This video was brought to you by my patrons. Thank you so much for your support Understanding how collision layers and masks work is essential to make action games in good engine For instance on a platformer game You can implement a jump through mechanic by separating terrains into two layers and toggling the collision off based on players input I have an implementation for that in one of my experience. I'll put the link in the description if you want to check it out You can also prevent enemies from colliding with each other while they still collide with the environment And the player and even combat system rely a lot on the understanding of physics layers For instance a hit in hardbox system often demands an exclusive layer to prevent unwanted Interactions with other systems such as a selection area or site rains for instance I was watching devdux latest devlog and at some point he mentions that he had quite a time managing his games collision layers and masks This is a common issue in Godot. I remember that when I started I had like a lot of issues with that kind of system as well I didn't know how layers was meant to be used and I didn't actually understand what masks are So I had some bad time with that as well To understand this feature better you can think of a physics object from two perspectives From itself why should check to collide with so this will be the masks and from other objects perspective Where they should find this object to collide with it. So the layers For instance, let's make an enemy with a bump behavior. Whenever it collides with something on its sides It inverts its movement direction moving away from whatever it collides with Now if we test the enemy behavior, you can see that it's working as expected It bumps on walls. It changes its movement direction when it collides with the wall But something weird might happen if we add another enemy, so let's close this go to the 2d workspace Duplicate and I'll move it right here. So let's test this out play You can see that now enemies bump on each other as well This can be something that you might want in your game, but usually we don't want that to happen We want enemies to pass through each other and only collide with environment and maybe with the player, right? So I'll close that and how we can achieve that how we can make the enemies don't collide with each other I'll open the enemy scene and here on the physics body category We have the collision and we have the layer and the mask I will remove the enemies from the first layer from the first beat So I'll play the scene again And now you can see that they are avoiding they are passing through each other While they are still colliding with the environment right so with the floor This is because they are still masking the first beat and since the Environment so the floor and the wall are in the first layer. They will collide with it They will detect that there is something that they should collide with in this layer because they are masking the first layer But now there is a problem because let me add another object here the player I will remove the player from the first layer as well So let's play this scene and Now enemies are also ignoring the player they are passing through the player and this is something that shouldn't happen because for instance if we want to implement that Stomping behavior that we have for instance in Mario game Super Mario game Where the player can jump on enemies heads and stomp them We need to know that we collided with something We need the enemies to be in a physical layer and not be just a ghost not be a material entity in the game So for that we need we need to fix that, right? One way we can do that. Let me just remove the player from the Area of the floor One way we can do that is by adding a new layer. So let's go to the enemy here and You can see that we have 20 layers available and 20 masks available to mix and match them to Reach to achieve the behavior that we want so The the way that we can make the enemy interact with the environment not interact with other enemies and allow the player To interact with the enemies is by creating another layer called enemies so that the enemies will be inside this layer instead So the way that we can do that is by going into project project settings And you can see here in layers names. This is not mandatory. Actually, you can just click here and Wherever you will get this behavior, but is a good practice to name your layers So let's name the first layer environment environment and the second layer enemies Right, so let's save that enemies will be in the enemies layer, but they will check for collisions in the environment if we check that Players are still ignoring the the enemies, but enemies are still colliding with the environment so Back in the player scene we can now tell the players to mask the enemies as well So let's save that and test this And now enemies are bumping on players because players are Interacting with the enemies so we can stomp enemies. Let's let's add the stomp behavior So let's see if this works Yep, so there we have it. We have the stomp mechanic Now that we understand how collision layers and collision masks work We can explore their functionalities to create more interesting behaviors We have four methods that allow us to play with collision objects layers and mess The set collision layer bit and its getter counterpart and the set collision mask bit together with its getter counterpart as well These methods allow us to dynamically insert or remove objects into a physics layer or from a physics layer This is exactly how I implement the pastoral jump when the player presses the jump button while holding down The character is top masking the pastoral layer Which allows it to ignore any collisions with platforms and other environment objects that are inside the slayer For more details on that you can read my experiment report the link will be in the description As you can see there are many possibilities to play with once you understand this feature It's especially useful for action games such as platformers as you can see I'm currently with the goal of producing a series of videos that explore all these aspects of a platformer game I just need to reach that two hundred dollars goal on my patronage campaign to start producing this series So consider supporting me there to give me a green light that that's something that you'd like to see here in the channel That's it. Thank you so much for watching keep developing and until the next time


Good afternoon. Welcome to Finding Happiness in Hard Times. I'm Ken Birdness coming to you from Haleva on the North Shore. And today we're starting a new series called The Big Questions. Now for the past six months we've been doing, we've been looking at joy, finding joy. But I'm gonna, we're gonna talk about how to ask big questions of ourselves and how we can find happiness through asking those questions. And we'll do that in just a moment. Now again, you know, for the past number of months we've been focusing on really joyous things. And that's really a way to deal with the negativity that we're facing in our life. But it's not the only way to deal with that. And so today this new series about asking big questions is going to give us some direction. And that's what I've really been concerned about because because of the negativity. Because every time we turn on the television we're watching negative news. Every time that we are listening to our iPhone we're hearing negative news. Every time we're wandering about the internet we're running into all this negativity in the world. And it's just very hard to find one's direction. It's certainly hard because there doesn't seem to be any solutions. So this whole series that we're going to be going through is going to be asking some questions that will help us find that direction. And to help us get started with all this I have three very smart and talented ladies who you've seen before. And they're with me today and I want to say welcome to Debra Mone and Jamie McEwitt and Penny Smith. Welcome ladies. Well let's talk about how big questions can help us. A lot of people just seem to get lost and it's hard to find oneself. Many of us are walking around with all this negativity with the war, the mass shootings, the coronavirus of course. We're walking around in a fog and things don't seem the same today that they did in the past. We seem to be not the same person we've heard. And like I said we're sort of walking around in a fog in the present and we don't really know where we're going in the future. So to do that we're going to ask these series of questions and I've asked these ladies to join us again. And I'm sure you remember them from if you tuned in on March they were talking to us about freeing their imagination through writing which was a great show and really a happy time that I had with these ladies. And they're going to help us by asking probably one of the biggest questions I think that we all need to ask ourselves and that is what is important. What is important to us? And to do that I'm going to ask each of them to tell us a little bit about what they feel and then we're going to open it up to a discussion. And the first person who's going to start off is Jamie. So Jamie you've got the floor. Thank you. So I wanted to sort of set the stage that we are coming out of this pandemic and we have been totally reliant on technology during the time of it. And I think I also have a different perspective because when you have children what that does is not only disrupt your whole lifestyle but it's also created this generation that is so used to dealing with technology that their interpersonal skills have totally diminished. So what used to be important to me was activity. I'm very active. I have a lot of things going on at once. We would be you know during the week there'd be all kinds of sports activities or drama activities or enrichment activities in addition to school and I sort of kept that pace throughout the pandemic. But now what I'm finding is that I can't sustain it because it's sort of pre-pandemic technology has increased so much that I don't want to give it a bad name because I definitely had advantages with the technology. So being in touch with old friends, being in closer contact with family that's all over the world, those kinds of things enriched but the technology itself then became this addiction like the kids are suffering from as well. So you know I cannot go to sleep at night now without my words for friends and my French duo Lingo and you know the series of texts and emails and messengers and WhatsApps that have to be answered. So what used to be important to me was keeping these relationships alive but it was in person. So now it's the the relationships are sustained through this artificial means and I have tried very extensively to like use it to my advantage but I have found that I have fallen in that hole like everybody else where it's just like everything is powered by that. I don't know what I'm doing next unless I look at the digital calendar. Oh and did I actually remember to put that thing in the calendar? So my life has become just you know the same circus pace it always had sort of amplified three or four times. So what is important to me now is the quality of the time that I have left to spend on this earth the quality of that time now. So being in the now and being present and being fully present not trying to be not being pulled by the distractions of all the other activities. So I've gone from somebody who was career focused sort of educated focused for my son activity focused for social justice and causes and I'm trying now to learn how to say no which is something my good friend Ken is always telling me to do but in the context of the big picture my happiness now is more dependent on those quieter moments and I know during the pandemic a lot of people my age probably experienced a good length of time where they had time for self-reflection they had time to like really delve into whatever they were into but I didn't and so now I'm sort of okay what is it that I can do in my life to make me feel centered and fulfilled so I don't want to give up the level of activity but the quality of the activity and the interaction with people and you're always going on about the negativity in life and one of those one of my strategies has been to cut the negative out and that means negative influences that maybe you weren't even aware of before so that passive aggressive friend who is like yes supportive but very critical as well or my crisis is bigger than your crisis right now or yes you've been the support person for so long but um I can't really like take on your stuff because it's too big so I guess the biggest lesson that I've learned through this pandemic is that I am no longer that person that could do everything like I really had the perception like I can do this I can have a career I can have a gift I can have a family I can have a very full social life to going like oh no I can't do it and the reason I can't do it is because it's only I've only become aware in my 60th year oh things slipped through the cracks oh I missed that I don't even know what that person's talking about right now and I'm in this meeting and so um sort of becoming my younger self again where it's a it's sort of an open playing field I'm not necessarily in that one direction but whatever direction I am in at the time because become sort of this tunnel that I am there and present and not worrying about the next what the next thing is so I say the biggest thing is about pace all right well thank you I think we're over to Tamra okay well I also was thinking of this question what's important in terms of how COVID has changed um my relationship to my life and I think when COVID really you know first shut down everything a lot of people were doing one of two things they were either looking for a lot of distractions kind of pass all this extra time that we had on our hands or they were kind of stepping back and really thinking about kind of reassessing what their lives look like and what they valued I know I had friends who realize they no longer had these social obligations that they weren't too excited about to begin with so all of a sudden you didn't have to go to all those parties that you were sort of you know half hearted about and that's that was really telling like okay I don't really need to value those those kinds of appointments anymore and I think a lot of people have carried that on now that we're open and kind of you know entering our normal our normal lives again um for me what it really brought to the fore was how important my my creative activities are and how important my relationships are and both of those got very deepened during the last couple years and um it helps to have that kind of digital connection that I could ignite with people who were far away but I also I had a couple friends here who ended up you know being my podmates during um the shutdowns and the friendships I have now with those people are they're much deeper they just go way down to bedrock and it's just because we spent so much time together during 2020 and 2021 and um it made a big difference in the quality of our relationship um and for me I'm a painter and a writer and it was just crucial to spend time doing those things for my mental health and and just to be active you know in an intellectual and engaged way um for me in my life too I um I was in my very early 20s when my father died and I think that made a big difference in in my following life in terms of realizing that life is finite doesn't go on forever and if you don't do something during this life that's it that's your that's your opportunity that you just missed so COVID kind of intensified that and um I've realized you know if there are things that I really want to do with my life I need to do them right now I need to make them happen while I have the opportunity while I have my health while I have you know all the capabilities that I do have um and that that really helps snap things into perspective um so those are those were what I found to be important um and having a sort of drastic situation helped me kind of put a frame about what the frame around the things that I really wanted to be spending my time doing it also highlighted the things I don't want to spend my time doing and I tried to jettison those you know like at the end of my life I don't need to say that I spent a lot of time watching tv that's not very fulfilling for me so I don't you know and um so it just it every day I try to think about what's valuable to me and I try to prioritize what's valuable to me and it'll be different for every person but for me I know it's it's making and creating things and having good connections with the people who are important to me terrific thank you Tamara really appreciate that penny you're up holy moses well I think probably in some respects the pandemic was very good for me um and I really can't say it's because I was multitasking too much or any of that because a lot of the things that I do anyway I did during the pandemic I'm a writer I wrote three books during the pandemic and I love that that's my favorite thing in the world to do so that was not a hard thing I was with my partner which I love to be I it was great fun and you know that was good but the other thing about it was is that I don't know I think there's something about me that from the very beginning I think it was my probably my mother that said if you want to do something do it and we recently heard a woman in one of our professional groups who said the way to turn on creativity is to say yes from the time I've been a kid I said yes it's like oh there's an opportunity here should you do it or not well it yes because it's learning and and you and it's fun it's different and if you don't like it you can always walk away it's always about choices so for me relationships have been really really important I'm basically say bless you an only child my husband and I are the last of our line we have no family so the friend relationships are have been absolutely critical I have a pod they call it the girl gang in San Diego I have a girl gang in Palo Alto I and I go to see them and you know during the pandemic of course we couldn't so we zoomed twice a week all of us you know in each group and somehow or the that was fine it was enough but the other thing about it was is this thing about saying yes I can do that a lot of us here decided well this pandemic so what so three of us hired our favorite swim instructor one of his one of the women had a swimming pool and every every week we would meet at the swimming pool she would teach us we've been at different ends outside coming in with you know not going through anybody's house absolutely no concern about that um our art teacher went on zoom my Pilates teacher was on the art teacher if you can imagine putting clay outside of her door so that we could each individually come pick up our own and then we are all working together on Sunday in front of the camera it was different but we managed to keep going um but I guess the other thing about it is is that the biggest thing for me is I just turned 80 and so hearing 60 is sweet I don't know you know but you so you really do take a look and say well what's next and for me it's just kind of another step in the adventure I mean when we when I left home to go to college it was how's this gonna look when I left college and went into to work you know it was how's this gonna look what do I want what do I want and what choices do I have to make and I'm there now we're looking at and saying well what do you do when you're over 80 you don't want to deal with the management of a house you know all the things you're reading about in the press all the time right now is exactly where we are but I look at it I say okay I set up a strategic plan for it I've met with all kinds of people we've gone on to all these different places to look we know what we want for a place to live for the next step but I also know that I'm going to keep writing I'm going to keep painting my friends as long as we're all living are going to keep in touch with each other so you know I don't know I'm just a you know a perennial optimist number one and number two is somewhere down the line I've always believed oh I can do that and then as I got older it was well what is it that I want to do not just something but what are the choices and once you get into something you don't like it it's very easy to say mea culpa it's not right the best thing for all of us is for me to move along and I've done that several times here in the last couple of years with organizations and whatnot so um you know I'm looking at the next adventure I listen to the news I don't listen to all of the news anymore because it's pretty much the same um I pay attention we're ready for the hurricane season in case it should come but you know I don't know it's um it's just life and it's it's it's an adventure and it's it's you're a problem solver that's the way I look at it I have to solve some problems and make some choices and then get on with it and I know that sounds very polly anish but I hope that answers some of the questions well thank you penny yeah uh the one thing that I would throw back at all three of you is that you know what I hear from all three of you is change you know as we get older as we pass through the various stages of life we change and some of the things that were important in the past are no longer that important uh but some of the things that were important in the past are still important some of the things we did we no longer do but some of the things we did we're still doing so it's change and it's not change it's it's change and keeping some things and letting go of some things so I guess I would ask all three of you if we're talking about you know we've been talking about what's important in the past and what's important today uh if you could take a little more look into the future and say okay if I want to add something you know what would be an important thing that I would like to try or accomplish our experience uh in addition maybe to the stuff that I'm still doing that's still important like Tamara says uh but maybe there's something that's ahead of us that uh we have yet to delve into or to really give it the test of is this important for us it might be or it might not like Penny is saying you know we we have a choices there so can you can the three of you look a little bit into the future about what's important that may be coming up for you well I really like Penny's attitude about um saying yes to opportunities that come along and um I'm a great one for variety and change too so I really like um the accidents that happen with life uh and I I try to live as lightly as I can and be open to whatever comes along so if I was to have to you know if an opportunity came to move somewhere experience a different culture be halfway around the globe I'd be up for it it's uh it's hard to tell what's going to come along but um you just have to like I just don't want to be too tied down to my routines and and think that all my obligations have to hold me here forever well I can speak a little bit to that because for a variety of reasons we have moved something like six times in 10 years um you can't rent in Hawaii without having the house underneath your soul every two years so but even from that once or twice we've gone to the mainland and made decisions to do something else and and you know that gets easy and I think that has to do with how much how many years you have on you how how long you've had to deal with that because that will come up that was I guess a surprise for me as well my earlier life was that sometimes stuff just happened and you were kind of forced into making choices that you might not normally have chosen to make and and it's it's sort of a situation of saying okay um I gotta do this we're gonna go do this or I'm gonna go do this but how good can I make it you know of all the things that are in this scenario that I don't particularly anticipate or want what are the best parts of it and what can I make work and uh you know that's that's the phase you go through and age says age is the wrong word experience has something to do with that you know so I would say for me um one I never expected to be a mother as late in life as I became one and so there is something that I can't say no that doesn't work for me anymore which is parenthood right like I've got it I gotta slug out for however many years he's on the planet and I'm on the planet and um I think what has changed as far as my future visions of my life goes is that I want to instill in not just my son but the next generation coming up because I do a lot of work with kids anyways um the sense of value that we have on those very things that we have talked about the the friendships the connections your creativity doing something that's fulfilling in your life not being driven by numbers or prestige or whatever and I mean it sounds a very idealistic and I know it's not possible in our lifetime but leaving the place in a in some kind of better shape than I found it so here we are not only suffering from the throes of a pandemic that happened but a major war going on forest fires forest fires is wiping out my country of Canada right now I mean it's astounding so climate change all of those big big issues and to still be able to you know like do your social justice things contribute be a valid contributing member of society and not a me generation kind of atmosphere but to really show what the value of life is to that next generation and that they do have the power to change things that we may have made a mess of um and that like you I'm an eternal optimist but this is the first time in my life that I have to say I have even questioned that approach of like wait a minute I I do wake up every day and say whatever that disaster was yesterday it can't get worse and it does it does like I have been surprised how many times I've said that in the last not even pre-pandemic even pre-pandemic um how I just can't believe this is what's happening now so I sort of feel like we're living in this very surreal time it's almost like I don't know a superhero movie or something where it's just like one ping disaster after another and how are you going to put that fire out but in all of those movies there's always that feel good factor right of like oh they made friendships they bonded in they'll love each other forever um so my future movie I hope to encompass some of that no I would say something to that too and that is that sometimes this goes back to the absolute and can this is your area why you would probably know but it goes back way back to to yours who you are as a person from the almost the beginning or from very early in and you know I asked somebody asked me that question in a consulting thing one time you know what's important to you to you personally I well I need to I want to be considered or known and that's the wrong thing I want to be thought of as a as a good person as a good person second of all a person of fine integrity whatever I do that's something I want and then I want something I mean I need to be created that's important to me and and I think those internal things sometimes and for me as I've gotten older where I realized you know it's the thing of the value of the small or the virtue of the small I don't have to be a big thing in anything or make huge changes here or there as long as I get up every morning and do the best that I can that's kind of my mantra and and it's very under directed even though I am kind of known as an extrovert so I think that has a lot to do with it and the ability to define that as we get a little bit older and start throwing things off you know it's I don't need to be known as this I don't have to be that I don't do that do that do that as long as I feel deep in the core I'm a good person a person of integrity and I still get to be creative well we're sort of running short of time ladies as always there's a too little time and too much to think about one of the things I would simply add to what you all been talking about and I'll tell the audience this these three ladies one of the things that they characterize to me is that they're all open they're open to something new they're open to opportunities they're open to change and I think that's a big part of what we're talking about here is that's important to always be open to what the future may bring now the future may bring stuff that takes us in a direction that initially we don't want to go in but whatever direction it takes it to takes us to and whatever door opens up there's always something really interesting in behind that door and with these three ladies and I hope myself we can find that interesting thing and we can do something that's important to us and to other people last uh we got about 30 seconds for each of you last uh I have a bottle so this is the world according to Maria Scafidi fun don't do it and if you gotta do it make it fun I like it I like it camera I heard this the other day which I really like if can can if cannot try all right actually I have to go along with both of those I don't have a new one but it's just the thing of get up every morning and do the very best you can and just be happy try to be happy you know the thing is that you know when I wake up and I tell my friends this I have an open window by my bed and every time I wake up and I see that dawn coming and I look out and I look at my orchid tree and my garden and I look at Hawaii and I say wow you know it doesn't get much better than this so we've got a big advantage over a lot of people and I'm forever grateful for that and I'm ever forever grateful to my friends especially you three ladies and thank you so much for being with us thank you and we hope and I want to thank of course the audience that's tuned in today I hope you'll continue to tune in we'll be talking some more about the joy of things that make the brush away that negativity that we find ourselves in and we'll also be asking some other big questions that gives us some direction on where we want to go rather than just sort of floating along like a lot of us have been tempted to do in today's negativity and in case any of you are wondering if I'm ever going to have any male's opinion about this I'm also going to have three males a couple months down the line that are going to tackle the same question now I don't think that there's a whole lot of difference between the feminine and the masculine point of view on these types of things but we'll see it'll give us a chance to take a look in the meantime thank you ladies again and thanks to think tech Hawaii all the people there that have helped with us with the michael and ash and jay and hailey and everybody else and again thanks for tuning in hope to see you again adios thank you so much for watching think tech Hawaii if you like what we do please click the like and subscribe button on youtube you can also follow us on facebook instagram and linkedin check out our website think tech Hawaii calm mahalo


So here we're looking at the Ohmatex USB cable and what's special about this cable? Well it's besides being the world's thinnest micro USB cable it's bringing the character of textiles into the context of a cable doesn't do anything different than a traditional USB cable but you could call it kind of e-fashion instead of this clumsy traditional cable it brings the conformity into a cable nice it's a is this shipping already yeah yeah since yesterday you can buy it on our web shop so how much is a USB cable I think we charge 30 US dollar for it so it's quite expensive but it's also a fashionable product handmade so who are you I'm the CEO of Ohmatex which is a development company that mainly do research and development for people that want to integrate sensor techniques wearable sensors into so you take the concept and what do you do yeah so what we do we can step in as early as the concept idea for clients but we also typically see ourselves coming into the prototype level solving specific connectivity encapsulation solutions for clients that have run into problems and you're in space yes so some guys in space have it yeah well we're doing an astronaut monitoring kit it's very important for the astronaut to maintain their muscle mass when they're in space but they have no tools to measure they train a couple of hours every day but they don't know if it's enough or if it's too little and we provide them the tool to enable them to you know what is this this is a part of the astronaut monitoring kit this is a dielectric polymer we use it to measure the increase in surface circumference and thereby also the shift of fluid that happens in the body when they're in space all right and what are we looking at here the this one is the first generation of device to harvest take it out yeah is it open so yeah this was the first generation of a near infrared sensor built and molded directly onto the sleeve the reason why it's wired is because it's for the International Space Station and it needs to be wired we can't send it wireless there but we have a feature where this device is also sending the signal wireless what does that have to be wired in the space station they don't want the interference of all the various signals that comes from devices so that's why we need a wire all right and so in the future you have lots of work to do you're gonna work be in textiles what are you gonna do you're gonna be in a leader and smart textiles no I mean what do you do we are not a textile company but to do a fully integration of a sensor into clothing you need to know the character of clothing and the context of the textile and we know that so we master various incorporation techniques encapsulation techniques we develop our own textile wiring to enable it to fit nicely into clothing without being felt when it's integrated nice so but mainly how does it how does it work and how can you transmit through something like this on this one we have stripped stripped the wire so you can see how the wire runs directly into the textile structure so they all your technology here yeah yeah yeah one of the advantages of using textiles is that and the technique we use we can do outbreaks off the wire bring it into the textile again so we can overmold electronics straight on the textile without having to cut in the textile and you maintain the very very strong strength of the textile you maintain that in the in the cable but there's a lot of stuff that's gonna happen with this in the future no so what are you what are you working on getting into these jackets and everywhere we we use it to create the connectivity in various projects but it's not what we consider our core business our core business is to well of electronics to harvest signals from sensors and to incorporate these sensors into the garment whether it's incorporated encapsulated or directly as part of the garment so that means you are more and more busy and new projects oh yeah we've been way way way busy in the in the last years and continue to go that way and where are you based we based in Denmark where and but you travel a lot you go and talk with different customers in different places or no we have an interest of being in ID tech because our CTO is typically in the panels and masterclasses so we go here it's a good way for us to connect with the industry the various techniques that we then use in our development projects other than that no we don't do any you know search for clients that actually come to us they just come to our house and they sit there and work with you on new projects and tell it almost yeah almost all right cool so looking forward to more stuff like this


Ephesians chapter 4 unity and maturity in the body of Christ as a prisoner for the Lord then I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received be completely humble and gentle be patient bearing with one another in love make every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace there is one body and one spirit just as you were called to one hope when you were called one Lord one faith one baptism one God and father of all who is over all and through all and in all but to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it this is why it says when he ascended on high he took many captives and gave gifts to his people what does he ascended mean except that he also descended to the lower earthly regions he who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens in order to fail the whole universe so Christ himself gave the Apostles the prophets the evangelists the pastors and teachers to equip his people for works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ then we will no longer be infants tossed back and forth by the waves and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming instead speaking the truth in love we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head that is Christ from him the whole body joined and held together by every supporting ligament grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work instructions for Christian living so I tell you this and insist on it in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do in the futility of their thinking they are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts having lost all sensitivity they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity and they are full of greed that however is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus you were taught with regard to your former way of life to put off your old self which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires to be made new in the attitude of your minds and to put on the new self created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor for we are all members of one body and your anger do not sin do not let the sun go down while you are still angry and do not give the devil a foothold anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer but must work doing something useful with their own hands that they may have something to share with those in need do not let any an wholesome talk come out of your mouths but only what is helpful for building others up in accordance to their needs that it may benefit those who listen and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you are sealed for the day of redemption get rid of all bitterness rage and anger brawling and slander along with every form of malice be kind and compassionate to one another forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you


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Area B has been deferred. Thank you. The DDRC used the consent agenda to approve non-controversial or routine matters by a single motion and vote. The DDR, if a member of the DDRC or the general public wants to discuss an item on the consent agenda, that item is removed from the consent agenda and considered during the meeting. The DDRC then approves the remaining consent agenda items. Will staff please read the consent agenda? Certainly. The first item is 1407 Gladden Street, a request for preliminary certification for the Bailey Bill and for a certificate of design approval for an addition and exterior changes in the Melrose Heights, Oakland Architectural Conservation District. 1205 Fairview Drive is a request for preliminary certification for the Bailey Bill and for a certificate of design approval for exterior changes in the Melrose Heights, Oakland Architectural Conservation District. 1210 Woodrow Street is a request for a certificate of design approval for an addition in the Melrose Heights, Oakland Architectural Conservation District. And 303 Saluta Avenue is a request for preliminary certification for the Bailey Bill and for a certificate of design approval for exterior changes in the Wales Garden Architectural Conservation District. And the last is 3131 Lakewood Avenue, request for preliminary certification of the Bailey Bill in the Earlwood Protection Area, Area A. Thank you. Would any commissioners like to ask that an item be removed from the consent agenda? Hearing none. Is there any one from the public that would like to have an item removed from the consent agenda? And please note that this is the only time during the meeting that an item can be removed from the consent agenda. All right. Hearing none. Do I have a motion and second to remove any items from the consent agenda or to accept the consent agenda as presented and subject to all conditions contained in the case summaries as well as the March minutes? There's a motion. Do I have a second? All right, any discussion? If none, will staff please take a vote? Certainly. Oh, in the minutes, please. The March minutes. Yeah. Would anyone like to, would you like to amend your motion? Yeah, I'd like to amend the motion to approve the minutes as well. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Great. Mr. McGuire. Yes. Mr. Brim. Yes. Ms. Brannum. Yes. Mr. Greenberg. Yes. And Mr. Salibi. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Is there any other business from staff? There are a few items, quick items. I just wanted to remind folks, if you're interested, the State Historic Preservation Conference is next Friday, which is always a great conference. And also, Rachel has passed out some posters for preservation month activities that the preservation folks here have put together. So there's a whole bunch of fun stuff, architectural scavenger hunts, video series, walks, bicycle, well, bicycle rides this year, lunch and learns and so on and so forth. So take a look at the calendar, we're excited to offer all of these activities during May. All right, thank you very much. Any other business, or does that conclude the other business portion of the agenda? That concludes it. Great. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. All right, thank you, everybody.


All right, it's Wednesday. We are on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Jim Kramer to talk about the markets All right, Jim, it happened Apple unveiling that $1,000 iPhone. What will it mean for the services revenue? Well, I've actually been trying to work on that and it's not easily defined But what I think when you hear a lot about augmented reality, you got to remember what happened last year with Pokemon Go and Recognize that what that's not one off Gaming's the most important force I know right now take a look at the stock of take to take a look at Activision Blizzard, which we own for action alert And I will talk about tomorrow when we have our monthly call and what you're seeing is people will pay up for games So if you have a device that's better for games, it matters If you have an ecosystem, I know a lot of people are saying that this isn't as good as Samsung Well, Samsung doesn't have an ecosystem or else we would all buy Samsung if it's really good and cheaper And it has to do with the seamless nature. I hope you guys I think Apple's so important and I know that a Sarge who's a Is just the best has a really good piece about Apple today And I hope it comes up in your trading stack strategy discussion at 12 o'clock because I think it's that big and that Important for the gross domestic product We're going to talk about that and also that OLED screen on the new iPhone the impact on universal display I mean, we've been you know, this is one of those where I've been so far so long behind universal display and a lot of that is because it happens to be very near My hometown and I've done a huge amount of work on it and that met a lot of people And I just think it's always been for real and there are a lot of people who are shorted And I just think it makes no kids Sense to short it, but I understand now everybody's kind of hearing about it So this is not the time to buy it a lot of people say on my Twitter files It's too late to buy it and I always say the same thing which is yes You have to wait it for another time and I got that way because Karen Kramer ran my trading desk when we were Kramer company would always say a man. Are you kidding me?  And you're recommending it for 40 points and now people come in so the answer is Karen Kramer's right All right in the midst of all this Apple news micron technology was upgraded by Goldman Sachs Yes, see microns really important because what's happened is it looks like Western digital is not going to get the flash business If they had then it's possibly that they would blow out flash instead It looks like it's being bought by Bain with Apple They're not going to try to blow up flash just going to try to get flash at a let at a cheaper price So there could be two tiers of flash. That's good for micron prices for the DRAMs have not come down The reason why Western digital is down besides that is because now Western digital is flash Which is good for data center and also it's Distrive which is a really big business right now micron is described and DRAM and both of those I'm sorry micron is DRAM and flash flash is used in the data center and DRAM used in pretty much everything including Apple So the case for micron is that there's going to be another quarter Where it's not you know, this is a stock that historically when it's not going up after reported it was the peak This time it's taken out its high So it's not the peak and I think that the short scramble here now You don't own micron for action alerts plus but you do own broad come We own the higher value part of the food chain. We own NVIDIA, which is not just cryptocurrency Please I mean it's 10% of which some is China But you own NVIDIA because it's intellectual property and we own broad come because that is going to be the most Broad come has the most in the new Apple and I think that what happens if you go back and look at the broad come Conference call with Hawk tan the brilliant CEO He did not raise guidance as much as people thought and I think that's because he knew that Apple wasn't ready to ship In the quantities that a lot of people felt they would so broad come going down as a little dumb given the fact that that hot can If you read between the lines told you this would happen So as as bro come comes down and I can I will hit this very hard In our action alerts plus comm club call as bro come comes down. It's a buy not a sell Staying with Apple though. I mean did the event yesterday bolster your view that Apple is a consumer products company I mean bleach sells at 28 times earnings in this market and this sells at 16 times earnings I think that what people have to recognize about the phone is always the same It's a it's a consumer products company that is the best in the world that has the highest customer service rating And that's what determines it I think that there are a lot of technology people who would come back and say yes But it doesn't have the our machine learning artificial intelligence that we get out of companies that use NVIDIA chips That's not the point. It's not an enterprise product. It's consumer product So if it's a consumer product, you can't view it like it's going to be red hat or Vm Vmware Or service now or sales force for companies that I love stocks I love so it's not like I'm saying, you know, it's got to be one or the other It's a completely different animal and you're not comparing apples to apples But a lot of the technology analysts are in the apples to apples Comparison game, which is false. I I think that you have to be proctoring Gamble analyst a Newell, which has not been a good stock of late for us at actual orders plus want to talk about that too tomorrow's conference call, but These consumer products companies Trade on level of satisfaction and customer satisfaction and there's nothing like apples customer satisfaction Well, you rock your Apple watch every day. Are you gonna get the new one? I got a phone call it during my stop trading and it was really important. I looked down and I changed my game I also use all my reminders. I have it programmed so that when my wife calls I can answer very you know, I know that it's her which is what I need So I don't pull the phone out and be rude. I also use it my daughter has been sending me pictures from this Unbelievable trip. She's taking in Colorado and I look at them makes me smile But I also get to take medicine that I have to take for arthritis and smile And I just find it's terrific. I I didn't buy the last iteration I am gonna look at the next iteration and suggest very strongly that my wife buy it for me without it Maybe just have a picture of it next to her And Jim I couldn't wait to ask you this because Tim Cook was speaking at the Steve Jobs Theater Now you were at Apple Park when you interviewed Tim Cook. Yes. What was it like? Well, I mean it just we were in the pre in the old place and we've got to visit the new one the new one was kind of awe-inspiring, but this is important what people have to realize is that physical plan out there Whether it be Google, which is okay, whether it be Facebook where they're making dorms whether the Apple that it's about sustainability It's about small footprint and I you know, these are things that older people just mouth. So it's got small footprint The younger people who hate packaging who want to know about the environment and who's destroying it This determines where in many ways if you have six or a half dozen who you work with and the Apple Sustainability factor is going to help them get the right people and it could also encourage more people to Participate in this stay-at-home economy, which could help grubhub shares as you talked about grubhub. I mean look I I've had to succumb at bar say Miguel is a bar I run and I've had to succumb to the notion of of people coming by and of takeout Now obviously I don't want to do that because the food is freshest if you eat it there and also because it's a tavern and sell You sell liquor, but I've mentioned it as I have learned from my in The de Barry and I've learned from bar say Miguel. This is how you learn now I'm fortunate enough to done well enough in previous life as a head from manager be able to have these things But I have learned far more from bar say Miguel and far more from the de Barry in than I have from a lot of Wall Street research and the fact is is that I've had to cave to the grubhubs of the world Which is why I recommended it and his company spent on mad money, and it's a fabulous story Callan has a good report about it if you want to read you know flesh out the actual substantive story Moving on Nordstrom in close talks to become private I don't know why people are still reluctant to buy this the north's baby They don't know the Nordstrom brothers that honest is the day is long and unless the stories was story was not refuted I don't think you're gonna be able to I think you can get this at a higher price now One of the things that that we hear about is that you need to be private to be able to take on Amazon No, you just you need to be a visionary you got to bring in lots of different companies You got to bring in Salesforce. You got to bring in New Relic You got to bring in VM where you got to bring in red hat. You have to bring in Google web services You have to bring in Microsoft as you're there's a lot of different companies that you have to bring in that just to be able to just get the basics And I think that that's all has to happen Nordstrom's pretty far along but not far enough now Jim there was so much news yesterday people may have missed the caterpillar analyst meeting Yeah, and caterpillar is a remarkable company in that it's 60 people worried about its survival At 120 people recognize that it's playing offense. It is slimmed down unbelievably It does have because the dollar the you know cost advantage that it's never had over that Well, it's been a long time since it had it over Kamatsu We do have giant infrastructure projects in this country because of storms Where they have to rebuild the rebuilding of roads is done by Florida and by Texas to rich states the Chinese economies come back I know that my friend Matt Horween was telling me don't forget coppers now down down getting getting hard But I'll come back and say aluminum is going back on there are so many drivers for caterpillar in the Essence of the of the analyst day was okay. Here's how we're going to play offense It's been a long time since cats been able to say that All right, Jim and as we wrap up here you mentioned Salesforce earlier But we have one earnings report to watch on Thursday Oracle. I think we're just gonna have a remarkable quarter Oracle Larry Ellison a mark her Software cats you just got a hand it to them. They never stopped They've got a one-premises model, but they've got a cloud model and the stock is very inexpensive And I had us off to them and I was with my friend Tom Siebel yesterday Siebel systems great company and we were talking about how County out Larry and County at Oracle has been a time-honored and Incorrect view and it will be incorrect again. Jim Kramer. Thank you so much. We'll leave it there We hope everyone joins in on our trading strategies round table our conference call tomorrow for club members actually alerts There's gonna be some really good ideas tomorrow at 11 30 that a ap called Jim. Thank you


All the instruments that I build hopefully will live beyond me. You know, these instruments that we cherish and prize are hundreds of years old. Hello, my name is Cameron Robertson. I am a luthier. I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and I am the owner of Cameron's violin workshop. Luthiers are people who make and repair stringed instruments, or luthier, if you're French, and that's the way that they like to say it. I came into this trade a little bit by accident. I had an incident with my base. I took it to my local luthier who was able to set it back up, get it correctly. Playing for me was really fascinating to see him work with his hands. Well, that was my next step, actually. I enrolled at a violin making school. Cameron Robertson is crucial. I mean, not only does he actually physically make violins, he teaches, he helps repair. It's so surgical, right? It's so, like, traditional. But that's the beauty of Atlanta, too, because nothing's traditional here. There's not going to be a one-way how-to-do-it answer. I love the materials. I love the intricacy of it. It's really, really precise and finite work. A big group that is supportive, though, for me, actually is my clientele. I invest a lot of my emotions and personality into my instruments and my work, and it's really great to get positive feedback, especially local teachers who see the work that I do. It's really great to be able to work with really top-level professional musicians. It's incredible to see their talent and their skill. It's also really great to work with students. They need a lot of help. These are difficult instruments to play. The learning curve for violins is pretty steep. It's really easy to sound really bad for a long time. One of the challenges that I always have is the same thing that's so great about the work that I do, and that is the great variety of stuff that I have. Making sure that I'm staying focused on the work that I need to be working on. I've worked for a number of shops here in the area for a number of years. I didn't have that personal connection. I really wanted to get back into making my own instruments, to putting my brand, to building the things that I really wanted to build.  I mean, if we think about the classical training of a bass player, you can never pin AT Alien down when it comes to music. We have so many sorcerers, so many wizards, and that's the beauty of Atlanta music culture, that we are many things, not just one. We want people to keep playing. We want more music. We want people to have an interest in the arts and have a love for this music. You know, if we can help foster that, you know, at a young age and help them in school, even if it's just giving them a proper sounding instrument to play on, that, you know, that they can tune themselves and actually sounds pretty decent, I mean, that's a really rewarding experience.