Well conditions on day two of the 103rd New Zealand Open presented by Sky Sport were perfect for scoring and so it would prove. By day's end more than 30 players are within five shots of the lead and within just three of second place. Here Carlos Pigeon from Spain birdied the 15th from the bunker to get to eight under and within just four of the lead. Australian Brit Coletta birdied the 16th from behind the green to also get to eight under. New Zealand golfer Karen Muir birdied the 18th at Remarkables course and he too is at eight under and within just four of the lead. Australian and DP World Tour player David Michaluzzi, his third shot at the 15th would set up a birdie. Cade McBride from Australia birdied the sixth and he would eventually finish at nine under. Japan's Yuta Sugiyura birdied the ninth and he too is at nine under and just three off the lead. One more winner Matt Griffin birdied the 7th but the surprise of the day was the marvellous performance by veteran Marcus Fraser, his second to the 7th or the 16th of the Remarkables course to set up another birdie and he would finish at ten under and just two from the lead. Daniel Hillier the New Zealander the leading world ranked player in the field got on a bit of a roll towards the end of his round. This is a birdie at the 17th, one of four to finish but it would be Scott Heend, the Australian, the veteran and multiple winner on the Asian tour who birdied the 8th, 18th hole and at 12 under he leads by two from a group of five golfers.


d on what exists and success is there. Following up, those recommendations for ministers decide how to proceed, but do you feel that there should be some further public consultation around that to allow for a broader discussion about how that should be structured? There has been significant consultation already, and that is certainly available publicly, I think, all the different consultation documents and the discussions that Benny and the advisory board had. I guess that is for Government to decide if it feels the need any more, but, certainly from what I have been involved in, there has been significant input into that process. Would any of the other panel members like to make a final comment before we close the session? We will very well thank you very much all for coming in. I will suspend the session. We will move into private meeting. Thank you.


Let's imagine that this swing is a car, the rope tied to the back simulates the sudden stoppage of a traffic incident. And the pawpaw? Well that's you. When the swing is moving, the pawpaw is moving along with it. Inertia is the property of something to keep moving unless a force is acted upon it. When we pull the rope, that force stops the swing. But the pawpaw doesn't have a rope tied to it, so it keeps moving. The same thing happens in a car. The inertia will keep you moving even if the car suddenly stops, unless you're wearing a seatbelt. The seatbelt reduces the chances of you colliding with the interior parts of the vehicle. It also stops anyone from being thrown from the vehicle or through the windscreen. It's not complicated, and the outcomes of something so simple as putting on a seatbelt are life-saving.


So, all right, now we've got something a little bit special for you. We have a workshop Friday at 2 on, I think Friday at 2 at the Silas Club Music and Gerald Beam Fenderson is here to actually give kind of a demo and intro, maybe hype a little bit of your interest into attending the event and Then you're performing tonight in the same yoga studio where you can't bring your own booze because there will be free booze there So don't do it But without I guess further ado, let's welcome them to the stage and listen to this wonderful demonstration So hello, and thanks for coming to my talk I'm going to tell you a bit about my oscilloscope music project and how I started making it and how it works So you already know that this is more like a short introduction to the workshop later at the maker stage at 2 p.m And I think before I tell you about how any of this works It's probably best to show you an example of what it even is. So oscilloscope music is basically music that is visualized on Analog oscilloscope and here is the first track that I made with this technique. It's called nuclear black noise It's enough to give you an idea What this is like? So this video was filmed from an analog oscilloscope and the signal that goes into it is the same signal that goes to the Speakers, so one channel is used for the horizontal deflection and the other channel is used for vertical deflection on the oscilloscope So I first used an oscilloscope a long time ago when I did an apprenticeship as an electronic technician This is what the everyday life of an electronic technician looks like in this beautiful shutter stock image So back then all the analog Oscilloscopes were being replaced by digital ones, but for teaching purposes. We still use the analog ones and I got really into the aesthetic of that green analog screen, so Back then I was already making music and I played in bands and we tried to visualize our music in several ways So of course I would try out to play music through an oscilloscope But it didn't really look so good And I will show you an example of what music usually looks like an oscilloscope if it's not specifically made for it So here's a song by the Beatles It looks like this So it's basically just quickly something Random lines So I actually forgot about this for quite a long time, but then later as I Started playing solo electronic music shows and I got interested in sound in a much lower level like the structure of the waveforms and how they are made and Yeah, I also studied audio engineering for a while, but never finished it but with by studying this I learned a lot more about like Algorithmic composition and programming so In this time I discovered this program called pure data. Maybe some of you already know it. It's a Graphical audio programming environment. You have all these All these objects that you just connect and you can Perform mathematical operations to create your own waveforms and combine them in some ways So this patch that you can see here is actually the one that I made for nuclear black noise to the track that you saw in the beginning it is an additive synthesis patch and The way additive synthesis works is you only use sine waves and you add them up to to create different sound spectra and I have a video of that as well So here you can see I use these sliders There's the base frequency is 100 at 100 Hertz And then it's multiplied by 1 by 2 by 3 by 4 and so on and I have all these sliders to change the volume of each overtone and the way this sounds is Not audible. I'm not sure why. Oh, I think I know why It's all just sine waves put together different waveforms As soon as you have several of these tones Suddenly your perception of it is not the same anymore. You perceive it as one tone Not as several different tones. So when the frequency is changed It sounds like it's just one tone that plays The next step is to use a sine wave on the horizontal channel and a cosine wave on the vertical channel And together they would add up to a circle So here's a slightly different patch that does the same thing for XY on the oscilloscope and you can see It's It circles being drawn at the same time at different speeds. So they create these Spiral kind of shapes that you also saw in nuclear black noise and now you can see it moving That is when the frequency of one of the overtones is not Not a full number multiple of the base frequency. So here it is 401 Hertz now so it and I was changing some other frequencies as well So the image started moving and so as I uploaded my first such video to YouTube in 2013 and And I started playing live shows with that as well And in my life shows I often used a shape like a mushroom I think it's this one and So a lot of people asked me how I make this mushroom So I made a tutorial about that And the tutorial is also done completely on the oscilloscope. So That video got rather popular on reddit and so on and I think it is a good explanation How these things work? Basically the video all it does is just explaining how the video was made. So I think it's a good idea to show you this one as well Welcome good people of the internet Today I'm going to show you how to draw mushrooms on an oscilloscope with sound We're gonna use our left audio channel for horizontal deflection Now first we need a sine wave on our horizontal deflection channel and a cosine wave on our vertical deflection channel Together they add up to a beautiful circle Alter its size and shape by increasing or decreasing the volume of both channels Now we add a sawtooth waveform to the right channel Our circle or ellipse turns into a spiral To get this spiral into the shape of a mushroom We need to multiply our left channel with a sine wave of the same frequency as the sawtooth We're only gonna use the sine's last quarter Of course, we want our mushroom to move Just like in real life That's why we now add another sawtooth Multiplied with the cosine wave of a slightly different frequency to our left channel We can increase the number of mushrooms by dividing the cosine's frequency by two Or even by three By randomly adding square waves we get even more mushrooms In fact, we can plant an entire field move into space Far you go always remember to let there be loud You could see that the images went a bit beyond what was actually explained like with the 3d graphics um And but i'm going to show you a bit about the 3d graphics So here is a Here is A patch that does something like this in pure data So here you can see it drawing this mushroom landscape with a grid and a butterfly And what it actually does What I do to draw 3d images is this I draw all these All these things with three coordinates x y and z coordinates And then I just feed them into basically Audio rendering engine which works very simply I I just made everything that is further away like that has a high z coordinate smaller than the other things And then two channels come out that I can feed into the oscilloscope the same way as before So that's basically how it would also work for any 3d graphics that are shown on a two-dimensional monitor So, um, what was I gonna say? Yeah, I made an album with this in 2016 With 10 tracks of this kind of music and I teamed up with a friend named hansi Who helped me a lot on the software part of all of this And he made a program called austi studio Which takes away a lot of of the work that you have that you would have to do over and over again Like for example, the 3d rendering thing and this is austi studio here You can for example, just select one of the presets like the cube Put some perspective on it and Let it rotate And then with this program you also have For example the ability to use this trace plugin This lets you draw just a part of this line and you can hear the overtones changing or it gets more overtones The more of the image you draw This makes pretty cool sounds and when it rotates You have a constant variation of the sound so I use effects like this a lot The music that I make Now another cool thing that this program can do is we can connect to blender So many of you probably know blender and here I can just Yeah, now I sent this shape over to austi studio and now I have this cylinder here So basically this program converts 3d images into sound and one thing that is pretty important When doing so Is if you have jumps in the waveform like if you jump from here to there Then you suddenly get a lot of harsh and very loud sounds So the thing that is important is as you can see when I When I just draw a part of it that it always has to be one connected line So you can see it's It's drawing up and down all of these lines here and uh With basically the same technique I did one of my tracks or actually several of my tracks on the album But here's an animation that I made in blender with these robot arms that assemble something And You can also send the send a complete animation over to austi studio Um, however, I'm not going to do this now because it takes some time until it's all there But I can show you a clip Of how I used it Yeah, so this is a And then there comes a bicycle and the bicycle rides through a landscape and so on. Yeah, anyway, um, so I think that's pretty much it You can try out all of these things. I made a lot of patches in pure data and max msp Um, oh, yeah one one thing that I also wanted to say is in the new version of austi studio Which is not out yet, but will come out Very soon. It's been coming out very soon for about a year now There is this live coding feature where you can just write code directly in c++. It makes it very efficient to just Do some kinds of operations here, for example, if I Yeah, now I replace the x coordinate with a sign and This makes it very powerful and very efficient to work with sound So actually this opens it up for Audio programming of all times not just for oscilloscope music So, yeah, anyway, you can try out all these things that hansi and I made there Over in the maker stage from 2 p.m. I think if you have questions It's probably best if you just come over there and ask there unless you have some very pressing questions then The time is now I have a very pressing question Yeah, what's the name of this software? It's austi studio osci studio So, thank you. I have a question for the audience actually So who here is going to be anywhere near seattle this coming wednesday? few people, okay, so um, so uh, jerobe and fember sift kunderson is going to be doing um So he's going to be doing a show in the laser dome at the pacific science center on wednesday night For I guess the first time ever with the laser So basically driving the laser galvo is directly with the sound audio signals, so If you happen to be around on wednesday night, um, there are tickets available I think we sent out some links if you go to ateasbooks.com. It's on the events page. It's being increased by ateas books So come check it out. Sorry, what's that? Yes, uh-huh. Yeah All right, thanks


In this presentation we will take a look at multiple choice questions related to special journals. First question, which of the following journals are used to record adjusting entries? A. General Journal. B. Cash Receipts Journal. C. Cash Disbursements Journal. D. Purchases Journal. Or E. Sales Journal. One more time we'll read through these and see if we can cross them out with the process of elimination. Which of the following journals are used to record adjusting entries? Before we do so let's just take a quick look and say okay what are adjusting entries? Notice those adjusting entries are the ones that happen after we have done the normal journal entries throughout the process. If we are using special journals as we are here then you can imagine that we're doing the day-to-day transactions entering the information into these special journals and then recording those to the general journal at the end of the time period and then posting them to the general ledger and creating the financial statements from this information. So if we go through here and then after that then we would take the the trial bounce the unadjusted trial bounce and put those adjusting entries in those adjusting entries being the things that are going to be making our financial statements more on an accrual basis and we would be using the adjusting entries in a similar fashion whether we be using a system that just has journal entries or a system that has special journals. So A says the general journal. Now the general journal is like that default journal that we use when we can't fit something into any other type of journal. So I'm going to keep that there for now because the adjusting entries isn't a normal type of journal entry process it's at the end of the time period. So we'll keep that there for now. B says cash receipts journal. Now the adjusting entries again they're not something that happened during the time period and the cash receipts journal is usually what we do when we do the normal data input throughout the time period and it has cash in it and the adjusting entries typically don't have cash involved because cash isn't something that we typically have to do a timing adjustment for at the end. So I'm going to say that's not it. C says cash disbursements journal. Same reasoning there the cash disbursements journals used as we go through the process and cash isn't even involved typically in most of the adjusting entries that we we think of so I'm going to say it's not that one. Purchases journal. Purchases journal is what we do throughout the time process it's fairly specific it means that we're going to be crediting accounts payable and debiting some other account possibly inventory or supplies or something like that for most of the purchases but the adjusting entry doesn't necessarily fall into that we might adjust an accounts payable account in the adjusting process but it doesn't seem that's going to be the case because because once again that's during the normal journal entry process the purchase journal is used for and we are in the in the adjusting process the sales journal also a very specific journal debuting accounts receivable and crediting sales but that's the normal journal entry not really the adjusting journal entry we're going to need so we might have you know one journal entry that could fit into that kind of format in the adjusting process but we're probably not going to use the sales journal because that's used during the the month not at the adjusting entry process at the end of it so I think we're left with just the general journal the default journal the journal we use when you know the the transactions don't fit into any other account and that's the nature of the adjusting entries even if we're not using special journals that the problem with them are that we set up the system so that we need these kind of funny adjustments at the end adjustments that aren't normal things that we do throughout the process and therefore don't have a normal kind of special journal that we can set up for them so we're going to say the general journal once again the question and answer which of the following journals are used to record adjusting entries a general journal next question pays payroll with cash what journal is used so pays I think it should be pay payroll with cash so we're going to pay payroll with cash what journal are we using a cash disbursements journal b sales journal c cash receipts journal d purchases journal or e general journal again we'll read through this see if we can cross some of these out with the process of elimination pays payroll with cash what journal is used a cash disbursements journal now that's going to be a special journal that we will have when we disperse or pay cash and so that looks reasonable it looks like we are paying cash for payroll so I'm going to I'm going to keep that one for now b says sales journal that's a specific journal relating to making sales on account so that'd be a no cash involved in this journal and it's a sales transaction therefore it doesn't look like it's going to be there for payroll c says cash receipts journal now the cash receipts journal would be used when we get the cash not when the employee gets the cash we are paying cash here so it shouldn't be in the cash receipts journal because the cash is going out and then d says the purchases journal a purchases journal we're kind of purchasing something we're purchasing labor in a way but really purchases journal is usually when we purchase something like inventory and it deals with accounts payables really the accounts payable journal so it's not going to be the purchases journal and then the general journal is kind of like the default if we can't find another location for it we use the general journal so I'll keep that for now I'm going to leave it with a and e cash disbursement journal and general journal and read through it one more time cash payroll with pays payroll with cash what journal is used a cash disbursements journal or e the general journal now I think of the two the I think it can fit into the cash disbursements journal we're going to run payroll and we can say that if we're paying it with cash then cash anytime cash goes out we can use basically the cash disbursement journal to cover that so the general journal would be there if no other journal was appropriate it may not be the first type of transaction we would think of for the cash payment journal but I think it would work so I'm going to go with a and the answer then is pays payroll with cash what journal is used a cash disbursements journal next question which of the following journals would a company used to record a merchandise return a general journal b cash receipts journal c cash disbursements journal d purchases journal e sales journal okay we're going to read through this one more time try to think through it a bit and then we'll and then we'll look at our answers again so which of the following journals would a company use to record a merchandise return now this is this is going to be one of a little bit more confusing one because we have to first kind of it's not a normal transaction so we might first want to think about what what was the merchandise purchase type of activity and then the return of another thing that's not entirely clear here is whether we are returning the merchandise or the customers returning the merchandise to us so let's first let's think of both those scenarios and in the case and if we say if we if we say well okay we're returning merchandise well if we bought the merchandise on account it would have been a counselor see like it would have been inventory is debited and then we would have had the credit go to accounts payable and if we returned it then accounts payable should be going down with a debit and inventory should be going down with a credit because we gave it back away now if someone on the other hand if we were returning merchandise to us that we sold when we sold the merchandise we would have had a debit to accounts receivable for the IOU and a credit to the sales and then if they return it we'd also have cost a good sold an inventory but I won't think about that now I think we're actually dealing with this transaction up here but in any case if they returned it then we would reverse this and say that it would be sales return and allowance would be debit and we credit AR so in any of these cases would do any of these fit into these journals the first one says the general journal now if we can't find a place for these we're going to go to the general journal I'm basically looking at this transaction mainly I think that's the one they're asking about or possibly this transaction depending on if we're the seller or the purchaser then B says purchase receipts journal now the purchase receipts journal um or the cash receipts journal means that we there's cash affected we got cash and you can see there's no cash involved here because we're assuming we made the sale on account so it can't be that and that's what the and again that's an assumption we're making but that's typically then see cash disbursements journal again cash is involved and there's no cash involved here so that doesn't look like it purchases journal that's what we purchased the the inventory and that would be up here when we purchased it but now we're returning it and so it's not going to fit in the purchase journals anymore so it's got the same accounts but they go in the wrong way because the purchase journal would be would be a debit to inventory and a credit to accounts payable we can't use the same journal it go in the other way so and then the sales journal that would be this one here when we make the sale but again if they were talking about someone returning inventory to us it wouldn't fit in that journal because again it would be going the wrong way so it can't be there so whether we're talking about us being the purchaser or the seller it that the return doesn't fit into any normal journal so we would have to put in the default journal that being the general journal so once again which of the following journals would a company use to record a merchandise return a general journal


Someone give me a thumbs up if my screen is visible. Thank you. It's a full hour in here, so I'm gonna get started. Hi everyone, welcome to the group conversation with the distribution team. I'll be your host for today. And we'll go through a couple of topics. First, we are going to go through the team. We keep updating the distribution team handbook, so I would really urge you to check out our handbook and understand a bit better on what our mission and vision is and how we actually work. But I wanna say welcome to Robert Marshall, who joined us all the way back in August. The only reason why we are updating this now is our last FGU was in July. We, Robert has already hit the ground running, so he's already contributing to the team. He's almost a veteran. We do have two more open positions to fill. I do have to say that one position is almost filled because we are in the final stages with one candidate. We'll see if that works out, but I'm very hopeful. So if you still have people to refer, please check out the open positions and send them our way. Let's start talking about accomplishments. We're gonna start with the GitLab Helm chart. And I use the screenshot here from a comment by a user that is thanking quite a lot of our team. But Eric has been using our chart throughout beta, and I think it just shows how great it is to have a community out there, trying out your things, helping out. And Eric was one of the great users we had that allows us to understand better use patterns of our users. And we did manage to get our OKR filled with our Helm chart, general availability, which was announced on the 22nd of September. We do see that the chart usage is growing. If you take a look at the chart, well, the graph below, you'll see that practically once we announced general availability, the usage spiked. It is coinciding, like this smaller spike you see here, is coinciding with being a launch partner at Google Next with, I forgot how it was called, it was Cheese KE marketplace. Yes, that was right. And we got some feedback there that we were most deployed to partner solution, which was a great validation of what we are doing there. And the amount of use we are getting is also being reflected with the number of issues that we receive from users and customers. And that is actually changing and shaping our future development. I wanna highlight a couple of items that we did here. You can find the links there. But I think a couple of items worth noting here is, while we were receiving some feedback on how difficult it is to configure object storage in the charts, we decided we are going to shift our focus from one item to simplify this setup for all of users. And as an awesome side quest, basically, we have a way of announcing the applications for our users when we make a change of something. To put this in perspective, in Omnibus GitLab, we only added this year and the package has existed for four years, five years almost. And with charts, we added that even before the general availability was announced. So we did learn from our experience. We also are trying to stay on top of development inside of Kubernetes world. And we recognize that one of the items that the Kubernetes community is using more and more is an operator pattern. And we attempted to use that for our zero downtime automated upgrades. We invested a lot of work into that and you can check out this Friday's demo, which was really great and showed that we are on a good path there. We managed to upgrade GitLab without any downtime. And it was a pretty seamless experience. I'm gonna stop periodically when I see a question in the chat. So William says, got feedback most deploy partner solution for GKE marketplace. Who was the point person at GitLab that received that feedback? Any metrics to go along with this? So we were in a call with Google. When I say we, it was myself, Josh, Ellyran and probably a couple of others. I don't remember right now. And they, the Google GCP marketplace folk that was implementing this said, according to their numbers, the most deployed partner solution was GitLab after their default installation method. I forgot what it was, something. I don't remember anyway. Metrics that go along with this, they shared this in a call. So at that point, we were just happy to receive this feedback. We can follow up and find if there is something to share further. All right, moving on. Onto future plans. We shipped operator and a zero downtime upgrade just last week, but we did find a couple of items that are worth following up on before we decide whether we're going to enable this by default for everyone. One item that we found is that in certain edge cases, migration can start failing and then spinning new migrations and they can exponentially grow and stop your cluster from responding. And we wanna address that before we enable it for everyone. We also are receiving a lot of feedback about the documentation. And as I would expect, documentation is very simple. We tried to document everything as we went along, but obviously we had domain knowledge on how we operate GitLab. So quite a lot of questions are popping up. One thing that we are focusing on at this moment is getting Amazon EKS installation in order. First of all we have no documentation that is easy to use and Robert Marshall is actually working on that right now. And in parallel, we are trying to handle the similar situation for OpenShift because we know this is a platform that will see a high level of usage of GitLab. As I mentioned earlier, upgrade is currently very rudimentary. It is with downtime, but the bigger problem here is that users are not used to doing it. So even our basic documentation, there needs an upgrade even with the current situation. We, as I mentioned earlier, we worked on the GKE marketplace, but the GKE marketplace is evolving itself. So we now need to update our tooling to match what they are working on. And we have some great collaboration between us and Google there and we are going to put in some efforts to get that streamlined so that we don't lag behind with releases there. Going to move on to our next project, omnibus GitLab. I know that it's 10 minutes past. So I'm gonna keep talking until someone interrupts me in the group chat because this is a discussion. And I'm going to talk about omnibus GitLab at the moment. Due to our push for getting help charts to GA, we kind of put omnibus GitLab on maintenance mode, basically, but we still managed to do a couple of things. First of all, the item that I think is really important here is speeding up package builds that we constantly work on, but through that work, we realize that we have a similar problem in our charts building our Docker images. So we are working in parallel on both omnibus and the charts. And with that, we are also going to make sure that the assets that we built between omnibus and the charts or the Docker images are reused. So we shave quite a lot of number of minutes between different projects. And we are noticing that there is a lot of knowledge between omnibus GitLab and the charts that we can just reuse and streamline in one location instead of having it being repeated across two projects that are similar, not completely the same, but not that different after all. I also want to cover the collaboration that we are doing constantly with other teams. So cross team collaboration with quality, Gitaly and database teams. Whenever we find something worth improving, we try to help out. And I think like one of the biggest things I believe is the getting review apps for whole of GitLab in both CE and EE. This is qualities OKR, but because they're going to be using distributions artifacts, it is crucial for us to get that early feedback as soon as possible. Remy is doing amazing work there. I also have to call out the distribution team for pitching in and helping out. This is the same case with Gitaly and the database, you can see the links there on what we are working on and what we worked on. And this is a bonus slide that came in late. We are working on building up our knowledge base further. So we are starting back our distribution team training sessions and we are starting today with Let's Encrypt in the omnibus GitLab package. And the training is going to be held after the company call. You can find the invite inside of the GitLab team meetings agenda calendar, sorry. And you can join us if you want to. Meetings are recorded and they'll be shared on YouTube so you can watch it later. And you can find an issue that shows the future trainings that we are going to do. And that brings me to the end. Are there any additional questions? All right, no one is speaking up, no one is writing. So I hope you have a great rest of the day. Marin, good question before we wrap up. Here's David. In terms of the training sessions, do you think there's something that might be worth promoting more for outside of the company as in community members, watching them and participating in them? I don't see why not, because this training is public. It's on YouTube, it's on our handbook page. Anyone can find it and view it. If the content is interesting, I don't see why not. Cool, thank you. Thanks for speaking up. No worries. All right, with that, I'm going to end the call. Thank you very much for joining and have a great day, everyone.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are going to discuss the reason for the pollution crisis that Delhi has faced over the last couple of weeks and what are the reasons for it and what are the long-term consequences, what are the long-term policy measures that we might need to take. To discuss this with us we have the Raghunandan who has been studying these issues for a long time and also part of the All India People Science Network. Raghun, can you tell us that a lot of these issues seem to stem from the climatic conditions or the weather conditions at this particular point of time and it seems to start with what would be the problem that has been identified as due to temperature inversion. Can you tell us what it means and what the consequences of inversion, temperature inversions are? We would know that normally in winter the cold air tends to settle to the bottom and in winter therefore you do have a cold layer but you have what is called an inversion effect. Normally you would get warm air moving upwards but in winter you get the warm air sitting there and the cold air unable to rise above it and therefore settling down at a lower level and keeping all the pollutants closer to ground than they would earlier. So you and I when we walk on the street would breathe in far more pollutants that you would in the summer when the warm air would have carried it up. So it's because the earth cools relatively and if the sun during the day is unable to cool heat the earth then that that seems to continue this problem. So there are two problems in the winter time as it is now one is the temperature effect which is the cold air staying down and the other is that if there is no wind which will actually pick up later on in the winter if there is no wind and there's still air then everything stays where it is. When the cold winter wind start blowing it will carry the pollutants away. So it will break up the inversion layer. That's right. Also there are rains. Yes the rains will bring down the particulate matter because around the particulate matter the droplets will form and they are heavy enough to bring the particulates down. However if there is no rain but there are fog conditions then what happens is you do get moisture little droplets which coalesce around the aerosols or particulate matter which makes them denser and makes them hang in the air even more. So if there's very dry wintery conditions you'll have less of this problem. If there is rains then you have less of this problem but if you have still cool air with moisture that's the worst of all possibilities which is what we are going through now. Now coming to the other issues we have been talking about daily primarily in terms of the newspapers but this has been across the whole of North India particularly starting from Pakistan as much as in up to Bihar. So this is a much larger phenomena than what people like to believe a localized phenomenon. Absolutely in fact today if you look at the pollution map of India you will find the entire northern region particularly the major towns and cities having more or less similar order of problems of pollution as Delhi. Let's just look at it quickly the aerosol map. That's right so this is the aerosol position and here is what you see throughout North India in the winter this is what you'll get. Now what happens in Delhi more than maybe in other cities is the number of vehicles that we have or the industrial pollution that we have that may be a little more in Delhi than somewhere else. Some other cities like let's say Kanpur will have more industrial pollutants less vehicular pollutants but all in all the winter conditions will exacerbate the existing high pollution levels that are there and that is why here in the map you see a big difference between the northern cities down the Indo-Gangetic Belt as you would if you go further south. That's an interesting issue that Delhi of course has seen a lot of diesel vehicles and diesel vehicles particularly prone to particulate matter emissions particularly the lower smaller sized particles PM 2.5. This is a huge problem ever since the liberalized automobile policy came into effect and diesel vehicles were given freedom to multiply and proliferate in the city without controls this problem has exacerbated but we must keep in mind a lot of the focus now is on smog and on particulate matter related pollution we mustn't forget the diesel is also the root cause of a lot of nox nitrogen oxides of carbon monoxide all of which again in the winter tend to stay at lower levels these are highly carcinogenic materials so when we talk of pollution although so much of the focus is now on PM 2.5 and particulates we should not forget that there are other deadly pollutants around which vehicular pollution particularly through diesel is causing in Delhi. Coming to the stubble burning issue which has also been the focus there has been attempt to make this the main culprit while of course it has its contribution this is not the only reason one is climatic other pollutants which are being emitted but yes you can also see the stubble burning is a particular problem that also takes place unfortunately at the same time the inversion takes place this is the extent of the problem we can see Punjab and Haryana being much more of stubble burning areas rest seems to be much less and even see you can see Pakistan though there is some stubble burning that takes place this is much less so what do you think is the reason for the stubble burning and what are the things that can be done first as you rightly said the stubble burning unfortunately takes place precisely during this time when in the early winter conditions you get the particulate settling down the stubble comes floating across from Punjab and that also settles down exacerbating this problem it will last for about a month and a bit things start getting better then everybody forgets the pollution problem despite the fact that a lot of the other pollutants are still around but the stubble issue we must understand is peculiar to our areas in Punjab and Haryana directly as a result of the green revolution because these are areas where traditionally paddy was not a major crop today it has become a major crop and a major export crop at that and there has been extensive mechanization of farming in the Punjab and in Haryana and combined harvesters are now used to cut the wheat the winter wheat crop and the paddy crop now the combined harvesters compared to the earlier traditional manual harvesting leaves a stubble of about a foot and a half whereas the earlier manual operation would have left a stubble of just a few inches above the ground which would have got plowed in to the soil for the next planting that cannot happen now the farmer has to spend a lot of money in order to clear the stall stubble maybe around in the region of 60 000 to a lakh or so and farmers today are already suffering from lack of good remunerative price but high input costs if you compel the farmer now to add more costs by putting the burden of clearing the stubble on the farmer he is unable to bear the cost he takes the easier method which is to set the stubble on fire this is what is happening unfortunately all the authorities Punjab government in the NGT everybody is putting pressure on the farmer that they should penal action should be taken on the farmer if punitive action is the only measure that you take the farmer is going to resist because he has no way of you are not encouraging compliance you are actually discouraging compliance so what you need to do is to work out both a financial as well as an institutional arrangement which will enable clearance of the stubble from the farmers fields you can recover a lot of the cost either by using the stubble for power generation there is a very fairly good tariff being offered to biomass based power generators in Punjab provided the fuel is brought to him to the power generators the same is with cardboard manufacturers the same is with pellet makers there are a lot of uses provided the government has to play an important role in facilitating meeting the costs of the farmer and setting in place an institutional mechanism which can enable clearing of the stubble and delivering it to a user okay last point the government while it has been talking about penal action against farmers and so on similar steps regarding say either vehicular pollution diesel vehicles plus also small industries where the government has been sitting on from 2014 on some of the emission norms do you see this also as a part of really looking at the weakest section in order to penalize him and other others absolutely you are now threatening punitive action against the farmer saying if you don't stop stubble burning we are going to come after you put you in jail or whatever fines and so on I don't see anybody putting a fine on a diesel vehicle on the streets of Delhi or impounding a car I don't see any construction exactly I don't see any builder being put in jail because his he is emitting construction dust I don't see the corporation bosses being put in jail because they are not doing anything about the road dust which is thrown up every day because of mismanagement and lack of infrastructure of the roads which is allowing the dust to keep circulating all day so I don't think this kind of everywhere else we talk of incentivizing the reduction of pollution but when it comes to the weakest section on whom you can take action that's the farmer you immediately jump into punitive actions this is only going to result in resistance by the farmers which may and is already starting to amount to physical resistance because there's nothing else the farmer can do thank you very much Raghu to be with us discussing these issues 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Okay, finally So I find it funny to start from a post that was that was posted in on the ask site One year ago. The question was where are the skid-force libraries located on my system and the right answer was well, you have just have to install 7.1 and So upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 and the solution was Choosing as being well skid-forges scam do not use it Was not a very friendly from my view point of view and coming from a guy I have enormous respect for because He helped me very often in fact by his advice on forums So I started from from there and so My conclusion was there is a big misunderstanding Script for just never been designed or conceived as the enemy or the replacement or Arrival of you know, not at all. They are complimentary But we must be aware that and she uses today when they want to be able to script they have Well, the next duality either they can record the macro You know what it is and you know also that what is recorded and what is What you obtain as result is completely not reusable and On the other side you have an enormous API. What does everything? But when people ask where should I start well the answer on forums is Mainly well, you have nice books to read They are good starting points This was a bit a bit short and all condition was that we had to do something for that and we Okay, developed a number of things that are no Available as standard in LibreOffice Being aware that the target audience Not the people who could speak, you know before they could they could walk The We have today we face a population of of users We must be aware that the competition Which named Microsoft today offers to make scripts a very good idea an excellent idea Very nice object model easy concrete not abstract more than not abstract objects No, what is a service manager? What is a document component context that are concepts that you may ignore in when you script with Microsoft in fact and Microsoft could convince with His tools millions of people millions of entries I say millions To start scripting and to make things With scripts To make them automated And this is very remarkable. We are I'm I believe very very far from that situation so what script forche involves is First of all a common API because it's still an API a common API for basic and Python We encourage the use of object oriented programming also in basic. It's of course natural in Python it's also It contains also libraries that extend basic and also that extend Python. We will see In summary what what what they are It's simple to use. Yes. It's simple to use. It's not against you know, we'll see that it's really the case It's more user-friendly and it's also a la carte in the sense that you are not obliged at all to use only script forche or to dedicate all your scripts Within the framework of script forche you can really mix everything together. It's doesn't doesn't matter It's also inspired by use cases. The point of view is not to have well developers that have managed that The development of the the technology of LibreOffice can be described with You know IP API That's the view of the point of view is really the user Use use cases mean user benefits So we started really Reasoning from use cases So the idea is not here to detail use use case that you see here It's just a sample of what script forche can do but it just shows that there is abundance of ideas. Well Uses need once or several times they need to do something. How do they start? Okay, I said There is a number of services that are extensions of basic basic is too low is far from what VBA offers well in a certain sense and so we Decided also to start in fact with the development of a number of services that really Extend the language So you have here for instance for the array service It's not available for Python. It's nonsense to make in Python Python has already all these data structures. Well, yeah so you you just can sort arrays or Make sets to define the union of two arrays whatever these are kind of things that are directly available with the API of script forge Same idea this time for the string service the string service you have built it in basic a number of things that allow you to To let's say find a string a substring within a string But if you start talking about how do I find a regular expression within a string is something else well We were convinced that it was necessary to have to have for Input validation to to pass a number of strings to be able to import Let's say a CSV file that that kind of things you have you need well a number of primitives and these primitives are You have here a sample of what is available Including for instance last one hashing a string Well, we use Python to hash. It's a module in Python that is available with LibreOffice. Well, we use it to to produce the hash code of a string of or of a file and Third a kind of service also available only for basic is a mapping class that is more than collections and Know that Microsoft did exactly the same. So they have also a dictionary mapping class that is super set of the collection class That was for basic for Python. Well, the idea was When when you start as a new script author to write some Python code for LibreOffice well There is Some some step that we could cover here by saying well Basic offers the integration between basic in LibreOffice, which is better than between Python and LibreOffice and That integrates the integration goes for for an example through a create you know service primitive Well, the idea was well, let's make the same But let's make it so that the primitive in Python calls the basic primitive Which returns then back the value that was found with that After that after the call and we made it for a number of Primitives that are available built in in basic so that the step going from basic when I know basic going to Python and starting scripting for LibreOffice is easy that step is really easy and you have here the list of the The functions that are made available some Many of them are written in basic in fact in background not all of them some are directly in Python or Something else, but this makes for instance that we are able to have a user interface Let's say through message box that is exactly Identical in Python in basic that you have script that makes both well you just have to To call the same message box function. In fact from basic or from Python. It's really identical. I Said it's not to you know killer. It's in fact to you know enable we will see examples also later well, you There exists within the item that are manipulated with script for a number of objects that are you know objects and This makes that we have With this guy this style of scripting here shortcuts to you know, it's very easy to say. Well, I start With the calc service you have this first statement there. I have an import range that is built by the import from a CSV file just as an example there and I have Yeah, the X cell range variable is in fact Produced by a shortcut from the script for Scalc service producing Producing a standard you know object and so you can go further in the development of your script for instance, it's Skip force does not provide any mean to format cells or cell ranges Formatting a cell or cell range is much too complicated to do to not to use you know for doing that Well, you can so via shortcut to go very fast To your target here the cell range and from there start it start and for instance by using x-ray in Python only basic whatever starting from there going further and Use really methods or Properties from you know objects. So you have a huge list You have a sample here of a number of things that are available Via shortcuts and that's very important to understand that both work read together Some nice features that I can show but it was and that will illustrate the philosophy of the things for instance here I have Two scripts one in Python and one in basic. They do exactly the same in the sense that there are events and they log the event and the Go through that even the log the event itself and They log it where in what we call the console and console is Either log file or is a dialog box that you can display in model mode or in non-model mode and for instance here The events are triggered when the mouse scores over The vertical bar first and the horizontal bar afterwards and you see you have events triggered by basic Even even triggered by Python and you have the console that lists the event At the time that it happens So you see that integration between both and the coexistence between Python basic, you know is is excellent also you have a number of Helps that Describe the context in which the script is running About the platform and a number of those aspects are Supplied by by Python, but they are available in Pi in basic. I mean here also the same way And we from now on we do not make any distinction anymore between basic and Python so you have a number of Description of the context in which you work and this is very important when you make an extension for instance, you don't know in advance in which context that the Extension will work. It's important to be able to for instance know Well, I want to know if extension x-rays available on the system where I run my script Well, you can ask the question with the extension folder available in In file system or the list of extensions in platforms. So you Are supported here to have that Available at any time Script for this also international you have a service that helps you make scripts that are independent No, I said otherwise you can you can Supply a script which a number of language files that are separated from the scripts This is a principle and this is what we use also in for any translation within Libo office And you have also a region service that Supports The calculation of Certain times or time offsets or that that kind of things well to just to answer the question when it's 12 o'clock In Milan what time is it in Tokyo? this is Supported here and it lies on you know of course so you know supports from for doing that But who knows that support as Which end users knows that that that Libo office and you know have the necessary Primitives to supply that kind of answers. It's not not obvious at all Here a number of also nice features in Calc to also to illustrate the philosophy a range in script for is a string it's also a single range, but it's a string and The string is what you find in formulas classically in Calc but Extended with a number of placeholders that you can put in your range You can put a tilt to say well, it's the current selection You can pull the start to say well, it's the last cell of the sheet of the row of the column and Okay, it's a string and with a number of extensions so a number of methods have also of course a Range as a string as input, but many methods return a range also Effectively as a string and you have the list there you have a number of a huge number of methods they are returned also arranged because In many cases and this is a user point of view The data comes from somewhere you put it in in a data sheet But you don't know the size of the data that you have in a sheet So it's if you have many cases where the size is unpredictable. I Just take a simple example here. I don't say that's the shortest way to do it But let's say we I have a matrix in columns BC and D And what I want to do, but I don't know how many lines So I don't know the width of of my my area. I just know it starts in b2 and extends from there and I want to have the sum of all items row by row in the next available column well, I must be able I must be able to I must be able to Construct my scripts step by step, but independently from the size. Well, it's possible thanks to the ID I You have a number of premises that return ranges and to have here an example and to have also Still on calc That's an extension of that as I start from the same matrix. I I have also the concept of filters There's nothing to do with calc filters. It's just the ID. I want to do something But by selecting by selecting either the rows or the columns or the cells Where I want them to be applied In the example I want to keep only the rows where the last column Does not contain a multiple of 10 wide It's not important in say, but it's just the idea that you can just express with a calc formula It's there. I say modular 10 must not be zero and The result is that the two rows containing 30 and 60 as some of the rows are removed And the resulting range is what still exists in the sheet Okay, that gives a bit the Resonning what we what we made on calc. Here's something else about user interfaces in dialogues you may have Three controls and they are very fine very nice to display tabular data When the tabular data is sorted Well here the example is how can I Display in a tree control the content of the bibliography database, which is also shipped with LibreOffice as an example and Well, we use first the database service below there in the gray in the gray rectangle You see where I express just a select statement and I do get rose get rose is very powerful because It does not depend on the type of field or number of fields, whatever it just Produces an array or a tuple of tuples that is for the data expansion and We provide a control service the dialogue control service, which May be a tree control with a number of methods and properties and some of them are typical for three controls and Three we can make that just by adding the full set of data in one Statement at sub tree. Well, the trees constructed is built. We can do that statically or dynamically if you click on On some node you click on the expansion and symbol Well, you can get the data from some for the day from the database at that moment. We can make still in the user interface Quite rapidly pop up menus And the idea is not to to build the tree node by node like you Want to do maybe should do it in with you know, it's it's much simpler than that. We just list the items Like you see just the the the full branch Line by line and we can add With that technique either item normal item the radio button button or checkbox We just the idea is just to list The items one by one. This makes that when you have to update your pop-up menu is much easier But it's it's quite straightforward For a user to write this one Same for menus For of course, there is a main difference a menu Well when must be clicked to be activated the puppy menu pop-up menu you activate the menu as a whole While and then you can wait for the answer while for a menu Well the menu stays there for forever up to his deletion and you can wait for the execution of Some item in the menu and that is executed with the definition of just An event that can be triggered here, but these are not standard events these are events that are Managed by ship for the by ship forge in the background Here I want to give Rapidly a full example the question is I want to have a dialogue displaying the actual data in the form of a chart in in the dialogue so today You cannot make that easily so I start with the definition of number of initializations This is the full the full script You will see it's 18 lines as a whole and I start with the import statement in python I just define In advance that I will use a number of script for services. I call them basic user interface and file system Second step I get the data still from the bibliography database. I want to List how many Books exist by language in a nice pie chart. That's the objective I get the data from the database So I define where is the database and I Make the select statement. I get the rows. I close the database. I get the rows in An array or a tuple of tuples called data Next step. I import the data in calc I have to make here because bibliography is does not accept the Count by Aggregated function in sql. So I have to make a pivot table in in calc But I create a new calc sheet Completely hidden. So in the background it's not visible for the user. I import the data with the set array statement, I make the pivot table with a number of arguments the pivot table appears it's there in the top right corner of the slide And I define the chart with a number of Characteristics is a chart type is a pie The I request to have three dimensions and I ask to have the regent available appearing also And finally I export the file because I have to do that to Any temporary file I use for that a file system service and I get temp name to to get just any temporary name at that moment I export the file and in the dialogue I put that the dialogue dot controls and the name of the control is image control dot picture Just must contain the name of the file that I just filled in with the With the with the chart. So I have here in less than 20 lines including commands. I have here Just a script that I think is easy to read It's quite easy to make easy to test and that Make something that is okay an idea An objective that the user had at that moment. I think it's it's important to have so Something that it's that makes use in fact in the background of many many Calls to several, you know Items it's easy. I think here approve that it's very concentrated So we have still for the next future and so we are still two minutes and so it's just the end Number of topics that we still want to develop in the near future Also in at the site of the user interface Mainly toolbars A number of service probably also because run things and that kind of things particularly in basic is Very incomplete And then in any kind of base and databases Data sheets We want to know for instance if the user has A clicks on a row in a data sheet He must be able to start a script from there and know knowing Where which row he had selected at that moment from for instance a typical example And there are a number of quick operations on on database aspects Okay, thank you. And so I'm here representative of a number of people who work together to produce What I explained today If Thank you Yeah, thank you. So, uh, do you normally get Request from users saying or could you please implement this in a script script force and You have telegram group where we Me together so we discuss constantly when we want to plan when we are planning something new Work together to define what we will do with Which priorities but of course if you have requests if you concretely want To see New things appearing in the in the libraries. It's certainly possible and can discuss that. Yeah, excuse me. Is the question Do we know which end users use script for that kind of things? No, we don't know That there are no means to identify what whatever they are really doing We have feedbacks all the ways but number of people that kind of things we have no idea But if there are there are channels to express their wishes for having new things. Yes


Hey everyone, welcome to figure fantasy and it's house remodeling time. So the figures I think figured out that they would do some remodeling of this room and they're planning it out without us. So let's you know, let's teach them how to remodel this room by contributing to this event. So again, this is a co-op event. Please make sure that if you're there, you're my co-op members and teammates, please do cooperate for this one so that we may get the prizes for this one. So we have three areas open and three areas closed at this point. Let's click on one number of times participated today is zero for me. So these are the rewards can be claimed after sending three modifications for today. So you have daily rewards, of course, then once you click, they're going to be here. So it's this three is going to be here. Then if this shows you who are dispatched already, hello people for those who are already participated in this event, hi to you wherever you are in this part of the world. 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I'm not gonna ruin the other factions because I think for the other levels, you're gonna need another faction. So let us just add defender. But this is only enthusiasm too. Let's see how, okay. So let's take out Sakura and let's put in a defender. We have Rico here. Okay. So that's it. So at least all of the enthusiasm points are lighted up and we could move on to the next. So set them off. Okay. So next, we're gonna do this for you guys. So this patch now, so as you can see, each brand will have to focus on one task or you know, these tasks here. So storage plan. Let's focus on this one, Tenma, sorting Tenma. So getting the three highest that I have, there you go. They're full. Okay. So for only three, but I will add enthusiasm, of course, because even if you've reached all of these, you still need to be more enthusiastic about this one. So we're gonna add two more, then set them off. Then for dust removal, this is going to be Galatea, I'm sure. So let's do one, two, three, highest three first. Helper class I need to put in two. So let's put in Sakura and include two Crimson Realm prototype. Crimson Realm, okay, just added one. So again, all lighted up for me and this is 1140. So set them off. That's it. That's basically it. Very, very easy guys and I'm sure don't worry if you're a lower level, your other teammates will be able to help you out for this one. Just cooperate, just ensure that you play this at this point, claiming rewards. So this closes in three weeks. So a lot of opportunities, I think, in acquiring good prizes for your house remodeling. They're cleaning right now. Hopefully, you know, we could get more copies of Izumi. And also, this is a good event, very good event. So this one as well for the badge and this one so far we have achieved. The last one is the most difficult and the biggest prize is going to be this one, a sticker. Okay, so that is it guys. 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And everyone, thanks for being here. This is a really unique opportunity here in downtown. As most folks know, Joe Azar was a pillar in this community. He didn't waste any time on letting you know his thoughts and his opinions on issues. But at the end of the day, one thing you can never take away from Joe Azar was that he cared about this community probably more than most people care about their own house or their animals. Everything he did was really at the goodness of his heart. He really cared about this community. And he wanted Columbia to be probably the number one city in South Carolina. But his roots ran deep. And I don't think people understood that. I just learned some more history today just by having the conversation about what's happening here. And Joe left this world too early. But Joe also is still here. He's still working for this community, by what he's done for the community, by leaving a foundation that benefits those people in our community. And today, he's taken an option to take a family piece of property, turn it into a rental, so that rental income can then go back out into the community to improve our community, to make it a better place. And Joe always said, I always want to leave Columbia better than I came into it. And I'm going to continue to do it. And he's doing it. He's doing what a lot of people say they're going to do and don't. And he did. And I think that's an incredible statement by him, but a testimony of the character and why he was such a pillar in our community. Some people just remember the micro bus. Some people just remember upstairs, audio. I remember Joe really being involved in our community. I can remember the first time that he sat down and explained to his vision of Columbia to me. And that was in 1994, because it was two months after I opened up my first restaurant. And we sat down one morning and had coffee. Joe said, I just need 30 minutes, three hours later, he walked out. And anybody who knows Joe knows that's true. But this is an incredible rendition. When is that the right term, John, of interpretation of the original house that was here? And I think the architects, the development team has really captured that's incredible. I'd like to ask John Shearer to come up and just talk a little bit about the home and the history, because I think it really opens up the rest of the discussion. John? Thank you, mayor. Good morning. I'm John Shearer, director of preservation for Historic Columbia. And this is a really exciting day, because what we have here is the synthesis of a historic structure that we knew of based on family history. We had a photograph. That was really amazing. And that helped inform the new construction that breeds vitality into this historic district. It also, I think, is illustrative of the collaboration between city personnel and private developers, as well as, of course, a very talented design team. And so when you have these forces coming together, it helps kind of reweave the fabric of our community from a structural sense, but also a community sense. And with the ability to do that, we as a community get stronger. So I'm very excited from a preservation perspective. It's new construction within a historic context. But it's also something that is helping increase the capacity of our community. I will be reading this speech. It is from Will Aco, who is a cousin of Joe Azar. But he lives in Las Vegas and couldn't be here. So I'm representing him. And I am the widow of Bruce Yasky, who was a very close friend of Joseph Azar. And I'm here today on behalf of William speaking. So he has written the speech. So if you know Joe, Will's kind of like Joe. They're both kind of verbose. There's a lot of stuff in here. So I do have to read it. I could not memorize it. He said, this 51-foot-wide, 100-feet deep, parceled land located at 1324 Risen Street in the Robert Mills Historic Neighborhood and Landmark Preservation District has an interesting history. It was first annexed on March 22, 1786 by the city, which was three years before the Constitution of the United States went into effect. So that's pretty remarkable. The second it was owned by Malvena Alexander since 1918, when the house was on it. George Alexander, the husband of Malvena, was the founder of Alexander's bargain house in 1904 at 1410 Assembly Street. George died in 1950 upon his wife Malvena's passing in 1957. The land in the house passed to Elder Azar, the mother of Joseph Azar. Evelyn works in the banking industry then for South Carolina Department of Mental Health, volunteered at Providence Hospital. There was a daughter of the Holy Star in order of the Eastern Star. Like her grandparents, she was a lifelong member of Trinity Episcopal Church Cathedral. I'm sorry. Unfortunately, the house burned down in 1974, and the land became a parking lot ever since. Well, until it well got it, it got rid of the parking lot. When Evelyn Azar died in 2009, the land was inherited by her only son, Joseph Azar, the founder of the cyclist and upstairs audio and five points, who had always wanted to build a park here. Upon Joseph's death in September 2019, the executor of his state, my husband, Bruce Yeske, was his longtime best friend who was fond, I'm sorry, fond of saying he was Joseph's first employee and also his last. He worked with Joseph's cousin, William, in the city of Columbia to create a park that would be suitable for everyone. Unfortunately, the park was not workable, but there was a lot of effort in trying to create that. Joseph's state had unique legal issues, and from those arose what we are groundbreaking today. Excuse me, a historical reproduction of the original house with modern improvements for commercial purposes for one smart and fortunate tenant. Many people are to thank for where we are today, including employees of the city of Columbia, specifically the building preservation, planning, water and zoning departments, as well as the historic Columbia. The Selutam Mallard Architecture Forum represented by Wendy Bergman and Cleve Walker, the general contractor, Hillman Design Bill, represented by Michael Grand and Thomas Peterson, and Trinity Partners, real estate brokers, William Milt and Roger Wynn, representing this pre-release opportunity for an energy efficient, all electric building. Once this building and its historic landscaping are completed, we will return here for a routine cutting ceremony whereby this plaque, oh, it's being held, um, dedicated to the Alexanders and Azars, and in honor and respect to Brzezinski, will be placed to the right of the front door.  Oh my gosh, my heart's in water. The house rental income will go to the Azar Foundation and the churches, the intent being to make right for their parish and the local community in Columbia. In closing, before we move on to other speakers, remember something from today's event, do what needs to be done, not what you want to do. Thank you, bye. Hey, good morning, everyone. My name's Ryan Coleman. I'm the Economic Development Director for the City of Columbia, and just pleased to be here today and be a part of this commemoration ceremony. I know Joe for many years, doing a lot of our work with existing business outreach. I went in to talk with him at upstairs one day, told him, you know, I'm here from the government, just came in, I wanna get your thoughts and opinions on how our things are going, Joe's like, you should probably just go ahead and sit down, this is gonna take a while. I had many interactions with him, you know, through there, through his, he'd come up to city hall frequently and, but, you know, he, you know, no matter what his opinion was, he always cared, he always had a good sense of humor about it and he always wanted to put the city first. I was really pleased when William reached out to me to ask help coordinate this. I did not, you know, know that much about the Azar, the Alexander family, and then the history here, and so it's been a really tremendous opportunity for me to learn about the family, the generational impact, you know, the years of service that they've had here to the city of Columbia. And so it was an educating and an eye-opening experience and I'm pleased that we're all here today to be a part of this, you know, not only to recognize Joe, but to recognize his family's years of service to the community and, you know, hopefully through this rehabilitation effort with bringing the house and the public space back in, his efforts to better the city will be memorialized here and into perpetuity. So thank you all for being here and being a part of this today as well. Thank you. I'm William Mills and I'm with training partners and I'll be handling the pre-leasing and I think we should find a good tenant, whether that's a law firm or an architectural firm and hopefully it'll be before the end of the year because if we get that, somebody could come in there and they can help kind of navigate what they want in the interior while it's still under construction but any questions about leasing, feel free to call myself or Roger Wynne with training partners, thank you. Hello everyone, we are Saluda Mallard. I am Wendy Bergman and Cleave Walker. We did the design and worked with William on this and we started in about mid 2020. We had a single black and white photograph to go off of as well as a sandborn map, a historic sandborn map to get the massing and the siting of the original house that burned down in 74 on this site. The process has been a bit long and complicated and to be honest, we wondered if anything was ever really gonna happen here. But the fact that we're all here today is a true testament to William and his dedication and respect for not only his cousin but for his original executor, Bruce. Somewhat unhappily at times, William has seen this project through to where we are today and we're witnessing the fruits of his labor so he deserves a lot of credit for this. Not only is he seeing through and preserving Joe's legacy but he's also putting his own stamp on Columbia right here on Richland Street. To close, I will share a little bit of wisdom that William has bestowed upon Cleave and I during the design phase and in hopes it will help keep the construction phase moving smoothly. It's also known as the KISS principle.  Thank you. Hey, I'm Mike Grandy with Hillman Design Build. We're the general contractor that will be undertaking this project. We're really excited to build this amazing property. It's very rare that we get the opportunity to build a historic structure with new construction methods. So, having said that, William's really put a ton of effort into the design with Fluta Mallard on making this building last for another 200 years. It'll long outlive any one of us. It's gonna be built extremely energy efficient, really airtight and it'll be at a really low operating cost to the charities and the tenants in the future. We really look forward to this opportunity. Thank you.


Hello, hello everybody. Andrew Maesca here with dental and mobile hygiene. So Mondays are free dental screening days.  And I let you know if I see any problems or any potential problems, whether I might see, you know, stain, a cavity perhaps, or I might say to you, okay, teeth are coming in a little slow or teeth are coming in a little bit too quickly. You just never know. And I find that people like having that piece of mind where I just come in to, you know, have a look and I can either say, hey, things look look amazing, keep up the good work, or I might alert you to any potential issues that might happen because the key is to catch things quickly because you don't want anyone and I don't want anybody to have a poor dental experience. So start them off young. It is so important for them to have a nice, you know, happy time and nice happy times at the dentist, not for them to think that they have to go to the dentist every time they're in pain or things hurt. So what I like to do is I just sort of come in with my mirror, which has a light by the way, which is pretty cool. So this, you know, kids like to see this, right? Like they go, oh, wow, you know, neat. It has a light. They do not like to see me coming in with my sharp instruments, with my mask on, all of that because then they see me as that scary doctor lady, right? I don't want that. So I just come in. I just sort of talk to them, right? And say, hey, look at my cool toy box that I have. Yes, I have a toy box. Check that out. I have a cool toy box for them. And I say that if they let me just have a look at their mouth, they can pick a toy afterwards. And there's tons of, you know, stuff in there. And then I will actually show them everything so that they don't go, oh, well, what's this lady doing to my mouth, right? So I will show them everything. So I say, all I do is I take my cool tooth mirror here, turn on my neat light, and I just kind of look inside the mouth. And then if you let me, I would love to actually polish your nice teeth to get them smooth and shiny. So kind of like a toothbrush and this is my polisher. It is so quiet. So I say this is my special toothbrush. I turn it on. Oh, I think I have to charge it. Darn. But usually it does work. So I turn it on and then it will spin. This is what I do to polish your nice teeth. See how, you know, smooth it out. Sorry, guys, where's my camera? See how smooth it is? Oh, it's so soft. They love that. And then I go and that's it. So then I say, well, if you like, you can have a seat right here. So then I do I do bring my portable chair. They have a seat. And then I do put on my mask, my mask, which I should have shown you guys. So I thought I could see it, but no, I don't think I have it here. I put on my mask, my safety glasses and, of course, my my gloves.  So I remind them that I have a toy waiting for them. And then they go, but I take it a step further. And before I even look inside their mouth, I say, OK, let me just turn on this.  They love having that option. So they always say the top teeth first always, always. So when I go, OK, let me look at the top teeth. No, let me have a look. And then, OK, let me look at the bottom teeth. And that's it. And then if I can tell that they are, you know, having a nice time, then I will say, now can I polish them to make them smooth and shiny? Now, sometimes they go, no, it's OK, and that's OK. I just sort of leave it alone and then I can give them a toy. But then other times they say, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what? Yeah, sure. OK, then I will take my mirror and my polisher and then I will polish the teeth for them. And that's it. And then I tell them for next time. And then hopefully I can see you in six months to do the same thing. I I just have a look, polish them, and then you can pick another toy. So they love that. It takes me maybe 10 minutes, you guys. That's it. They're happy. You're happy. Mom's happy. Dad's happy. I'm happy. Everybody's happy. And it's just nice to start them off young because they have nothing to be nervous about. Now, if I do think that I see something, so if I see a cavity, then I will refer you to a dentist in the area if you do not have one. If I see perhaps a lot of, you know, plaque, even tartar, then I might say, OK, well, let me just show you how to help brush the teeth in certain areas a little bit better because something's being missed. Because if you don't look, if I don't show you sort of what has more plaque, then how would you know, right? So it just helps to have me look inside and then show you how everything looks. And if you have any questions, you know, I am right there. Ask as many questions as you like. So I hope that helped. I do free dental screenings on Monday. So let me know if you would like me to come to you. I am so happy to. And I look forward to seeing you very, very soon. Thank you so much.


I'll go box clips my main advice is to Actually follow through and listen to what the videos tell you to do It's I do not know why I have to state that out loud but it just feels like a lot of people think that what I'm telling you to do is optional and Tends to not work to people's benefit not to I would literally watch the videos in order as they are laid out And know that you really should not skip through you should not be Picky-choosy in the videos You know you can pick and choose your strategies if you want but as far as getting educated through it people think oh I just need to learn one strategy I'm like there's a reason why I'm telling you to learn all of them You need to know even if you've got your strategies You need to know if my other strategies are working with you for you against you You really need to know even if you're not going to be a j-hook player You need to know even like in this scenario right here like how is this j-hook working out right here? What and how and why? You you need to still know all of the strategies learn them all Understand them all and again the markets are diverse. They are going to be throwing you different things each different type of day It's going to give you different personalities. You need to have a toolbox of tools I might use the example the other day. I thought was a good one of When you go in your garage you feel like well, what do I need all these other tools for I need all this stuff for?   Why because you don't know when you're gonna need that other tool Yeah, you can fix the majority of things with a hammer and a crowbar, okay? But what about the day that you need that specialized tool? What if you need the socket set? I try to put together my kids Basketball poop myself, which is mistake. I should just paint somebody to come and do it But you know took an entire weekend to do it and then realized I I don't know I got this one tool that solved everything. It's a bendy neck I want to know what to call it like it's this it's a tool I've never even seen before didn't even know it existed But I saw it at Lowe's and I'm like that looks like that would work made the whole thing so easy It's like a bendy neck socket set, but it also has an open hole, so you don't have to have the whole socket go over The nut it was crazy. I don't even know what to call it Right tool for right job house full of tools.  It's real real pain Yeah, there's no single perfect tool exactly you don't need that weird Alan wrench that one day You're gonna need that weird star tool, you know for that one gadget that needs to get fixed And there are some principles that still in the still always apply like that's thinking about this It's always lefty loosey righty tidy though, isn't it? It's a good. This is this analogy is just getting better Always lefty-loosey righty tidy. So what's the commonality of all of our stuff? We're still wanting to go in the direction of the tide in the direction of the wave Mac the ultimate giving us that Information across for instruments. So in general, I want all my tools to apply to this logic We're going big if it's with this we're going a little bit smaller for going against Press the like button share subscribe and comment below with your thoughts and what you've learned You


I always find it fascinating when CEOs and multi-millionaires, they speak up about how bad socialism is and they just can't understand or even fathom why anyone would see the appeal of socialism when our capitalist society has been so phenomenal to them. Like they're in that bubble and they're incapable of getting outside of it. So the whole food CEO decided to speak up and condemn socialism and he wants to make sure that we kind of put a cap on this growing enthusiasm for socialism before it's too late. So the New York Post's Noah Mansgar reports, whole food CEO John Mackey urged his fellow corporate leaders to join him in beating back the rising tide of socialism and ideology he fears will plunge the world into poverty. That's ironic. In a recent interview with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Mackey said business bosses need to more aggressively push back against progressives increasing popular critiques of capitalism, a system he called the greatest thing that humanity's ever created. Interesting. Asked whether the business world's culture needs to change, the grocery tycoon replied, it needs to evolve, otherwise the socialists are going to take over. That's how I see it. And that's the path of poverty. They talk about trickle down wealth, but socialism is trickle up poverty, he said. It just impoverishes everything. We've told a bad narrative and we've let the enemies of business and the enemies of capitalism put out a narrative about us that's wrong, it's inaccurate and it's doing tremendous damage to the minds of young people, Mackey added. We have to counter that. The 67 year old Whole Foods co-founder made the remark while promoting his latest book Conscious Leadership. During a November 24th virtual event with the American Enterprise Institute, a right leaning think tank that supports free market policies. Mackey, who was worth more than $75 million when Amazon announced its purchase of Whole Foods in 2017, according to Forbes, complained that entrepreneurs have been universally vilified as greedy when many of them start businesses, mostly because they're passionate about something, not just to get rich. Now, embedded in his statements, you can tell that there's a sense, a slight sense of self-awareness. He realizes that what they're doing right now is turning people off to capitalism. And it is. You're being openly greedy and we see it and you want to maybe try to be better in terms of marketing capitalism because it's just kind of been the norm for so long and questioning capitalism has been blasphemous that you could really basically be openly greedy and that's celebrated almost. But now things are changing because a late stage capitalist society can only exist so long before it eats itself and the poor get so hungry that they have nothing left to eat but the rich. I think he realizes that. But what's interesting is that he's concerned, trolling about how socialism will lead to mass poverty. But I mean, look around you, look at what's happening in our capitalist system. 14 million American households could face eviction, cars lined up for miles and waited for hours just to receive a box of food on Thanksgiving. We're reaching record high levels of unemployment and just 100 corporations are responsible for most of the Earth's greenhouse gas emissions. Socialism didn't do this. Capitalism did this. We're literally destroying the only planet that we have for what? So a handful of oligarchs can have unlimited wealth.  People hate capitalism because it has failed. The promises of capitalism have not bared out. Fifty nine Americans own more wealth than a half of the country. So now the American dream is dead. Capitalism got so big that it's literally eating itself. Six media conglomerates own most news outlets. Thirteen companies own most fast food restaurants. I mean, the promise of competition is completely dead. And capitalism isn't breeding the innovation that we promised it would.  Capitalism has been a complete and utter failure. And honestly, I think that he's kind of onto something. If oligarchs gave the peasants more than just crumbs, there wouldn't be this much of an urgency to get rid of capitalism. But because capitalism has deprived millions of people and billions globally of basic necessities that human beings deserve and have a right to, well, now you see that it's unsustainable. People know that we can't continue on this trajectory of unfettered capitalism. So even if they tried to rein it in, I think it's too late. Like even if you give us social democracy, it's too late. Like people see that capitalism is a scam. It's a huge scam. It benefits a select few group of individuals. And sure, at first, capitalism, it works out fine. But over time, capitalism does what it always will do. Eat the political system that it's born in. And what this whole food CEO doesn't realize is that once people no longer have a say in democracy, then it's too late. You can't win us back under these circumstances. So it's just, it's hilarious because we have this multimillionaire who has benefited from capitalism. He's wondering, oh my God, why do people hate capitalism? I don't know. It seems like you know that we hate capitalism. And you know that capitalism, it's clearly a bad look. But what he is basically thinking, I suspect, is that capitalism just needs a better marketing scheme. A new PR firm to do its presentations for it. But that's not it. That's not it. If you don't give people tangibles, capitalism isn't going to last because they will take down the system. It might not happen now. It might not happen decades from now or 100 years from now. But it is inevitable because our current trajectory that we are on, that our late-stage capitalist society is on, is unsustainable.