, for example, multiple releases of our distribution may have different keys. So, it may need to have different invariant files for every different configuration or release. Beta keys may not be the same as well and still did not solve the problem of adding custom keys, for example, for testing a custom kernel module signing, which is something that we also want to cover. So, a different solution for that is that OVMF also provides this small UEFI application called enrolldefaultkeys.efi. Basically, it's an UEFI application that you can run from the UEFI shell. It will enable secure boot and enable some keys as well like the Microsoft keys. And this is a bit handy. For example, I used to do that to avoid having to have an invariant file pre-prepared. However, it has a hard-coded set of keys. It still doesn't solve the problem of custom keys for custom kernel modules. And some OVMF builds may have the UEFI shell disabled, actually. That's what I wanted to say. So, I may have to use something else like the UEFI shell, which makes the setup a bit more complicated. So, our proposed solution going further is to every time patch the enrolldefaultkeys.efi, add some newer keys, rebuild the application, and then repeat the step that you had for solution one. So, that's pretty much it. For future plans, as we're using Beaker, for example, we can have other Beaker tasks that will do loading out of three kernel modules signed with custom keys. I can do that if I have the patched enrolldefaultkeys.efi application. The mock tool is also not automated as described in the manual. These tools are a bit difficult to automate because they require manual steps. There's no way around that. So, you may have to deal with expect scripts, for example, or pyexpect. It's something that I really didn't want to go there. There's also FWTS, which is a firmware test suite. It's maintained by some people at Canonical. It's a great tool for firmware testing. I'm interested to see how that works in the secret boot environment. There's also ARM64 support. Actually, ARM64 support for secret boot is a bit, I don't know how the state is right now. There are some political issues, for example, with Microsoft not allowing you to disable secret boot for ARM platforms, which is different than the X64 where you are mandated to be able to disable it if you are physically present to the machine. And KXX is something else that we need to test there as well because it wouldn't make sense if you have a secret boot environment that you were able to just KXX to a totally different kernel that is not going to care about secret boot at all. So, that's pretty much it. Thank you for coming. I hope you have some questions. This shim that you have shown in the second slide is that breaking the secret boot as if that's a problem that will also start no matter what comes up. So, Microsoft provides a service where you can send them a binary and they will verify that it complies with the secret boot and then they will sign it and give it to you. So, I assume if you malicious user send them a binary that will be signed and will load something with a different key, you could break that but it will have to be signed by Microsoft anyway. So, shim, for example, the Red Hat build is only signed because it complies with the thing that it will only build other signed binaries. You can't have something signed by Microsoft that will just boot anything. Right, yeah, sorry, I forgot to repeat the question. Both questions about shim actually. So, yeah, shim contains the keys to be able to boot the other stages of booting. Does it mean that Microsoft does a code review on this shim before they sign it? They should do verification that the binaries that they are signing comply with the secret boot. Sorry, I didn't understand the question. So, if new ARM systems will include the Microsoft keys as well, is that the question? So, I'm not sure about that. I think it's not a resolved issue yet. The systems that I deal with are not coming with Microsoft keys, but they are mostly prototypes. I'm not sure you can buy an actually ARM supported server yet, for example, it is supported by Red Hat. So, I think even if they do, there are still some issues, for example, for booting Linux, because it's not totally compliant with booting just anything. I'm not able to answer you better than that. Okay then, thank you.


Alright, so here we have a segment, let's call it segment AB, and let's say we want to split that segment up into five equal parts. The way that we're going to do that is we'll start by just extending a ray out from one of the endpoints. And now what we need to do on that ray is we're going to split up the ray into however many parts we are going to split up the original segment into. So if I'm going to split it into five, I need to make five little segments. So there's one, two, three, four, and five. So I'll just label those points, let's call them, I don't know, M, P, Q, and R. Now step number one is I want to connect point M with B. Now to split up AB into five parts, we're going to copy this line, we're going to make a line parallel through N, parallel through P, parallel through Q, and R. And that will make it so that we have split up AB into five equal parts. So the way that you make parallel lines is to copy angles. So I'm going to copy this angle through point N. I'm also going to copy it through point P, point Q, and also through point R. And that last one is going to be a little bit goofy because it crosses through the line, but we'll get there. So the way that you copy an angle, if we're copying this angle, I'm going to use these points as my reference. So I'll measure out that distance, and then I'm going to slide down to the arc that I created, to this other arc, to this other arc, and to this last arc it's going to be a little bit weird to find where they intersect. And now each of those intersection points, maybe I'll just darken them in, intersection, intersection, intersection. Now each of those I'm going to connect and to make the line. So point N to that intersection, P and its intersection, Q and its intersection, and then R with its intersection. And so that, those lines split up AB and it splits it up into five equal parts. There we go.


Activity for teaching modal auxiliary verbs, draw the sentence. This has to be one of the simplest activities for a teacher to set up, and can result in a lot of energy in the classroom. One of the great things about this activity is that it can include positive, negative, and question forms. For example you shouldn't drive fast, just needs a drawing of a car with 180 kilometers per hour beneath it, and a cross through the drawing. The game works best if the class is divided into two teams, and one student from each team comes up to the board at the same time. Have slips of paper in an envelope with sentences or questions on, and tell the students to take one each so that they have different things to draw. They both start drawing at the same time and the first team to guess their sentence gets two points. The quickest team can then try to guess the other team's sentence for a bonus point. It gets loud if you have a big class, so you need to listen carefully. Repeat the game with different students drawing each time. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for TEFL and TSOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking the button down here, and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


The scout cars are on the way. In a brief but impressive ceremony, Mr. Redsle Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company, delivers the first of an initial order of 1,500 Army cars to Brigadier General Charles H. Bone Steel, commander of the 6th Corps area. And so another link is forged in the chain of industry's many contributions to the national defense. The final bolts are placed, the final nuts are turned, the last-minute checks and inspections are completed, and this new revolutionary type of military vehicle is ready to play a major role in the program designed to make America strong. Like industry in general, the Ford Motor Company has flown the full weight of its engineering resources and productive capacity behind the nation's defense efforts. As Mr. Ford said in his presentation message, we are proud to add this product to the production of plane engines, the contemplated manufacture of sub-assemblies for bombing planes, the building of Army staff cars and bomb service trucks, the mass production of light alloy steel castings, and the training of naval recruits and civilian aircraft workers. We have great satisfaction in cooperating with the Army. Small in size and light in weight, these new cars are designed to carry out a number of duties in Uncle Sam's modern mechanized Army. They'll see services scout cars and as quick troop transport. They'll be used to haul freight, to tow anti-tank guns and other light auxiliary artillery pieces. There's no stopping these power-packed vehicles when they get their orders to march. To paraphrase the slogan of the post office department, neither snow nor rain nor sleep nor mud can stay these scout cars on their appointed rounds. Ride them, soldier, and keep the reins in your hands. Here's the 1941 version of the old-time cavalryman. Boots and saddles has given away to helmets and scout cars in this man's Army, and how these gasoline-powered steeds can take the hurdles. Talk about leveling hills and valleys. These cars have everything beat we've ever seen. These scout cars are powered by a 45-horsepower four-cylinder Ford engine, adapted from the Ford tractor. Army and Ford engineers worked hand-in-hand to improve the design of this entirely new type of military vehicle. Cars equipped with a four-wheel drive, and one of its most unique features as a field piece, is its four-wheel drive transmission, which gives it six speeds forward and two in reverse. That's one reason it can take any type of terrain in stride. In tests, the scout car has reached a speed of 55 to 60 miles an hour. In ordinary scouting duty, the military crew for this car is three men, two riding in the front seat and one in the rear. But when an emergency arises and troops must be transported places in a hurry, several men can be carried. A special towing hook is built into the rear of the car so that it can likewise haul light artillery, guns, and freight. A distinguished group of high-ranking Army officers, government officials, and noted guests join Ford executives in the first preview of these latest additions to the nation's forces. And past inspection, these cars did. Highly maneuverable and versatile in operation, they proved themselves worthy of Army rank right from the start. Short and built close to the ground, they cannot easily be detected when in the field. Their wheelbase is only 80 inches, and the overall length is 127 and 1 1⁄2 inches. The car is but 38 inches high at the cowl and weighs only 2,100 pounds. For night operations, these scout cars have blackout lamps front and rear in addition to the conventional lighting equipment. The headlights are designed so that they can be swung around to throw light on the engine should repairs in the field be necessary at night. Whoa, hold her, that's it, give it the gun again.  And a 65% incline when fully loaded. Big four wheel hydraulic brakes, stop the car quickly, hold it secure on the steepest hill. Over hill, over dale, we will hit the dusty trail for the scout cars are rolling along. Yes, sir, the new Army cars are ready and able to maintain the best traditions of the service. In any kind of weather, over every kind of country, they'll be ready to roll along, carrying out the rolls to which they are assigned with a maximum of efficiency. A special brush guard across the front keeps bushes and other obstacles from damaging the radiator. No going is too tough for these new units of the United States Army. The high command takes a ride. In today's Army, the general has exchanged his famous white charger for a spirited steed of steel. It'll take him places in a hurry wherever those places may be. We wouldn't recommend this conveyance for your Sunday afternoon drive, but when Uncle Sam's khaki clad defenders take the field, there's nothing better than this 30 vehicle to stand up under the top going. A specially built rugged frame handles the severest strains in the heaviest load. The axles are heavy too to withstand maximum shock under the severe operating strains that are met. The final test before the scout cars are turned over to the Army.  Whether called upon to climb a mountain or for the stream, they'll report ready for duty. The count, you'll get it in the face. A special ignition system is used to prevent water, mud, and dampness from disturbing electrical currents and apparatus. Like an eager puppy, these new cars can climb on the ground.  Now, here they come. Having passed all the tests, they are rolling off the assembly line and into the ranks of the Army, a tribute to American industrial ingenuity. Once again, industry proves its ability to work in the cause of democracy, to do its part to keep this station great, to keep the wheels rolling along in defense of the ramparts we watch.


It's my end, come now, let's hope to be alive, come let's be alive. A special guest this evening is Marsilius Parsons, who I'm sure is a face that is familiar to many of the viewers. And it gives me a special and ironic pleasure to welcome him to this program. I guess I must, what do you think, maybe I've been on mute and quote me, which is one of the shows that Marsilius hosts. I was there probably 15 times over the last 17 years or something. So today I am not going to be quoted, you are going to be quoted. And we've asked Marsilius on the show to talk about television in general, its impact on society, which is a very, very important issue. And also talk a little bit about channel three and how it functions. When we started off Marsilius by mentioning something that we chatted about the other day. I had read an article recently with things to indicate that larger and larger corporations in the media in communication are swallowing up other large corporations. For example, recently we learned that for $6 billion General Electric for NBC, the Gannett newspaper chain is swallowing up daily newspapers. They now own daily newspapers all over the country. Many cities only have one daily newspaper. Are you concerned about the fact that fewer and fewer people are owning the communications network of a measure? Is that a concern to you as a news person? Yes, I guess it is a concern. But I would have to say that I am not alarmed yet. I think that the lack of diversity is a danger. But in news, which is my particular interest, I have not yet seen that the concentration of ownership, for instance, at the network level, has diminished news gathering capacity. It has, in some cases, increased it. Stations in some markets, not at the network level, but in some markets, the infusion of new capital has given new impetus to the stations to do more news, not less. That is not universal, but that has happened in several occasions. This is the week that the stock market crashed. This is the week when we have a lot of worry about what impact that will have in business, and in my business in particular. What is that going to do? I came back from a news director's convention in Orlando where I found that very few stations were expanding. They were laying off. They weren't laying off because of a concentration of ownership. They're just laying off because a lot of advertisers who support news operations are hedging their bets, holding back money, and it is money that drives news departments. Well, it's not just. Let me take that discussion to another tangent. The article that I read pointed out that people like Rupert Murdoch, who owns newspapers all over the world, is now getting into television in the biggest place. These giant conglomerates that will end up owning thousands of magazines and television stations and movie production companies. It seems to me that what they will end up doing is hiring people who will develop a style of journalism, either on television or in the print, which will not raise issues, which will go against basically the deep interest of the corporations all over. Now I'm not saying that all the time. That's a danger. No doubt about it. Wasn't that a danger in the days of William Randolph Hearst? Sure was. I think we're not going to say that the past was wonderful, but I think what we can say about the past, at least, is when William Randolph Hearst was at his prime, he probably had a dozen newspapers in New York City. Hearst competed against Joseph Pulitzer at The World. He competed against The New York Times and several of the newspapers. Now we really only have two newspaper, well, three in New York City, where in the first time there were seven or eight. Okay, let me just switch discussion a little bit and talk about, as a public official, one of the frustrations that I have, and I think I probably speak for almost all public officials, is on your show or on any show, and I think it's a national trend. In fact, it's more severe, I would say, in other areas. You have public officials who get on the television, who are asked to deal with very complicated issues. And we will get a bite, that's what the word is, of 30 seconds or one minute on the average news show. And one has an enormous frustration that people out in TV land that nobody, that the world's greatest public official, the world's greatest newscaster, cannot in one minute deal with issues that are enormously complicated. So people end up getting little snippets of information, often out of context, sometimes sensationalized, and people who are dependent upon learning what's going on through the television really end up not knowing terribly much. What do you think? Two mistakes.  The more you read, the more you watch, the more diverse opinion and fact that you are exposed to, the better informed you are. If I was to read just The New York Times every day, I would have not as nearly as broad a view as if I were able to read The Wall Street Journal, the L.A. Times. If I watched CBS News, I'm not as well informed as if I watched CBS and NBC and ABC, and Cable News Network. As to the fact that we do in fact edit and that we reduce you to snippets or bites, one, hopefully that drives the public figure of the person on television to be more succinct. And that is, I mean, that's a fact. That is a fact just as much as McDonald's is a fact. I mean, we have fast food now. Everything is fast. People, I mean, it shows I'm dismayed by USA Today, which is sort of a mick newspaper. Right. But the fact is that that newspaper would not survive were it not for the fact that people support it. Okay. I mean, that's good. Let's stay with that. And I would, as we are discussing Channel 3, let me say that I think compared to other stations around the country which have happy news formats. Yeah, that's unfortunate. I think Channel 3 does a better job. And Channel 3, as we know, has one hour of news for a relatively small market. So this is not a criticism, per se, of Channel 3. But I do believe, and your point is, as I understand it, that if people are just going to watch the news or watch Channel 3 news, they are in fact not going to know fully what's going on. They're going to have to look at the news. Absolutely. But the problem is, if you're talking about a USA type format here in Burlington with the Burlington Free Press, and we're talking about Channel 3 or Channel 5, which by definition uses 45 seconds of one minute steps. How do people end up knowing what's going on? Now, the problem that I have, and I want to throw this out to you, as a public official, and I think I don't speak just for myself. I think I can speak for almost any public official. Absolutely. Is there is a growing concern that people just do not know what's going on. We are living in a very, very complicated world. And I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, having a different philosophical position than I do, as many people do. And I'm prepared to debate that. We have elections, and we, et cetera, et cetera. My concern is that there is a... I don't know if it's growing. I think it may well be just a lack of understanding on the part of the general population as to what's going on. For example, one of the statistics that I often mention is that I think you've seen these polls, and I don't want to argue Nicaragua here. But what I find stunning is not that people support aid to the countries or oppose aid to the countries. It's that the polls a year ago, where half the people did not know which side the United States government was supporting. That frightens me. It frightens me as well. It frightens me that 40% of the people polled in the national poll had no idea who George Bush was. They just didn't know who he was. They thought he ran a liquor store in South Texas someplace. How do you explain it? How could 40% of the people not know who the vice president of the United States is? I don't know. And he's on television five times a week, correct? Well, he doesn't get obviously the coverage. I mean, the vice presidential office is a ceremonial office. But I mean, it's indicative of the problem. We tested five, six hundred high school kids who couldn't name all New England states, who thought that Boston was a New England state, who thought that New Jersey was part of the six New England states. That's a problem of education. That is a problem that, you know, it is such a complex world that maybe a lot of people retreat from it.  I think one of the things that sometimes public officials don't realize, or what they want to do is they look at things in a very insular way. When you look at Burlington, you look at Chittenden County. I am in a medium where I cover the state of Vermont, and one of the biggest complaints is not just that we don't cover Burlington, but that we don't cover Brattleboro, Springfield, Rutland, Montpelier, and things like that. Well, in an effort to cover all of those and appeal to a mass audience, because we do have a mass audience, we have to reduce the amount of time that we're going to give to you, or to Madeleine Cuenan, or to Jeffrey Wenberg, or to the mayor of St. Albans. And there are other alternatives. One of them is this. This is a half an hour of an edited interview, and people should take advantage of that through cable, through the diverse... I mean, there was a time when I came to Channel 3, when Channel 3 was the only television station that you could get if you lived in St. Johnsbury. Now you can get 20 or 30 through advanced technology. And to some extent that hurts Channel 3, because people I no longer have that captive audience. But if someone like Channel 31 is doing a better job of covering St. Johnsbury, then they should be watching Channel 31, or they should be watching their public access in St. Johnsbury. I have a great deal of ground to cover. One of the best... I don't live in Burlington, I live in Shelburne. One of the things that I read cover to cover is the Shelburne News, because it tells me everything that's going on in Shelburne. It covers the zoning commission, it covers the planning commission, it covers the select one, it covers the school board at both the elementary and secondary levels. It tells me a great deal about my community. The free press can't possibly do that. Let me get back, and I certainly agree with you that the weekly newspapers and the state play a very important role, among the 15 or 20 of them, they're often very high quality. But let me get back to an issue, and you'll recall an incident that occurred that I thought was almost symbolic of one of the problems that we have to deal with. You remember during the November election, Lehi was running against snowing. And the CIS, I gathered, if I recall, had granted time for them to do it. I think it was a Sunday night debate, right? That's correct. And what ended up happening is the Lehi-snelling debate got bumped in order to accommodate the second part or the first part of the mystery show. Sound right? That's right. Now, I'd like you to talk a little bit about that, but here is a situation where we are electing a United States senator who will play an important role in whether or not to go to war or whether there's peace or the status of the economy. The United States senator is a very, very important position. We had one hour opportunity to watch them on prime time television. And the station or CBS opted to put on a mystery show. Now, what is the sense of priorities there? Why do we not see, for example, in the United States, with the exception of convention time of Democrats, Republicans, or like candidates for president, one never hears major officials speaking for more than the 30 seconds they're granted on National Tube about the major issues of the day. How do American people know how a guy like Lukakis feels about the future of this country if he's not going to have the opportunity or any of the presidential candidates, of course? Well, let me address both the specific incident and then the general question. It's easier to answer the specific question, and I'm sure you're familiar with it. When we carried the Iran-Contra hearings, we did not get a whole lot of calls that said, boy, we're delighted that you're covering the Iran-Contra hearings, which was the major national story of the week, the month, the year. We got instead calls from outraged people who said, where is guiding light? Where is as the world turns? They were not in the mood to be informed. They were in the mood to be entertained. As far as Murdershey wrote, that is, I think, the second or third most popular television entertainment program. We went to the candidates and said, we are leaving them hanging with, if we broadcast the program, when we had originally scheduled it, we will be covering Murdershey wrote, will you move? And the candidates said, no, they would not move. So the alternative was to go to Channel 5. Channel 5 carried that broadcast. We carried it later. We taped it and delayed it and ran it on a night when we had a program that was not as widely watched as, and the candidates agreed. A candidate doesn't want to irritate a whole lot of people who want to see Murdershey wrote. Pat Leahy doesn't, and Dick Snelling didn't want to be known as the two men who stepped on, I can't even remember her name. You're raising, I agree with your analysis and let's stop for a moment and deal with that. We are living in a complex world where we have nuclear weapons, where the environment is clearly threatened in a dozen different ways, severe economic problems as the collapse of the stock market this week indicated. I happen to believe very strongly in democracy. I really do. That's why I like being mayor of local control and all that stuff. And I think it's great when people yell and scream and have their points of view. That's what this country presumably is supposed to be about. The truth is, and what I fear very much is that we are losing that. And one of the reasons, and I'm not pointing the thing, I don't know who is responsible for this and there are probably a thousand different factors. And I think you pinpointed one of the areas. If we're going to be in a limited democracy, you know what? In my view, people are really going to have to know what candidates believe. And they're going to have to have a knowledgeable understanding of why they're going to go for a lady or a Snelling or a Sanders or a Cunin, okay? And you can't do it on 30-second ads or 10-second ads. And the problem is, as I think you indicate, if people would rather watch a murder she wrote than understand what the candidates are talking about, or read a USA Today, which is a paper for kind of nice colored pictures and nice simple- For skimming. For skimming, right? If people are saying, I'd rather watch the football games than take responsibility for the world that I live in, I don't blame you, alright? Okay. On the other hand, what I'm suggesting is that that pattern continues. We really are not going to live in a democratic society. And certainly I think the media, it's a vicious circle, okay? If we create that type of climate and we emphasize the football or the murder she wrote rather than serious dialogue and discussion in creative ways as to how we can shake the world that we're living in, that's what you're going to get. If people become more and more attuned to entertainment and simplicity, that's what we're going to get. But that is not, it's not an if, that is a fact. We remember Edward R. Murrow for Harvest of Shame, a documentary about migrant workers. At the time it was broadcast it probably had, if it was lucky, 10% of the audience. What Edward R. Murrow was most watched for was an insipid program in which in the infancy of television he went into people's houses and says, here's Bernie Sanders at home, show us your kitchen, show us your living room, talk to your family, your son. That's what Murrow was watched and he got 90% of the audience for that show person to person. He did not get an audience and the history of television has shown that when you broadcast documentaries, even ones that have a certain amount of drama to it, one that was an, I thought was an excellent program. I used to be a volunteer firefighter here in Burlington and I happened to see it when I was over there. The fire next door about the destruction of the South Bronx, a fantastic documentary on what's happening to the family unit, to the people, you know, slum lords are setting fires to their own properties to collect insurance, drive people out. They don't have to, great documentary. What won the time period? 10 to 1? Some situation comedy. Nobody wanted to watch programs like that. People don't want to watch Harvest of Shame. Maybe it is such a complex world that what they're looking to television for is escape and not information. There is room for both in the medium. There is room for a program like this. When does this program get broadcast? Tuesday at 8.30. Tuesday at 8.30. Well, I would imagine that the audience on Tuesday at 8.30, I hope some of you people are watching this and not watching either Bob Newhart or something like that. Not because I'm on it, but because you'll be informed, but I am afraid that most people are going to be watching Bob Newhart. But the issue gets us back to it. I don't know the answer. What I am saying, and maybe we can switch over from all the political... Well, let me just finish one other thing. If they watch you, okay, or watch this kind of a program, and I mean there are all sorts of scientific measurements to show what people watch, but if Channel 3 or any network was to put on documentary after documentary after documentary, it can only go so far. I'm in a business and that's one thing that a lot of people in my profession don't want to either acknowledge or admit, and that is it's a business. And if the business for which I work doesn't make money, I'm out of work. I have 10 reporters and the largest television station in Burlington, not just because of the commitment of the Martin family which owns Channel 3, but also because they can make enough money to support those 10 reporters. And we have enough advertiser support to support half an hour news. When WABC in New York saw that commercial support slipping, they didn't go out and do more documentaries and more news, they did less, because they couldn't financially support it. Eventually they'd go out of business. Let me just change. I mean it's a subject that we can go on indefinitely about, except that I want to repeat the very serious concern. I think you stated it very well. Given the option of watching a game show or a situation comedy, or seeing something, a serious program or whatever format, dealing with the future of our country, what statistics seem to indicate is that people would opt for the game show. That's very sad. And that's tragic. And if that trend continues, as it has for many years, I fear for democracy, because ultimately, I think as people like Thomas Jefferson and many other people have said, we're not going to survive as a democracy unless you have an informed citizenry and an informed electorate. It is why we are considering, I mean why I, if I was a political official, would consider the Finnish system where you must vote or be fined, favor the Dutch system of television perhaps, where documentaries are allocated to specific special interest groups, when a time is given to them to present their views. But I'll bet you even in Holland, they're probably watching German television, which is broadcasting Magnum, than watching the Dutch television. Let's jump to that, because we talked about that briefly the other day. The television that we're used to in the United States certainly is not the only type of television that exists in the country, in the world. You mentioned, for example, that in Holland, political parties themselves have access to the television, but interestingly enough, now people say, well, that's great, the ruling party is going to have all the time, right? Actually, in Holland, the situation is very different. Why don't you explain that briefly? Well, it was 10 years ago when I learned of it, and that is that, for instance, in the Dutch parliament, there are five or six political parties, and although the government runs the news operation in a, as the BBC or the CBC runs the government, you know, as the government corporation runs news in Canada and Britain, documentary time and public service time is allocated to those political parties in inverse proportion to their representation in parliament. So the smallest party in parliament has the greatest amount of time. The philosophy at the time, as I understood it, was that the ruling party is going to get its coverage in the regular news, and we have to do something to counterbalance that and give the smallest some representation. The same thing might be true here, if we were to do it here. The Democrats and Republicans would each get 15 minutes on Channel 3, but the independence or the progressive coalition would get very exactly. I don't think that's likely to happen, and also it may not happen without legislation. The Canadians do the same thing. When they get close to election time, they give each party, and there are basically three of them, the Progressives, the Conservatives and the New Democratic Party, they each get a half an hour, I think it's once a week, during the election period. Yeah, we could do that. You'd probably have to do it through legislation. Let me switch to another area right now, and you're leading us into it. Right now when campaign time comes, your station and every other station in America is going to be embodied with 30 second ads, with 10 second ads and so forth. And increasingly in terms of American politics, that becomes the heart of politics. Television and the ads are as important to a campaign as anything else. It doesn't take a PhD political scientist to suggest that that is not the best way to develop a dialogue and a debate on the political issues of our day. How would, do you think, channel three feel, A, about the banning of those ads and substituting essentially free time for political blocks of time for candidates or political parties to use as creatively as they can in order to get their message out? I can't speak for channel three because I am an employee and not the ownership of the management. I think it would be unlikely for a number of reasons. First of all, you talk about buying time. We are already under either through regulation or law, I'm not sure which, required to sell candidates time at the cheapest rate available. This was designed to give small party candidates greater access to television so that the richest couldn't buy up all the time. Secondly, if you are going to prohibit television stations from making money in order to put on political free political time, there may be some constitutional questions there. For example, you have the option, because I understand that channel three does not accept ads for growing from the oil races. I think that has been the policy. If channel three went out, it was not going to take ads for United States senatorial races, but in fact, in order to give the candidates the opportunity to communicate with the people, we are going to make blocks of time available and treat everybody equally. I don't see where... Everybody? Candidates, right. Every candidate? Well, the same candidates who you would treat equally who came in to buy time from you. Well, again, you to some extent want to say I, Bernie Sanders, want to be treated equally like Madeline Keunen and whoever... Well, last year, Peter Smith. What about someone who's not as well known as you? Are you going to be willing to give that same... I mean, as I recall, there were initially three or four people going to run for mayor last year. Some of them hardly known at all, and yet they had in fact filed the petitions. They were considered frivolous candidates. But we don't. I believe if somebody is a candidate, they're a candidate. Now, you have that problem when you deal with... You can quote me, show us the candidates. You have to decide who you're serious candidates and who you're not. In general, I take the liberal view that... And we do that in debates, for example. Anybody who's a candidate has access to the time. Philosophically, I have no problem with that whatsoever. Practically, it can be a real problem if you've got... I mean, how many people ran for president in the United States last year? I think 100. Okay, but the point is what ends up happening right now is two things end up happening with the present system. That the Congress mandated that you provide time at the lowest possible rate to help, quote unquote, small candidates. That's not really, I think, the reality. I think the reality is Congress was acting on its own behalf. The rich didn't want to have to pay our top prices. Well, that's right. But as you know, TV advertising consumes an enormous part of anybody's and any candidate's budget. I would, I think myself that in terms of the best interest of democracy and getting the dialogue out there with 30 second ads and go turn 10 second ads, I just don't make, I really don't think so. I think there are a lot of people who would agree. I would agree, as a voter, I would agree. I do not think that, and as a news director I agree, I think that the 30 second ad is a packaged product where you're being sold a fast food candidate. Are you often by the same people who will do the advertising for McDonald's? Absolutely. The best ads for candidates are done exactly by those same companies. Do you prohibit that? Do you limit that? Who is going to make that decision? If it's made by the owners of the television stations, they may just say, we will have no candidates. Period. Well, I don't give the television companies the right unilaterally to make those decisions because obviously the way the public officials or candidates communicate with the American people is essential to the running of this country. So it would not be acceptable any more than if the national networks decided they were not going to cover the president's press conference. That would not be acceptable either. And I think there has, I don't know the easy answer. I think that the 30 second ads and the 10 second ads are insulting. They're not conducive to democracy. I think there's got to be an alternative. I don't know the answer, but I think that mandating television stations, basically forcing television stations to open their airways to the candidates and erase some reasonable objections. How many candidates are there? Everybody wants to run titles equal time. Good question. There are some First Amendment questions also that I'm nervous about as a broadcaster and as a journalist. Freedom of speech and are you going to limit access to it or by law? I'm concerned about that because if you're going to regulate what commercials and what we can take, then when are you going to regulate, only regulate that you will appear at all Mayor's news conferences or something like that? The other side is you're regulating it right now. Wealthy people who have tremendous sums of money to buy the 30 second ads, get access, candidates who don't have a lot of money do not get the access. So it's the marketplace and the big dollars that are regulating right now. That signals to me that we are running out of time. We ought to continue this discussion and those answers to those questions you ought to ask to the managers and owners of the various TV stations. They should be. Mr. Johnville, how are you here? Our special guest this evening was Marsilius Parsons, who is the news director of Channel 3. As you can see, we just began to touch the surface of what is in fact an extraordinarily important issue, the role of television in political life and the whole social life of this country. Marsilius, thanks very much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Welcome to Serving Locally with me, your host, Michelle Dynas, the podcast where we spotlight service in the Longmont and surrounding communities. Alright, let's connect. Welcome to today's episode of Serving Locally. I am here with Colin Argus of the Longmont Downtown Development Authority. And I just want to say thank you for coming on today. And I'm excited to learn about what you guys do. So could you just give me a little quick overview of who you are and what your organization is about? Absolutely, yeah. Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it. I am, as you said, with the Longmont Downtown Development Authority. We are basically at the heart kind of responsible for just maintaining a kind of vibrant and vital downtown district here in Longmont. And our boundaries roughly are from about Longspeak Avenue on the north side to about First Avenue on the south side. And then a couple blocks either side of Maine in general. We do on the south side kind of kick over to Martin. So it's kind of a big L shaped district. It's kind of funky. So yeah, really just kind of maintaining, keeping downtown clean and safe for visitors and business owners and employees. And yeah, just keeping things vibrant and vital down him. So yeah, so we also manage the Longmont Creative District. We're a certified Colorado Creative District. The Creative District certification happened about five or six years ago. And our organization kind of took the initiative to get that certification and also manage the Creative District for a while. Last year a non-profit was spun up called Longmont Creates. And so they have kind of created a board of directors and they're hoping to kind of take some of the management of the Creative District over from us. But yeah, so we're a downtown development authority district as well as a certified Colorado Creative District. That's fantastic. That sounds good. So can you give us a little background about your organization? Yeah, so the downtown development authority was formed in 1983, way back when. The state kind of creates created this mechanism for funding a downtown development authority using property taxes from the district itself. So that's how we're funded. And I've been in this role doing marketing and events for the downtown for about seven years now in different capacities. And so yeah, so really at their heart kind of downtown development authorities are mostly geared toward again that clean and safe piece, keeping it clean and safe for people to visit and enjoy the downtown. Also working on different redevelopment projects and just business owner support, things like that. So that's kind of at the core of what a downtown development authority does. We also with the creative district portion and my role also want to, you know, market the district, bring people here, help them have fun, create memories, things like that with events and things like that. So that's kind of a general overview. Great. So what is your focus at Longmont Downtown Development Authority? So the focus is kind of really twofold. So as I mentioned before, kind of just keeping it clean and safe, making it a pleasant place for people to visit and spend time helping our small business owners, you know, thrive, helping property owners fill vacancies, helping with redevelopment projects, things like that. Believe it or not, there's actually more than 470 businesses within just our downtown district. I did not realize that at all. That's a huge number, right? It's a, yeah, they're obviously not all like retail storefronts, like there's like 470, you know. My dentist is there. There's a super wide variety. There was a business owner a few years ago who posted on Facebook and it was just like, you know, anything you need is in downtown Longmont. You need to go to the dentist. It's in downtown Longmont. You need obviously to get some food. It's in downtown Longmont. But do you need to get your car windshield repaired? It's in downtown Longmont. Anyway, it's just, it's shocking how many different types of businesses there are down here and how many, you know, personal services, business services, wellness, health and wellness and beauty. Obviously restaurants and breweries, retail stores, things like that.  So then here at Longmont Public Media, that's also part of it also. We've got a bunch of awesome kind of more, more nonprofit or public organizations like that. Absolutely. The library is a huge, huge anchor for us and LPM is doing great things here. So yeah, super happy to have all that different diversity within our business, within our district. And then kind of the focus from the creative district side, you know, we were certified as a creative district because we have a large concentration of creative based businesses here in downtown. So, you know, that ranges from things that you would normally think of like an art gallery or a firehouse art center or things like that. You know, live music venues, but it's also things that you might not necessarily think of as a creative business right from the get go. So things like, you know, craft beverage producers, the brewers and distillers creating those recipes. That's a creative, creative industry. Things like graphic design, the more digital pursuits, web design, architecture firms, those are all creative based businesses. The saying for what qualifies as creative is anything made of the hand or mind, which I really like because it's something kind of broadens people's perspective a little bit. So we may not have the highest concentration of art galleries here, but we do have a very high concentration of creative based businesses that can people can enjoy. So, yeah. That's great. See, it'll always be, that's great. That's awesome. Fantastic. That's what I think. Sounds good. Awesome. Very cool. So who are you trying to reach with your organizations? So yeah, our reach is pretty broad, obviously, as just kind of a downtown area. We want, you know, anyone and everyone to feel welcome and comfortable and feel a reason to come enjoy downtown, whether it's for shopping or dining or coming to an event. So, you know, one of the main focuses is definitely the people that are the heartbeat of our downtown, our small business owners, the employees, the people that are down here every day and kind of living and breathing downtown Longmont. But also, you know, we want to be a very welcoming and inviting space for people throughout Longmont, throughout the Longmont area and throughout even, you know, the state and even visitors that come from across the country will want it to be a place that they can enjoy and make memories and have fun. Great. What makes the work of your organizations different than other similar serving organizations? Yeah. So there are a lot of DDAs throughout the state, downtown development authorities throughout the state doing similar work. There's also kind of similar but different downtown organizations like a business association or a business improvement district. So just different tools that people can use that districts can use to kind of help keep their downtown area or their business area vibrant. Arts is kind of interesting because a lot of communities, especially bigger communities have, they'll have a downtown development authority, but then they'll also have a, you know, business improvement district on top of it or they'll have a merchants association. And so a lot of downtown development authorities really just focus on the clean and safe, the redevelopment and kind of the that piece, whereas the business association or something like that might do more of the marketing events. So at a different, you know, in a different community, my job might not actually exist as the marketing and events person for the downtown development authority. But I'd say our organization is a bit unique because of that. We're also a small staff of four. So we've got, you know, a lot of things going on. You know, everybody's happy to hop in all hands on deck. We've got a really great team there. But yeah, I think it's kind of unique for the downtown development authority to also handle kind of the arts and entertainment piece, the marketing and events. The DDA board way back when decided that that needed to be a priority, partly because there's such great representation of creative businesses downtown, but also because it's an important part of having a thriving community. So, you know, I think that might be one thing that kind of sets us apart a little bit. Very cool. Okay, Colin, what are your greatest needs? Yeah, so kind of in terms of, you know, just needs from the community, we love to have people participate and kind of take ownership. We had a marketing campaign a few years back right before I arrived and it was kind of own downtown. So like making downtown your own and taking some ownership in it. So anyway, yeah, we always invite people to kind of take some ownership and have a little bit of skin in the game for what's going on downtown. So we love, we invite people to come participate in any way that they want to or can. We really each year have a strong need for volunteers, both at events, but also just with some of the kind of day to day stuff occasionally. I imagine with your staff of four, four hundred and how many businesses? Yeah, just a little bit of help would be great. Yeah, yeah, it becomes a lot for sure and you know, every hour is sacred. So if we can get, you know, even just an hour or two out of folks to help out for a little bit, it goes a long way.  And so the summer concerts will happen every Friday, not every Friday, the first four Fridays in June. And those are at fourth and Kimbark right here in LPM's backyard. And so it's a street concert. We close the street, we bring in the stage bands, food trucks, drink vendors, things like that. Kids activities. So it's a really fun night. We just need volunteers. Is it a free event for the community? Yeah, totally free. So even if you don't want to volunteer, please come on down and enjoy some live music and dance in the street a little bit. But yeah, so volunteers, it's basically we just need some help with setting things up, putting up tables and tents and that kind of stuff, helping with some fencing. And then during the event, we do get a alcohol permit for the event because we have our craft beverage vendors come set up. And so we just need people to kind of monitor entry exit points, but you get a nice stool and a nice view of the stage and get to listen to some music and people watch and see people. So that's fun. And then always need help with kind of tear down and cleanup type stuff. I found the later night shifts are a little bit more or more difficult to staff, which makes sense. I would be partial to being home at that point, but if anybody likes being out late at night, not late at night, but toward the end of the evening, we would really appreciate it. So we have our summer concerts. Those are in June. There are some other organizations that host events downtown that we kind of help facilitate. So Firehouse Art Center does a lot of really cool events. They're doing summer on the streets, they're calling it kind of a mini art walk event. That's the second Saturday of every month, May through August. And then they have their big Main Street Art Walk Festival in September. So they always need good people to help out with that. And those are fun things to participate in. And then in terms of the smaller things that I mentioned, kind of the more day to day stuff. Honestly, things like just distributing meeting invitations to all of our businesses. Just walking a few blocks along Main Street or Kim Barker Kauffman to hand out meeting invitations or taking out marketing materials. So posters and flyers for our concerts, asking if business owners would mind hanging one in their window, things like that. Again, you can get out on a nice day and get a few steps in, walk a few blocks. But it really does help us out because even those couple hours are a huge help for us. So I think those are kind of our greatest needs just in terms of general help from the public.  That's the Chamber of Commerce. They do a fantastic job. That's one of my favorite events. They'd be great. Karen Sallard is awesome. The whole team is awesome. Ruby and Leah and Scott, Karen and Kathy. But yeah, so they're the ones that produce you in the community. That's one that I talked about we kind of just facilitate. So I help with the road closure piece and some of kind of the infrastructure things like that. Behind the scenes. Exactly. But it's nice because we don't have to have the responsibility of producing the whole thing. So a lot of work goes into that. So yeah, Unity and the Community is a great one. We've hosted the Pride Festival in past years. They're moving that to Roosevelt Park this year. But that's always a great event. The Day of the Dead festivities, Dia de los Muertos. The Longmont Museum produces that. But they do it on 4th Avenue, 4th and Coffman. So that's always a really, really great community event as well. And then we have our holiday events, our Plaza Lighting event to kind of kick off the holiday season. And I was going to do that this year. I think it was you that I talked to. Because I remember I'm like Holland. That sounds kind of familiar. They already hooked us up and then yeah, couldn't make it. Totally understand. Yeah, we'd love to have you back in a future year. But yeah, so those are the big ones.  Oh, another one is Bricks Retail here over on 4th Avenue just across the street from Longmont Public Media here. They host what they call Miracle on 4th Markets. And so it's like basically a local gift market.  And so they're doing one, their first one is going to be April 30th. And then they'll do like a Christmas in July one that'll be, I think July 30th as well. And then they usually do one in early November to kind of kickstart the holiday shopping season. So yeah, it's really fun to help facilitate these events. Again, when I don't have to do all the legwork, but I can help help something cool come to life. So it's a good gig. It's rewarding. So how can people contact and find out more about your organizations? Yeah, so feel free to reach out to me directly. I'd be happy to chat with anybody or answer questions or find some time to meet if you have ideas or want to talk about anything. So I assume you can share my contact info with them. I'll have everything in the show notes, my QR code as always. So you go into serving partnerships and they'll be under there as well. Their website. QR codes are the best. And then our website is downtownlongmont.com. And so that you can learn more about our organization. We've got a creative district portion of the website as well as just the kind of general downtown Longmont piece. And then we do have a volunteer form that my colleague Delray puts together. And it's basically just a sign up form or an interest form for all the different opportunities that we have throughout the year. It includes the things like the material distribution, but as well as like those event volunteer positions as well. So that can be found at downtownlongmont.com slash volunteer. So set up an easy link there. So yeah, I think that's the main ways to get hold of us. Is there anything else you'd like to add? Again, I just really appreciate this opportunity to come chat with you. And yeah, absolutely. And I think just kind of touching on a couple of things. So just really the importance of choosing to spend your money locally and how far that goes. You know, I mentioned the small business owners are kind of the heartbeat of our community.  They live here.  But really when you're spending money with them, you're spending money directly in our community. And that money stays in our community. You're helping moms. You're helping dads. You're helping families. I love working with small businesses and local businesses. That's kind of what I want to do.  Because when you've got Walmart or whatever, it's hard to find anybody else. And so, and it's not something that always is the easiest thing to do. So, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's, it's always super easy to, you know, click add to cart and have it show up on your doorstep a couple of days later. Right, right. But you say you're right. It is a conscious decision and it does take a little bit more effort, but it also, you get an experience with that. You know, you get to talk to the person that, that purchases product or talk about why they started their shop.  Longmont florist, for instance, just passed the business on to their son and he's, you know, it's going strong.  We have the largest concentration of small, small businesses in the, in the town in Longmont, in the city of Longmont. So, yeah, so just really important to, you know, choose to spend your money locally and make that conscious decision. We do have a downtown Longmont gift card. If people are looking for gift ideas for teachers or coaches or family or friends, there's, I think, more than 70 participating locations, both retail and food and beverage. And it's really great. Just kind of choose your own adventure. You know, you can buy a gift card and, and then they get a list of all the businesses that are participating and they can choose where they want to go and where they want to spend that money. So, that's a really cool. Yeah. That's really cool. It's like a Visa gift card or just, just to a specific restaurant or something. Exactly. They can choose what they, I didn't know that. Yeah. That's really cool. It's a really awesome thing. Yeah. So obviously holiday time and into the school year, we often get inundated with those, but we love it. So, just wanted to throw that out there. You can also purchase them online through our website. They're not digital cards. It's a physical gift card. So, you do have to come pick it up or we can mail it, but you can check those out on our website as well. One note there. The businesses don't actually receive the money until you purchase something because it does act like a debit card because that money is just in a holding account. So, anyway, if you have a gift card, please go spend it. What else? I think the only other big piece is just people often, you know, parking is probably our number one hot button issue down here and totally understand obviously everybody, you know, wants to have easy access to their favorite businesses. I think we need to do a better job of communicating all the different parking garages and lots and spaces that are available because people, you know, drive to their business, look out front and maybe those parking spots are taken. But within maybe a block and a half maximum, there's still, you know, there's 50 more spots available. So, just wanted to mention that as well. We have the new development on Kauffman at between 5th and 6th on Kauffman. The spoke on Kauffman there has a public parking garage as part of it. Wow. It's free just like the rest of our parking downtown. I think it's a two hour limit during the workday and then nights and weekends are free. So that's the spoke on Kauffman garage and then we also have the Roosevelt Park Apartments garage at Longs Peak in Maine. And then all of our public lots are free. All the parking downtown is free. So, again, there's a link to directly to our parking map and all that at downtownlarmont.com slash parking. So that's really good to know. I didn't know that stuff either. I love this. Yeah.  So June 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd. And those are from 6 to 9 p.m. here at 4th and Kimbark. Again, it's free to attend the public's welcome. Kids, dogs on leashes, everybody's welcome to attend just a big community gathering. There is food and drink available for purchase. So there will be food trucks you can purchase directly from them or we do have alcoholic beverage tokens available for purchase. Working on a way to take a credit card payment for those, but we do recommend cash if you can bring it just in case. And those are $6 per token. And then we do have the like kids bounce houses, kids activity slide, things like that. And those are also $6 for a wristband that you can play all night during the concert. It's not babysitting, it's just... Right. Yeah, we do ask. Yeah, the kids are so supervised, but yeah, it's something to get out all the energy and get them a good night's sleep. Awesome. Yeah, I think that covered everything I wrote down. Sounds good. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. This was a really good time. Thank you to my guests, my listeners and my supporters. Serving together, we can strengthen our community. Please like and subscribe. Do all those other things. You know you got to do them because that's the easiest way that you can serve right now. Alright, now go. Connect with others and be a blessing.


Alrighty, I have a construction update for Yukon Striker and Orbiter for you today. I was gonna release this video tomorrow, but the other footage I was working on was taking way too long to edit, and I gotta go somewhere. So I decided to edit this footage, which is easier to edit and upload it for your enjoyment.  When's your next Yukon update? It is here. So as you can see, they are moving really quick, removing Orbiter off the site. They dug up the concrete. The queue line is still there, but the station, it doesn't have a station, but the foundation's been torn up, the fence around it's been removed, and the control booth and exit booth are completely gone. So that's interesting. They're very quick at removing this from the premise. I guess they want no sign of it come 2019 season starting. Maybe it'll turn into a pathway that connects Behemoth to Frontier Canada for the temporary portion of the season until maybe a year or two, three years from now, they find a replacement flat ride or anything that's gonna fill its land. Anyways, in terms of Yukon Stryker, they're working on weekends now. This is rare. We don't see this often at Yukon Stryker, but the construction team is working on weekends, building that station, getting electrical hooked up, and I'm gonna be honest, it looks like there's a nice LED package going up the lift hill now. It is very difficult to tell from this far away, but there is a nice white glow that wasn't there before that goes up the entire lift hill of Yukon Strykers. It's attached to the guardrails of the staircase. So again, it could be a light reflection, it could be anything, but it's looking like it's an LED package. If I had to make a guess, all the B&M's in the park have one, so it would only make sense, and we know electrical's been hooked up to the lift hill now. The elevator's been in use, Wonderland's shown some footage of that, but yeah, very exciting. So here in this photo is the queue line. So that giant flat portion when you see that red car parked and that green arrow pointing, that's going to be a portion of the queue line as you can see. So it's a little different from the animation and also from our previous video, the building is different from the animation in terms of the way it's built. It goes past the transfer track. So that's a little different from the animation because the station building was just the station and you can see that transfer track didn't have any building beside it, whereas in reality, it has building beside it now. So they're working on actually enclosing the station now as you can see in this footage. It looks like they're about to pour concrete on the station platform. It looks like they're also getting ready to start going vertical with the second floor walls. There probably isn't going to be an actual second story to the station, but just for looks, it's going to be that. Other than that, nothing much else going on. There are still three trains in the parking lot. Nothing moved there. We're keeping an eye on that. Orbiter's sitting in the parking lot as well and no signs of anything else. Just their working weekends, the station's moving along nicely and Orbiter's being completely demolished. Anyways, hopefully you enjoyed this construction update on Yukon Striker. Don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't, and share this video for others to enjoy. Thanks so much for watching, guys. Have a good one. Bye.


The CUSV is the common unmanned surface vehicle that's currently being used by the Navy in a mine-counter mine mission done in LCS. What it would be used for is an anti-terrorism force protection mission to help protect ports and harbors and high-value assets. I think there's a tremendous potential used for the unmanned surface vessel, just like aerial or subsurface. And what those tools can do for our Navy security force that protects and provides a safety blanket over all of our installations. I think it's a tremendous tool that can potentially operate in environments where manned assets would be at risk, and it's all designed to have the most effective force and tool for our Navy security forces to protect our installations. So the potential use for the CUSV as an ATFP tool is it helps us with minimal manning, so there's nobody in the boat and you can control it easily by yourself or from the tower. It's also able to push the threat out beyond where the harbor patrol boats normally operate, so it gives us a force-multiplying effect. So what we've done here with this version is a prototype that does an ATFP. We've added payloads that enable it to do things like go out and query a threat vessel with a Haylor non-lethal weapon package and also backed up by a lethal weapon package in case when we tell it to turn away with our Haylor, it doesn't, then we can engage it with the gun. We have humans on the loop that control it from a ground control station with regard to monitoring the systems that actually pick up threat targets and detection, so it can operate autonomously while in the water. The United States Navy as a whole obviously has a large contributing piece to the defense of our nation. Then we have a large waterfront that needs protected, just like the fence lines that you see on land that are around us and the entry control points or the gates that we come through. We've got to protect the waterfront side of it.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited is stock number 23J420A. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used Jeep and Jeep Grand Cherokee headquarters. This 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee has the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine. It's paired up with the 8-speed automatic transmission. This Jeep has been fully safety and inspected by OverService Shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this Jeep is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, start it up, take a look under the hood, give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Bright white clear coat is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notification so you get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and Jeep Grand Cherokee walkarounds on YouTube. 8,000 videos and counting, so check us out there. This one comes with the painted and polished aluminum 18-inch wheels, and it has BF Goodrich Advantage TA Sport LT tires. These tires have a lot of tread left on them. In fact, this one looks like it's brand new. These are 265, 60R 18s. Painted and polished aluminum wheels, they look really good. Front fender is in fantastic condition at Ncini Dense or Dings, and there it does come with the projector lamp headlamps and the projector lamp fog lamps. Front bumper is in fantastic condition at Ncini Dense, Dings, scuffs, or scrapes, or cracks on there. It comes with the chrome-trimmed grille, the chrome-trimmed Jeep lettering, and the hood is in really nice condition too. See just how nice and reflective that paint is. Passenger side front fender, no Dense or Dings on there, and the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. Tires got just about all the tread left on it as well. As you go down this side of this 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. Take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back wheel is in excellent shape and the back tires have just as much tread as those front tires. Wheel disc brakes on the Grand Cherokees, coming around to the back. Rear bumper is in great shape. No major dents or dings on there, it does have the backup parking sensors. The rear gate is in nice shape as well, it is a power lift gate. You can open that with the key fob here. Back storage area is in excellent condition, full-size spare tire and jack tools. Those seats do fall down for extra storage and to get this gate down, you press that button right there. It will beep at you three times and then begin its descent. One thing to note, you do get the chrome-tipped exhaust there as well. Coming around to the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger side, no dents or dings on the rear quarter. Rear door looks really good as well and for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest. That tire's got just about all tread on it too and down the rest of the side of the vehicle looks really, really good. Dents and dings, really nice condition. This is a one-owner clean title history, clean car facts out of Wisconsin. It has the heated mirrors, built-in blind spot monitoring and directional signals on there. Take a quick look at the back seats. They are in fantastic condition. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Factory floor mats, you get two USBs and 115 volt, 150 watt. Plug it in back here.  Easy to get down, easy to get back up. And it does have child safety locks on the back doors. Inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good.  In the front here, no rips, no tears. Both these front seats are heated and power. Side curtain airbags. Lumbar factory floor mats. Auto headlamps, power windows, locks and mirrors. And it does have a memory driver seat. Get that really nice dark wood grain trim on there. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, radio and everything that this Jeep has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 55,000 and 723 miles. You get the digital speedometer on that seven inch LCD display, compass display, and you can change those corners to read pretty much whatever you want. Comes with the heated leather wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. This one comes with the 8.44C radio. You get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities on here. You also have your heated seat and heated steering wheel controls. This is also where your backup camera shows up and you can see that is working nicely. This one also has the factory navigation system. So there is highway 41. So you can see that is working nicely.  You get your dual climate controls there. Then you get all your different apps on here. This one does have off-road pages, projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. We actually did a demo on an 8.4. That's in the upper right-hand part of the screen and linked in the description below. Then here are your off-road pages. They take a second to load. So while they're loading, I will point out this one does have the more tactile volume, tune and climate controls down here. It's a jeep thing you wouldn't understand. And you get your steering angle, your transfer case on there. As I turn that steering wheel, you can see that the tires up top turn. And that steering angle changes as well.  Latitude longitude and your altitude as well. So as I turn the Quadra Track 2 system down here, snow, sand, mud, and rock, watch what happens on the screen up here. If I go to sand, you get the sand on there. If I go to snow, you get the snow. And you go to mud, you get that. Also has a neutral setting for flat towing, eight-speed automatic transmission, downhill assist control, four-wheel drive low. And the passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there. Once again, smells very clean inside this jeep. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. It does have the power sunroof. Home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, map lights, and your power rear gate controls. SOS and assist buttons in the mirror. Start it up. Take a look under the hood. Then we'll be all set. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality, condition, options, and of course, cleanliness of this jeep all the way around. You can see all the lights are working nicely. Under the hood, we have the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. And once again, this jeep has been fully safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, so the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this jeep is 100% ready to go. There is the ignition sticker. Like new BF Goodrich tires and really a nice ride. I would highly recommend this jeep from a quality and condition standpoint. I'd ship this one anywhere whoever's going to get it's going to love it. And it's that clean. So anyways, to see more pictures of this jeep or one of other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, Grand Cherokees, Cherokees, Wagon Ears, you name it, we gotta go to that website right there, summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle, all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and Jeep Grand Cherokee Walk-Rounds on YouTube. In fact, in a second you'll see a link to subscribe. And my YouTube channel on the upper left, a link to more Grand Cherokee videos, are done in the upper right, a link to this vehicle on our website, lower left, and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos on the lower right. Click those, check us out. We're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee, limited in bright white clear coat. Thanks again for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on the YouTube channel. I really appreciate it. Thanks again.