that you're planning for years that are far into the future. So I'm assuming that you have a plan or there is something else that's being retired or something that would, I don't know, Caphrat that would give you the research to lead that 250,000 in three years is not gonna be a heavy lift. So President Powell, if you see at the end of the memo that I miss something, I'm sorry. You have something about it is in there I think it's goes to your question, which is that I've asked Jeff and Jeff in to come back and we're in the next three or six months with a basically a plan to ensure that I'm going to ensure that they will be able to pay it off on the schedule. This is an area where to some degree we control the future revenues through policy decisions that we make. And it's been many, been quite a few years now since there have been really adjustments to policy or rates that could generate additional revenues which are reluctant to do that for, I think, good reason during the pandemic and media years after. We probably, and we think well need to make some decisions in the future such as something that has been out there for years that has to do with doing it, don't charge anything in the garage or something is that's a kind of policy that they need to be re-evaluated if the revenues don't recover kind of organically on their own. And there are other decisions like that that are within our control. So this gives us five years to figure this out and I've asked for a report that we would present to you and get approval on three, six months from now. Okay, so I actually read the payments and did a great deal, it was very great. So that was in there, I obviously remember that. I mean, you know, it's not the ideal situation. I mean, I think we should all be honest about that. This is not the ideal situation. But you know, and of course the other thing I wonder is, I mean, is it possible to rate three, seven, five just seems, I mean, I understand that that was the bond counseling for you. Now that was the recommendation that there aren't other, there isn't another solution to this. And I don't, I don't know what it is, but I don't hope that it's part of it for ourselves or there's some other way that we could do that. I don't know, but it does sound it's, it's not the ideal situation. I mean, I'll support it, but I don't sort of, I think it's unfortunate, but three to five months and three to six months will look forward with great anticipation to the ideas are there. Right, you shouldn't agree with us Bob. I can't wait, if they do. Thanks President Pai, I understand your perspective and largely, you know, I think it's worth, this is probably the area of the six finances that were hit most heavily and permanently by the pandemic. We just haven't seen where it's all the other revenue streams have largely recovered from parking. It's probably the flip side of the good news we were reporting last week that people are driving less and that emissions are down. Certainly the people are coming into work less. That's one of the major new drivers of the garage. So this is an area where we've really been dealing with both many, you know, a long list of the first maintenance to address as well as kind of these large, large economic forces. I agree with you that I think it's really important that we follow up and be good on what is said here, that there needs to be a plan that comes back early in this loan. So that we definitely have a way forward. I think it's a manageable, I'm confident this is a manageable number we can work our way through unless we like forget about it neglected of this. I'm glad we're having this conversation to make sure we're all on the same page. This needs to come back for some top decisions. We can have a few minutes to dramatize it, but we've got to make sure we don't take the can down the road here and ignore this. We may need to make some changes. Councilor Barlow, sorry, did you want to get back? Councilor Barlow. Yeah, I just had a question about some of the mechanics of the repayment. So there's no payment, not even interest payments in year one and two. There is interest payment. There are interest payments. There's interest payment on year one and two, and then there's interest payment on year two and 15 plus. Okay, got it. We'll have a set of scenarios. So they're looking at that. Okay. It's moving fast. Okay, I was just wondering if senators were getting put into the last three years. Okay. I understand. Sorry. Well, if I may say. Yeah, thank you. If we make a note and we should update the document. This documentation looks like there's no payments here. Yeah, no. There's interest payments. There's one and two, and then there's one that's just in three, four, five. Very good. And there was also, I got a last minute edit. That's the question that I submitted on the site on Valentine's Day. Okay. Yeah, that edit was symmetrical. Yeah. Yeah, that's correct. Okay. Let's, so maybe if we take action on this, Charlie, can we work with Lori? Yeah, you gotta clear it up. Yeah, I'm supposed to update something. Yes. Great. Any further discussion or questions? Are we ready for our work on this? I will move the recommended action. So, yeah. Thank you, Councilor Barlow. You have a second? I'm happy to second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, let's go to a vote. All those of you who are most likely to say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? Motion carries the noes. Thank you. If we can. We will in order to be in value with you to work through the pro forma and assumptions that we have to return these two funds to health. Great. The revised memo. Yes, we'll work with DTF. Just get that up immediately. Thank you. Great, thank you. Thanks. Okay. We have two more items on this special work financing. Item number two is annual appropriation and budget for fiscal year in July 1st, 2023 and June 30th, 24th and we will all talk about the kind of companion resolution which is cleaning tax assessments. How would the Board like to proceed? We do, we have a PowerPoint that Catherine is prepared for the full council discussion. It's I think entirely made up of information that's been shared in prior PowerPoint presentations with the Board. So we could, we could go through that or maybe more efficient to go straight to any comments or questions that the Board would like to make. We will be making a full presentation at the council since the body hasn't seen everything on once. So how, what is the Board like to proceed? Well, I mean, I personally am going to see the presentation and it's effectively unchanged from when I was on the 12th is that about right? At the 12th of June, the one that said that, I mean, I wasn't here for that Board of Finance meeting but I did look back at that. It is a combination of that one and one from the 1st of June to kind of get everyone up to speed. The idea is that the three of you and Councillor Jang have been along for this journey and the other counselors maybe not. So to provide like a full overview of kind of where we've been up to now. But it is all, I just took slides from everything you've already seen. I just put them into one new slide deck but I did not create new content. That's the case.  Unless I could be flexible too. I wasn't planning to pour it in. But I certainly can. Just, just, just, just. Okay. Then so that's my hope. Although I think maybe, maybe get quite a memory. That's the 12th budget that I've been responsible for. I great majority others, the Board of Finance has taken action making a recommendation on the budget while we're out there before the council voted. I think, I think there have been one or two times one for whatever reason. The Board says not to do that. So it's not an absolute requirement. But the idea that we, as we discussed on the 12th was that we would attempt to do that and to be in this meeting at a time, which it would certainly, I think, yeah, that's the purpose of us really gathering. And I would welcome, you know, if I were to look into the fact that I'm on the floor or, yeah, it's one thing that we could do now or we can have further discussion if you've got a board member from the chair. Well, I have, I don't, to make a motion, I could certainly make a comment if that would be helpful. Great. I, you know, so I have, as probably everyone knows and certainly anyone on Facebook knows, I did have a period of time where I was not as, so I typically engaged in the, in the process as I usually do to circumstances beyond my control, good circumstances, but nevertheless, a little bit more challenging. And certainly tried to keep tabs on what was going on. I did not see, and there haven't been notes, there haven't been minutes that I've seen posted for the July and the June 12th Board of Finance meeting. I basically went off the conversations I had with people about that meeting and then also the PowerPoint, which was pretty much unchanged. I mean, maybe there were a few missing, but I mean, I think it was mostly the same. I guess the, the only thing that I will say is that I don't think I've ever, all the years that I've served on the city council, I don't think I've ever interacted with a city councilor who wants to vote no on a budget because it's a, it's a huge document. It's the most important thing that we do all year and it sets the priorities for the coming year. And I never give up hope that there is an opportunity to find a middle ground, collaboration, compromise. I'm not saying that I laid no fault with any one person, any two people. I take responsibility for it myself. I think that there still are opportunities just within the normal fluidity of an entity the size that there is $290,000 that over the course of this year would present itself in such a way that effectively no public, no public safety, no non-union, no current non-union positions are affected all of the principles that I believe you would put out in the narrative could still be honored and still have a way to have a meeting of the mind. So the streets, the streets get done in the way that we want them to get done and people feel that taxes have not, that we have done the absolute, even further best we can do. We've already done the best we can do. Now we're talking about the best best. And I think because it's, because they're, they're line items in a budget, it's hard to really go line by line. And I feel like doing that in a public setting probably isn't fair because some of them are either vacant positions, positions that soon become vacant that really are not appropriate to talk about publicly. So I don't really want to go into all the nuances. I'll give you one example. And then maybe that would lead to some sort of a discussion. So Catherine, you know, I asked you about line 7850. 7850 for those who are not as well versed in line 7850. And I want anyone to raise their hand if they know what line 7850 is. Okay, all right, do you know what line 7850 is? All right, well, now we're all going to know. So line 7850 is contingency and line 7850 in FY20 and FY19 was around $3,000 that was spent. Last year it was budgeted for $100,000 this year, this year, right now as we live and breathe 20 FY23, according to Catherine, 22,000 of that has been spent. So 100,000, 22,000. Now of course the word contingency means contingency. That means if we already know that it's going to happen, it's somewhere else. If we don't know what's going to happen, well we don't know what's going to happen. So we certainly have to plan for that. This year's line item contingency is 175,000, which begs the question, if it was 100,000 last year and we've gone through an entire year, we've gone through three years of incredibly difficult and challenging pandemic uncertainties, is it possible that the 175 could at least be level funded for this year? I haven't asked you that question, I apologize, I don't mean to put you on the spot and I'm not saying that 175 is realistic, but let's just try to see if maybe 175 could be 100. Well, you get a little bit closer and a little bit closer. There are, again, I can't really go into all the little nuances. I started calculating it myself and even based on one month, I think there are opportunities to at least go half of that of the 290, but that's me as someone who doesn't know all of the intricacies of every little line item, of every little department, of every big department, I can't pinpoint all of that. What I can say is that in the past, there have been times where we have done budgets, where we have either put placeholders in, knowing that over the course of a year, there will be other opportunities in an $80 million budget to find those little smaller amounts, or when there are things that we've really wanted to do, we have said we will revisit this in six months and we will find some of those efficiencies, vacancies, attrition, whatever they may be. So I guess what I'm saying is that I think that it is tremendously powerful and it sets a wonderful tone for the coming year. If we as a body are able to find a way to honor all of the priorities that are important for the administration and all the priorities that are important for those who must vote on the budget. And that's where I will leave it. I, you know, we don't usually legislate in this way. Probably if I had been here on the 12th of June, I probably would be saying this now, but I'm not saying this then and not now. As I say, I know there's only a couple of hours here, but I still feel that we should at least have that opportunity. And I would just ask you, if you think, if you think that there is that opportunity in a way that we could find a meeting of the minds. So that's, those are my comments. I won't be saying anything at the board at the council meeting, I'm saying no. Thank you. Thanks for listening. Great. Thank you, President Paul. I certainly understand. Sorry, I'm doing crazy. I'm just wondering if you want to respond to that. Why don't you go ahead and you can comment first and then I'll respond to this. Sure. I always appreciate that you're trying to find a way for us to come to a compromise and be able to vote yes. And sometimes we're just not going to get there. And I have a hard time seeing us getting there in the two hours we have and we're likely to vote on the budget finding a solution that we couldn't find in the last eight weeks of these conversations. And I would have a hard time trusting in the order we found to try to come up with that additional money without raising taxes. I would have a hard time making a decision without knowing the full impacts deciding where we're going to put them from. And so I appreciate that effort. I think at least from my perspective is the councillor planning to vote no tonight and that also having that conversation between now and 5.45 or 6.30 whenever we're discussing the budget of the full council and I feel comfortable making that decision changing my vote until now. So I was going to save my longer comments for the full council and I think I still will. So I guess I will just leave it there for now. Okay, councillor McKee and President Powell, thank you for those comments. I appreciate where you're both coming from with those comments. Something I will repeat when we're upstairs. I in many ways think this of the 12 budgets that we're responsible for was the most difficult. We have been grappling with some, just a host of difficult forces and issues, many of which are sort of beyond our direct control. We for a second year in a row are facing historic inflation. We have continued volatility and some, we've just been discussing some shortfalls related to disruptions of the pandemic. We made some big changes to our programs and our efforts to address equity issues in prior budgets and we took on the challenge of phasing that out over three years and we're in the third year of that phase out of the last year that there was some federal support for those, we have kept those equity commitments high and the federal support for them is going away as we knew it would. That had to be sort of digested in this budget. And we're also trying to be sensitive to our constituents who face rising costs in pretty much all aspects of their life and we don't want to undo, make city government an additional burden. So with all those constraints, this has been a very tough budget to complete. I think we can, I think there's a lot to present Paul your point. I think there is a lot to be proud of and excited about in this budget, despite all that, this continues to advance the city, advance the community in numerous important ways. It continues our efforts to rebuild and really retool the police department and prove and change the way we deliver public safety. It continues our major commitment to improving our infrastructure. It continues our commitment to those equity commitments. I was just talking about including fully funded and reorganized our IB department. It for the first time has nearly $200,000 in it for opioid related interventions to, it's the first time we're able to, here's where we're able to use new revenues that are coming to us from the opioid settlements and deliver progress in more. So to get to deliver all that while also overcoming these challenges, we have had to push very hard in areas and really push up to the edge of what I am comfortable budgeting for. We are one of the complicated projections we do every year is around attrition and around to your point, President Paul, what's gonna happen in the normal course of business that's going to end up saving us money because positions are not refilled as quickly because vacancies come up and we haven't really pushed those assumptions, for example, to double our attrition numbers in many departments from what we have in the past. That in the face of that and frankly, knowing how challenging has been to control personnel costs since the pandemic because of our challenges competing in the workforce because of inflationary pressures. And I think we did explain this somewhere that we did feel that it was proven to bump back up the contingency number from 100,000 to 175,000. In contrast, we have had some years that it's been as much as 500,000. It's been a while since we've done that, but it's not, it's really not a historically large contingency number. I think it represents on a $100 million budget it is quite a small contingency. So I appreciate the sentiment that it is. So a lot of the budgets of the last 12 years have been unanimous budgets and we have worked hard for that. And I did have some communications over the past week exploring whether there was a way to come to a meeting in line. We haven't gotten there yet. I'm hearing, and I respect your sense that it's been talked to bridge that gap now. So that's my kind of reaction to the last two comments I guess, and I guess I would hope that with Councilor Inge's point that maybe it would be possible. Are we in a position to make a recommendation on this budget of this budget point of support? Well, given we sort of know where everybody's at at this point, I would be happy to recommend the action is make it out so that we can recommend the budget resolution on this to me this morning. Thank you, Councilor Barron. Second. Thank you, Councilor Powell. Would anyone like to make any further comment? That's really, I'll just very briefly go forward. No, for the first time. You know, I recognize that we're in a challenging budget here and I recognize that future budget years should be even more challenging. We have local matches on a number of shorter projects that we still don't have a funding source for. We have vehicles that need replacing the deferred list that's going to grow even longer in the coming years with a perfect moratorium and that the cost of living increases that we negotiated part of the union contract will also add additional pressure to future budget years. And with all of those things, with those being the predictable things that we see coming at us in the future, I see a need to increase taxes potentially next year, year after that. This year, we were able to find a way to reach the deficit that you all brought us at the beginning of the budget conversation to have a budget that met the needs that we had without cutting staff or services. And I appreciate that very much. But for us to ask for an additional amount beyond what was planned for this year in terms of paving and patching, we all know the streets that are in dire need of not unaware of that. But to ask people for more this year, we'll know that we're gonna need years in the future. We're gonna maybe even have to ask for a larger tax increase. I just, I can't support that this year. And I think this is now is the most important time for us to be talking about more sustainable ways for us to fund city services going forward because it's clear that with the reappraisal, the property tax is not going to be a sustainable method for us to fund so many of the infrastructure improvements that we need to maintain in the Sanctuary City services that people have come to expect. We need to find a better way to do this. I hope that we can do that over the next year, over the next two years. But the legislature to do that, they have to go to Montpelier to get a approval on these things, changing the way the state is funded, education and services for decades is not gonna be an easy task, but I think it's imperative that we make those efforts. So with that, I will not be supporting this. Thank you for being so transparent, Councilor Geedy on your thinking. I do wanna make sure we have a number of counselors here, got the public watching. I wanna make sure that it's my understanding, I think you just started to get this, but you've lost your vote on this over the half a cent increase to the street stacks that is in the budget that is before you. This is true, it's not, it's accurate that when we began at the beginning of May, our draft budget that increase was not in the initial discussions. I think this is an example of how that process is not intended to be just a kind of pro forma process. The idea is to engage you in the board and publish and full counsel in our thinking when still in draft form, and in this case, after doing the street work that was going to get done in the coming year, and understanding that we are below the voter approved caps for the street tax by a couple of cents, I believe, we started discussing in really a response to counselor feedback, whether that there might be some, and really understanding that because of our constraints, the street patching budget was gonna be very limited this year. That's when this discussion of additional absent, which what is the, for the average taxpayer, the just, again, it's clear what we're talking about here. It is just over a dollar a month, hang on, it's in this other power point. Okay, if Catherine gets that figure, I'll just finish the point. So this. A dollar 54 a month. So that's, and it's not gonna be the same for everybody. That's on a $370,000 home because that's the median or the average home. Median. The median home for the most recent assessment. And what's, here's the difference that half a cent is gonna make is it's going to, the city engineer, nor Baldwin is here. He is projected with the initial budget. We were talking about there being a approximately $450,000 deficit in our patching need citywide for the upcoming year. And with this change, we'll still have a deficit. I've reduced that deficit by more than 50 years. So it'll be an under $200,000 deficit and that will allow us to get more patching done. Citywide, it will be on first arterials and then neighborhood streets is the kind of way that the patching is prioritized to basically get that rate. Artillery streets, collective streets. I missed one, that's right. So the biggest bank of the book is the arterial streets. Obviously there's a secondary review that relates to how bad of a condition the road is in terms of the volume of patches needed. So it's our best way of kind of spreading those funds to the specific targeted need so that we have serviceable roads come springtime through the winter. I think that's our biggest concern. Obviously our preferred choice would be to really fully repair and redevelop streets. But if we were to fix one street and then leave all those other streets kind of in a severe state of disrepair during the winter season, spring. So it makes sense to at least set a triage basis, deal with the patching, it fix these kind of problem areas. But even with the half cent, we're not achieving almost something all patching. But it is where we are. That's what we're gonna work through to make the best of what is not a great situation but is reality we're living with. And I guess just to finish the play, I mean, from my perspective, well, it is accurate that there is some additional cost in this budget if it's passed with that additional half cent in there. The nature of the patching, the patching slows the deterioration of roads and it is an attempt to, is a preventive maintenance attempt that has some benefit in sustaining the assets that we have and to reducing future costs. And so I think it's at least debatable whether this, a limited this half cent increase would actually reduce whether that's really a true savings or whether it's gonna sort of be resolved in future costs. Although we don't, we don't think it's something to totally project that sitting here right now. But that's what the patching is intended for. That's the way we will spend it. So, in fact, there's no further comment. I think we're ready for a vote on the motion. All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Any opposed? No. Motion carries three to one. Well, we didn't mind each other's one more on the agenda, which is the tax resolution. Of course that it was a little lucky that we had these separate actions of that. I don't quite know what would happen if we passed one or not the other. Certainly they are companion bills, if you will. So I'm not sure that we need further discussion. Maybe we can have a motion on that as well. Cheryl. Thank you, President Paul, thank you for the discussion. Seeing none, we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. All right, one more to post. No. No. No. No. No. No, you stand. Okay, well, former Board of Finance, another comes from Hightown, can you count that in here? I don't think it's a one, that's just a three to one, a three one vote, with budgets. That completes our Warren agenda. Mayor, is that the question? Yes, go ahead. It's more common question about where we're at. Over a year ago, Council would be, and I work with Council would be, put a resolution in, asking the city effectively an analysis of taxation, particularly property taxation and how, among other things, how the homestead of human sensitivity related the city of Royston. You realize that the time of that resolution is complicated to get the information because we're in the middle of the phase. And so who knows the mouse is complicated. We're now this year at a point, so that's sort of settled. We know that 70% of citizens get some sort of utilization, but we don't really have it drilled down. And I really think it would be a good plus to understand that. I mean, the cutoff is actually up to $140,000 a year. The more major cutoff is up to 90,000, people below 90,000, get a pretty significant homestead credit. And we need to understand how that matches up with the people of Royston. Because it's based on people's income, there's a lot of issues with the tax department on how to get that analyzed. And I think that resolution asks the city to employ a consultant to do it. But I just strongly encourage it, particularly going into the session next year and going into a city budget you will know we're gonna have increases coming from high school. We need to understand how that is, how good or not to have that credit is. And I think it's better than we expect, but we don't know that. We just don't know that. And I really encourage us to follow through on that analysis. Okay, thank you, Councilor Carpenter. And it actually reminds me what in my response to Councilor McGee, I meant to mention another thing that I think we should feel good about this budget is that it recognizes that we do have major challenges coming in future years, both because of the trends that we talked about previously and additional trends like the cost of the new high school and the impact that has on our bonding capacity and other pressures. And so in this budget, we are funding a number of studies that will that will look at operating efficiencies that will look at our fleet that will look at how alternative ways of funding some of the activities with CEDO and HUD funded effort and more, this combines with some ongoing studies that are underway. So something, anyone who's just tuning in now, something we've talked about repeatedly at this board is that over the first, we are gonna push for the bring those studies back as quickly as possible. So that over the first six months of the coming year, we are really looking to the future challenges and being in a strong position for those future budgets. And certainly we can make sure, Councilor Carpenter, that we have the best data we have about who gets those homestead exceptions as part of that. So I think the math of that program was like black box, but property value caps and income caps and those things that could be fixed. I mean, you know that. Great, and we do have this, one of those studies is referencing this in the field that I think is adjacent to what you're saying is this property tax equity study that is gonna have a lot of really interesting information along these lines as well. So thank you all for your patience with that sort of extra curricular discussion here. Now seeing no objection, the business being done, I will adjourn the board of finance at six, sorry, five, what time? It's five, 52. Thank you, we'll see you very up to it.


Hi everyone, it's MJ the fellow Actree and in this video, I want to talk about mortality risk and crypto Now Actrees were no strangers to mortality risk In fact, it was the very first one that we dealt with back in the 1700s Where we had to calculate how much money do we need to set aside in order to take care of the children and Dependence when a breadwinner dies and that's where the whole life insurance industry kind of came forth from Now the thing is we might have managed mortality risk when it comes to dependence But death is still present and it is something that is going to be haunting the crypto world Of course crypto is still fairly new So it's something that's not on everybody's horizon but there have been instances where people are holding Significance amounts of crypto and then they pass away and Well, they're the only ones who have access to these crypto tokens And what kind of happens in the situation? Now, I think Exchanges have a way to to get around this in the sense that I think some of them if you had to read those terms and conditions Which let's admit very few of us actually do But I'm sure some of them will have terms that say that if you do not access your account within five years It's seen that you have abandoned your tokens and that they can then claim it And I think if they don't have a term like this They're being silly because otherwise they're gonna have a mountain of crypto that they Legally cannot touch because it belongs to somebody else So they'll need that term and condition so that if people do die and nobody claims the crypto that money then goes to the exchange So that's how exchanges can deal with mortality risk of their clients But how can us as individuals deal with this mortality risk now? You could go and provide a whole set of instructions to a loved one and say hey if anything happens to me This is how you access my crypto the problem with that is sometimes They say you know divorce is coming up or or some family issues that loved one could say hmm Let me just go in and reach into this crypto wallet while you're still alive So while mitigating for the death risk you do introduce a significant counterparty risk So and that's always the big thing with risk management is if you deal with one risk Make sure you're not introducing another So I kind of thought of this idea and gosh, you know, someone's probably already thought of it as well So I do apologize if there's something out there that is very very similar But I was thinking imagine if they created a crypto wallet that had two keys So the first key is your primary key and this works like, you know All the other crypto wallet keys work that you can use it you can access your crypto You can spend your crypto transfer it do what you want If the second key tries to unlock it It's not going to work unless a significant period of time has occurred Which the primary setter can set or the primary key holder can set So what this means is I can say look there's two keys to access my wallet the primary key Which is the one that I use the one I keep secret and I'm gonna take this knowledge to the grave But then there is the secondary key that can only unlock my wallet if a Significant time duration has occurred and I could maybe set it at six months two years five years Okay, ten years would probably be a bit excessive But you can set this delay so that the secondary key can access your wallet Only if the account has been inactive for a certain duration So it's kind of like a bit of a time lock and what will then happen in this case is that if you were to pass away Somebody else can access your crypto, but while you're alive while you're active They cannot touch the money that you have in that account. So anyway, that was just me thinking about how to Potentially deal with mortality risk and crypto I'm keen to hear your guys ideas So let me know down in the comment section below what you think not only of this idea But if you have any other ideas on how to get around this issue as always Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys soon for another video. Cheers


So I figured I would introduce our four panelists and I did some background research and after a week or two I mean time zones are killing so getting to talk to all of them at the same time is impossible. I decided that it was a lot better idea to just have them do it because they kind of know who they are and what they've been working on. So I'll leave it to them to one by one introduce themselves to you. You're first. Great. I'm Michael Arstead. I'm a designer, front-end designer and developer and I work at Automatic. I work on WordPress.com, Jetpack and I'm a committer to WordPress core for some reason. I'm not fully aware of but other than that I mean yeah that's that's what I do. I design a lot of stuff and make things pretty but more importantly I make it so that people can actually use it and I really don't care if robots use it so great. All right I'm Joe Dalson. I'm a contributor to the accessibility team. I'm self-employed. I'm a plug-in developer and web accessibility consultant and for core I help try and review things and make sure they're usable by people with disabilities and also contribute a lot of my time to the theme review team to help look at themes that have been submitted and try and make sure that they're also usable by people with disabilities. Hi everyone my name is Tina. I am part of the side round team and I'm only mentioning this because I got involved with WordPress community because of our company sponsoring a lot of WordCamps. After going to a lot of WordCamps I got excited about organizing WordCamps myself so I guess that makes me active on the community team who's mostly responsible for growing the WordPress community through different programs like Meetup, Organizer, Meetups and WordCamps and various outreach programs and I guess that's it. And I'm Gary Pendergast. I'm employed by Automatic but I spend my full time working on WordPress core and on WordPress.org mostly to do with emoji but general kind of core architecture and those kind of technical problems. All right so I'll quickly introduce myself as well so then you know who's the guy asking the questions here. I'm Taco. I work at Joost as a community manager and well basically the WordCamp US organizers tricked me into making their life miserable for the next couple of minutes which I happily do. So the goal is to well explain to you to show you why contributing to WordPress is awesome, why you should do it more and also why you should make your boss pay for it. Any bosses around here that aren't paying yet for none. I figured yeah. So let's start with an easy question. Why do you contribute to WordPress? I mean Dina you mentioned it already but Michael why? I don't. All right I'll be honest I started contributing to WordPress because I thought it was pretty bad like and I had just gained enough skills to go oh I can make this look slightly better here and so I did and then it turns out a lot of people were like oh great a designer we could use that you do this and this and over you know I got really excited a lot of positive feedback and I learned a lot over the last several years working on it so that's that's how I got started and why I continue to contribute is just so I can make the product better for me to use and then it also benefits a lot of other people especially when we do things like working with Joe to make it more accessible for people that that's a huge win I think so I spent a lot of time kind of fiddling with little things like focus styles and stuff like that. Cool is that the same for you Joe did you start because you thought it sucked? Well I wasn't going to use exactly that wording but essentially yes it's the same reason I mean as an accessibility consultant and developer I needed to be using a platform that could offer my clients something accessible that they could use and WordPress was really pretty good but it wasn't where I needed it to be so you know I can work on this I can make it into the product I need it to be. All right so that that makes me wonder does contributing to WordPress take a lot of time I mean I've heard full-time on WordPress from you and does it stick with like 40 hours a week or do you even spend more time on it? That can vary wildly it's kind of a choose your own adventure there for a lot of people they they'll contribute a small amount of their time or just sporadically whenever whenever something takes their interest which which absolutely works we have several hundred people who contribute in that manner with every release but at the other end of the scale there's there are a handful of folks who also work full-time and then towards the end of a release cycle it can get a bit ridiculous but it's a it's a pretty good pretty good situation it's pretty easy to balance. All right so I know I mean I know most of them personally and I know from your Tina that you have two and a half full-time jobs at Siteground so how do you combine that where do you find time to contribute? So yeah it I was gonna say that if you decide to contribute the good thing about it is that you can choose how much you want to dedicate it to it but when you get into organizing an event like WordCamp Europe which is like a massive huge how many people like more than a thousand or WordCamp US for example it can be very time-consuming so when I was organizing WordCamp Europe 2014 I worked almost full-time for four months on it and Siteground was generous enough to pay for my time but it can be very frustrating because you have other things to do like this is not my full-time job and I also work with people I have people to manage and because I was contributing to organizing the WordCamp I was away from them and that's that kind of makes you feel a little bit anxious at least to say so it can be frustrating at times and I think that's the biggest struggle for me personally how do you balance it's hard but you just have to I think that the key here is when you get excited about contributing very a lot of people commit themselves to more things that they can do so I guess my tip for you would be be very realistic about how much time you can dedicate and start small like you don't have to do everything you can start just by captioning a video on WordPress.tv and that's that's a contribution that will count so yeah just don't commit to way too many things and try to balance your time better it would be a tip that I would share and on average how much time do you spend in general I mean a number a week is it five minutes and then ten times a day or is it like 15 minutes once a week how do you distribute your your time contributing and your normal work Joe can you can you answer that well that that is really complicated like I mentioned I'm self-employed so any time I'm spending contributing to WordPress as time I'm not spending running my business or working for my clients or essentially getting paid so I have to balance it very carefully but I do look at it in the long-term picture where because I'm contributing to a product I'm using for my business it is part of developing my business it is helping me so anytime does have a real benefit that said essentially it fluctuates wildly for me one week I'll be able to spend ten minutes popping in and out of a meeting and then the next week I'll spend an entire day trying to resolve a particular patch and I have no idea what's really going to happen because to me it all depends on what deliverables I have for clients at any given time and sometimes that means I can't do anything and sometimes it means I've got plenty of time or sometimes it even means because I have a project for a client I have to finish solving this bug because they need this bug fixed that's a rare case but it's really great when it happens I can imagine that that feels like being paid for working on WordPress right I don't yeah alright so would you say that if someone has five minutes a week to spend on contributing that would be enough to be helpful that depends on what they're doing honestly five minutes a week as a long-term practice doesn't really get anything done it takes more than five minutes just to write a good ticket I mean and by good ticket I mean a ticket where somebody can come in and read it and say oh I can reproduce this problem I know what's going on and you can't do that in five minutes five minutes is enough to kind of say oh yeah I can see this problem I'll come back and make a ticket later so I would say no five minutes a week isn't isn't going to do it but if you can save up your five minutes and have half an hour one day in a week yes you can do something with that so then you know what to tell your bosses five minutes not going to cut it make it more I mean we're trying to convince the audience here to contribute more right so I guess I have something to add to that my word camp Europe organizing experience gave me the confidence that we as a business can probably organize more community events so after with I did I was involved with word camp Europe we've successfully organized PHP conferences for more than 700 people like we did it twice already and I attribute my word camp Europe experience to taking the decision to do it so if you ever question whether it's worth to contribute back I definitely think it is and to me personally it's been very it's been an amazing learning experience because you learn a ton of things by working with other people and other contributors because the way it work is done in a community aspect is very different than the way that then the work that I'm used to do at side ramp so that alone is worth the experience yeah I think that's that's a valuable addition for sure so when looking into this to prepare for for this panel I ran into a system called track and as a normal WordPress user I must say that I see this track thing in several places can you help me understand what it is Gary or Michael so you grab your mic so track is our bug tracker system it's where all all bugs and all features are listed and worked on and patches are uploaded people test them so on and so forth so it's if you run into a bug with with WordPress then track as the as the place to look and that's and it's a place to if you find a bug write a ticket then you're also welcome to submit a patch but there also a lot of other people who go through and look at new tickets and say okay I can reproduce this here's a patch that'll fix it and that gets in the core so as far as like contributing for your business if you run into a problem while you're doing work then you can make WordPress better specifically for your case and then it's people people like everyone up here who'll kind of look at whatever your whatever your issue is and think okay well we can make it better for a huge number of people if we tweak it a little bit or something like that all right want to add to that or start a complete description of track I would say that's a pretty good technical description of track to kind of bring it down a level it's it's a good place to report problems if you have problems with WordPress or anything you can report it there it might be a duplicate that's fine there's people who keep track of that and we'll mark it as such and we'll point you in the right direction it's a good place to kind of see how the process happens see how WordPress is made I would you know there's just lots of little weird quirky tickets it's also a good place to get started to go in and find that ticket you're hoping to spend only five minutes on and get roped in and work on it for 20 hours that week which sounds not great but it's a lot of fun because there's a lot of cool people a lot of very smart people so you can write a patch which I didn't know how to do a while ago I mean everything about writing a patch was really scary to make these terminal and do all sorts of weird stuff but people walk you through it you learn a lot you have the best people in the world reviewing your code except for Gary maybe I still don't know why they let me do this here I am all right so can anyone post post on track or do you need something special do you need permission to be a core committer to right there absolutely not anyone can post just make make a wordpress.org account and post away in fact you've got an awful lot of power on track without anything more than a wordpress.org account you can close tickets you can change focuses you know that's a good thing to wait to do until you've maybe got a feeling for what's going on I had a battle with somebody recently who kept closing a ticket that needed to stay open and yeah I think it went back and forth like four times. Track is a little intimidating to use because it's a really janky UI is the nicest way I can say it you won't break anything though if you accidentally close something Joe will reopen it and you'll have a nice little battle. So that brings me to the next question I mean you said that UI for track is maybe not optimal might even call it suboptimal what what does anyone on the design team do is that work actually on track or is it stay do you stick with wordpress itself or only design teams what what does your team do. That's a great question so the team wildly varies because it has a lot of people drop in for short spurts over time we see a lot of familiar faces but there's like a few people that regularly contribute and they sort of split their effort like I said once you get involved well I think I guess I didn't say this once you get involved like you make a lot of friends and all sorts of stuff so people will start going to you for design advice early on which is where I spent a lot of my time as somebody will say okay hey we want to do this this thing in the customizer and we're thinking about going this route what do you think what can we do here so you then I'll spend some time on core as far as track goes I think people are afraid to touch it and it's not just that it's really hard to touch it's a very difficult thing to work with it's it's not just the way it's set up the technology behind it makes it really hard to modify so we could redesign it I think there are rumors about to spread of us maybe trying something else which is similar to track in a lot of ways but potentially with better better project flows track works so it's it doesn't matter if it's pretty it's easy to follow it well it's followable and and once you get the hang of it's it can be an effective communication tool especially across time zones and in locality it's it's actually a pretty great tool even despite it being a scary UI all right so let's let's step away from track for a bit because we've talked about that quite a bit if I'm into theme developing I mean we saw that quite a few people in the audience have themes would they have any value to add to the design team yeah absolutely so theming is a great way to get into either interface design or more theme design we do a theme every year that could definitely use some help and some extra people with eyes on it polishing it testing it giving giving some valuable feedback so yeah definitely and feel free to just drop into the design channel or reach out to any of us Tammy Lister who's somewhere around here taking photos and Hugo are good people to reach out to as well as me no choice does a lot of work on the design team all of us feel free to reach out will help you find a good fit in terms of what you want to do if you're just interested in committing don't know where to start will get you going like so that makes me wonder is there I mean Gary you're mainly working on core do you need designers as well or are you sticking with just developers yes we I shouldn't ask two questions I know sorry yes to both no we we always love design help at WordPress is a very visual product it's it has a lot of a lot of user interface that needs to be thought about the user experience so people helping out with design is always appreciated right so you're kind of fighting for designers both you and and the other teams accessibility and even community well I mean accessibility we're working with everybody because every time I mean we are spending a lot of time thinking about the non-visual experience with WordPress but there are major accessibility factors in the visual presentation as well and we have to make sure that those work out so every time we're looking to make a modification to the structure of a page we'll generally need to talk to somebody on the design team and say hey this is the change we need to make how should it look and then we'll work together to reach a conclusion that works for everybody and the design team works very similarly it's across a lot of the teams it's it's not really like this is that the design team doesn't really own a product it's more like the accessibility team where it works across everything that WordPress the WordPress community like all of the products together so there's a lot lot involved and we reach out we work across teams pretty well yeah the community team needs designers too right now there is a project about as you the community teams is mostly helping people to organize word camps and as many people are first-time organizers and they don't really know how to deal with badges and schedules and all that so right now there the community team has a project of creating like a design kit with the most commonly used needed print stuff print materials so yes if you are good with graphic design you can contribute with that too for the community team so we've been talking about designers but does the gate the same goes for other disciplines I mean developers are they needed across the board or maybe even other skills I mean what are you lacking in your your teams what are you really needing to move forward again developers are welcome everywhere there's there's obviously there's core but apart from that there's the there's the WordPress.org website which which people people contribute to and where we're working on there is some private code there which is which we're working on pushing out and making it more easy making it easier for people to contribute there's word camp the word camp websites which you can you can pretty easily get up and running and contribute to that to help word camps around the world to have really cool sites. I mean the accessibility team always needs more people because essentially what we need is more accessibility people embedded in every other team because we need people in support and we need people in design and we need people in community because accessibility like design is just one of those things that's across the board it's needed in every single area you can always find a place to fit somebody yeah so talking about accessibility I've heard that you work a lot with screen readers to test for that yeah the visually well I should have put that correctly non visual experience non visual experience thank you very much does that mean that if you want to help out with accessibility that you need to purchase like a super expensive product or how does that work are those available first of all no you definitely don't need to expense to buy an expensive product first of all if you do want to do any testing with a screen reader you probably already have one because if you're running a Mac you have voiceover if you have an iPhone or an iPad you have voiceover if you have an Android you have their app called talk back and it's already installed it just has to be enabled but that said you really don't need a screen reader to test for most accessibility and in many ways if you're not an expert using a screen reader it might be better that you don't because they are very difficult to use and if you're not familiar with them and comfortable with the experience what you may come away with is that oh this is terrible when in fact the it's terrible because you didn't understand what to do and you didn't know how to use it so screen reader testing is crucial you need for good accessibility to do some testing with a screen reader but you really need to do it with somebody who knows how it works it can be really valuable if you get a little familiarity to just do some very discreet testing and be able to start up your screen reader and verify this small interaction works but on the overall usability scale of whether or not this website works well with the screen reader that's a much harder problem that needs to be looked at by an expert and usually that's not me I'm an expert in accessibility but that does not make me an expert screen reader user that makes me a hack screen reader user all right so we've been talking a bit about what to do and why you started but I mean it costs time it especially if you have your own company it sort of takes time away from making money what keeps you contributing to WordPress what's the what what why are you still doing this Michael well that's a good question I think that there are a lot of different answers from a lot of different people I would say that there's a lot of huge benefits to contributing first of all if you're a designer and you're interested in accessibility it's a great place to get your feet wet there because you have a great set of resources available you can learn about semantic markup and like what you can do to try to prep a form or something for a screen reader even if you're not super familiar they'll be like oh that you can do these or add these tags or whatever you need to do or rearrange that and learn a lot that way so you will learn a huge amount I'm constantly learning a lot but more importantly you'll probably advance your career pretty well if you're a freelancer you'll make a lot more contacts you'll get a lot more visibility if if you work for a company your company will have a better product that they get to use ultimately and will have you as kind of an insider so if you run into something goofy like the login screen it's kind of annoying to change the background color of without setting it multiple places you can step in and like go to core and change a couple lines of code and it benefits everyone as well as your company so you don't have to like do that extra extra work so you can do a lot of stuff like that where you're actually benefiting your products I think the biggest is you're just gonna advance your your knowledge in your career no matter what path you take whether it's accessibility or developer or designer you just meet a lot of people your network will grow to a huge size where you know people all of the world that are experts in all sorts of different little things so if you have just some random question you can ask them with confidence that they'll at least point in the right direction I keep contributing because I really like the idea of making a product that anybody can make a site on even when I didn't like the UI at first I still really liked the products to be clear and I want to keep that going I want to keep that idea going that you know my parents can get a host and create a site about training their new dog like or create a shop or whatever it is like I like the confidence that people can do that all right and how about you Tina I like what he said very much is true about me so I keep contributing although not as much as I used to but I started organizing events because I like doing that and like I already said like this experience helped me learn a lot and expanded my network and personally I just enjoy it but I also wanted to say because I'm here representing a business and for us giving back and contributing to the community is crucial and there is one very ethical element to that we're a hosting provider and if it wasn't for WordPress we would probably well I wouldn't say we wouldn't be in the business but it will be very different so we basically are very much aware of how much we owe to this community for us to be in the business and it makes a lot of sense to make sure that and also with competitors Squarespace Wix and other CMSs we just want to make sure that WordPress continues to be as awesome as it is and stay competitive so also we are relevant on the market so it makes a lot of business sense for us to continue to be involved and sponsor WordCamps and speak at WordCamps and even help more people get involved with it. Do you have a similar drive Joe? Well I mean for me it is all about the passion for accessibility because by working on WordPress I can you know write a few lines of code and get it committed and then ship it out to a quarter of the web and that's a way I can make a very immediate and large impact on the world and making a difference really matters to me so WordPress is a place where I can contribute some time and it's a huge difference compared to building an accessible website where I'm building maybe I build the absolutely perfect most accessible website imaginable it's still one website that a small handful of people will go to whereas in WordPress I can make a handful of changes that affect so many more people. And the same question of course for you as well Gary? Yes so I mean I work full-time on WordPress but it's also by choice if I if I didn't love what I did then I'd be I'd switch to a different project in the company so certainly it's something I love it's like working with really interesting people working on big challenging problems it's it's it's it's a job that never really gets boring so that's cool and as as Joe was saying being able to like write writing code writing writing new features that are being shipped out to over a quarter of the internet is it's a bit of a rush it's pretty fun I like I like being able to think about the problems of where how will WordPress influence the direction of the entire internet. Alright so before we move to questions from the audience because I'm pretty sure that you will have questions for those amazing people up here there's one thing I'd like to to talk about and that is basically something Matt Mallowek said in 2014 he was talking about five for the future basically he was calling out companies and everyone in our ecosystem in our community to contribute 5% of time of resources of what have you to WordPress to make sure that WordPress would continue as a project and that WordPress would would grow and keep growing in in the future that makes me wonder what do you see as a valuable way to spend that 5% resources is that by throwing money at word camps for example or do you see more value in promoting the contributing to to the project in other ways I think you you can contribute in whatever way works for your company that's if you if you have the people to to contribute then absolutely then people can write code people can design things that's if you if you have support support engineers then they can help out on the forums and help people with their WordPress questions if you have documentation folks then there's always documentation to be written the handbooks the code documents or if you prefer using money like it's running word camps and making them making them cheaply available like the ticket today was $40 correct yeah making that available so cheaply to everyone is only possible through through sponsors so you sponsor you get you get your name up on the screen behind us and you also make it make the WordPress community really accessible for people to to get into and learn about and I think it's it's important to think about the fact that that that 5% for the future is it's for the future of WordPress but it's also for the future of your company so if you're not spending that 5% in a way that supports your company's needs as they relate to WordPress then that's maybe not what your company's view so the best way your company can do it has to be at some level of self-interest to your company all right so are there questions from the audience things you really like to know since we have a couple of mics here I'll be repeating your questions also for the video instead of running around with a with a mic today so yeah that you were first hand to be raised so the question is is there a way to it's there sorry is there a plan to extend WordPress or create a light version to make it available for Internet of Things can I answer this one you can you're eager I can see that reminder I'm a designer but WordPress has an API right and it's pretty dang awesome in fact I saw some cool stickers for it floating around earlier couldn't use the API to speak to your Internet for two devices are you talking about using WordPress as like an operating system on the devices oh that I don't know to use as an operating system on the devices no the and they need special the Internet of Things devices need specialized software which WordPress isn't the thing for that however those things generally have an API that can be talked to so absolutely you if you want to have a website to control your house then you can do it as a WordPress plug-in write a plug-in that talks to all of your talks all of your things you you can turn your lights on and off from from your blog you can let other people turn your lights on and off I'm not sure that's the best idea though maybe enable two factor authentication all right question in front here okay so to summarize your question what is the best way to start contributing given that Calypso and the current back-end are is there an expiration date on the current admin well that's a straightforward question Gary no so Calypso is an automatic product so if you go to I don't know how many people are familiar with it so on WordPress.com rather than using the standard WordPress dashboard then there's it's a completely new dashboard experience called Calypso whether so the the dashboard as it exists in WordPress today will likely change it will be it will be influenced by the things that that have been learned from Calypso it will certainly start using the the REST API endpoints sort of that are being released in WordPress 4.7 but the the dashboard that's in in WordPress today is not a end-of-life product it's something that's going to keep evolving all right so I'm going to move this way yes please curious and does that I mean headless WordPress contributing to it or all right so maybe that's a question that's better asked after the the panel and we'll stick to contributing for for now perfect question so how do you start contributing to WordPress where do you go well the first step would be to go to a meet-up or a word camp so you're on the right way you know around word camps usually before or after the event there is something called contributor day so you can I advise you to definitely go to those days and learn more like there are people from the various teams so they can walk you through and explain what you can do for each team on the global WordPress community team other than that you can go to make.wordpress.org and there you will see all the various teams that are available and basically get familiar with what each team does and choose for yourself where you want to get involved with also you can go on Slack and what else covers it pretty well yeah like the website oh yes and there is a contributor table getting involved table right in the hallway with the sponsors here yes so you can go there and there are people from the community team who can also walk you through and answer more questions for you yeah so I think the quickest way is to make sure that you're here on Sunday for the contributor day will all of you be here for contributor day as well yes perfect yes I will not be here you have your representatives yes but a lot of people from the community team will be here definitely yeah so this Sunday is probably the easiest way to start because you can sit right next to the people that are experienced and I'm sure they'll be happy to help you getting started so absolutely make sure that you come to contributor day it's super valuable well that is a good question let me summarize that really quickly so if you have a new feature that you would like to introduce how to how to do that how to get a new feature into WordPress well there are a lot of different scales of new features if it's a relatively minor thing you can just report it on track and label it as an enhancement and and say this is something we'd like to add and like to improve this but for major features you know those are most commonly lately done as feature plugins and then that's a big project and you need to get people involved you need to get buy-in there needs to be community support for the concept for it to gain traction and get tested and potentially in the future get merged and that that's a complicated process because if it's a major feature that means it's changing a lot of things and a really important thing to know about a feature is what else it touches and and Gary knows all about what else it touches when starting with a feature approach with a big feature project I would not recommend as the first thing to to get into with contributing it is it is a big process it starts like it starts like thinking about the the design and the user experience and then moves on to to developing the code and then moves on to user testing and making sure the accessibility is good and all and all that kind of thing it can be a very long-term process it's not not the place to start but that said there are existing feature projects which are which you can absolutely get involved in they're run by people who have who have experience building features so it's kind of a way to be able to build cool new things without needing to worry about fitting into the WordPress release cycle or tackling bugs or anything like that well so the short answer is probably make sure you're there on Sunday and they'll happily help you and that was it for this panel we flew through it so I'd like to thank you very very much and see you all on Sunday


Item number SCP-1046 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures The building currently integrated with SCP-1046 is to be contained in a standard domicile containment unit. All surfaces contacted in the building are to be constructed out of wooden materials. In the event of a containment breach, all portions of SCP-1046 found outside of containment are to be surgically removed and transplanted into the original building or a suitable replacement building. Description SCP-1046 is a collection of 781 separate human body parts, formerly a man named █████. The portions of SCP-1046's body are alive and fully functional, despite not receiving any sustenance or containing any blood. SCP-1046 is located within the former home of █████. Portions of SCP-1046 are located throughout the home, with some portions of the body replacing utilities within the home, such as portions of the skin replacing three curtains in a lampshade, and some inhibiting functions of objects within the home, such as a sink being clogged by an artery, and a large portion of the face being permanently affixed to the living room television. At random intervals, portions of SCP-1046 will shift throughout any non-biological surface into which they are currently integrated. This shift can take anywhere from 45 minutes to several weeks. Additionally, the portion of the face integrated into the television, and any other portion of SCP-1046 capable of producing sound, will begin to make distraught vocalizations. Portions located within SCP-1046 will begin to produce small amounts of saline during this time, despite the building not being connected to any water source. SCP-1046 was discovered on September 18, 1994, after Foundation assets in the Davey Sheriff's Department followed up on reports of a, quote, «house with people» parts, unquote. Investigation into the alleged house revealed SCP-1046's anomalous properties. Subsequent surgical intervention allowed agents to achieve successful containment. SCP-1046 was contained on November 19, 1994, and classified as Euclid. Similarities between SCP-1046 and SCP-1582 have been noted, and investigation to a similar origin of the two phenomena is currently ongoing. Addendum Documents recovered from the residence SCP-1046 was located in, have proven to be relevant to SCP-1046's current condition. Further investigation into the Malva Real Estate Corporation are ongoing. The letters were found in a bureau drawer and appear to be copies of letters that were sent to an unknown party. Dear Mr. Bayer, recently I moved to one of your company's marvelous new homes, and found it to be quite luxurious. The ads are right. You really do feel like part of the home. However, I am writing you this letter due to the fact that my new house no longer contains the bedroom. Would it be possible to get a contractor out here to remedy the situation? Sincerely. ██████ Dear Mr. Bayer, I don't believe you've received my last correspondence, and as such I am writing you again. Since you did not send a contractor as I requested, I have decided to hire one of my own. Unfortunately, several injuries sustained on my property compelled them to leave without finishing. I once again compel you to remedy the error.  I demand that you send a contractor to finish my home at once. It is unacceptable for a gentleman of my stature to be reduced to sleeping in the living room. If my home is not supplied with a master bedroom within the next three weeks, I will be forced to send my lawyer. To those who it may concern, I am alone and trapped and dark. I am all over. I feel the creaks of the beams. I taste the staleness of the wall. I am dry. I need my bedroom. Several days into the dawning of the sincere letter sent to an insincere man, he said I would be my house. I am a man. Don't take me any more please. I can't get sleep. The remainder of the note is unintelligible.


Okay, so now we're looking at the humorous your upper arm bone there Okay, so starting at the top of it. We have the head of the humorous right here This is what's articulating with the glenoid cavity of the scapula Okay, then we have a neck in the humorous cases. We technically have two necks So the neck is kind of where it begins to thin out from the head itself But with the way that the humorous is shaped we have a anatomical neck right at the base of the head here But we also have a surgical neck right here Okay, we've got the greater and lesser tubercles So the greater is kind of higher up on top here The lesser is kind of a little further down both sticking out projections there The intertubular sulcus or groove is in between them You can see the deltoid tuberosity kind of this roughened part of the humorous Going down towards the bottom here This is kind of be where your elbow would be we have a medial epicondyle Okay, so this is the large projection off to the side It's your funny bone that part you hit and it hurts like crazy not so funny Okay, and this of course on this side over here would make this our lateral epicondyle Okay, you can see this kind of hole right here. Okay, this is the cornoid fossa And you have two projections here and here on the medial side is the trochlea On the lateral side is the capitulum on the back side another hole here Is the allocranin fossa?


Hi everyone, in this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to convert image to PDF file in Python language. In order to do that we're going to use pillow library in Python. Let's install this library on our machine. I'm gonna type in terminal or command prompt. We've installed pillow and press enter. Now pillow library is successfully installed. Then if I want to work with images I'm gonna import from this pillow library image. Then I'm gonna open an image with function open and inside this parentheses as a parameter I'm gonna type the path to my image. My image is gonna be in this folder on drive D and it's gonna have name, example, image.png. I'm gonna paste that and I'm gonna save this information to n-variable. I'm gonna call it for example image1. Now I want to convert this image and I'm gonna save it to image1.variable and finally I'm gonna save that converted image to a PDF file. I'm gonna use the same path, just I'm gonna type to this file PDF instead of png. I have a little typo here. Okay now I'm gonna run this file and let's check our folder. As you can see here we have newly created PDF file. I'm gonna open it and there is our image converted to PDF. That's all in this tutorial. See you in the next tutorial. Happy coding!


Judge and the Yankees offense wasted no time giving Frankie Montas support, but the Brewers bounced back quickly and the right-hander was removed in the fourth inning. Earlier today, Aaron Boone said Montas is going to have an MRI on his right shoulder. Then he talked further about the situation, providing our quote of the day presented by Toyota. At least a little bit concerned. It seems to be, you know, really symptomatic wise and check him out less than what he was dealing with when he was in Oakland a couple months ago, but, you know, we'll obviously know more when we get this and then can move forward from there. There's not a lot of time left in this season, post-season rapidly approaching. Does it cross your mind that he may not be back? I mean, no, we'll see what we got today from the result of this and, you know, get Dr. Amon's hands on him and we'll, you know, have a better clue as the next 24-48 hours unfolds. Does Hermon slide back into the rotation if he is not an option? Yeah, he could. Certainly. We have an off-day coming up, but yeah, that would be the likely move. Do you think he said anything to do? I know he just complained of symptoms today, but the kind of ineffectiveness that he's had for six weeks? I don't know. I mean, I think it could have had something to do with last night, but as far as I know, he's been, you know, good and healthy into that and even last night, you know, according to him, was fairly minor, but we'll see. Matt Blake said in retrospect, maybe the velocity just a little bit down and maybe looking back, you could see something was off. Did you notice anything throughout the game that was a red flag? I noticed. I thought his fastball velocity was a little bit down in that kind of second, third inning, like on a consistent standpoint. So now in hindsight, that could have been a sign. Are you 100% convinced when you dealt for him, you traded for a completely healthy player? Wow, 100%. That's pretty high. 99%. Yeah, I think, I think, yeah, I think we're, you know, obviously, we knew he was coming off an injury that only cost him 17 days, but yeah, everything would have suggested that he was healthy. Is this something he mentioned during the game last night or it came up today? No, it was after the game. After the game yesterday? Yeah. Is Jose Trevino an option today? He should be, yeah. Marlin's OK, obviously. Marlin's good. If he gets to the bottom of whatever that was. No. Just kind of dizzy, nauseous, but was good by last night and then this morning was fine.  I mean, how much of a blow is that when you, you know, you're getting a boost from these guys and certainly expected one and now you're dealing with them? I mean, you know, even, even as we've started to play well here, we, you know, we're still beat up and banged up, but we're also excited about the possible returns of some key guys starting probably tomorrow and then Tuesday and then Wednesday. So hopefully we can start to, you know, find out more about those guys moving forward.