Hello everybody here welcome back to another episode of 31 days of Halloween. I'm gonna do it The next six videos are already shot. They just need to be uploaded I had so much fun this month, and I want to thank every single last one of you I want to get I want to get emotional here I want to thank every single last one of you for all the support this month Everybody cheering me on I was hoping I was gonna be able to do it and I did it So unless something drastic happens We've made it 31 days of Halloween. Anyways today. We are talking about VHS 94 I watched this on shutter. I believe it's a shutter exclusive so If you don't have that service, I don't think you can get it anywhere else Sorry, I'm also checking because I just got some really great news And I had to get this done. So I actually did it because it's the last video I have to do for the week Anyways more on that later. I Have I have some thoughts here. I'm a big fan of the series as a whole the VHS series Are they all great? No, but there is a good segment at least one good segment in each and every one of them Excuse me And if you guys want to see my thoughts on the other ones Just let me know down there in the doodly-doo and I will cover the rest of the series So the if you don't know the VHS series is about is found footage horror anthology thing Really cool. I think I did like the ABCs of death a little bit better But I think that's just because it was shorter and there was several Segments in that that had a lot of punch but the what I loved about this one is There is there's a segment in here that was just so beyond cool and I'm gonna be talking about that one the most Funnily enough oddly enough. I don't remember a thing about the first the first segment and the framing the camp the framing Thing that ties all of them together. I didn't care for that much either the second one was okay There's a bit of a spoiler here, but it's not really important to like the plot of the thing The second segment is about a woman who is Not attending, but she's running awake for a person who died very violently And then of course that you know what's gonna happen the entire time The body's actually gonna get out of the coffin so on and so forth I didn't like that one either Just because it was so dang predictable down to the way that it was shot There were several times when they kept going back to a certain thing And I knew exactly what was going to happen and that was pretty much the end of the thing And I was like this is this is it so the first two segments felt like filler And I didn't care for the framing sequence at all Now we talk about the third segment, which is by far the only well I won't say only but is the major reason to watch this one. It is a super cool super stylized Take on the mad scientist genre where this man is trying this doctor is trying to Create human machine hybrids and he is successful. That's all I'm gonna say about it There were some wonky special effects Anytime CGI is used for like blood gushing and and gunfire and things like that It tends not to feel, you know real and it didn't feel real here But the the delivery of this one and I have to say this I have to say this. This is a foreign Filmmaker not American. I'm not sure about any of the other ones, but this one is a testament to how much harder Damn near every other culture has to work to be included into things like this And I feel that sucks Especially since the first two were so horribly phoned in It feels yeah, it just doesn't feel right, but they definitely are in their place as my favorite segment here Please go in blind. Don't listen to anything else.  I promise you Finally the last one was a little bit a little tongue-in-cheek There's a well formed militia of a very very country folks That have this creature locked up and they're gonna use the creature to try and commit domestic terrorism I'm gonna call it what it is Anyways, this was more funny and fun than horrifying I especially like the ending like the whole thing is just a lot of fun as far as that segment is included And the mystery was kept well enough to the till almost to the end for me that I didn't even consider What it could be and when I did even though it's not a favorite trope of mine I had a lot of fun with it and I really don't have any complaints about the last two Even though the last one I feel is far more comedic now if you are of if you are of a Conservative mindset you might want to stay away Because it definitely definitely definitely punches at that target But it's it was a lot of fun for me. I know people just like these people not to the Not to the extreme like them, but I live in central, Alabama. So they're literally everywhere But yeah, I had a lot of fun with the last two segments couldn't care less about the framing mechanic and the first two segments I'm gonna give this one overall I'm gonna give it three stars and the only reason I'm giving it those three stars or for those last two segments They were just that good, but unfortunately all the rest of it was just felt like filler and I wasn't there for it So it's whatever but have you watched VHS 94 if you have let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether Not you loved it whether not you hated it whether not you felt meh about it Especially the ones that I liked if you hated them or felt mad about them Let me know down there. You're not gonna you're not gonna ruin my experience or anything I just want to have a discussion with you, but until next time. I have any you've been you This been another the last episode. I know it's not the last one for you But last episode of 31 days of Halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye


Welcome back. Let's just begin with the word of prayer. Would someone be willing to open the class with prayer? Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we just once again thank you for this time of study. We commit this time into their hands and we pray, Father, that let the word minister to us, Father, as we get into your word and we pray that we will not only be able to retain whatever we learned today but be able to apply the same in our lives. We also pray for blessing upon our entire faculty and all the students, Father, of our college and we ask all of this Lord Jesus in Thy precious name, Amen. Okay, thank you. So let's just continue in the book of John. So we're doing the outline of the book of John. We stopped at John 10, right, last week. So we'll continue from John 11 with Sam. Yeah. So John chapter 11, it's the famous chapter on Jesus raising Lazarus.  And, you know, and then by the time Jesus arrived, Lazarus has been already dead in the tomb for four days. And we also see this conversation where Martha comes to meet Jesus and said, only if you had come earlier, her brother wouldn't have died. And but he still had faith that Jesus could do something in that conversation. And so Jesus asked to see where Lazarus was laid. And when he saw the tomb, you know, we encountered the shortest verse in the Bible. It says Jesus wept, which really shows the relationship that Jesus had with Lazarus and his sisters. So then he asked for the stone to be stone's entrance to be removed.  Because there would be, it's already been four days. But Jesus assured her that if she believed she would see the glory of God.  And so we see this miracle of Jesus raising Lazarus up from the dead who was dead for four days. And we really see an amazement in the crowd. You know, some of it reinforced some of them of their faith in Jesus, you know, for the crowds who are following him. But some of them also went and told the chief priests about, you know, this miracle and they really got angered. And we really see one of the first instances in the Gospel of John where there is an intentional plot to kill Jesus from this miracle. So, you know, it is from this miracle where really the plot to kill Jesus intensifies from this moment. So the chapter really summarizes the miracle power of Jesus' resurrection power over death by raising Lazarus from the dead. And also we see that through this miracle that the chief priests start plotting to kill Jesus. And that's kind of like the summary of John chapter 11. Thanks, Sam. We go to John 12, Sanjay. Yes, Pastor. So John chapter 12, the summary of John chapter 12, verses 1 to 8, we see where Mary anoints Jesus. So in the town of Bethany, Jesus is invited for dinner when Mary anoints Jesus with some expensive perfume. Verses 9 to 11 is a plot to kill Lazarus. So some of the Jews conspired to kill Lazarus who was raised from the dead because many Jews had become followers of Jesus on account of the testimony of Lazarus. Verses 12 to 19 talks about Jesus' triumphal entry. Here Jesus comes riding on a donkey into Jerusalem where he is greeted with palm branches and people shouting, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord and blessed is the king of Israel. So in verses 20 to 36 is where Jesus predicts his death. So Jesus tells his disciples, this is one of his quotes, the hour has come for the son of man to be glorified. He then narrates what is about to take place so that God's rented plan for mankind could be fulfilled. Coming to verses 37 to 50 is more about belief and unbelief. So although Jesus had performed so many signs in the presence of the Jews, they still did not believe in him. To this Jesus quoted from the book of Isaiah saying, the Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts so that their eyes cannot see and their hearts cannot understand. And they cannot turn to me and have me heal them. Jesus also said, whoever believes in me does not believe in me alone but in the one who sent me. And whoever sees me sees the one who sent me. I have come into the world as a light so that no one believes in me should remain in darkness. So this is just some day of John chapter 12. Thank you Sanjay. John 13, Shaker, I'll just cover that chapter. So John 13, we have the account of Jesus washing his disciples' feet. Now as we discussed earlier, this is unique to John's Gospel. He's the only one who records this. And we see that Jesus knew what was coming her head. He knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world so that it was time for his betrayal, it was time for his crucifixion. He also knew that he was returning to the Father and that he would be once again in his place of authority.  They have their meal and then they go out and Jesus is betrayed. So he washes the disciples' feet and we know the conversation with Peter where Peter doesn't want him to wash his feet. But then he then says, you can have no part of me unless you wash. And then Peter says, then wash me completely. But Jesus says, you are clean so you don't need to be washed completely. But one of you is not clean. So he starts to then point to the fact that Judas is going to betray him. He then washes his feet and he says, this is something that they are to continue doing. He said, I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. No servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. And so he instructs his disciples to continue to have that heart of a servant towards those they are leading. He then talks about his betrayal and here in John's Gospel we actually have John asking Jesus who is going to betray you. And Jesus says, the person who takes the bread, who I give this bread to and then he gives it to Judas. So he's actually telling John that Judas is the one who is going to betray him. But it isn't clear here if John understands that or not. And then as soon as Judas takes, we have this in verse 30. As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out and it was night. So we know that John uses that picture of light and darkness throughout the Gospel and here he uses it again. Judas went out and it was night. It was time, it was a time of darkness. Jesus talks about his ministry as a time of light. He said darkness is soon coming. And so we see that it has come to that point where the darkness is setting in. Jesus then tells them that it's time for him to be glorified and he tells them that they should love one another. This is where he says that, I'm going somewhere, you cannot follow me, but you will follow later. And Peter says, we'll follow you even to death. And then Jesus tells him before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. So that's the end of chapter 13. Chapter 14 is Warren here. Yes, sir. So the following from chapter 13, the chapter 14 starts with Jesus saying, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. So basically here the disciples have just found out that Jesus has announced that someone will betray him and then Peter will deny him. And also that he's going somewhere and so they are left in a bit of a trouble situation. They're not certain what Jesus is actually meaning by all this and what the future holds for them. Then Jesus goes to say that in my father's house there have been mentioned. So basically where he's going, he's going to prepare a place for all the disciples just sort of reassuring them that he's not leaving them. And he's going to prepare something where he will take them to the place he's going. And then he also says that he will come and receive. He says I will come and receive you myself to take him to take them to the place where he's going. Then of course then Thomas says to him, you know, says that we do not know where you're going. So and then that's where and how can we know the way. That's when Jesus says one of the famous seven IM's which is I am the way, the truth and the life known comes to the father except through me. And so then he also makes the statement that if you know, if you if you had known me, you would have known the father. And also he says that so because now you've seen me, you've seen the father and Philip says, you know, show us the father. And this just goes to show that, you know, the disciples didn't actually still did not understand that Jesus was God. You know, they didn't have that complete belief. Jesus, yeah, yeah, there he goes to say, have I been with you so long yet you've not known me. And we go on to the the. Yeah, he basically just goes on to show that he the father. I am the father and the father is in me basically he says that believe believe me that I am in the father and the father and me and and also believe me for the sake of the work themselves. So if you cannot believe that I am the father and the father to me and believe because of the works that I've done the miracles that I've done. And then, and he goes on to say that this is a promise to what we have been given that whatever you ask in my name, I will do. And he also goes on to say that if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. And then the next part from John for John verse 15, he he goes on to say that if you love me, give my commandments. And this is where Jesus promises the Holy Spirit.   So giving us a commandment to keep his commandment so that we can love him and love the father. And I think, yeah, basically, in summary, it starts with Jesus talking about he that he is the way the truth in the life. And then the second part where Jesus promises the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Aaron. Yeah, Russia on John 15. Are you able to cover that? Yeah, Russia. Are you there? Or if you're not able to, then I'll just do it. Okay, I'll, I'll just cover John 15. So John 15 is Jesus teaching on the wine and the branches. All of us are familiar with it. So the main thing is that Jesus is the wine. We are the branches that we have to remain connected to Jesus to bear fruit. And if we are cut off from him, we cannot bear fruit. And then he also teaches them about obeying his commandments. So if you love me, you will obey my commandments. And then he commands them to love each other as he has loved them. Following his example of laying down his life for them. And then the chapter ends with Jesus talking about the world hating his disciples.  And it ends with the promise of the Holy Spirit coming who will testify about Jesus. And then he also commands them that you also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning. So that's the end of John 15. John 16. Bless you. The starting five verses is also like four verses. It's a continuation of John 15. Jesus just warns about the persecution they will face. He'll tell about the things that are going to happen in the future for his disciples in both worlds. But these things I have told you that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of things. So he just gives the warning what is going to happen in the future about persecution and all. And then from verse 5 to 15, Jesus just introduces about like he just tell about the Holy Spirit and the work of Holy Spirit. What he does, what he'll do, his role, everything. In 8th verse, he'll mention that when he has come, he will convict the world of the sin and righteousness and of judgment. He just give the explanation of how the Holy Spirit and works. And then from verse 16 to verse 24, Jesus tell about the sorrows we should face and the sorrows will turn into the joy, how it will turn. Also, he'll tell a little while and you will not see me. And again a little while you will see me because I go to the Father. He'll just tell these words to the disciples. The correct meaning, they may not understand the disciples, they don't understand the meaning. But he'll tell like most assuredly I'll say to you that you will weep and lament but the world will rejoice and you will be sorrowful. But your sorrow will be turned into the joy. And then finally from verse 25 to 33, Jesus tell about the Christ. He has overcome the world, whatever may be the persecution we may face. But he'll just tell, he'll give the courage that he has overcome the world. That's it. Thank you. Thank you John. So John 17 is punkage here. Okay. I don't think so. Okay. So John 17, this is Jesus's prayer, which is actually a really beautiful prayer. He prays for the disciples. So we know that Jesus after being raised from the dead is now before the Father as an intercessor, right? For us. But here we see a prayer for the disciples before he is crucified. So he prays for very specific things for the disciples and all those who will believe on account of their testimony. That means he's prayed for all of us in this prayer. So he prays for unity specifically and that through this unity and through this love that his disciples will witness to who he is, will be a witness for who he is. And then he also tells them that I'm sending you out just as I have been sent. So and then he says I sanctify myself that they may be truly sanctified. So Jesus himself goes through that suffering and sacrifice for the sake of the disciple sanctification. He then sends them out and he says he ends the chapter with I have made you known to them and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them. That I myself may be in them. So just this conclusion of the love of the Father being in the son, being given to his disciples and for his disciples to be the ones who carry that love to the world as a witness for who Christ is. So that is John 17, John 18. Sabita. John chapter 18. Here he's talking about Jesus, Richard and Aristotle. And here Manson, John chapter 18, 1 to 11. Here Jesus was arrested in the garden when they went to ask Jesus.  And they say to him, Jesus of Nazareth. And after that he was saying I am. When he was saying I am, suddenly they fell down. So he had mentioned how he was a full of power at the time. I don't know what is this, but I think this is the glory of God. And here Manson 12, 12 to 14. Jesus faced Analyze and Caiaphas. They took before Analyze and Caiaphas. And 15 to 18 Peter denies Jesus. And 19 to 24. The highest cost in Jesus. And 25 to 27 Peter denies Jesus again. And 28 to 32. Jesus before Pilate. And here 33 to 40. When Pilate was asking to Jesus, are you King of Jews? And he was telling me my kingdom is not for this world. Thank you. Thank you, Savita. John 19, Sugath. John chapter 19. He was talking about the journey of the death of Jesus. One verse to 16. Jesus is condemned to the crucifies. And 90 to 70. He is talking about Jesus carrying his cross of logos. And 18 to 24. Jesus is crucified. And Jesus speaks to his mother and the disciple to Lord. And 28 to 30. He is talking about Jesus' death on the cross. And 31 to 37. Jesus said, is preached. And last it is 38 to 42. Talking about Jesus is burned in the tomb. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Sugath. John 20, Akka. John 20 basically talks about the events that unfolded after the resurrection. So it starts off with Mary visiting the tomb early in the morning where it was still dark. So as she visits the tomb, she sees that the tombstone is actually moved across. And as it is moved across, she panics thinking that where they have taken the body of Jesus. And then she runs back to Peter. And John emphasizes that the other disciple whom Jesus loved. So she goes and shares that the stone has been rolled away and they have taken the body. So as they hear that, Simon Peter runs to see the tomb himself along with him. Parallely, John also runs. So what here, the small emphasis is that where John lays out, Jesus did love all the disciples equally. But it is John's revelation of how much he's loved. Which actually, that's what the entire passage of John's Gospel, we see that the disciple whom Jesus loved, the disciple whom Jesus loved. So he had no revelation of drawing the love from the Father than giving it. So then he runs ahead of Peter and reaches the tomb first and then he sees the tomb empty. So as they see the tomb empty, he sees the cloth which was there and he doesn't go further in. But Simon Peter goes inside and sees not only the cloth, even the kerchief also was folded by itself. And they believe what Mary Magdalene says and then they quietly go back to their places. But Mary Magdalene from there, she goes ahead and she continues to stay back at the tomb and she's weeping. So as she's weeping, she sees two angels seated at the head and the foot of Jesus where he was laid. And they ask her where, why are you crying? And in response to that, she says the body of Jesus which was laid, it's no longer here. And again, she hears another voice, woman, why are you crying? Who are you seeking for? Then she assumes it is the gardener and she says, Sir, if you have seen where the body of Jesus is, if you know, please let me know. But then Jesus says Mary. So at this very second, she understands it's the voice, it's the recognition.  And then she wants to cling on to him. But Jesus says, please don't cling on to me because I have to be ascended to my Father and your Father, my God and your God, and go and tell my brethren what you have seen. So she runs back and she narrates the same thing to John and Peter and the disciples. So as they hear that, they are overjoyed, but they go in the same evening later on as they are seated in the closed doors because of the fear of the Jews. Jesus appears to them in flesh, it's not in spirit. So he appears to them and he shows them his own and the sight. And then they see and they are overjoyed. At the same time Jesus says, peace. And he also breathes on them and then they ask him to get the Holy Spirit. And after that, during that encounter, Jesus also gives a great commission wherein he says, forgive others the sins just like you have been forgiven. If you don't forgive, they remain unforgiven. And having said that, all the other disciples are there, but one disciple who is missing at that point of time is Thomas. So when the other disciples go and narrate the entire episode to Thomas, Thomas doesn't believe. He says, I would want to see in person. I would want to touch and see and then I will believe. So Jesus again appears to Thomas and he gives him his hand. He shows him his nail pierced hand and the body. Thomas touches and then believes. But here Jesus emphasizes, blessed are people who do not see and believe. You have seen and you have believed. So that's the narrative of the thing. And the passage also concludes by saying there are many other signs that Jesus also did in that, which is not recorded in this book.  So that's the entire summary. One thing that you can actually draw from this passage is about how Jesus appeared to the woman. It's not the men who appeared first. It was she alone who the disciples stayed with Jesus. It was the woman who went first before the disciples as it was early in the morning.   So that's a summary of that. Thank you, Akka. Okay, so we've come to the last chapter, John 21. So this is post Jesus' resurrection. Again, this is a unique story to the Gospel of John. We don't see this in the other Gospels. So the disciples are out catching fish and Jesus goes to them and he's walking on the shore and he calls to them and he asks them, have they caught anything? And they say no. So he says, throw your net on the other side and they catch a large number of fish when they throw their net on the other side. This is when again the disciple whom Jesus loves. So John recognizes that it's Jesus and he says it's the Lord and immediately Peter jumps out of the boat and goes to the shore to meet Jesus. Jesus then makes breakfast for the disciples. So it's like a very normal kind of like Jesus has just died and has been raised from the dead but then we see a very intimate kind of setting with his disciples where he's just enjoying that fellowship and communion with them and serves them this breakfast. And it's at this time that Jesus reinstates Peter. So after Peter's denial of Jesus three times, Jesus now asks him three times, do you love me? And each time Peter affirms that he loves Jesus, Jesus says, then feed my sheep. So it's based on his love for Jesus that he is sent out to take care of Jesus's people, right? The followers of Jesus. And then Jesus also predicts Peter's death, the way in which Peter will die. At the same time, Peter also is this whole thing of Peter asking, he sees John and he says, what about him? And Jesus says, why are you worried about him? You follow me, right? What does it matter to you if he lives until I come back? And so there was a rumor that spread that John would live, would not die. But John himself writes here, but this is not what Jesus said. What Jesus said is, if I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? And with that it ends. It says that this is the same disciple who has written this testimony. And again, Jesus did many other things, but not everything can be recorded. We would not have room for all the books that would be written if we tried to record everything that Jesus did. And that's how John ends his gospel. Just to say that I've tried to cover as much as I can, but there's much, much more that I have not covered. So we have about 10 minutes. Okay, we'll try and do this. I wanted to just break us up into groups and do a small group discussion on these four topics. So we can just read the topics. I've mentioned here what I'm asking, what I want you to do. Look at the meaning of these four words. What does John's gospel say about it? It's all in your textbook. So you all can read the verses attached to it. And what does the rest of scripture, how does the rest of scripture provide further understanding on this topic? So you all can discuss this and maybe we'll end class with that discussion. If you would like to post something from your discussion from your group, you can do that. So I would suggest that you all just pick one of the topics. I thought each group could do one topic. So maybe here in class we can do incarnation and born again. And I'll break you all up into two groups in Google Classroom and you all can do one group can do love and one group can do obedience. Okay, so I'll end the breakout rooms in 10 minutes. That'll be the end of class. If you all can post something in Google Classroom based on your discussion, that would be great. Okay, so I'll just start the breakout rooms. I'll mention your topic on your breakout room so you know which topic to discuss. In class you all can just divide into two groups and choose one of the topics.


My name is Trent Van Epps. I am a member of the protocol guild and that's what I'm here as a member of However, I do work full-time for the Ethereum Foundation doing Coordination around network upgrades Yeah, that's the kind of work I do there and today. I'm presenting funding Ethereum with a protocol guild But before we jump into it, of course Thank you to the organizers for inviting me and allowing me to share this project with everybody. I really appreciate it So we'll start with some broader context about what Ethereum is and what are its public goods? So if you're not aware, Ethereum is a globally distributed computer that anyone can use. It's it's a blockchain and this means that Ethereum the network and The EVM generally the Ethereum virtual machine are really fundamental public infrastructure for the people that use it sending transactions people who are deploying smart contracts people who are building companies Anybody who's building on top of Ethereum counts on it as an important public good for them And there are four main areas that I'd say make up the the maintenance and support network for What this network is and I'll just go through them quickly here. So there's the research the The work that's done to evolve the protocol figure out where it should go in the future There are the clients. These are, you know, they're the implementations of the the Ethereum protocol in a specific language This is what is commonly referred to as like a node. If you're running a node, you're running a specific client version And then there's the coordination. This is the work that I'm involved in and many others Contribute to this so figuring out what the protocol is going to look like in the future and how we get there Engaging the broader ecosystem in this evolutionary process to figure out when an upgrade should take place The the kinds of features that we want to be including in the next upgrade things like that and then finally, there's there's tooling so the languages that smart contract developers use to Actually create applications that people then interact with so these are the four main areas the four buckets of things that support these public goods and the network itself So we can move into talking about how these are actually funded. You may be aware of the largest one Which is the Ethereum Foundation Distributes tens of millions throughout the ecosystem every year through what's called the ESP the ecosystem support program they do amazing work engaging with the ecosystem finding out what needs to be funded and then getting funds to these people who are actually doing the work and you know constructively engaging with the work that needs to be done and One of the one of the programs that they run is the client incentive program Which gives a chunk of ETH to client teams people who are developing the node software and it allows them to run validators and participate in proof-of-stake And this unlocks over a few years and then there's other other names here Gitcoins CLR fund giveth and optimism. These are organizations that exist within the community that run Every quarter. They'll run a matching round that allows community members to Fund these grants and then there's a matching pool which then boost that funding amount So these are these are kind of the big ones there's a couple more listed on this slide and many many more which I don't have the time to get into but it really underscores the fact that Ethereum has a really rich diversity of funding options for public goods and different mechanisms that are We're able to experiment with and I think this is probably one of the One of my favorite parts of the community is that we're so willing to experiment and try out new things and engage with Different mechanisms to the fund the people that are actually working on important public infrastructure Kevin owaki likes to say public goods are good. So I'll add a little Extension to it is that having many community mechanisms to fund public goods is actually also very good For one it decentralizes power and an influence It prevents this power from being siloed for a single allocator for example the EF doesn't want to be Controlling all the funds that are going out into the ecosystem. They'd much rather disperse this control out When we're funding public goods ourselves, we're participating in this process it helps to remind us of our agency and Gives a bit of intra community engagement having these different groups interact with each other and then finally it Helps us celebrate the pluralism that I think ethereum is is a core value of the theorem community when we have a variety of approaches however existing mechanisms The the ones I mentioned on the previous slide they often face similar limitations and I'm gonna I'm gonna go through those limitations in a bit So in light of this I'll dive into like the framing for what the protocol guild is and and the inspiration for where it came from so this question of What mechanism can help us better retain talent and fund the core protocol contributors? This is not necessarily a new question Especially not if you consider broader public goods these this is a something that's been discussed for many many years and in crypto in ethereum For years as well figuring out. How do we incentivize people to? You know commit to working on this stuff. That's super important that many many people are building on top of and it the discussion came up again last November and I Myself and a bunch of other people who work on the core protocol decided to take a swing at this and and think about What sort of mechanism would best serve this this purpose? So as we were going through the discussion process We settled on three main challenges that we wanted to address in this mechanism Which ended up being the protocol guild and so I'll go through these three here as well as What we responded to the challenges with the specific features that we wanted to include so their curation is hard incentives are imbalanced and Contributor churn is bad. It has negative effects. So the first one Curation is really hard Applications layer 2s whales and individuals. They all want to sponsor the core protocol But knowing where to send money is is really hard There's no single mechanism that gathers everybody who's working on a client or doing research or doing this this coordinating activity There's no single mechanism that somebody can just send some assets to and then they're you know They have confidence that it's gonna end up in the right hands You know there there are exit like I said, there's existing funding mechanisms that do some of this but There's often it's a patchwork of different solutions and they they end up missing some key contributors So what we wanted to respond to in the design of this mechanism was we should just create a single address a contract which represents many addresses that people can just send to and then we'll take this list The list of addresses and individuals who opt into this will put it on chain and start to build norms around You know the broader community giving financial contributions to this contract And so going back to the other side that the the follow-on challenge is like protocol contributors are very interested in You know broader funding mechanism that that's specifically tailored to their work As well as token upside, but there's no existing structure So again put it on chain and start to build norms around people contributing to this The second challenge related to curation is that existing solutions You know among the variety that we have today. They usually favor teams and they don't do the best job surfacing all contributors That are actually doing the work You know teams are much easier to curate if you have Five people per team. It's much easier to just find the one address that corresponds Roughly with the people who are doing the work rather than drilling down into the individual level and finding an address You know to send to so the way we wanted to respond to this when we're again designing a protocol guild Was have the members themselves self curate and this is really important I'll get into it more later but self curation we think is is the the best way to drill down into a domain that has experts doing work and they can Make sure that anybody who's who's involved in this key protocol work is actually being included in the mechanism and Crucially we want to give individuals Agency and make sure that they're the base unit. So we're surfacing part-time contributors people who aren't interested in you know marketing themselves during a matching round for example or people who just don't have time to be engaged with these processes The second big challenge is that the incentives are imbalanced so Financial incentives are usually skewed towards newer projects that have tokens Ethereum doesn't isn't launching new so you have people who have been contributing for years They may have had earlier exposure but today somebody who's just joining isn't gonna have the same exposure to working on the base layer as somebody who's starting a new application or a New l2 or even another layer one This is just sort of the reality of the context that we're working in And of course, I don't I want to say we don't fault people or projects for using leveraging financial incentives To or weighting them appropriately This is just sort of the context that we have to deal with so the response that we wanted to Build into this mechanism is that we should generally increase financial incentives available to contributors with the caveat of course Financial incentives aren't the only or best motivation for people. We think it's just one tool in the toolset. That's under leveraged The second challenge underneath this this incentive question is the existing solutions may not target tokens and the associated Upside that could come from having a basket of tokens. That's allocated to core contributors So the second response is that we'll nudge the incentive balance back to the protocol a bit and again build norms around Sponsors and projects sharing a percent of their tokens At launch or you know some recurring revenue back to the core protocol And like I said financial motivations are one thing but we think that this also has an important psychological effect of core contributors understand that the broader network is interested in their well-being and They under they they have this Awareness that the people that are building on top of their foundational infrastructure They care about their their incentives for the long term And then the final challenge is that contributor churn is bad. It has negative effects Core protocol work is is a very much a niche area for people to contribute. It can take quite a while for somebody to Join a client team and start contributing, you know often six months to nine months They're just understanding the code base figuring out where they can best contribute It's it doesn't happen overnight And that's totally fine. Again, that's just the reality of the context for core protocol work So what we wanted to do is that membership eligibility for the protocol guild mechanism only happens after six months of regular contributions And this weight is then included in the the final allocation and then secondly we wanted assets to Vest in order to help knowledge transfer between cohorts if you have somebody who's been around for five years And they're working with somebody who just joined within the last year We want to be able to keep them around to transfer that important institutional knowledge about how to do a specific work related to the core Protocol and we we think that vesting is is a good first approach to figure out how to get that Institutional knowledge to transfer between these different cohorts and then secondly contributor value grows over time But once you're an expert, there's less incentives to stick around. There may be more attractive opportunities And so our response to that is we should time weight allocations again There's a bit of yin and yang balance here We want to recognize that new contributors should be valued But there's also a consideration for people who have been around years and accumulated a lot of this important knowledge So if you've been around longer, you'll have a more significant weight in the set as you may have guessed from these we created the protocol guild which is a collective of 110 Ethereum contributors who actively maintain an on-chain membership registry again in the in the four main areas I mentioned at the first slide and This this on-chain registry allows ecosystem sponsors to directly fund our work and the public goods that everybody else depends on They're building throughout the stack And this is just a simple diagram showing sponsors will send an asset some recurring revenue stream It could be governance tokens It could be fractionalized NFTs Pretty much any asset besides individual NFTs to this vesting contract over time it'll then be distributed to the weighted registry and Directly to the people who are actually doing this work And the key thing about the registry is that it's consistently updated so that people don't have to worry about You know does this represent the core contributor set from a year ago Does it represent the core contributors set from six months ago or today? And so we want to make sure it's actively maintained so people can come to depend on it as reasonably updated mechanism So I'll dive into some of the details about how this thing actually works and how we operate it so I've mentioned waiting a few times and one of the larger goals we wanted to focus on when we're Considering how to operate this is to reduce the number of knobs or things that the the members have to Tweak or modify it throughout the operation of this mechanism. That's for a couple reasons one It's less contentious if you don't have to decide, you know I'm waiting myself X and you why there's gonna be it's gonna be contentious if you have to continually rank other people against each other so it it allows us to have a Workable waiting system without spending too much time actually figuring out what this waiting system should be and secondly As I've mentioned the core protocol contributors are already very much engaged in Maintaining and evolving the Ethereum the base layer and spending time working on you know Fiddling with little knobs here and there isn't in our best interest And it's not in the best interest of everybody else throughout the stack So we went with a very simple a waiting mechanism It's the square root of the total months you've been contributing multiplied by a time wait whether it's full-time or part-time and the square root has a nice effect of Compressing the range a little bit So there's not this massive disparity between somebody who just joined versus somebody who's been on for many years and you can see in these two graphs the effect of using a time waiting mechanism versus subjective peer ranking Mechanism you can see in the blue. That's at the start of a one-year pilot and then in the red You'll see it normalizes over time. So again, you have a more equitable distribution of any assets that are sent to this protocol guild mechanism regarding eligibility and self-curation again, this is The four areas a meaningful contribution to the core protocol whether you're doing research Whether you are working on a client Coordinating or tooling it has to be meaningful contribution for at least six months again to reduce churn And make sure that people that are actually committed to this idea before we include them on chain in the protocol And then I'll touch on self-curation a little bit I think this is one of the most important aspects of the mechanism because you get the The insight of people who are domain experts who are directly involved in doing the work and you can avoid dependence on an external curation mechanism, whether it's Quadratic funding or some some council of people who are evaluating these the individuals who are doing the work It's much more effective to have the people who are engaged directly in it to say. Oh, yes This is my colleague. I work with him on x and y and yes, they should be included in this mechanism for you know for this weight and We think this is incentive compatible for two reasons Adding new members dilutes existing ones So you don't have to worry about I'm not going to add somebody in my family or you know a random person because it directly removes Financial benefits from accruing to me however the All eligible contributors have to be added to this mechanism if you're contributing you should be added In order for this to maintain its legitimacy to the broader community So the ecosystem of sponsors people who are just broadly Engaged in the community if they start to distrust that this is actually representative of people who are doing core protocol work The entire thing loses its legitimacy. So we we think that these two mechanisms are adequately balanced against each other and Hopefully that holds while we're while we're operating it in the wild So we've taken all of these these features and learnings from the engaging with funding mechanisms over the years and Framed this this protocol guild mechanism and we're taking all those learnings and running a one-year pilot It's already in progress now. We have contracts deployed and we're targeting ten million dollars in sponsoring assets, which Which will vest for one year And we've started to bootstrap the mechanism We've started by plugging into existing funding infrastructure. So this means Proposals to Lido ENS and Uniswap. These are prominent Ethereum applications that we've gone in gone through the governance process and talk to their communities figure out what the best fit amount is and Then secured five million from them. Most of this is already in the contract vesting and then the Uniswap The Uniswap allocation is should be there in the next few days And we've also plugged into the Gitch coin matching rounds and it's it's been successful and we've secured a hundred a hundred thousand from to get coin matching rounds so far and We plan to use other ones like optimisms upcoming upcoming Retroactive funding rounds. We think this is the perfect Maybe not perfect, but it's very well suited for optimisms Looking back seeing who's been contributing And just from these three examples, we've been thrilled to see that the community actually Resonates with what we're proposing. They think it's valuable to give back to the core protocol and It's just been really exciting to see people understand what we're building here for the long term However, we what we want to do for many years in the future is start to build a norm around allocating a Percent of an initial token supply Or annual revenue. We think this is The the way that we're really going to be able to scale up to the incentive size that we want to you know 10 million is is great, but if we really want to balance the incentives against somebody deciding to you know join a Join a new layer to where they can get equity and a significant token allocation This mechanism is gonna have to hold much more than just 10 million dollars So in the future, we want to scale it up And the the main way we think of doing that is by building a norm around if you have a new project that's launching Try to allocate some percentage directly to this and that way we can start to Superpower this this flywheel a little bit better because we don't have to be approaching Protocols and companies that are building every single time it happens And we really look to get coin as the company that's built the flywheel on their own or the protocol they've they've built this this norm around quarterly allocations around the the matching process and Hope that we can do something similar along that again plugging into these existing funding in for infrastructures where we can And post pilot, you know, this is gonna run for 12 months You can you can check this link here if you're curious about how we're going about it But we're really serious about defining and evaluating outcomes so You know, we want to make sure that we take our learnings from this one-year pilot and then tweak the mechanism for the next version We'll probably be scaling it up even further because this first version is It's it's relatively limited in in who the scope of people that are eligible We want to make sure we're getting all the people who are building key core protocol Mechanisms to be included in the protocol guild I'm gonna I'm gonna jump back in building this norm around allocating a percent We're very excited that there have been some projects that have already given us a percent of their initial allocation So the the flywheel is starting to turn and we hope that this will increase in the future So shout out to true freeze noses safe and texture punks Which is an NFT project which has committed to allocating a percent of the sale and ETH back to this mechanism Yeah, and so we we plan to scale this up like I said and in the future it will target We're hoping somewhere around a hundred million to start to balance the incentives between working on an application or a new L2 a new L1 to Really starting to give back to the people and and giving them sustainable funding sources For many years to come and this this next version of the protocol guild will probably have a vest that lasts four years Is what we're thinking So that was a pretty rapid fire. I have no idea how quickly I went through that Maybe we have time for questions, but if you are curious about learning more snap a shot of that QR code and If you're interested in sponsoring so if you're part of a project that is looking to become part of the Regen Alliance, I guess Scott was talking earlier that there's no official membership, but I guess the protocol guild is an unofficial member of this unofficial organization The Regen Alliance, so if you're interested in sponsoring, please reach out to any of the members listed in our docs or Actually, you can just send permissionlessly. This is a smart contract that anybody can send to and it will vest autonomously and go directly to the members who are listed on the split But of course we're more than happy to answer questions and explain how this mechanism works for line of the division for long term That's all I have those two links are me on Twitter and telegram if you have any questions and want to talk to me directly and then You can follow us at protocol guild. Thank you


Right brace for boomerant. This one's important. They're all important, but this one especially annoys me So here's what I can't stand and this is going to be an ironic video because it's going to be me an alleged Linux technology youtuber Lecturing normies on how to behave in social situations because frankly I am disappointed I am disappointed at the behavior of so many people. So here's the issue. Let's say you're in a social environment Let's say you're seeing old friends that you haven't seen in a long time Let's say you're uh, I don't know you're you're at a party. You're doing stuff. Here's what I cannot stand I cannot stand it when people in a lull in Conversation if there's nothing happening for two split seconds when everyone just gets on their cell phone like oh here I am seeing people in real life that I could talk to but no I would rather Open up my cell phone and I would rather imagine talk to imaginary people online talk to people I'm not seeing that is something. I just cannot stand when I see people You know, I don't know when I go to someone's house when someone comes to my house when like I'm at I don't know when I'm in social environments.   Okay, they're just looking at their cell phone if they're not doing anything else It annoys me to know in in cells. That's what I call them and other in cell behavior that annoys me Let's say you like go on vacation with some people and of course, they're not there to actually experience the vacation That's not what they're there for you might be there for that reason But they're not there for that reason they are there to take pictures of the vacation So they can represent it online so they can represent it on Facebook or Instagram or whatever Okay, they do not actually they're not actually experiencing the vacation In fact, they will go to great lengths to make that vacation more boring So that they can put things online It is set like every say everything you do has to be like, oh, let's get a good shot of this Every single thing has to be it's like they don't actually experience life. They experience life through a cell phone Okay, it's like things aren't real until you see it through that lens or you see it until it's Facebook official, right? It doesn't actually exist. Okay. This is what annoys me to know when or another thing Let's say you're having just a normal conversation with or what you think is a normal conversation with someone Let's say, oh, you know a random question comes up like, oh, yeah, who uh, you know who ran in the 1968 election against Nixon. Oh, I don't remember. It's set for an in cell what an in cell does is Oh, here's a question that isn't answered in our conversation So I'm gonna break this conversation I am going to pull open my cell phone and I'm gonna take several minutes to look this question up Okay for that for like seeing who ran for president that might not take too long But for some people, you know, some people will literally break conversation and spend like significant amounts of time Looking up some kind of stupid It just doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter like I'm not really asking, you know, it's a rhetorical question I'm not really asking because I need to know this fact if I wanted to know I could look it up myself, frankly I just want to have a normal conversation and if that if we happen to not know that that's fine get over it in cell behavior I cannot stand it. It is just so oh Can you just start living a normal life? The fact of the matter is that these people in cells are not like they cease to be individuals instead. They are an external Representation of like the matrix. They're basically like they you know, they really represent curated Google search responses Okay, that's really what they are. They really represent their Facebook feed their Instagram feed Okay, this is what is so annoying to me and that is what they view as primary like they if see oh and here's another funny thing When something happens in real life like something newsworthy or something like that There's this idea that oh until I see it online It doesn't actually exist.  You could like see someone. I don't know.  Anyway, so stop doing this stuff. Stop being an incel In fact, I don't even I mean you guys know like I have a cell phone that I use basically to record videos and Sometimes I have it in my car in case like my I don't know my car Collapses or get you know Malfunctions or something like that, but I'm just utterly against like I don't take cell phones into any place where there are Gonna be other humans. Okay, as far as I'm concerned. It's basically an emergency device I really don't even need service on my cell phone now that I think about it And I don't even get served when I have people over at my house I might have said this like it annoys me so much when people do incel things like they They they'll just like look at social media or whatever I just turn off my Wi-Fi when people are at my house because I don't even want them doing stuff like that and luckily about my house I don't even get like cell reception. So basically, you know, if I turn off Wi-Fi, there's nothing there You know, you're just gonna have to get over it So yeah, just stop doing this stuff.  I People usually don't do that. I can't say I have that I have that happen to me much But like when you're in a small group of people, it just is so obnoxious. I don't know I just May I must be an old boomer must be a literal boomer rant because I'm sure that you zoomers will be like That's the most natural thing in the world. Whatever. You're wrong. You're wrong. Stop doing it Just get rid of your cell phone. Seriously. All right, that's it Or maybe I should wait to seven minutes or is it seven or eight minutes nowadays who cares? Whatever


We are discussing international human resource management issues of SMEs and in this topic We will be discussing the challenge of learning for SMEs You know that learning is very important a feature of organization in today's times and it is particularly a very critical and important process in volatile environment of the modern business Working together with different type of people you need to learn to take that knowledge back to your own Organization and then use it for better outcomes. You need to learn How to transfer your knowledge from your parent organization to? To the joint venture so there are a lot of learning avenues For a cross-border alliance so for SME the learning Process is also very important and for SMEs this learning has to be very much Rapid because it is a small organization and smaller organizations. They have less Margin they have less cushion for failure So it is very important for them to learn and adapt to the environment more Successfully than it is for the multi-nationals because multi-nationals they have more cushion for failure and SMEs They need to be correct more importantly than the M&E's but the challenge of learning is Greater in SMEs because Although they need to learn and adapt more quickly and more effectively They don't have those kind of learning mechanisms and structures with which learning can take place So organizational learning activities in SMEs They are carried out in a different way than in the large enterprises Usually training is short-term because they need to be really proactive about learning and then applying it to the to the Market so training and then these SMEs They cannot afford long-term training processes because of the cost and time involved in that. So training is short-term and Because they don't have the right kind of HR supporting them The training function is Inadequately designed to meet the long-term objectives of the SMEs. So the learning function it kind of Is at a disadvantage in the SMEs Then the learning process it is based on Informal learning approach, which is based on Socialization and local networks. So people learn by socialization Meeting with people who are experts and they use the local networks to give them information And learning about the market about the processes about you know the the tricks of the trade They learn it not by formal structures or formal training they learn it by being street smart and by learning the tricks through social and local networks and Focus is on acquiring Tested knowledge rather than education on explicit knowledge. So in multinational training programs They are designed to first of all give explicit knowledge explicit knowledge is the knowledge which is transferred in in some Tangible way. So it is either by a lecture or by role play or by Showing how you are going to work. So that is explicit knowledge Which is given in some form in some tangible form Whereas implicit knowledge, which is tested knowledge. That is something which you acquire by observing Observing people doing something. So the focus in SMEs is to gain the tested knowledge Because tested knowledge If you learn it When you are working on it and you learn it, then you don't need to read its theory Although the theory is very important. Its tangible aspects and knowledge is very important But sometimes you can bypass that and just learn the tested knowledge and apply it to the particular task So in order to make learning more effective and efficient Tested knowledge is more focused than explicit knowledge in SMEs So these are the various different features of learning and the challenges of learning in SMEs Particularly those with an international focus


We're good. Do you want us to take a look at the slide? We are reading this as live. It's live stream. Yeah. Ready? All right. We'll go ahead and get started. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. I'm Michelle Hewitt, El Paso County Public Health Public Information Officer. Today we just have a few brief updates from Colorado Springs Mayor John Souther's Chair of the El Paso County Board of Commissioners, Mark Waller, clinical psychologist Dr. Lacey Edwards with Aspen Point, and from the Colorado Springs Fire Department, we have Chief Ted Colas and Chief Co-Medical Director, Dr. Matt Angelitis. We do want to continue to remind everyone to seek out those reliable sources of information, including El Paso County Public Health's website. And please also know that the public can use our Public Health Call Center. The number for that is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thank you. Good afternoon. Obviously, at the city, we have three principal priorities as we work through this crisis. Number one is the health, safety, and welfare of all our citizens. In that regard, we're staying in very close contact with the health department following their advice. I have very frequent communications with the Governor of Colorado and also monitoring all communications from the White House. There's almost a daily briefing from the White House about all the various issues going on, what the funding streams may look like, and things like that. Our second priority, of course, is the health, safety, and welfare of the employees of the City of Colorado Springs. A number of our employees that can work from home are working from home. As to the employees that are involved in the direct provision of city services, such as our firefighters, our police officers, our street repair folks, our code enforcement folks, we want to do everything we can to protect them and keep them safe. Third priority, of course, is to begin to prepare for the economic impact of this event. There's no question we're going to see a precipitous decline for an undetermined length of time and city revenues. And so city finance has to do all the modeling so that we know how to deal with that in terms of cutting expenditures. While public health remains obviously our number one priority, I also want to echo the calls by our local business community to encourage lower risk ways to stimulate local businesses. We've got businesses that are really hurting. Obviously, the closure of our restaurants to in-service dining is a big blow to that sector of the economy. But it's a creative sector of the economy, and I met with the restaurant industry yesterday and just listening to some of the things that they're going to do to make curbside service and pick up service available. That's a lower risk way that folks can engage in the economy and have some sort of normalcy in their lives. Obviously, we also encourage folks to, if you can't get out to a store, you can purchase online. You can talk about purchasing gift cards for later use, things like that. The other thing I'd emphasize to our community is I know that we have a very giving community, and I think you're going to see several ways that you can help mitigate this crisis. Pikespeak Community Foundation has set up an emergency relief fund that you can give to that by going to ppcf.org slash relief. The state of Colorado has also set up a relief fund. That information, I'm sure, is available on a variety of sources. We've got a new website created by our city industry called supportthesprings.com, and it's going to give all kinds of ideas for supporting the local economy. And that's at sportsprings.com. So please look at that. My only other comment, and obviously I'll take questions afterwards, folks we've been tested before. We've had floods, we've had fires, we've had economic downturns. This is a unique and very, very challenging test. We don't know how severe the economic damage is going to be. We're going to monitor it. We're going to see how long this takes place. It's going to be painful. We don't know how painful. But we are going to get through it. We're not exactly sure what everything is going to look like when we get through it, but we will get through it. It's going to take leadership from people like myself, the commissioners, the council, people, the department heads, the emergency folks, obviously the health department, which I want to single out is exercising incredible amount of leadership in this effort. It's incumbent on us as leaders to listen to the health department get our direction from us. We have to be leaders. Our citizens, I think, hope understand that there's a shared responsibility. They have to do everything they can to mitigate this thing, take care of themselves, practice good hygiene, appropriate distancing, and things like that. And there's going to be some shared sacrifice, and we don't know what all those sacrifices are going to be, but I'm confident that this is a resilient city, a resilient county, a resilient state, and we're going to get through it. And at some point in the future, we'll celebrate the fact that we have overcome yet another great challenge. Thank you, Mayor Souther. I'm Mark Waller. I chair the Board of County commissioners. And I want to begin by saying thank you, mostly to the citizens of El Paso County for their patience and understanding as we move forward through the issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. But I also want to say thanks, and I can't stress this enough. The great work that our Department of Public Health is doing, they are, I think, really doing the kinds of work out there that's going to prevent this from spreading in the ways that it's spread in other countries and other areas of the world. And I think at the end of the day, that's going to save many lives. And I also want to say thank you to all of the employees of El Paso County, 2,850 employees that are being flexible and gracious about how we move forward through this crisis. So I think it's important in these circumstances to say thanks. And we owe a lot of thanks to a lot of folks for helping us manage this in the absolute best way possible. I want to reassure the citizens of El Paso County, we are open for business. Now we're doing our part to limit the impact of COVID-19 on the public, but we are certainly open for business. We're doing our best to follow the guidelines set forth by the federal and state governments, while at the same time maintaining the limits on numbers of people in buildings and things of that nature, but again, we are open for business here. I can't stress that enough. It's the county is responsible to provide services through the state and federal government to some of our most vulnerable citizens. And to that end, we have closed most of our public facing portions of our public buildings. In particular in our citizen services center, that's where most people go to get their DHS services meant. They also go there for DMV purposes. Any public facing portion of those buildings has been closed down with very few limited exceptions. Again, limited exceptions for DHS, limited exceptions for DMV. Otherwise we're asking the public to stay out of that building and certainly out of our other local buildings as well. Many, many most of the services that we provide can be provided online. Again, I can't stress that enough. If you're looking for a service from El Paso County, chances are that can be provided online. Please go to elpasoco.com. That's elpasoco.com to look to see if the service that you're looking for can be provided online. In most cases it can. And if it can't, again in very few and rare exceptions, we will be providing those services at our citizen services center and other public buildings. But again, most of those services can be provided online. In addition, some of our offices have extended deadlines. So if you're a person that has a deadline that needs to be met, you have a service that requires some sort of deadline. Understand that most of those are being extended at this time. In those cases we've set up alternative methods of contact. We've established some work from home procedures for our employees so they can still help citizens maintain and get the services they need. And we have many of our other employees or otherwise on call so they can help us continue to provide services in El Paso County. And again, if you want to learn more about service availability, go to elpasoco.com. That's elpasoco.com. Please go there before you come to one of our public buildings. And one big service that, again, we're still providing is services through our Department of Human Services. But again, most of those can be provided online and please elpasoco.com to find out if your service can be provided online. Other measures are being done by our other local elected county officials, including the sheriff, the assessor, treasurer, clerk and recorder, our DA and other commissioners individually. If you have issues related to one of those, services related to one of those offices, you can access those offices through our website. Again, that's elpasoco.com. If you don't have access to the internet and you need to make a call, you can also do that. And you can do that at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Again, that's<PHONE_NUMBER>. And I'll turn it over to Dr. Edwards. Thank you, Commissioner. So I'm Dr. Edwards. I'm a clinical psychologist with Aspen Point. And I want to talk about some of the mental health aspects of this change that we're all experiencing. So I know our community is flexing really quickly. Many people are moving to work from home at a really rapid pace. And there's a new normal coming, right? So what we've been used to was your rhythm. It was your routine. And now we need to lean into just developing new routines. So I'd encourage you to think through what would serve me best in this time. How can I best take care of myself both physically and mentally? That could mean leaning into new ways of cooking, taking care of loved ones in the home, sleeping patterns, and also ways of lowering your stress.  Find a way to physically release that stress. There's lots of options out there, including gentle methods such as yoga and stretching, moving all the way to YouTube videos where you could do a more aggressive workout. But I'd encourage you to not keep that stress and anxiety bottled up. It's really normal to feel anxiety in this season where we have a lot of uncertainty and that's okay. But we want to make sure that it doesn't become overwhelming. So I'd encourage you to give each other grace and extra margin with people you interact with. Know that with best intent our whole community is shifting and we want to do that to take care of one another. But it would be really normal for you to have a place in your day where suddenly you're feeling anxious or maybe frustrated with something and we want to take a deep breath and step back and say, okay, what do I need in this moment? What is my body or my mind telling me? And how can I respond to that in the best way possible? I'd also encourage you to practice gratitude at the end of your day before you go to sleep. What am I grateful for today? What good things happened? What would I like to see happen tomorrow? When we set our minds with intention, we can make a strong path forward both for ourselves and for our community. So I'd encourage you to lean into that. And if the anxiety does begin to feel overwhelming, feel free to reach out. I know that Aspen Point Crisis Center and our telephone lines are open. We're ready to serve you. We also have many other behavioral health members in our community ready to do the same. So know that you're not alone and there are people here to walk through this with you. It's uncertain for all of us. And that's a normal human response. So we want to meet you there and also journey with you. I'll turn it over to Chief Colas. Thank you, everyone. I'm Ted Colas, Colorado Springs Fire Chief. I'm here today to tell you about a new triage protocol that the Colorado Springs Fire Department and others in the area to include American medical response are going to be implementing. This new triage protocol enables our firefighters and paramedics to identify COVID-19 patients or those who are suspected to have COVID-19 but who are able to manage their symptoms at home and try to give them a route and information so that they can do exactly that, manage their symptoms at home and not overburden emergency departments. What we've seen across the country is exactly that, that emergency departments can get overwhelmed with patients who are able to manage their symptoms at home and if they clog up the emergency department or if they don't have COVID and go into the emergency department, that's an area where there's a high degree or high suspicion that they can become exposed because our emergency department staff is working around the clock to take care of patients that are coming in that definitely need that emergency care. The CSFD will continue to respond to medical emergencies as we always have but this new directive is given to us by our medical protection team that has given us really a doctor's order to say this is how we need to proceed in order to keep our community safe, in order to keep our health care workers safe in the pre-hospital setting as well as inside of the hospital. We've got, as it was already stated today, we've got a limited number of health care workers in our community and we want to do everything that we can to keep them healthy and keep, maintain their ability to respond to those Colorado Springs who most need our care. Now for any details around this new triage procedure that we're going to be following I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Matt Angelitis from UC Health Memorial he is one of our co-medical directors for the Colorado Springs Fire Department and also American Medical Response. Thank you Chief. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you guys today about a new process that we're implementing in our community. The design and implementation is centered around protecting the members and citizens of our community as well as the first responders that we're asking to provide treatment to them. The protocol is set up to screen patients for potential coronavirus symptoms or exposures and then to guide treatment for those patients in a very detailed way for our first responders. The process also involves real time communication with physician medical directors if patients or our first responders don't understand or have questions we're there and available to video conference or real time conference with patients in their homes or at the site of the calls to ensure that we're providing the very best possible care we can and to ensure that we're not unnecessarily spreading the virus in our community or to our patients in the hospitals who are most at risk. I expect that as our volume increases and we utilize this protocol it will be in a very important part of our community's response to be able to maintain hospital beds and take care for all the citizens in our community. I'm here to answer questions. I appreciate your time. Any questions? Very unlikely. The question is in light of the fact that the city of Manitou Springs has chosen to close the Manitou incline is it possible that something similar that could happen to Kaurasprings parks? As you know at this point in time the governor in all the directives that have come down so far has actually encouraged folks to get out and engage and exercise as long as they maintain social distancing. That's certainly our viewpoint in the city of Kaurasprings. We've had a lot of people this week with the good weather depends upon what day you're talking about taking advantage of our parks. I saw a lot of people biking on the trails on the way up here and I think most people are perfectly able to be responsible about that and maintain social distancing. As to the closure of the incline I will simply say this the Manitou Springs City Council that last night at a meeting they did not consult the city of Kaurasprings beforehand they did not consult the health department I personally understand for example why they might want to curtail the shuttle because that brought people together I personally would not have made the decision to close the incline where I think people can engage in exercise and keep social distancing based on what I know of the intergovernmental agreement between Manitou and the city of Kaurasprings they really should have talked to us before they did it but they have in fact done that but in terms of that being a precursor to anything that the city of Kaurasprings might do with our park system I would not encourage you not to view it that way and we don't anticipate closing any El Paso County parks Commissioner Waller indicates similarly in El Paso County we don't anticipate closing down any of our regional parks either for the same reasons expressed by the mayor of Colorado Springs other questions so one other question here just came in please address CSPD response infrastructure expansion to establish more recovery or treatment sites similar to UC health tents or retrofitting existing buildings I think different questions frankly obviously CSPD I can speak to that a little bit there's no curtailment in police services the police are obviously doing everything they can to protect their citizens responding there are officers responding to different citizen situations but in terms it then turns into a health question which I think the health department or perhaps the PD medical or the FD medical directors better able to address so I believe I understood the question to be are our health care systems developing alternate treatment opportunities for screening and testing and the answer to that is yes UC health and insurer both working hand in hand with our public health departments to set up additional triage treatment and testing facilities and also working tirelessly with our operations teams to ensure that we have the equipment staff supplies rooms beds needed to care for those patients in our community that need that health care I have a quick question while we're on it I'm not sure if any of you guys are able to answer this question but we wanted to ask about how many people have recovered in El Paso County I know we're trying to keep track of that kind of information but is that something she might be able to field for us currently our first case that was reported in El Paso County is fully recovered and do we have any other information on cases recovered is that just it that's the information we have available at this time do we know how we're keeping track of those sorts of things we're just monitoring the same patients who have tested positive for the fire chief I know we had talked no more than a week ago or a little bit prior to that about steps we were already taking is this new triage system different than those steps we had already implemented is this a more safe situation or what's the difference well the answer is yes this is a new implementation it actually we started rolling it out to our employees on Monday it's only now being fully implemented so that we understand the protocol and everybody has all of the correct direction to be able to implement that protocol there are there will be times and this I think that we need to make clear there will be times that our paramedics or EMTs may show up at somebody's home and speak to them evaluate them look at all of their signs and symptoms and go through some questions and questions with them to find out what their history is and at that time advise them that it's not advisable for them to go to an emergency department by ambulance that maintains that equipment and those first responders to go to the next call so it provides more depth in our in our systems community or community system but it's a change for us it's something that is it is new and we will give the very best explanation that we can to those patients and then on top of that we're not going to leave them empty handed either we're going to provide them with the absolutely best home healthcare information that we have available to us that comes down to us through our medical directors from the health department I can imagine that might be a frustrating situation for those patients who are saying maybe I need to go to hospital what are you saying what are you saying I need to get there but you're basically asking them to trust you well to trust the medical direction this was put through this protocol was designed with our medical directors and actually a team of quite a few physicians put this together in the interest of public safety we don't want to extend the exposure any more than we then absolutely has to happen and we understand that emergency departments are a place where there's going to be a congregation of sick patients and when we introduce new patients to that we can either exacerbate their current systems current symptoms to make them worse or introduce system symptoms to patients that have not yet been infected Ted do you have something to add? I got a scroll back up in our chat here thousands of blood drives have been canceled around the country is there a short supply here in Colorado Springs and have you been talking to hospitals about this situation? Absolutely we are working with our public health departments and hospital systems to ensure that we have the blood that we need available but the news is accurate we are short on blood supplies Question what can be done to prevent toilet paper scrums where people rush the store and fight for packages thus risking spreading the virus and violating the crowd orders? I probably have we equally have no expertise whatsoever on that topic so I will volunteer to answer it I would hope that our stores I have seen some signage you know so many per customer and things like that and that seems reasonable to me I have never been able to figure out this run on toilet paper myself it does seem a little bit crowd psychology but I think it is an opportunity to appeal to our citizens in general there is no indication that supply chains for normal needs food paper towels cleaning things is unduly disrupted I don't think there is any reason to collect five months worth of toilet paper there will be a supply chain and I would ask it to be reasonable but I really obviously the government is not going to intervene and say you can only give one roll of toilet paper per person and things like that I have kind of stepped in I have seen some signage please only X number per customer and that is what I would encourage let me get in on this one as well I would also say we are all in this together every citizen every government official every small business owner we are all in this together and so I think we need to make an appeal to citizens to say listen take what you need but don't take more it is as simple as that the issue that that causes if you take up a lot more than you need there might be an at risk citizen out there that needs to have toilet paper or flour or milk or something like that and they can't get it at that store then they got to go to the next one and they can't get it there and they got to go to the next one and all we are doing in that circumstance is putting at risk citizens in more circumstances for exposure and more opportunities to get sick so I think once again we are all in this together we all have to do our part and I think for citizens that means don't hoard take what you need but don't take more this is for CSFD what is the threshold for actually taking someone to the ER what symptoms need to be present so if I understood the question correctly what symptoms would warrant to the emergency department so we utilize the symptoms that patients present with cough, upper respiratory symptoms fevers, congestion as an initial screening tool and then we subsequently screen for risk factors those would be things like are they elderly do they have comorbidities that might make them immune compromised like heart disease or lung disease or kidney disease and if patients are young have normal vital signs for a bad outcome from coronavirus they would screen as a patient that could potentially be left at home and not transported again I want to remind everyone that the concept is our hospitals have corona patients present and are full of patients with coronavirus and taking people into that environment unnecessarily is often not in their best interest as the chief mentioned earlier we do leave paperwork and a detailed set of information about how patients can seek outpatient care, non-emergent testing or treatment, they get information for phone lines and help lines to receive additional information and guidance so we're doing our very best to provide excellent care and try and prevent the spread of the infection and potentially making those patients who utilize 911 sicker than they already are alright with that we'll close I would just remind members of the public if you have questions you can call the call center at<PHONE_NUMBER> thank you


Today on Yom HaShoa, the Holocaust Day of Remembrance, we remember and mourn the 6 million lives lost because of Nazi persecution and terror. And we remember that during these horrors, other people were also persecuted and murdered simply because they were Roma or LGBTQ or disabled or dissenters. We come together to say, never again. My name is Mariette Dodak and I am a child survivor of the Holocaust. In order to survive, I had concealed my Jewish identity by being hidden within non-Jewish families. I have jumped off moving trains and high buildings, was thrown into sewers, was even hidden in a barn where I took shelter in a bale of hay. I still bear the scar of being impaled by the pitchfork of a Nazi soldier searching for Jews. People in the world did not care, we were nothing, just Jews. This is the most important message that I share with students when I speak that no society is immune to the danger of this premonition and racism and that we must work together and stand up when we see injustice in the world around us. Today we listen to the stories of survivors and we will pass on those stories to the next generation. If we are going to be better than those who came before us, we have to do that every single day. If we are going to stand up to those who resist love and hope and opportunity and instead bring racism and tolerance and hate, we can only do that if we stand together.


Today, I'd like to invite you to play a game, and the game is called Out-Lifening Speed. And the invitation is to see if individually and together, we can create the conditions for the extraordinary in the next 20 minutes or less. But first, let me give you a little context for the game. Where did the game come from? As it turns out, right now is just about the 20th anniversary of the moment when I was diagnosed with a fairly dire and curable illness. I went from living, working, traveling all over the world to, in fairly short order, a list of symptoms this long, not least of which was losing something like 30 pounds and not much more than 30 days. And fast forward to the crescendo moment, I was sitting in a doctor's office, and he was telling me I was one of the three worst patients he had ever seen. And his best advice was that I should be flown to Texas, put in isolation, and studied on the off chance they could find something else to do for me. So, as you can imagine, the moment had my full attention. And the great news is, of course, that we're also not very far from the 20th anniversary of what then came to be a miraculous recovery. And it's what happened between those two points, that moment in the doctor's office and that recovery that I'm talking about today. So, what happened? What worked? And what does it have to do with the evolution of conscious business on the planet? And from another perspective, it was a spectacular opportunity to hit the reset button on a legacy system that just happened to be my physicality. It was an extraordinary ecosystem of cells and DNA and organs that could all be collaborating and communicating at a slightly greater level. So, as it turns out in the end, I didn't just get better, I got best. And what I mean by that is, not only did the laundry list of symptoms disappear in a matter of months, but the symptoms of a lifetime started to disappear one by one as well. Those things that were considered genetic and hereditary and unchangeable, whether it was allergies to cats, allergies to dogs, migraine headaches, swollen glands since the age of five. So, apparently, in the act of hitting the reset button on this legacy system, I was also presencing an aspect of the extraordinary. So, let's play together and shine this light on the landscape of business. And the invitation is to practice four states of being, four states of being that have the ability to support transformation in a more graceful, joyful, even accelerated manner than perhaps were commonly used to. And good news here, everybody here has everything they need. You already know this. It's just as a civilization, we tend not to practice often enough, perhaps. So, first state of being, here we are, first state of being, super here. Super here is the state we come into when we allow ourselves to come so deeply present that we expand and come into contact with our greater capacities. It's what's happening when we run faster. It's what's happening when genius achievements are taking place. It's also what's happening when we're leading out from who we really are and not in reactivity to the world around us. And the great news is here, this can be cultivated. So, I'm going to invite you right now to call yourself deeply present and in alignment with your greater capacities, your greater beingness. Simply intend it. Simply intend it. You'll find that if you practice this, just the intention as you move through the world, almost anything becomes an opportunity to come super here. It could be a game of golf, a moment of parenting, looking for a parking spot, coming back to this intention, you will find yourself creating from a greater part of yourself over time. But what does this look like in an organization? How do we call this forth in a business? And the easiest way is to create spaces that allow people to come together and discover themselves and one another in new ways. It could be as mundane as a celebration. It can be as elaborate as an eight week leadership training program. The key is the intention and the consciousness that is creating these events. So, what you'll see up here is some elements of celebration from our landscape of graphic dimensions. The black and white is actually a gorilla happiness circle which started cropping up in the last year as another round of people were going through our introductory leadership in-house program which is called Foundations of Collaboration. But the moment I knew when something extraordinary was really afoot in our organization was actually in 2007. And it was not much longer after I had become CEO, not long after we had started terraforming in the organization and it was something as simple as a birthday lunch. People were invited solely based on the fact that they shared the same birth month with someone else. And we discovered that no matter how many years they might have worked in the same location, many of these people had never spoken to each other before. But we created this birthday lunch from the intention of super care. And on that particular day, Zarka, who you can see, brought with her a wondering she had had for the better part of six years. And it was because of the country she was born in and the language she spoke at home and the religion she practiced, she had been wondering since 9-11 how almost six years earlier how did the greater community feel about her and others like her? Did they hold them somewhat responsible? Was there an air of blame? And not every HR director would be thrilled about such a conversation springing from tendrils of religion and politics. But in our organization, this was a transformative act. It was the first time we had succeeded in creating a space where that which needed to be spoken in service of greater collaboration could come out and be transformed. And that's what happened that day. And of course, these years later, Zarka's a leader in the organization, 22 plus people reporting to her. She self-describes her experience as being part of a family. And I happen to take that as a functional family rather than dysfunctional family. And so we have to ask, what becomes possible when we create these spaces that allow us to meet at such points of essence and meaning? So, state of being number two, living the question. This is a massively fun one because the invitation here is to simply revel in the not knowing. We walk questions all the time, and in so doing, we live the answers. And the invitation is to no need to plan, no need for fear of failure, just live and walk the question. And so my question to you is, what is your question? And if I ask it again, what is your question that most closely expresses your calling in the world? Because that's where all the greatest energy to create really comes from. So in the context of organization, how does this work? Well, again, at Graphic Dimensions, we've been walking a question that probably resonates with many of you. What is the vast potential of corporate culture to be an uplifting force in the world? We were walking that question when we co-designed our C4 culture, which is a stand for creativity, community, collaboration, and consciousness. We were walking that question when we created new collaboration, new passion-driven collaboration groups called C-forums. And we were walking that question again when we pushed the sustainability C-forum to point at something that they perhaps were afraid might be impossible to just swing out. And they decided to focus on becoming a zero landfill organization, which seemed a little preposterous at the time because so much of what we do is manufacturing, in addition to being a tech group and a design group and a customer care group as well. And in less than a year, not only did they design the roadmap to success, but we're within minutes of becoming a completely zero landfill organization. So, state of being number three... Oh, wait, there's the action shot of people living the question. State of being number three is being the field of potential. What is being the field of potential? This is when we embody and emanate something so, so fully that in a sense, we make the invisible visible to others. And this is what it looks like. You think of anybody you admire. Probably you can sense that they've been doing some of this. Everybody from an Olympic gold medalist to one example that comes to mind. There's a designer named William McDonough that some of you might have heard of. For decades, he's been presencing the potential for all design to take into consideration the well-being of all children of all species for all time. And as a result, there's all sorts of movement around the planet, a cradle-to-cradle movement, for one, that grew up out of this space. Because as we presence the potential like it's here now, not any delta between now and the future, that it's here now, we magnetize to ourselves the people, the projects, the opportunities that want to conspire with making that potential real and visible to even more. So my invitation to you on this is what is that facet of the diamond for you, that you're here to presence that fully? What might it look like in terms of the potential of corporate culture to be an uplifting force in the world? So, oh, and here's our corporate example, here's our corporate example. We have, in the last year, we had a filmmaker on site a few times and in very uncensored interviews, this is Kate, one of our customer care representatives being asked about how she feels about our environment. And you can get a little bit of a sense of what we've, the presencing of potential that's going on, basically. We're presencing a certain, among other things, a certain integrity, honesty, and caring that wouldn't we all love that to become the default behavior of corporate culture everywhere. But I particularly love Kate's comment because it seems to come with a little bit of ruthlessness to it and many people find some of those things a little soft. So, next practice, this is the bonus practice, witnessing brilliance. And here's the thing, if you are practicing the first three practices, congratulations, you are already changing the world. But one small world of warning, you may unleash the Kraken just a little bit. And what I mean by that is, when you invite especially large groups of people to co-create a more magnificent reality than what's existed before, even among the most enthusiastic and willing, what can tend to happen is that that which was in the way previously can tend to bubble up. It's fine, it's not a problem, but as a leader and especially a facilitator of other emerging leaders, you are going to want to practice this one.  It could look like a multi-million dollar IT project going off a cliff, it could look like the next global recession. But here's the practice, you see this sunset, which actually is in driving distance of where we are in North Carolina. Very easy to witness the brilliance, and I invite you to do that right now. Just take in this sunset, that is the practices to take what you feel right now, looking into that sunset and be able to shine that out in the face of others sitting across from you, especially in times of stress. As you practice that, you will discover that that noise, that resistance, loses its ability to take energy away from your forward momentum, and it's just something we hold in awareness, no need to fuel it at all. So that's at life-inning speed, those are the four practices, and the really great news is that there's no need for trauma, there's no need for dire illness to start playing, and as you practice, you will be amplifying the best of transformation wherever you pay attention. So I just want to thank you for playing, and thank you for supporting all of us in hitting the reset button on ourselves, our organizations, and maybe the world.