Hello everyone and welcome to UCAT Festival TV. I feel like a sports anchor right now because I am getting to introduce three absolute giants of the advising slash personal tutoring world. So I'm delighted to be joined today by Oscar van de Van Harde, Charlie Knott and David Gray. Gentlemen, how are each of you doing? Doing great. You're well, thank you, Colin. Excellent. Yeah, well, I'm pretty excited by this as well. We have just wrapped up day three of the wonderful UCAT Festival and kudos to David and the team behind it because it has been absolutely fantastic thus far. David, as the man behind the curtain as the Wizard of Oz how has it been for you? It's been busy, I think, but actually it's gone really smoothly and I'm overwhelmed by the messages of support and gratitude we've had from people about the experience they've had. They've felt really engaged with this event and they're really getting into the spirit of it. So it's been so wonderful to see them and I've been dropping in and out of sessions and it's just been really animated and lively discussion amongst the participants. It's great. They've all had a fantastic time. So there's been a lot of hard work on our part to bring it to this stage but it's been worth every minute of that hard work. Well, absolutely. It certainly has been and the people that I have been speaking to in the sessions I have been able to attend have been really great. I know the Amashi and UCAT joint webinar today was fantastic. So everyone that I have been chatting to has had a different highlight. So it's been really great. But one of the interesting things has been that although this is a UCAT festival, there are people from all over the world involved. And I suppose it would be interesting to hear from the tree of you because we're all in different countries right now as to maybe why you think that this kind of national conference festival has attracted people from all over the world. Yeah, I think one of the reasons in my view is that it's just another extension and example of what David and Oscar and I have been trying to do for many years. And Colm, you joined us when we were in Dublin a few years ago and that is to really show that advising a personal tutoring is not a one nation issue. It's not a one country issue. That we're talking about students and it's student success no matter where they are and how do we support them? And I think we see every year at our international conference at the UCAT conference when it's in person, when it's not to be virtual, we've had people from different countries there at that meeting as well. And I think it's just more of an example of folks recognizing that we need to learn from each other and what's happening in different countries and different places. But also that building connections, building relationships with people across the world who do the same thing as you do. I think it's really resonating with people that they have friends and colleagues in the Netherlands. They have friends and colleagues in Australia, in the UCAT. And these are just people that they know, these are people they're friends with. And it's really building that real connection of humanity around students and what we believe in. And for me, that's just what is so exciting about these international opportunities is to really bringing us together in that way. I mean, Charlie's right. This is what advising and tutoring is about, isn't it? It's about relationships and people build these relationships and there are some fantastic friendships that form through these conferences, not only those professional relationships but those personal ones as well. They're really fabulous. And I think it's also Charlie's right. It's an extension of what we've been trying to do for a long time. So we've recognized that whichever nation we're in, we have similar challenges. Our students have similar challenges. Our educational context might be different but our students face the same kind of issues. And the responses we take might be slightly different but we can all learn from each other. But I think right now one of the reasons why people are perhaps so connected and so engaged is that we're all going through the same thing at the same time. Let's recognize the elephant in the room. We're going through this big pandemic thing. It's the first time in human history that the whole of the globe has been through a pandemic at the same time and knows that we're going through a pandemic at the same time. And at the same time, we've all had to react in very similar kind of ways and how we deal with our students. So the more we can share and learn from each other at this point, the better it is for everybody. The easier it is for us to tackle those challenges that we're facing. I think we're also following with a little bit of a delay in the footsteps of our students, to be honest. If it's hard to say when this started exactly, but I would say, I mean, there's a few moments that you could point at, but I think this trend or this desire to sort of look across borders is maybe something that started roughly 10 years ago, something like that, maybe. And I think part of it is that we've gradually seen more and more students sort of traveling to other countries to study, which created sort of the initial need, I think, was just to understand literally where they were coming from or where they were going. But I think that also sort of implicitly set that sort of created the right climate for advises themselves as well to think, they're benefiting from this. I might benefit from this too. Within the fortune and coincidence that I think the demand definitely in the Netherlands. And I think also sort of in the UK because of changes in higher education for a more understanding university. I don't necessarily want to say caring university all the time, but also grew, which also gave a different role for advising, tutoring and similar positions. And then I think there were a few happy moments that just could have gone sort of completely sort of unnoticed, but happened to be, indeed happening at the right moment where people experienced how great it would be to get together. And I think it really snowballed rapidly after that. It's, I've also seen in the Netherlands a really rapid development from, yeah, it could be interesting, but sort of, no, not now. They do things so differently. What would be the point for me in going there in sort of people sort of with our Dutch Association, we made scholarships available for the recent NACADA conferences, the international conferences, people basically lining up to get one of those scholarships. And yeah, now I think now you can stop it anymore. So, yeah, sorry, go on, Charlie. No, I was just gonna say, I think what you're really talking about in the subways of scholarships, our students talk about how their lives change from studying internationally and abroad. We hear the same thing from our colleagues who for the first time attend a conference in Dublin or in the United Kingdom or in wherever it may be who are just totally mesmerized by it. And they don't really understand why we should be global until they experience it. And then they come back as just the cheerleaders for we need to all be global within that. So I think it's that same type of thing that we're learning there within it. I really also think that we're going through a time we've never experienced before. We don't know what it's gonna look like when we're done with this within it. But I don't think we wanna waste the opportunity if we wanna say it that way because when we think about it, so many people I've talked to in the UCAT who've said I've always wanted to go to the international conference. I could get registration, but I can't afford the airfare. My school won't pay, we'll do this. This time, this year, they can all come and not have all those expenses. And our folks have been able to come to your conference this week and not have all those expenses. And I think we need to really build upon that in ways we've never done before because this is really an opportunity to build these global networks even stronger in a year that quite frankly, it's cost effective. You beat me to it, Charlie. I was about to say the same thing. What we've done with it, there are challenges that are around at the moment, but you're right, let's not waste this opportunity. And one of the things that the situation we are now is forced to do is to break down some of the barriers. The virtual technologies we're using has broken down the barriers. All four of us are sat here tonight in different nations, but we're able to have this conversation. It just makes it so much easier for people to engage. Which is exactly what's happening on our campuses, which I think mirrors what we're doing. Higher education, y'all have heard me say it before, it's like it moves slowly. People in cemeteries will move faster than higher education. We dead people get up and walk faster than we do. So we've always thought you've got to have bricks and mortar that's the only way you can do. Well, higher education has had to admit in the past six months that bricks and mortar may not be the future.  And I think we're headed the game here because we had advised that they've recognized for a long time and built upon that that it's more than bricks and mortar, it's the relationship, it's the connections you build and how you do that. Doesn't matter where you're located, it's that partnership. It doesn't have to be in a building. It can be in a car or a cell phone, wherever the case may be. And I think this just really brings that together so much more. Although it also requires us to really think about what sort of enables those relationships. I mean, the fact that we can have this conversation so easily is to a large extent also because we know each other and we know each other from sort of face-to-face meetings. So we understand each other, we find it very easy to transfer that onto sort of it's an onsite medium like this, but for instance with new students, I think many universities across the world are struggling with the fact, okay, what do we particularly do in regard to our incoming first year students who cannot sort of fall back on at least the memory of what it meant to be on campus but and have the time to build relationships with their peers and with faculty and advisors but who need to start from scratch. And that also applies in a way to our profession again. I mean, every year there are new people joining the profession who will probably need even more support in all kinds of ways than the ones who are in it. So I think that's an interesting challenge also in the domain of teaching and learning but also in the domain of advising that we can no longer take for granted, oh, this is why things work out so well when you get together in a room. We need to understand that. And that we've got to be intentional. That we've got to make intentional, how do we intentionally make these things happen that maybe just arbitrarily happened before? I mean, I'm going to use Collin and Matt as an example. Last year in Hostlet, there were these two guys didn't know each other from other sides of the world who I happened to look at the same time and go, wait a minute, they both like to do video and I'm going to put them together. That was easy to do because we're in the same place. Yeah, exactly. How would we intentionally make that happen with virtual ceremonies or virtual cocktail parties or virtuals, whatever. It's not as easy for me to just go grab Matt and pull him over and say, you two need to meet. How do we intentionally make those happen? So I think it's really challenging to us or the intentionality of these types of connections that we've really got to think about. And David, just to give you kudos again, that's what y'all have done so well with this festival. You've intentionally built these types of ways into that and trust me, would we still be from you for the virtual to color meetings? Because we learn from each other. But you've done some really, really good ways of intentionally building these that would just arbitrarily happen in the hallways and we can't lose that. And so I just really applaud you for how you've done that. And I think we all have to think about how do we do that? We've let poor Colin out here that had a chance to say a word, look at him. I'm thinking, reflecting and going on, I suppose Oscar and I had discussed this a little bit when I interviewed him for the podcast a few weeks ago, but building on that intentionality and I discussed this with Peter Hagan and George Steele as well. I think it's thinking about, because as you said, Charlie, it's no longer just bricks and mortar, but the virtual space is a different space to the physical space. And we cannot merely replicate what we did in the physical space. I know in March that everything had to be turned around a really short space of time. And I know faculty members who maybe had 72 hours to turn their entire course around. And then I think there was an understanding on both the student side and on the faculty, advisors, everyone was doing what they could in that situation. But I think we need to think now about how we best utilize the virtual space. And I think David and you kind of given us some great ideas, but I think we need to think about how we connect with our students, not just amongst advisors, but how we actually bring the students in and begin to break down the barriers. And that is something that is going to take us to be intentional. And it's going to mean that higher ed, third level needs to move a little quicker than maybe the glacial pace that it has done in the past. But I think an example of what you just are talking about, Colin, just in your comments, I was talking to Oscar last week and I talked to Peter Hagan and George Steele with David, four countries there, that you're talking to people from four different countries that let's be honest, two, three years ago you didn't know these people. And so all of a sudden you've built this network of international friends and colleagues that you can intentionally talk about how we break these things down within that. But I think that's where we have to really begin thinking about within that, because it's, and you're right, we can't simply, everyone was patient with us in March. The patient is over now. You know, you've had from March till now to figure this out. So don't tell me that you're just gonna take the course and make it be exactly like it is in person because that didn't work. And we just gotta face that and they're gonna be the same thing with advising. You know, students are warning different ways of advising. Advisors are warning different ways of professional development. They're warning different ways of connecting and their patients have run out with we've gotta figure this out. We've had time now to figure it out. And once again, David, you're a good role model for the rest of us to follow here and how you do that within those pieces. Well, yeah, I mean, and I've had conversations with George as well, along very similar lines. You know, we're at a point in our development where the things that we've done in the past, perhaps there's not gonna work in the situation we're in now. We have to do things differently. Here's a great opportunity for us to look at our practices as advisors and find better and new ways of doing those that really support our students in the way they need to be supported in this climate and going forwards. Because even if things go back the way they were, some of the things we've learned about how we can better support our students will still exist and we will carry on doing them. What's really, I mean, I know you've mentioned the glacial pace of higher education, Charlie, and I don't think any of us would argue with that, but I don't know how it is for you in the US or for you in the Netherlands, Oscar, but one thing that's been really encouraging for me, for years, we've tried to talk about the intentionality of advising and we've talked about the importance of advising in supporting student success and building those relationships. But what many institutions in the UK have realized in the last few months is actually the way that they're gonna have to support their students is through advising. The advising becomes the centrality, the glue that connects it all together, the way that we can actually build relationships with students that will make the learning process work. And many of them have moved to these group-based advising approaches where they can intentionally bring students together and it's been really gratifying to see how quickly they've realized that advising is actually central to student success. They might have known it before in a sort of head knowledge, but now they've really taken it to heart. And what I'm hearing when I talk to campuses are the people who say they're connected with students they had never connected with before because the student who was afraid to come in didn't quite know what to do, who only could come at night, the advising sort of wasn't open, that they're really connected with more students virtually than they ever did before. And in much more, much deeper and more really involved conversations than just what courses to take. What I think we have to do is really capture that in data, capture that in how that happens and be sure that those administrators above us with decision-making power understand that. Because I'm not sure they understand the level and depth of which advisors have been connected with students in this new virtual way that is so much more so than they would do in face-to-face. And let me tell them. That's exactly also where I see your risk. The sort of the lack of understanding of the importance of advising, I think there are two potential consequences that we don't want. One is that all of a sudden everyone or many more people are expected to perform advising roles who are not prepared for it. And another one, which is even worse, I think, is that there might be sort of the misconception then that sort of if we want to connect students to our institutions, it should be done through advising and advising alone. And I think that's what could water down sort of the role of advising because let's admit it, even though we can be the glue, sort of a big part of the student experience in the institutional side of it is in the teaching and learning. And we should not sort of miss the opportunities that these trends are giving us to position advising more firmly. But it is also a wake up call for what happens in teaching and learning. Well, I think this is what we want to even more carefully Oscar do. What you just talked about is basing advising in the teaching and learning and connecting it to what's happening in the classroom and instead of it being two separate things because it is exactly what happens in the classroom that is so important, what happens in advising. But if we look at them as two separate instead of really the connection, and this is a great opportunity to do that. Because I think you're right, we run the risk of saying it's only the advising that matters or it's only the teaching that matters when it really is an opportunity to really show more than ever before it's bringing both of those together in these new ways. I think we're at a real, I think point of really making that a stronger, I don't wanna say argument, but a stronger piece than ever before, if we do it well. And it's that doing it well that we have to do, which I'm just gonna point to David and say that's UCAT's role in the UK, that's the Carter's role, that's LVSA's role, how do our associations help do that in our respective countries within those as well? What's our role? What's our responsibilities? Including, I would say, sort of indeed sort of a demarcation of saying, we feel that this is or could be advising, but those other pieces are not advising. Don't come to us for that. If students walk away because the teaching is not engaging, don't expect advising to fix that. Absolutely. Or if they walk away because the advising isn't any good, don't expect, so that building that partnership becomes even more important. I think one of the other things that this has done, this COVID situation in terms of, and I know it's not a long-term thing, but even I'm thinking, David, of the shift to the essentially, say, beginning of September for this UCAT Festival. And it has, to me, almost, it's worked really well, especially this year because there was so much uncertainty at that time and now people are moving back into the academic year. We're at the beginning of it. And I sometimes found that previously at summer conferences, I might have an idea. I'd come back really full of enthusiasm, right? And everyone is out of the office on annual leave and by the time they came back, it was like, no, the enthusiasm has moved on and they're trying to catch up. It feels this year that there might be the potential that people have the opportunity to bring those ideas right at the beginning before students have arrived in the UK, in essence. I know it's different elsewhere, but I just wonder, not that we necessarily move everything, but I think it might give us pause to rethink because things were done in such a, we knew the structure of the academic year previously. We knew when things run and I know at my own institution this year we've had to rethink graduation. We've had to rethink exams. We've had to rethink orientation. And I hope that this is a time where we become, we use that intentionality and we really think, why is it that we have structured it this way? Does it have to be this way? Are there other ways that we could go about doing it? And Colin, I think one of the things that goes along that line with me is I worry that when we go back to normal, whatever that looks like, that we'll forget all the things we learned through these virtual ways, so that we'll go back and say, okay, we're just gonna do it in person, you can't. That's all we'll do. Forgetting that, why can't you do it in person, you can't meeting in the spring and then a festival that's virtual every fall? One doesn't preclude the other. And I think that's where we really wanted to be thinking some exciting things is we have tended to think it was one or the other. And I think we've really learned we can merge these. The people who can't come to the in-person, let's do a festival that's virtual and quit worrying about, oh, that's gonna take away from our tendons. So how do we build these together when those, I think becomes really important? And then thinking internationally, we've always thought, okay, David, don't you do anything in October? Because that's when the card is and we won't do anything in May because that's when, why can't we do these that are simultaneously, we build and work and how we do these? So I think the things we need to really not lose when we get to go face-to-face, that are worrying we might if we're not intentionally keeping them alive. And that's the opportunity really, isn't it, Charlie? The opportunity is for us, as Colin said, to challenge our preconceptions, the things that we've always held almost as those sacred cows to actually break those down. And when we go back to whatever normal looks like, what we want to be doing is taking the best of what we had and the best of what we've found now and bringing the two together so that together they're stronger and we've got even better going forwards. I think just as with students, it would be interesting to explore new approaches in which actual get-togethers, actual gatherings are really much more about the gathering. And a lot of the exchange sort of at a professional knowledge level could have to continue to happen online. But I think, and this is not very feasible if you have to travel, you're not going to travel a day to spend time with people for a day and then travel back again. But it's to rethink the way we use sort of the offline space and time, I think is as important as to rethink the way we can use the online and a bit of opportunities. Sort of, as we said at the beginning, sort of we can easily have a conversation like this and go on for hours because we don't have to break any barriers anymore in terms of knowing each other because we have to know each other sort of in the after conference time, maybe even more than sort of the during conference time. So maybe conference time should be all much more about the after hours in a way. And then we continue online. I think that with students, it's the same, I think. You can easily see now how much students can do together working on stuff online, getting together on campus might serve particularly the purpose of getting to know each other and in a way feeling that we are doing this together. And now we can each go our own way again and connect via Zoom or whatever medium we use. And I think it's very similar sort of for us in sort of as professionals as well. Oh, I agree, Oscar. I think recognizing that even from the current standpoint, we've always, and I've always joked about what makes us think we're just so good that we do this, that we run sessions from 7.30 in the morning to 5.30 at night. We must think we're so damn important because we gotta keep people all day long. Maybe when you look at this differently, maybe we only do certain hours in person in sessions, other parts of virtual and we spend a lot of that time just getting to know each other and just having conversations about, I mean, let's just be honest, where is UCAT, LVSA, and NACADA going to be in 10 years? That's a huge conversation that I would love to see have with all of our associates, not independently, but together because where UCAT's gonna be in 10 years, I think it's gonna impact where NACADA's gonna be, where LVSA, but if we have those conversations separately, we're not really looking at that. And so I'd love to be able to get your board together, David and LVSA and NACADA's to really do some strategic thinking about where do we want to be in 10 years with all of us and how do we connect with that? And you can't do all of that virtually. You gotta do some of that face to face. You know, it's nothing stronger than conversations over a good beer in Dublin or a good scotch in the UK or a margarita in the States that made the conversations any more in depth. And I just think we need to recognize that some of those social, what we think of as social, creates some of the greatest information sharing and partner sharing that we ever have within that. I hate to be the spoil sport here, but I am conscious that some people have meetings. I'm going to act as timekeeper, but I am going to give the last word to you, David, given that it is the UCAD conference. I think this has been great as well and something we should look to do in the future. But the floor is yours, Mr. Gray. Well, just to say thank you to everybody who's been involved in this festival to make it such a great success and something that's really engaged people. I think, you know, you said some kind things there, Colin, about where we've put the timing of this, you know, to be honest, some of that was more luck than judgment, but it's really pleasing to see that it's worked well. And I think you're absolutely right with the fact that people are going away with new ideas that they can take forward straight away. And that gives us something new to think about as well. So it's been really useful and informative from that point of view as well. And I think for me, it's been fantastic to see people from all around the world engaging in this and recognizing the value of advising. People really seem to have recognized that. And that's something that we actually want to do with the festival as well. So we made some deliberate decisions. Charlie's mentioned that. We made some deliberate decisions about the things that we are doing at certain times in the festival and we took a deliberate decision to close the festival with a celebration and a recognition of what people are doing in terms of advising. So we've introduced an award ceremony and I think most of us would recognize what many people say about advising that it's often an invisible piece of work that doesn't get recognized and doesn't get rewarded. And that was a deliberate decision on our part to actually recognize those who are doing really good, innovative things. One of the most rewarding things for me in the last few weeks was contacting somebody who is going to receive an award of that award ceremony to tell them that we've actually recognized their practice. And this is somebody that's never engaged with UCAT or NACADA or LBSR before and they're not from the UK, they're from the US. It made their day and it made my day in actually being able to actually recognize that for them. And I think that's what we need to do is to celebrate and recognize more the practice that advisors have. And David, I'll just add to that. We've chosen with NACADA to do begin with the celebration for our conference with the awards because we wanted to begin with that celebration to show everybody that. So it'll be interesting to kind of see those two pieces within it. So, you know, guys, I think Callum ought to give us a regular radio show. I don't know about you, yeah, I hope I don't. This has been absolutely fantastic. So all that remains is for me to say thank you, Oscar. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you, David. I appreciate you taking the time to chat to me. For anyone watching, you can find more details about UCAT on their website and on their various social media channels. It has been absolutely a pleasure, gentlemen. And I look forward to catching up with you all again soon.


The Navy celebrated the 121st anniversary of the Chief Petty Officer, Gray, Tuesday. The ceremony at the United States Navy Memorial included five former Mcponds, Ima Black, widow of the first Mcpond, Delbert Black, and Mcpond, Mike Stevens. The sixth Mcpond, William Plackett, spoke to the Chiefs.  And I say that, not flippantly, that I actually believe that with all my heart, that without the Chiefs, we've got some problems. The wreath laid at the Lone Sailor Statue honors the Chief Petty Officers of today and those who have come before. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Tyrell Morris.


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I find that really interesting that Allison Camerata, and it seems like CNN at large, has that opinion, because wasn't it Joe Biden and Barack Obama that withheld $1 billion from Ukraine until they would fire the very prosecutor that was investigating the company that Hunter Biden is a board member of? This is something that I would expect to hear from a public relations firm, not a network that supposedly is doing unbiased objective news. Let's get real here. I mean, if it was Trump who was asking Ukraine to stop an investigation into a company that his son was a board member of and withheld a billion dollars, it would be the scandal of the century. I mean, just look at how they're reacting to this new completely seemingly, at this point, made up scandal. Because to this point, we've received no evidence or confirmation that Trump has done anything wrong at all. But in the case of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, his son was receiving $50,000 a month from this company, which is kind of weird considering that Hunter Biden has no experience in oil or energy. So how would he acquire this position as a board member of a company that does energy and oil? It's definitely something that you would think a journalist, a true-seeking democracy-defending journalist, would want to look into. But no, instead, what we're seeing, at least from CNN. And let's be honest, it's all the networks because this is not a scandal. The scandal is that Trump may have suggested that they investigate. Biden does have a problem here, by the way. I mean, I have to say, $50,000 a month for Hunter Biden clearly to be selling influence because otherwise no one would ever pay him that kind of money for a company that, frankly, was pretty corrupt and has been before and has been since under investigation. And is that Joe Biden's fault or problem? No, but it's hard to imagine Joe Biden wasn't aware of it. I'm really impressed with this guy that was on CNN, the foreign policy expert, Ian Bremmer, who straight up said, who straight up told Alison Camarada that this company was corrupt. So we do have confirmation that there was corruption within this company, a company that Joe Biden's son wasn't just working there, he was a board member. A board member inexplicably being paid $50,000 a month for what? The guy has no experience in that field. So why was he there? Obviously, any thinking person is going to infer from that that the company thought that they could get something from having Biden there. Joe Biden, his father, was the vice president at the time. So it's not a leap to think that there might have been something going on there. We know that the company's corrupt, it's being investigated. And Joe Biden refuses to give Ukraine $1 billion until they end the investigation. And I apologize for repeating that over and over, but I just want to drill home the point that the media is turning their backs to a scandal that Joe Biden himself bragged about doing. So it's been out there for a while. They've ignored it for a long time. You're not getting the billion. I'm going to be leaving here. I think it was about six hours. I looked, I said, I'm leaving at six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.  Got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid. And even now that it's in the news again, which I think is pretty genius. Again, I think, I don't think this is an accident. I do think Trump did this on purpose because the media now is going to be exposed because they're going to downplay it. You're going to get instances like this where they're like, well, what big deal is that? How can you think that's not a big deal? But somehow it's a big deal for Trump to allegedly ask Ukraine to investigate, open up the investigation again, which he says did not happen. And the Ukrainian prime minister says did not happen. There was no quid pro quo. Then on the other hand, we have this obvious example of exactly what the media says is treason, some sort of high crime. So I don't even understand why they're protecting Joe Biden at this point. It seems pretty damning when you're even your left wing CNN guests are saying to you, look, this doesn't look good. And where there's smoke in this case, there's definitely going to be fire. I expect that President Obama, if he had known about the reality of this situation, would have probably told Biden, get rid of this. I think it's interesting that on one hand, this guy admits that there's almost definitely some wrongdoing here. And at the very least, the optics are horrible. But he also goes and says, well, if Barack Obama knew about all this, come on, Barack Obama knew about all this. And the same way that he's rejecting the idea that Biden didn't know anything about this corruption and his son's involvement in this company and how did this kid even get hired here? He doesn't have any experience. And he wasn't even hired. He's a board member. And that's another good point. To say that Joe Biden didn't know anything about it has nothing to do with Joe Biden. I mean, doesn't that just show how completely incompetent he is? He doesn't know that the company that his son just magically became a board member on, even though he knows nothing about oil or energy, and is getting $50,000 a month for this position. He doesn't know anything about that. Give me a break. The only reason he's able to play dumb like that is because the major media corporations are just allowing him to get away with it. And again, I have amazed they let this guy out here. I have a feeling he won't be back. It all just plays into this current media drumbeat of impeachment. It's like every time they attempt to do this, it fails. And they just double down. They're just doubling down. And you can see it in all the coverage between the networks and the cable coverage 73 times in one day. They've called for impeachment. And you know, the media, they're very sneaky. They never outright say, well, we support this. Sometimes they slip and they do, but normally they're just like, oh, well, the Democrats say blah, blah, blah. And then they just parrot whatever the Democrat talking points are. And that's why you're getting this, this fervor. And they keep doing this with each story, each attempt. They just get nuttier, nuttier. And it's just like a guy who's playing baseball and is swinging at pitches and just keeps missing it. And with every missed swing, he just is swinging more and more for the fences trying to hit that ball. It's sort of the same thing here. And soon I think we're going to find out that this is yet another nothing burger from the Democrats and the media. And there are another attempt to get Trump impeached. He has released the full transcript of the call with the leader. Breitbart is reporting that now saying that US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will release the fully declassified transcript of the controversial call with Ukrainians president, which is fueling Democratic calls for his impeachment. I am currently at the United Nations representing our country, but I have authorized the release tomorrow of a complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with the president of Ukraine. This may end up being another 40 chess Trump moment. It's as if that he actually trolled the press and the Democrats into thinking that they had something and now he's going to drop the transcript be like, there's nothing there. You've got nothing. And it's going to be hilarious seeing how the media tries to spin it. You may have seen that they're already saying, oh, well, even if there was no quid pro quo, there is an implied quid pro quo from the president who is who has the purse strings is making a request of a country.  But this is nonsense because every president that has ever been has wanted something from our allies, has wanted something with the with the country's leaders that we're talking about. That's how this works. It's a give and take. And so that happens all the time. And in fact, it happened with Joe Biden again. Okay, exactly what the media is outraged about. We know for a fact there's no there's no question about it. We know that he did do that. The question is, was the company corrupt was Biden's son corrupt? Was there influence peddling going on there? Those are questions that should be answered and the media should investigate. But I think we all know they won't they're just going to stay on on point here. They're going to squeeze as much out of this story as they can. I predict we can't read the transcript yet. It's not going to be released for tomorrow, but I can guarantee you mark my words. It's going to show that there was nothing unlawful done. Nothing treasonous done. In spite of that Republican candidate who I can't well bill weld actually calling for Trump's execution yesterday without knowing anything saying that it's treason, execute them. So that's what we're dealing with here. These people are going to have another breakdown at tomorrow when this is turned turns out to be nothing. And they will no doubt just pivot to yet another manufactured outrage. Thanks everybody for watching. I will have a one of my typical videos out tomorrow morning. Please like share and subscribe and keep coming back. Thanks.


Kelly Kumalo on Senso Mayewa, people have decided they want me guilty. Kelly Kumalo has hit back at ongoing accusations that she's responsible for the death of Senso Mayewa, claiming people have already decided she is guilty. Senso was shot dead in an alleged botched robbery at Kelly's mother's home in Vosloris in 2014. The killer is yet to be arrested. Speaking to ENCA on Tuesday, Kelly said the court of public opinion had already made its ruling against her. I have spoken about the Senso Mayewa issue so many times, but people have decided they want me guilty. They have decided, so why defend myself? They must believe what they want to believe. Kelly said she and God knew the truth, and she would not be shaken by the opinions of others. She also slammed any suggestions that she was hiding information from the police and was protecting Senso's killer. One thing I will never do is protect someone who killed my daughter's father. At what expense, she asked. In an interview on SABC One's real goboza last weekend, Kelly said it hurt to be labeled a killer. I think that hurts because I'm not a killer. I may be a hell lot of things, but I am not a killer. Senso's death has come under the microscope again after AFRI Forum last week announced it would launch an investigation into the murder. A Sunday independent report over the weekend claimed police covered up the murder and that the lead investigator, Colonel Bongani Jainandat, had withheld crucial evidence. The claims were denied by police. Meanwhile, social media was filled with reaction to Kelly's comments, and soon her name topped the Twitter trends list as people weighed in.


So whoever I suppose today at times was hard thought there was times when we had to dig in and battle But I suppose there's no denying we had the better chances in the game and we were deserved winners. Yeah for you know we were in control for long periods in the game and We're just so pleased today. You know we were hurting last week After the last five minutes, but Bradford we hurt together the fans were hurting so was I so the players But you could sense it togetherness Not just from the players and the staff but from from the stands as well And you know that's what we're all about Bradford, you know when we've had some good times We celebrate and put together but today I could really feel everyone in the ground pulling behind the team and You know it was a great victory for us. Yes, it's all man. I'm off the field as well There's a real professional way about we went around we went about things at 1-0 So control the second half on the pitch and 1-0 up they see no no panic no stress It was a controlled way of seeing out the cake. Yeah, well, we learned our lessons And we've got to and I said to the lads afterwards. I said that you know if we're leading and someone scores from 40 yards You've got to hold your hand up, but if it's we're looking at ourselves for our mentality not being quite right then we have got to look inwardly and Well, we've got to learn from you which we did and you could feel today at 1-0 You could hear the players What they were saying on the pitch to each other and there was a resilience to make sure we saw the game through and You know, we'd spoke to him on Thursday the session on keeping pressing the ball keeping hype the pitch putting pressure on the ball when we're ahead and We did that and the upscoring of the goal and the match winner today Billy Clark He seems to be adding more and more to his season's tally just getting you know more and more this season. Yeah, Billy was excellent today place for him You know if you look last week and I watched the DVD of the game on Thursday again And there's some really good performances and Billy was one of them I thought he was outstanding against Fleetwood and today he was again very very good But we can talk about that performance because it's a win


Hello, in this lecture we will define deposits in transit. According to fundamental accounting principles, while 22nd edition, the definition of deposits in transit is, deposits recorded by the company but not yet recorded by its bank. So these are deposits that we know that we have made. Generally, we've put them in the bank in some format. However, the bank has not yet processed them. Therefore, on our books, we have put them into the our books. We know that if deposit has been made, we have increased our accounts by the deposit. However, they have not yet cleared the bank. If we're doing a bank reconciliation, then we may have these deposits that have not yet been cleared. Those being a timing difference, those being something that we will have to reconcile for within the bank reconciliation. For example, if we did the bank reconciliation here, we'd have a bank statement. This is supposed to be a bank statement from the bank, beginning balance, ending balance, bank summarizing the activity that has happened. If we check that off compared to what we have on our books, we should be able to match everything out except for items that we need to then enter into our books. So maybe these items have not been entered into our books yet. We would then have to make some type of adjustment for that. What we wouldn't make a journal entry for are those items that are differences, that are timing differences, outstanding checks, outstanding deposits. So in this case, we had a deposit made as of the end of the month. That amount should clear, but it didn't clear in February, although we deposited it in February. It's going to clear in March because of that processing time. That will be the reconciling item for our bank reconciliation. Therefore, when we take a look at the bank reconciliation, we will have an adjustment for outstanding checks, and we'll have an adjustment for that outstanding deposit as well, and that will reconcile from the bank balance to our book balance, including that deposit as a reconciling item.


Mike, you had to make a couple of changes on your coaching staff in the last month, but in the process of adding some new pieces, you moved some pieces around. If you would, talk about the decision to kind of shuffle the staff and try to make yourself a little bit different for 2020. Well, excited about a lot of the continuity that we could continue to have. We had some coaches that moved on and we made some changes, just like we do with the players. Those things happen in the coaching staff. I'm happy to hire Anthony Midget from the Texans. It's a guy that I've worked with on the defensive side, very knowledgeable, not only in multiple schemes, but also our scheme. Excited that he's gonna have a lot of experience in our system and our terminology. Jim Hazlitz, gonna coach our inside linebackers. I think he'll be a great veteran presence for what we think is a young, talented group.  So continue to grow these guys, whether it be for us or for these guys that helped their career. You mentioned your familiarity with Anthony Midget. What makes him such a good fit for this team specifically? Well, I always liked his demeanor. I think that you have to have different personalities throughout the staff, you know? You don't want everybody to be the same. He's got a very calming personality. I recognize that when I coached with him and I think he'll be great with our defense. I think our defensive backs will enjoy his knowledge and really his range in our defense. Getting Jim Hazlitz to come to the Titans and be the linebackers coach, did that take a little convincing on your part? You know, guys, you know, it's really, it feels good when players wanna play for the Titans and it feels good when guys wanna coach and when people wanna be a part of our organization. There were a lot of those guys. Jim was a guy that drafted me when I was in Pittsburgh, when I was a player out of college doing this process and I just always respected his honesty, his toughness, his knowledge of the game. You have not named a defensive coordinator.  Well, working through the process, I'm excited about our staff. I'm, you know, Terrell Williams, a great defensive line coach. Scott Booker promoted him to a safety's coach. He had been a, you know, a defensive assistant, but I think he really earned that title and that promotion for the work that he did with not only, you know, Kenny and Kevin, but also, you know, Hook and Dane and those young players and working with Kalu. So, you know, Scott's done a great job. You know, Shane Bowen is a guy that's been with me for a long, long time at Ohio State and Houston. So working through the process and always gonna do what's best for the Titans and then for the players. Speaking of working through the process, you and John Robinson, working hard over the last few weeks, trying to figure out what the 2020 roster is going to look like. What's that been like for the head coach? It's been great. I mean, those conversations are easy. John and I, at the end of the day, we always want to do what's best for the Titans. We want to see the player through the same set of eyes. What can he do for us? How much does he love football? You know, how many roles can he play? Is he versatile? And so we do, we spend a lot of time, we watch players back to back and try to rank them with his staff. His staff is on the pro side and obviously on the college side have done a great job.   So for some of these guys that have been a part of the combine for 25 years and it's been the same thing, I can only imagine them checking their schedule all the time to see where things are and how it's changed. But I just go where stretch tells me to go. It's a great answer. The Titans are getting a lot of attention throughout the month of February. How is that impacting you? That we've gotten a lot of attention. Not really impacted me at all.  I'm really proud and I'm thankful for them and I try to tell them as often as I can.


This is a great opportunity to see one of the kind of mythical sites of Scottish archaeology. The Cocknostone is one of these sites that people have heard about, there's rumours about it, but very few people remember seeing it before it was buried, and so to be part of the revealing of it is really exciting. The Cocknostone is a large ancient rock located at West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Measuring 42 feet by 26 feet, it was first discovered in 1887 by the Reverend James Harvey. Such a large stone, once sitting proud upon the surface, inevitably attracted people's attention for thousands of years. The stone features around 90 carved ancient images, considered to be one of the finest sets of ancient petroglyphs in the world. It was reburied in 1965 by archaeologist Ludovic McClellan Mann, who decided to bury the massive slab under several feet of soil to protect it from damage and to prevent people from adding their own modern carvings to it. In 2015, it was partially re-exposed for investigation during a three-day dig and a more complete re-exposure followed a year later. So far, archaeologists cannot agree on what is exactly depicted on the massive slab, yet the images are clearly strange. Often when you discover that specialists cannot come to a joint conclusion, the subject is of a controversial nature. There is no consensus among archaeologists on the meaning of the intricate symbols found on its surface. Experts plan to digitally map the stone, and that data obtained could shine more light on its history. Its purpose in the people who created the artwork they believed lived more than 5,000 years ago. Dr. Kenny Brofe led the excavation and described the experience of seeing the stone as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Because of the array of markings on it, the Cogniz stone has been recognized as being of national importance and designated as a scheduled monument. Due to its unusual illustrations and the choice in shapes and placement thereof, many researchers have come to the conclusion that the Cocknoll Rock could have been some form of star map. The mystery of its strange decorations will undoubtedly persist for many years to come.


So we're just going to jump right in with the outfits here and first up is a look to let you know that it is fine to wear white pants after Labor Day. Super simple navy sport coat, white pants and a blue striped shirt, which is the first of five pieces that I'm going to be featuring throughout the video from Lanieri who is sponsoring today's video. Lanieri is an Italian online made to measure company. They have an incredible selection of fabrics. The ordering process is very simple, thorough, and includes two video consultations, one as you're going through the process and then another once you get the garment to check out the fit and make any necessary adjustments. I've got a link down below for those of you who would like to learn more about the brand and check out what they offer. Up next we have a look for those not afraid of a little bit of pattern. The jacket is from Lanieri. It's cut from a silk wool VBC fabric. I styled it with a notch lapel, patch pockets to keep it casual, some contrasting buttons, and since this is meant to be a warm weather sport coat, the jacket is completely unlined. Definitely a bit more of a statement making piece and always remember that the best way to deal with the statement piece is to keep the rest of your outfit simple. You want to have just one focal point. That's why I've chosen just plain white shirt, navy chinos, simple white pocket square, and some chocolate suede loafers. Now you know that brown is one of my favorite colors and I appreciate meeting up with several of you in New York City about a month ago who wore brown specifically because I love it. Love that. So we've got a textured wool linen blend sport coat paired with some cream colored cotton trousers and a brown striped shirt by Lanieri. You can see here that because I knew I wanted this to be a more casual shirt that I chose a button down collar. I really like how the stripe plays with the texture of the jacket and that we're working pretty much here with the whole outfit in brown tones. I did include a white pocket square to add in just a touch of contrast and then anchoring this look some more brown courtesy of the chocolate suede loafers you've been seeing all video along. Although it's definitely still hot out there we are getting into that seasonal transition period now and with this outfit I'm really trying to play to both sides of that. For the summer part that's with my fabric choices the jacket is a wool silk and linen blend. The shirt by Lanieri is 100% linen and my cream colored trousers are cotton. Leaning into the fall aspect of it are the colors really rich and earthy. The jacket of course we've got browns and oranges and then I absolutely love the olive green of the shirt with the great linen texture. It can be a bit difficult to pair a shirt in a color like this with a sport coat but the trick is if you keep things in the same type of color story and with colors that complement each other you will not have any problem at all. I'm gonna keep things going with the interesting and you might say mildly unorthodox shirt and jacket combinations here with a look that is mostly monochrome. Some dark navy cotton trousers paired with a dark navy lanieri button-up shirt. One thing I want to point out about this shirt's fabric is that it's a cotton jersey fabric so it has a little bit more casual and relaxed look and feel to it especially with the contrasting buttons which I think works really well with this look. Again perhaps not the easiest foundation to pair with a jacket but here I've decided to keep things interesting with a puppy tooth blazer just a hint of pattern to give the overall looks of texture.  One thing I want to mention with regard to lanieri is that the brand is incredibly sustainable. All they're made to measure and made to order garments are manufactured with a zero waste approach and the fact that the brand is digital means being even more sustainable. If you're interested in trying out lanieri for yourself you've got a code for you HSS 100 that will get new customers $100 off orders of $400 or higher. Links are down below in the description.


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In fact, what I think I'll probably knew next time, happy Friday. Today, I'm talking about punch, Swedish punch, to be exact. What is Swedish punch, I hear you cry? Swedish punch is a sweet liqueur from Sweden, obviously, that's made by combining lemon juice, sugar, and maybe some spices with Batavia rack, which is an Indonesian... actually let's back up. Batavia rack, not to be confused with Lebanese rack, is a spirit from Indonesia made from sugar cane and red rice. It was introduced to Europe by the Dutch East India Company, it was an essential ingredient in punch from the late 17th century to the 19th century. Since it's made from sugar cane, is it rum? No, but it is rum adjacent. The 2% of fermented red rice keeps it from being true rum. For proper context, let's try it.  Some nice fruit notes, a little bit of smoke, banana leaf, which is common in other cane spirits that I enjoy, and that is odd. The phrase, there's nothing else like it is so overused that it's basically meaningless. This stuff is unique. It is ever so slightly fruity, it is kind of vegetal. This stuff is a lot of fun to play around with and cocktails and it's worth tracking down if you live in a city with a woke liquor store. It adds a nice flat alcoholic twang to anything you put it in. Okay, back to Swedish punch. Swedish punch is made by combining lemon juice and sugar with Batavia rack. It can be made by combining ingredients but is most commonly drank as a bottled liqueur, which is where this bottle comes in. My old neighbor was kind enough to get this for me and while this particular brand is now made in Finland, this is an older bottle and it was made in Sweden. Let's taste. A little bit of citrus, not much alcohol burn, this stuff is only 26%. It is very sweet but the Iraq flavor is there. In Sweden they drink this cold or warm, I could see this being a really nice after dinner drink. The fun thing is that there are cocktails that call for this stuff, in fact it was a popular ingredient in the two decades before Prohibition, excuse me for one second.  I'll leave it in the description. It's actually nice. It's really nice. So the recipe that I found was Swedish punch, lime juice and Jamaican rum. The Jamaican rum I went with is Dr. Bird, which is a blend of three Jamaican rums that is blended and bottled by two James Distillery in Detroit, Michigan. It is extraordinarily good product. If you like Jamaican funk bombs it's worth checking out. They're also very nice people. I would totally make this again. This would actually be a really fun drink to experiment with different Jamaican rums to see how it turns out. In fact what I think I'll do next time is reverse engineer Swedish punch by mixing Batavia rack with lemon juice, sugar, and my own mix of spices and mixing that with the Jamaican rum. That's going to be a good drink. If you liked it hit like, consider subscribing if you haven't already and if there's something you think I should try let me know in the comments. Stay safe, follow the advice of professionals, have a great weekend and I'll see you on Monday.


For more videos and people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. On Sunday, November 17th, hundreds of protesters marched from Plaza de Sibelis to Porta del Sol in Madrid for the third edition of the great anti-racist march. The march was organized by Madrid Anti-Racist Assembly, Women of Colombia, Afrofeminist Space, SOS Racism Spain, among many others. It united hundreds of migrants from across the globe who are living in Spain. Under the banner, we will not forget, we will not forgive, we demand compensations. The march was against structural and social racism that is prevalent in the Spanish society. It was also against the recent speeches charged with racism made by Waukes politicians that targeted minorities in the country. The march was held on a day close to the death anniversary of Lucrecia Perez, a Dominican immigrant murdered in Madrid. Perez was a victim of racism and xenophobia. The march is the culmination of a month-long campaign which began on October 12th with the slogan, October 12, Nothing to Celebrate. 12th of October is the national day of Spain. The main demands of the protesters include the shutdown of the Immigrants Detention Center, a law of equal treatment and non-discrimination for immigrants, a state anti-racism plan that respects diversity, a state plan for the fight against structural Islamophobia, guaranteed access to public universal and quality healthcare services and the right to vote for all migrants residing in Spain. Protesters also condemned the right-wing coup in Bolivia and the massacre carried out by Bolivian right-wingers in Cochabamba. They carried with them the Vithala flag, the indigenous symbol of Bolivia. In addition, protesters held a banner commemorating the death of Marielle Franco, a Brazilian feminist, human rights activist and a councilwoman of the Socialism and Liberty Party. She was killed on March 14th last year. Latin American students who took part in the protest demanded that the Spanish government withdraw its transnational, extractive and environmentally predatory companies from indigenous, African and Afro-descendant territories.


Hello everyone and welcome to today's debate for housing authority race and you'll notice that we've got an unusual configuration for the debate. Candidate Joanne Preston is with us. The other candidate Joseph Daley has declined our invitation so we are going to move forward with this debate under usual circumstances and format and but with just Joanne. Joanne we appreciate your being here. Thank you. I will just let you know that the structure of the debate will be very very simple. Joanne will have one minute to give an opening statement and then we will move into the question section. We will pose four questions to Joanne. She will have two minutes to respond to each of those and then we will conclude with a one-minute closing statement from Joanne. So if you're ready to go please take one minute to give us your opening statement. Thank you. Hello everyone I'm Joanne Preston candidate for the board of the Arlington Housing Authority. I bring to this position a wealth of experience in advocating for tenants especially senior citizens as a former chair of a tenants organization. I also bring considerable knowledge of recent developments in social gerontology through my career as a researcher and as a Brandeis professor of courses on aging and society. I have also worked as a social worker to a program on medical aid to the agent. I bring my desire to assist Arlington Housing Authority residents by my volunteer work with the Council on Aging and my more recent activities in organizing and delivering face masks to the families in a monotony manner. And I bring considerable experience in grant writing. In sum I have the experience and expertise to increase the quality of life for Arlington Housing Authority residents. Okay thank you very much. We're going to move right into the questions and the first question and I'll just remind you have two minutes to answer each of these. First question is what do you see is the primary mission of the Housing Authority and tell us one thing that you think they are doing well and one thing that you think needs to be improved and please be specific. Okay I think historically the mission of the Housing Authority board is that the question the board yes yes sorry make sure that the tenants have safe and comfortable residents to fix things as they need fixing and to make sure that they have proper access. I see I learned that from I'm a town meeting member for Precinct 9 which encompasses three of the five housing complexes so I hear a lot from tenants. I would and members of the board have expertise in banking and in business which helps them look at contracts. I bring something more to the board. My background is in social science and in tenant advocacy. So I think they've done a good job in keeping safe buildings that are comfortable for the residents. I think what they could do much more for is expanding social programming integrating the residents with a greater Arlington community. Every time I tell people I'm running for the Housing Authority they say what's that. I think that's symbolic of how they are set apart from the community. So and I have some ideas about that. One is a friendly visitor program, high school students, junior high school students, to community service. When I bring my daughter there to give Thanksgiving dinners they're mostly interested in her as their faces just light up. I think it'd be a wonderful program. I also have to cut you off there. Sorry move on to the next question and that is, excuse me, what are the biggest challenges that you see facing the housing Authority and if you are elected what area or issue would you particularly like to take a leadership role in tackling? Well like all public institutions I see funding as a big issue and I have a lot of experience in writing grants and I know when I went to the community grant program meeting I go to a lot of the local meetings to keep track of things that there were no proposals from the Housing Authority yet they had a surplus $700,000 and I think that I could be very helpful in that area and I've written grants actually for the Thompson School but also in my professional life and a second concern of mine is the relationship between the boards and the residents. I would like to improve communication and I think one way to do that is to revise the handbook they give all the tenants to explain to tenants basically what their rights are. They can come to the meetings that there's a whole procedure that they can take part in decision-making and that became a real problem because by law by state and federal law they should be involved in any building projects. Well they just went ahead and put new windows in Winslow Towers but the windows are a different size than the old windows and the residents air conditioners didn't fit and these are low income people for them to go out and buy new air conditioners was a problem and it was a problem that could easily have been prevented if there had been better communication. I also think that needs to be integrated in the greater community. They used to have precinct meetings in the common rooms in Chestnut Manor and Winslow Towers and I think they should now. Len Diggins was trying to arrange that but it couldn't be done. Okay thank you very much. Third question and you anticipated this a little bit in what you've just answered but what role do you see the tenants should have in setting and changing policies procedures and rules? I see the tenants of the housing authority in the board as part as a partnership and I think that's a good way to approach it that that the board has expertise in contracts and banking and so forth and also in what which need how often the elevators have to be fixed but the tenants also live there and I think they have a lot of knowledge and should be part of the process. Other ways that tenants can be involved is through the tenants association and there's been some slippage and elections and so forth and I think that that should be strengthened the tenants association and I understand that from people I know there that people on the board don't attend them they send a staff person. I think if the tenants want that a board member should go to the monthly meetings because that's the best way to increase communication and to know what the issues are for tenants. I was a tenant for 28 years myself so I know that when your your sink doesn't work it's a real problem and you want to be able to tell someone about it and have them act on it. Other ways that tenants can be involved is by attending the meetings themselves of the board and one issue I have is the only place the tenants that meetings are announced that I know of is on the on the bulletin board in town hall. I think it would be a very good idea to have the announcement on the meetings on the community calendar so that relatives can come people who might want to live there can come and have a better idea of the working to the board. Thank you. Sorry two minutes flies by and it does. Fourth and final question. I have a lot to say. Fourth and final question is do you believe that the policies and rules for tenants are being applied fairly and consistently and if not how would you improve the situation? Well of course from what I hear from tenants they are not and I think that goes back to my earlier statement we need much better communication between the boards and the tenants and the tenants should realize that the state has a whole series of rights they have as tenants as public authority tenants and I remember I told one of my friends that who lives in one of them she said we have rights I didn't know that and so I think making these rights known and it gives you a step a process of for instance getting things fixed you called in someone and it's not fixed then you could and it doesn't seem like it would be fixed you go to the next step and I think that would make everything run much more smoothly and there is a concern I heard from someone who did some studying out that some people get treated differently than others and I think if there's a regularized process that would take care of that concern. Back to the handbook the handbook really needs to be rewritten it tells the tenants all the things they have to do but it doesn't really tell them the things they can do and I just think that's a really important thing and I see advocacy as not doing things for people but setting the conditions in which they can get them done themselves. So we will now move into closing statement we had a technical problem that reduced the amount of time Joanne had for the final question in the last section so we are going to be making a one minute and 10 second closing statement available to Joanne. So Joanne thanks for your patience and please your closing statement 70 seconds. Thank you I'm glad to participate in ACMI's coverage of candidates as you know it's very difficult to go out and talk to voters and it's just a wonderful opportunity and I hope this interview has helped you know more about me and how I can assist Arlington housing residents to have more satisfying and meaningful lives either in the senior residents or in the family building complex. We live in a changing world. Demographic social and technological changes challenge the board to investigate and furnish senior residents and families with new program services activities and I think that I am well positioned to do that because of my expertise in these fields and my experience. I want to improve the lives of Arlington housing residents and I hope that you will consider voting for me so that I will be able to do this. Thank you for listening. Thank you very much and with that this debate for the Housing Authority Board of Arlington is concluded. We before we do sign off though we will have some thanks. We would like to thank of course first and foremost you Joanne Preston for joining us today. Thank you for participating and for your patience and adaptability as we work with technology and all its glitches. Thanks also to our ACMI crew behind the scenes who work prodigiously to make all this possible under the extraordinary and unusual current circumstances and finally thanks to you for taking the time to tune in and inform yourselves in advance of the election that's scheduled for June 6th. Speaking of the election you can access the current debate and the debates for other offices as well as candidate profiles in any of several ways. They are airing regularly on our government channel and you can also access them at your convenience on our website at acmi.tv slash elections where you'll find all of the content that we have related to election 2020 here in Arlington. Lastly you can also find more useful information about the candidates and the voters guide on the Arlington League of Women Voters website at www.lwva.com. I'm James Malan with one final thanks to candidate Joanne Preston. You've been watching the debate for the Housing Authority Board here in Arlington. Thanks for joining us. Take care.


So you've probably heard this from a lot of people, struggling on how to review the Pixel 4, the Pixel 4 XL. I've been doing kind of the same thing, but then I was gifted this little clip from the Verge podcast. Why can't it shoot 4K 24 or 4K 60 video? 4K 24 or 4K 60? Yeah. Why can't it do those things? I think the answer is that nobody needs those things. I shouldn't say nobody. Wow. Don't shout on YouTube, because I feel like I know some people who really think they need those things. They're very influential. Whenever you look at a camera, there's very strong drop-off. There's some things that everybody does all the time. I open the camera, I press the button, I close the camera. Done. That's like 80% of people. That's 95% of what they do.  That sums it right up. The Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, which is what I'm reviewing, it's an 80% phone. And I think that is where my biggest problem lies with the Pixel 4 XL. I've been using this for close to a month now, and it feels... That's what it feels like to me, right? The Pixel 3, if you go back to last year, I didn't like that phone. I did not recommend it. I made a video specifically not recommend the Pixel 3 XL. I had so many issues. I'm glad I don't have hardware issues this year, and they've solved a lot of that for me. Hardware seems really solid off the bat. I love the hardware looking. I mean, I love that orange back. To me, that's my favorite color. The chin is massive on the forehead chin, forehead, sorry. And then the chin is also big, but I prefer that over a notch. That being said, the device still feels a little halfway. There are things it does really well. And as you saw, and if you haven't checked that out, go check out my full professional camera review. This thing does a really, really good job taking photos. It is probably the best. I was a big fan of Huawei last year. I thought Huawei had the best camera. Some people would say Pixel, but this year, I think Pixel has the best camera in terms of taking photos. But again, that's where that 80% comes in. Google decided not to put a ultra-wide angle lens on this thing. So, you know, that's the thing that a lot of people use in taking ultra-wide photos. It's very beneficial. They felt like people don't use it, so we don't put it in. 80% thinking right there, right? So, not having an ultra-wide lens makes me just go back to the Galaxy Note 10 Plus because it has an ultra-wide, and it still has probably the best ultra-wide lens on there. So, that is missing from my photography. And when it comes to video on the other hand, as we heard in the clip earlier, it doesn't do 4K 60, doesn't do 4K 24. Video has not been improved necessarily from last year. So, you're going again. Come on guys. Like, we can't be the master of just one small thing. Now, going back to that clip and saying, look, this is something they mentioned how that's a feature that not a lot of people use. Let's take astrophotography, for instance. It's really nice to have, but the fact is, how many people will take out their tripods to have that long exposure time? Not everyone. Not a lot of people. Actually, less than 10% probably. So, it's even less than the amount of people that they talk about with it. And to me, that is mind-boggling. That's where I feel that Google hasn't thought about the process of what they're trying to do with this device. Their videos out there will tell you the Pixel 4X sells not for you. I say it's not for a lot of people because of that 80% mentality. You've got to look at the competition. Now, this device also has a ton of features. You've got a 90 Hertz display, which is really nice, especially for me, people like me who like to game. And that's really cool. The problem is, of course, it does that variable 60 to 90 in terms of where your screen brightness is. So, again, that's something that's kind of, uh, right? And then you also have the fact that it's packed with a 3700 mAh battery. It's a much smaller battery than you would want to have with a device pushing a 90 Hertz display. Most other devices are 4000 mAh minimum. And the results are quite clear. If I game with the Pixel 4XL, forget it. I just have to go charge this device. So those are the kind of thinking, those 80 to 20% thinking that I realize they are not really pushing it. Now, some would say you've got adaptive battery life, which is good. Until this very day, my battery life has not adapted to my needs. I know some people who have seen improvements, but for me, it's just not there. And I think I'm fine with adaptive battery as long as the battery size also matches. So, you know, if I'm doing an adaptive battery on a 4000 mAh, it makes more sense than 3700 or 2800 on a Pixel 4, which by all accounts has been atrocious with battery life. So, you know, those are the kind of simplistic things that I think doesn't make a lot of sense. Now, here's another one that for me, it's more personal than anything else. One of the biggest things that Google announced at the event is the voice recorder. It works really well. I love the app. But let's be honest, how many people will actually go into the voice recorder app? Now, I personally wish that Google leaned on more of its strengths and basically bake the voice recording app into Google Assistant. It could be a feature that was just available for the Pixel for a while before it goes to any other device that supports Google Assistant. But the fact that I, for me, the thought process would be easier if I had my Pixel, I'm at an event or I'm interviewing someone and I just say, hey, you know, G record that and it starts recording. And I can also say, hey, G record that and transcribe and it does it off the bat. And I don't have to go into an app. Trust me, the app is great. There's nothing wrong with it. But again, that's that little step I would like to see from Google. I really like this device. Don't get me wrong. I think it's a solid piece of hardware. And I think it's it's it's it brings in a lot of great features in terms of the camera, in terms of camera photography, portrait photos look really good. You got to check out the video with Marion who really breaks that down. But the other side of having the cameras missing with video, I mean, people capture a lot of content and having this that ability to capture it.  I think Google is on the right step, but they have to think of the consumer in mind. Now, look at not trying to compare but look at Apple. Apple is slow actually doing these things. But when they make that jump, they make that jump. Samsung on their hand is always very forward thinking and saying, hey, we'll supply air all the features in there that we can give to our consumers, and we'll give it to them. Now, now last but not least, of course, is that solely feature with, of course, the built-in radar where you can wave to answer phone calls, you can use it to turn off your alarm. It's very basic switch music. It's nice. Then again, it's not new. We've seen this feature, the feature not of course the technology they're using with the LG G8 earlier this year and even the Galaxy S4 way down the line. Again, this is something where I think now it's the reverse of that 80-20 where 20% of the people even less will use that feature and 80% will go, why do I have it? When you have a very solid voice assistance, I would have loved to see Google Assistant take a bigger role in this device, push the little bit more harder and adding features that say, wow, this is the power of what Google can do and this is how it helps me use this device. So those are the kind of things that I do like. I mean, my Google Assistant started dictating what I was saying because I said Google Assistant. I didn't even say Google, but I said Google Assistant and it started dictating. So you can understand where I am with this mindset. Now, there's a couple of other things that are minor and again, don't get me wrong.  I feel that Google is about to get over that hump, but they're like just peeking at the very top instead of going like, let's run and jump over because they took away high res photo uploads for the Pixel 4 XL. You're launching this device at 64 gigabytes instead of maybe 120 or 256 and then of course you're reducing the high res photo uploads. To me, it makes no sense. What do you want your consumers to do in the first place? So that is where I see my issues with the Pixel 4 XL. So would I recommend the Pixel 4 XL? I would say if you are looking for something specific within the confines of what Google does well, I say they make sense, especially with photography. This is probably the best phone photography this year in terms of taking photos on the video sites. No, it doesn't cover that gambit. That's why I look at it being 80 20. If you're looking at it for other things in terms of, say gaming, not so much because the battery, battery drain, also battery temperatures, almost like a hundred and something degrees. Those are the kind of things that kind of limits it away. But photography, this is probably the best photography phone. And that's where I will put the Pixel 4 XL. So if you have any questions or any comments, or you totally disagree with me, you think, hey, it's not meant for you. I would question to say, who is it meant for? And why is it 80% of the people might not make a device if it's mass market for everyone at least fits most categories. Let me know your thoughts guys. Don't forget to like and share, subscribe to the channel and always enjoy your entertainment.


Hi, I'm with GitLab and I'm excited to show you one of our great new features in GitLab 11 called AutoDevOps. Actually, AutoDevOps is a collection of 12 features. Auto build, auto test, auto code quality, static application security testing, dependency scanning, license management, container scanning, review apps, dynamic application security testing, auto deploy, auto browser performance testing, and auto monitoring. These 12 features not only work seamlessly together, but work together automatically with almost no configuration. We think that's the best way to bring these best practices to everyone involved in delivering software. The best way to show AutoDevOps is to show it in action. We're looking at an installation of GitLab 11.0 and I've created a new project that will be a simple spring app, but it doesn't have any files just yet. Before we get going, let's take a quick look at some settings that enable the new feature so we can understand AutoDevOps a little better. Single click turns AutoDevOps on. Now, if you're administering your own GitLab instance, you can actually enable AutoDevOps for everyone in your organization in the admin settings. And that would change the instance default, which here is still set to disabled. This is the base domain where you'll find your review apps. You can use this generated one if you don't have your own domain. And we can see here that we're set to do continuous deployments to production. We can change it at any time if we want to acquire manual deployments to production. We also have set over here a variable called production replicas. This allows us to define the number of instances you will have running in production. Right now set to one. You can scale it up as needed. And finally, the other configuration which is very important is the Kubernetes service, which allows us to connect to the underlying Kubernetes platform for deployments. So now back to the project. It's still empty, so GitLab gives me some instructions to get me started. I already have a simple app locally, so I'll copy the instructions and paste them into my terminal. And you can see it checked all of my code into a new Git repo and pushed it up to GitLab. So back in GitLab, I see my code is now there. Note, there's nothing special about this app. No CICD configuration, not even a Docker file. Just a simple spring application saying hello world. Let's go ahead and make a change. We'll remove the to-do comment and personalize the message. Then we'll save it to a new branch. And as part of doing that, we'll create a merge request. Now the exciting stuff. We see that it kicked off a CICD pipeline for us. Remember, I didn't actually configure any CICD for this project at all. This is all auto DevOps kicking in. So here we see a pipeline with many jobs. Here it's running auto build. If you have nothing specified, it will use Heroku build packs to detect your language and build an appropriate Docker image. If the project had a Docker file, it would have used that instead. With the build successful, it kicks off static analysis for auto code quality checks. It'll scan our application environment for vulnerabilities in auto container scanning. It'll also check all of our app's dependencies for vulnerabilities. It's checking all our software for open source licenses that don't match our policies. Doing static application security analysis. And finally, it'll auto test by using Heroku build packs specific to the language so it knows how to test the app. And when all that looks good, it automatically creates a review app by deploying the app to Kubernetes for us. Here we see a bunch of steps. It's doing automatically for us. With the highlight being the deployment to Kubernetes using our default Helm chart. If the app had a Helm chart in the project itself, it would have used that custom chart instead. Or it can even add a project variable to point to another chart, but here we're just using the default. To see the beauty of the review app and auto DevOps, let's go back to the merge request. Here we see a new line showing us it was deployed to a review app. And here's a URL to actually see my change running live. And there's a line for the code quality we see here that it likes that we removed the to do. If we had made things worse, it would have shown up here as well. We can also see the results of our security scans. In this case, there's no new vulnerabilities, but we can still get the full report. And also information about our license management scans, no new licenses to be concerned about. So this looks pretty good. So I'll go ahead and merge as soon as the pipeline is complete.  And inside this pipeline, it looks familiar, but a little different. This one is deploying right into production. This is continuous deployment at its best. Going to environments, we can see production listed there. And I can easily click through to see what it looks like. Now, there is more to this page. Expanding the environment, I can see the status of the last deployment. In this case, it's just a single pod. So let's go ahead and scale that up. I'll go to the CI-CD settings and adjust that project variable that we saw earlier to set the production replicates to five. Now, let's go back and redeploy. Soon, we'll see the deploy board update. And if we wait a bit, we'll see the deploy finish. Without a deploy to Kubernetes, you have visibility into your deployment. Now, that's pretty cool, but wait, there's more. This little graph icon takes us to the graphs where auto monitoring is showing us the performance of our production application. Again, I didn't configure a thing here. All the metrics were detected automatically. We've got error rate and latency and throughput. Further down, we can see the metrics on our infrastructure, the Kubernetes cluster. So that covers AutodevOps from build, test, code, quality, security scanning, review app, deploy performance testing to production and monitoring. That's pretty awesome. But what if you don't want to deploy straight through to production? We can go to our AutodevOps settings and change the configuration to allow automatic deployment up to staging, but then manual deployments to production. Let's go ahead and kick off another pipeline so we can see the difference. We can see it does all of the tests like before and then deploys to staging, but then production uses incremental rollout strategy. Whether you want continuous deployment to production or continuous delivery flow that's more under your control or even if you want to customize and do something else altogether, we've got you covered. That's AutodevOps in GitLab 11.0. Thanks for watching.


I live in Berlin, but I'm originally from Poland. I'm a member of RAZM, a Polish left-wing party, which is also a member of the European Spring Initiative. When it comes to the future of work, we all feel a growing sense of insecurity. Many people are afraid that automation and migration will contribute to the growing inequality in Europe. I'm running for the member of the European Parliament because I know we can change that. We can work together across national boundaries to put workers at the heart of the European project. We can fight for stronger laws and institutions which will protect workers from insecurity, discrimination and exploitation. We can change the bad European laws which allow companies to treat migrant workers differently. We can make sure that technological progress benefits all of us and not just a few big companies.