Hi everyone thanks for joining me on Friday afternoon and hopefully kind of the end of term is near or has happened for you. I've got one more week and then I'm going to be thinking a lot about reflection myself. So this workshop kind of just came about after having a conversation with Chloe because I had the pleasure of being on the podcast and then we chatted quite a lot and this is one of the many hats that I wear. So I work in FE, I teach art in FE but I've also recently been looking at different ways of using the creative arts kind of just for general benefits really to life and one of those that I found is for reflection. So today we're going to look at collage with kind of a digital edge to it just given kind of the context that we're in with amplifier FE. However you know all of the things I'm going to chat about if you're someone that prefers to work with physical things like paper and I don't know feathers and all thoughts or things like that. You can apply all the things I want to talk about really with physical objects as well and sometimes if you've been staring at your screen or day you might want to step away and do something that is more real life but given that we're all online you have access to this digital option as well and also it comes with the added benefit that not everyone is like me and keeps everything that they ever come across so collage can be quite difficult if you don't have lots of things to make a collage out of whereas when you're online you have obviously access to like an infinite amount of things really. If anyone has any questions as you go along pop them in the chat and I'll get to them hopefully what I'll say will make sense but you never know on a Friday afternoon I may have used all of my sentence up by now. So collage what is it and what we're going to use it for today so I've said as a reflective tool and really it's just a different way of depicting kind of information thoughts and feelings so some people journal by collage and sometimes it's difficult to articulate things I think in language so if you can do images or signs or symbols or colors that's the kind of thing that collage can let you do but it can be a starting point as well so things are always transferable aren't they so you may have students that collage might work really well with if they are struggling to communicate something with you or likewise you may have you know if you have a meeting with a line manager or something and you can't quite get down on paper what it is you're trying to say take a collage along with you use it as a starting point so these are just kind of uses that I've seen kind of used with students and learners and staff since I've been delivering these sessions so it's nice to see them have a wide kind of variety of you know applying applications beyond trying to the realm of creating collage for art and you may create them and never show them to anyone either and that's perfectly fine as well because they should be for you and used however they're going to be most beneficial for you so things that we can consider when we're thinking about collage symbolism so you know if there's something that represents something to you so think about light bulb image for example if you had a good idea metaphor as well often we talk in the metaphor quite a lot but you could obviously represent that visually so if you were trying to think of a metaphor now when you say you could so hungry you could eat a horse for example you could turn that into a collage somehow scale I've tried to represent some of these here which is icons from Microsoft office so I've got my scale image there where I've got the person looking quite tiny and then next to a big computer um because that's definitely how I felt in lockdown the technology was taking over and was massive and the people on the screen were massive as well and I felt a bit small so you can think about scaling that way um color like I say you know you might just have a favorite color or you might want to think about really basic elements of color theory so often you know red anger or love depending on what it is that it's depicting or means something different um but quite a fun thing to play with and again with these icons that I got from Microsoft office you can very easily change the color of them as well I'm going to talk about other places that you can get digital images from um too so you might be um a pc user you might be an Apple user and what you have access to may vary slightly depending on what it is that you use I use Microsoft office constantly um to the point where I feel like I should probably be sponsored by them um as I'm sure we all feel sometimes so as long as you kind of have access to something like PowerPoint or similar that's kind of the application that I will suggest that you would do a digital collage on PowerPoint is great for images um if anyone's ever tried to put an image in a word document you probably know that um you try to insert a picture and everything moves about 15 pages um so PowerPoint is definitely much more user friendly or you could go really I feel old school and say paint I'm not even sure if that's still on laptops I had to install it onto my laptop and I brought it but I needed MS paint in my life um so framing as well so what's included and what's not included can be really powerful um I'd done a session like this with people that were nurses and they were looking at person-centered um care or patient-centered care and they were creating collages that didn't include the patient um so that was quite an interesting reflective tool for them to use because we're going but what's missing why is it missing how can we get the patient back into your collage um composition to think about what's perhaps most important or most pressing for you which might be really big and really at the front and things that are perhaps lesser stresses or worries um are in the background um and then we're trying to get a fancy language here vectors and focus and placement so I always say children's books are really good examples of this so it's how you want the eye to move around the page essentially so you might have a bit of text in the top left hand corner and then you might have a bit of text in the middle of the page and then you might have a bit of text in the bottom left hand corner and it kind of helps with the storytelling um so yeah text if it's in a book but within a collage it might not text it might just be how you're arranging things and that can be quite a nice way to depict kind of a journey that you're going on as well but these are just kind of suggestions you can ignore them all and you can just go for it that's a good thing about collage is um there is kind of art theory and things behind it but really collage is about playing I think and particularly when you're reflecting you might find that they change quite a lot as your thinking changes as you work through that process so digital collage so where can you get images from so if you might have your own digital images you might want to include perhaps your own photographs um stock images as well so again if you're working on PowerPoint if you go insert image it will offer you I think four options of how to upload images one of them is from your computer I think one of them is stock images one of them is from the internet and maybe there's only three options but there's lots of options there and that's built into PowerPoint shapes as well so you might want to insert a star you might feel like you've done really great this term and that you deserve a gold star or two um so you can use those you know you don't have to be fancy here um again icons as I've mentioned and as I've kind of put on my example slides you can search key terms in there and it'll show you the different icons that Microsoft have decided to represent that thing that you're looking for and you can change the color and the shape and the size um and I just changed the outline color but you can change the block color as well and you can start layering them up so you can get quite interesting complex images there as well and then you've got websites that have royalty free images so if you're planning on sharing your collages widely or trying to I don't know monetize them in some way making sure that you're using royalty free images obviously if you're using the collages for your own personal use and you're not going to share them then that doesn't matter as much as long as it's personal use um you can pretty much go wild with the images um and you may you know often when we're collaging with magazines and new newspapers and things you're changing them so drastically that by the end you might not even notice what the original image was um so then I've just got some kind of basic instructions really so I've said open a document PowerPoint word or similar um as I've said I wouldn't particularly advocate word but if you're someone that loves word go for it um and if you're on an apple product do you think you might have pages or something similar I'm not an apple person so I don't know what goes on in that world um and then inserting your images from a range of sources arrange and layer them and then play with kind of color as well and size and scale so I've just got a couple of examples so my first example is a digital collage um and I've tried to give some context to what they were doing as well so this was from a criminology course that I went to visit and we done collage to try and communicate a theme so this was completely digital you know they inserted a picture of the world um lots of people and then little symbols that they thought represented the theme that they were trying to talk about and then they used that as a prompt really to talk about their topic further so in a way simplistic but also you know they've used a picture from the internet they've used layering they've used size and scale um so it becomes more complex the more you kind of dig into it um and then I've got I think two more examples and these are physical collages but could be recreated easily digitally um so this was someone it's a collage of personal development well-being and resilience so they were thinking about their journey so they kind of put numbers in to represent their age and this red piece of string to kind of document their timeline and then different images and things that they found that they felt were important at that point in their life and where they wanted to end up at the end as well um and this is one of my favorites it's very playful nothing was stuck down and it doesn't exist anymore but it was a trainee teacher and they were trying to visualize their journey so they were trying to recreate like an obstacle course so they've got paper clips that were kind of like barbed wire um and a hoop to jump through and all of this going on but then a lovely sunset in the background so lots and lots going on there um so we thought seems that of you know the time of the year that it is that we would think about reflection um so you might want to reflect on the year that's just gone or perhaps you want to reflect on the year that is going to be coming up very soon because the summer always flies by um but it's always you know if you think something digital it's different in a way to the physical collages because you can kind of just flip through magazines and stuff and see if something grabs your eye but with the digital collage you might need a little bit more direction so start thinking about keywords so if you're reflecting and you're thinking oh I had a really uh I don't know difficult I was moving classrooms every five minutes perhaps you want to look at different classrooms that could represent that in images or how you would represent moving around a lot um and how that made you feel like maybe you liked moving around a lot maybe it was um every stressful part of your day to be in a different classroom every you know for every session so you might want to focus on something really specific like that what might be the year as a whole thinking where did you start this year at and how did you end the year um so a bit like that timeline journey example that I shared with you and again I said consider colors that you want to include perhaps there's a color that is overriding in your life might be the color of your the logo of the place you work for example or the color of your classroom wall or the color of your car or something that is really present to you it might really stick out to you and then it's just really playing with these inserting them moving them around cropping them and things like that um I've said remember collage can be abstract as well so you don't have to you know represent something if you're thinking about I don't know your commute you don't have to include a train and a car and a bus and things like that you could think about more the feelings and what those feelings look like um so that's probably the end of me rabbiting on about collage and digital collage hopefully under that overview has been useful for people but what we really wanted to do in this session was give you kind of time to do that reflecting um in you know a supportive environment so you can stick around and if you have any questions or want to ask anything about the process or want to share their outcome more than welcome to do that um so Chloe I imagine that's probably good to stop the recording fantastic half done oh brilliant okay I'm definitely a powerpoint person too you know when I was in uni I used like the whole Adobe creative suite but I started using powerpoint um when I was working in community learning because it's just something I could then promote to other practitioners to use because the word drove me up the wall but I know it works for some people and some people are friends with or I'm just not friends with word for anything remotely designed so I love powerpoint um am I able to see on my screen because then I could perhaps share the process yeah okay yeah share application screen so if you go to the share the bottom and share it's great and then you can do that weird avoid text thing I think can you see my powerpoint yes yes sometimes you do that and you can just see yourself like an infinite number of times yeah yeah we can see you um so yeah like I've still got one more week left so I don't know I'm it's difficult sometimes to reflect beyond how you feel in the moment and at the moment I am exhausted so it's an interesting one but on the whole yeah I think I've had quite a positive year so I might try and reflect on that also I think it's very easy I think when we're reflecting and looking back the negative things often jump out a little bit more so trying to have a bit of more of a holistic and go okay maybe I had one bad day that week but the rest of the week was fine I like these icons as well that I just like you know they're built in aren't they so you don't need to go too far for looking for stuff um it's quite easy to have that and then maybe in a few moments you go I don't want that and it's easy for you to get something else in quite quickly you know it doesn't have to be laboring to find one perfect image it can be something quite quick and they do have quite a lot of options in the icons so I don't know if you saw when I typed sun in you've got a variety of suns and then also other things that relate to suns so it's useful in that sense um let's see the art one that always made me laugh because um I don't know if anyone here knows me or not but I'm a text artist so I work with text and language um but often this is how we are depicted as artists with our little berets on and paint palettes um but yeah I've got you've got to embrace it that's the thing about icons is they're quite um to the point I don't know I could probably edit this and change that paint palette into a box of letters that would be interesting um I guess I can't just look at the base they're they basically get an idea across don't they um I did um a course with well both Emily Bison and Emery Leary who both do um the big in graphic facilitation worlds um Emery in graphic facilitation Emily in what ESOL she's been using graphic facilitation ESOL um and EAL um worlds and they both talk about how you just have to you know so it's about yeah it's about drawing but so basically you doesn't have to be like fancy pants you know it is just something nice and quick literally just like a few lines a square a triangle a circle like if you can do basic shapes you can design your own icon it's just it's communicated as long as the person looking at it can understand what you're trying to get across so that picture of an artist could just be you know a circle and then a semicircle and then a silly floppy shape for the palette do you know I mean and a few little colors and people would understand what it meant but I also it also resonated me about um that being the general depict you know picture of an artist um yeah I um wonder what their icon for teacher is let's see well this one I typed school in for this one um because I didn't think adult community learning would come up I don't know if they're that specific but it's quite interesting um because we always you know kind of talk about was it the sage on the stage um it would probably move walk move past that a little bit but that is um how they are depicting it here which is interesting um but hopefully it's quite a playful process I think anything which is kind of reflection is if you can take you away from the moment you know just five ten minutes and you can you might create something useful for yourself or you might just you know chill out for a little bit um which I'm always a fan of if I can chill out oh yeah definitely sometimes reflection can be actually be like a really it can be arduous and it can be um like quite emotive and emotional and I think you know so having to write it all down can sometimes be like quite that's what how it can become quite arduous task whereas being able to just this is I don't know just makes it a bit more playful yeah I mean I do so much writing for my studying and you know sometimes I feel like I've run out of words so I don't I can't keep a journal or diary or anything like that because I finish the day and I'm just a bit like well I don't have anything else left to say but I can mess around with some shapes and some pictures um it's the sort of thing that makes me happy so hopefully um we'll make other people happy too I've got very simple aims in life they are mostly related to happiness and I can't actually see the chat or the platform when I'm sharing my screen so do let me know if anything is happening I will do I've just pop something into chat for everybody if they've got any questions not just to shout them out you can unmute yourself folks yeah we're not recording now so feel free to we have that discussion didn't we like I always think um so we usually do webinars that I like half an hour but we wanted this to be a workshop time and space so that you could ask those questions or just have a play um if you've got a question about using PowerPoint so if you're using PowerPoint right now and you're like how do I get those icons up then just unmute yourself and ask the question or if your microphone's not working I think um is it Miranda said microphone issues you can always pop into chat um and I will say it out loud to our base if there's any questions what's that blue what's the blue triangle for well I'm thinking about identity constantly and I guess at the moment I think I have three identities a bit of a triangle going on um but I'm actually literally handing in my PhD on Monday so then I don't know what shape I would be anymore oh gosh I don't know what shape I'll be people keep going oh you do like I'm just going to hand it in and see what happens solid life clap oh well I feel like I've got lots to do um my to-do list isn't any shorter well I really appreciate you coming to to do this oh no and it's not the thing I need it I need the art have a little bit of time I should say before PhD it's all you know it's all I know you haven't just been using words who PhD right but you know writing everything on it's that's you know can be a bit of a yeah I mean it is a lot of words and then my art practice is words so I feel like my well-being needs to be something that isn't isn't right um but yeah you said something before that really resonated when you said about um it's Friday so I might have run out of sense and I was like yes I'm completely resonating with me yeah I said that to my learners when we got into July I was like I'm going to make less and less sense as the month goes on they were fine with it they were like okay but it is one of those things isn't it it's um you're on you know you're on it aren't you constantly when you're with other people you have and you have to kind of consciously make sure that you make some kind of coherent sense um but often when I'm teaching as well you know I will tell them we'll go through the slides shows and we'll talk about what we're doing so it is often well it's always art related because I'm teaching them art um and they can look at and then I will show them an example and they'll go oh yeah I know what you mean now so it's finding the right way to communicate I think um and sometimes that isn't with text and language it's with visuals um which is quite interesting I guess the usefulness of that differs depending on what it is that you're interested in or subjects that you're looking at um Emma's just put um from what we were just discussing about she's put me too it's so nice to stop and do this for a little little bit I'm so glad I signed up now oh brilliant thank you um I don't know if there if people are comfortable with sharing I'm nosy that's why I got into teaching art particularly because I get to looking people sketchbooks um but I don't know if we can meet use of the hashtag or share them in some other way um if people are comfortable doing that I'll pop this on Twitter from the world to see but sometimes yeah definitely or LinkedIn just use the hashtag and um if you want if you want to share there's no like you know it's oh yeah no whenever I do workshops I always say to people oh you know don't bother don't worry about sharing them like the ones I've done in person as well and then the last one I done it was about reflecting on your identity like who you are as a like a researcher so I said at the start I was like no need to share their personal you know I'll wander around and have a chat but at the end of the session there's like no 30 of them and everyone wanted to get up and share because I think it's quite empowering for them um so that was really nice because actually um at the start of these things people sometimes are a bit like are you sure this is going to work as a as a tool you know as a reflective tool and like yeah just trust in the process and it all will become that's it and you've got something that you can kind of like um anchor anchor your thoughts and anchor your like verbal reflections um focus so much on having reflection written down okay now I've got your screen I only have one screen but it's a long one so um I've got your PowerPoint my PowerPoint and chat open oh my gosh I have a little play as well I'm like getting jealous so I'm gonna have a bash because I I'm in in my I'm in a Mac on a Mac so I'm a little bit um oh yeah but it also because I'm mine on dark mode as well so it always looks completely different to what other people have it in um so do you have PowerPoint on your Mac yes yes I do um because I do actually really like using it and also because when I recommend it to people I like to be able to recommend something that people can actually use which is why I don't use I used InDesign when I was at uni um and Premiere etc but they quickly went from CS4 you know like the creative suite so you could buy and individually to their subscription model which a lot of people really afford it's not accessible so when I was making worksheets and making designs and stuff and sharing and resources and sharing them with teachers um I wanted to use a software that others could use and access quite easily so that's why I started using PowerPoint I don't even use publisher because not everyone can access publisher um I can't have a Mac so I can't even access it anyway um but it's interesting to see what I can what I can access on an Apple Mac because not we don't get everything from my machine they give us like 70% PowerPoint but um you know you can still do quite a lot on it it just looks a little bit different yeah the thing that we use where I work as well for our learners is they have access to Microsoft online and again that same so it's limited functionality but it means that they can log on and access it because otherwise I mean some of our learners are with us for five weeks you know you can't expect people to be going out and buying Microsoft Office yeah it's expensive um really in the grand you know for what it is I think because I think we should just all have you know have access to these tools um but it seems like every time I buy laptop there's less and less on it and you have to buy everything individually um but yeah so for our learners they've been able to get them office online um which means you can you can create things like this on office online but you might just have less to choose from um but if you use the images from the internet you still have everything that's on the internet yeah which is a lot well right Emma um has um the joy of Microsoft I have saved in one drive and you might be able to see it you can access this um later if you're unhappy or you can have a little play with it now I've just gone and clicked on it um and I can see Emma's um notes and what she's working on right now so yeah and I love this let me feel like I'm working on how to do that we can go into chat and Emma has shared a link to her um oh yeah amazing I can never actually access people's stuff at SharePoint but that was nice and easy peasy thank you very much Emma I love you thank you for sharing I love that picture I didn't I want to know whether you talked that picture Emma or you found it yeah I love the little running figure yeah this is where the arty bit comes in because then um like you Chloe I have to have like a million questions I'm like is it the same person running in all these different directions or is it one person hierarchy thing or is someone like you know is it a journey is it oh you have so many questions but hopefully as well if you do do a collage like this for reflection and perhaps like as a reflection with someone else they might be questions that you've not asked yourself so someone goes oh you know that's an interesting choice perhaps subconsciously you are thinking about hierarchy but you weren't thinking about it when you made it um yeah that's really interesting like you've not got that cognitive like cognitively that wasn't there like explicitly for you but maybe subconsciously it was kind of like eking out in the visuals I do think creative things and I'm confident in saying it's scientifically proven news is a different part of your brain I'm pretty sure that's a fact um if you say things confidently enough um but yeah I think it must you know because you're all working and thinking in a different way so you may unlock things that you weren't particularly aware of um before which is again one of the things I like about it I really think I do in conversation as well I'd be sorry at the winter yeah I mean there's no reason it has to be a solitary activity you can bring as many people in as you want really um you know and it's nice I guess if you had something like a shared power point on a one drive you could everyone could have their own slides but you'd be able to see everyone working in real time so you'd be able to see other people's processes like and um there used to be this thing um why you could I mean it probably still is but I can't think of what it's called you can capture the making process so you can record your screen while you were making for example and then you would see the whole process you could play the whole process um which is quite interesting because then it goes back to one of those points that I was saying about what's included and what's not included because I might start with something um and then it might not make it into the final thing so I could get rid of that and then it changes it completely but it was there you know it was part of the collages history it was there at some point but it was quite um large so well um I just realised I was looking I think at an old version I just refreshed the page of what Emma was working on and she's since added a few little bits and changed a few bits and bobs and she's explained in chat the trees are stocking which but she blurred it a little bit yeah the person is me running around the different branches of my job oh I like that that's very good yes we talked about kind of metaphor and symbolism yeah very very nice I look really really like that metaphor of the different branches of your job but also running around if you've got so many things to do as well and having that working person the icons on the outside of my big projects and achievements that's a bit I didn't see so I had to refresh it we've got a little robot and um a computer and a cloud fantastic oh my gosh what's going on here that's made my thing as well because when you said about the different branches the thing I always say to people is that I have different hats yeah I always talk about my hat with my amphiphia fee hat on I'm currently in a web because I always say to people I was like sometimes I think it would be easier if I had actual hats and then I would know who I was supposed to be make it a little bit yeah yeah exactly I guess we've got one here one instead of hats but I like hat things and icons in Microsoft they look really cool actually to different hats yeah I mean some of them are a bit literal I'm not sure about the chef hat but I do cook dinner so I don't know if that counts ironically I wanted to be a chef when I was younger and then I developed quite a lot of food allergies oh no probably not the career for me if I can't eat anything oh gosh that tastes like everything so you wouldn't be able to taste it because at first I was quite pumped off because I don't like seafood and then I couldn't eat gluten and I was just like oh there's you know I'm gonna have to work in a very specific kind of restaurant yeah and now here I am I'm an artist and I'm a teacher and I'm a research I'm not a chef but yeah maybe one day that's the other thing there isn't it is um we can all kind of continue to change and develop and you think about how many different careers people have these days yeah exactly and was popped I'm thinking there about my role which I've heard about I mean we heard about that have you heard of my role before Abby I think I've seen one yeah I can't say I got the hang of it because I was I think I was trying to create diagrams I might be thinking of a different thing but I think it was like an online white board thing and I was trying to create a diagram system on it um and if I can't work something out within five minutes I'm normally a bit like oh not for me it really depends how you use my because when I've been in big groups it's I find it really overwhelming and I find it quite stressful but that's big groups but if it's just a few of you I find like it can be quite nice um it's expansive and you know never ending so it um it you can't you can all be working on different things and then kind of like come together I'll go and like gag in on what someone else is working on which I think um but I like using Jamboard um for so many different things and I use Jamboard for like Jamboard before Jamboard's what I'm a bit similar to what I just described so my role for is what I do use Jamboard for is that like every person would have a different Jamboard slide um so you can kind of gag in on what someone else is doing I've used it as like you know in classes before but I've also used it for my lesson prep because it's just like Jamboard is just like a big piece of paper flip chart paper with like yeah digital flip chart paper with digital post-it notes and it's really really simplified but that's why I like using it in class because you know it's literally there's pen there's six shapes to choose from six colors see you know you've got your paint in there six colors to choose not the toxic green though and um you know so it's really really simplified version of PowerPoint effectively um but it's quite nice it's tactile because you can just move all the different things around yeah so have a little bash at that and I would say also have a little it can be quite cool but I think when you it's how you use it um I think people use them in presentations where they're kind of I guess almost they've moved beyond being the working project and they always look so impressive um but yeah like I say I um I did give up quite easily I think it was one of the ones in lockdown when people were going try this try this try this and I was going there so much to try oh well isn't it I'm finding what worked for you that's why I went on to every I you know Jamboard works for me and I quite like it um so I yeah cool okay I think I'm happy with my collage nice I'm gonna go back and refresh and see whether she's out there just any more bits and bobs to it oh we've got more icons on the sides oh nice okay the other thing I like about PowerPoint is that you can obviously save the slides as PDFs and also jpegs and well all these other options which is quite useful the jpeg thing is particularly useful I find yeah that's quite nice and then like if you if you made one all the way through the year like every month or took like half an hour out of your time at the end of the week and then it becomes like a um end of week mind dump yeah you know yeah actually it could be very useful in about a rubbish week um to reflect on what you were saying before about how like you know sometimes we focus so much on the negative things and actually to be like you know this good thing happened actually and it's it can be quite therapeutic and it's a bit of mindfulness really as well to have that half an hour to just do a dump mind dump and then um if you save them all then you'd have like at the end of the year you'd have like in years worth of um all these different like reflections to look back on to say when they're all visual and you might have absolutely no idea why you put that blue triangle on in September or you know whatever or that jar of peanut butter I don't know no idea why you did it but it kind of in a way doesn't matter because it's about that reflection at that moment in time I guess and your thoughts and you might perceive that peanut I don't know why I've gone to I don't even like peanut butter but um but you might reflect on that jar in a different way um six months later than you did in October yeah absolutely and again you know if you're doing something like PowerPoint you can save them the jpegs but you could just have a PowerPoint each week or each month and then you'd have them all in one place um keep them keep them safe and together and yeah so hopefully it's introduced people to kind of a different way of working through reflection and yeah that's that's my hope that was the aim um I'll ask out loud what's your um Emma and Miranda what do you think and how do you think you would use it I know some of you don't have access to microphone right now so I'll give you a few minutes to type something into chat if you want to but um how do you think you'll take it forward I think it's important to carve that time out so even though I just said like a week I don't know whether I'd get stressed at doing it every week but actually I feel like we need to be kind to ourselves and give ourselves that time to play and reflect I think it's important otherwise we just rush straight into the next week yeah yeah I think and it doesn't have to take you know masses of time you know you can do things relatively quickly oh lovely thank you yeah I mean I think like we've been really bigging up PowerPoint this afternoon it's good it's so easy and it's so simple and it's kind of tactile isn't it like and it's something that people don't think of when they think of PowerPoint because I have this major issue and people say oh death by PowerPoint and I just think PowerPoint is actually a really it's a powerful tool and for many obviously it can be used you know I don't want to say badly but you did those people where it's almost you know so much text it should be a word document and they sit there so you have lots of experiences like that then if you use it in a completely different way it becomes almost a completely different tool exactly I think that's it yeah exactly it becomes a different tool instead of just seeing it as a presentation tool seeing it in a different light yeah because that's the thing as well if you think about PowerPoint I think you are often thinking about presentations that are going to be disseminated you know shared with groups of people but actually the way we're using them today is very much personal use isn't it um but lovely comments just come through in the chat about using it with send students as well and yeah getting people to use things that are more visual but also you're then introducing them to Microsoft Office and IT becomes a massive thing that people are looking for isn't it kind of like every level of job now you're expected to have a basic understanding of ICT and it's a bit like a nicer way of introducing it I think so even with any learners I think they're maybe a bit nervous sort of Microsoft Office I always say start with PowerPoint um before Word because it's so much more user friendly um and then you know once they're putting images and stuff together I mean I was a massive geek as a child but I used to make like PowerPoints when I was little for fun you know because it was so I could put you know you can put video clips in there you can put sound in you can make really cool transactions and animation and stuff and you can make your things go you know up and down and all around so it used to be hours of fun but not everyone was born with that innate love of PowerPoint that I seem to have had but yeah if you can get people to do fun things with it first then you can get them you know gradually throughout the year introduce it in a different way um yeah so brilliant yeah um feedback is always really useful as well so if people do go on and use this with other people I am all over the internet I'm on Twitter let me know let me know how it goes because it's interesting to see how it works with different groups of people but it's like as I have done this with criminology students PhD students teacher training basically there's no they haven't really found a boundary for it yet I think it's useful for most people um because I think reflection can only be a good thing um yeah I think someone mentioned well-being earlier and I think the two are linked quite strongly aren't they if you're not reflecting on what's happening it's difficult to take care of your own well-being if you're not sure kind of where your heads at in the first instance um but yeah we're coming up towards the end that was a very quick hour I must say um yes well huge thank you for coming and doing this and doing this like at the end of the academic nearly the end of the academic year for yourself but also three days before you've got to hand your time out for us and yeah no it's useful but I think that's the thing you need to put it in a calendar sometimes don't you people have like writing rooms perhaps we need a digital collage room on zoom people can get together and do digital collage it's that accountability I think make sure you do it yeah I totally totally agree because otherwise like there's so many things that I go like oh you know in in theory I do this but actually and I find that with the reading circle that I run it's that it's like accountability actually um so I don't know well we'll hold that thought won't we keep that idea kind of like growing but we'll play something quite profound then they'd be like okay there's six minutes left bye there's not time to end this digital collage sessions okay um yeah who knows it could become a thing let's start a trend yeah whether it will see whether it catches on okay right well you had to finish it and we'll discuss that a little bit later we'll discuss it after we've had a rest a well-earned rest um but if anyone does have anything that they want to pop into chat to say to Abby or please unmute um if you want to say anything um because we're gonna finish up in just a few moments so um yeah I'm gonna um um download and post my collage to Twitter so everyone can see it and wonder what on earth we've been doing yes what is this like reflecting digital collage what is it yeah just a refreshed embers again and I love it yeah well that's the other cool thing about um digital and online things isn't it you can't just look over Emma's shoulder but you can kind of look over it virtually oh I can see that you you tweeted 56 minutes ago right to say we are I'm gonna tweet again 56 minutes later send it into the world we shall see it's wild okay I'm quite pleased with um my outcome uh I quite like it I like that you chose purple that's my favorite color I like it oh no yeah it's a color that come up in my research someone said that artists are purple so I kind of ran with it oh that's really interesting purple well they said that teachers were blue and artists were I don't know that was what it was teachers are blue artists are red and artists teachers are purple oh that's really interesting you know and give me this little tidbit of Liverpool our Liverpool bins and the Liverpool color is purple um LFC Liverpool football club that color is red Everton which is our other football club is blue oh there we go a little bit of a bit of color mixing I like to put a theory on there they're Friday afternoon and I'd like to distribute from Liverpool if that should ever come up on a pub quiz for anyone yeah um why is the city of Liverpool's um color purple well now you know brilliant well it's one minute to three everybody thank you so so much I mean and um thank you everyone for popping their thoughts into chat and thank you Emma for sharing um yours as you've been creating it that's been really really lovely to be able to drop in there as you've been like coming up with ideas and changing things around um as Abbie said please do um share what you've been up to if you want to um share with us like you don't have to do it like um publicly you couldn't find Abbie or your amplifying fee on any of the social media spaces and messages if you want to as well um but um yeah I hope you um keep hope you think about it keep doing it and to share with us um how you use it if you use it in future whether you use it for yourselves with your colleagues or with your learners and um have a fantastic summer as well whatever you're doing okay yeah thanks everybody hi hi I love those hats I'm just having a little look at everything me and my hat yeah brilliant um yeah let me know when it is up and I will share wisely with everyone everyone it's not um it's not me that sorts it out it is um Emily one of the old team um that will um up you know she's got all the access to basically booking systems and the old website and the youtube etc so she that's why like I tell you like how many people are booked on until like 10 minutes before um so yeah um that's also why it's easier for you to just book on when you do a webinar as a presenter for you to just book on so you've got the link so I know you've got a link rather than like because no one could be here today to co-pilot um yesterday when I had no voice whatsoever I did ask if someone come in and just do that bit at the beginning but um and with people not really talking much I was like I'm just going to keep talking even though I've got a horrible throat or you can you can stop talking now you can um go back to I don't know interpretive dance or something yeah so so cool and I just love that you know it was really it was really lovely that Emma put hers in and put it she felt like a lot of people to have a little look and she's commenting in chat um it's always different online isn't it because when they do it in person even if like people are like oh can you pass me that you know so they interact on some level just for practical reasons um yeah no hopefully it sounded like the one people that came sound like they got benefit out of it so hopefully people that watch it back will as well um but yeah I'm gonna go make up a tea now and just stare at my PhD it's pretty much done this is the problem this is why I need to just hand it in because it's pretty much done I just keep looking at it and moving things slightly and moving them back and then moving them so I need to um get rid of it and stop stop moving things up and down oh but no it was nice actually nice break to do something a bit different oh wow I will um go and go and get it done and then relax afterwards so what's important do you know what I mean just go and go and crack off well it's the thing isn't it it's like you're pretty much done most of the work now so just need to submit it and then it's very um kind of anti is it what's the word yeah yeah isn't it yeah I spent three years working on something and then it's just like oh here it is here you go well you don't just kind of leave your beaver as well haven't you and not until like the end of September so it feels oh it doesn't look finished so it's yeah um but yeah I might feel different ones have handed it in on Monday and like and going to scream into a pillow or something and be like it's done it's over well lovely to see you and um I hope you feel better soon I'm sure I will okay yeah do I need some posts to leave um you can actually just close that tab and you will leave if you want to do any future things that you're in there's like a little burger menu on the top left hand side oh yeah yeah okay cool well I will leave see you bye see you bye


It's an unboxing video! I'm at TV, approached me via email and said hey Khaleesi Grimes would you like a free loot crate box that you can present in front of your viewers, act surprised like all YouTube videos do.  I of course jumped at that opportunity because I'm nothing if not a complete sell-out. And the amount of money that he- what, what's that carrot? They aren't giving us any money for this.  So we're pretty boxed in on this, I have to go forward.  I'm taking all the precautions too. It'll make these easy. Could you imagine how many more brain surgeries a doctor could perform if they made these gloves just a tad easier to get? I'm like Dr. Khaleesi Grimes prepping for a big surgery. Typically when I do these unboxings, I like to use a utility blade because I think it's a little bit more precise, maybe a box cutter, but due to recent events I'm not allowed to use either. So they've given me adult scissors and we're gonna do our best. But I would just like to say I like to use the box scissor because it sets the expectations.  You tell your story. Okay, I want to point out the packaging is just beautiful on this. It's just gorgeous. I know it's just a box, but wow, they got the stickers on here. Come at tv.com, go there. You can stream movies, classic movies, some really popular ones. It's on Roku, it's on other things. No money, no money for this at all. And I think it's great, I love it. I think it's great, I love it. Turnip, can you zoom in on this so they can see the address was delivered to us? They know we didn't steal it. Perfect, thank you very much.  We are making the first incision. It was a gorgeous first cut. It's very clean, which my proctologist would have said the same thing yesterday. And now we birth out our beautiful baby, the leg spread, the doctor slowly opens the vaginal canal and we are graced with some wrapping. That's nice, you probably have this, you know what, we don't tell parts over, no anthrax or anything popped out. Now the first thing we have in here is a nice letter. It's telling me it's from Comet. It's nicely, can we zoom in? Thank you, turnip. Thank you so much for participating in the Comet TV Monster Summer Unboxing. You're welcome. We're all very excited to introduce you to Comet TV and all the sci-fi and horror screamishness that happens every day on Comet TV. Okay, who we got in black? Please make sure to tell your audience all about Comet TV. Oh, that's like instructions for me. Can we cut again? So it appears I have quite a few talking points. I thought I was going to kind of shoot from the hip on this. Um, Comet is a new television channel dedicated to sci-fi entertainment, offering popular favorites called classics, undiscovered gems every day. Watch Comet and space out. On cable, streaming for free online. Apple TV. Okay, let's dive into this pack and see what we got. So I'm opening the flap. You will notice I open the right flap first and the left. It's really kind of a personal preference. You can do it either way though. I think you'll be safe. Oh, wow. Oh my God. What? No, no. Oh my, it keeps going. Oh, no. There goes Tokyo. Look out Godzilla. Is this, is this Godzilla? I think it is. I think it is. Cool beans. Thank you Comet TV for, for...  Yeah! It's a fanny pack? Oh no, it's just like a, hang, hang on. Nope. Okay, so the limited edition monster summer beach towel. It's Godzilla having a blast. There's two designs. Monster SPF pouch. Beat the rays with this monster summer SPF pouch. Okay, that's cool.  Yes! I thought I was gonna die from those first two things, but there's more. Okay, um, I first said that this was like a capsule of sperm, but it's, uh, it's sunscreen. So, I mean, in either case, I was gonna rub it all over my face, but this, this, this will help me a little bit more.  Yes! I'm gonna blow this ball right now. I guess you don't know me. Hang tight. I wasn't subscribers yet in this goddamn channel. I've been doing it for over five years. This is where we're at.  You think I justine is wearing gloves? Okay, I had some trouble with the ball. We're gonna see what else we have. Shit!  Hey, mom. It's Ghaleesi. I, I just got a bunch of free shirts. This is what the top looks like. I love you too. I love Houston. We don't have a problem. This shirt has an astronaut on it! Yes! Thank you so much from the bottom of my dick, Michael, for this beautiful loot crate. It provides me sustenance and my time of need. I'm gonna put some more information in the description, and I just want everybody to know that this was a wonderful experience for me. I would love if more people submitted loot boxes for me to open for free and potentially pay me. I would prefer if they paid me some money. We good? Are we done with this? Turn up, get carrot. Tell him he's, he's back on. I need them. Yeah.


Bingo, we're back, the 230 Rock, if you will. I'm Jay Fiedel here on the first broadcast day of the new year. We're doing community matters, our show about the community. And we have my co-host is Raya Salter. She's an energy attorney, but she's also a person who follows things in the community. And then we have our special guest, Curtis Kropar, and he is the CEO of HawaiianHope.org.  That's our reception area here in the Think Tech Studio, and we started to talk about a new issue. And I thought it's worth having a show about this issue. So we're going to put this in the container of community matters. This issue relates to a new state homeless law that I think you'll really hate. You know, the state of Hawaii has a major homeless problem. We probably have the highest per capita homeless of any state, and it's very sad and tragic. And the question is, you know, do we recognize how serious it is? Are we doing enough to take care of it, or are we just going with the flow here, and is it just happening worse? And I think it's probably happening worse. And the question is whether the steps we are taking are useless or useful. In this case, I think we found one step, which has become effective as a new statute on what January 1, which is basically useless and destructive to the effort to help the homeless. And in fact, there was an article about this in the Wall Street Journal, the national examination of it, about Hawaii's troubles with the homeless and its inability to solve the homeless, and its ability to have a really crashingly bad statute and set up regulations here in Hawaii. So let's explore that.  Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, a new law was allowed to take into effect that substantially changes the regulations that apply to homeless shelters. Specifically, they change the requirements for square footage and other types of upgrades that the shelters would need to have. And again, according to the Wall Street Journal, it is due to complaints from folks who, clients of shelters, who would like to see...  Yes, that they are not as safe or comfortable as they could potentially be. However, also according to the Wall Street Journal, these regulations will require the type of upgrades that shelters in the state will not ultimately be able to comply with. And it is anticipated that there may be a 33 percent drop in available beds for the homeless population in the state. So let's look at the syllogism of it. So some of the people in the shelters don't like the shelters. They're not happy with the shelters. They want better living quarters in the shelters, even though the idea of a shelter is temporary. It's not long term. Not supposed to be long term. And then the state, in order to resolve that problem, the state orders that all these shelter operators, they got to build partitions and make better facilities in the shelters. But they don't actually appropriate one farthing to help them do that. They're on their own to find the money to do what the state is now ordering them to do. And let me go a step further. Because the shelters don't have the money, they're going to have to cut the number of homeless beds in their homeless facilities. Do I have it right so far? That sounds like at least how it was reported in the Wall Street Journal on New Year's Day. Yeah. So a statute and regulations that are supposed to help the effort to help the homeless actually has the effect of reducing the beds available to the homeless in the shelters. Wow. What a great result right out of the box here on the, basically the effective data of the bill. So I guess that's not a very happy picture, Russ Curtis. Tell us what's happening from your point of view because you do follow this. You have the data to tell us who's in the shelters and what the demographics are and how they're affected. So part of what our organization does is we design software and we actually manage some of the data for several of these shelters. And we keep hearing constantly people saying that, oh, people don't want to go to the shelters. Well, we can show you for a fact that several of these shelters have a waiting list to get in. Like many months just to get in. At least one of the shelters we work with, they have almost a three month waiting list to get into the shelter. And meantime, they're in the street because nobody's taking care of them. Well, right.  No place else to go. Yeah. And so, I mean, that's just a fact. So that flies in the face of this notion about how they don't want to be there. Right. Right. And there are a number of reasons that's not just, you know, everybody, I keep hearing that, oh, they don't like the rules. Well, there's different reasons for those. There's different rules that are the problem. And now we've just created several more that will exacerbate, you know, it's just going to exponentially make the problem worse. Tell us how this is supposed to be playing out in the shelters and how the shelters react to it. Well, my understanding is there's three different components of this. The first component is that the facilities are supposed to be made safer. There's more physical space. I think the requirement is now 30 square feet per person at the shelter. So where shelters used to have beds, you know, side by side, now they got to spread them out. They used to put partitions up. The thing is for some of these shelters, it's just one big open room. And so... You know, when I went to Europe right after law school, I spent my time in youth hostels. Youth hostel was a great big room with multiple, with beds with multiple tiers, you know, double-decker or triple-decker beds.  And then we ate together and we talked together and we had a wonderful time actually. And there was nothing wrong with having these beds a foot or two apart and having, you know, because the alternative for us, we didn't have any money, was to be out on the street sleeping, you know, on the bridge. Well, let me say, I have also had wonderful times in European youth hostels. And not to be in defense necessarily of the changes. But I do think that comfort and privacy and dignity and safety for people in homeless shelters is an important issue. I think perhaps because, you know, having a lot of experience in New York where shelters can be very, very dangerous, it is an important issue. So that's my... Okay. How dangerous are these shelters? You talked about safety, right? And I like to know, how dangerous are they? In New York, they'd be more dangerous, I think, actually, right?  It could be anything. You know, some people, they're just paranoid of anybody too close to them.  I don't want you... You know, you're always looking at my stuff. You're looking at my business. You're... You know, it's more about just physical, personal space, you know. So that is part of it. It's not necessarily that, you know, there's people getting in fights at the shelters because if that was the case, I'm sure we would see the news every single day where the police or the ambulance or somebody is at the shelter and they're taking people away or, you know, something that's not happening, you know. And so they are relatively safe. They're safe. To space things. It's a comfort thing. It's a comfort thing.  But, you know, Rye's right is it is something that we need to address and needs to be addressed that, you know, certain people, they need to have space. You've got families with kids who are living at the shelters. You need more physical space, right? But I think we took this in a step, like way overboard because now we're mandating it for the entire facility, you know, for everybody who's in the facility. And the ultimate response is, okay, if you have a building that is only so many square feet to begin with, and now you're saying you have to allocate X many square feet per person. Well, it's a simple math formula. Okay, well, that means that I can only fit so many people into the building now. And so a shelter, you know, there's several of them who've been in the news recently talking about this. If you've got, you know, 300 people in a building that require 30 square feet each, you just reduce the capability of housing 100 people. So, okay, so that means that they have to go out. They have to leave now. I just assume so. I mean, what else? You know, well, you can't not comply with the law, right?  But that doesn't sound like a great idea here in the United States. And that's only one of the issues. That, you know, I mean, the physical space requirement is only one of the issues. The second issue of this is that the shelter programs, they were basically two-year programs. Once you move into a shelter, move into the system, you've got two years to get yourself together. Okay. Is that an adequate amount of time? Yeah, even that's not too short. Is that happening? Or are you now you have the data, so can you tell us do they actually leave at the end of two years or are they staying longer? We see people who move out within six months, they get everything put together. They do, you know, what they need to. I mean, there's some people in different circumstances, you know, every story is different. I know for a fact I've met people, they've lived in Hawaii all their lives, right, but they were born in California. And I didn't even believe in myself, but I called to confirm California has a 12 to 20 week waiting period for a copy of your birth certificate.  Welcome to the high tech of the 21st century. To Mark, right? Yeah, you know, and like I said, I didn't believe that. So I actually wrote an email to California and, you know, their director responded back to Mr. Kropar.  I tell me really what's happening because I want to set this guy straight. And he said, well, dear Mr. Kropar, unfortunately, your client is correct. It's 12 to 20 week. So it makes it harder for the homeless person to get settled and organized and get another place and get a job for that matter. Right. And now we're saying that, well, you can't do it in two years. You can't do it in six months. It's 90 days. You have 90 days. I think that's what the new rule is that they want 50% of the people who come into the programs to be housed in permanent housing in 90 days. OK, even if we can get them their birth certificate and their social security cards and their all their documentation and all the paperwork and all their for the Kofo participants, their I-84s and all these paperwork, even we can do all that. Right. And we magically get them, you know, a job and payroll and or or benefits or whatever we get all the stuff done. Where are they going to go? There's no, I mean, that's part of the problem is no housing. Yeah, I have to say, because it's like, even if I can see sort of like not having to your requirements simply for the sake of paperwork. I mean, that maybe doesn't make any sense. However, the real issue is the lack of affordable housing.  And I'm not complaining about this. It's an observation. We've got people who have been living in public housing for 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, two, three generations. And why?  They can't afford. They can't afford anything else. Yeah, yeah. Before we go to a break, I just want to ask you one thing. I came up in our earlier discussion, too. And that is some of these shelters, because of these rules, have indicated they'll have to close. Is that right? At least one so far, yes. They've, they've, they didn't even bother filling following the applications, because they knew from the get-go there's no way they can comply with the rules. So they've already announced their closing. That's really sad. Thoughts about that, Raya? Well, it's extremely sad. Even if it is important, even if there are improvements needed to the, to the shelters, the streets, being put, the streets is not an acceptable alternative. Yeah. And that's the bottom line of all of this. The shelters are intended to provide some temporary, some viable temporary alternative. And these rules do discuss this further. They're counterproductive. Now, to be productive at least for one minute, we're gonna take a short break. Watch this. Hello, this is Martin de Spang. I wanna get you get excited about my new show, which is Humane Architecture for Hawaii and Beyond. We're gonna broadcast on Tuesdays, 5 p.m. here on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha, my name is Danelia, D-A-N-E-L-I-A. And I'm the other half of the duo, John Newman. Welcome. We are co-hosts of a show called Keys to Success, which is live on the Think Tech Live Network series, weekly on Thursdays at 11 a.m. We're looking forward to seeing you then. Aloha. Hi, this is Jane Sugimura. I'm the co-host for Kondo Insider. And we're on Think Tech Hawaii every Thursday at three o'clock. And we're here to talk about condominium living and issues that affect condominium residents and owners. And I hope you'll join us every week on Thursday. Aloha. Aloha, and welcome back to Community Matters here on Think Tech Hawaii. Today we're talking about some new state rules that have gone into effect that have adverse effect or could potentially have adverse effect on the number of beds in homeless shelters in the state. So we're calling it a new law that you're gonna hate. So we're here with Jay and also Curtis from Hawaiian Hope. They do, they work with a lot of the shelters talking about this, talking about this problem. Yeah, by the way, this bill was signed by the governor or not. What happened? Where's the, you know, we got a homeless coordinator. We got some focus going on in homeless. It's one of the biggest problems the state has. So where's the administration on this bill? Well, in terms of the status, this, according to the, again, to the Wall Street Journal, this was allowed to take into effect Governor E. Gay neither vetoed nor signed it. Okay. That leaves us in sort of the Netherland here. We don't know how the administration feels that it passed, but... Well, I can, if I can interject, I can tell you. Yeah, please, interject. We want you to, that's why you're here. Please, yeah. Help us understand the politics. Well, I don't know, I don't know the politics side of it, but I do know for a fact that the service providers said, don't do this, you know, they're on record. The shelter people. Oh, yeah.  They know the net result. These are the guys who are providing the services. And so if you say that you're gonna have to do this, this and this, the first question is, okay, so how do we serve that many people and comply with these rules, right? You know, before we, I mean, if I can go to this, before we took the break, we'd mention about the shelter, you know, not, the one that's gonna close down, right? If I can, Lighthouse in Waipahu, they did not apply for the renewal of their grants. This was, you know, this was on the news. Yeah, it was that. Bill Hummel is the Shelter's Director down there. You know, and not only is he the Shelter's Director, but he's the MSW Instructor at HPU. This guy knows what he's doing. He knows what he's talking about, right? He is the expert, right? He's the Instructor. And he's said, there's no way to comply with all of these requirements. It's, you know, it's the 30 square feet thing. On top of that, there's the requirements of toilets and a number of toilets and number of sinks per the number of people in the facility. And on top of that, it's a 90 day requirement to get the people through the system hurry up, get them into permanent housing. It sounds like micro-mismanagement to me.  We can't do this. That you shouldn't do it, then you do it anyway. And then they wind up, you know, a guy like Hummel totally committed, right? Cares to the bottom of his boots about dealing with this problem. Cares about the lighthouse and all the time and effort and, you know, the guts that he put into making it work up to this point. Yeah, for 10 years. And he says, I'm folding, I'm folding, boys, I'm out of here. That's how I feel about this new law. That really speaks volumes to me. Yeah. You know, there's, I mean, I'm kind of a speechless because, you know, so he's one facility, but that one facility is a, I'm not even sure the right word to use. It's an incredibly important step because that's one of the few true emergency shelters, right? Where? You can go and stay the same night. You can just. I mean, it's hard to go and stay the same night in other shelters. Yeah. You can't get in. Well. Waiting lists, something. Some of them have waiting lists, right. Some of them are waiting lists. Some, they're not considered emergency shelters that consider transitional shelters. So you can't just go and show up and stay. You have to get on the list.  You know, and like I said, I know for a fact that some of the shelters we work with, they have waiting lists that are months long. And so, but Lighthouse was one of those facilities where you could walk in, stay the same night that you showed up. You know, and okay, now what? I mean. Yeah, well, that's the question. We have a few minutes left for that discussion. So let me ask you, Raya, you know. What now? What do we do? Suppose I make you queen of Hawaii. Yeah. All right, queen, I'd like to be queen. What do you do? You have complete control of this statute, the regulations, the shelters, and you make commandments. Make some commandments for me. Make some commandments. Well, I, not being an expert on, state expert on homeless policy, I think I'll just back up a little bit and say, clearly Hawaii does have the highest per capita incidents of homeless people. This is not just a problem of, you know, the stereotypical sort of young guy on drugs who could be sort of getting his life together.  There are children and families. One third of all of the homeless are kids. One third. One third. As our children, so there's an extremely serious problem. I know that the state has chosen to sort of deal with this problem on an emergency basis which allows it to sort of take brief quick actions that can, you know, that can make it easier to be decisive, but it looks like we need to think about the money that we put towards this issue. We need to take a really serious look at housing affordability, the integrated services that are provided for families, for people with mental health and other pressures and do a little better than this because it looks like we're going to need to have more, you know, emergency housing for folks and when it's already a crisis situation. So I think we need to take a good strong look at how we can really provide more housing for people in the state. That would be my answer. If I was queen, that's what I would do. Excellent answer. Okay, Curtis, I'm making you king now or if you want to be prince, you can be prince if you like. What do you do with this new law just went into effect? It's not helping, counterproductive. I think by that gesture you mean let's throw the thing out. Well, you know, okay, I'm all for improvement. I want to see people feel comfortable in the shelters. You know, we, there's a lot of stuff that obviously we can be approved at different levels, right? But when you go back to the base of it is when the shelter providers tell you this isn't going to work and you just ignore what they've said, you know, we really need to rethink that. It's a whole lot of tootinals. This is a sort of social infrastructure issue. I think part of the problem is that for a lot of the, it's not just the homeless services but a lot of different things that I see the laws rules and things like that. It's an all or nothing attitude.  They're just happy to be under a roof. You know, that maybe we can only have this applied to a portion of the facility, you know, instead of an all or nothing.  They don't like the rules. Well, okay, now, even if they want to go, they can't. There's no space. We've just lost a third of the beds. One thing I read in the Wall Street Journal is that it's unclear how these new regulations are going to be implemented. So I don't know if that means that there could be some flexibility or not. Well, I hope there is some flexibility. I mean, speaking from the context of this conversation, somebody out there, maybe Scott Morishiki, the homeless coordinator, want to back up a little and take a look at this and try to hear the various providers before he implements and maybe repeals or amends this thing so it becomes workable. Well, I want to come to Scott's defense just first. I'm not sure that it's totally under his control to do that. While he may be the... Well, he can only recommend, I agree. Right, you know, this was a state law that was passed, right?  It's all to me, the legislature, and it's the committees in the legislature and the committee chairs in the legislature, you know, who are gonna have to do something about it. But the reality is, as you said, Raya, that we have the worst numbers in the country per capita. And I'll add something else, too, to have the homeless in our community, especially in Honolulu, but all the islands, because we have high numbers on all the islands, it's shameful. And it undermines our society and it undermines the way we see each other and the way we see the community as a community. And every day that goes by, when we take either no steps or steps that are counterproductive like this one, we're worse in it and our community's the worst for it. We as a community cannot afford to have mistakes like this. We have to be much more akamai and we have to put our money where our mouth is. I agree. The idea of doing an unfunded liability like this is really bad news. It has to be changed. Yeah, that was one of the key things with the Lighthouse is that they said, even if they can comply with the other two requirements, they can't, there was no money for actually providing the physical upgrades to the building to do the compliance. You know, in a program we had a couple of years ago, we looked at the unfunded liabilities in general around the state and there are, by the count that we had at the time, 40 billion plus of unfunded liabilities where we didn't know where that money was gonna come from. Part of that was dealing with the homeless issue and my guess is that whatever number there was a couple of years ago to deal with the homeless issue, it's more now, there are more homeless. It's more expensive to deal with them and the people expect us to build bathrooms and walls and reduce the number of individuals in a given facility is more expensive yet. So we're talking about billions. We're talking about billions of unfunded liability and we're not bellying up to the issue at all. And it's about time we as a community and the legislature as a legislature got together and figured out how much money they're really willing to spend on this and what steps they're really willing to take because ultimately over time, this is undermining our whole society. Okay, Raya, you get to close. Well, that takes us to the end of another Community Matters episode, Mahalo and Aloha.


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here, today I bring you another Destiny 2 video and today I want to talk about the recent Trab and issues many people are talking about in regards to trials and if it will ever make a return. But before we go any further guys, if you do enjoy the video and appreciate my honesty do go ahead and smash that like button. So the Trab talks about Crimson Poop and Iron Banner return next week. That's mostly it besides a few fixes coming with a patch just before the Joker's Wild Arrives which I believe is early March. What other than that people the main focus of the Trab is trials, here's what Brunjish said. Ever since Trials of the Night went on hiatus back in season 4, many of you have been asking when it will come back and how it will be evolving. We still don't have a timeline for when it may return, but we do want to give you an update on our current thinking about trials. Here is the team to fill you in, quoting the Destiny dev team. As a long time Destiny players know, Trials of Osiris was released in May of 2015 and was the original high stakes weekend PvP event. Trials had an amazing impact on our game and our community. It was a pinnacle venue for players to show off their best skills, strategies and gear. The 3v3 elimination mode combined with the card system created the converted reward of earning a trip to their lighthouse. With the induction of Trials of the Night and Destiny 2, we made a few changes to the formula which never really hit the same mark. We were unhappy with its role in the ecosystem, the new activity wasn't achieving the goal of bringing the community together every weekend. Both Destiny and the online PvP scene has evolved since 2015, so we don't believe that bringing back the 2015 version of Trials of Osiris would accomplish what our goals are today. Until we have a solid trial type, what a pinnacle PvP and game activity, Trials is staying on hiatus indefinitely and will not return over the course of the next few seasons. When we have those new plans ready, we'll be sure to share them with you. Now most of you guys don't follow me on Twitter, which is linked in the video description or follow me, so you won't have seen my initial thoughts on this matter. The thing is, I appreciate they are being honest about the situation, but in my opinion, them not working on Trials and making it a main priority is an utter joke. Ok, so Trials in Destiny 1, I wasn't even a massive fan of, but it brought so much more to the game in terms of bringing people together, whether it was through playing together and grinding to get to that lighthouse, and get that beautiful lighthouse loot, or even chilling it in your favourite PvP player stream and having a chat with fellow guardians. Destiny 2's Trials of 9 in my opinion arrive when PvP was in a terrible state, PvP fixed itself up via Bungie, applying some of the best changes we've seen to the franchise, and actually making PvP fun to play for the most part, but they took Trials away before doing this, and most people, they thought they were going to improve it and bring it back, maybe make it a 3v3 again, and bring it back revolutionised. But nope, even with the outcry for its return, it seems as though Bungie ain't interesting in delivering what people want, and it is a true shame. They should be on this hardcore 24x7, everybody wants it back, it's just crazy to think that we won't get it till at least September, which is just nuts people, and what's happening at the moment is many of game developers out there dropping new ways, fun ways, for us to play together, while it seems Bungie are stuck in some kind of cloudy bubble, not really forced about the content they've put out. Crimson Days isn't a joke now, I am Banner is I am Banner, and I have a feeling joke as well to be so gambit based, which most people don't really enjoy nowadays, it will probably fail miserably, which I don't want to see happen, but I just have that feeling. So with Trials not coming until at least September, like I said, I don't know how Destiny is going to survive, I just don't feel there's much there anymore. Now I know things are going down with Activision and Bungie, and I am certain it's affecting, and will continue to affect the game for many more moments. I just hope that when Activision is out of the picture altogether, we get what we all want and that is a proper Destiny game. Now I say this from the bottom of my heart, Destiny is or was everything for me and my channel. Seeing it in such a sad state isn't something I enjoy, even though in the past I have hated on the game and the choices Bungie have made, but it comes out of love for the franchise. But with so many other games coming like Anthem Apex being here and taking the world by storm, I honestly feel Bungie are sitting there thinking there's no point in dropping anything big while other big names are dropping which will not take from our community and affect our pockets. Which is true to a degree, but they should be in competition with these said games.  So the less contact they pull out while these new games are coming and the new games people are hyped for, the more they push these people towards these new games, which ultimately makes it harder for them to initiate a new relationship with these said people, because once a lot of people move on, they won't come back. I mean yes Destiny's got it's hardcore fanbase which will probably never go anywhere, but it isn't just about a hardcore fanbase. Bungie should be in competition with these new games, there's no two ways about it. I just truly hope something sparks very soon for the game. If it isn't within a joker's world then something sooner rather than later has to be done. Also people, what the heck happened to Factory Rallies? Have Bungie just completely forgotten about this thing? Yep, I have no idea either, but that's a whole new story for a whole new video. But on that note guys, we have come to the end of the video. This is just my personal opinion and also not getting trials on the line back. Let me know your opinion on this down below within that comment section. Also guys, I do apologise about my voice, I am fluid up and it's absolutely killing me. But hey on that note, we've come to the end, I hope you guys enjoyed the video, if you did leave a like really does help out and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one.