Hello and welcome. Thrilled to have all of you back here at the nonprofit show. We have with us today a repeat guest and I'm really excited to have Joelle Kanshipolsky back with us. Joelle serves as a partner with Pathway Associates and she's going to share with us a little bit about what Pathway does as well. Joelle is going to share today with this episode with you some best practices to recruit and retain your staff for your nonprofit. So stay with us as we dive deep into this conversation. But before we do that, we want to remind you who you're looking at or possibly listening to. So hello to Julia Patrick, CEO of the American nonprofit Academy. I'm excited to have this, I don't know, just like series with you. I know that we thought it was going to be two weeks, but here we are, you know, three plus years. I'm Jarrett Ransom, your co-host also known as Julia's personal nonprofit nerd, but I like to remind you there's plenty of nerdiness to go around. 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So if you're a podcast listener, we encourage you to queue up the nonprofit show, wherever you stream your podcast so you can find all of our 600 plus episodes, including the previous episode here with our guest today. Joelle Kanshipolsky, again Joelle serves as a partner of Pathway Associates hello to you my friend. Thank you for having me I can't believe I think I was on almost a year ago and I think your corporate sponsors have doubled since I was last on good. That's the game we're so very fortunate truly and we are always fortunate to have a repeat guest come back and join us today. But share with us a little bit Joelle about what Pathway Associates does and where you serve the community. So Pathway Associates and thanks again for having me Pathway Associates was founded about 22 years ago in the great state of Utah based in Salt Lake City. And it was really started as a consulting firm to serve the not for profit and government sectors around capital campaigns and feasibility studies and over the years the founders realized through talking with clients that they had way more needs than just feasibility studies and capital campaigns. So the company really grew from there and now we are four partners, women led women owned, and we have about 15 consultants who work with us on our team so we've grown to be pretty sizable. And we serve the whole state of Utah the Mountain West and then we have clients really all over the country but I would say predominantly in the Mountain West and really serving all the needs that happen in the not for profit sector from fundraising to consulting to nonprofit financial solutions to private public partnership still doing capital campaigns I lead out on a lot of our executive work with CEOs and doing coaching and executive transition, strategic planning, all the things. Even some grant writing I think you have someone we actually have a very robust grant writing team that is a need that so many of our clients have as well. But that is so true. And I saw recently I feel very fortunate to be on your list that you send out that you are helping to hire currently for one of your clients and so I'm really excited to learn as we talk today about best practices to recruit and retain how you help the nonprofit sector, really dive deep into these best practices. So why don't you kick us off with you know some of these tips here today. Thanks for that, Jared. Yeah, we do a lot of searches for our clients usually in the C suite so CEO and executive director but right now I'm doing a development director search for a great statewide organization. And so what I have found over the years of doing hiring and recruiting is that I really think it's important that we center our work in equity and so that is why I wanted to talk about that today and I think in particular this job market I'm hearing people over and over that this is what's keeping them up at night. It used to be like budget issues and working with their board which is still keeping people up at night let's be honest but how we recruit and retain staff is just we're just in a tough time all over I think in a variety of businesses but specifically in the sector where our salaries haven't necessarily kept up with cost equipment. So I think thinking about how you recruit and retain staff from a place of equity is really important. So I always say to people why does it matter. So I have this little stat that 47% of millennials want to work in a diverse company. And millennials a lot of you know they've got a bad rap that they're super you know young and they don't want to work and that's not true and they're really right now like 40 and under. They really that young anymore. No they are not they're the people they're the people we need to recruit and retain and they want to work in diverse businesses we also know that diverse companies are two times as likely to meet or exceed their financial goals and that is true for the not for profit sector as well. So it matters. I mean it matters for all kinds of reasons let alone who you're serving and representing who you're serving them in all those things that we know but it also makes good business. I know that you use the word belonging and you know it's it's fascinating because that seems like a word that we haven't seen in business, whether it be profit or nonprofit. And I'd love for you to explain and kind of flush that out for us. Yeah sure and I'm going to talk about that a little bit more at the end when we talk about okay now we've recruited people how do we help them feel like they belong. And so what I like to say is to me, being centered in equity is making sure that everybody is invited to the conversation into the table. And then, once they're there. How do you make sure people feel like they belong. There are you know a lot of stories I could share one recently that a colleague shared and actually speaks to me as the only native English speaker and my entire family on both sides my sister and I is a woman who was in a board meeting. A senior staff person and English was her second language and she was quiet all the time. And after one of the meetings someone asked her well why aren't you engaging more and she said well here's what I have to do. I sit in this meeting and I hear it in English. And then I'm thinking to myself. I'm translating into my native language. And then I'm taking notes in my native language and then I'm trying to translate it back to English and then I'm saying what I have to say. And so having a mindset of belonging is realizing this person has something to contribute she's already at the table. And she comes from a different perspective and perhaps the majority of people in the room. And so how do you make someone feel comfortable to actually share and participate in the conversation so that's what I think of when I think of the law, but I have some other ideas that I'll share towards the end. Yeah, that's a great story and one that I, I, you know, admit would not have crossed my mind so thank you for bringing that to light for me and hopefully for others. Julia, I'm curious because you serve on so many boards. Have you seen that around in your board service work as well?  It was really hard to, I would say, become confident enough to speak up because I was never asked, right? And so I had to kind of project in and start, you know, voicing my ideas and my opinions. And then once I did, two things happened. My confidence increased and then those around the table started listening. I was certainly still dismissed. You know, that's a hard thing to move around. And back in the days, we never, ever used the words, you know, associated with anything around DEI. I mean, a white woman of privilege and I was still considered the minority, right?  But I think you're right. I think, Joelle, it's interesting to look around the table and see what's happening and then try and bring that forward. And that can be a really tough conversation. It can be a tough conversation, but this is why when I speak with clients, you know, talking about diversity is not enough. And that's why we have to talk about equity. We have to talk about belonging. We have to talk about these, these other pieces as well. And some of the tips I'll share today because I think it can be overwhelming for people like, oh, no, we don't have a diversity initiative. And so I have just some really simple tips of little things like taking recruitment. We want to move to that little things that you can do to help center that work in equity. And even if you implement one of them, I think you will see the return. So, so let's go there then. When you talk about having an inclusive recruitment strategy. Wow, what does that look like? How do you get there? I have so many questions for you. Yeah, I'm happy to take them. I mean, first and foremost, this is sort of basic but in this job market, one of the biggest mistakes and this is about equity but just more generally is people not responding to applicants quickly enough. And this is a tight job market. I know in Utah we have the love. I don't know if we still do but up until recently the lowest unemployment in the country. You've got to move on candidates quickly process matters, but don't drag it out unnecessarily get back to people quickly give them that respect. But there's so many ways to make your recruitment strategy more inclusive and one of the first things that I do with clients is I asked them about their appetite to include language in their postings that's not just the basic EEOC language like we don't discriminate blah, blah, blah. You need to have that from an HR perspective. But what I like to say is, we know that women and people of color and folks from underrepresented groups tend to not apply for jobs unless they meet every single requirement listed. We want you to apply. Please submit your application that kind of language tells me, Oh, you are really walking the talk. So that's one tip, like say what you want and just be upfront about it. Number two, this is probably one of the biggest things that I've been saying to clients and I've been having more and more success but it's taken time. If a college degree is not required, do not require it. If you don't need licensure if I'm hiring a clinical director and they need to have licensure where you're hiring you know an attorney or an accountant fine. But honestly, to be a CEO of a not for profit a government entity, you don't need to have an undergraduate degree or a master's degree. Why are you requiring it. I mean, when we know we know about access and lack of access for people and so there are all kinds of reasons why people may have not maybe they started a degree and something changed in their lives. So don't put it on there. You don't need it unless you absolutely require it. Number three. Oh, we're gonna say something Julia. No, I'm just like, Wow. I think Joel, a lot of these things get written because they always get written. Nobody thinks about it. So I love that you that you're directing this to think differently. Yeah. You don't need to have a big, you know, DEI to your strategy like take it slow. Come up with a couple things that you can do to center your work and equity. The third thing I say to people. Why aren't you posting your salary range. We know that that has a significant impact on reducing the gender pay gap. You've got to post your salary range and why wouldn't you why wouldn't you want to start a conversation with transparency. What's the point? I just was talking with someone who's interested in the search I'm doing. And she said, you know, or does there wiggle room with salary because it was posted and I said, maybe what are your needs? Her needs were twice what the salary range was and I was like, yeah, non starter. Right. You're amazing. Good for you. That's what you're making right now. I celebrate you. I absolutely do. But if we didn't have it posted, we wouldn't even hear that until further down in the project. Yeah. And it saves so much time too. I find Joel that like candidates get to the very last and are used to get to the very last and that's when the transparency and salary comes up. And that's, yeah, I love, I love having it posted. You know, I love that for so many reasons. And I personally stopped sharing anyone's job postings, unless they stated the hiring range. It was like, it just has to be there. And I think collectively as a sector, you know, that's our role too, whether we're the job poster or the job sharer is being part of that. So great tip for there. Yeah. And I take that very seriously. I think we have been undervalued and underpaid in our sector. I've worked in the not-for-profit sector for 25 years before becoming a consultant. I still think I work in it, even though I'm on the for-profit side. Part of my job is to help people understand our value and to help those salaries move forward. So that's also part of my work. Second to last tip is a really easy one. Where are you networking? You know, if, for example, in Utah, we have a black chamber. We have a Hispanic chamber. I think we have a Latino chamber. We have an LGBTQ plus chamber. Where are you posting when you say we're not getting a diverse applicant pool? So what is your network?  So that you're doing things a little bit differently. Don't keep doing the same things and expect different results. And then lastly, if you can figure out it, figure this out from a time perspective, I love panel interviewing. We find that that helps center our work in equity and especially when you have a scorecard aligned with what you say you're looking for. It allows more people to weigh in on your hiring. And I think it also helps the candidate because they see more people that they would be working with instead of just one or two people. I do a panel if you can. So those are all my quick tips. I have many more, Julia, but I think that even if someone picks one of them, I would be thrilled. You know, I'm fascinated, Joelle, on the cadence with which you started this saying, you know, go slow, be thoughtful and don't try and do everything at once. When I think about, oh my gosh, we need to have a strategy. I don't care what it is. It could be a finance and accounting strategy. It could be a legal strategy. It seems like we got to get it all. We got to get it now and it has to be perfect. And I'm fascinated by your approach. And is that just because it's more doable or things are changing or it's your nature? Like, give me a sense of why you said that. Yeah, Julie, I think it's the recovering perfectionist in me who also wanted to have everything planned and strategized. And I love a good strategy. But I think we get in our own way in general, probably when we want everything to be figured out. And then we hem and hawn, we never do it. And I see this over and over, especially with equity, diversity, belonging work where we don't want to say the wrong thing or we don't want to do the wrong thing. So we're just not having the conversations and we're not leaning into it. And I also have been part of and have led failed DEI implementation strategies at not-for-profits and have worked with clients. And so I feel like you just have to be gentle with yourself and go for it. And even if you start small, you will then get some momentum, right? And so maybe have some successes instead of beating yourself up because you set this goal of having 80% of your executive team underrepresented folks and you don't know how to get there. So then you just never do anything. You know, whatever that goal is, it's too big. Start small. And that also, that was advice that came from people who do this work for a living. I don't actually do DEI consulting. I just sat in there and my work in it. So some of that advice came from other experts who were like, start small. I love it. It seems so doable. And I can totally feel you when it comes to that perfectionist. I'm working on being a recovering perfectionist. I think I'm still a perfectionist, but I'm still working on that. And so I love the opportunity and the permission that I heard you say, truly, Joel, is take it small. And for me, my big takeaway is, you know, post these jobs in different places.  And what I love about what you do as well, Joel, because I shared earlier in the episode, you share these postings with your colleagues and friends and other professional peers to say, please help me get this word out, right. And I love that too. It seems so simple. I know it's an extra step in your checklist, but it goes, you know, far and wide. And I just, I commend you for that and really appreciate these practices. Thanks, Jared. It's interesting. Someone asked me, like, why do you enjoy, I'm not an executive recruiter. That's not my background. I've been a fundraiser for a really long time and in leadership roles, and someone said, why do you like searches? Like, that's not my favorite thing to do. To me, there's such a link with fundraising. It's about connecting and about relationship building. And you know what, if this role I've sent you isn't good for you, maybe you know someone and it's the same with fundraising.  Great. I can connect you to someone who's doing animal work, right. And so to me, recruitment work is all about relationship building and helping people find good fit. And so I do love spreading the word. I think some people are like, oh my gosh, Joel, another role. I don't know anybody. But you never know what may trigger. And that is often how we find good fits. You know, just posting your job isn't really enough in this market, unfortunately. And that's why a lot of times people hire people like me because I can do that sourcing work. I can talk to 200 people when you don't have the time to do that. But just posting and hoping we're seeing is just not enough. Yeah, no, it's not enough. Now, you know, it's interesting. We've had a lot of conversations. Jared and I have in the very beginning of the pandemic, the advice was, oh my God, hold on to your job because the job market's going to crash.  And now it's just super like whiplashed to the other area where it's like, okay, you can explore and you can look at things. And we all hear that we hear that on the news every day. What is it that you think that we can be doing so that we can keep but we can retain our team because we know the investment is just it's debilitating when you got to go out and and recruit and start with a new team member. What are some of the things that we can do. Yes, and I agree and it's so hard, you know, whether you've done the work yourself where you've hired someone to know development directors 18 to 24 months. Yeah, that's the lifespan and roles and why is that at pathway we're so interested in looking at how do we help build people's skills, not just the development directors but CEOs do they know how to partner with their development directors boards. Are they helping support and set those folks up for success so that's a whole nother interesting topic, but it is exhausting to have that kind of turnover so there are a couple things. The one of the first things I talked to people about is mental health. This is something that is, you know, we are in the sector we are servicing our clients, usually. And, you know, we are centered in making sure that we are improving our society in some way when we're in the not for profit sector. Let's focus our work and have it centered in mental health. Can you have mental health days I just placed an executive director with an organization and she talked about an organization she was with where she instituted so I've stolen this a day away. You get a day away every quarter.  Jared if you taking your day away. It's a super easy way to kind of center the work and we're caring for your mental health you don't have to explain it. You go do your day away you're not allowed to be on. I love that. I love that too. I have to share Joel. I really do love that because we've talked about this before Julia of so many staff that like are prideful and brag about just how many pto hours they've saved up and how they haven't taken a true vacation in years and that to me is like the biggest red flag I think I've ever seen. I love this day away and the ability to really foster that culture for the organization and for your people that is a huge opportunity for that mental health so that's that's a big one. So much of our work is so draining and I think sector we have secondhand trauma many of us are drawn to it because of our own stuff, you know, and so making sure we're caring for it connected to that. Where I was just the interim CEO for a year, we close the office for mental wellness week. Wow, you know what not every service organization can do that maybe have to figure out a way to tear it. The staff came back and said it was the best gift they got that entire year because with coven everybody's on all the time, you're expected to be on all the time even on vacation. And so to know the office was closed and that our out of office is said, we are having a mental wellness week and once we did that other organizations follow suit. So if you can figure out a way to do it, I recommend it. Another one is to give staff when you're hiring them a budget for individual mental wellness, even if it's $100 a year. A nominal amount that every staff member gets they have their professional development dollars, they have their mental wellness dollars. The last thing that I did an organization recently is I brought in someone to do mindfulness. It was not expensive. I did it quarterly we did it by zoom. We would take an hour quarterly and we would just learn how to integrate mindfulness into our practices. So those are four super easy pick one ways to focus on mental health when you're hiring people. Yeah, that's really important.  And we've stayed in this crisis mode for three years now, you know, and so having this built in I'm going to say again into the culture is so very important. Because if we're not willing to take it for ourselves, perhaps you know taking it as a as a community in the, in the role of the position and the organization will really invite us to do that so. I'm glad you said culture Jared. I mean that to me is at the center of retention. It's about equity and I'll go into some of those thoughts but it's about all these pieces if you're just focusing on DEI you're not doing it it's about culture. So some of the other things that I've done in places is you know making time to do a staff retreat this is pretty basic but, and maybe it's not about business maybe it's just about collaboration getting to know each other, doing staff socials if people want to do them. Just finding ways to connect I think is really important right now. One of the last things that I do with staff when I'm in a CEO role is I like exit interviews, but I do stay interviews. Yeah, I want to hear what makes you get out of bed in the morning. I want to hear what makes you hit the snooze button. So doing stay interviews is such a great way to understand why people are staying, not just when they're leaving and it's too late so these are all connected to how we make people feel a part of the organization and and belonging. And then the last areas around DEI specific things. One organization I was at they were doing this before I got there, an hour every week, you know they had their all hand staff meetings and then they did an hour every week to talk about these topics, rotated facilitators, and there didn't have to be any pre work, you know Jerry you could walk in and say, let's talk about what's happening in Ukraine, or you know whatever. And we would have a facilitated conversation dedicated to talking about issues related to diversity and equity and inclusion. And you have you know and it was slow for some people and yet it creates safe spaces but I came in and it was so wonderful to watch those conversations unfold. Another thing an organization I was part of I didn't start it but I thought it was beautiful large nonprofit across the country. They started affinity groups. And staff was asked, what do you want. So there were people who were part you know who are BIPOC black indigenous people of color. There was an LGBTQ plus group. There was an LGBTQ plus group and allies. I was part of a group that was like multicultural comes from a complicated background identifies as white. There were actually other people like me. You know, speak another language, whatever, confusing people, we came together so you know we just started these affinity groups because what you find is you want to hear from other people and have that support. So I think affinity groups another thing connected to that is, you know, mentors are there, for example people of color in the organization who would be willing to be a mentor support for someone of color I was just at coffee with a colleague, the works that a very nonprofit. And she was telling me about a wonderful staff person who has been doing more and more public speaking and so woman of color, and she could do some work in that area she's a what she's wonderful but she gets nervous. And I said, hey, I have this girlfriend, this incredible black woman who is the one of the most beautiful public speakers I've ever heard. I wonder if she would not even in your organization, let's connect them. Even if nothing comes out of it let's connect them but I bet she'd be a great mentor. So, you know, thinking about ways to create supports for people. And then the last thing that I talked about is running inclusive meeting. So, I like to always have, you know, rules of engagement, or agreements. We invite people in, and we talk about what this meeting is going to look like so that's inclusive so Mia CEO, I don't need to run everything and I don't need to be the one telling everyone what we're going to do. Let's have some agreements for all the ways that we run our meeting. So, those are sort of all my ways to foster belonging tips, and I think it folks in, like I said pick one. It would, it would be great and it would set you on your way. Well, Joelle Kenshipolski, you have been amazing. I loved it when we first had you on more than a year ago. I think that it's just fabulous to get your perspective and I know that it has served your community well and your clients and your partnerships. We are super appreciative that you would come on the nonprofit show. Joelle Kenshipolski, partner with Pathway Associates, check them out at pathwayassoc.com and learn what they're doing. Their team has grown so much and they offer a wealth of information on that site. It's really well done. Again, I'm Julia Patrick. I've been joined today by the nonprofit nerd herself, but she's my nonprofit nerd. We're on Ransom CEO of the Raven Group. 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everybody. It's Sunday morning. I think it's just after 11. Anyway, we are taking Bob's car out, the Willow Red Sports car. We are gonna go out to our favorite garden center, Big Al's, and we need to put gas in his car, and we need to get his mother a birthday card. Mother Erin's is going to be 91, I think, this week. 91 or 92. I've lost track. Anyway, Erin's will be 91. I was right the first time. 91. 91. So we wish her a happy birthday. I think her birthday's Friday. Saturday? No, Thursday. Thursday. Anyway, we're gonna go out and run some Erin's. We'll bring you with us if anything interesting happens. We'll be back. And what I did or didn't say yesterday, I do think I already told the first couple cases of COVID-19 here in my county in Oregon. For those that don't know, I live in Washington County. The first couple of deaths, this person is speeding. The first couple of deaths are not far away in Washington state. To say I'm holding on by the threads edge is the understatement of the century. I'm really trying hard not to give in to the anxiety and run out and stockpile things for six months and shut myself and the family up in the house and not leave. Because yeah, that's a thing. Obviously, I'm in the car, so I am headed out. I'm gonna be smart and use hand sanitizer, which is in the car. I'm going to use tissues, which are also in the car. Stay away from people who are coughing. Only go out for things when I really have to. I have sort of a list of things I'd like extras up on the kitchen counter. And so whenever anybody's going out to go shopping or run an errand, I ask them to take the list and try to get a few of them. That being said, I'm gonna go try to get a couple of things this morning that I forgot yesterday. I'm kind of hoping if I go early this morning, won't be as many people at the grocery store. People are panicking and they're literally clearing shelves. It's like being anywhere after a natural disaster if you live in a place that has earthquakes or anything like that. And you know exactly what I'm talking about. I haven't seen this in a long time. This kind of panic or felt this kind of panic in a long time.  Because yeah, that's it at the moment. I do have physical therapy this morning, which is the main reason for me going out. I debated canceling it, but I'm not going to do that. The husband also wants to go to the gym tonight, which I told him, I told him that. I said, I don't know. We'll see when I get there. I don't know when the time comes. I don't know. I don't know if I can do the gym, but we'll find out. All right, that's it. I'll be back. Can you tell it's getting near to spring because we're out walking at the normal time of night and you used to not be able to even see my face. And there's just enough light. You can see me. So it is, so Fred is still cold. He's got his hot hands and his gloves. He's cold. Yeah, his leather, old leather motor to cycle jacket. He doesn't ride a motorcycle anymore, but which is a long story I won't get into, but anyway. It's been a long day full of scary, conflicting COVID-19 news. We have six deaths just across the state border from us. Three cases of COVID-19 here in my camp, two of which are in my county in Oregon. One is not.  I could be a prepper so easy, but I'm not that person that feels the need to go clear out the store shelves and leave nothing for my neighbors or anyone else in the community. That's just all kinds of wrong. Anyway, I got some art in. We're going to get away now and we're going to go walking, take crazy pants for a walk. She's extra hyper right now. Yeah. So we're going to get some fresh air and get to it. I'll be back. I do want to insert more funny things because life is stressful enough. I was just taking some pictures here on my evening walk that I'll post to Instagram later.  It doesn't want to unlock to my face, but it unlocks all the time to my daughter's face.  Freaking phone. I think she looks a lot like me. I don't know. Right? I don't understand it. All right, I'll be back. I'm obviously in the art room in the regular vlog, the chronic pain vlog. We have a cooking with Fred episode, but it was sort of shot vlog style. So I may, today, the next week's vlog might have parts one and part two. There's a bunch of stuff about COVID-19 and God, I don't even know what else. I did shoot a little video last night during my daily drawings that I'm probably going to go ahead and also edit today and put it in my, directly into my Facebook group, two Facebook groups, a life of art and self-expression and my creative year. It'll probably be direct to them and bypass YouTube. It's going to need a voiceover so I can do some explaining. I did do two drawings, so I might split it in half. I don't know yet.  I do have a gym clothes on. I will probably be going to the gym with my husband later and of course taking all precautions. You can't stop living life, right? But you can be careful and so that will be the motivation going forward. I won't, though, be taking any unnecessary, unnecessarily, blah, blah, blah, any unnecessary chances. We do over the next few months have different events coming up that I need to go to or travel to and that concerns me because I don't know how I'm going to get there without having a full-blown anxiety attack. Some I could drive to even though, you know, I need to add an extra day coming and going to drive there. Others I can't so I don't know. We'll see. Hopefully they'll figure something out by then. All right, that's it for the moment. I better get to editing. I'll be back. 748 a.m. I'm working on my second cup of coffee and my yogurt. I'm going to get online in a minute and chat with some friends for a bit. Yes, I'm still in my pajamas. I was going to get on and vlog last night and just about a couple things and I didn't but my mind isn't any better about them today. So, you know, amid the coronavirus thing, no matter which side of the fence you are on, whether you think it's something pandemically serious or you just think it's a bad flu, when you're asked to be put in quarantine, it's not only for your own safety but it's for the safety of those around you and so why would you not just do that? I know it's not fun but it's for the betterment of yourself and everyone else. There's a man in New Hampshire that just decided he didn't want to be in his quarantine anymore so he left before his 14 days were up so he could go to a party and my husband was telling me last night about a news report he heard at a Travis Air Force Base in California where the quarantined patients and staff, medical staff, are not taking proper precautions. What the frick? It's not the word I want to use. We're better than this, America. We're better than this. That's all I got to say this morning. I'm going to chat with my friends. I will be probably doing some art. I'm going to start probably on that canvas this morning and I'll be working some more on some journal pages and some watercolor today so I'll get you all some video footage when I can and that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Hey guys, obviously we're out in the garage. You can hear the washing machine in the background. It's Thursday morning, March 6th I think, or 5th. It's Thursday. It's just after 11 a.m. and I'm just I'm staying home today. I'm not really going out if I don't have to. I'm not traveling if I don't have to. Yes, it's because of the virus. I do have asthma and while I would probably be fine I don't want to take any chances so you know I'm a homebody at heart anyway so there's plenty of things for me to do around here and you really don't have to convince me too hard to want to stay home so that's a thing. Anyway I'm doing laundry obviously and I'm going to go feed Bambi and do stuff around the house. I'll probably do some water coloring later. I'm still working through Jean Hain's book, Paint Yourself Positive so I'll be working on that and I have a painting I started yesterday. If you're watching this clip you've seen that one already. So it's been a productive day and I also have to update the website and get some Etsy store ads created and posted on social media so I need to do that today or tomorrow too so it's not like I don't have plenty to do. Anyway what are you all up to and how are you handling the coronavirus issue? I'd love to know. How are you staying calm? How are you working your way through it? All right that's it for the moment. I'll be back. It's 6 20 p.m. We made a quick early dinner. We had breakfast for dinner. I made some homemade biscuits and we had sausage and eggs and gravy and I'll put a picture here. Anyway now Becca and I are going to go brave the grocery store because I really don't want to go this weekend. There's going to be like five million people there so we're going to go do it now. She wants to get out of the house anyway. She doesn't mind being my chauffeur. She shrugged her shoulders but we'll be back. Hey guys how are you? It's Friday March 6th. I know I said yesterday was the 6th. Yesterday was the 5th my mother-in-law's birthday. She's 91. Everybody's saying happy birthday to Betty. Anyway it is still morning because it's just after 11 a.m. I'm headed over to physical therapy which I feel safe doing because not only am I taking lots of precautions and I've got gloves and sanitizing wipe and hand sanitizer and tissues in the car but it's a facility that is only orthopedics. You generally don't see people there coughing and sniffling. If they're doing that they're not at that building. The whole building is just orthopedics so I'm going to just go do what I need to and then come home and take precautions while I'm doing it. We still I'm sure it's going to change at some point but we have three confirmed COVID-19 cases in Oregon and over 60 negative tests that we're done so that's good news for the moment. I'm sure it's going to change at some point the next two weeks we'll tell but for the most part everybody in my community seems to be taking a lot of precautions which is good. I live in a community that's a lot of folks that are 40 plus and a lot predominantly 60 plus so really trying hard to take care of our seniors because they're the ones that are most vulnerable. Not to mention those of us myself included who already have pre-existing conditions like lung issues like asthma so you know that's the thing. I have a sister with an autoimmune issue and you know my parents are both elderly so mom is 79 I think. Mom must be 78 so dad's 80 so you know yeah anyway we're all trying hard to be cautious going to go do what I need to. If you're watching this though you saw me getting a few fun things done this morning I watched CVSL access I caught up on station 19 which I am a fan of. I was going to start with Star Trek Discovery again but I knew I'd probably miss my appointment if I did that because yesterday I intended to do a whole bunch of stuff I ended up just sitting and watching Star Trek Discovery like literally most of the day. Anyway I think I'm up to episode 7 or episode 8 or of season 1 I don't know. Anyway so I caught up on station 19 and then the clips that you've seen if you're watching this are of me mixing some custom paint colors for myself including my own version of Naples Yellow and a my version of Pains Gray I am running out of both and while I have reordered some of them I want to use up what I have first and I have lots of paint I thought I could do that with and I was right so I got that done and I made some more watercolor artboards also a good thing which I love doing. Anyway I've got people tailgating me because you know that's a good thing. Alright I'm going to go to physical therapy and I'll be back. Hey guys it's Saturday morning March 7th I got no idea what time it is I just know it's not lunch time yet I think it's around 10 10 30 somewhere in there. Anyway it's a partly cloudy day typical for Oregon overcast little drizzly but the sun's so bright any glasses sunglasses. Anyway family's headed out to the gym I'm gonna go for a walk because I'm not feeling very peepily today and uh yeah I'll take you with us let's go all right with me let's go. Oh and it's 10 0 8 a.m so yeah and no I don't have Lily with me because I can't control her by myself so anyway let's go I'll be back. I don't know which vlog this will go into but maybe both it's nice to be out in the fresh air even though it's a little cold and looks like it's going to rain at any second but it's there's not hardly any people around I can get some nice clean fresh air get some steps in so much more enjoyable than the gym. I do go to the gym when I can't get out here and do this it's not my favorite place even without COVID-19 so anyway thankfully I live in a place where I feel relatively comfortable walking the neighborhood by myself unlike the old house yeah so that's a thing all right I'll be back. It's a challenge to be out here doing the walk by myself and not have GPS running in the background for those that don't know I have absolutely no sense of direction and get lost a lot so anyway I think I'm good though we'll see you guys it is 10 o'clock on Saturday the 7th of March I'm just putting my black paper doodle bag away um not a long day but it's been a good one I'm keeping myself busy staying away from any and all discussions on COVID-19 taking the needed precautions that I need to take keeping mindful of what's going on but staying away from the crazy the craziness right because there's a lot of that out there and I don't I don't need to be involved in that um it's making me insane I put some pens away up here I don't remember where but oh here right in front of me here we go anyway um it's been a fun day and there's been a lot of sort of bonus art footage for you all this week I hope you enjoyed it leave something in the comments below and if you're watching this ending for the chronic pain vlog um because I'm going to give you all both the same ending it's been a stressful week but um and my knee hurts today because I had therapy yesterday that I went walking last night I'm not walking again this morning then I twisted it a little bit so it'll be all right when it feels better right anyway I'm looking forward to tomorrow I think we're just getting stuck in at home um we're taking advice from the CDC and their World Health Organization and you know not leaving the house unless we have to and being mindful when we do and washing our hands and yeah I don't think we have anything to do anyway so I think we're gonna just stay home it's all good all right that's it for now I hope you all have had a great week don't forget to like share and subscribe support your creatives here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups of which that I know there are many artists that do both um we all have ways that we seek support from you all that enjoy our content um whether it's an etsy shop or a paypal tip jar or patreon or something so check out my video descriptions I've got lots of ways you can do that I know most of the other artists here on youtube have that too so check it out um yeah I think that's good don't forget the most important thing um leave if you have any questions comments or concerns leave it down below and the most important thing of course is go out and have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later


Okay, good afternoon everybody. My name is Chanik Hia. You can call me Hia. I'm from Jakarta, Indonesia. And today I'm going to talk about how fast and easy to build a mobile app using a native script. Anybody here has no native script? Anyone? Okay. NativeScript is an open source framework building a truly native framework using JavaScript. It's different. Maybe you guys know about the PONGAP, Cordova. That thing is using WebView. But NativeScript is still using JavaScript but they are setting the native module of each iOS and Android. So the native UI and performance will be almost the same. But yeah, it's better than WebView. Why we use native script other than WebView? It's using native UI and you can use maximum code and skill ratio with reusability because native script adapt in modular coding. And easy doing to native plugin and native things because all code is writing with JavaScript and the PONGAP is committed much bigger. And also it's supported by a major company called Telerik by Progress if you guys know. And if you want to try how the UI, how the user experience about native script, you can search in the iOS or Google Play with the key word example of native script. Like I'm talking about maximum code and skill reusability, all of these Angular, GS, CSS can use in native script or NPM except for the package that related to the DOM because the native script is not using DOM at all. So here is the choice if you guys accessing the website of native script native script.org you can choose what you guys prefer want to type coding with all JavaScript or TypeScript or combine with TypeScript and Angular, Angular 2. Here are the example of a native script module. You can see on top that JavaScript that use in native script access platform, Android and iOS. That's pretty much simpler than the native code objectif your Android. And of course because the native script doesn't use DOM, they prefer to use what a native Android and iOS use like XML. Not pure XML but still the syntax is almost the same. So when you guys write code like switch they will show based on the platform. So this is plugin that native script so far have been created. Okay, I'm enough for talking because I'm not good at talking so I'm here to demo about how to build a native script. If you guys already install native script in your machine, you can get clone I'm using TypeScript and Angular for this demo. Oops. So maybe I will introduce how how the native script works. Actually this is the command. I will try to create first before I go through my history. Maybe just hello since this is the live coding so I hope it will run well. So basically the DNS create hello world already have template that native script provide template hello world so you can just try directly without any changing any code. So first thing I will show you this one these are the folder that created by that command so I open to this subline so you can see there are bunch of already installed in here I'll start from FGS because this one is using pureGS so it will be with my paper story that using TypeScript so I'm going to show you how to run it and for the iOS of course you should have the certificate for building this app but for the Android no need for that this is the hello world sample of the native script okay then I will try to code along with you guys about simple registration app actually I already save it in my github so I will not code from the scratch I will run on device Android and iOS for first building if you guys after this one to try you can clone from this paper story actually I provide 3 branches to give you a demo first demo okay this is a simple app don't expect any good design because I'm not designer guy so here things that I will show I will show you guys so since the native script using modular approach I will separate 3 things so it's like I'm web developer and it is like code web application there is a router and then there is a module and then main.ts is a start coin of this application and in this branch I will provide 3 template for this application let's see this template for after login we see for the sign up it's almost the same but user behavior is quite different because Android and iOS is different and this login page as you can see they are using all XML syntax but in here why I using the html certificate because I'm combine this project using Angular 2 so in order to readability of this syntax using the html and then they control or component how to to handle the the function of each template I mean it's a action button is on here so this is for the sign up this is for signing and if this this router is related to this you guys see this router there is a login almost like web login register and homepage okay from here any question and I will move on to the next branch oh I will show you before that I will show you how easy to write how easy to build native script build mobile actually using native script because I already run on each device is life things to each of device let's see I changing to template of login I will do this if I save it but android and iOS will be fast so it's good experience for UX designer because no need to long for wait long for the render each time you make change and next check in first to branch I will show you how to connect this app this static app using Firebase for the database so I will run it again nothing change for the UI but it will connect to Firebase that I already created just you use the authentication mechanism from Firebase using email and password for this demo can I also use facebook I will show you the config of facebook and if you want to use it this is Firebase for this demo I disabled you can you can turn it on by this parameter google so it automatically can support that authentication okay let's see how this one you can see that this one just mean that the Firebase is connect and this one the user ID that created in Firebase this interface same thing what does it work in the background is it a native library or is it the JavaScript library actually it's controlled by but in the end they accessing the native module that provide each of the platform so it's like maybe you know Samarin using C web developer it's hard to using C so this is the alternative for web developer to building the mobile apps and then no for native script actually but you can since this is using Angular 2 you can set the logic that you built in the native script i mean for web app i will continue i will show you a little bit what the code i place it in here this one the package the plugin that responsible to Firebase this one that trigger the Firebase connection okay i will continue okay which one yeah, this one you mean this overview you just like building i don't need it okay thank you okay i will continue to 4th tree for the next implementation 2st tree here we are in 4th tree branch we run to 4th tree branch okay we are in 4th tree branch we run to iOS again we will show you how they connect with the database after the authentication i will be provide for the registration okay we can try to sign up this one is already populate because i uncomment the declaration here register component TS type script each of the sorry and also in you might know that there is one binding and two way binding in this case i using two way binding so i can demonstrate how easy by using this syntax so it automatically connect to this controller so what happen if i change this it will automatically change to this site and if i sign up i don't put it any loader but actually already running in background there you go automatically populate the database in database and of course you can also login and it will show the data that this user already register before so i think that's a sub demo maybe you guys an equation about it so like working on this in relation to the previous part that we've heard about this open event it's going to be a step up on that right? different so ya with not script you can write especially for web developer you can write all feature in gs but the result is same as as good as native apps both android and ios do you have access to all the native APIs of the platform? no currently not all but ya it's still going because native script is i think 2 years ago started and this year is version 1 so it's quite new and the competitor is from facebook react native maybe you guys know react native is using the same method as native script but what i personally don't like about react native that they are all in line in gs even for the style that's really i don't know native script the css is still same css as web with limitation actually not all the css and web can apply in the native script you should show some of the css what can you use what can you not use or there comes the properties that are extended maybe i will i will try to change the couple of minutes ya just like this one in the text field it's like regular css it can be applied in line and also in the css i mean the css but you can change it like something like this can you see it or not just now you had a css file it looks like some new modules in native script it's using the native script can you show me okay css native script this one call like the good thing is you know styling ya just using the name the application can differentiate between android and iss ya it can cover pretty much same but limited not all but like you can use animation plug in npm like animate css you can use it also in here so like maybe just like this demo i will show you to end this session sample this is the UI of this samples pretty good this sample actually using like animate css i can so you can move around the background like this one so pretty easy to use animation on the native app using it like animation or is it like a type script library this is using the npm because it's a pure JavaScript ya pure JavaScript do you actually have to put like assets from the web can you run everything natively including downloadable graphics and stuff from the web i don't think so because native is not running in DOM i think that not running in DOM can apply to native script okay when i use components like tabs they have a different behavior on iOS and Android i think it's the top and on iOS it can be bottom it can be floating so how would it work here when i have one app for both platforms to have to take care of that myself you know, depending on the platform build my own UI for the UI perspective i think there's no need for that because you can see here let's see this one maybe label and text field just using this this syntax and then the native script smart enough to provide but the style of course the style you can different by using the dot ios and dot android but in general it just say tab tab view or whatever i put my stuff in it and then when it compiles into two different apps it will be show different so any question how responsive is the output app when it's on the phone does it have lag issues frankly speaking i'm not i will build production yet but just playing around with it but from the community that i research it's pretty much same with the native app because yeah, it's different with web view because when you build and you publish it it purely even if you open it in Xcode they will show the native component not the GS okay, i see just like check native i think yes oh, for license this one for the android i'm using genemotion because the native it's not quite good for demo live scenes too slow so you can download it for professional usage free but for the iOS you need to buy a subscription license to develop it and using Mac of course yeah, that's okay i think that's all thank you


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is my three things from Brentford One Everton Nill today. Another defeat for Everton, another unsatisfactory display. I've just seen the manager's comments actually saying that the fans can't level the players, didn't give everything at them today. I thought we kept going but did we give everything? I don't know. Looked at a few of them, looked like they were going through emotions for me. But it is what it is. Let's begin with the manager today. I didn't want to laugh at Benitez in the summer. He said it a million times. He wouldn't have been in my first five managers to take the job. But he got it and it was okay. Let's see what he can do. Normally he's organised. He has done well at other clubs. He's coming into. It wasn't a million miles away from what Anciolosi was doing in terms of the football. And let's see if he can do anything. The early signs were positive. Hard work, looks at every possible way of doing things. Has his own way as well, knows a lot of players. We started the season well and injuries have hampered it. There's no question about it. But you have to cope with injuries. You have to cope with them. Yet we've been really unlucky with injuries of course. We have disrupted us massively. Other teams will get injuries as well but ours it's disrupted us massively. We've lost the whole core of a team and we've had to get on with it. But what you have to try and do in those moments is bring everything together. Use your squad, battle and scrap for everything. Whether people like it or not, you have to try to keep the fans with you. And you do that in ways where you're looking like you're exhausted on every avenue. While you're trying to battle and get these players back. And I'm just not convinced he's done that today. The substitutions were abysmal. Some of his subs over the last few weeks haven't been good enough in my opinion. Today they were shocking. We needed energy for that last 20 minutes, something a little bit different. And he just sat on his hands. And that is unacceptable to me. You're getting beat 1-0. There was three forward players sat on the bench there. Now okay, whether he wants to bring Sheng Towson on. Because Evan hoping he goes out the door in January and he's off the wage bill. And he's had two injuries and two seasons. Okay, maybe you can argue that one away. But Lewis Dobbin, by the way I'm not banging the door down. He should be starting because he's a flip of a coin. You never know whether these players are ready. He looks bright and lively. And Ellis Sims, who hasn't got a minute of Premier League football under his belt yet. Although he did well on loan. But that to me are positive changes. With 20 minutes to go when you're getting beat. You've almost got nothing to lose. They weren't doing anything. They didn't have us on the back foot. They didn't have us pegged back. They were just clearing the lines and hoping for something. We had all the ball, but we had nothing different in that final third. Rondon had done nothing all day. There's a woby. The odd good thing, but too many things that don't amount to anything. So with 20 minutes left, you can get the fans on your side a little bit by making positive changes. And if he had brought Sims and Dobbin on for the last 20 and just gone at it and gone, listen lads, get on there. Make a nuisance to yourself. Try and get on the end of something. Try to create something. I think the fans would have gone, you know what, at least he's having a go where you're trying to turn it. But he hasn't. He's just let it play out. Now I don't know whether I've seen people telling me it's cos he's stubborn. I've seen people telling me he doesn't like young players. Whatever it is, whatever it is, it isn't good enough. And today wasn't good enough. And I thought he's let himself down today. He's let the fans down. He's let himself down today. And if he's going to remain here, and every defeat makes it less likely that he's going to see it out, then he's going to have to start understanding what gets the fans on side. Cos you're going to need the fans and a lot of fans don't want to give you time. And a lot of fans want you to fail.  So you've got to get them on your side. And you only get them on your side by doing the things that we want to see. By shaking the team up, put a couple of lads on. Live wires for the last 15, 20 minutes. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but it wasn't nil nil. And there was a specific game plan. We weren't one nil up. So you're saying, oh, if we make a change, it might unsettle it. We were getting beat. We weren't very good in the game. You can't honestly, well, you might be able to. I couldn't honestly sit here and say, I felt like we were going to get an equaliser because I didn't. I really didn't. And that's not like me. I'm normally trying to stay positive and think, well, you know what? The ball could just break. Who knows if we keep putting in the right areas. I just knew. I knew it's 25 minutes to go. When Gray put that, and especially when Gray put the first crossing into the six yard box, which would have been a tap in and nobody was on the end of it and knew what was going to happen. So he's got to, he's gone after somehow change what he's doing. Because if you just continue to do the same thing and lose games like we are, it's a sign of madness and nothing will change for us. Yeah. Secondly is about the squad. Delph and Gabamon. I've just talked a little bit there about not bringing Dobbin on and not bringing Sims on and not bringing Towson on. Delph and Gabamon were also on the bench today. Now Fabian Delph has had a couple of good games. Okay. He wasn't very good last week, but he had a couple of good games when he's been in. John Philippe Gabamon played 45 minutes at Wolff's and hasn't been seeing since. So for what, a minute and a half, two minutes against Spares is a sub. And they're an option today then. If he's looking around going, well, I don't want to put both the kids on, but he could have used a midfield option and said to the Corry, push forward, going where I will be is, and maybe brought Sims on or whatever. There wasn't even that. So what does that say about their levels of fitness? Are they just not fit enough? Are they not good enough? I mean, he told us last week how important Delph was. Now, what's the answers for that? I don't know whether John Philippe Gabamon will ever get back to what he was before. He got injured, he was a good player. I mean, he wouldn't need the time to settle into England, but he was a good player. He's played, started one game in over three years. So I understand he might be ready to start game after game, but to not even get on the bench, sorry, on the pitching again that we're getting better, there was nothing new. The levels must be dreadful.  And today has got me a bit... I haven't been worried up to now because I was thinking, no, we'll get the players back. I look around the Premier League, it ain't great. The top three are good and the rest, there's a few clubs that are adorable and work hard and get results.  But if we can't grind results out against a team that didn't even have their full strength team or they were struggling to get wins, then it doesn't bode well. And if the manager's not throwing everything he's got at trying to get results, and you're going into a difficult fixture list, it's worrying, I am a bit worried. And third and finally, just very quickly, obviously the Derby's on Wednesday, we're playing against a team bangin' form, winning games for fun. The last two home games, they won 4-0, they beat Porto in midweek in the Champions League 2-0, it was comfortable for them. And where we've got them, that's good as in. And normally a Derby match in a night game, you're looking at it thinking we'll get in, we'll get in amongst them, the crowd's going to be electric. But it's probably going to be one of the flattest Derby's I've ever gone into, the way I'm feeling myself, I've had it with trepidation and you're looking at it thinking it's a perfect scenario for them almost, they get ahead and then the winning and we're struggling like anything and Benitez, they can be singing his song and all of that. Now, if ever we're going along alright, then you just go, well, they're going to do it because he's their ex-man, and it is what it is. But the rumour in, makes everyone feel down I think. I don't know how we do it and I've seen us win Derby's when they've been the overwhelming favourites and we've looked grim and we've somehow turned in the result I can think of the Howard Kendall, when Howard Kendall come off for his third time and Kadamati scored and I think there was no one goal for the first one wasn't enough Ruddick and we beat them 2-0 and I think they were second that day and we were second to bottom and everyone was predicting 6 or 7-0 defeat. I've seen us beat them with Joe Royal when it was first game and we were bottom of the league and they were top. We beat them to all those seconds again, we beat them 2-0. So we have won that but it's been unexpected even when going into it thinking these are dangerous, these are a good side and they're a fabulous side at the moment and we have gone off the work hard, they're going to need the crowd, they're going to need everything we've got on Wednesday but you just look at it and think how would this set of players going to be able to cope against real top players when we didn't do enough today with Brentford? It's worrying, it really is. The season isn't about one game but just the way we are at the moment we need a lift and it'd be unbelievable to go and beat them on Wednesday and hopefully the manager's got something up his sleeve and the players can buy into it and the crowd can buy into it and we can get a huge win because it would be probably one of the biggest things ever if we were managing to do it given the run of former on giving the players only coming back from injury given how good they are and given the situation with the manager which is the board of pushing so who knows, fingers crossed but it is one that I am looking at with total trepidation right now that's it, I've gone on far too long I apologise but there you go give the video a thumbs up, subscribe but if you haven't, have a good weekend if you can the rest of it anyway I'll see you next week like that


how Ethiopia got its name. The name Ethiopia has ancient origins and is believed to have been derived from the Greek word Ethiopia which means burnt face or sunburned country. The term was used by the ancient Greeks to describe the lands south of Egypt which were inhabited by dark-skinned peoples. Ethiopia was known by various names including Kush and Aksum. The kingdom of Aksum which emerged in the first century and was one of the most powerful and prosperous in the region and traded with Egypt, Greece and Rome. The kingdom's influence extended to Arabia and India and it was one of the first states to adopt Christianity as its official religion. During the medieval period Ethiopia was known as Abyssinia in Europe, a name derived from the Arabic word al-habash which referred to the people and region. The name Ethiopia was reintroduced by European explorers and missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries.


Here in America, we will have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.  It doesn't matter what your country of origin is, or the spelling of your last name. It does not matter if you're a Catholic or Protestant Muslim or Jew, and it doesn't matter if you don't believe it all. It does not matter if you're rich or poor or common or famous. In this country, in these United States, under those colors of red, white, and blue, in this country all Americans are created free and equal. And we will rise or fall based on our merit, and we'll be judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. That is the poor organizing principle of the United States of America, and that is why we fight.


Full disclosure, I am a community moderator for First Contact. Enter Tim and so please take the following with a pinch of salt if you want. With that all the way, let's get right into it. Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today I want to talk about Firewall Ultra. Now yesterday patch 1.10 dropped and I streamed the game for about five hours in total over two streams and guess what? I had a blast and it got me thinking about Firewall Ultra in a big picture kind of a way. Thinking about how this is Sony's flagship PS Viewer 2 shooter, how it's the only AAA level multiplayer shooter on the platform and will likely remain its only one for some time and thinking about appreciating what I have in front of me. The game has had a rough launch period, there is no denying that. I've gone into detail myself on the issues that it has but as time is going on and as First Contact Entertainment continue to update the game almost every week, I feel like it's starting to take shape and it's becoming the game that I wanted it to be. There's still more updates needed and balances to be tweaked but overall I am at the point now where I can boot up Firewall Ultra and know that I'm going to have a good time. When I hit start, I'm straight into the main menu in seconds thanks to the lasers patch that skips the splash screens. Once my teammate joined me, I hit the search button and in a few moments I'm already getting matched up with enemy players. Again, thanks to the lasers patch which has sped up that process significantly. Now of course it's not perfect, you might still be wasting a bit longer than you'd like but now that feels like it's not the game's fault anymore and more of a player population issue when it happens. And player populations is always going to be an issue for PS Viewer 2 games as long as Sony keeps acting like the headset doesn't exist. I can almost guarantee you the percentage of PS5 owners who do not even know that Firewall Ultra exists is in the high 90s. So anyway, after I find an enemy squad I'm loaded into one of eight maps in mere seconds thanks to the SSD technology. Not just any maps either by the way but some of the best designed maps I've played in first person shooter games. They're filled with loads of flanking routes, high-risk bottlenecks and multiple routes to an objective. And each of these maps are so bristling with details, little things that I notice that I'm often losing focus on what I'm doing just so I can stop and stare at them. Maybe it's a vent throwing out warm air that gives off that kind of wavy mirage effect.  These maps and these details are further brought to life by Firewall Ultra's impressive lysing system. I can be walking through the gauntlet map with my weapon raised and then I walk through a shaft of lice that's just bleeding through a gap in a window or the roof or something and admiring the way it realistically flows along the side of my weapon and hands as I'm walking through it. The darkness added to some of these maps is a complaint for some but I believe it adds new levels of tactical decision making and choices. Stealth becomes much more viable and cool new additions like night vision goggles and flashlights serve an important purpose now. Forgetting the fact that all eight players can cast real-time shadows simultaneously with these flashlights, which by itself is something you simply aren't seen on any other PSV or two multiplayer titles I don't know if you ever will. Speaking of forgetting, the two most requested features from the original Firewall Zero Hour game are here in Ultra and they go completely overlooked in my opinion even by myself. Dedicated servers are a huge plus to this day in Zero Hour. If the host drops out the game just ends and you're all kicked back to the main menu and it was a massive headache. That is not an issue in Firewall Ultra. Neither is having to worry about someone from the South Pole having the host and then lagging the match up for everybody else. It's a massive improvement that is completely underappreciated now that we have it. Just like the best of three round structure that we now have, no longer is it one round and back to the lobby it's best of three and I cannot tell you how many times I've heard people clambering for Firewall Ultra to introduce a best of three structure and now that we have it now that it's there it's just crickets nobody seems to acknowledge it at all. Ultra also introduced small tweaks to the established formula that I find have added a loss so for example the ability to crawl when you're down now has made it so that not only do I have a better chance of surviving when I'm down but I also have to keep in mind that the enemy can move around when they're down too. Now if I sit and watch them maybe they'll lead me to some teammates but if I'm not paying attention maybe they'll just get away. Similarly another layer of depth was added to the cameras now that you can temporarily disable them when you know an enemy is watching you through them. Eye tracking has been a source of frustration due to some of the ways it is utilized in Ultra but not enough is said about when it's used well. Negating flashbangs by closing your eyes in real life as they detonate and using the Sentinel ability to highlight an enemy on the cameras when you're dead simply by staring at them with your eyes are some really nice uses of that feature the latter allowing people to contribute even if they don't voice chat. In my opinion these are just two great uses of eye tracking that we don't talk about enough. Now my biggest complaint with Ultra was the ADS choosy mechanic and how unfair it was to come up against that as someone who didn't use it because I simply didn't like users but with patch 1.10 that issue has been significantly improved. Now I feel like I'm on a more level playing field and I'm much more excited to boot up the game because I feel like I can enjoy what it is much more. Now you might think I'm being overly positive about firewall Ultra but most of the stuff I've said is just factually correct and the subjective stuff is just my opinion. There's plenty of issues left for first contact entertainment to address that's also true and in my last video I went over those in detail I was critical but I did end that last video on a hopeful note. I believe that with some time Ultra can become the game we want and now that update 1.10 has arrived a week after I made that video it has reinforced that belief. If the next patches improves grenade throwing and eases off on the grind then nearly all of my issues are gone and we'll be looking at one of the PSVR2's best games and the game worth buying the headset for just like firewall zero hour was. That is it for this video lads and ladies thank you very much for watching but also thank you to Decepticon for letting me use his music in all of my videos you can check him out in the description below. Also let me thank my channel members whose names are on the screen as we speak for their continued support. 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Hey, yeah, I decided to go to town and I got in my little boat here, and I noticed my batteries were not fully charged It's not ideal when going to town be good charge and the weather has been pretty questionable today It was blue skies and I was like all right. I just got to go for it. So I got in my boat and started driving And I'm most of the way to town right now And I started driving and I was like all right. Let me just drive slow speed So maybe with the Sun coming in on the solar panels I might not be using much power. Maybe I'll even charge a little bit as I go But you know early in the morning the Sun isn't as strong So I wasn't getting that much energy So I was definitely still using some from the batteries But I was like well, let me just go with this for a while and then after a while I was like, you know what? I think I've got an idea for this And whenever I'm driving I sometimes grab my paddle here and just paddle for a little bit anyway But then I was like you know what I could do I could turn this into a workout because I don't have my pedals here anymore No more pedals in the boat, right? So I don't get exercise when I'm driving unless I'm paddling but it's not really real Exercise before I got real exercise So I was like all right, let's turn this into a workout I'm gonna do a hundred paddle strokes with no battery power on and I do have I didn't have my solar panel switch on So it's still getting a bit of power here. I can show you the difference Here the motor right now it's on the lowest battery setting with the solar panels and right now it's just the solar panels So it's definitely slower And right now I'm getting I'm getting pretty good son earlier. I wasn't getting this good son. Anyway So I was like, let me just let me run my boat just on solar panels while I do a hundred paddles I don't know how long a hundred paddles takes What's it like? two seconds per paddle Yeah Somewhere around two seconds per paddle So 200 seconds ish Maybe three minutes so then Put my paddle away, and I put my boat on low speed And then it's using battery again You know do that for I don't know five minutes. I'm not I'm not really time in it I was aiming for it to be somewhere around the same amount of time as I was paddling I don't know. It's probably probably about five minutes three minutes paddling ish Maybe a little more three or four minutes paddling. Let's say it's eight minutes between each thing So I do that eight times. That's 80 minutes an hour and 20 minutes and I got me most of the way here Now I'm definitely within sight of town. I don't know. It's like a couple miles away And I was a couple miles in maybe a few miles in before I started I think that's a pretty good way to do this Because that way I get to go on the way to town Without really using any battery And with the amount of sun I'm getting right now, I'm pretty sure I'm actually charging the batteries More than I'm using them right now So that's good. I'm pretty sure I'm at least not using any battery Yeah, every time I was paddling it was just fully charging not using anything from batteries so Yeah, she basically gets a town having used no battery actually charging which is good because Then you know on the way home, I never know what the weather is gonna do. It looks like it's gonna be a nice sunny day But who knows? The weather can change anytime So anyway, I think that's I think that's what I'm probably gonna do for a while till I come up with a better way to do it Now I'm just gonna shut up and let you enjoy the ride of it on low power speed All right here. I've got my little readout telling me I'm getting almost 11 amps coming into the battery right now It's really nice having that because then I can adjust the solar panels And I can see now it's down to under 10 And I can really fine-tune it into like Maximum power. All right getting almost 11 there All right, it looks like right now. I want it fully tilted to the side Which means it's still pretty early if the sky if the Sun is Still way over there. It's pretty early still That means I made pretty good time getting down Which I knew because I mean it looks like I'm going pretty fast Well, okay, here's here's my Spidometer, otherwise known as a speedometer. This is how I check out fasting Why I put my hand in the water up to this this first crease on my middle finger like up to my knuckle And then I kind of see how high it's flashing but that's pretty fast Like if it gets if it splashes up to the top of my hand That's pretty good speed for my old boat. This boat is going way way above my hand. Yeah, this is That's a good speed You know what I should do get a GPS in this boat Make a little stick that I can stick in the water have one line on the stick For how how how deep I have to put it in the water And then have measurements on the stick for how high the splash comes off it for different speeds That would actually be kind of nice to have although My hand's good enough. I don't need to know exactly Although even if I just did it with the GPS with my hand sometimes Then I would actually have a you know a reasonably Accurate way to measure with my hand, you know, I could say halfway up my palm is like four knots Up to my the top of my palm is like five or six or something Up to my elbow is I don't know Gotta say this is just a beautiful day And I'm feeling great Oh, I just did that last paddle that was my 10th paddle So I'm done my workout and yeah, I'm feeling pretty good. I always feel amazing after workouts Oh, I'm over 11 volts or 11 amps right now. That's great Oh, yeah, I'm just feeling good man. This is great I love this. This is about my Electrical setup in this boat and a lot of them really so I have two solar panels the rear two solar panels Go through this charge controller and then charge the battery And you know the battery runs the motor or whatever And I'll run headlights when I get headlights on this boat. Oh, I gotta get headlights on I have the headlights Anyway, and then I the the other two solar panels the front two solar panels They run through a little switch up here directly to the motor The question I always get is why don't I just have all four solar panels? Charging the battery one I would need a bigger charge controller So it costs more blah blah, but that's not a big deal. I mean I could get a big charge controller But the other thing that I really like about it is that I can totally turn off the battery system. I can turn off the battery switch completely like that And now I'm running just on the solar panels and I know That I'm charging the batteries So I'm driving off the solar panels and the other solar panels are are charging the batteries I'm not using any battery. I know that they're charging And I know that whatever whatever is going on a little readout here. They're getting 11 amps of energy going into them right now but like if I you know right now I'm running with some batteries I mean I'm running with the batteries and the solar panels and I'm not sure How much energy is going into the batteries and how much is going into the motor from the battery So I don't know if I'm actually charging or discharging the batteries right now My guess is that it's pretty close to even pretty close to doing nothing Um, yeah, I want to have the when I have the switches set up the way I do now I know and I know I could put a bunch of dials that tell me Amperage coming in from one place and another place and blah blah blah But it's just more complication. I don't need This is like this is a great setup plus If my battery ever has a problem, I can still run on the solar panels I'm really happy with this battery that's in this boat I'm gonna have to do like a time trial to see how fast I can get to town and back On the battery and then but uh, you know today I started Without a full battery. So I didn't want to do it not starting on a fully charged battery But uh, yeah, I'm really happy with this battery. It works great. It's a 20 24 volt 100 amp hour lithium-iron phosphate battery It's up in the front there made by sock s okay And that company was recommended to me by some sailors actually people in sailboats up here A few people mentioned them to me actually They basically said like if you if you want a battery that That is not going to be a problem get get this get them from this company soft. So And they've had great customer service too Like I've talked with them a few times that always responds I haven't had any problems with the battery and I have to have to like ask for help or anything but uh, you know, just had any questions or whatever and uh Someone from soft actually commented on one of my videos So when I when I put the battery up in the front of my boat There's an aluminium aluminum hinge on the little door Like going into where the battery is And I just wasn't thinking like I just wasn't paying attention Whatever and the hinge goes all the way across like it's a piano hinge like one long hinge Which means when I got it through there and the battery terminals Touched it for a split second. It's short of the battery. It was just for a split second.  You know, I answered them.  It was okay But yeah, thank you for for the information, you know, that's I mean, they're they're they're on top of those guys cool guys Yeah, so anyway, I would say that I definitely recommend this sock brand the batteries for sure Oh, I know I'm getting to town or I know I know I'm getting close to town now Because I'm starting to get rolling waves Which is From this big opening here So I mostly have you know land beside me, but then there's There's a big opening here And then I get waves from the ocean coming in On what snacks did I bring today? Well, I put four bananas in my in my bag up here And I've eaten two of them so far I've got a gallon of water. I won't need a gallon of water.  You don't want to get stuck out in the ocean without water So a gallon is definitely more than I need and then I brought One of these high energy biscuits this is uh Like an emergency food supply thing that I got off amazon And uh, well actually I didn't even get it off amazon. I put it on my amazon wish list and someone sent it to me So thank you It comes in this This tin this like steel box. It's kind of a nice steel box actually With a whole bunch of those in it So that's one of the packs. I don't usually eat them because mostly I just leave them. I mean, it's It's got like 25 year shelf life or something. I don't know. It's it's long long long term storage food But you know every once in a while I I want to test one But most most of them are still in the thing Um, and they're just basically like flour and sugar But packaging in a long-term thing. So if there's a food emergency at some point in the future, I have something to eat I kind of want to have like a whole Storage thing of my house in my house of a long-term storage food Okay, so you never know what's gonna happen And then just just not eat it, you know that one I opened because that was the first one I got But uh, yeah, I want to get some more of this emergency food long-term food storage stuff Just to keep just in case Maybe every few years I'll open one and eat it and then get a new one, you know, keep it from keep the keep the supply fresh ish Of course, hopefully I'll be growing all my own food soon. I'm growing more than I was, you know, I've been planting stuff So that's going well Maybe I shouldn't say it's going well. It's going okay I would say when it's going well is when I'm like growing like a lot of food Oh, just in case anyone else is thinking about getting these long-term food storage biscuits I'll give you a taste test They basically taste like Kind of like shortbread cookies Like, you know, kind of crappy shortbread cookies, but basically like shortbread cookies. You're not bad totally edible Um, if you want to know exactly what it is These are there should be some of these in my amazon wishlist, which is down in the link You can look down. It'll be in a green box thing So if anyone else is looking for Long-term emergency food storage I don't know if I'd say I recommend these but they're not bad You know decent I've had this one for about a year still totally edible, so Yeah, maybe I would say I recommend them. I don't know. They're pretty good. I was gonna ask Just in case I forget to ask this later Does anyone know of any good long-term food storage? Things that I might not know about Yeah, I've noticed around on the internet a little bit, but I haven't really done a lot of research on it You know, I know I know you can get like I could just buy a bunch of rice and beans and Mylar bags and stuff So I don't know maybe I'll do that at some point The only thing with that is I gotta make sure no bugs Because like often when I get rice here Please some bugs it because I'll put a whole thing of rice in a in a big pot Let's kill anything in it or tortillas because I was this is one of the reasons I'm going to town right now I was basically out of food. I was down to like flour rice and Which I could use to make burritos and they're pretty good.  I always have stuff that I could put in like spinachy kind of stuff but uh Yeah, being able to make A decent set of burritos out of dry rice Dry flour and dry beans. That's a good skill to have Uh, I've used that skill a lot like going on adventures in places where I was carrying food in And I was going to be there for two months You know by the time two or three weeks goes by All the fresh food is gone And you know, it really helped if you make some make some make some tasty burritos Because uh, yeah, I've eaten burritos for like a month at a time straight and almost nothing else Although by the end of that I'm just like craving anything like just be a strawberry Anything All right Back to back to going while I'm still going You know, it's too bad I can't do a live on the boat Doing a live on the boat would be great. This would be perfect because I'm just like hanging around I could talk for two hours driving to town Hopefully an hour and a half coming back because on the way to town I wanted to conserve battery and basically Get there fully charged and actually charge the battery some while I'm going But on the way back Yeah, I want to use the battery.  I got a pee. I do have a procedure for this. I usually do it before I get this to close the town It doesn't look like anyone's around so I just put one foot on that pontoon and one foot up here and pee right there I stopped the boat though just in case like, you know slip and fall in the water I mean the boat would just not stop so Yeah, I guess I can leave it going this speed I better not fall off Uh in case anyone's wondering about my weird wardrobe at the moment I have a muscle shirt I just have it over my one side to lock that arm from getting sun