Well, my clock says four o'clock, so if we'll start our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, beginning our meeting, we need a motion to approve the minutes from our May 26th meeting. I assume there are no changes. Go ahead, Tom. I was just going to read it from the draft, in which case I would second the motion. Seconded, all in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. All right, financial reports. Joe? Well, for May, as we expected, our revenues are down significantly, mostly due to industrial load being off due to the pandemic, as we know. Our average net rate base is down about a third of what it was a year ago. So, our cash reserve increased, and of course, we remember that we had the on anticipation note funding come in, and that was $3,029,010. So our cash reserve went up by that amount due to that borrowing, which occurred in May, and that money is reserved for the Raw Water Design Intake Project design and engineering. Typically, we had some other bond principal and interest payments go out about $1.17 million. That reduces our cash pretty dramatically at that point as well, and then we do have our listing of notes. I won't go through those in detail. As far as billing, you can see from 2019 to 2020, we actually had a higher residential billing. Again, we believe this is due to more people being home or water usage in the homes. That was up, but then our wholesale customers, Falls and the Village of Kohler, well, Falls was pretty flat. The Village of Kohler was down about $7,000 for the month, and then as we go further into the report, you'll see our monthly billing is down significantly, and that reflects that industrial load as well being down. Is French running at all? Yeah, NEMAC, Jerry was down significantly, but they started to increase production in May, and we could see that pretty directly. Joe, I would assume that the consumables for water processing are down accordingly. Are there any other savings opportunities that we should know about? Well, the challenges so much of our expenses are fixed. We have fixed labor, fixed overhead. We've got a fixed operating plant with a little bit of difference for electrical, chemical consumption. That's where when we're producing less water, I guess you could say our efficiency is going down as well. That same plant could have produced twice the amount of water with hardly much more cost at all. I'm afraid I can't really indicate an easy cost savings when we're producing less water. Some facilities, when it goes to an extreme, could perhaps shut down, but we're not really able to do that either. We just have to take our blow as it was coming in that way. I didn't see anything that appeared obvious to me. I don't know your business as well as you do, but I just had to ask a question. Yeah, we have been kind of tasking ourselves for that, and the immediate items were capital items, so we've cut or laid a range of capital items. I think that's all I would report on the financials myself. Well, in that case, I would make a move that we accept the financials as represented. I second it. Moved in second. All in favor say aye. And chair votes aye. All right, Joe, on to the superintendent's report. Well, we'll start with the operations. And for May, you know, on the same theme, we were down, we produced about 26% less water than we did a year ago in May. So that's bad, but it could have been worse. We are now seeing more significant demands for the month of early, early weeks of June. You know, otherwise in the plant, I think the story is just much slower production. Our average day to date for the year is 10.48 million gallons instead of 12.31, which would have been last year. So again, about 25% is kind of what we're seeing or saw during May. Otherwise, I think looking at the detailed info and updates, we did have basin cleaning in May completed. That's when we have a company that comes in and removes sludge from our two manual basins and they press out the moisture and truck out the dry material, relatively dry material. So that was conducted. We did keep the east basin out of service because we discovered some cracks. The east basin is a large double-decker basin that was built in 1959. It stands all exposed. It's not much buried in the ground. We've been aware of cracks and such over the years, but we observed more cracking and we wanted to get to R.A. Smith, a company that does a lot of work with concrete rehab into the basin and take a look. So that east basin was actually out of service for the whole month of May as we've been inspecting it in more detail. Otherwise, you know, a lot of ongoing maintenance. I don't think I would add any more details than that and operations, unless there are questions there. And for me. When will we find out about that east basin? Well, actually, I believe Friday they took some cores. So they coreed samples of concrete and they're going to review those and really kind of give us like a plan of action, Jerry. Okay. Okay. And I think it'll be, you know, the Cadillac and the all the way down to, I don't know, what's the cheap garden nowadays. Something really cheap. Okay. I guess for distribution, then we did replace the crew replaced three street valves and two of those were on hydrants. So we replaced two hydrants as well. We had one main break on Gateway Drive, Tower Drive. It's a fairly new area, but there's just the, there's an area of crows of soil out there that contributes, you know, that main was probably put in and trying to think in the 1980s. So it isn't very old, but we did have have a main break there. And, you know, otherwise the crew was doing some concrete restoration on past main breaks. We did replace some bad water main in Kansas Avenue. That was just about 40 feet worth. We started up our auto flushers on hydrants out in the system to start those on dead ends to get that process automated. Our new property on North 36th Street up the hill from Brantmire. We built a driveway and include some brush there. And we're going to be using that store some some backfill materials and maybe some pipe and other things as we go forward. We kind of snake the driveway in. So it's our storage area will be a little bit hidden from the road. But we're starting to utilize that site a little bit. And then you might have noticed on Taylor Hill, the crew did some pretty significant tree trimming and kind of opened up that area. So you actually can see the Taylor Hill reservoir a little bit easier from the roads out there. I think that's my summary of distribution unless there's questions there. So what are we going to be storing out there on 36th Street? Just fill material just dirt or? Yeah, one of the primary things when when they have a main break, they have to take that material out and dump it somewhere, you know, in the heat of the main break. And then later we chuck it out to a landfill. Right. It's kind of going to be the go between for spoils from main breaks mostly. Okay. Okay. Well, we might also stockpile some gravel and some sand out there, which again, when we have a main break, if they're close to that site, they could get it from there instead of going all the way back to the plant. Okay. All right. Okay, then customer. Go ahead. Customer relations and fiscal. And you'll see we had a big increase in people using our drop box. That's because we're the office was mostly closed at 511 people drop payments in May compared to last year, 271. Fewer total payments, you know, we we did not disconnect and people were aware that we were not imposing late fees. So we had about 500 fewer total payments. Um, you see, we still have a lot of people not on automatic pay, we only have 16% of our customers paying automatically. Um, you know, just generally left activity, left property transfers, fewer calls during the month of May that we logged. No public service commission complaint. Uh, I guess also that's kind of interesting graph service tech miles driven this year compared to the last year, about half the mileage. Some of that is due to just less work out in the field, but also as we have more, um, as we're completing the radio meter reading system, there's just less monthly driving to be done. Um, cross connection inspections. These are in commercial and industrial facilities. Those were suspended and we only had five. And those are starting to pick up again now in June and we'll see more in July. We only replace six water meters. Those would have been in in leaky or emergency situations. Um, and then, uh, Facebook posts, we had a lot of interest and kind of opening buildings after they can shut down that link got a lot of interest and just kind of our drinking water week and recognition of the pandemic got a lot of interest. Uh, we did reopen the pay window on May 26th and that's been going well. Oh, it's very safe. We are customers and our staff are as isolated as could be from each other, uh, for safety. Uh, disconnection program is still suspended. Uh, and, uh, that's pretty much summary for May of customer relations and fiscal. I would move that we accept the superintendent's report as presented. I'll second that. I've been moved, moved in second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes. Aye. Moving on item number four, lead service. Anything going on with that, Joel? Well, our financial assistance program and overall replacement program is still under review at the PSC and we've been told it should go to a hearing in mid-June, which is, which is now. I think they meet on Thursday and their agenda comes out on Wednesday. So we're hoping it is on their agenda on Wednesday. Um, you know, again, that's authorizing the utility to have a loan program, six year loans that no interest, uh, for lab service line replacements. And we're pressing the PSC because we now have the Gile Avenue project starting up. And we, uh, really need them to approve that program before we start into the project for obvious reasons that we, we, when we had started that project, we thought we were still going to be using municipal assessments to pay for the laterals. And then you'll recall the PSC said, we don't want you to continue that if you're also offering utility grants. Um, so we had to move to the loans with, with grants. But when we first advised the customers early on, you know, we thought it was going to be different. So I would expect our customers to be a little confused when we finally have all this settle out on Gile Avenue. And I wouldn't blame them because we've had to switch direction. Um, at the end of the day, the costs that they'll see shouldn't really be very different. They'll be seeing a $2,500 grant, uh, non not having to be repaid. And the remainder of the costs for their, their lateral replacement will be under that six year no interest loans. So we're just waiting for the PSD to approve that. Once they approve that, then the Public Works Committee is holding a proposed ordinance change that would bring ordinance into sync with the, the PSC program involving the loans and a few other details so that everything is in sync with our program ordinance and what PSC has approved. So if all goes well and according to plan, we hope to have all that done by the end of June. And then we're thinking we might see invoices on the project, possibly early August, hopefully not any earlier than that. Okay. All right. Rollwater improvements intake project? Um, not a lot new to report there, but we have a survey of the site was, was completed today, in fact, and we're focusing a little more on shoreline protection issues and what that's going to look like. Um, in the raw water project, along with our existing shoreline, because we, we have suffered a lot of damage this past year. Um, there's areas behind the plant where there were multi ton boulders that have been moved. Um, and we're looking to rehab some of that in the shorter term. But otherwise, we continue to refine some of the details, pump selections, gen set selections. Uh, they've refined it down now to where the, the optimum backup generator configuration came out to be, uh, two natural gas generators, uh, rather than one huge diesel or natural gas gen set. Um, and some details like that are being further resolved. We do have a call, uh, tomorrow, or yeah, tomorrow with the public service commission to kind of update them on the project. And, uh, we're really trying to keep them along with us so that when we come in for construction authorization, that they're not surprised by anything they see. We want them to be fully aware of what we're doing, why we're doing it, and so that they can be supportive of it. Um, so I think we're aiming for preliminary engineering to be done by August and I believe we're on track for that, uh, to take place. Do you sense any risks, Joe, from the, the economic slowdown with the virus? I've been reading things that it might be 10 years before the economy rebounds to where it was in January. Do you think there's any risk from the public service commission of saying, yeah, maybe you should hold off on the project? I've not got any sense of that yet, Mark. Uh, it could develop, you know, if they feel that our finance are not strong enough to support the project. Um, but I think at the end of the day, the, the need for the project is pretty overwhelming. So I feel like, um, they, they may well raise those issues and want to be sure of our financial strength. But at the end of the day, I think we're going to see a lot of support. And, you know, the reason for that is because our, our intake system currently is uh, major parts of it are well over 100 years old and really in need of replacement. So I think, I think that's going to be recognized, um, even if there is a significant economic impact. And on the flip side of that, we might see some cost advantages that maybe we wouldn't have seen before. Um, if, if there's less work out there for contractors who are still, you know, up and running and want wanting to do the work. Yeah, I agree. The infrastructure is old and we need reliable infrastructure. Further questions on that? We gone to number five on the agenda. 5.1 request approval of a change in order on Maryland's 11th street water main project. Maryland Avenue. Yeah. So what happened here? This is actually a public works project where uh, they're redoing streets and, and some sewers in the area of rock line and, and preparation of some other redevelopment. And this was slated to begin in March, April. And at that point in time, rock line was, you know, in a major, major production mode, emergency mode. And, uh, they have only a single service coming into their facility from our water mains, which are very old and in that area, I would say delicate. So we were concerned that with this project starting up and, and the vibrations inherent in the street work that, uh, we did not want to see rock line have a sudden loss of water as they're producing disinfectants. So we in public works, uh, department had, had discussions with them and ultimately they're, it was decided to delay the project for time being. And now the project is ready to start up again. Uh, in order to reduce vulnerability to rock line, though, we had requested a proposal, a change order from Vinton, the contractor, to essentially run a temporary water service to them, uh, in a shallow berry kind of situation. So that when we start on the water main project, the old main, if it breaks, cracks, it won't matter because they'll have a six inch plastic temporary service buried about two feet deep. Um, you know, rock line was, was very, very concerned about loss of water and also quality of water. Sometimes when the old mains are, are disrupted, they can release sediment and you know, they're understandably very concerned about an event. Uh, even now they remain super busy in production. So anyway, we ended up with this change order. Um, we reviewed it, we had some various negotiations with Vinton and we felt that it would reduce risks significantly, uh, however, at a price. Um, we had some discussions with rock line and we came to an agreement that they would be willing to share a third of the cost, you know, of essentially a project that's kind of being pushed on to them. And I felt given the situation that for the utility also to have something go wrong, affecting their service was, was not a position we would want to be in. Although it is additional cost to the utility, I feel like the value is, is, is worth the cost. So the proposal is not only for the water utility, but the whole city. Exactly. And beyond. Yes. So the proposed change order is $62,000, a third of that, you know, 20,000, uh, 300 or whatever would be borne by rock line and the water utility would bear the remainder of additional cost. And rock line's okay with that? Yeah, they were very happy to, to work up a solution like this with us. Okay, good. Are we talking capital dollars, Joe? We are. Yes. Okay. We have the bandwidth and the capital budget for that? We do because we've delayed other much more significant projects. Okay. Those are my questions. Okay. Do you need a motion on that, Joe? Yes. So moved. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. And chair votes aye. Motion carried. 5.2 approval for proposal purchase replacement actuator. Highlights number five discharge line has an actuator that opens the discharge valve. We, we have mostly, most of our valves now have actuators on them so that the operator isn't down there cranking the valves open any longer. This actuator is 13 years old. When we looked at it, the rehab work was going to exceed 50% of a replacement unit and when it actually came in it was a new actuator's 4,895 and to rehab the old one was something like 4,000 dollars. So that's our situation there. I would move that we accept the proposal because of good use of our money. Second. I second it. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And chair votes aye. All right. 5.3 approval to restrict funds for potential health insurance laser liability. Last month we had the health insurance renewals, which we do every year at June 1st. And the renewal this year, well last year they had one so-called laser. That's where they put a special deductible on an individual instead of our stop loss deductible. So that laser deductible is always higher and takes the place of the stop loss deductible which is 60,000 dollars. So this year we had two lasers and Lisa and I both felt that we certainly had not budgeted for that. And it's kind of hard to budget for lasers that may or may not happen and may or may not be imposed by the stop loss carrier. But we felt because there are two this year totaling 380,000 dollars that we should restrict a certain bad amount of operating cash just to hold in reserve to offset that risk. I think Lisa felt that that was a good thing to do just to restrict those monies just so that we could not possibly have a surprise there. I mean clearly we have our cash reserve is much, much larger than that. But we would both recommend restricting that amount for that purpose for the coming calendar or health insurance year. I think from a financial standpoint, given my profession, I think it definitely makes a lot of sense to restrict those funds, have them set aside so that if we do end up with a problem that we've got that money to to take care of it. Any further questions on that? Not for me. All right. Well, I'll make a motion to restrict those approve that motion to restrict those funds. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Motion carried. Next, we've got our commercial insurance program package. To keep things interesting, our commercial insurance renews on July 1st and goes for a full year. For the past three years, we've had coverage through the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, which offers a plan for municipal entities. We've been happy with their coverage. We haven't had a lot of issues. And the package here that we're talking about is general liability, public officials, errors in omission, liability, auto liability and damage, property, crime. And those are the key elements along with some cyber security insurances in there as well. When we began with the League program, within three or four months afterwards, they did do a new appraisal, a very detailed appraisal of our property value. And it went up to close to $64 million. And then our premiums did go up subsequently to offset that new appraisal. This renewal, we have a proposal from the League plan, which I did email separately because they're kind of lengthy documents. And we do have a proposal from, well, through HUB International and their local reps. And the insurance vendor is selective insurance, which we had worked with before we had the League program. So we do have a long history with selective and now some history with the League. And we did provide a line by line breakdown of the coverage elements. And as far as Lisa and I can determine, the coverages are comparable. They're both covering the same things within, you know, again, the level of detail that we can surmise. They're both reputable providers. The proposal from the League came in at a total premium of $78,273. And the total premium from selective came in at $71,405. So the selective premium was a little less than $8,000 less costly this time. I think in the prior two years, we did not have a proposal from them because they weren't able to be competitive. And something changed in the marketplace. I don't know what changed, but I think the League costs went up somewhat and the selective costs went down so that they were able to be competitive again. So that's my summary, Lisa and I have reviewed both proposals. We did not see any errors or issues. And I think it comes down to a cost difference. I think if we weren't familiar with selective, we might have a little more uncertainty, but they covered us for numerous years in the past and we're perfectly good carriers. So I don't really have anything negative to say about either carrier. I think they've both been very good. Questions from the commission? Standing. Your recommendation is then to go with selective's proposal. That's correct. Okay. Tom, I think I interrupted you. I'm good. I have no problems. Okay. Make the motion that we accept the selective bid. And I will second that. All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. And share votes aye. Moving on, 5.5, approval of the RO transmitting the PSC annual report to council. I'm sure you all read it word for word. I looked at it. See how much really, really old water main we have. Yeah. Was that Jerry? I was just going to say it's pretty, pretty interesting when you start looking through some of the stuff that's in that report. A lot of details. So I would go ahead, Jerry. Go ahead. No, no, that's all right. I was just going to make a motion that we approve transmitting the RO to the council. I'll second that. All in favor say aye. Aye. And share votes aye. All right. Joe, you're still with us? I am. Any PSC code changes? None. As far as approving vouchers, motion to approve the vouchers. We already signed for those, correct? It's signed for April. April? Oh, okay. Have we seen May then yet? May should be in the, at the end of the financial report, Mark. The financials, okay. And then again, I'll, I think I emailed those the details separately. We didn't want to post all that information publicly. Okay. It was right at the end of the operations report, right? Yes. Financial, financial. Actually at the end of the financial reports, not operations. Yeah, so we have this sheet, this, the cover sheet. We don't have the detail. Don't have the details. Yeah. Yeah, that I emailed to you, I think on Friday. Okay. All right. So we did see that on Friday. That was what we were, okay. And I had no questions from when I reviewed that last week because right around the same time at the RL for the PSC annual report came out. Right. Yes. I would make a motion that we approve the vouchers as presented. The second? Second best. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Man's chair votes aye. All right. Moving on. Any plans for regarding COVID risk reduction, Joe? Well, I think our plan is pretty well in place. We're going to stay open to with the pay window. Probably in about one to two weeks, we're going to start doing large meter changes in industrial settings. I feel that's going to be a good place to start picking up our work activity. Before we're starting to go into residential settings. So we've got that work to catch up on. On the Geely Avenue project, our plumbing contractor will have to enter those homes multiple times to do the lead service line replacement and install the meter setting and all of that. And we'll be requiring them to be masked and take the basic precautions that we all know about. And otherwise, we're just staying with our plan. We have plenty of safety equipment for staff. We're encouraging its use. We're requiring face coverings in the workplace and for vendors coming in. And we're going to continue to do those things and try to keep everybody safe. Do we have shields besides the masks, Joe? We do have shields. See, we ordered, I think, about 20 of those. And the supervisors have those for any staff that might want to wear those. And I thought, when we do start going into homes, maybe they would add that on more layer. So we have them available if staff wants them. Yes. And we now have disposable masks as well. Okay. Next on the agenda is our next meeting, which will take place on the third Monday of July. That'd be the 20th. According to my calendar, it's the 20th. Yes. Any problems with July 20th, gentlemen? I'm good. Joe, I'm just wondering, what does your crystal ball say about getting back to normal in the office? My crystal ball is a little foggy, Mark. I'm trying to rub it off here and there, but I'd rather err on the side of safety. And I agree with that completely. Even as far as these meetings being virtual, I agree with that completely. So I think, you know, the summer, our office staff is pretty able to work remotely in an effective way.  Our accountant maybe one day a week. The engineering staff is maybe two days, three days. So we're kind of handling it like that. And I feel comfortable like that for maybe the next one to two months, unless something changes. Does the city have a plan on as far as, you know, their meetings and things like that? All I'm really aware of is their face covering policy, which they've put out now. You know, City Hall is open. I think they've put up some barriers and things like that. But I'm not too much aware of any other steps that they're taking. Okay. Well, I guess time will tell. In the meantime, we've got a date set and we'll go from there. Yeah, indeed. Great. All right. Any other business? Oh, I think we need a motion to adjourn. That's it. I second that motion. All right. Chair, all in favor say aye and get up. Aye. Aye. All right. All right. Chair votes aye. Gentlemen, thank you. Can I just give you a call? Can you give me a call back in a few minutes? Sure. Can I just give me a call on my cell? I have something outside the commission stuff that I want to ask you. Just a question. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. All right. Thank you guys. Stay safe.


We've been coming to the Air Station since the early 70s, mainly because the weather is so nice here year-round. We know a lot of the same people that have been here, the civilian employees, everybody that's been working here. So it's a good time for us to get away from D.C., all the distractions, to get out here and put a show on the field. The Marine Corps Air Station Yuma has always reached out their hand and made this place feel like a second home to us. As we come out here and we dig in for four weeks, so that we can take a one-hour show that literally didn't exist six weeks ago. And by the end of our training, we have a pretty incredible product that we can give to not only our fellow Marines and service members on bases, but the public and whatever arena. And Yuma is able to provide all those things for us. We're here for about four weeks, starting in the beginning of February. We train for about 27 days straight. Then we go on the road and do what we call our West Coast tour to visit all the installations on the West Coast of the United States. It's definitely rewarding, especially today coming out on the field in the uniform and getting to perform with the unit. It's not really a feeling that you can replicate such as that. We put in a lot of hours and a lot of preparation into this. And getting to be a part of the unit is something that isn't really able to be put into words. It's a really, really great feeling.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is a Sunday in FIFA Ultimate Team. Weekend League sell-off is full effect, is in full effect. The market is just still dropping all over the place. SPC fodder is down. Players out of packs are down. It's all just going down as everybody is focused on the two-for-one packs, the 81 plus player picks, and the new SPCs that EA is dropping. We had another showdown SPC set released yesterday on Saturday, so I want to talk about that and then also just kind of give a slight outlook for where I think this market could be headed today with stuff continuing to drop and the focus being on those 81 plus player picks along with the SPCs you can craft from it. And as we near the end, I guess you could say of this very short promo of foot player days, what am I expecting to happen? Because a lot of people are going to be done with the SPCs. They're going to see these prices low. I think a lot of people are going to be ready to invest and try to make some coins and specifically watch these cards potentially rise as we head on out from this foot player days promo because that is what happened. Last time that we had this promo, and I want to show you guys a couple cards right now, let's start it off with just kind of looking ahead into today on Sunday. Looking at a couple cards, I'm using foot freeze as an example. A couple cards that actually went down when foot player days was released with the two-for-one packs as even out-of-pack specials that dropped big drop offs in the beginning of March, right? This Usman was 1-3. Foot player days dropped him down to 1.13. He rebounded back to a little over 1.2 and it was actually probably higher than this. This is just the daily average price on that Saturday before we of course dropped down a little bit more the next week after that. But there was a decent amount of market rise on some of these popular out-of-pack special cards that got sold because the focus was on other things. After the first time we had foot player days, and especially with the new cards that are in packs, this Encore Squad bringing a lot of supply to the market. I think that actually maybe put a little bit more coins on the market than before with the two-for-one packs. Maybe just a little bit, we'll see. But I think that they've been releasing pretty decent high amounts of pack quantities with these two-for-one packs and that is putting coins on the market. I know people are expending 100,000 coins to go and get a pack. People are opening this with coins, but a lot of this again is with fever points. So it's almost just like an influx of actual coins hitting the market because people are getting two packs instead of one. So I do think there's potential for EA and for this market to have a nice little bit of rise. And that's kind of maybe what EA is doing. Also, I just kind of thought of this, but this might be EA's kind of setup for putting some coins in people's clubs. Hey, spend some fever points. We have a couple out-of-packs special cards in packs. Put some fever points on. Get two packs for the price of one. And we're going to release an icon SPC next week, which is going to give you more coins to maybe go up and do some that icon SPC and then to drain those coins back out of your club before we head into team in the season. I don't know. That's just kind of me theoretically thinking here. But what is happening right now is a lot of coins are being put on to the market.  But also, I feel like that's going to find its way into hopefully making the market rise a little bit after Tuesday. And I think today on Sunday might be some of the low days for out-of-packs special cards that have dropped off a decent amount. So we'll talk about that a little bit too. But of course, I need to talk about this because the market is dropping because of these two SPCs. But this one specifically, David Neres, getting himself a showdown card with incredible juice. Just on this, you know, non-upgraded version. Five star skills, four star weak foot, 88 Neres. Also a 89 rated Ed and Jekyll card. And this guy has all the hype right now in Fopen, right? Take a look at the thumbs up on this Neres card. 6,300 thumbs up. Unbelievable amount of hype on this Neres card. Brazilian links make some semi-linkable. Of course, the Aeridivisie has been a very special card friendly this year.  You've got a lot of those squad foundation players. Antony, future stars exploded. You guys know that link invest perfect link to this Neres card. But the reason why this guy is getting so much hype is because five star skills. The stats that he has. This dude is literally stat for stat almost equivalent to Raheem Sterlingfoot birthday. And he has more stats than Neymar. So all left wings are getting destroyed because this is only 160K craftable even with the player picks. And you know, everybody's getting on that one. This Jekko is even cheaper, 130,000 coins. This one deserves more thumbs up, in my opinion, because this is like rule breakers, Harry Kane kind of vibes from me. Because look at the agility and balance upgrade that this Jekko got from his gold card, right? Of course, you got the five star weak foot. He got plus 44 balance and plus 32 agility from his gold card. So this is probably the most usable Ed and Jekko card you're going to see in FIFA ever this year, ever. I don't know if Ed and Jekko has ever had a really sick and usable FIFA card, especially for the way the meta is in this game. So just watch out for that one. I think both of those SBCs are not terrible value, but specifically the David Neres everybody is going after. Everybody's huge IX fans or most people are going to be huge IX fans come this Thursday. And again, a reminder that it doesn't matter which team goes through the next round for these showdowns. It's all about that one game. If one team wins, that player gets a plus two boost. If it's a draw, only plus one for both. So we're hoping a lot of us are hoping that David Neres can get that 90 rated sauce and jump up to a hugely boosted card at 90 rated, which would be really, really dope. But again, back to the market. You see a lot of these special cards have dropped off. You know, pretty large amounts in price, especially today. After seeing the content that has come out, Lasano 478, this McConnel is 250. That's really, really low. Goretzka is under 400K. This Benzema actually went up today because he scored a goal in a classic goal. He is back down. You know, Sun, Holland, they're kind of chilling there. They're not really moving too much. Sun actually was a little unaffected today by the left wing panic. But look at this Mbappe, 5.8 mil for this card. That is down. Bruno at 2.8. Van Dyke was under 2 million just a minute ago. So you have cards, icon moments are down a decent amount. Again, looking through some of these promo teams, 1.66 for Fati Newhouse who was 1.40 on Thursday is now 100K flat. This Raina card has dropped with Sancho. Saka's back under 1.2. Tapsova was almost 600K earlier this weekend. Bastoni was 2.40. Ruben Diaz, that's all is a Thursday flip at 277,000 coins. He's now down at 2.29. So a lot of this market has really, really dropped off because again, the focus is on those SBCs. But as I talked about, this market now has some more coins or it's going to have some more coins heading out of this week. So once the focus maybe transitions away from the SBCs this weekend, back to the market and maybe some people having coins and trying cards out, what I would really watch out for is honestly some of the stuff to pick back up. Now, of course, we're getting close to team in the season. And I have a slight theory in the back of my mind. If they're going to run team in the season like they did last year, which I'm not really expecting them to, but if they were going to start it as early as they did last year, we could see a loading screen for team in the season as early as this next Friday. So I'm not trying to cause panic, but I'm just kind of putting that out there in your mind that team in the season is not as far away as you think. We're going to be talking about that this coming week if we don't have any information on already from EA Sports because that is something that could be coming very soon in FIFA. So until then, no, I do think you could see a decent amount of a market rise, whether that be on fodder or whether that be on the out-of-pack specials, 250 for this Umakano is crazy, right? He was literally 300,000 coins earlier today. If I see anything lower than 250, I'm going to snag it. And I'm honestly going to buy up this one at 250 because I think that I'm going to be able to sell this probably somewhere around the likes of 280,000 coins on a fluctuation when he gets rare sometime Sunday morning because I think that 250 was just way too cheap. Anyways, that's probably a good little flip happening right there. Anyways, that's why that's the kind of stuff that I would expect to go back up, right? Now, one area I would watch for a quick rise, this is going to be a place on the market where a lot of people are going to look to get involved, probably today. So the quicker that you get involved in this, the better. Road to the finals. Road to the finals are going to get bought up. They're going to start to get looked at again. This Alaba was down to 375. It is absolute lowest yesterday on Saturday around the content drop just because people selling when they saw Neres come out and doing player picks. But these games are on Tuesday and Wednesday of this next week. So the only thing I see really pushing a lot of this stuff down a lot more this today or tomorrow on Monday would be an icon upgrade SBC. And to be honest with you, if it hasn't come out now, what, who am I to say that it's going to be coming, right? Who am I to sit here and tell you that it's going to be coming soon? I'm just going to sit here and say, I know everybody wants it. We know everybody wants it. And we're just going to wait on it. We're just going to wait on it. We're going to wait EA out and see what they do. Because that's kind of the only thing we can do right now because fodder just keeps dropping as well. Because every single day we have these two-for-one packs with no demand for the really high tier in the SBC market. You just see this stuff drop even lower. And let's take a look at that right now because we have got 89 rated players under 60k. Some of these guys were even lower earlier. 87s in the 30s, low 30s, 88s are in the 45k range. I think one of the craziest things for me today was, and this is almost happening daily, right? 86s earlier today were 23,000 coins. Now they're back up to about 25, 26. So if you got in on any of these GG, because this already started to bounce back a little bit into Sunday, which Sunday has been an icon SBC day in the past. So we'll see if they drop it today. I'm not expecting it. And if I say I'm not expecting it, then maybe they'll do it. So EA sports, I'm not expecting it, all right? Don't do it. Don't do it. Put it out. Okay. Don't do it anyways. Just watch the fodder because I think people are going to get interested in this. And it already is starting to kind of bounce back. But 84s at 7k is really cheap. 85s at 13, 14 is really cheap as well. So just like we've seen every single day this week, then the new day comes and people like, hey, it could be icon SBC today. So they start buying up fodder, but then it does not come. And then two for one packs come and the stuff drops. So if you're trading with this stuff and you're just playing off of the hype of people thinking there's going to be icon SBCs. I love the excuses that people make every single day when they're like, yeah, man, icon SBC is going to come today. It has to, right? It's been has to, it's been too long. Fodder is too cheap. EA sports, you've supplied fodder. Well, you know what? It's their game. They can do whatever they want. They're in control. So I just have a complete laugh. I just think it's funny to see people always try to predict what EA is going to drop for content. And when in reality, we don't know when they're going to drop an icon moments SBC. There's no way to really like track that and to know that. They have been following a schedule in the past before, but that's definitely out the window as of right now. So could it come soon? Maybe. Am I going to bank on it? Am I investing in it? No, because that's, I don't like relying on EA for that sort of stuff. That's why I've been trading with all of these cards that you see here, right? Special cards, icons, undercuts, fluctuations, because that is more guaranteed to me than trying to invest in this fodder stuff. But yeah, I just kind of wanted to make this big conversation today and talk about some of these out-of-packs cards that could go up a decent amount. And again, if you're going to be looking at some stuff that could be low today on Sunday, if you're not expecting any sort of big-time icon SBC to come out, I mean, look at how low some of this has dropped. Tiago 387. I mean, this guy was 430K a couple days ago, right? This Anaki Williams literally on Saturday morning was 330,000 coins and he is down under 300K right now. Saturday morning, look, 330,000 coins for this Anaki Williams. Down to 298. Parasit was like 380. Down to 340. He was 315 earlier today. Vardy is down a decent amount. Lucas is actually up with the Brazilian links. So really, if you're watching Panic Selling today, some of that Brazilian link icons or stuff like that could be a really good watch and just your really meta cards in general, right? I watched this in Babu today, fluctuate from 340 to 390. This Kante has gone from 1.15 down to almost a million coins flat. This Burchiche is down from 175 where he was on the weekend. So I would really, really watch a lot of this stuff. Remember what's hyped and what's the good links are right now and what is just hyped up in this game at the moment. So the only thing that I could see, all the stuff that is in packs, those foot-on-court players like Kamavinga, who's the future star player? Oh, it's Kamavinga. Like let's say the Road to the Final Hazard that is in packs as well, a messy team of the group stage. Kimmich is in form, which by the way, I think this informed Kimmich is ridiculously cheap. I think this is, it's nuts how cheap this card is. It's probably a little bit difficult to actually find it on the market because I don't know if they'd use the basic Kem style or whatever, but yeah. Here's the 92 Kimmich at 166,000 coins, but I mean this card, one of the best CDMs in the game, I have a team of the year and it's cracked. This one's probably good too, you know? But this card being 166,000 just seems really, really cheap, right? And Kamavinga for once being a 1.3 million coin card, now down in the 1 point, he's not even, he's not, he's like 790,000 or something like that right now. Like a lot of these cards just seem really, really cheap. Could they start rebounding? Yes, I do think there is potential for these cards to rebound up a little bit and I think people are going to invest in them. Specifically, Road to the Final Hazard, specifically Gucci Headband. I think those are the two players from this team that are going to be invested in. Now Hazard was like 760 earlier today, right now he's like 789, 780, so he's maybe up a little bit, but of course this could be potentially going to a 93, if Real Madrid can get past their second leg and continue on to the next round of tournament, it'll get upgraded this next weekend on Friday or Saturday. So that is one thing to kind of keep a watch out for as we mentioned with like the players that are playing in Champions League games or Europa League games, even like a Kanji, right? I showed you guys a Kanji. They're losing to City, but this guy was 400K earlier in the weekend. I mean, this at 349,000 coins is really, really cheap for me. So I think you're going to see some of this, the Road to the Final Stuff start to pick up first because that's the stuff that's going to be happening first during the week. So that's 100% a place where I would look on the market right now and a lot of these Brazilian icons with the links to the Neres are up. And, you know, I bought this for 610K today. This Socrates was around 1.2. He's still about 117. Ronaldinho, you know, these guys are moving around and there's panic selling and stuff like that. But there's also a lot more demand for those cards. So I would 100% keep an eye on some of these Brazilians with the hype and with the links that they do have. And of course, just your meta and your rare cards that are out of pack specials. That's the places where I'd be looking on the weekly sell-off today. And I think that you can feel decently confident about a market rise coming back later in this week. Because again, there's a lot of coins that have been put on the market. And I think once the hype kind of turns away from SBCs, you'll see people maybe go out and want to buy some cards a little bit unless there's some sort of panic for an icon SBC or a team of the season coming with any of that information. But icon moments would be one area of the market that I'd be semi-interested in. They have been supplied a decent amount and they have dropped down. Like this Figo is down in the 1-3s earlier today. Drogba is down 1-7. So these cards are down a decent amount. 1.11 for Shwini. Oh my goodness, that is low. So you're seeing a lot of prices like this on the game. They're just down that have dropped. And some of those could bounce back up a little bit later in the week as people have coins to go out and to buy cards to link maybe new SBCs or whatever that they have done or incomplete it. So that's kind of where I'm feeling with this market. I do feel like today on Sunday you're going to have another culmination of panic selling. Maybe a little bit of that before 6 p.m. depending on the content that we get. But we can sell off specifically and also these two for one packs. But I feel like after today on Sunday even though the foot player days promo is not over until Tuesday at 6 p.m. And we'll maybe even have more two for one packs on Monday. I feel like since it's Sunday there's going to be people that look to buy cards today so you might see a little bit more competition. But I also think you're going to see prices continue to drop down a little bit as well. So my plan personally is I'm going to be staying pretty liquid and just quick flipping in and out of cards because that's my jam, right? And that's what's made me a decent amount of coins this week. I don't actually, I think the weekly transfer profit leaderboards have reset, but it was a really, really solid week for me in terms of the money that we made this week. We made almost about 1.5 million coins in total this week which was, it's really, really good, right? Starting the week on like a 2.8 to 2.9 million coin budget. Moving that budget up a tremendous amount and actually still having about 800K even with the prices dropping of fodder. It's just sitting on my transfer list as well. We're doing pretty good for coins in the account, man. We really had a solid week and I want to continue building on that success as we head into team of the season because we're very, very close and that's why you don't really see me spamming the 81 plus player picks is because I'm trying to grind my account to get up to the highest potential that it can be as we near team of the season because that is such a huge time for packs and SBCs and there's going to be tons of opportunities to make coins during team of the season but I want to also roll into that promo with coins available so that I can be participating in doing upgrade packs and stuff like that. So that's just kind of how I'm feeling about the market right now, boys. Another day of foot player days is coming today. We've had SBCs for the past two days with the showdowns of the first two days of this promo so they have said that themed objectives and SBCs would be a part of the content that they're dropping for foot player days so we'll see if they do continue that today with another player SBC or if they will finally drop whatever icon SBC that they want to drop on FIFA Ultimate Team. So definitely watch for a little bit of a bounce back on the market maybe starting tonight even as people start to invest in that stuff unless something crazy on the game today. But that's kind of how I'm feeling. Again, just a lot of the hype and a lot of the focus is on those player pickpacks which is draining a lot of coins because people are trying to complete SBCs but once the player picks go away on Tuesday after that because if there's nothing else to do you're going to see the market rise kind of like we saw as the foot birthday promo ended on Thursday and on Friday just a couple days ago and the saw the market go pretty high there but now we're back with this and we are seeing the market drop again because again those 81 plus player picks people go bananas for those SBCs. So that's the video for today boys if you did enjoy it smash the thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new it's been Nate the Foot Account and I will catch you guys later peace out.


So, on January 16th, 2018, there was a Michigan Meteor, and people going crazy over this, and admittedly, me and my wife were fascinated by it as well, and we got to see the flash of the meteor.  If you don't know, I have a home stereo system that's kind of loud with bass. I just thought she was doing something or something in my headphones. I didn't really pay much attention to it. But the flash caught my eye, and I thought, wow, something's really, you know, bright. Well, that's what this was, and this is a great video of it. This is on YouTube. I'll leave a link to this. That little flash was the meteor. Not much. So, pretty cool. That I know of, nothing was heard, but look at this for a second. It almost is like daylight outside. We checked our security camera footage at the business here, and same thing, it lit up the whole parking lot briefly. I'd show you the video, but I'd have to dig through it, and it's really not interesting because our cameras don't look up. But dash cam videos do. So they gave us a better picture of what was going on here, pretty wild. But of course, right away, people are like, oh, no, it's a government conspiracy. It's a missile, and they shut it down, and people are saying, that's not the noise because it was a big boom, and they're saying, that's not the noise that it makes. I'm like, no, no, that's exactly the noise that it makes. And for those of you wondering, of course, then the conspiracy theories, I don't know why I ever argue with any of them, because it's mind-numbing at times. This was the 2013 caught on camera meteor, the Russian meteor. So look up the Russian meteor, tons of YouTube videos on this, but watch this and listen, it makes exploding noises, it broke windows. It's exactly how it sounds. This is what happened in Russia. So this is not a new occurrence. This is exactly how it works. It makes like a big boom. It's shooting really, really fast. It's really surprising when you're playing video games. And there's lots of videos. I retweeted a few of them. So if you follow me on Twitter, there's a link to there. I retweeted a few of the other videos. They're just wild to watch and pretty crazy. This video is from the ISS. So they caught the event as well on their camera. And there it is, entering our atmosphere and away we go. So you can find a lot of the stuff in here. I'll leave some links here in the comments, but it's a Michigan meteor incident. That's why I was retweeting about it because it came very interesting. This was kind of cool too that it registered as a 2.0 earthquake. I happened to live kind of where the air was a little further south. I live right down in here and it came from this direction. So that's kind of the way the sonic boom came in. But I'm doing this video because people are looking for it and want to know what it was and hopefully by now everyone does. I know the tinfoil hats are out there going government. It was actually South Korea.  I'm like, man, it's it's tough because before these people were on the Internet, they didn't have a lot of other people encouraging them. And now I can't tell if they're being encouraged by trolls or if they really believe the BS that they're talking about. But you can find as it was a real meteorological event, not a missile. And for anyone wondering, yes, go look at the Russian one. Yes, it makes a sonic boom when it comes in and will shake you and be very loud. But what a wild and astrological event also makes me a little nervous. I guess I don't know the size of it. I'm hoping for some my astrological astronomical, not astrological, different different category of people. Hopefully some of these astronomical friends that I have will help shed some light. I don't know how big the object was that causes this. Maybe we'll check for Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of my favorite astrophysics guy. So far, I see no tweets from him on it. I'm hoping he addresses it. He's real knowledgeable about these things. And I want to know, Neil, how big does the rock have to be to flash that big? That's that's the question I have for you. So maybe we'll I'll retweet some of this to him. And hopefully he replies as I don't know what he's been. He's T tweets a lot. Love the guy. Fascinating. So anyways, that's what happened in Michigan last night while I was playing video games and you can follow the links to see it. Yes, it's not a conspiracy. Yes, it really happened and it's novel and cool. So all right, thanks.


In this video, we will get the information you need to perform a failure mode and effects analysis on the electronic components of the power supply converter unit. This technique is part of the risk identification and analysis activities required to develop this case study. Remember, you are participating in a project to design an Earth observation satellite able to capture detailed images of a chosen part of the world. Our customer has some requirements regarding safety and dependability. One of the dependability requirements is that the satellite shall be tolerant to one outage. An outage could mean failure, software bug, or operator error. To ensure compliance with this requirement, we propose to do a failure mode and effects analysis. The failure mode and effects analysis is an inductive method. This means that it goes from the causes to the unwanted effects. This method considers the component failures and how they impact overall system behavior. In order to carry out a failure mode and effects analysis, we first have to define the system. Then, we need detailed information about the system architecture and the different component behaviors. For each component, failure modes must be defined. For each failure mode, we analyze its effect on the same level and on the upper levels. This technique is mostly used to understand electronic or mechanical failures of primary components. Now, we will study the power conditioning and distribution unit of our satellite. This unit contains power supply electronic converters. They are responsible for transforming the unregulated power supply provided by the solar array and the battery between 22V and 37V to the diverse voltages needed by the satellite equipment such as 24V, 12V and 5V. The working principle is as follows. The unregulated power supply, also known as UPS, is filtered by a capacitor C1. A pulse-width modulation controller, called U1, switches the current flowing inside transformer T1 on or off. Diode D1 protects the UPS and the transistor Q1 against overvoltage during Q1 commutation. T1 transforms the voltage between primary and secondary windings. Diode D2 rectifies the alternative voltage from T1. Capacitor C2 filters plus 5V output voltage. Diode DZ1 is a fixed voltage reference. Resistors R1 and R2 constitute a voltage divider that is used by the operational amplifier U2 to compare an image of the output voltage to the reference DZ1. Then it informs U1 if the plus 5V rises or falls. So U1 fits the width of the square signal which drives Q1 to compensate fluctuations. As you can see, there is a risk of failure propagation inside this unit. It could lead to a catastrophic event from a dependability point of view, because a spike made damage equipment or a power loss may lead to other functions breaking down. This will induce non-compliance with our customer requirements. For this reason, we will perform a failure mode and effects analysis. We suggest using the following template that has been accepted by our customer. In the column component, you list each one of the components that make up the converter. In the column failure mode, you describe the different failure modes of each component. Then you describe the effects that each failure mode has on the equipment and on the system. In the column severity, you have to classify the risks according to the risk levels that we have presented previously. In the column detection means you have to mention how each failure mode would be detected. In the column compensations, you will explain the existing compensation means to reduce the consequences of this failure mode. Finally, think of some recommendations to prevent these failures or to reduce their severity level. We could add a column for the different life cycle phases. However, for this study, only the space phase will be considered. We have agreed with our customer that the selected failure modes will be the following ones. For capacitors and diodes, we will consider open circuit, short circuit and drift. For resistors, only open circuit and drift will be considered. For the transformer, we will consider winding open circuits and short circuits between windings. For the transistor, junctions in open or short circuits. For the integrated circuits, we will consider terminal open circuit and short circuit and high and low level outputs. Remember that this technique considers single loss failure only, no combinations like with the fault tree analysis. Now, you have all the information you need to understand a failure mode and effects analysis.


Hi, my name is to Sean card. I'm a policy analyst on the higher education team here at New America. Two cases currently sit with SCOTUS student for fair mission versus Harvard College and student for fair mission versus the University of North Carolina, which could likely ban colleges and universities from considering race and their missions process. If SCOTUS decides to overturn affirmative action, we can expect to see many damaging and revealing effects throughout the higher education system and other public institutions here in New America. We acknowledge that we are not experts on affirmative action. However, we are dedicated to making higher education more equitable and accountable for those fighting for inclusion rather than exclusion. So everyone can obtain an affordable high quality education. Therefore, we are very committed to using our platform to uplift those with deep expertise and knowledge to raise awareness and speak and spark cohesive dialogue on creating future policies to ensure that higher education institutions are a guiding light in embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion. I want to introduce Dr. Oyan Poon who's a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland at College Park. She has done a lot of research and amazing work around race and higher education. Don't want to speak too much because I want to give her the floor to talk about her work and why she's interested in being in this particular policy space. Thank you Dishon. Hi everyone. I'm Oyan Poon, as Dishon mentioned, and I have long been doing work on the racial politics of college admissions and also how college admissions and enrollment management work because very few people actually know how things work and so I am concerned quite a bit about the public discourse and how we talk about college going and college access. Because it's hard to have those conversations in a serious way when most people don't understand how these systems and structures work to produce inequalities by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and many other dimensions. I have gotten the question quite a bit sometimes about why I do the work I do and the research and analysis that I do and there's two areas of my work that are informed by my previous life as a student affairs professional in higher education and someone who worked on college recruitment and retention work in California after Proposition 209 which was that state ban that was voted on in 1996 and went into place in 1998. So I was working with particularly Asian American and Pacific Islander students at the University of California at Davis in the early 2000s. So this was after the state affirmative action ban there. What I noticed was deep inequalities between who was attending college among a very diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander population, almost no Pacific Islanders were in attendance southeast Asian Americans had very low numbers after the affirmative action ban, and also low income Asian Americans were not very well represented. Yet, the university and in general I think people don't quite understand how to talk about these very diverse populations and make meaning and sense of it. And so I was very interested in these questions I was also an admissions reader post Proposition 209 in California at the university and learned a lot about the how admissions works and doesn't work right and prior to that work I didn't realize the complexities and the thoughtfulness and the norms that are put in place and how to do that work oftentimes people simplify oversimplify and flatten how this work is done. And again that goes back to how we talk about these issues is very malnourished. And. Yeah, and so I'm very interested in noting, especially as someone who grew up in the 80s in Boston the daughter of immigrants working class immigrants.  Of course we're supportive of it but you know more recently we've seen a lot of media reports of Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans. There's this image of people that I identify with being opposed to this policy and it didn't make sense it didn't track with my experiences growing up. And so, I'm known for doing a study doing research on why are Asian Americans billing the different ways that they do about race conscious admissions and affirmative action policies. I've also done work on contracting because quite frankly the history of affirmative action is not in college admissions. It is in employment and public contracting. And I have done research on public contracting in Asian Americans, small businesses, and it was very difficult to find any Asian American opposed to affirmative action in that space. So these things don't track for me and so what I have found over time is that the folks that keep popping up in mainstream media as Asians opposed to affirmative action quote unquote, it's a very small number. Among Asian Americans so there's this mythology out there that people like me are opposed to affirmative action that's absolutely not the case. But also there's a fear, right, just to kind of like empathize with the people who are, you know, fighting tooth and nail against race conscious admissions. What I found in my research is that there's a fear in not knowing what exactly is happening and so that's the second strand of my research is how exactly does admissions work in colleges and universities. So that's, that's a very power laden process but I've never once found that, that there is an anti Asian motive to this work at all, particularly given the history of various court cases leading up to this moment we're in. Thank you for sharing I was like, all the points you hit I was like wow I was like when you talked about Davis I was like, hold on that's my undergrad. I was like yes I was like and I also was at one point admissions reader to so I was like on that other side reading. Yeah and I'm like it's so interesting to like see all the components that go in. Yeah, SRRC. Yes, yeah, yeah. Ace the I don't know if around that time, but I was a volunteer like all those like those those core programs. It's probably the reason I'm able to talk to you today like being actually in front of you to talk about these issues because of how important it is to have those resources on campus. And also like you said earlier to about a friend of action it wasn't the start of education, it goes back to employment. I think I kind of want to get into a little bit more about that definition a little bit more with you. So yeah Washington post sharp school, they recently you know surveyed the general public about their views on race being considered in the missions process. And in that poll about 70% disapproved of race being considered in the college mission process, but 70% appreciate programs that helps increase diversity on college campuses. So I'm just like, what is the disconnect between the general public and basically the definition of affirmative action. Absolutely. I mean I think this is a perfect example of when you're talking to a researcher so I'm going to say research design survey design is a very important thing to think through and connecting it to what's actually happening right so I think the responses that the paradox is conflict between people saying, no we're not okay with race being considered versus 70% also saying, yeah, we support increasing diversity is a couple of things one first and foremost, it's how was the question asked. That matters a lot in survey methodology, and particularly around this work, I would like to lift up the work of my political scientist colleagues at API data in particular they've been doing work around holding Asian Americans in particular personally in various languages because we know Asian Americans are a majority immigrant population. And so they use different languages but they've tested out different questions. Right and interestingly, when you ask Asian Americans in that survey, do you support affirmative action a policy that uplifts I can't remember the exact wording but it was basically that uplifts black and women applicants. 70% of Asian American respondents said yes, agree or strongly agree. Right and so it's really interesting to see this kind of dynamic in the survey question. If the survey question here in this Washington post char school poll had asked like, how do you feel about race being considered it's not clear about to what ends right. API data survey question said do you prove of affirmative action, you know what how do you feel about affirmative action do you agree with a policy that combats sexism and right like so it's it and anti black racism right like it's it's very specific to what ends right because particularly when you're talking about people of color, you've got a long history of our racial identities being used against us. Right. And that's a different objective than for diversity so I would wonder if these two questions were combined and asked in a way that is like, how do you feel about or do you approve of race being considered to increase diversity. Right so combine those two questions. I have a question of like how would people respond. Right and perhaps survey methodologists and I'm not one to be clear would be like well that's mixing things fine then do it the other way to, you know, try it out a couple of different ways and I think that's perfectly fine research wise. But I think most of the polls that I've seen that don't think deeply about race and racial discourses, you can get into this kind of thing here. Thank you for sharing on that because I was like, we need to have more dialogue around what the actual definition mean.  When it comes to college admissions like I think people are convoluting things. What is diversity mean. Yeah, what is yeah what is diversity like what what does that mean and that means that can mean very different to a lot of different people. So it's, you have to be very specific and also get right to the point and like you said about survey methodology, especially when you're surveying certain communities you have to be mindful of who you're going to be with the language so yeah, uplifting that point that is good. Want to shift gears. Because you probably have seen in the news with certain states, thinking about Florida and Texas about their DI efforts, are their actions a precursor to what we might see unfold nationwide and affirmative action is overturned. And what is that stake for higher education institutions and their current DI efforts. The first question. Are these anti DI efforts, a precursor to what we're going to see post Supreme Court ruling in these SFFA cases. I hope not. It doesn't have to be to be clear. However, I also know that the same people who are in this goes back to the previous question about misunderstandings of what is it that the public actually wants. Right. So I don't, I think SFFA was led by Ed Blum, not an Asian person, a white man who has been trying to gut civil rights laws throughout his entire life, including the voting rights law, including he's been trying to attack immigrant voting rights. And now this is his next piece. He recognizes that people don't understand admissions. He recognizes people don't understand how to talk about Asian Americans in race. And he recognizes that people generally don't like the Harvard's of the world. Let's be real, right like Harvard is an elitist name. And so, with those three things in mind he was very strategic in attacking Harvard. He was supported by the same people who are pushing for these anti DEI things. Which is why when he files every one of these SFFA lawsuits you will find a line towards the end of the legal complaints that says what they're after they're not going to get it in this SFFA rulings the rulings this time around. I don't think, however, they make very clear what they want in their long game, which is the end of the use of race and all educational settings. That should sound very familiar and pretty much what we're seeing in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and other states with book banning, etc. They want to keep people ignorant. And fearful, right, rather than allowing people to come together and unify for a better society, right, a more mutually diverse collective solidarity like what Mahathir McGee has talked about for a solidarity dividend. As long as we stay afraid and apart and separate and in conflict with each other, then out of ignorance then the powerful remain in control. Right. So, is it a precursor we know it comes from the same rotten soil. Both of these things, these lawsuits against these universities for wanting to consider my whole story what does it mean for me how has racism, not necessarily my identity racism how has racism affected my experiences and who I am today. Right. And that can be many different ways for a lot of different people. And yes, in fact racism does affect white people too. Right. Like, it's it's a thing in the water in the air in the everything we do. racism and so to tell universities you can't even think about this and who you decide to bring in, you can, it becomes the humanizing to people in our stories and who we are. If that played a big role in who we are. Right. And that's part of how it works. It's not a checkbox. Right. In admissions or employment or contracting is not a checkbox and saying like here's extra points, you get extra awarded, but that's not how it works at all. It is understanding the Sean who are you as a person what do you bring right sometimes I'll say, you know, 1100. What do you know about me from that number, you know nothing about me from that number. Right you don't know the kinds of talents I bring and that's what a multi racial democracy needs is all kinds of talents for solving all kinds of problems. And that's what I always conscious admissions has been doing to this point. And so I think there are more people who are suspicious of anti DEI work, I think I hope I don't know, but you can't be against those anti DEI things. And against affirmative action at the same time that's that doesn't work. But what I really want to say is, is this a precursor was your initial question. It doesn't have to be if we can come together and like get clear on what our values are, regardless of what the Supreme Court rules in this coming month. Our values can still stay the same. Our values. The court cannot change what I value. Period. Right. So, as a higher ed researcher as a thinker as a citizen of a multi racial democracy I care about learning about the complicated world around a solving problems together. Right and so is ending DEI efforts at stake in higher education. Yes, it doesn't have to be. But it is at stake. Sadly, and I think people need to be courageous in leading our institutions and our states to say. Yeah, racism is a problem and we need to learn. We need to figure out how to solve these big problems and shutting down that learning is not how we do it.  It's not a thing by telling people you can't learn about it. That makes zero sense to me. No, you're right. You're right. We're all right you're right to all that. Yeah, because like people want to sweep these issues under the rug. And when it comes to the I as like my whole thinking is like, it's, it's more than just emissions. Like, we want to make sure that we bring people into the institutions who for starters, like, as someone who identifies as a woman of color as a black woman.  And then also going back to the DI efforts on campus is like, you're focused on getting the students there but then when they get there they need those resources to keep them there and achieve that success. And that's kind of like the bigger picture of these DI efforts I'm like, y'all focus on getting them in but then the institution wants to also not take care of them when they get there. So that's a whole nother mantra that I could probably go down the road with you all day to is about that. So thank you for sharing and thinking I kind of want to get into the policy side of this, because I like you mentioned earlier, you know California has already banned affirmative action in Michigan, but both of them have already, you know, have mentioned in some of the amicus breeze to by saying like, yeah, this is not working for us. And we're seeing a lot of decreased enrollment, you know from black, brown students of color at all at our public university and our selected institutions. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on maybe what we can actually learn from these states and what should federal policy makers know. And are there any California Michigan policy that you might be aware of that could be remarkable for federal for the federal policy arena to just ensure diversity is embraced and valued appropriately. Great question and I think there's a lot we can learn from those two states in terms of what and what can be done after a ban. What that means. I think both states and there's I think there's eight states total that have bands on their books. California Michigan get talked about a lot because California Michigan and they have very, you know, attention grabbing public universities flagship universities. That said, and they still collect a lot of data. Right California, as an example, has probably more detailed data collection than than the federal government requires. And as someone who was an admissions reader and worked on retention issues at UC Davis in California under a ban. The data was still asked for in the admissions applications it was optional, as are these these demographic questions are always optional. Students want to say who they are let them say who they are. As an admissions reader, I didn't see who you know that box. Why, in what students talked about, they talked about their experiences and quite frankly oftentimes it was racialized experiences. Sometimes it wasn't right like it just wasn't a part of their stories and that's fine it doesn't you don't get penalized one way or the other. And I think it was important to understand these students and who they were right as an example Sally Chen Chinese American woman from San Francisco went to Harvard testified in the SFFA case, or the side of Harvard for diversity. And she said, you know, her high school counselor told her not to talk about her identity not to check off a box.  The Harvard admissions committee looked on that favorably. Right. And so in her, you know, and there were other Asian students who testified to that as well, you couldn't fully understand who Sally was without that information so she went against what some people told her to do. And as a reader at UC Davis, I think I would have done the same like okay this is this person's story is about community engagement, leadership, etc. Right and there's a first and foremost academically solid right like period. She wasn't getting in because of her story she was getting in because of her academic profile first and foremost and then the other pieces were just kind of fleshing out who she was giving us a bigger detailed picture. So I think that I'm hearing right now some universities are saying, Oh, our common app for example just announced today that they were giving universities the option not to receive the demographic data. And I think that's a mistake. And that's a huge mistake. For a couple of reasons, because the other piece is what places like California continue to do is in my work as a retention person. I was constantly looking at the data in terms of progress towards degree. Right and the state of California had accountability measures in place for time to college degree completion. Right so they were holding universities accountable. But if I don't know what's happening on my campus in terms of where the bumps and dips and how do I invest my public tax dollar resources into serving the students I have on campus. If I don't have race and ethnicity data class data language spoken at home data. You know, more data is more helpful to be honest. And so to figure out then how do I invest my dollars towards towards supporting different students needs and different students interest perfect example. Like 20 years ago when I was at UC Davis there was no Asian American. There was like one or two Asian American counselors in the counseling and caps counseling and something services. Right out of like a staff of like 30 or 40. And that campus at the time was 40% almost 40% Asian American. And almost no Asian Americans were attending going to utilize those services. And in the three years I was there there were several students suicides of or suicide attempts as well among Asian American students. And the police were targeting Southeast Asian men. And right like there's just all these traumas that we're not getting served. Right. And so students were like hey, this is not okay. Also, there's no one on campus and student affairs that identifies as working with American Indian and native needs. Also right like all these things right and so how do you serve the students on your campus if you don't know who's there. You know who's there and what their needs are. Right. They've already proven themselves academically qualified. Right. And so, what do you do. How do you do this. Right. How do you spend my art our public tax dollars to support the students on our campus. I'm scared that there are institutions that think that they can't even have those data anymore. And that's not true. And learning from Michigan and California you can't. You absolutely can and you need to. And I think you have a moral obligation to do so. The other thing that I noticed in California was and we talked about this earlier right to Sean is the student recruitment retention center. The history of, you know, post proposition 209 post affirmative action ban in California students came together, created a movement and said, we still care about this so we're going to tax ourselves. They answered they voted on fees to say we need to fund student efforts supported by professional staff. To do outreach and recruitment and the return and the peer to peer retention work on campus right and so you mentioned ace right. What worked a lot was safe which was the Southeast Asian Southeast Asians for education, and I'm blanking on other it's been a long time to shine what were the other ones. I was gonna say it's been a long time for me to I know there was one for the child community to that I can't I cannot think of and I had a friend who worked who worked directly. I should know this because I spent majority of my undergrad career at the SRC. And then now things have expanded on that particular campus to because now, like a lot of communities have their own resource center. My last year and undergrad, you know, the black community got a resource center, then other communities started to get their own because we all were like hey, we need more than just the SRC we need other things to so I love this generational connection here. Student Affairs Officer and Asian American Studies and we came on board, along with the Native American Studies SAO, and there was an African American Studies SAO and a Chicano Studies SAO. You know, and, you know, and then I went back to grad school at UCLA and they have a whole built they had a whole building before Davis had a whole building. But these were all student movement to this lead efforts that were really targeting racial equity. Right. So, these are things that happened after from an action bands. I think folks need to not freak out and remember that these are possible. UC Davis Medical School, I think just got cited as one of them med schools with the most black students outside of an HBCU. And it's, it's rather comparable in terms of the numbers and I'm like something's happening. Right. In really good ways to recognize talent. Right.  No, no, absolutely not. Wow. Thank you for sharing that and, like I said I have a little bit of hope about you know how institutions can move forward if looking at some of what California Michigan have done. And again, like the data piece. So, so important as someone who used to work in evaluation and whole and loves data, and how important it is. I hope and continue that universities and institutions can have act like create some type of mechanism or structures to input that in place and I'm still mind ball mind boggled by what Common App just recently released. I'm going to have to look into that later because I'm like wait a minute that's, that's not okay. Let's see it on their website but someone just shared this New York Times article with me so that would be. Yeah, thank you for sharing. Yeah. Now moving into a little bit more of, I know we were talking about some hope so we kind of are we're talking about a little bit of hope and, you know, some hopefully was unfolding after how most likely it's going to be, I mean of course it's going to be June 30 when we hear the decision. But what would you like the general public just to take away from what is unfolding, you know what is one hope. And what is something you actually fear about the upcoming decision. This is existential questions right here. You know this is going to sound real cheesy, but my daughter is eight years old, and she's in sec she's finishing up second grade this month, and I, and I feel like here's the typical gen X or saying the future generations are the hope after we have ruined everything as my daughter tells me. But truly, I'm constantly inspired and hopeful that, you know, the folks who are younger than me that we can work together across generationally, because there's so much brilliance. Like, my, like, the fact that my daughter is asking me questions, starting when she was three. I don't know how their parents do this, and why they're trying to do this anti DEI stuff in schools or anti, like doing book bans. I don't know how they deal with the questions there, they, I know they're getting questions as a parent kids kids ask questions that's their job. Right. And sorry about that thing. I thought I turned it off. Um, but kids ask questions, right and some of the questions my kids started asking me when she was three was if we're not black and we're not white. What are we, wait, you're telling me we're Asian American, that's not a color. So help me understand that ratio is three. I mean, those weren't exactly the words couldn't even say Asian American she said Asian come American. And she was like, Oh, we're Thai and Chinese that's also not a color. Ah, how do I help you understand it three years old color and race and racism and xenophobia and all these other things in this world that you're going to have to deal with. Um, I think young people asking questions and pushing those questions and figuring out and learning intergenerationally and how to push back like what it means to actually do something material around it. You know, I'm seeing like, for another example, you know the the March for our lives group right those young people are elevating. I mean, we have a long ways to go around gun safety, but they're changing around along with like moms for, you know, and control those groups like they're changing the way we talk about it we don't talk about gun control we talk about gun safety now which now. Um, but you know it's advancing the dialogue and post, you know, George Floyd and the BLM movement like I think these are important things that we need to keep moving on and keep iterating on and so I still feel hopeful there. Even, even assuming that the Supreme Court is going to rule in a way that further restricts understanding us as people as whole human beings. And recognize, you know, I still hold a hope that in ashes we can still rise right like when things get burned down that it can still be fire can still be generative. And so we have to figure out the generative piece. The fears that we just fall apart. It's just, but we can't have nine people decide the fate of this country, right like decide it just. That's my fear, right is that we're just going to fall apart and cry in a corner forever. But that's not what we do as people, right. As long as our communities are connected enough and we can keep building on it, I think that at a certain point you finish crying, and you figure it out, and you come together and that's my hope to is that in that burning down of stuff we can figure out how it's going to be more powerful, because at the end of the day, you know this week was also the Thomas Jefferson lawsuit and the fourth circuit. On the one hand in higher education, you know, SFFA is saying race conscious is unconstitutional, their friends at Pacific Legal Foundation are saying race neutral things are not okay either. What is it right and we keep playing if we keep this is my fears that we try to keep playing in response. Right, that we start we keep trying to transform starting at this point, when really the game is rigged, and we're not we need to, we need to just that we'll figure this out finally collectively and say like, okay, let's think real generic like real big, real big. How do we go pay. And how do we backwards plan that and get going on things. Now that's that's good. It was like, we're going to get there, we're going to get there, we're going to get there. I mean you calling me was hope right I'm like, oh new America you know like you're worried now to okay. I was like we're going to get there some way somehow. It's probably going to take a while because the stuff that's build up has taken forever. So to tear it all down is going to take a while to the work we're going to get there, eventually. So thank you. And my last question. Because it's where we're at new America we're so federally policy focused and given our location just being in Washington DC. And you know what would you like Congress and the White House to know about the fallout in front of action is overturned. And yeah what, what can Congress do to maintain improved access for students of color. That's a funding issue right when you think about the ecosystem of higher education in this country we don't really have a national system. There's a few federal levers right you've got, you've got federal financial aid Pell grants subsidized unsubsidized loan systems. Forgiveness which is also on the docket. And cancellation rather than forgiveness because I already paid my stuff okay. I already paid it all back and more than once. So cancel it already. But right so what are the other levers. MSI funding HBCU TCU MSI funding right. Research dollars. Right, so I'm sure there's some other things of course, but thinking about those things right we know that we know that the great majority of people who go to college don't go to colleges that need to reject people. Right, so a lot of this conversation with Harvard and UNC, you're talking about a very small slice of the college going population. And you're also talking about institutions that are very well resourced, very wealthy, a friend of mine Marie bigam called them. And she called it a hedge fund. Those universities are hedge funds with country clubs attached. Right, like the funding inequalities. Right, it is not. We need to tackle this problem of where the majority of students are going and most of them are students of color are going to institutions that are not well funded. Right. And so how do we think about the finance model, the ecosystem of funding. How do we invest in HBCUs and tribal colleges and universities and other MSI minority serving institutions. Right, these are some of the institutions that are, you know, these are major institutions that serve a whole lot of students. Right, the majority of students. You know, on the I know you asked about federal but you know I'm thinking back to the state level to some some states have put caps on out of state admissions and enrollment like California. So, but again that goes back to the financing model right because why were states accepting out of status to their public flagships. Because they needed some form of revenue if the state was to divest from them. Right, so how do we. Is there a federal lever to reconfigure recalibrate what goes to higher education because, you know, in some states, a lot of states, the states fund prisons at a much higher level. Then they do public higher education. How start there. Right like can we, is there a federal accountability something or rather to help out in this regard around the financing models. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm hmm, about the financing of how we fund our education systems and the school to prison pipeline is another something to be talked about. Yeah, be it cross sector conversation. The criminal justice conversation. Mm hmm. Everyone has has siloed themselves into certain policy areas and reality they all intersect with each other at the end of the day. Because I bet you if you traced 50 states and funding and in public education and in prison systems. It's going like this. Right, I don't know. You know what I mean, right. Mm hmm. Going up. Okay. So the K through 12 system. That's another, probably another conversation for another day about how that's going to impact the way how the K through 12 system operates but again, thank you. Thank you so much for for sharing your thoughts, your knowledge and the amazing work you have been doing. I'm really excited to take a look at your policy area now I'm look and now I'm like even not now I'm even silently you into this post this policy here but just again just want to say thank you so much on behalf of me and my team. I'm at New America. We appreciate you so much. And yeah, hope everyone tunes in and watches this conversation and take away something hopefully take away a nice good hefty dinner. Because a lot of good points were were definitely brought up. And thank you so much. I'm so excited to have this conversation with you. Thank you.