But if you want to stick around for a little Q&A, let's do that real quick. I'll answer all your questions the best of my abilities, and let's start that right now, huh? All right. All right, let's see. This is a good question. Callum. Hey, Rob, did you DCA Bitcoin today? As of Sunday, did you DCA day? Yes. Yes, I did. So, and then people will say, ah, you shouldn't DCA today because the price is up. What? So that's true if you're really looking at it like that, but think of it like this. I always look at it as like, I'm a farmer and I'm planting seeds along the way. So, remember when Bitcoin was, it dropped to 17,400, I bought that day. And then remember when it went below 20,000, which has been below 20,000, I kept buying during that time too. So I just plant the seeds along the way, right? And what I could do if I was so inclined is I could take the profits on that, on that 17,400, 19,800, 19,600, I could take profits today. And I'm okay with that because that's part of the rules, right? The rules that we're always talking about, things that we should actually do, or not we should do what I do. I can't tell you what to do, right? Let me just out of the way. The rules, don't invest more than you can afford to lose. Everything's a scam until proven otherwise. Don't leave anything in the exchanges. Don't trade on leverage and take profits along the way, because then everyone broke taking profits. So those are the rules that I have. But today I'm going to buy, actually, I don't even think about buying. It actually happens in the background because I just have it on Coinbase, yeah, I know. And have it all set up and it just goes off every single day at a certain amount. And I don't even think about it. Because if I had to do that all the time, I would never, I would forget to do it. So yeah, that's what's happening. And then some people would say, well, it's going to drop at some point. Yeah, it is. If you look at the traders and the TA people, they think we're going to go up to 23, 24,000 and it's going to go below 20,000. I don't see this as the next, this is the catalyst, the bull run. I just don't see it, especially with all the things that are going on in macro, the macro environment, especially with electricity. And if you're in Europe, are you going to start to buy a bunch of crypto? But yet you can't afford electricity. I'd rather be warm than have Bitcoin. Sorry, that's just how it is. Some people are like, you're crazy. I'd rather freeze my A off than have Bitcoin. All right, what are you going to do? Hello, not me. Are you going to pay to promote the art business? So St. Jude needs is a great question. So we had masterworks on and they are a, they are part of the show. They are an affiliate. So I use affiliate links in there. And so if you don't use the affiliate links, that's okay. And then you can do whatever you want to do. However, remember St. Jude needs us. I have also invested in this company. I talk about my Basquiat and my Banksy all the time. So yes, if you don't want to use the affiliates, I want to use, then you don't have to use the affiliate links whatsoever. But you can go right to their website, whatever else. I just think it's a sound investment personally. I don't want, if you think it's not for you, then do not invest into artwork. Good question. Daniel, do you trade daily? Do you average up and down? I don't trade Daniel. It's very rare that I do that. That's right. Never forget. Good point. The shares right now I'm happy with anything, but we shouldn't. Users did indeed take all the risk. Yes, they did. Happy Sunday, David. It's Sunday, pump day. We'll see what happens on Monday. Yeah, and this is another thing. So I keep getting this complaint. Been watching it for two years, I'll be content, but I still never get notifications of live stream.  So I've been toying with the idea of, you know that website I have, Dante's Crypto, one that's 100% free. 100% free. And I curate all the best information I can possibly get and put it on there. So it's easy for you to access. And then, of course, when you sign up, you agree to give me your email. So it is what it is. You got to give me an email, but it's free. I'm thinking about, I never spam people, I never say, this is a great offer coming up. I just talk about like when I add new videos into the website, that's pretty much it. But I am toying with the idea of just sending out emails as a notification to say, hey, I'm going live in five minutes. So just so you know, because it's not like YouTube's going to help me out. I'm not going live. Because it's not like YouTube's going to help me out. Thanks, Hodor. Appreciate it. Can sell the market or HODL. Travel's got a good point. Agree with equity share. I agree too. I think it's a good idea. So Helios says, I love how they call on the day for the next boom right at the middle left. Look, I'm in the same camp with them. I think around 2025 will do pretty well. And I've been talking about this for a while. How long? Because I think we're either in a recession or we're going to go into a pretty deep recession. Hell under recessions last between 18 months and 24 months, which that happens in 2023. That brings us into 2025. Once we get out of that, the things recover. Does the economy recover? No, because the economy and the market are two different things. I don't think are we under the disillusion right now that what the market's strong and the economy is strong is a disconnect. So I think the market will bounce back. 2025 will be pretty good. And we'll see some pretty good things around that time. Now it could extend out to 2026. Hey, if you're waiting for two and a half years, you can wait for three and a half years and go from there. Alex can't be trusted. DICE forever says, what advantages Celsius have in Bitcoin mine? None, zero. I don't think they have any advantage whatsoever. The big advantage they do have though is that they're not in Europe for all those crazy high gas prices. So that's one thing to look at. And besides that, they own, I guess the other advantage they have is they own a lot of rigs. And they only have like 50% online right now. And I don't know if they're actually, I don't even think they're actually mining right now. They think they're setting everything up. Correct me in the comments section. So once they get 100% of them up and running, of course, the more hash power they have, the more chance you have to mine more Bitcoin.  DICE says, you look different, Rob. I don't know, haven't changed much. Haven't lost much weight. Same thing. Yeah. So CryptoKeevers says, it's funny they called it, but there are charts from the 1800s that show the seven-year and 20-year cycles. Yeah. I am a big believer in cycles. So, and if you want to even go deeper into that, look at the, just do a Google search for the fourth turning, T-U-R-N-I-N-G. Rob, sometimes we, I'll need you to tell us we're all going to make it, especially the ones that are in towards the end of the last cycle. Let me show you something. There's this great website. It's called DCACC. And I was, I put out this request because there's another website called DCABTC.com, but it only does Bitcoin. But this other one here is pretty great. It's dollar-cost averaging, but you can use, where is it? Like all the different, a bunch of different cryptos. So, let's just take Cardano for example. I just want to show you an example. And just remember, everything's in cycles, right?  Let me ask everybody that.  Does everything go up forever? No. Do bear markets last forever? Does everything go down forever? No, it doesn't. And I think that's something we have to remember when I'm talking about this. So, if I know that bear markets don't last forever or bull markets last forever, wouldn't it behoove me to invest a little bit, whatever I can afford to lose, into some type of investment? Me personally, I have chosen real estates and crypto majority-wise. And here we go, Cardano. So let's just say, I don't know, I'm going to spend 50 bucks per week. And me personally, when I did this, worked out pretty well. 2018, around February 2nd. And let's say that I went to, let's just say I stopped in 2021. Let's just make things easy. We'll pick, let's just pick April, which is roughly the top, roughly one of the tops. And I did the 50 bucks weekly. Let me do some quick math. 50 is for, okay, 200 bucks. It's 200 bucks a month, right? Let me calculate that. See, over time, I don't care so much about the short term. And over time, everything will work itself out. And everybody has the brainpower to invest. It's just, do they have the stomach, right? Pretty good one, pretty good saying. And it's all about how you keep your mentality, which is why I shared with you that great voicemail from Brian Sweeney as everything was collapsing around him and he was even that doomed airline that was hijacked. Very calm. So I want you to think about that as is this the worst thing that has ever happened to me? Probably not. As time, as prices have gone down. And I watched this happen all the way through here. The average costs, I was buying at, first of all, I bought a dollar in 2017. Then I stopped for a bit. I got back in February because I was like, I got to just keep doing this. And I was paying eight cents and seven cents. Right. And I was doing this for two, it's almost three years. I'm still doing it, repeat sakes. And I want you to notice what happens here. Over time, you'll see that my return on investment, just put in 50 bucks. Sometimes I'm up for the week, yay. And sometimes I'm down, boo. But as time goes on, time in the market is more important than timing the market. You pull this up so you can see it. And I'm going along this nice continuum. My balance in fiat, my investment is 5,800 on April 17, 2020. And I'm actually down 42%, 3,300. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I know that the 10 best days in the market is what's going to bring me up. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. And here we are. So now my investment of $8,000 that I started three years ago, 50 bucks a week. Don't really care. It comes out automatically. Well, now I'm at $146,000. It's not bad for four years' work of just putting money away, not really thinking about it. So can you get those kind of gains every single time? No, I can't. And that's why it's so important that you really, this is not a set it and forget a kind of market, honestly. This is one of those markets where you have to be involved a lot and listen to a lot of things because it's so volatile. But again, time in the market better than timing the market. I think this is the right thing to do. Now, the big thing there is, will you sell at the very top? Probably not. Probably not. But if you would have kept that $8,000 in your bank account, I could have done that. How much actually gets inflated away? So just something to think about.   This is awful. It's just time.  I was like, how do you know my pain? You don't know me. But as time goes on, now I'm that same guy, unfortunately, because I just go, oh, it's just time. Okay. What did I forget? Time in the market is a lot more fun. It is a lot more fun. And there's some things that I like to look at. Like there's a couple of charts, and we did a couple of videos about that. Actually, I'm going to put in another video about it, about different charts from looking to Bitcoin, cycle top, cycle bottoms, and go from there. You'll never, here's another thing. It's very hard to time the exact top or the exact bottom, but if I hit it around 60 to 80% of the top, I'll be pretty happy. Aussie crypto. I bought, I DC another 100 Bitcoin a day. I have, wow. Crypto 101. Hey, Rob, any updates on sweat coin moving to near? I don't know. I know David wants to hear about it. They sold out, I think, in 15 minutes for Dow Maker, for sweat coin. And I think they were the biggest for the launch pad for, for sweat coin to be snatched up as far as a Dow. What was it? Let me show you. People will, of course, in the comments say, that's not right. It was blah, blah, blah. All right, fine. Let's see. Sweat breaks in their Dow Maker. Dow Maker. I think I said that right. 15 minutes to sell at the public sale. A million worth of sweat sold in 15 minutes. 100,000 Twitter followers. A couple of days to go. Sending a record of the number of participants in the public sale on the Dow Maker for 41,000. And then where'd it go? Well, it's not here, but they did, they have 13 million wallets, 13 million crypto wallets in since April. And they have 110 million downloads from the Web 2 part. And then also don't forget, I had a fear on the chief marketing officer. He talked about how the top five of the top 10 crypto exchanges are going to list sweat coin in day one, which will be tomorrow. So we'll see. Clockwise, sailor buying on spot, the raise in the capital by $500 million. Good for him. Yeah, Rob, any video setting up a near wall? I seem to recall there was something tricky about it. No, but I set mine up and I used my nano ledger to control access to it. I should do a video. I probably should do a video on that. Honestly, I forgot that some of you were not mining in the early days and didn't get to load up. That's okay. In 10 years, people will be saying, can you believe it was below XYZ and it was only 20,000? Or maybe they'll be like, can you believe people bought Bitcoin? Who knows? I don't know. I think it's going to go with some way, but I've been wrong before. You usually buys OTC, not spot. That's true. That is true. And you know who helps them do that? It's Coinbase. Coinbase, Custody, and they do all the things for OTC. You are correct. Dave Jensen says, 80% of the 300,000 are bots, Twitter. I have to agree. They have a engineer. Okay. Yeah. St. Jude was below 20,000 last week. That's true. It was below 20,000. Will the U.S. people install their crypto wallet time soon? No. Unless Gary Gensler changes his mind about what he considers a security and they get clarity, which they can't. So, Ninja Rob, I sold ETH or still holding to decide after merge. I will probably take some profits before the merge because I don't know where it's going to go. Some people say everything's going to crash down. Other people say that institutional investments is going to ramp up because of their, for the staking aspect of it and the yield that they can gain from it is too lucrative to pass up. I don't know. So, I just look at it like this. There's so many factors to consider. I just look at, well, what was my average cost? I sell a little bit. I have some dry powder. And if it goes up, well, missed it. But I got some cash on the side. And then if it goes down, hey, it works out pretty well. I get to buy some more. I will tell her that's what I miss. That's a good point. As you just said, we should all put our money with Simon Dixon back to the future, taking silver as Celsius. Not trustworthy. Look, I like Simon Dixon and I like the things that he's doing. But maybe like, maybe you're talking about the mental aspect of putting your money in with Simon. Don't put your money in any one place. I think it's a recipe for disaster. Look at all the people that believe in Alex Poshinsky and they put it all in Celsius.  It can't go down. And then bam, there it is. So just remember that. Everything's a scam until proven otherwise. Jose really wants everybody to know about XMR. I'm a narrow. And it's doing so great. Great. It's doing great. Here's why. Here's why I don't talk about Jose. Because I don't own it. And I'm super biased on this channel. So I don't talk about it. I think everybody knows by now that everything I talk about I own. So that's it. If you want me to talk about it, I'll talk about when I buy it. But other than that, sure. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Let's see. I think we're good. Look, we're going here on almost 40 minutes for this one. And this is a Sunday. So I'm going to, I think unless I got anything else. Ah, Eric says, Robbie, does steak pool still keep it? Was a matter of fact. That's a great question. Let me see. Glad you asked. Where did it go? Aha. So I just donated a matter of fact yesterday to Kiva. And one of the ones that I'm helping is this young lady here to help her buy medicine and food for her business. So Kiva, for everybody who's in the new steak pool, just know that we donate to Kiva. It helps different third world countries or emerging countries or even people in the U.S. too, if you really want to do that route, to do these microloans so they can improve themselves. And that's where part of the funds go from the new steak pool. So if you are not staking your ADA or Cordano with DNews, there's a link in the description shows you how to do that and what we're all about and our metrics. Now we compare everybody. Yeah, that's, yes, I think so. If every person that stream is alike and makes the microloan, I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Trust nobody. Yeah. Oh, look at that. Like the Queen Cove won't pass my village in Scotland. I don't understand. How can we donate to help these people with a steak pool? Just don't. You can stake your Cordano with DNews. If you're looking to like, how do we donate, how do we donate to these people without using the steak pool? Just go to kiva.org. Where'd it go? Aha. kiva.org. And as a matter of fact, I don't know if you guys ever look in the description. Maybe you don't. But in the description of all the videos, I said help others through microloans. Why I recommend and give. That's the video. And there's a link to Kiva. It's like the third thing on there. So, okay. King is a buffoon. Yeah. We all got agendas, man. That's what it comes down to. All right, buddy. So look, 40 minutes. I think I answered all the questions in the best of my ability. So I want to say thanks for stopping by on a Sunday. I appreciate it. So you like today's video. Give it a thumbs up. I'll consider subscribing. Don't know if YouTube will notify you, but sure. But that's it for today. So thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one. Adios. 1030.


People often think we're the high and we're the meet-and-greet and certainly we are that face of public interaction But it takes a lot to keep a good park And during the summer those of you who arrive at the park early will certainly see the sweat equity these guys Work hard in the summer cutting the grass They start at six in the morning and our PM shift is cleaning and closing up until 9 30 at night So we're on the ground Every day of the year seven days a week throughout all kinds of weather conditions One day I'm out here picking up trash The next day I could be taking ten-quit kids to the swamp and on a kayak trip or out on the broad river collecting Rocky Shoal spider lily bulbs, you know to take to the zoo for them to use and some studies As a young age I got Invited to a kayak and program with the city of Columbia that they offer many years back And I didn't know anything about it Karen Christophic and Andy was my teachers So they introduced me to something that I never knew that's one thing that get me up to Want to do this job because it gives me the motivation to try to learn different things that I don't know Or to try to educate other people about things that they don't know. I really enjoy helping people I like to be able to provide them with something that I may not be able to provide for themselves something that makes them feel comfortable makes them feel happy and That's that's why I decided to take up this field and I really enjoyed it It's really been been quite and it rented for me The outdoors played a huge role in my life, you know a very positive role the sharing that This experience the outdoors with with anybody, you know, hopefully, you know, they can change help change somebody's life Being able to to help people enjoy These parks these natural parks these community parks for what they are people bring their families to they that they have memories of There are a lot of people that grew up in this area being able to Share and experience those kind of things with people, you know It's what bring me back to work every single day and I love it. I wouldn't I wouldn't trade it for the world Our motto is to be visual to make sure most of the park Patriots feel warm and safe to come out So I would say you know the city the city got a lot of beautiful parks And I can say firsthand as being a ranger how much pride I take into the parks that I'm working at We're here for for you, you know to help serve you and help you out So if you ever have any questions, you know that you can't find anywhere fairly easy You know, you just kind of go by to the old school way of just just ask somebody People appreciate these spaces. They feel strongly about them. We are friends with our regulars and their dogs You know, this is a connection between people in place and it's a joy to be part of that


Hey everyone, welcome to today's day trading recap for Tuesday, October 19th small green today plus 173 on the mighty 90s talked about getting back into doing more mighty 90s my focus has been so much on the runners that I really needed to kind of refocus so as you can see I took five of these today ended up being a positive 519 zoom I took one short there was a winner one long so it's kind of a wash boba was kind of a scratch plus 30 tesla nice winner plus 520 and then twitter basically a scratch minus 35 on the runners uh little in the red uh one winner two losers square minus 236 hood minus 380 and mu plus 270 so let's check these out let's start with the mighty 90s and go to zoom zoom so zoom uh had this nice push up initially uh nice spike in volume got short right here I was trying to add I was really close to getting an ad on there but uh anyway just had a couple contracts so caught that move down uh booked a hundred and twenty dollar profit and then turned around uh as it was coming into this pivot another pop in volume and caught it went against me a little bit came up and is kind of just looked like I was chopping around so I just got out took a small loss on that even though uh got a little bit of a theta decay in there didn't get a good entry I think is more like it I think I got in like more like right here and got out like right here with some theta decay uh anyway a small loser on that one and then Baba Baba Baba so Baba was pushing up uh got short right here actually right here somewhere and um got out of half my position I didn't put my order in enough to get out of some more so when it came down here and then ripped back up on me I just closed out so I ended up taking a small winner out of that uh and then Tesla my biggest winner Tesla there's several opportunities in Tesla but the one that I took was on this flush lower pop in volume got I got long I hit it pretty good right here near the pivot and uh and caught this run up right there for plus 520 and Tesla and then onto the runners square so square had I uh had a let's see oh yeah square had a big spike in volume here so when it pulled back a little bit I was looking for a continuation higher and when it just kind of kept pushing down I I ended up cutting out pretty quickly there so it took a little loss on that one and then hood this one really reversed on me had this big push big spike in volume so when it pulled back here I got long looking for a bounce and it just kept pushing down so I ended up closing out there for loss uh so some of these some of these uh continuation runners and volume runners they have just not been performing as well which is part of why I'm kind of refocusing on the mighty 90 stuff the markets have been very choppy kind of just back and forth which obviously bodes better for the mighty 90 and then lastly a winner in MU here it is played this one really well especially in hindsight but I was kind of chopping around kept pushing up pushing up and getting slapped back down pushing up getting slapped back down pushing up getting slapped back down so I got short right right in this area here and cut this I think I got out of my last piece right down here near the pivot uh which ended up being good because the thing ended up ripping higher so nice $270 profit in MU uh so small green day day uh small green day today uh we'll be streaming live tomorrow and the rest of this week so look forward to seeing you in the live stream room talk to you then


Australia continues its plunge into authoritarianism and military brinkmanship. Australia has joined the US and UK in an enhanced trilateral security partnership called AUKUS, with the unspoken yet obvious goal of coordinating escalations against China. Anti-war reports, quote. President Biden and the leaders of Australia and the UK announced a new military agreement on Wednesday, aimed at countering China. The pact, known as AUKUS, will focus on the sharing of sensitive military technologies, and the first initiative will focus on getting Australia nuclear-powered submarines. US officials speaking to CNN described the effect to share nuclear propulsion with another country as an exceedingly rare step due to the sensitivity of the technology. This technology is extremely sensitive. This is frankly an exception to our policy in many respects, one unnamed official said, end quote. This glorified arms deal will replace a planned $90 billion program to obtain 12 submarines designed by France, an obnoxious expenditure either way when a quarter of Australians are struggling to make ends meet during a pandemic that is four times more likely to kill Australians who are struggling financially. This is just the latest in Canberra's continually expanding policy of feeding vast fortunes into Washington's standoff with Beijing at the expense of its own people. If readers are curious why Australia would simultaneously subvert its own economic interests by turning against its primary trading partner and its own security interests by feeding into dangerous and unnecessary provocations, I will refer them once again to the jarringly honest explanation by American political analyst John Mirsheimer at a debate hosted by the Australian think tank's Center for Independent Studies in 2019. Mirsheimer told his audience that the US is going to do everything it can to halt China's rise and prevent it from becoming the regional hegemon of the Eastern Hemisphere, and that Australia should align with the US in that battle, or else it would face the wrath of Washington. The question that's on the table is what should Australia's foreign policy be in light of the rise of China, Mirsheimer said. I'll tell you what I would suggest if I were an Australian. Mirsheimer said China is going to continue to grow economically and will convert that economic power into military power to dominate Asia the way the US dominates the Western Hemisphere and explained why he thinks the US and its allies have every ability to prevent that from happening. Now the question is, what does this mean for Australia, Mirsheimer said? Well, you're in a quandary for sure. Everybody knows what that quandary is, and by the way, you're not the only country in East Asia that's in this quandary. You trade a lot with China, and that trade is very important for your prosperity. No question about that. Security-wise, you really want to go with us. It just makes a lot more sense, right? And you understand that security is more important than prosperity, because if you don't survive, you're not going to prosper. Now, some people say there's an alternative. You can go with China, said Mirsheimer. Right, you have a choice here. You can go with China rather than the United States. There's two things I'll say about that.   Because, again, we're talking about an intense security competition. You're either with us or against us, he continued. And if you're trading extensively with China, and you're friendly with China, you're undermining the United States in this security competition. You are feeding the beast from our perspective. And that is not going to make us happy. And when we are not happy, you do not want to underestimate how nasty we can be. Just ask Fidel Castro. Nervous laughter from the Australian think tank audience punctuated Mirsheimer's more incendiary observations. The CIA is known to have made numerous attempts to assassinate Castro. So there you have it. Australia is not aligned with the US to protect itself from China. Australia is aligned with the US to protect itself from the US. This new move happens as a Northern Territories Chief Minister Michael Gunnar announces his government's policy for COVID-19 restrictions once the territory's population is 80% vaccinated, which will include lockouts during outbreaks wherein people will only be allowed to work and move freely in society if they verify that they are vaccinated using check-in measures which Gunnar literally calls a freedom pass. I'll say it again and again. If you want your life to continue close to normal, get your jab, Gunnar said. For vaccinated people, the check-in app will basically be your freedom pass. For people who make the choice to not get vaccinated, no vaccine means no freedom pass. We're working with other governments now to get this technology ready. This is an alignment with what we've been told to expect as the rest of Australia prepares to roll out the use of vaccine passports. And we continue to see other authoritarian escalations in Australia which have nothing to do with COVID as well. Authorities have been proposing new legal provisions which will allow Australian visas to be cancelled and citizenship revoked in entirely secret proceedings based on information provided by secretive government agencies. The horrifying Identify and Disrupt Bill which allows Australian police to hack people's devices, collect, delete, and alter their information and log on to their social media was passed through Parliament in jaw-dropping speed last month. Neither of these escalations are COVID related. People who just started paying attention to Australian authoritarianism during COVID often get the impression that it's entirely about the virus. But as we discussed previously, the actual fundamental problem is that Australia is the only so-called democracy without any kind of statute or bill or rights to protect the citizenry from these kinds of abuses. This is why Australia is looked upon so freakishly by the rest of the Western world right now, because in this sense, it is. People call it a free country, but there has never been any reason to do so. COVID has certainly played a major role in the exacerbation of Australian authoritarianism, but it's a problem that was well underway long before the outbreak. Back in 2019, the Civicus Monitor had already downgraded Australia from an open country to one where civil space has narrowed, citing new laws to expand government surveillance, prosecution of whistleblowers, and raids on media organizations. This slide into military brinkmanship and authoritarian dystopia shows no signs of stopping. The abuses of the powerful will continue to grow more egregious until the people open their eyes to what's going on and begin taking action to steer us away from the existential dangers we are hurtling toward on multiple fronts. If there is any good news to be had here, it's that if such a miracle ever occurs, it will then be possible to immediately course correct and start building a healthy society together.


Lakeland Currents, your public affairs program for North Central Minnesota, produced by Lakeland PBS with host Ray Gildow. Production funding for Lakeland Currents is made possible by Bemidji Regional Airport, serving the region with daily flights to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. For information available at BemidjiAirport.org. Closed captioning for Lakeland Currents is sponsored by Niswa Tax Service, tax preparation for businesses and individuals online at NiswaTax.com. Hello again everyone and welcome to Lakeland Currents, where this evening we're going to talk about the successful referendum that we're passed and brainered this past year and the projects that are about ready to begin. And my guests this evening are Lane Larson, the superintendent of schools and our community, her community head director and communications person, Corrie Reynolds and Corrie, you are the person who did the lead communications for getting the referendum passed through the district. So let's talk a little bit about that first, being that I'm a brainered native myself. I was amazed that that referendum passed in with three phases, which is pretty unusual in this day and age. I know over the last couple years there have been communities that have passed referendum. But to have three of the sides that were passed here is quite remarkable. And Lane, you and I have talked about this before. You have had other superintendents call you about the process that you used. Just briefly about the effort that you put into this, you and your staff and the school board. It was quite an endeavor, wasn't it? Yeah, it really is and you're absolutely right. There's a lot of people that have contacted us about the process that we've used. And basically, again, we used a six phase process starting with extensive communication, which like we know from the beginning of this project through the duration of our school district, extensive communication is important. And that's why we had Corrie lead that up. We also knew that we needed to hear from our stakeholders. And so we did well over 200 listening sessions where we gained information from the public and from our staff within our buildings. And then once the plan was developed, we, I believe it was like 110 more public meetings where we gave information prior to the referendum. And then the third phase was additional assessments and surveys that the board could look at, the demographics, different pieces that surveys that they could ask the public for information and so on. Once those decisions were made, then we went into developing the plan itself. And then once the plan was approved, then it was bringing it to the public for the referendum. So prior to the referendum itself on April 10th, we went through phases one through five. And that was an extensive process. Now that that's passed, now we're in phase six, which is the design, the construction, and bringing it all to fruition and making it a reality. And from the time you started promoting the ID, once the board gave the approval to go ahead and move with this, how long was that period from the time you did start it until the vote? December 11th was the date that the board approved it. There was about four years of work up to that point to get to that point. This process started well before Superintendent Larson even began. When I first started four years ago, the school board had just approved the work on the lower site at the high school and directed administration to come up with a long range plan for the facilities. They could see coming on the horizon that the buildings needed a lot of work, a lot of maintenance. We knew they didn't work in all cases really well for the kind of education we want to provide our students. So yeah, we did probably three years of work with experts in school buildings to really assess the conditions of the buildings. We worked with our community to sort of analyze all that data we got and see where our buildings were strong and where we needed to really work on. And so we sort of knew where the buildings were. We knew the conditions. We knew what they needed just to sort of maintain. And so when Superintendent Larson got here, she was able then to, your favorite analogy, pick the ball up on the 50-yard line and do the rest of the work of, okay, we know, we know what's wrong with the buildings. Now let's figure out what more we could do with them. And so she really layered in another almost full year of community input going to anyone and everyone who would listen and share feedback. And how many buildings do you actually own between the greater and this while where you are actually teaching students? Twelve at this point. Twelve. And then through this process now we'll be adding another elementary school in Baxter. And what happens to the current school in Baxter? That will become early childhood family education hub for the district. Okay, so that's not going to be, none of these are going to be torn down, are they? Yeah, except maybe one. One, Lincoln Education Center will be deconstructed and that will be about four years right at the end of this project. And that used to be the community college. Yeah, isn't that something, yeah. Yeah, well that's where I went to the first year of my school. So you have 12 buildings and I know from growing up here that a lot of those buildings are really old. Some of them were built in the 30s, I believe. Whittier, you had kind of closed Whittier a number of years ago. So what was, what's the first phase that you're going to be doing now that you've got to go ahead? Well once we, this was board approved in December and then we had our review and comment finalized in January and then we went forward to April. And many times during that period of time people would say, when is this going to start if it passes? And we said April 11th the next day. And that's exactly what's happened because we hit the ground running. And so we have been bringing forth another proposal of what the sixth phase looks like for the different phases of design and so on. So starting on the 11th of April we started the design phase for the Brainard High School, what that will look like. We also are looking at Harrison, Niswa Elementary School, and the designing of the new elementary school which will be in Baxter. And so right now those are the four buildings that we're working on extensively and also the drop-off pickup at Forest View Middle School. And so as we, now we're moving into the second phase of design there where our user groups are looking at each individual intricate space that our teachers and our employees are working in to make sure that it's going to function the way we need it to for high quality education and to provide the flexibility that we're going to need as we go through this 21st century. And so we're working on that and as we get into the bidding process and such on those four buildings then we're going to bring some more buildings into this. And so years two and three we're going to be working on 11 buildings at a time. Wow. And add different phases. Yeah. Who's managing all of this? Well, it's being led by the district and the Board of Education with consultants. And yeah, so ICS and Wood says Smith-Nolting are leading consultants that we're working with that are helping guide us through this process. So next year you're going to have all these activities going on all at one time. Do you have any idea how many people this is going to employ? I have, oh many, many. And I'm guessing some of those will be people coming from outside with special skills. You're going to be building a new theater. Do you call it a theater? Are you calling it? What are you calling it? What is a technical name for it? We like the term Performing Arts Center. Performing Arts Center. We have bidding that encompasses theater, music, band choir, just all the different uses that we expect to have. Because right now the only thing in the Brainerd community has been the old Tornstorm Auditorium where I used to go to high school. I think that seats maybe like 900 people. How large will the new facility be? 1200 seats. 1200 seats. Wow. And that will be on the north side of the current high school, correct? So that will start next year too? We're already in the design phase of that. We've been going on many tours around the state looking at the Performing Arts Center. We've been looking in a lot of different areas. Career and technical education and workforce development. We've been looking at health and wellness facilities, swimming pools. We've been looking at elementary schools that are models that have pieces that we think are going to be really important to providing the highest quality education possible for our kids. And so yeah, so we're working on the Performing Arts Center as part of the Brainerd High School. When do you anticipate that will be done? Construction. And how long down the road? I believe the consultants tell us that the Brainerd High School project is probably our most complex project because it's large and there's pools and gyms and classrooms and Performing Arts Center. So they expect that project to go on for the duration of the four years. So about 2021-22 is about when you would expect that to be done. There will be pieces of it that will be done ahead of time. It's like in all the facilities. As we start the building project, we're going to be adding the new space first as much as we can to get additional space for our education. And then we can move and provide classes in different areas so that we can work during the school year and such on some of the existing pieces of the facility. So like with the high school itself, it will be the entire four-year process that we have. But there are going to be pieces of it that might be done after two years. And then other things that will be done the third year and then finishing up some things that fourth year. But our intent is that we are going to address all of the needs of all three questions, all 12 buildings, and have them ready to go four years from the start of this school year. When I was a kid growing up here at Labor Day, the streets folded up. I mean it just seemed like it. There was always some tourism in September and October. But now it doesn't feel like there's any difference hardly between now and July. Do you sense that? Have you been looking at the projection projected data for growth in this particular area? What is it showing you? I don't mean to put you on the spot if you don't have the figures. No, no, we love talking about this. Are you? What are you looking at for potential growth in the Brainerd School District? So one of the exercises we undertook before Lane got here was to employ the services of a former state demographer to answer this very question. What's the future of our community look like? What can we expect for enrollment in our buildings? And what she showed was that it was reasonable to expect somewhere around seven percent growth over the next decade. Now we're about three or four years into her projection and we are we're hitting that projection. Really? Do you think you're ahead of it maybe even if you look at the 10 years? This year I think we are. We were kind of excited because we expected to see a big jump once the referendum was done and the buildings were completed but this fall we had a nice increase in our enrollment already and so we're hoping that trend continues because we're really excited about the incredible opportunities we can provide kids and people in our community. And it goes along with some of the what I like to think of as revitalization in the whole area. You know we're seeing the rail expansion in Brainerd and some of these other exciting renewal efforts that are really getting legs and moving forward and we feel like this is really our contribution, our part of that. You know if people are coming here to work and some of the new and expanding industries many times they're going to have kids that they're bringing with and we want to have these state-of-the-art facilities to show them so it really works hand in hand. We are working hand in hand with the community revitalization. So are you thinking that at least for the next 10 years you're going to have the facilities to accompany the growth? Absolutely. That's the way it's looking right now. Yes we will. The other thing I think that's really unique about what's happening in our district right now or within our communities and region I should say is that there really is a commitment to partnerships. And throughout this process we've worked closely with CLC and with Dr. Charlier who came to Brainerd on the very same day that I did with our Chamber of Commerce both here in Brainerd and in Niswa and talking about the partnerships that we can build with our business community, our college, our high school and how we're really committed to making and growing our entire region together throughout the whole region. And it's exciting because there are like you talked about the River to Rails and some of those entities it's like there's an energy right now where people really want to make all of this happen and it's happening because everyone's committed to working together and doing it together. This is purely on scientific but I just know that and I know we have a lot of road construction going on through the summer into the fall. It's making things a lot more challenging to get around but it just seems like there's so much more traffic this past year and a half than there has been and you know I don't know about how the new housing is, if we're getting a lot of new houses in the area but there is definitely feels like growth in this particular region and I know you've had some challenges with some neighborhoods where maybe they're going to lose some space that they didn't, are those getting worked out okay in general? Yeah we're working, we're working on that as we speak because that is probably one of the more difficult pieces of this. One of the promises that we made the community when we brought forth our questions one and two is the fact that the public overwhelmingly during listening sessions said they wanted to keep their neighborhood schools and one of the challenges that we have is our space issues. Our space issues for within our buildings themselves for our classrooms and our education for our playground equipped areas those kinds of things and for parking and so one of the things that we talked about throughout this process during the listening sessions and the presentations of information were that we knew that we would need to acquire some property and for the most part people have that have been contacted regarding the property acquisition have been very positive about it and really wanting to work with the district and with the consultants to do this work. There are some though that this is very difficult and we're very mindful of that and are working through that process. Monday night the Board of Education will be making some recommendations as far as moving forward and so it's going to be interesting to to see if they take it in parts or or what they decide to do on Monday night but but yeah that that's a difficult part but yes we're going to work through that. I think that's always a challenge when you're expanding in the inner city area yeah whether it's whole homes and some people maybe have lived in those homes for sometimes two generations so it's a it's a big change for them. When you when you look at the Niswa area what is happening there then could you kind of give us a little more specifics? What's happening there? Well lots of growth there so the growth at Niswa Elementary School has outpaced our projections so already yes already so we're planning to add another whole section onto that school right now it's set for two classrooms of every grade and we're going to three classrooms at least of every grade and we're doing this expansion and really all of our building expansion so that if we have more growth in the future we can add on to the buildings very easily quickly so yeah. So they're not going to be left behind by any social imagination? No they have been an integral part of this the entire time. In fact because of the increased growth that we've seen so rapidly there we've already added some additional rooms into the plan right now because we know that we don't want to open the school with all the changes and have it be too small and so we're already addressing that. What are the grades in Niswa? What are the K-4? K-4 and how big is your staff there? Roughly. I think their staff is about 50 somewhere in the neighborhood. Wow it's exciting yeah very exciting and we talked about that for the average homeowner you're looking about seven dollars a month increases about what the taxes came out which is really remarkably cheap because I live in Staples where we're looking at building or at least getting a referendum passed this next not this fall but in May I think is when this probably going to be going before the community and the rates are going to be much higher than that. How many school districts are in this position that you are where they're having to try to get referendum passed? Do you have any feel for that when you meet with superintendents statewide? I don't know what the number is but it's really high and but you're absolutely right we between our existing funds that we have right now that we're going to be realigning our uses for some of our long-term facility maintenance some of our capital money and so on our local levy and also the voter approved bond referendum that is seven dollars per month increase to the median household which is 156 thousand dollar home in our region that's because we have over a five billion dollar tax base here and so to get to be able to have a hundred or 205 million dollars in project for seven dollars per month is is really amazing compared to other referendums throughout the state and so we feel really blessed and fortunate. So how many of these buildings are going to be repurposed? All of them. All of them? Yes there will be something done in every single building which is how many? It's 12 buildings. All 12 buildings will be repurposed? Yes and then one brand new building the new building in Baxter and then Lincoln will be deconstructed during year four. Will that become a parking lot for the high school and for the regional performing arts center? So I'd like to talk just a little bit about the performing arts center one more thing is that one of the exciting pieces of question three was that we took the auditorium that was in question two in the high school and we expanded it to make it a much larger more robust performing arts center 1200 seats an orchestra pit better acoustics better lighting larger stage and one of our hopes and dreams here is to have it become a regional performing arts center where we can have provide higher quality educational opportunities for our kids but also for our whole region where we're bringing people in to have some professional theater or a semi-professional theater and all kinds of opportunities with dance concerts you name it that can be providing there so we're very excited about what that's going to do for the whole Brainard Lakes area to have that to have that huge performing arts center available when you look at the area and you look at the summer population I know having when I worked at the college that was a huge obstacle we didn't have a place to do that sort of thing so that will be pretty cool to be able to do that that's how is the do you have enough parking if you get 1200 people coming in and is that is that is that parking going to be north of the performance towards the library then or where will that parking be or I suppose Lincoln the old Lincoln site will be part of it correct all of the above okay there will remain some parking on the north side but we are losing about 126 spots with the increase of the regional performing arts center but we are looking at parts or all of the two city blocks just east of the high school which Lincoln education center is on the north side of the block and then we're looking at some property on the block right south of that off of Quinn street as well and so we're hoping that that's going to be enough but that's really one of the tasks that we're working on as we speak so yeah how about safety school safety I mean this is going to give you an opportunity to do things that you couldn't do in some of these older buildings what are some of the things you're looking at doing great the number one objective we had eight objectives for our project when we came forward with this and the number one objective was to increase the safety and security of every one of our buildings so that our children our staff and any guests that we have in our buildings that they are safe and so we're very thrilled about the fact that this happened we'll have safe and secure entrances we're going to be able to close down many of the doors around the buildings throughout the school day where and have people check in at the main entrance we're going to be able to do some pieces with communication systems with cameras with parking bus drop-off pickup parent drop-off pickup we're going to be able to look at the safety and security of every aspect of this project as a result of it because like I said from the day I got here the number one objective that the board of education was committed to was a safety and security of our facilities I know in older facilities it's very difficult to try to do the things that the modern schools are doing to make their environment safe so that puts you in a really good spot how about technology what what what's do you have a group working just on technology issues in the buildings too yeah well we already are so proud of our really robust technology opportunities we offer students I mean I feel like they're right on the cutting edge despite our facilities and what I'm excited about is getting to a place where our facilities support that work instead of us having to overcome them and so that is that was one of the eight objectives that we would have visionary technology integration and into all of our buildings and it's being embedded right into the instruction students are receiving from teachers so it has been a very high priority and we're really looking forward to how we can incorporate that more in new buildings one of the things that we're seeing nationally is a real shortage of teachers are you are you experiencing that yet here or no yes you are yes we are and you know that when I first went into education the Brainerd Lakes area or Alexandria Lakes area would be considered the prime places to go get a job so it's surprising to hear that even places like Brainerd are starting to struggle what special ed or math or where are your where are your challenges at right now well you know um this is my 13th year as a superintendent of schools and so I've it's my third district that I've been a superintendent of schools in and I've been in greater Minnesota my entire career and um when greater Minnesota has felt this teacher shortage significantly for a number of years in fact when we've met with the commissioner of education when we have met down with the legislature when we as superintendents have gone to lobby we've talked about the shortage of teachers in special education in the areas of STEM the science technology engineering and math even in our elementaries we're starting to see shortages of teachers I believe that that even in the metropolitan areas they are definitely feeling this shortage of high quality instructors that are available and they're doing a lot with licensure and such in order to help meet the needs of that and we've been fortunate because we do live in this just incredible area of the state where people want to be here but we too feel it and um it and it is something that's very real and that we're going to continue to talk with our legislators about and and to continue to grow our own in some respects to develop that workforce that that we talk about for our region that includes educators and we want to work with our college and work with people throughout the state to make sure that we're addressing that need because one of the things Minnesota is so incredibly proud of is that we provide high quality education some of the best and brightest um graduates in the whole nation and we want to continue to live up to that and we're going to do that we have about a minute left um if another school district is interested in the process that you used how how would they who should they talk to how should they get information they should just give us a call and we would be happy to do that just off your brand stable or brand high school website the blueprint 181 um they can call either one of us personally and we can set that up I know that we've had some service co-ops already now from around the region that or from around the state that have asked that we've come to their regional meetings so that we can hit maybe 40 um superintendents in different school districts at a time um we're also doing some presentations like with the minnesota rural education association um we've applied to present at the minnesota school board association because we feel that we have that responsibility as well because when we when we're here to educate children we're here to educate all children all children throughout the state and nation through our kids and so we want to provide any opportunities that we can for any school districts um in our state well thank you very much for jumping on with us and good luck with all your new projects it's pretty exciting it is thank you for having us you bet you've been watching lakeland currents where we're talking about what you're talking about i'm ray gildow so long until next time


Can you hear me all right? Awesome, thank you. Yes, so I'm Flo van Schultz. I'm from Bremen, Germany. And today I would like to talk a bit about MDN browser compatibility data for the last eight years or so. I'm working on MDN. MDN is developer.mozilla.org. It's probably, what's that? Closer to the mic? All right, let's see. Like this, maybe? No? All right. Where was I? Good? All right. So MDN is a documentation site where a few tech writers in a large community tries to document the web. And that means we are writing about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP, and basically all the technologies that the browser runs. And we do this in a wiki form on developer.mozilla.org. And last year, we were, after a long time, also awarded with a prize by slash data, where they said, OK, MDN is a really great site in terms of developer satisfaction. So it means that you guys probably like the stuff that we are writing about. And we've actually did a lot of work over the last 13 years when this content was first open sourced. So this is how it actually started. Like a classic wiki in 2005, it was based on media wiki. Mitchell Baker was able in 2005 to take a few of the Netscape contents, where technical writers from Netscape wrote about the JavaScript and open source into wiki. And this was the layout in 2005, where basically all the Mozilla developers put on all the stuff that they developed about all the technologies they have invented, like JavaScript and so forth. When I joined the team in 2010, more or less, to write about web technology, MDN was actually drastically changing from being a wiki where everyone was dumping content into something where a small team of passionate web developers that were really also hyped by all the HTML5 and CSS3 technologies that came up to create a documentation hub for open web technologies. So the scope was kind of narrowed down from everyone dumps all the contents on MDN, on the developer center, to let's make a coherent website where we document web technologies. And during the last year, we have even changed a bit more the layout of the site. So for example, this is something that recently landed, and it is a bit also inspired from W3 schools. That's the site that everyone is told to don't use it, use MDN because, well, we're having more correct content. But what W3 schools does very good is delivering quick sample code quite fast and easy. And we're trying to address this with our new interactive editor that we've put on the top of the pages. And generally, there's two types of developers. There's the concept-driven ones that really like to read a lot of content and understand the concepts behind a CSS property or a method. But then there's also the ones that just want to perform an action, the action-driven developers. And they basically want to do one thing, and that is copy-paste code. And this is happening with that. But today, I want to focus on one particular project of the MDN team, which is about compatibility. And compatibility is not only important for MDN, but also for Mozilla. We want to encourage everyone to use a variety of browsers and not only write a website for one browser, which used to be the IE problem, which now probably turns into the Chrome problem. And on MDN, what we've done so far is we've provided these kind of tables. I guess a lot of you have seen those. This is a table that displays compatibility information about the CSS background property. You can also see a few sub-features of that same property, like multiple backgrounds and SVG images as a background. And we used to have this table in the Wiki for, I don't know, five, six, seven years now. And if you've ever edited MDN, which is, by the way, easy as just signing up an account and you can edit, it's a Wiki app. So everyone is able to edit and change things on MDN. And this is how it looks like, or it looks like, when editing these combat tables. This is a static HTML table where the versions and little helpers that we wrote around those versions, this is how it was stored. Now, there's a lot of problems with this. So imagine this static table being on all of the MDN reference pages that we have. And we're talking about maybe 10,000 pages. There's, I don't know, 400 CSS properties. There's an amazing amount of APIs and HTTP headers and all that. And all these pages had static information in there about compatibility. So we couldn't mass edit the data. We couldn't mass add data. We couldn't reuse the data. Like combat data is something many people are interested in, but it's kind of locked in our Wiki in those tables. And when we want to change this, we have to go into all the pages and change stuff. We can also not validate data. So as I just said, everyone can edit MDN and put a, say, Firefox 6.3 version for the CSS background property, which is nonsense, as Firefox 3.6.3 never existed. And because of the nature of the Wiki, which in the M team we are also considering rethinking at the moment, everyone can just change things without any further discussion. Which is a problem when talking about factual information like compatibility. There's not actually an opinion around this. It's just it has started to work in this version, or it has not, and it's another version. Or it's not supported at all. We can also have no automation here. Like we could probably write some scripts using source labs or browser stack automatically generating information on when something was supported. And finally, the MDN team is largely, or the MDN website is largely sponsored by Mozilla. And we have a few employees, including me, working on the site. But we want to encourage and invite the other browser vendors as well to document with us together the open web. And we've addressed a few of these points. The last one, for example, in October 2017, Mozilla, we reached out over the last year to a few other industry leaders, namely Microsoft, Google, the WFPC, and Samsung. And they now form with us together the product advisory board for MDN. What this means is that all these companies are now helping us to document the web. Because we are all doing things on the web. We are all like the Microsoft and Google, they are building browsers. The WFPC creates the standards that we are also documenting on Amnion. So finally, after a few years, we came together and formed this board. And this will help us with the whole documentation and also with the combat data. And then what we finally also came up with is we want to get out the combat data out of the wiki. We want to kind of liberate it, break it free from the static tables into a repository. So what we came up with is a repository that you can find on GitHub. It's github.com, slash mdn, slash browser, combat data. And what we did there is we stored all this data that we have in our reference pages in a structure that looks very much like this. So on the left-hand side, you can see the folder for CSS properties, so stuff like Align Self, or Animation, or Backdrop Filter. And in each of those files, you have a JSON structure where you have some interfiers saying that, hey, this is a CSS property. It's the background property. You have a back reference to the MPN URL. And then there's a support object for the various browsers and their versions. And we also provide this as an MPN package, as it is just JavaScript or JSON data. So you can reuse this in Node.js as well. And then access it like it is shown here, and you will get back the JSON that is stored in our Compat Store. And now, when editing MDN, it's a lot simpler, because we don't have to edit every page anymore. We can just mass edit in our GitHub repository. And on our pages, you can call a query like this and get the data from the data store. And thanks to this, we were able to recently redesign those tables also. We got rid of the tap switching from mobile to desktop to show all mobile and desktop browsers at the same time, because many of the web developers are having mobile first approaches. And the mobile data is as important as well. We've added Node.js to the tables, too, because JavaScript is not only in the browser anymore, but it has Node.js. And so we did this redesign, like I think it was last week only, and a lot of the pages are now showing up with these redesign tables. And the good thing is the French pages used to have the static tables as well. So in our old world, it could have been that the French version had some competent information. The English page had some competent information that was always different information all across the wiki, which was terrible. And now the French version can also just call into the data store and display a localized, competent table. So this is what MDN has done to set free this data. So yes, we are open source already. Our content is open source. But the competent information was still locked in in the static tables. Now that is set free. It's open data. And you can reuse it. So if any of you has a project or is interested in writing plugins for Atom, Sublime, VS Code, or if anyone is familiar with writing bots on GitHub, you could imagine using this data to help us for your project to check against compatibility, because the data has a lot of information on what is supported in which version of the browser. So a museum called Eduardo Busas, he did something useful with this data. And you can use this maybe for inspiration. This is DevTools, Firefox DevTools. And he has written an extension adding a new tab called compatibility. And what it does is it analyzes the CSS files of your website and gives you information on what kind of properties you have used. And it will display you a similar compact matrix inside DevTools saying, OK, you've used this on that property. And it doesn't work in IE9. So you will not be compatible on a percent there with IE9, for example. So let's have a little bit of a look now that you fully feel a bit inspired of what you could do with this data set, what's in the data, right? So for now, we're still not completely finished the migration from this static table thing into the data store. We're about 45% done. But right now, what we have is a mixture of this. So there's CSS, HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, and web extensions, competent data in there.  So web extensions has a lot of APIs. So there are a lot of data points here. Same for CSS, all the properties, the selectors, add rules, and so forth. HTTP is a bit smaller because we mostly have combat data for HTTP headers in here. Now, I've looked a little bit deeper into the data for CSS. And if you're into, I don't know, data science-y things, you could also analyze this data set and look at how CSS developed over time. So for example, when we had Firefox 1 10 years ago, there were like 90 CSS properties. And because this data has all the, this combat data still has all the Firefox versions. And I've looked into it when there was little spikes. So in Firefox 16, for example, there were a lot of new CSS properties. And I was like, what's going on there? So it turns out they implemented CSS animations back then, or later, Flexbox. So over the last like 50 or 65 Fox versions, CSS got more complex and complex, adding more features over time. So I could make this chart only out of our data, which was kind of interesting, I thought at least. One thing I need to mention, though, is that the data is, as we've just started to migrate them, we have not yet polished them or validated a lot what's in there. So the chart that you've just seen about the CSS data, I was using the Firefox versions because our data is actually most complete for Firefox because on the Wiki, well, we used to maintain the data for Firefox mostly and not so much for other browsers. So what you can see here is a lot of the data is, either the version is unknown or the compatibility is unknown at all. So, but as it is open data, I can only have a call to action here. You can help us making this data more awesome, which will make the tables displayed on MDN more awesome, which will make the tool that Eduardo brought in DevTools more awesome, which will make the tool that some of you may come up with more awesome. So, yeah, that is that. And with that, that was browser combat data, open data brought to you by the MDN team. Thank you. Any questions? Yes? Yes, I know that. Yes, so we look into, can I use, can I use has about 300 features listed on the page and that's awesome, it's a wonderful site. Our data set is a lot bigger and we're not even done yet. So, yes, we're working together with can I use and there might be some collaboration in the future, but right now the data that we want to set free from the Wiki is just a lot more richer, about 10 to 20 times more richer and we want to preserve that information. And so as a first step, we are putting that into a repository but, yeah, future collaboration. Awesome, let's do it. So, the thing that's, the things that, oh, yeah, sorry. So the question is about the collaboration between can I use and this data set and competing or double effort. And the thing is, this data set is a lot more richer because we have all the information from over 6,000 MDN Wiki pages and can I use has only about 300 pages listed at the moment. And both projects are kind of relying on us on manual pull requests, updating the data. What we want to bring in here is we want to kind of have official status using our partners from the MDN product advisory board, putting in official version numbers when something is supported and also adding on top of the data some validation and automation that actually tells us the truth whether or not something is supported. But, yeah, I'm open to collaboration with can I use as well and, yeah, sure. More questions, no? All right, Dan, thank you.


It's pretty interesting to hear, you know, the users that we've heard from now, Walmart, massive company, TD Bank, 10,000 technologists, 4,000 applications. They've already trained 1,500 of their developers on how to approach the cloud. But you know, OpenStack is not just for massive, massive organizations, you know, that's sometimes something that people ask. Digital Film Tree, you know, that's a smaller, innovative company that's changing things up in the film and TV industry. And our next user is another organization that is not some massive company, but they have a really interesting use case. They were possibly the first OpenStack implementation outside of Rackspace and NASA. It's an organization based in Alberta, you know, just across the Canadian Rocky Mountains here that has been using OpenStack since the very, very beginning. And they've been very involved in the community and have had a lot of big contributions to code, to docs, to the ops communities. And so, you know, being that we're here in Canada, we wanted to bring them over and have them tell us a little bit more about their organization and about what they do. So from Cibera, please help me welcome Robin Windsor, the president and CEO. Canada is a very, very big country. The history of Canada started with conflict, and certainly there is some still today, but the size of the nation building task quickly required cooperation, French and English, First Nations and Europeans, countless immigrants from all around the globe, because community is where the good stuff gets built. To make a nation, you build the infrastructure. In the 19th century, that meant railroads. How you move your goods from where they're produced to where they're consumed. In the 20th century, we built the highways, a vast land needing to be paved. When we see them all today, think about what it took to build all that. And later in the 20th century, who else other than an airline with a flag on the tail is going to fly to places like Taktyak Tak, where there's no money to be made in that particular leg?  In the 21st century, we think we all know, certainly this group does, that the key infrastructure we're now building is the fiber optic networks. We have to have that capacity to move our goods from where they're produced to where they're consumed, and we've seen some great demos of that this morning. Lots of experts have been telling governments and they're now getting the message that they have to regard the internet as basic infrastructure, just as basic as roads, waste, and water. But what good are railways without locomotives? What good are highways without vehicles? And what good are networks without sensors and computers? At Cibera, as a not-for-profit member of the research and education community, with deep roots in academic networking and computing, we see a world where everyone has access to affordable, useful networking and has compute available on demand as readily as they can access the power grid today. Computing is still wastefully inefficient, and that means poorer access to a vital resource. Steve Jobs described a computer as a bicycle for the mind. Well, we need more bicycles. The cost of computing, if you look at it, is the cost of the hardware, plus the software, plus the networks, the power, and the carbon cost of the power. Let's not forget that one plus the people. And at Cibera, we're working to improve access to the networks. We're working to improve how we share the hardware and software, and in the process, reduce our power draw. And we're working to develop computational thinking in Canadians from kindergarten all the way past grad school. We have to get this as part of our mindset. So why are we doing this? My fellow Ciberans are all Albertans. We need to diversify our economy. Alberta has hundreds of years of oil and gas reserves, so no worries, right? Well, the Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stone. There are some threats. Being from Alberta, however, we do have the best beef in the world. We all have to eat, right? No worries there. Well, with 3D printing and synthetic biology, a hungry world is finding new ways to be fed.  We see technology racing forward, massive volumes. We've heard from Tim at CERN before about the massive volumes there. We're seeing amazing volumes coming from things like the Square Kilometer Array that got kicked off from the University of Calgary, and now is a 3 billion euro build involving countries from around the world. These are exciting times, and as Ciberans, we couldn't be more excited. This is fun stuff. Joe and Everett, one current Ciberan and one former Ciberan, co-authored the OpenStack Operations Guide. We had the privilege of working with Chris Camp and his team on the Nebula project, from which we all learned a lot. Thank you, Chris. Cibera was the first organization outside of the founders to run OpenStack in production, running both Swift and Nova. Indeed, we were the first out of the gate after NASA to put Nova in production, and that was a world first for a service provider, albeit we're pretty small. And being first out of the gate isn't something we do just for bragging rights, though, who doesn't like to brag, but it means that Cibera had a chance to influence the roadmap and the technical direction. So what did we do with it? With our federal partners, Canary, we set up cloud resources to help entrepreneurs across Canada. With our rapid access cloud, we're helping researchers, not just in Alberta, but around the world, shortening the distance from campus to commerce. And when the biggest disaster in our province hit a multi-billion dollar flood, we were able to spin up resources and offer to help people whose computer rooms had all flooded. Why do they put computer rooms in the basement? I don't know. Get them back up as fast as possible. Amazing flexibility. We face big challenges as we explore new technologies, but we don't have to go it alone. We work together from across Canada, around the world, just as those early pioneers did when building this huge country. Because we know the community is where the good stuff gets built, and we're proud to be part of this community. Thanks. Thanks, Robin.


Hello, it's Waylon Chow and this is Business Entities Module 4, Part F. In this part, we will finish our examination of the corporation by looking at how a corporation is financed, the taxation of a corporation, and the dissolution of the corporation. A corporation may be financed with either debt financing or equity financing or a combination of the two, and it's more often that it is the combination of the two. Debt financing refers to a corporation borrowing money or obtaining a loan from shareholders, commercial lenders such as banks, investors, or any other creditors. Equity financing refers to capital that's obtained by the corporation in exchange for issuing shares to the person who provided the capital. So those shares generally represent the claim to the residual value of the corporation after all debts and other claims are paid. So essentially, it's the value of the company or the corporation that's left over after all debts and liabilities are taken care of. So that's what we refer to as the residual value. So generally speaking, especially with common shares, and we'll talk a little bit later, differentiating common share and preferred shares. With common shares, the value of those shares will increase along with the value of the corporation's business. And generally speaking, shares are considered to be riskier than debt. Debt is almost always required to be repaid first before repaying any of the shareholders. And also, when we did Module 4.1, we looked at all the different types of security interests that would make the repayment of the debt more safer for the lender. With equity financing, which involves the corporation obtaining capital by issuing shares, every corporation must issue shares that provide at least these three basic rights. So all three of these basic rights don't have to be in one type of share, but they can be found at the very least in different types of shares that are issued by the corporation. But the most simplest way is to issue one class of common shares that has all three of these basic rights. The first right is the right to vote for the election of directors. And we'll talk a little bit later about what directors do. The second basic right is the right to receive dividends when declared by the board or director. So dividends are the payment of net profits by the corporation to the shareholders. And those dividends need to be declared by the board of directors. The third basic right is the right to receive property that remains on dissolution after all debts are paid. So one of corporations being dissolved or being wound up, what we do is we liquidate all the assets of the corporation and we take the money from those liquidated assets to pay off all of the debts of the corporation first. And then if there's still money left over, then we parcel it out to the shareholders. So again, these three basic rights can be attached to one single class of shares, which would be the most simplest way of doing it. So that class of shares would usually be called common shares. Or these three basic rights can be allocated to more than one class of shares. The ownership of shares may be transferred from one person to another. However, that ability may be restricted under either a shareholders agreement or articles in the corporation. And that typically arises in the context of a private corporation. In contrast, a partnership interest usually cannot be transferred without the consent of all the partners. So generally speaking, the ownership of shares is more easily transferable as compared to a partnership. How is a corporation tax? Because a corporation is considered to be a separate legal person, any net income or losses that are earned by the corporation belong to just the corporation. They cannot be claimed by the shareholders. So or more specifically, unlike with a sole proprietorship or a partnership where business losses can be claimed on the personal tax returns of the owners, with a corporation any net business losses can only be claimed by the corporation. They cannot be claimed by the shareholders. And because the corporation is a separate legal person, the corporation files its own tax return and pays its own corporate income tax on its net income. Now the shareholders do pay tax at some point. When the corporation decides to pay some or all of its net profit in the form of a dividend payment to its shareholders. In the year that shareholders receive those dividends, the shareholders have to report those dividends as income on their personal tax returns and pay personal tax on those dividends. Let's see graphically how corporate taxation works. We have a corporation with a shareholder. The corporation earns business income. On that business income, it will pay corporate income tax. And with its after tax income, it will use that to pay dividends to its shareholder. The shareholder pays personal tax on those dividends. So there's corporate tax paid by the corporation on its business income and personal tax paid by the shareholder on the dividends that the shareholder receives from the corporation. Let's compare that with a sole proprietorship or partnership. So there's our sole proprietor or partner. So for either a sole proprietorship or a partnership, there's one tax that's applicable. There's the personal tax on the net business income that's payable by the sole proprietor or the partner. Because remember with the sole proprietorship or partnership, the owner and the business are one and the same. I mentioned earlier that since the corporation is a separate legal person, it can live on even on the death of a shareholder, director or officer. However, a corporation can be terminated by dissolution only if, firstly, all of its debts have been paid and then all of its remaining assets after having paid all of its debts, whatever remains, has to be distributed to its shareholders. And at least two-thirds of the shareholders have voted to approve a special resolution authorizing the dissolution.


This is stock number 19 F1 10. We are here in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin at Summit Auto Ford The newest Ford store in Wisconsin today. We're checking out this super clean or super good-looking 2019 Ford F250 Super Duty This is a Lariat Sport And we're just going to do a walk around here on the truck To give you a good idea of this new magma color that they have that's came out It's a really deep red almost a dark cherry Just a really good-looking truck the sport package gives you the blacked-out rims This one has the FX4 package as well Just a really good-looking truck all the way around Then we'll check out the options up close, but for right now we'll just Get a look at the general And then we'll get up close. So there are wheel covers that go over those bolts But it does they're in the back in the package yet, but this is has michelin lt 275 65 R20 tires on it from the factory you get the 20 inch painted black rims part of that sport package you get the blacked out headlight bezels And of course the painted painted bumpers and the factory fog lights You get the blacked out grille This one has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel. You get the painted black stepbars Of course the FX4 package Gives you the skid plates This one has backup sensors Full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring This one has the factory Ford tough bed spraying bed liner has the led bed lighting and then it those things on the side there That's to uh, put your tie downs. You get factory tie downs Um that fit right in there Has the tailgate step assist as well backup camera Get right up close to that paint It's a really dark cherry Just a really good looking truck all the way around We'll check out some of the options inside You get heated and cooled leather interior Leather seats power driver seat memory driver seat We do have a set of factory floor mats in the back This one has the power scope mirrors so you can power fold these guys in like so And then they also power telescope out Has the power pedals auto headlamps and then you got these side markers So if you have your lights on you can turn those side markers on they'll actually light up The led lights the side of your truck Of course it has a door code entry instrument cluster Right there this one comes with the myford touch radio You get um android auto apple carplay capabilities as well as The factory navigation system got turned out full-wheel drive factory brake controller heated and cooled seats dual climate control And uh, you also get 110 volt 400 watt max Plug in this one has the b and o sound system factory exhaust brake stability control and then downhill assist control You get a leather wrapped steering wheel cruise controls on the left bluetooth and audio controls on the right One thing I thought was cool. You get six upfitter switches up here As well as your power sliding rear window map lights Just take a look at some of the design on the door there in the seat Got dual glove boxes one on top Of course your big one down here Let's take a quick look at the back seats and then I think that'll be good For this video. There's those wheel covers That uh go on there. They're blacked out as well to match the rims. There's are the Side box tie downs.  There's a storage container back here um That collapses down as well if you don't want it up And uh, that's about it Personally, thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this hd video You'll have been able to tell Just how good looking this magma color is learn a little bit about the lariat sport and uh Hope it was informational. Thanks again, and you can check us out at www.SummitAuto.com for our full Inventory list and if you want to check out more hd videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our youtube channel on your left A link to more heavy-duty truck videos like this one on your right And if you haven't been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out And we really look forward to helping you with this super clean 2019 Ford f-250 crew cab short box lariat sport. Thanks again


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