Welcome to Paranormality Magazine. Each week, Paranormality Magazine explores all 40 subjects from phantoms to UFOs and every cryptid creature in between. Each week, you are treated to a collection of well-researched and investigated stories, interviews and reports on cutting-edge paranormal projects and topics they know you crave. And here in the podcast, I share stories from the magazine to give you just a taste of what you receive in every issue. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Paranormality Magazine. Interconnecting trails, breathtaking views and a wealth of rivers, lakes and ponds makes the Adirondack Mountains one of the most sought-after vacation destinations in the world. Apparently not just for humans, but for ghosts as well. Molly Briggs explores the haunted Adirondacks. Located in New York, four hours north of Manhattan and two hours south of Montreal, the area has attracted hikers, fishermen and hunters from around the globe. The Adirondack region is an area rich in history and exquisite natural beauty. At night, you'll be treated to a view of the unpolluted, vast, starry sky accompanied by the hellish screech of a barred owl or a young fox. By day, you may hear the constant chatter of active, some say, mythical forest creatures searching for food within the wooded pines they fiercely protect. The natural Adirondack playground is a destination meant for everyone, although some who once came to the region for fun, a flight of fancy or to improve their humdrum lives remain within the coveted back country. Their murdered souls are eternally tethered to the soil of the mountains by the trauma of unrequited love and unsolicited death. Denied by heaven and hell, their ghostly apparitions are forever trapped along the rocky banks of the Adirondack's unpredictable waters and dark, mysterious forests. On July 11, 1906, Grace Brown set out for a boat ride along Big Moose Lake in Eagle Bay with her lover, a trip from which only one of them would return. As a little girl, Grace Brown lived in South Otsalik, Shenango County, New York. At 18, she moved to Cortland with her sister Ada and her family and began working for the Gillette Skirt Factory as a seamstress. She met and soon fell in love with the factory owner's nephew, Chester Gillette. Grace developed an innocent schoolgirl crush on Chester, which would be a fatal mistake. The couple kept their love affair secret until the spring of 1906, when Grace, now 20, discovered she was pregnant. Unable to face the consequences of his actions, Chester lured Grace to the Adirondack Mountains on the promise of marriage. Although it is still unclear what Chester's murderous plan was, or if he even had one, we know that he eventually checked into a hotel under an assumed name and with sinister intentions.  Suddenly, raising a tennis racket that was once strapped to his monogrammed suitcase, he struck Grace on the back of her head, causing her to fall into Big Moose Lake and drown. After a three-week trial, Chester was found guilty of the careless murder of Grace Brown. On March 30, 1908, Chester Gillette died by electrocution. However, that is not the end of the story. One would argue on the topic of murder or any sudden or traumatic death it never is. It is evident that the spirit of Grace Brown continues to roam the thickly forested area of the Adirondack Mountains. Locals say she often appears along the water where she was ruthlessly murdered, mourning the body of her unborn child. Although some say she is seeking revenge on the cowardly soul of her bloodthirsty lover. Whatever the case may be, the ghost of Grace Brown has been seen within the area of the Covewood Lodge on Big Moose Lake for more than a hundred years. Rhonda Booslott, a one-time employee at the Covewood Lodge, reportedly walked up to the second floor of the building and reached for the pole string of the overhead light. Suddenly, Rhonda had the distinct feeling that someone was standing in front of her. However, no one was there. She stood, breathless, frozen in her tracks. Rhonda stated, it lingered for only a few seconds, then it moved away. I didn't see anything myself but I felt that somebody was right there. At the same time, her friends who were standing just outside the lodge reported seeing a ghostly figure through the second floor window. Another employee, Linda Lee Mackin, encountered the ghost of Grace Brown just a few months later. Linda described walking toward Big Moose Lake, the glow from her flashlight becoming increasingly dim. By the time she reached the edge of the lake, her flashlight was no longer working.  She returned with a friend a few minutes later only to find the ghost of Grace Brown appearing out of the mist on the bank of Big Moose Lake. Linda, along with being thoroughly shocked, also reported feeling an instant, overwhelming sense of sadness. The unanticipated feelings of grief confirmed for Linda that it was, in fact, the spirit of the young mother she had encountered. Most visitors come to the Adirondack Mountains for fun, but back in the 1870s, Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau came for a cure. Stricken with tuberculosis, he was soon healed by the area's clean mountain air and the up-country's peaceful, soul-nurturing natural practices. Trudeau established the first of its kind in the United States, tuberculosis sanitarium, in Saranac Lake, New York, eventually calling the small village home. Wealthy families traveled to the sanitarium seeking recovery within one of many cure colleges, a name given to the local homes in the area catering to those inflicted with tuberculosis. Many of the sick who came to the Adirondack region in search of a cure for tuberculosis recovered from the devastating disease, although some were not so lucky. In the end, money may buy you happiness, but I'm pretty sure it can't bring you back from the dead. Yet. Unfortunately, death from a disease one did not ask for or deserve can sometimes bring on a sort of spiritual resentment, sparking more than just a handful of random hauntings that tend to leave those of us left behind questioning our reality. A worker from the Trudeau sanitarium reported seeing a young boy with a thin, skeletal face staring at her from the inside of an abandoned home, a home that was padlocked from the outside. Another story comes from a worker who witnessed a mysterious janitor walking to and from a boarded-up home that was also abandoned. The Trudeau sanitarium is only one of the many haunted locations paranormal enthusiasts vestidiously explore. Twenty miles north of Malone, New York, on the edge of the Canadian border, is the Hamlet of Fort Covington. Rich in farmland and historical significance, Fort Covington is also well known for being a hotspot of paranormal activity. During the War of 1812, the fort was used as a blockhouse to shelter wounded soldiers. Over 23,000 Americans, British and Canadian soldiers lost their lives in the war, also known as the Second War of Independence, where for the first time in history, America declared war on a foreign nation, Great Britain. A wood-framed Victorian home a young couple had turned into an antique shop was located in the area of Fort Covington and was precariously haunted. Alone in the shop at night, the owner stated that unexplained noises and curious activity would often occur. Lights would turn on and off, doors would open all by themselves, and heavy objects would move from their shelves at random and unassisted. One night, the owner recalled an unseen hand changing the station to her radio playing in another room. A more chilling personal experience relates to the climate within a small room located near the back of this insuriant home. No matter how high the owners would set the thermostat, the narrow room used to store vintage clothing maintained a constant wintery temperature. The owner, along with some of her customers, clearly felt the presence of something supernatural lurking inside the home. However, all hauntings are not exclusive to the bitter souls of military men alone. Sometimes, the spooky encounters involve the women behind the soldiers. Nye Manor, also known as Parkhurst House, dates back to 1827 and was a home built for Army Major Jeves Parkhurst. Parkhurst was an abolitionist and a committed member of the Underground Railroad. Many people died within the home, including Parkhurst's first wife and daughter. Both women committed suicide. Fidelia, his wife, suffered from mental derangement, taking her life in 1849, and Caroline, the Major's daughter, killed herself shortly after her husband's death and one year after the death of her only child. It's easy to see how devastating earthly traumas can lend themselves to mysterious, ghostly happenings. A recent owner of the Parkhurst home, working late one night, claims to have heard a female voice calling out to him. Hearing a soft, feminine voice say simply, Hello. The owner's wife reports that she is prone to feel suddenly sad when roaming into certain parts of the refurbished house. Both have heard footsteps within the home with no earthly explanation of where they came from. Neighbors of the Parkhurst house can also confirm odd activity, stating that they recall seeing lights glowing brightly on the second floor of the 18th century home when it was clearly boarded up and without power. Whether you are someone looking for a paranormal adventure within a densely wooded forest, or simply seeking a stroll through one of the many historical homes in the naturally majestic region whose occupants are decidedly more than happy to offer their visitors a ghostly adventure of their own, the Adirondack Mountains are definitely a perfect fit. If you live in and around Denver, Colorado or are planning to visit there, Paranormality magazine recently gave us a few paranormal hotspots to look for. Denver International Airport Many individuals attribute these potential hauntings and the airport's troubled construction to the very land upon which it stands. Instead of seeking an alternative location, the airport was erected on hallowed ground that holds great significance for Native American tribes. This decision has stirred controversy and raised questions about the spiritual repercussions of disturbing this sacred land. The airport's haunted reputation has only fueled the curiosity of intrepid travelers drawn to the enigmatic phenomena that surround it. Reports of paranormal activities and unexplained events have circulated widely, adding a supernatural allure to the already mystifying atmosphere. Cheeseman Park harbors a mysterious past. Once a solemn burial ground, it now stands as a testament to the intersection of history and the present. Initially intended as a final resting place for all, fate would decree it a cemetery primarily for the destitute, the diseased and even the outlaws of a bygone era. As time wore on, neglect slowly consumed the cemetery and a transformative decision took shape. The land's purpose shifted, saving away for its metamorphosis into the enchanting park we know today. Yet whispers of the past linger as it is believed that the spirits and ghosts of approximately 2,000 souls still rest beneath its surface. These ethereal inhabitants forever tied to Cheeseman Park are said to wander its grounds in a state of melancholy and confusion. For those residing in the vicinity of this mystical place, tales of ghostly apparitions have become a part of their reality. Witnesses claim to have encountered specters with sorrowful countenances lost in the liminal space between the corporeal and the ephemeral. It is said that the air around them carries whispers of forgotten voices and haunting moans, evoking a sense of foreboding in the hearts of those who dare to listen. A palpable aura of sadness and desolation often permeates the atmosphere, leaving an indelible mark on the souls of those who visit. The Molly Brown House Museum In James Cameron's Titanic, if you were to inquire about our favorite character, we would likely mention Molly Brown. Portrayed by Kathy Bates, Molly Brown was a spirited and helpful denverite who passionately cheered for Jack's triumphs. While Jack and Rose were fictional characters, apologies to the incurable romantics, Molly Brown was a real person. She embodied independence and fearlessly challenged societal norms. Following her survival of the Titanic's tragic sinking, she achieved a level of celebrity status. Even after her passing, her denver residence was lovingly restored and transformed into a museum, inviting the public to explore her remarkable life. However, intriguing rumors persist regarding Molly and her husband's enduring determination, both in life and beyond. It is said that their stubborn presence lingers within their former abode. Numerous visitors have claimed to witness Molly and her husband wandering the halls of the museum. Some even swear by the distinct scent of a phantom cigar smoke wafting from Mr. Brown's quarters. These accounts add an extra layer of fascination to the legacy of Molly Brown, ensuring that her spirited essence lives on, captivating and enchanting all who encounter her remarkable story. The renowned Stanley Hotel, situated near Denver in Estes Park, served as a profound inspiration for Stephen King's novel The Shining. It's not hard to comprehend why. The hotel is steeped in tales of apparitions. Among the most renowned specters are the original owners of the hotel, Freeland Oscar Stanley and his wife Flora. They are often cited in the hotel's public spaces, engaged in business and endeavoring to assist guests as if they were still among the living. In Room 217, guests have reported encounters with the ghost of former housekeeper Elizabeth Wilson, who allegedly climbs into bed with them or neatly folds their clothing while they slumber. Capitol Hill In the past, Denver's most affluent individuals established their homes on Capitol Hill, solidifying its status as a prestigious neighborhood. As time passed and the city expanded, a notable phenomenon occurred. Some of these former residents seemingly never left. Despite the addition of modern apartment complexes and condominiums, the echoes of their presence linger within the neighborhood. The historic mansions once inhabited by the elite still stand tall, bearing witness to a bygone era. However, alongside the contemporary developments, these ethereal inhabitants make their presence known to the new residents. Within the confines of Capitol Hill's buildings, a spectral presence can be felt, their intangible forms occupying the governor's mansion and the state capital. Furthermore, these apparitions occasionally venture beyond their architectural confines, strolling the streets of Capitol Hill and gathering in the park. Their ethereal nature grants them an eternal attachment to this captivating city. Any visit to Denver's Capitol Hill is bound to include an encounter with one of these former residents forever intertwined with the fabric of this beautiful urban landscape. This event is a collaborative endeavor featuring works from people like you who have a passion for all things mysterious and unexplained. Our goal is the pursuit of knowledge, gathering captivating stories from our own team of writers, researchers and investigators, as well as from writers such as yourself. Each monthly issue also includes a list of paranormal, horror, UFO and cryptozoology events around the country, incredible paranormal-themed artwork, articles and writing sent in from our readers, suggested books and podcasts to consume and more. Visit ParanormalityMag.com and subscribe today for as little as $3.99 a month. That's ParanormalityMag.com ParanormalityMag.com You know that you have a very haunted county when an author can write a series of articles on just the hotels that are haunted in your county, and Billy White brings us the Gadsden Hotel in Cochise County, Arizona. When most people think of road tripping through Arizona, they think of some of the larger and more well-known tourist attractions, biking through the Grand Canyon, possibly skiing up north of Flagstaff, shopping in Scottsdale. One thing that each of these locations has in common is that they are all located in the northern half of the state, and it is a big state. In fact, probably the most well-known haunted hotel in Arizona is the Jerome Grand Hotel located in the mining town of Jerome, Arizona, north of Phoenix, and a little southwest of Flagstaff.  Cochise County sits right in the southeast corner of the state of Arizona. Its southern border runs along the American-Mexican border, and its eastern edge connects with New Mexico. When you talk about Arizona with people who aren't familiar with the state, many do not realize that there is a whole portion of the state that lies below Tucson. Cochise County is one of these areas. Rich in history, Cochise County receives its name from Cochise, a leader in a group of Chiracawa Apache who resided in this area before European colonization. In fact, there is a beautiful campground in the area, Cochise Stronghold, where Cochise's remains are rumored to be hidden. When settlers were expanding to the west, the area that became Cochise County boomed with miners and mining interests. Two towns that experienced a mining boom were Bisbee and Tombstone. There was a third town, Douglas, that benefited indirectly from the mining interests as it was the local smelter for any of the minerals found in the area. Unfortunately, mines dry up and boom towns shrivel. Each of these towns have had struggles to find a foothold in modern society post-mining. Bisbee and Tombstone do so by embracing the tourist industry. On the other hand, Douglas straddles the Arizona-Mexico border with its sister city, Agua Prieta, and in 2023 is still trying to find its rebirth in the modern economy. Out of these three towns, Douglas is the largest, but still its population is just around 15,000. Bisbee and Tombstone each have populations between 3,000 and 5,000, much smaller than their prime during the Copper and Silver boom. The Douglas of today does not have a lot of frills, amenities, or entertainment. The Supercenter Walmart is the main shopping resource. While there is an old downtown area, Douglas has not had the resource of a tourism industry to support revitalization. Its sister city across the border, Agua Prieta, is much larger and contains more of the modern conveniences and entertainment. Douglas does have one shining star that remains from its frontier golden age, the Gadsden Hotel. The Gadsden, named after the Gadsden purchase, originally opened its doors in 1907. However, the first hotel was destroyed by a fire and rebuilt in 1929. Besides ghosts, the Gadsden has hosted Thornton Wilder, who ended up extending his stay to two months, and Eleanor Roosevelt. There is a chip in the large marble staircase that extends out through the lobby. Local urban legend attributes the chip to a story that Poncho Villa once rode his horse into the lobby of the hotel and upped that staircase. While Villa did stay in the hotel, the horse in the lobby story does seem a little outlandish. It doesn't take a lot of digging or talking to locals and hotel faculty to hear ghost stories associated with the Gadsden Hotel. Because they received so many claims of paranormal activity, employees of the hotel began keeping records of the paranormal reports that were brought to them by guests. If you ask the front desk to see the paranormal records, they will allow you to sit and enjoy the primary accounts of encounters with the Gadsden's ghosts at your own pace. It shouldn't be surprising that the beautiful marble staircase that of Poncho Villa's legend is at the center of many of the guests' ghost stories in the Gadsden. The most common and mild stories involve seeing ghostly figures ascending or descending the beautiful staircase. I have to admit, it is such a gorgeous staircase, I can see why someone would want to continue visiting it in the afterlife. Following the staircase, the room with the most activity seems to be room 333. Former guests who have stayed in room 333 say that they have heard disembodied knocks throughout the room, the TV turns itself on enough, and they have heard conversations that appear to be coming from invisible visitors right inside their room. However, I spoke with a former employee who had a darker story about room 333. He stated that when the room is empty, there are many times where hotel staff will hear a deep growling that comes from inside of the room as they walk past the door. He said that they have also heard what sounds like scratching coming from inside the room when it is unoccupied. There is truly no single ghost story that accompanies room 333. Many hotels will have a particular ghost who has a tragic story, like one that we will look into with the Bisbee Grand Hotel. Is whatever remains in room 333 an entity left behind after the Gadsden's tragic fire? Is it something darker? The ghosts of the Gadsden do not stay in one room or on the staircase. Former managers and former employees have encountered spirits throughout the hotel. The former employee who spoke about their encounter in room 333 told a story about an arcade game that had been placed in the lobby to entertain guests who visit the lobby's bar, restaurant and coffee shop. However, employees who worked the night shift started hearing the game being played throughout odd hours after all of the businesses had closed down and the lobby was empty. They eventually decided to unplug the machine for some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, even unplugging the machine did not quiet the spirits that wanted to play games late into the night. The staff continued to hear the game after it had been unplugged. Finally, the game was removed from the lobby. The lobby ghosts also enjoyed calling to the employees of the hotel. Those working the night staff would occasionally hear their names being called from somewhere in the lobby well after the hotel had gotten quiet for the night. When they went to look for the source of the disturbance, there was nothing and no one in the lobby. This is one of those occurrences at the Gadsden that the staff has acknowledged just comes with working at the historic hotel. Arizona is a state with lots of history, and with history comes ghosts and paranormal activity. Cochise County is a small, rural area built mainly by mining, farming and ranching around the turn of the century. Cochise County embodies much of the legends of the Wild West associated with American legend and it holds many fascinating ghost stories. Some of these ghosts have chosen to continue to inhabit beautiful hotels in the region. The Gadsden in Douglas is just one hotel with both a rich history and exciting spirits. Even if you don't encounter something paranormal, the beauty of the hotel is worth a visit. In the August 2023 edition of Paranormality Magazine, Caleb Pearson had the opportunity to write an article about Keith Linder, author of the Bothel Hell House, after interviewing him. Here's what Caleb wrote. Supernatural events have been reported throughout the entirety of human history, even back before the first civilizations. Throughout that time, criticism has been had, fear has been wrought, and even death has been brought about by such events. Sadly, an often overlooked part of paranormal encounters is the physiological after-effects related to them, which was clearly brought up to my attention when interviewing Keith Linder, author of the book The Bothel Hell House, Poltergeist of Washington State, which I will link to in the show notes. Throughout the interview, I got the clear impression that he was telling the truth and struggled to find much to criticize him on even if I wanted to, considering the things that he has gone through. Because of this, I ask that you keep an open mind when reading about the following events and opinions regarding Keith Linder and his experiences in a house some believe to be an actual portal to hell. In the quiet little town of Bothel Washington, a house stood. It was newly constructed and for all intents and purposes was seemingly normal. When Keith Linder moved into this house, he thought the same and had no reason to suspect otherwise. For four whole years, he and his girlfriend lived in the home which soon revealed itself to be inhabited by a supposed malevolent spirit. They both suffered from the hauntings while living there and long after they moved away. The attacks on their person and home shocked them to their very core and they even lost several friends over the events as some were either too scared to go near the house or left in disgust when they thought it was all a lie. The encounters, admittedly, started out rather small. Items appeared and disappeared mysteriously around the house. Cabinets were opened. Items were thrown about as though they offended the spirit, etc. At first it took them some time before they even realized that there was another presence in their home. And even after they accepted that there was something there, they thought at first that it was simply the spirit of a child, non-threatening and merely there because of some unknown reason. But it did not take long for events to prove otherwise and they quickly came to regret moving to the house in Bethel. It's easy to see why they thought it was just the spirit of a child meandering about the house at first.  Still, at this point, nothing overt was happening and they were somewhat content with living with the ghost since it appeared to have no negativity towards them and it too seemed content with them for a time. However, this time of relative calm did not last long and something happened that destroyed the thought of the ghost being the spirit of the young, something that would leave me unable to sleep at night knowing it was there. Keith was sitting in his office doing some sort of work when he heard a click of a light switch and he was drowned in darkness. He looked up thinking it was his girlfriend and saw the ghost itself. He froze in place not knowing what to think.  It was a full grown woman in the doorway of his office staring at him for a long moment as if wanting something before walking around the corner and disappearing without a trace. What struck me as odd about the event and made me believe Keith even more was the fact that the so-called ghost didn't have any of the big cliches we all seem to associate with hauntings. The clothing, in contrast to most ghosts somehow always being from the dark ages of the Civil War, was modern day, breaking the platitude of ghosts from hundreds of years ago. His account claimed that it was some sort of woman with an unclear face and madded clothing. She was about five foot six inches tall. I would put her below 115, 111 pounds, very frail, very thin, thin angel hair, shoulder length, very petite looking, which I found interesting considering the strength and aggressiveness shown by the ghost in the past. However, despite the attitude of the ghost in previous events, it simply walked away and did nothing more to attack or indicate what it wanted, making me and Keith apparently question its motives and intentions. Historically, ghost hauntings come and go like a pendulum, getting more and less extreme as time goes on. Keith learned this the hard way. There was an entire year with no activity at all and he thought on some level that he was safe from the spirit. But that time of peace was soon broken and things started hitting dangerous levels. When asked about the events, Keith went on to explain that in regard to the events after the long pause and activity in 2013, it gets worse the second time around. He explained that he read about the different signs that the websites warned of, but no amount of warning could prepare you for because it just comes out of nowhere. Some people may think that having a ghost in your house would be cool or entertaining, but when things ramp up to the dangerous levels that Keith experienced, they learned that their wish for a ghost was very much unfounded. Keith's ghost, the gray lady, appeared to have an inherent hate for anyone in its house. Glass was shattered, entire pieces of furniture thrown, and Keith was even supposedly pushed down the stairs, injuring him for an extended period. I know it tried to hurt me, he said, but luckily its attempts failed outside of the stairs injury. Even before the events escalated, they searched for answers, going so far as to recruit priests to cleanse their home multiple times, but it did nothing but lessen the effects for a short period of time, and even seemed to anger the ghost more than it already was. In fact, holy items and cleansings did so little that the spirit was able to reportedly burn multiple Bibles within the home and would turn crosses upside down. Huge evil messages were left on the walls, the number of hell 666 was painted on a door, and a message for Keith to die was left for him to find on his birthday one year, which I can imagine left his day ruined, especially since it was a day that was supposed to be a happy one. One thing I noticed was that fire and ash seemed to be a prevailing theme in the home, as random things would catch fire with no apparent cause or explanation. In fact, Keith once had the very clothes on his back spontaneously combust, leaving burns on his body. The writings on the walls, which Keith said he had samples of tested, were apparently made with a kind of ash-based paint called Bone Black, which is a type of paint made of ground and burnt bison bone. The connection to fire and ash paired the inability to be cleansed by anything holy to me implies that the home had some sort of connection to hell itself, which I imagine may be a common thought of those that believe Keith. Sometime after the encounter with the Grey Lady, Keith was approached, unprovoked, by a paranormal investigative show called Ghost Adventures. Hoping they'd be able to help in some way, Keith allowed them to research and film the home. After the brief investigation, the episode regarding the house aired, and to the shock of both Keith and his family, the show painted them in a very bad light. They took a heavy-handed approach, Keith says, but the actual investigation was five hours. It made it seem like, while the episode was airing, that they did everything they could and found nothing. But this couldn't be further from the truth.  You're looking for lightning in a jar, says Keith. It's very hard to catch the phenomenon at its apex when you're an investigator because by the time they're showing up, the activity is subsided. Keith, dumbstruck at being railroaded by the show, went on to say, nothing can be constant 365 days a year, but it comes in waves. In fact, the show was informed by Keith that the activity had been almost non-existent for several weeks preceding their visit to the home. A competent investigator should have known that you likely will need to investigate the site multiple times and at a later date when the activity starts happening again. Any good paranormal investigator should know that poltergeists have no pattern and don't do things just because you want them to. In fact, they do quite the opposite. This makes me question the authenticity of any investigation that these so-called investigators have done on their show. After the episode aired, Keith and his girlfriend received extreme backlash from the public. They were sent messages online, comments were made and their names were dragged through the mud. It's my understanding that these things still happen today on occasion and the injustice of the situation struck me as almost evil in its own way. The backlash was in my eyes twice as bad as the hauntings themselves. Now we've got two things to contend with, he said, the spirits in this house and we've got to contend with the outside world labeling us pranksters, hoaxers, fakers, attention-seeking. I could feel the frustration rolling off him and quite honestly, it made me question why anyone would want to lie about having a haunting since this is the result of speaking up. It hurt to read that stuff, the wild stuff said about us, and having read some of them myself when researching Keith's claims before the interview, I can see why. I'm not asking you to believe Keith's story nor do I ask that you do for any story someone gives you. However, I do ask that you, dear reader, think about things for yourself. The paranormal isn't exactly a science. Variations exist and not every story is the same. Just because some things don't match up to your expectations or you haven't seen things for yourself before doesn't mean that they don't exist. If you do examine someone's claims of the supernatural and find yourself not believing, it is probably best to dismiss it and move on. Don't drag someone's name through the mud just because you find their story a little far-fetched. Think about how that would affect you if the same thing happened in your home and people criticized you for something they don't believe. Nobody deserves to be attacked online or in person regarding a claim. For all you know, their story is true, and you just have failed to see past your own skepticism. it to our website so our readers can find your show. And artists, if you'd like your work to be featured in our magazine or on our back cover, contact us. Again, our website is paranormalitymag.com. I'm Darren Marlar and I'll have more paranormal for you next time. From Paranormality Magazine.


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we're what we're dealing with here because i've never used this this part so this is a 1 to 8 1.2 to 8 volt 3 amp p-fat high side low switch with level shift and adjustable slew light control so basically you can use this there's a v in coming in and then there's a gpa logic high and low you can put in a slew rate capacitor here a slew it resistor here to how much you want to feed this um this fat and it will turn on so it's basically like it's like a p-fat but it's like it's got a little bit extra in it just to make it special also it's 1.2 to 8 volts and it's 3 amps now look i may not be able to get you the exact same part but maybe it's within the specifications you need so let's use and i want to i want to highlight there's a couple things so there's new up here right below not in stock you can sign up for staff notification where they email you which which is we we did on ate a fruit so i hope they were inspired by and also find similar parts and they tell you how to use the similar parts tool which i will which i will tell you as well so let's look so um what do we want so we want an active part i don't want to say general purpose because i actually don't know we do want it with one output because we want it to be pin compatible we want to be one to one high side um i think i want the interface to be on off but i'm not sure voltage i'm not going to select because there might be a wider range or a range that's close enough so i'm not going to be too specific same with the current you know i'm not going to be too specific um i do want surface mount and i do want it to be in sot 236 or t-sot 236 so let's be similar um okay so another thing is down here these are now um all your specifications that you picked are also available down here that you can like turn on or off specific ones or you can delete the whole thing so you can see what more clearly what you searched for so let's we're gonna be very picky we only want ones in stock okay there's only 13 similar-ish parts um the output type so let's look at this this chip again to see what is the output type and it says it's a p-fat okay so let's go back here p-channel okay another eight um current output looks like there's a couple options uh voltage load i mean i think other than the 5.5 so the 5.5 i mean that might be good enough but um i'm going to assume that they want you know up to eight volts that's usually usually the high limit is what they want so i'm gonna turn those on let's look at more filters um okay so we have actually quite a few options right this is this is really good stuff and a lot of them are in stock so let's look at um they're all on off so it looks like we have a couple options a couple different current options so since we have a couple different current options i'm going to be i'm going to start getting picky and i'm going to say the other one was a 3 amp i'm going to assume that this person needs something that's about 3 amps so i'm going to pick only 2.8 and 3.3 amps okay so here's the two that came up one is uh almost the same 1.8 to 8 volts another one is uh 1.5 to 12 volts they both have an rds on of about 40 milli ohms uh checking this data sheet yeah you know 40 milli ohms or so that sounds about right and uh this one has slew 8 control although i'll say sometimes features aren't complete it depends on the person who entered it in if they like were you know they filled in everything so i always take the features as a grain of salt always check the data sheet and uh the pinout the package is the same which means i can have check if the pinout is the same so um these are both pretty cheap so let's look at the uh v shape part first so the v shape part so here's what i always like to see so the the application circuit see this it's it's basically the same as this it's very similar there's the r1 there's the v in on off r2 v in r1 on off what's slew slew is is how fast you want the current to go in it's a current limiting thing if something is slewed it means it's going to slowly ramp up if you have high slew it it spikes up there's times when you want it to react very fast you want a lot of current or something you want to reduce your inwards current because it could damage your components you slew in a sentence like that what you slew in a sentence like i want more slew because or well last last week we talked about op amps and we actually wanted a high slew op amp because we want it to react to volume changes very quickly high slew high slew um okay so for this one you see um the same pinout two and three or v out two and three or v out and one is the the bottom of this uh looks like yeah another MOSFET so yeah this one and then there's a return this shows the internal resistors but this looks actually almost identical i mean i will tell them you know you go and of course check that all the specifications match everything but this is very very promising um and there's uh 12 000 in in stock and then um for this one and notice that the part numbers are totally sometimes it's like oh and any 555 or ti 555 or an lm 555 they all have the same part number they have different prefixes these have completely different part numbers and prefixes and that's not like that's not unusual don't it's nice when they are but it doesn't necessarily mean it's bad if they're not it's it just depends on yeah everybody we're all gonna have to adapt at least you gotta be flexible yeah just because it's not the same part number doesn't mean you can't use it in fact that's gonna stop a lot of other people from either getting the parts they need or maybe even might some changes to their design but you gotta be you gotta stretch okay gotta do some flexing this one also rds on you know you see the specifications and then um you can see down here again the same thing there's an input two pins on the output pin six is you know you can connect to a capacitor out here one is listen this one has five yeah one is from the bottom of this fat um five is to the on off gate and v in is on pin four so this is actually one of the times when like there's actually two looks like good options uh both have about about 10 000 pieces of a stock indigki right now and um they're they're like 30 cents 20 cents even cheaper so you know if you can't get that ti part or if you're getting quoted like seven bucks ten bucks apart because don't do it don't look sometimes i agree sometimes there aren't any alternatives but i'll say something i've actually other than very very specifics chips that are like okay yes it's a one-off only this company makes this particular microcontroller um in this package and you need the exact microcontroller no then you might might not be able to get that but but analog and linear components and power components there's probably something out there there's probably something out there you're not you're not out of luck um there there's there's gold at the end of the rainbow so that's the great 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down to that 81860, which I think is what was left there. Hopefully that's what was left. Okay, so then we're gonna go see if there's anything else we need to record in this kind of miscellaneous items. We did all that. Now, the next thing we need to do is record the cost of goods sold. So remember, we did this full calculation here, which allowed us to basically get to the cost of goods manufactured and look at the prior video on how we got to these numbers. And then we used that to get to the cost of goods sold. So the cost of goods sold is gonna be a debit to the cost of goods sold and a credit to the finished goods inventory. So, and that's kind of linked to this journal here. Remember, we recorded the sales and now we're recording the costs of goods sold related to those sales, meaning the inventory, the finished goods we're using. So I'm gonna say the finished goods is gonna go down. So I'm gonna skip a line, put it on the bottom for a credit and the cost of goods sold up, the big expense is going to be the debit here and that will be four equal two and scroll down to the cost of goods sold here. And then we're gonna credit the finished goods like so. And if we record that out then, we're gonna say cost of goods sold is this debit and the finished goods up here, finished goods. Where did you go right there? Should be the credit and there we have that. Now, a couple other miscellaneous items we had down here was the on the income statement, we recorded the fact that we are going to owe taxes. So that's gonna be a big one. And we said that on the income statement, that's gonna be 23, 263. So that's why we added that tax account up here. So we're gonna say, we didn't pay it yet. We're gonna say we have a payable here. So we have a payable which is gonna go up with a credit and we're gonna debit the income tax. So the income tax is gonna be the debit and that will be four and we'll scroll down to the income statement where we calculated that it's not affecting cash, but we have this number down here, right there. And there we have that. So I'm gonna do that and we'll scroll up and we're gonna record the income tax. So here's the income tax. Oh, I put the interest into here. This interest should be going up to, so I'm gonna cut this and it should actually be going up here. So I'm gonna put it right there. That's where the interest should go. It shouldn't be in the tax line. And then the tax is going to be this 23, 263 and we will put it into the tax payable right here. So there's the tax payable and note this will keep us in balance. Now it's not green over here because we're off by rounding and you could fix the conditional formatting to fix that, but we're not gonna go into that at this point. Now there's one more kind of major accrual piece that we gotta take care of here. I'm gonna add another line right there and that has to do with the fact that we had this payable here.  So that one, what's gonna happen here is we're gonna pay some of that with cash. So I'm gonna say the payable's gonna go down and we're gonna pay it with cash.  And the question is when do we pay them off? This problem happened to say that we buy something and then we paid off the next month. So for example, if we look up here, we're gonna say that this payable, the 205 is something that we're gonna pay in the next month. And we're always gonna be a month behind. I mean, we're gonna purchase it on account and then we're gonna pay for it a month later. So that means that basically what are we gonna pay off? We're gonna pay that equals that 205 to 100,000 five plus we're gonna have to pay off the other purchases here. So raw materials, budget, here's our purchases. We paid off July, August and September is what's still gonna be left in ending inventory. So I'm gonna add to this amount, we're gonna say plus the 20, or we can even point to these plus this plus this and that will leave us with this hopefully left in the AP. Let's see if that's the case after we post this out. So I'm gonna say this is the debit and the credit here and we're gonna scroll up and go to the accounts payable double click, go to the end of it plus and we're gonna say that's the debit there. And so there we have, and then we're left with that 191625. And then if we go to the cash, we're gonna say, okay, let's go to the cash and that will be decreasing the cash brings us to that 40 that looks familiar. So I think that's basically it. Now notice if you do this journal entry by journal entry then it has to be in balance. You can see exactly which journal entry will throw you out of balance. And now you can go take and tie off all your numbers. I can say, okay, let's go look at the balance sheet here and see if this ties out to it. So we'll scroll down balance sheet here and we'll say, yeah, that works. And then you can basically go line by line and say, all right, I gotta scroll way back here. How about three, three, seven, six, 80, three, three, seven, six, 80 is that tying out to our balance sheet here. It does right there. There's the balance sheet. Then we're looking for that 84,000 which is going to be this 84,000. And then I'm gonna go ahead and hide these cells. Hide. And then we're looking for the finished goods, 321, 360, so scroll one down to the balance sheet down here, 321, 360. Then we're looking for the net should be 517 of these two which is gonna be this minus this. So 517, book value on the equipment. That's gonna be the book value on the equipment. This minus this is 517, five. So that's right, I think we already checked it off this. And then you could just go through all of these. And if you're off by any of them, then of course that's where you need to dig down and see if the journal entry is not right. So that's one way you can basically try to figure out something that's off balance is actually do the journal entries that would be for the predicted or projected time period.


We have our guest in the studio, he is not new to the Ithakuit family, we just want to catch up to what projects he has for his fans and so much more, he goes by the name Boutros Mukhangura aka Colney Bars How are you? I'm fine thank you Long time? Ya ya ya How are you? I'm fine, just being busy a bit, I haven't done like some tracks for a while, I was working on my album but now I'm back and I'm doing some drops as well How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? It's life, it's Nairobi, the weather is crazy but ya ya ya ya Alright, so you have said that you were working on your album, so tell us a bit about that Ya ya ya Okay, my album I've worked on it for like six months, six, seven months tops It's called Ya, this is actually one of my craziest project I've ever done I never take this long to do a project But this one I just decided let me just say it and just meditate on it for a while I know what I want from the project My sound is like an international sound so before you bring it to life You have to really put your mind to it You have to really just don't make music to make music You have to sit down and just take your time away from the world and just create When you say one of the craziest projects you've done, what do you mean? Okay, a previous before I've done an album before It took me like a month to do An album, a month An album ya ya So like writing for me it's never an issue doing music Coz I can write a song in minutes and just drop it But for the album I thought I want it I want my fans to resonate with me Like to know me more That's what it's called look at my life Oh that is the meaning of L.A.M.L L.A.M.L ya Ni milkona Shindwa What does this mean? Ni milkona Shindwa L.A.M.L L.A.M.L Ya, so that was the inspiration behind it Until like people to see as much as you know like when you see someone you have a lot of perspective from it But you don't know the person So for an artist I feel like there's a lot of assumption behind me before people know you Like someone looks at me just looks like this guy is a rich kid or this guy does this year That's the assumption Most of the assumptions people have on you Like I just wanted people to see the life behind the curtain too As much as these life people portray There's so much about someone that you don't know So I wanted like people to have an insight more in my life Than assumptions Ya So how many tracks does the album have so far? The ones that you have done I've recorded more like I have a lot of songs in the vaults So it's tricky because even the rollout I haven't decided when I'm supposed to drop it Because I think for as an album It takes time to If you know what you really want It's not something you just drop You can't just drop it and people don't listen to it There's a lot of things that goes behind it There's marketing, interviews There's a lot of things So the album I've been saying since last year Even my fans were like what's up What's happening Because I was supposed to drop it last year That's when I went to Kostushu to look at my life The official But I was like let me take my time Because I had the songs But I was feeling if you just drop it It wouldn't make sense if you don't have the power behind it Because I feel that those tracks are the best I've ever done yet So I just don't want to drop because I'm dropping Even if I drop a project The project goes somewhere It takes me to another level Because if it's songs I have a lot of songs So I have like 14 selections for the album I was planning I do Like this is the second video I've done Now this was the first Then the second was what you're playing Then I plan to drop Like 2 or 3 more videos before I drop the album Okay So before you drop the entire album I see most of the times when an artist is dropping an album They tend to just drop the songs And then want to drop Want to payaka video kamoja kamoja Want to ingesha kamoja kamoja So you're saying you have done this song And then why you playing and then another one So why did you take that route? I took that route because as I said I'm an independent artist Like I do everything myself So recording The recording process, the audio mixing, mastering You know people just think we just go to the studio Record and the track is out But that's not the process It's the writing process It's the recording process After you've recorded this mixing, this mastering Before it's complete It's just another process So as for me I thought You know like even you can be a big artist And you drop a project And people don't listen to it Because not everyone will go and listen to 14 songs People will get bored It doesn't matter how good you are It doesn't really matter Because people have like a short span of attention People listen to track one, two, three And be like nah, I'm done with this Doesn't matter if it's good So like if you're doing a project And you're dropping 14 songs You have to like put a lot of money into it For a lot of people to listen to it And for as an independent artist It's kind of challenging Because all the expenses is on you Because you know as an artist You have to have the look You have to have everything It's a package deal If I came here looking differently If someone take me seriously I'm not investing in my art So it's a process For me I feel like I want to drop Like part of the album One by one Show people the process Before I drop it all So that someone can understand it better I think the last time you were here Skumuki kamu you were still going by the name What changed? We are two butros in the industry So I didn't want to feel like I'm feeding off him Or it's a beef or something Because at the end of the day That's my name I'm not going to change it It's in my ID That's what my dad called me So I figured let me just switch That's why I didn't like Remove music for like six months So that I can brand myself To call me Buzz You had taken a six months break As I was working on the album So like coming out I was talking to my team And my team was like They just use call me Buzz Because a lot of people really know me by Buzz So instead of Butros Call me Buzz That's why the buzz is in capital Call me Buzz Just one final question Before you end up Your style of music Is you know drill, rap And right now the industry Is vibing to more abanton music Is that something you have incorporated In your album Or is that something you are planning To incorporate in the album Okay, I've never thought about it Like that I can't lie to you Okay, if in future Someone wants to do a collaboration I don't mind collaborations But you know for me My process of writing music It's way different from theirs But as an artist you appreciate Other people's music If someone can commercialize music In a certain way That person You have to give him respect His own respect So I don't mind doing collaborations As long as we do something That is unique Because even them they have their own style Of being unique But for me mostly My album is pop sound Hip hop and drill and rap Okay That's like majorly focused So tell me what was the inspiration behind You know the video of Why you playing Okay, why you playing It was a trap video In Nairobi scene There is no trap The trap industry has been overlooked People pay more attention to Gangaton and Abanton So I just wanted to show Nairobi and the world That's why I invested in the video I had to go and shoot it In the backyard of Limoru Through Ngong That location Looks very familiar to me So I really had We had to go to the backyard You can see gong hills through it So we had to bring The trap vibe to Nairobi Properly People can't stop looking Trap music Because people listen to migos And the rest So I wanted to Introduce the trap music Properly to Nairobi So when are your fans expecting The rest of the songs to drop In the album Or maybe you can even start by telling us Which is the next song you plan to drop Okay I have already shot some videos I'm still debating which one to drop Because I have There's a song called All the Way I've shot it with my friends Then there's one called Picasso So I'm debating Which one to drop first Because all the videos are fire So I'm still thinking Because my birthday is Supposed to be End month, April 30th Choraziza So I was like Maybe I Drop Either after my birthday Or during But I was thinking after Because during my birthday Obviously I'll be out Yeah So maybe I'll incorporate More footage even Because I don't like crashing My videos I prefer my videos to be top notch So I was thinking maybe after I can add more scenes For my birthday In one of the videos Then I drop Another video So probably they'll expect Another song maybe April May Let's say May Another song on May So maybe you can share with Our fans Who have seen you for the first time Where they can find your music And on social media as well My social media is Call me Buzz Or my social media Hi My social media is Call me Buzz underscore That is small letters For Instagram And when you click On my Instagram There is a link tree It'll take you everywhere In my Spotify Amazon Deezer Because my music Is in all the space Like all music It's available internationally So you can Get me anywhere YouTube, Spotify So when you click On my link tree On my Instagram You'll find me everywhere YouTube is Call me Buzz is capital Yeah And Twitter is the same Yeah, any shoutout? Okay, I'd like to shoutout The producer Steve Kenya Who made the beats Shoutout to KROP Music He helped me with the production process Shoutout to Simara For shooting the video Shoutout to my family For coming My sisters Sister and Snyder Shoutout to my dad And mom Wherever they are And shoutout to my fans For holding down Through the process I know the journey is long I always take a long time To remove music But as long as I remove Quality music I think That's what matters most Yeah Yeah Alright, thank you so much for coming through We do appreciate your time And we are looking forward To seeing you here again Yeah And looking forward to the album Dropping And happy birthday in advance Thank you Yeah So I think you do a performance Of why you playing Yeah And let's take a look at it And remember to go subscribe To his channel And show him love And support On his socials as well Yeah


It really gives me enormous pleasure to be here with you to announce the next phase of our climb on Columbia Life Improvement Monetary Boost, Columbia's guaranteed income pilot project. For the fathers participating in this project, it will be the most important and hopefully most transformative phase of this effort. Two weeks ago, these fathers came here to the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition. It's been doing so much amazing work across the Midlands the last several years and participating in orientation sessions to learn about the climb project and how it will benefit them over the course of the next year. In addition to learning about the project, each of these fathers were issued a climb debit card beginning tomorrow the first of the monthly $500 unconditional payments will be loaded onto the climb cards. The payments will then continue over the course of the next year. This pilot seeks to determine the effectiveness of regular monthly payments to address financial instability and the subsequent effect in strengthening fathers, their families and their communities. All funds for the crime project are privately and philanthropically raised. Columbia has joined 10 other cities across the country in launching guaranteed income projects. These efforts have been coordinated and given guidance by the national organization's mayors for guaranteed income, a coalition of mayors in cities that will explore cash payment programs in our cities. The founding mayors of the network include our amazing leader, the former mayor of Stockton, California, Michael Tubbs, Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi, Melvin Carter of St. Paul, Minnesota, Riz Baraka from Newark, New Jersey, Asia Brown, Compton, California, Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles, California, Adrian Perkins from Shreveport, Louisiana, Libby Schaff from Oakland, California, and Victoria Woodards from Tacoma, Washington, and of course myself, Steve Benjamin, proud to represent the people of Columbia for the last 12 years. In each of our individual cities, these mayors have initiated similar guaranteed income projects to provide for families, struggling mothers, artists, those lacking stable financial resources such as banks, those who have recently served prison sentences, workers who unfairly receive less than the lawful minimum wage, and so many others. In a moment, you're going to hear from Dr. Jemaine Johnson, he'll detail and acknowledge the different local and national partners who work with our staff over the last year to strategize, design, and launch this program. I do want to give a huge thank you to our Columbia City Council. Although this program is funded privately and philanthropically, it's important to have a statement of values from our city council. This council voted unanimously on the resolution and support of the climb pilot program just this past June. Thank you all for being here now, to more fully detail how these payments will benefit fathers in Columbia. It's my pleasure to introduce Midland's Fatherhood Coalition Executive Director, Angela McDuffie, so after Angela, I think we're going to hear from Dr. and State Representative Jemaine Johnson. It is my pleasure to welcome you to Midland's Fatherhood Coalition, where we recognize that fathers are essential, that they are valued in the lives of their children. I will be remiss if I did not acknowledge the one person who single-handedly hand-delivered this opportunity to us, and that is Dr. Jemaine Johnson, who has been an advocate for our organization in more ways than one, and so I want to thank him for this tremendous opportunity. I also want to thank Mayor Steve Benjamin in the City of Columbia. I cannot tell you how immense this opportunity is. I mean, we strive to build strong families, and this is just one nugget in things that we feel are yet to come. I do want to bring up our Chair of our Board of Directors, who will provide a little more information about the Midland's Public Coalition, Mr. Mark Shook. Good evening. It's my pleasure to be here with you. My name is Mark Shook. I'm the current Board Chair of Midland's Fatherhood Coalition. On behalf of the Board, I extend our thanks to the CLIMB team for the work that they did in identifying the program participants, contacting them. I'm also appreciative of the science that went into this study. This program is not only supplying funds to individuals to see if it can make their lives just a little bit easier as they attempt to assist their families, but it's also a study designed to see the effectiveness that can be shared with other people. I'd also like to thank the fact that they selected Midland's Fatherhood Coalition for this, and I believe a lot of that is the credibility that this organization has within the community. We've been doing this work in Columbia for over 20 years. We're part of the South Carolina Center for Families in Fatherhoods. Parents of all types interact with this organization, whether it is to go through our formal curriculum, which lasts a full year, or whether it's to engage some legal support or advice or just to find a mentor. I know in my own life, I'm a father of three, and there's nothing I find more intimidating than that work. And many times, our fathers need support. They need advice no matter what background they come from. So again, these funds will be used with people that have interacted with this organization. And I just want to say thank you and invite the man of the hour, Dr. Johnson. Good afternoon, everybody. Again, my name is Dr. Jermaine Johnson. I'm also a state representative for House District 80. And I'm just so excited to be here today for the launch of this program. This has been something that has been in the works for a very, very long time. At least over the past year, we have been designing and coordinating and meeting and just doing everything that we had to do to make sure that all of our T's were crossing our eyes without it. And this was just a hard fought program to get going for. So I have to thank a lot of people on this, which is why I brought my paper over here, just so I can not forget everybody that I had to thank. First person, of course, we need to thank is Mayor Benjamin for his vision for being a part of this. We've had a number of meetings. I've been talking to Mayor Benjamin for a long time, trying to get him to be a part of this program and to kind of buy into the concept. And we talked about the data and the research and the things that go into this. And you know, I got a text message from him sometime last year, we were like, you know what, y'all were right. So let's get this thing moving forward. From then on, we decided to build and see what we could do with this program here. So I have to thank, you know, Mayor Benjamin and the City of Columbia for this. Next, I definitely have to thank the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition. I'm very, very, you know, aware of what the Fatherhood Coalition does. I was working with the Father Coalition for some years. So I know firsthand the effects and what they have in the families and these fathers and these communities. They don't just sit here and do peer support groups, but they're in these communities. They're doing things where they're doing grassroots, they're knocking on doors, they're talking to people, they're doing job fairs. They're really strengthening these families and bringing men back to the forefront, to the front of, you know, doing what they have to do to make these families and keep truancy down and just to do things for these children. So we definitely have to thank them. I work very closely with the staff here at the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition, most notably my buddy, Andrew Costin. You know, we sat down late nights and early mornings and meetings and just, you know, Zoom meetings and here and there to make sure that everything was going to run efficiently. I have to thank MGI, Mayor's for Guaranteed Income and Mayor Michael Tubbs. What he did was to come over this entire concept and fight for the United States, you know, just to make sure he did a whole trial run in Stockton, California, make sure everything was going to go smoothly. And he didn't just stop at his own town, his own city. He wanted to move this all across the United States and invite other mayors into the fold to say, you know what, this works in my town. Let's see if we can work in yours. Let's try to help other individuals out on this. So, you know, he was really, really, you know, just an advocate for what we were doing here. We've all talked to him. So things were just so exciting to be a part of that whole coalition there. You know, I also have to thank Mokify and Ignite Cities. You know, they work hand to hand to help us provide these debit cards to get together so we can have a way to facilitate the financial backing and the financial, you know, just to know how to do everything with this, to load the debit cards. We have to thank the Climb Task Force. A lot of the members are here today. We've got a task force full of individuals who were for Guaranteed Income and also a couple of critics who were against Guaranteed Income because you have to have everybody in the fold so you can flesh out the best solutions to these things. So, you know, we've got people who like it, who were against it. But, you know, if we can convince the people who were against it to actually be for it, then we know it works. We know it'll be a piece of data that will be supported. We have to thank SC Thrive. SC Thrive came in here with us and they did the benefits counseling. They sat all day with us right here in this building going over all the 100 participants that we had to offer them the benefits counseling and how this money could affect them, what they could do with it. Also, to offer additional benefits for these individuals that were coming through here so that they know that all these different benefits are available to them so we can, you know, strengthen these families the best way that we know how. I have to thank Central Carolina, who is our fiscal partner. You know, they have been so accommodating, so helpful to us over this past year, making things, you know, quite frankly, to be, you know, very simple because, you know, they reached out to us, they sent us everything that we need to do and they've just been on board with everything, so we want to thank them for their partnership and facilitating a lot of these things. You know, like Mayor Benjamin said, none of these these contributions are used from city or state funds. These are all private donations that are coming here, so we want to be able to expand this this this program here, you know, and as long as we're receiving more private donations, we can expand it as far as we can. So, you know, I want to thank the the UBI advocates all across the United States of America right now, you know, it's not just here in Columbia, they're everywhere, they're all across the United States and they believe in what guaranteed income can do for families. So we want to extend and expand this program, so if you want to get any more information, please go to columbiaclimb.com. You can contribute from there, but you can also go see the the FAQs on the frequently asked questions and get any more information you want to know about the program, how you can contribute, how you can volunteer, how you can assist and what more can be done to further this movement. The last thing I want to do, I want to thank my team, my client team, everybody who's been around, who's has stayed up with me and who's who's argued with me and you know, going back and forth about the design and the facilitation and how these things are going to work and doing the research and the data. You know, I have to thank my team because we work tirelessly for over a year trying to make sure that these things were going to happen. So I really just want to again thank everybody for coming out here today. You know, my team is around. If you want to ask any specific questions, they'll be here to ask any questions that you may have. This is something that I plan on trying to expand on a statewide level. There will be some legislation that will be introducing and hopefully this is something that we can make a trend for the whole entire state of South Carolina. So thank y'all so much for coming. Yeah, I can answer part of that right there. So we chose five because there is a parallel research study that has gone on in Jacksonville where they did it with mothers. So we need to have data that supports all sides of the spectrum, not just one specific side, but you know, other side. So it's unconditional payments. Doesn't matter, you know, what criteria you're in. We want to be able to have data that supports it up because we're a small part of a larger coalition of data and research that's going on all across the United States. There's other countries that are participating in this and we just want to be able to add and contribute into the fold of the data that's already existing. Yeah, so we are in our treatment group. There are 100 individuals in the treatment group, but we also have 130 in a control group. We are also the criteria you had to be 18 years of age or older.  So these individuals, they have come in here, they've asked for some sort of, you know, assistance on something, some sort of service. And that's how, you know, we got in contact with those individuals. And you had to be a resident of the city of Columbia 100 correct. Correct. We would all of their data would be tracked. It would be anonymous. So we won't know how any individual is spending their money. We won't know how any individual, what they're doing or how they're doing it. But we will have overall generalized data of where the economic impact is and make no mistake about it. There will be an economic impact that is coming to the city of Columbia based off of all this money because all the residents are in the city of Columbia. So this is where there will be more than likely will be where they're spending their money to come right here. So each participant is getting roughly around $6,000 for the entire year. So, you know, you times that, you know, by 100, you have $600,000 coming right here in the city of Columbia that will be spent right here. It's a mixture.  Some are married individuals. You know, and one of the good things about this is when we did the onboarding, I asked all of them one on one, I said, Hey, you know, how do you plan on spending your money? What are you going to do with your money? A lot of them, you know, you'd be surprised by the answer you were hearing.  None of the things that they said were self serving ideas. It was all about uplifting their families, uplifting their children, helping the communities out is what they all said. And I was, I was, you know, taken aback by that because I was so surprised that these individuals, they're not selfish individuals.  It's back to a few of the questions.  The it's important also to recognize the charity of Jack Dorsey. So again, while city council has endorsed this program, mayors for a guaranteed income, we raise the money, all the money directly from Jack Dorsey. Okay, just to be frank, the founder of Twitter is the the person who has helped stand these programs up all across the country. Different size awards to different communities. I made the decision to select the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition as a recipient of these flights. I'll make that clear. And that's based on the data that's been presented year after year by this wonderful organization in the way it's been changing lives every single day. Every program has been very different. I know the wonderful benefits of having a fantastic father who sometimes worked three jobs in order to provide for his children. And I know that so many men have given the same opportunity to provide even a very small amount of resources to help their children live up to the God given potential would also jump at the same opportunity. That's why I selected the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition. It's important to note that some of these other partners who have been involved have been very involved in Colombia over the last year plus as we've been working way through the pandemic. Ignite SC has been a long time partner of ours. You may remember them. They were the primary partner that helped us roll out the mesh Wi-Fi network over the colony and Bethel Bishop. Last year, George Bersiag and Rayard Cosme and the team there, MocaFi, we spent time with them over two years ago during my term as president of the Composite Mayors. We brought them to the table as well. Jermaine Johnson, Dr. Johnson, and Andrew Yang and so many others did a wonderful job all across the country extolling the virtues of universal basic income and raise I think a number of different, raise a different level of awareness across the country particularly as we're dealing with the challenges of automation, AI, and advanced machine learning. It's important to note, however, this is not UBI that many of us in this room would not ever qualify for this program. Everyone doesn't get a check. This is based on, this is a guaranteed income for men in this city and other cities that swim and other cities that sit particularly maybe a geographical area of census tract. People who are people of need who need that extra push or the extra bit of help. So again, fully philanthropically funded. It's important to say the name Jack Dorsey as many times as we possibly can. But this is not universal basic income. This is a guaranteed income and we will be tracking the information day by day. We hired Dr. Johnson because Dr. Johnson has been a leader in this space and recognized lead in the space and he will be leading this initiative going going forward. But I think it's important to recognize Jack Dorsey and also make it clear that it was important to me that if we're going to have a partner to do this with it needed to be the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition. And I'm glad we made that selection. He's got a lot of money. I'm usually there with you. I think in a perfect world, just as Representative Johnson, I keep going between Jermaine, Dr. and Representative, but just as Representative Johnson just intimated, I believe that smart policymakers follow good data. And that's the reason we chose the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition. This good data that shows that if you make smart investments investing people and give them a shot, they'll perform. They've been doing this program day by day. So that's why we selected the Midlands Fatherhood Coalition. If in fact this program may as for guaranteed income in partnership with this wonderful organization shows that the proof is in the pudding, then it ought to serve as a platform for not just local investment, but also state investment and federal investment as well. This is a chance to show people that if in fact you actually invest directly into citizens doing it in an randomized way, it's amazing. I won't drift into some of the other policy discussions going on right now, but there are a whole lot of folks who are working their tails off right now, y'all, working their butts off and are not earning a livable wage. We should be doing better. We should raise the minimum wage. That's a whole other story. We can talk about some other point, but there's dignity in work and there ought to be dignity in what we pay workers as well. We can do better. This is a way to show folks that just as each of us makes very difficult decisions and we invest in the things that matter most to us and our families, that these men will do the same. I believe the data will prove that out and serve as a wonderful platform for some smart policymaking by legislators going forward. Absolutely not. This is like Mayor Benjamin said, this is guaranteed income. So there's no strings attached. So if they want to buy a movie ticket, they buy a movie ticket. They want to pay for the child to take swimming lessons. They pay for the child to do swimming lessons. There's nothing that we're going to do that's going to change the amount of money that they're getting or remove it away from them. This is unconditional payment. So if they choose not to talk to me ever again, they're still going to get their money for this full year, because we're not in the business of dictating how people spend their money. We're in the dictating of giving people the resources so they can better their own lives. We stepped up. Michael Tubbs, a former mayor of Stockton who started this effort through his Stockton Seed program, is a friend. He'd say a mentee of mine. I'd say he's probably a part mentor and mentee and a dear friend. When he realized there might be an opportunity to secure a number of significant private sector partners to expand the Stockton Seed program all across the country, he reached out to his circle of friends. It was important to me because just as we've done on any number of different policy issues across the map, it's important to be able to show people that thoughtful ideas that are pro-people, that are pro-business, that are sometimes considered progressive, can thrive in the American South. So often we think that the former Mason-Dixon line is a Berlin wall where ideas that might actually invest in people, invest in the humanity and their dignity, don't flourish here. So it was important that just as the mayors of Jackson and Shreveport stepped up, it was important that we'd step up and be able to show that, and I think I guess we don't have any other folks who are that much closer, a whole lot of folks in the West Coast and up in the upper Midwest, but obviously have served as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, president of the African American Mayors Association. So that space is a space where we enjoy a lot of friendships and relationships, and we've attempted over the last several years to leverage them as much as possible for the benefit of Columbia, and this is one fantastic example of it that will help, I believe, change lives. And Chris, back to your question, we want these fathers to buy movie tickets. We want them to fix their cars. We want them to buy books, and if it just means they're going to spend some QT with their kids, building up, but as Representative Johnson mentioned, these are unconditional payments. This is their money. This is not our money. This is not your money. This is their money, and we'll have an opportunity to track it in an anonymized way to be able to prove the theory that we all have, that they have the same needs that we have, and if in fact we invest in them, everyone's going to be better off. The collective will improve, but we want them to buy movie tickets for the kids and themselves as well.


Hello, I'm Carlos, the current PTL for OpenStack Manila. And I'm delighted to share with you the progress we have made over the last release, which is the yoga release, as well as talk about our plans for this release, which is the red set release and what the directions Manila are going to look into. But first, let's start with a brief overview of what's Manila. So Manila is an OpenStack service to provide tenant-revent-posix compliant and distributed file system as a service. It has been up and stable for several releases now. It offers support for the most popular NAS protocols, such as NFS, CFFS, GlosterFS, MapperFS, HDFS, and it supports using over 35 storage system solutions. Manila is also inherently multi-tenant and secure. So it is capable of providing hard network and data path isolation guarantees with the help of tenant-dedicated shared servers. Tenants itself determine who has access to a shared file system, and access can be revoked at any time. Tenants can also integrate their own notification domains. Manila also provides quota control for billing and preventing resource exhaustion. Tenants' resources are scalable and elastic, so growing and shrinking shared file systems is instant and easy. Adding more to that, Manila's capability to reach. So it is a flexible model to provide tenants a shared service catalog. It offers tenants access to storage capabilities that are crucial, such as hardwall to tenancy, data protection, snapshot support, snapshot capabilities, such as reverting in place, mounting and cloning. These are discoverable and programmable and not opaque. So think of it as more like compute flavors and Kubernetes storage classes and less like scheduler hints or sender volume types, for example. After this brief overview, let's go through some highlights of the Yoga Release, start with a new feature. So the first feature to mention is the addition of multiple subnets in a single availability zone. So since Yoga Release, users can now specify more than one shared network subnet in any availability zone. This allows scaling the network on the nest servers that export their shared file systems. The community maintained container reference driver and the NetApp on Tap Drivers now support modifying subnets on the existing share networks. Another highlight is that shares cannot be soft deleted. So since Yoga, there is some sort of a recycle bin in Manila and shares can be deleted to this recycle bin. And these soft deleted shares can be restored or pushed permanently after a configurable amount of time. Also, cloud administrators are now able to specify affinity filters based on scheduler hints to influence the placement of shares and replicas. This is a step forward on hardware provisioning and ensuring that shares and replicas will be landing in specific packets. Also, placement metadata is governed by atomic policy that protects scheduler instructions from being manipulated by unsuspecting end users. And last but not least, the work to phase out from Oslo root rep in the Oslo private set has begun. Now, talking about some possible features and enhancements for the set release, starting with the SFNFS driver, which is going to receive a couple of updates over the C-cycle in order to address the scalability and performance of the driver. One of the updates is going to be the ability to request for a SFFATM deployed Ganesha. And for now, operators will still be able to request whether to have the SFFATM deployed Ganesha or to deploy it in the way they were used to. This is going to be done through a config option. So this config option in the future is going to be deprecated, but it's another future plan. And on Snapshots metadata, metadata has been reformulated for Bonilla. But what does it mean? It means that we have an effort to make metadata more generic internally. So we will be able to add metadata to even more resources. The work was done for Shares over the Z-Cycle and over the Yoga Cycle and on the Z-Cycle, the focus is on Snapshots. And the work for Shares, Shares already had metadata. So there shouldn't be no impact in the metadata that were already present. And with those changes, we will be able to be bringing up metadata for even more resources. And also this is a step for the new has seen usability for operators and making sure that they have means to group, tag, or filter their resources based on characteristics they define. No Hive should be done in the current metadata of Snapshots as mentioned. And also another important topic is that there were a couple of enhancements for UX, including both CLI and the horizon panels. For most of its lifetime, Bonilla had only its own native client. And after a few requests, we started introducing Bonilla comments to OpenStack. Reaching OpenStack client parity with Bonilla client has been a multi-cycle effort for us and it's getting close to be completed. And all that thanks to the incredible Bonilla contributors. The plan is to complete the implementation of all comments over the Z-Cycle. And at the end of it, I did an application warning to the native client. Bonilla UI also received a couple of enhancements. We had a few interns from the North Dakota State University working with us. And we intend to have supports for our network subnets at the end of this cycle. We still don't have feature parity with the most recent Bonilla APIs, but we are making decent progress. Another topic, ongoing topic is some oversubscription improvements for hardening and resilience. What can we consider oversubscription? If a storage pool supports thin provisioning and reports it to Bonilla, allowing thinly provisioned shares to be created, it is open to oversubscription. Administrators are able to configure the max of a subscription ratio they will accept. And these calculations are going to be, the calculations for to avoid much oversubscriptions are going to be enhanced. To also take in consideration that Bonilla could not be the only service using this storage. That's making this estimate to be more precise and allowing shares to be evenly balanced across the cloud. Bonilla will perform an estimate of the allocated capacity gigabytes and including in the driver's stats reported to the scheduler. So on our back, we have started it is effort in Manila on the Wallaby cycle and there's been some good progress. So over the Z cycle, we want to work towards hardening the phrase one and also implementing the phase two of our back. For more details, please check the secure back definitions. They are pretty complete and I will return documentation. For FIPS, FIPS became a community body goal. FIPS is the federal information processing standard and it's been a requirement for some deployments to ensure that systems will only be using approved libraries and algorithms in terms of security and then secure algorithms. So chains are being made to Manila in order to ensure that Manila also other open stack services will be using FIPS compliant libraries. 30-party driver maintainers will need to ensure that the drivers are FIPS compliant on their one if they want to. And going through some tech debt items, demigration of Oslo route rep is in progress. So we intend to have even more progress over this cycle. We have an open topic to drop Python Keystone client from Python Manila client.  For example, addressing current limit we have for three 26 volumes and adding trying to address that by adding support to Vitoria SCSI. And also we want to work on the online next stations. We would love to have a few volunteers for those topic items. So if you are interested, please reach us out and we can help you. Also, there are a few other things where we could use our help. For example, over the past cycles we have a bunch of internship opportunities such as route outreach, mentoring students from new universities. For example, North Dakota State University, North End University and the Boston University. And these were all some exchange where we managed to get exciting Manila community to interact with the interns and make progress on a few areas we wanted to. For example, OpenStack Client, Manila UI and OpenStack SDK. If you would like to be a part of it, please let us know and we can help you out through the process. Also we need more reviewers to maintain the Manila code base. So if you are interested, please reach out to me or to Gotham. And this process is an informal mentoring process that turned out to be very successful in the past. And we will guide you through understanding the code base and reviews and so on in the community itself. So yeah, thank you very much. If you have any questions, please direct them to us in order to see OpenStack Manila or you can reach out through OpenStack discuss many of these as well.