Okay, well, thank you all for coming to the June 2017 YVA graduation. I am Sonny Waterman, the director of YVA, and I want to thank all of you for being here to support these students who have worked so hard to complete their graduation requirements. All right, would you please rise as the class of June 2017 enters the auditorium. Thank you so much. Congratulations. First of all, I would like to thank the Portland Public Library as they so graciously allow us to use this auditorium and provide all the equipment for us. I also would like to thank former board, youth, learning work, sorry, board member Teresa Coburn and Alyssa Sprouls for supplying all the refreshments today. They've done an amazing job. We will have those available at the end of the ceremony. So thank you. These students, all 22 of them, they all began in October except for one wayward lost soul that we brought into the group with us. And we allowed him and the rest of them to participate in this program for nine months. They have completed all of the requirements that were developed based on an individual basis and their individual needs. Their comprehensive program has included these components, academic instruction which focused on high set test preparation and a demonstration of growth and math reading and writing, vocational training, NCCER requirements and carpentry, pro start culinary arts program, hospitality certifications, in guest service gold, front desk representative, restaurant server, guest room attendant and or maintenance worker, OSHA 10 certification, serve safe certification, jobs remain graduates classes for preparation to obtain and maintain a job, leadership classes, career and post-secondary education preparation classes, work ready certification, renovation of an apartment owned by Portland Housing Authority, community service projects at many organizations such as Prepple Street, Wolf's Neck Farm and Sale Main. These students have earned over 72 certifications, give yourselves a hand, them have demonstrated at least two years academic growth in reading, math and or writing. They have also given over 350 hours of community service to the surrounding area. So we're very, very proud of them and we are honored to share in their commencement ceremony. We will start this morning's ceremony with some of our student speakers. We are honored to have five young ladies who have graciously volunteered to share their thoughts this morning about the program, their lives where they were, where they have come from and where they're going. So if we could please welcome to the stage Grace Wiley. All right, I'm not much of a public speaker, so this is a lot for me right now, but we're going to do it. All right. Hello. Hi. I'm Maria. I'm Grace Wiley. I'd first like to start off by saying thank you to everyone for coming to support our YBA family as we reach our final moments of attending YBA. I want to ask everyone here, has anyone ever asked you what you wanted to be when you grow up? Well, I've been asked that a lot in my life, but when I would tell people what I wanted to be, they would always have a reason as to why it wasn't achievable. But here at YBA, mostly anything is achievable. I came from Gorham High School where there was nothing but mental and physical torment. I was attacked three years in a row by the same girl. No one helped me. I pled for help so I could further my education without the fear of getting hurt in school. Besides the help from a couple kind hearted teachers, they didn't offer me much except if I felt scared to tell them. Realistically, that wasn't going to make anything any better.  YBA popped up. After looking at the website, I was hooked. Before dropping out of Gorham Fully, I came in for a tour. A couple days later, I got a phone call from Sonny asking me if I would come in to speak with her. I got nervous. My hand started sweating as she was talking. I felt a sort of relief though as she told me I got accepted. I nearly fell out of my seat when I found out. I quickly withdrew from Gorham to start my new life at YBA. The first day of school was kind of crazy from trying to fit 14 people onto one tiny milk crate to making up nicknames that have to do with foods. I was pretty nervous to jump into school. I felt I couldn't look anyone in their eyes. Then I saw all of my fears had went away because I soon learned that no one here was judgmental and we all kind of fit together like a family. As months went on, students got closer to students and teachers. I soon noticed every teacher here has their own way of showing us they care about our future. From Charlie's sarcastic remarks, Durrani getting so mad he left us in the room until we got work done. I soon came to realize that Charlie doesn't make the remarks to be mean. He makes the remarks to show us he secretly cares. Rodney didn't close us in a room because he was mad. He closed us in because he wanted us to get work done because he cared about our education. Julie, Sonny, Lindsay, Rodney, Dave, Charlie, Sam, and Tom pushed us to do things we normally wouldn't do. And I want to give them a big thank you. If it wasn't for all of you, I would not have pushed myself to get through these past few months and plan to enroll in SMCC as a health science major to pursue my dream of being a physical therapist. Once again, I'd like to say thank you to my class for being my friends and family through this time. And thank you teachers for your patience with me and my crazy self. And thank you parents and everybody for coming to support us. Now I would like to welcome Xandra Remington to the stage. Before I start reading my graduation speech, I want to thank everyone for coming here today and for Grace's lovely speech. They also told me to picture everyone naked. That would help, but it's really not helping. All right, new beginnings. I thought I wasn't going to graduate until next year or maybe not at all. I wasn't supposed to be, I was supposed to be a junior, but I dropped out and got into legal trouble. I even ran away to New York City. A lot of us dropped out and have gotten into trouble. No one was able to accommodate our needs in school. My mom always did a lot to help me in school though, which I'm extremely thankful for. High school just didn't work for me. It didn't work for any of us. We all just took a different route to get there. We went to YBA. YBA helped us accommodate us with so many skills in the education we didn't think we would get. But now we're here, graduates of 2017, the ending of a new beginning. Getting here now sure as hell wasn't easy. YBA gave us a second chance, a fresh start. We get to choose what we do with the education we have received. YBA gave us a second chance. We get to have endless amounts of options and opportunities we can take. What will we choose? What will come next for you? Now we have college, internships, and jobs to get us to the careers we love. We have travels and independence to come. We create our future. We decide what we do. Our journey here was like wildfire. You know it. Wildfire, I say. I'm not going to say it was going to be easy from here out. But at least you know you can achieve anything if you set your mind to it. That's what YBA showed us. They asked us what we wanted to do next our whole lives. When I was little, I could say I wanted to be a princess and get away with it. But now they want a serious answer.  We actually graduated, though. Look at us. That's pretty incredible. We all haven't made the best choices, but coming here was a choice we'll never regret. Thank you, Sony, Tom, Julie, Dave, Charlie, Sam, Lindsey, and Rodney for helping us get here today. I also want to thank my family for coming here and let you guys know I love you. Even though I don't say it enough, I couldn't ask for a better family. Thank you. Now I'd like to welcome Sarah to the stage. I came to YBA because regular high school didn't work for me. I was miserable with the whole school system and had many problems with it. 80-minute classes were unbearable because it was a lot of city stuff. Teachers were unhelpful because it was just expected of us to do work. And that was thrown at us and we didn't have any support. When I was given work, I didn't understand. I was told to just reread worksheets and figure it out. If I couldn't figure it out, I just wouldn't do it. All my assignments would just pile up and cause more stress on me. Eventually being nagged at by everyone just made me fall into what felt like an endless hole because I was constantly told if I couldn't finish high school I was going to be nothing go nowhere. My depression took a turn for the worst again my junior year. I couldn't even get out of my bed and would spend all day in it. I didn't care about my future anymore and I completely gave up. I've been working with my counselor Molly since eighth grade and in my junior year when I was struggling she suggested YBA. We took a tour but I didn't want anything to do with it because I thought it was bad kids that came here. Although I was skeptical it was only a nine month program so I decided to just do it. My first week here was kind of a love hate because I didn't know anybody and I don't like meeting new people. The week was full of different activities to get us all comfortable with each other. After three weeks I was comfortable with the teachers. They're all amazing people. Supportive motivational caring laid back just everything you could ask for in a teacher. Smaller classes provided one-on-one support and it was no rush and I could work at my own pace without being left behind. The nine months of being here I accomplished all my certificates. Four high sets and CCR, OSHA, four hospitalities, community service hours, pro start and surf safe. I also have done my resume and cover letter and interview ready. I've not only accomplished my goals but I've achieved more than I thought. I'm going to start work in August and next year I'm pursuing a degree in criminal justice. I see a future for myself now and I couldn't be any more happy that I was in this program and the people I've met. I wish the best on everyone here today and that they accomplish their future goals. I want to say thank you to everyone who has been there for me and helped me through the hardest parts of my life, especially my mom and Molly. Thank you and now I'd like to introduce Brittany Freeman. If you are faced with the mountain you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it, you can dig under it, you can fly over it, you can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it's not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home, Vera and Nazarian. My name is Brittany Freeman and I would like to thank you all for coming to the YBA class of 2017 graduation. When I came to YBA, I was probably at the worst place in my life that I've ever been in. I was homeless, dealing with the recent loss of my daughter and had turned to alcohol and drugs to get out of my own head. I'd always heard about YBA in which I had the chance to be a part of their program. I took a shot in the dark and fell down an application with my counselor thinking I had no actual chance of being accepted. A few weeks later I had my interview with Sony. When I walked through the doors of YBA I immediately knew this was somewhere I would fit in and love being a part of. I knew I belonged here. For the first three weeks we had to have 80% attendance and great ratings and then we could sign our contract to be able to stay. Sony, Dave, Julie, Lindsay, Charlie, Sam, Tom and Rodney. All saw something in me that I didn't see myself. I didn't meet the qualifications but I was giving multiple chances. For the first few weeks everyone was getting to know each other and eventually we all became a family. There's been good times and bad times but I wouldn't have wanted to go through the good or the bad with anyone else. Sony, you've given me the ability to see believe in myself because you believed me when I felt no one else did. Rodney, you've shown me that even though sometimes I get irritated with things that I could push through them and that your heart was always in the right place. Lindsay, thank you for always helping me and walking me through things every step of the way when I didn't understand school work or even things in my life. Julie, thank you for always giving me a good laugh no matter what's going on in my life. And Dave, thank you for showing me skills I honestly had no idea I'd ever be capable of having. Charlie, thank you for helping me with my work when I felt no one else could teach me and being someone I could always come and talk to. Sam and Tom, thank you for helping me get into a few helpful programs and seeing what is out there for work. And Nora, thank you for always giving me a good laugh and being an amazing person to talk to. I wanna thank my peers and staff for helping make YBA my home, helping me start out strong and finish stronger, making YBA the only place I could go to when there's no air and no one else. I know of the pleasure of welcoming Cassandra Donner to the stage. I love and good morning friends and family. First, I would love to take a moment to thank you all for showing your love and support throughout the year. It was not an easy road getting where we are today. We all have different ways to get where we are, different strategies, different outlooks on what we thought we needed to accomplish. My name is Cassandra Donner and this is my story. Well, today I graduate. Now the day goes by that I don't ask myself how or why but then I really thought about it. A year ago I dropped out of Portland High School. I had no credits and no ambitions to get any. So there I was, a junior with no credits. I was slipping up really bad. I was always in trouble with the law. One day, all my teachers and my mother had a meeting. In that meeting, they decided it would be best if I attended YBA. I didn't really care at first. For a solid three or four months, I was totally against it. I got mad, people would bring it up. Then one day, I had a breakdown in school. I decided that very moment, I needed YBA. It was a smaller school with less students and it would be better all around. So I got the tour and really liked it. Now here I am, part of the graduating class of YBA 2017. Not only did they help me get where I needed to be but they helped me get and stay out of trouble with the law. I did my community service with Tim. He kept me busy but he also made it so I had a friend. He was always there if I needed something to talk to and he still is. In the YBA family, everyone has their own part. There is Tom and Sam who are always making stuff happen and getting us enrolled in this program. They set us up for a way of life that throws at us next. Sonny and Charlie are always there for us and talking us out of a lot. Making sure we stay out of trouble. Then Rodney, Lindsay, Julie, and Dave. The four main teachers helped us get where we are today. If it wasn't for them, we would not be where we are or know what we know. From OSHA 10 to Surfsafe and all that fun stuff in between. Honestly, if you just keep a positive outlook on what you're trying to complete then it doesn't matter how you did it. It's crossing the finish line that matters. I'm proud of all my peers for taking that leap and crossing the finish line.  Once again, I would love to thank my parents for pushing me and all the students and teachers for being my friends and family throughout the year. I would like to welcome our director, Sonny Waterman to the stage again. I have a pleasure of welcoming Brittany Freeman back up to the podium. She is going to share with you the gift of the joy, the recipients of the joy project. So Brittany, would you please come up and... Thank you all for attending the graduation of YBA's class of 2017. My name is Brittany Freeman and I would like to take this time to tell you a little bit about our joy program. In our JMG class, our teacher Julie Stone taught us about philanthropy through Jumpstart Our Youth, also known as JOY. JOY is a program funded by the Unity Foundation with the goal of teaching students the importance of giving back to their community. Through JOY, my classmates and I, we all did research on a local nonprofit organization in which we would donate $1,000 to. We broke it down to five local nonprofit organizations that help youth in the area. The five organizations came in to talk about what their programs do to help youth in the community. We all voted on which organization we thought would be best to give the money to. This year we chose the My Place Teen Center in Westbrook. They'll be using their money to help students in the area attend the teen center during the summer. Today we'd like to invite the teen center to the stage to receive their check. Throughout the year, our students earn many awards. We do award ceremonies every month to recognize their accomplishments. And we would like to do one final awards ceremony. So the staff got together and decided which names we would attach to each area. All of these students are capable of getting multiple awards. So this was very difficult for us. But we worked very hard to decide who was going to get one. First award is Outstanding Service and Job Sight. Job Sight Excellence. And many of these students have worked very hard to renovate an apartment. They've also worked with Dave in the shop. They've built sheds for Camp Ketchup. They worked at Sail Main repairing the floats. They've been out at Wolf's Neck Farm. They've done so many things this year with learning how to use tools and have earned their NCCER certification. And also, many of them have an OSHA 10. So what I would like to do is have the following students come up and stand right here.  So the first one for Job Sight Excellence is Destin Broadley. Next to him is CJ Waters. Then we have Cassie Donner and Esmin Perez and Logan Berg. In order for you to be fully prepared and go out into the world, and so you wouldn't lose it, we put your name on it. So CJ, Destin, here's your hammer. And then next group of students have shown amazing skill in the kitchen. They have worked really hard to prepare amazing dishes and meals and have also worked with Chef Berio. I saw him here somewhere. He came to visit and worked with Julie, who is our amazing chef. And they go every other day and make some great stuff. And they've also earned their ProStart certificate. So these people get awards for culinary arts and need to come up here. Christian Molina Mendez, Calvin Goldrup, and Joe DeBale. Take your next step out into the world of a restaurant we need. Chef Calvin, set of awards is for JMG, Jobs for Main Graduates. These students work very hard to prepare themselves for the workforce, doing all kinds of activities, financial literacy, writing their resumes, practicing for interviews. We also had a large group of students who went this year and participated in the Career Development Conference. Julie is also the JMG teacher. So these awards are for Jobs for Main Graduates Excellence, Riley Coffin, Anthony Machiavelli, and Tallulah Freeman. The next group of students have demonstrated excellence in the area of career preparation and post-secondary ed preparation. They have classes with Sam and Tom once a week. They work also on preparing their resumes, their portfolios. They do job searches, work on their mock interview and interview skills, and then basically kind of prepare themselves for the workforce. So students who have demonstrated excellence in career and post-secondary ed pathways are John Sullivan, Ms. Keaton. For old, you need a portfolio with some paper so you can take notes and be ready to have your resume in there. And Sam made some business cards for you, so they're in here ready to go. John? All of the business cards, so you're ready? OK. You're ready. I know you are. Congratulations. Thank you. All of our students work very hard in the classroom, but this next group has demonstrated academic excellence throughout the year and have worked really hard in all areas. Samantha Grant, Nia Glant, Alexandra Remington. To help you in the classroom in your next step, you need Sharpies, Highlighters, and notebooks. All right. Lindsay works hard with the students to prepare them for the area of hospitality, where they receive certificates in front desk, maintenance, guest attendant, guest room attendant, and restaurant server. Some of these students have four, do you have four? Four certificates. They've done an amazing job. They also get a guest service gold certificate, which recognizes their achievements in customer service. So these students have done an outstanding job in hospitality, Ty Lee Tran. Dominic Johnson. So as you go out into the world, you need an apron. Nobody not, oh, you don't have one. Do you know what it's for? The last area that we work really hard in is leadership. And Charlie has leadership classes once a week, but leadership is intertwined throughout everything that these students do. We look for leadership at morning poutine. Afternoon wrap up, JMG, classroom, job site, community service, everywhere we go. So the award this year for leadership excellence is Grace Wiley. There's need a megaphone to be heard. Now, we also have a few special awards that as we spoke as a group and talked about these guys like we always do when they're not there. We talked about some students that have made remarkable growth this year. In many areas, they are probably surprised themselves as well as us sometimes as we looked back and thought, wow, this kid has come a long way no matter what happens. They're there. So I have a few director's awards. The first student is very quiet, arrives every day, is blown through his high sets like they weren't even there. I'm not even sure that he needed us to help him. He just needed us to push him in the right direction. He's been a great leader and a friend to his peers and is always there to help them. So the director's award, one of our director's awards today goes to Anthony McDonough. The next award surprised all of us, but this is a student who no matter what happens, he keeps coming in, he keeps working hard, he's extremely intelligent, although he tries to hide it as often as possible. I think he's worried that other people might notice how smart he is. I love seeing his smile. I love seeing the accomplishments that he's made and we're really, really proud of him. The growth has been amazing this year. Dominic Johnson. And the last award, I swear I'm gonna get through this. I don't know why she does this to me. The last award is for a student who has just picked herself up so many times and has had so many things thrown at her. She didn't think she was gonna make it at first. We weren't even sure she was gonna make it, but as she mentioned, we gave her an extra chance because we knew that she had it in there. She just needed to find it and use it. And she has been an amazing presence and force in our program and is an inspiration to all of us. So director's award for Brittany Freeman. And then the last award this morning is for, we always have to look for the student of the year, somebody who has just been the voice, the face of YBA, here every day, even when he's done and he could have been gone, has accomplished everything we put in front of him. He's earned his high set, N-C-C-E-R, pro-start, hospitality, OSHA 10, serve safe. You name it, he's done it. He's our resident actor. If you've ever been anywhere within a block of the building, you've heard him. So student of the year, Joe DeBale. And one last thing I did give to the director's awards recipients, but they all get freshy bucks for the last time, which they would rather have than air. All right. Okay, now, oh, this is way to be good. We have a tradition.  Thank you, you're wonderful. We have a tradition at YBA of doing appreciations. We do appreciations at the end of the day at wrap up to share something that we've learned or something that we're grateful or thankful for. So I always take this opportunity to do a last and final appreciation for each one of these students for the contributions in their program, our program, their program. So you don't have to get up, just stay there. Don't even look, don't even look at me, okay? Logan, I appreciate your fierce opinions, believe it or not. I sense that they mask some of your insecurities, but I know that you're gonna learn to harness that energy and use it to argue your case in front of the Supreme Court. Destin, I appreciate your perseverance. You had little self-confidence and didn't think you could make it to this day, but you kept pushing forward and you will continue to work toward achieving your goals. I really enjoyed being part of your accomplishments, accomplishments including the 17 on your last high set. Thank you. Riley, where are you? I appreciate your optimism and your resilience. No matter what happened in your life, you dealt with it and moved on. Not letting those outside issues interfere with your purpose and your goals. Cassie, I appreciate your grumpy cat personality coupled with your Cheshire cat grins. When you arrived every day, I was never sure what I was gonna get when you were sitting there on the steps. Always an adventure, but I appreciate you. Joe, I appreciate your enthusiasm. Everything you do is an extreme level but it has served you well. Samantha, I appreciate your final push to complete your graduation requirements and you may even have surprised yourself and thank you for working so hard. Brittany, I appreciate your ability to believe in yourself and your abilities. You really didn't need us to help you set your goals but thank you for allowing us to help and support you. You faced down some pretty big demons and continued to come to YBA without looking back or feeling sorry for yourself. So Brittany, don't stop believing. I appreciate your strong sense of self. You always know who you are and what you want and you deserve only good things and by the way, you do present very well. Calvin, I appreciate your goofy self. Who can resist that smile and your engaging qualities as you tried to convince me always to be able to do whatever it is you wanna do. Sarah, I appreciate your willingness to be open and trust and to trust the process. Initially, as you mentioned, you were a bit reluctant to try new things or participate in activities but slowly you set aside your fears and your anxiety and achieve so many goals. Dom, I appreciate your determination and everything you do. You have the potential to be an articulate leader and I hope you choose to use those gifts positively to influence the people around you. Beatrice, I appreciate your generosity. You have always shown, I can't even talk, shown such deep inner strength to face and overcome your anxieties.  Anthony, I appreciate your intelligence. You are the quiet leader who knows how to dazzle them with your brilliance. Christian, I appreciate your confidence. Nothing could ever shake you or even slightly threaten that self-assurance. Even crutches didn't slow you down for too long. Esvin, I appreciate your bravery. You too have faced some profound life altering situations this year but you remain focused on your goals and continued to move forward. Brian, I appreciate your growth that you've made this year in spite of yourself. You often seem to want everything to be a fight or an argument. But I have enjoyed witnessing your steady progress towards self-confidence and deeper self-awareness as the anger turned to joy. Alexandra, I of course appreciate your love of horses and your effervescence. We connected immediately because of our common bond and that smile brightens anyone's day. John, I appreciate your curiosity and quick mind. You just get it. Now please put that to good use. I always enjoyed being part of your process as you work through those ideas in your head to make a plan to move forward. Dean, I appreciate your steadfast and unwavering manner. No matter what day it was or what was in store, you never seem to alter your approach. Ty Lee, I appreciate your quiet and humble nature and that sly grin, let's see. As if you always knew something that we didn't. Sometimes we weren't sure what you were thinking and we appreciate your ability to make snowflakes. Oh, yeah, remember, yeah. CJ, I appreciate your reliability.  And Grace, I appreciate your compassion, your strength and your leadership. You often put others' needs before your own, which sometimes derailed your own progress, but you are a strong, competent young lady who has the will and the ability to achieve all that you set out to accomplish.  You have developed qualities which will allow you to move forward and transform your lives despite all your challenges. I sincerely appreciate you all and having been part of your journey. You have a tremendous amount of courage and strength that inspires each of us every day. You know that you can and should no longer listen to those who ever doubted your talents and your abilities. Listen to your inner voice. You have trusted the process, you started strong, you finished stronger, thank you. We are now ready to confer the certificates to the students and I would like to invite this amazing group of people that I have the honor to work with every day. They care about kids, they understand kids, they make my life terrific and easy. They work so hard every day selflessly to give to this group of students to ensure that they get everything they need and I don't think you're gonna find a better group anywhere, so please come to the stage. Rodney Rashard, math teacher and hospitality teacher. Our lead vocationer extraordinaire, JMG specialist and culinary arts and her Samantha Funk, our AmeriCorps Vista. Further in the darkness, we have Tom Cain, the director of student development and he will read the blurbs that our staff has so geniusly written about all of these students. This is where you find out how your teachers really feel about it. So, first to receive her certificate, please welcome Grace Wiley. Grace came aboard this ship as a fearless and ferocious leader. Her ability to weather through all storms and navigate her teammates through rough seas is evidence of her innate leadership skills. These skills came out not only in the classroom and job site but also at JMG's career development conference. As one of only five students who was selected, Grace worked tirelessly to ensure that her shipping crew was in tip-top shape for the event. Do you get this C thing which was out of the conference, Grace has further filled the sails of her ship with several accomplishments such as culinary certificate and an NCCI. On top of those accomplishments, she is one of the few who has received her 60 hours of work ready and who submitted artwork into Casco Bay Addison's annual art show. And it was purchased too, right? Grace has many goals for the future including college but we know that whatever path she takes, she'll be a solid anchor to her coworkers. Good luck as you sail out of this small harbor and into the great wide ocean. Grace, please welcome our second graduate, Anthony Machiavelli. When Anthony showed up, it was not clear whether he would use his powers for good or evil. There was a slow humming sound coming from his brain that had all of the adults in the room nervous. Fortunately for us, his intentions were good and our lives were spared. Anthony kept a pretty low profile while conversely slaying every dragon we brought before him. On job site, he quickly earned both a culinary arts and copy of the certification and helped with all of our on and off site building projects. In classroom, he was equally adept and made short work of not only his high set tests but every other certification possible including OSHA, TEN and hospitality. He completed over 30 hours of community service which included serving food at Preble Street Resource Center, weeding at Wolfneck and a variety of other engagements. Anthony's ability proved far greater than his stature and his momentum is just beginning to grow. He will sign up for classes, actually did sign up for classes the other day at SMCC for the fall and hopes to work one day, to one day work in the field of nutrition and fitness. We'll miss you Anthony, but we sure as some day you'll be signing our checks.  I please welcome our next graduate, Tiley Tran, face your admirers here. From the very start, Tiley showed a love for coppentry. She entered the job site with enthusiasm where the working downstairs in the shop are completing community service with her peers. On job site in the kitchen or in the classroom, Tiley quietly takes in the world around her showing interest and understanding through an enthusiastic nod or a quiet laugh. Throughout the year, Tiley has demonstrated that she is no stranger to hard work and that she will not give up until she completes a task to her satisfaction. This skill will serve her well as she transitions into her dream job at UPS. Tiley, we know your positive attitude and work ethic will take you far. We can't wait to see what the future has in store for you. Congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Alexandra Remington. Alexandra, or as she prefers we call, Alexandra was always a ray of sunshine. She was constantly smiling and upbeat. Her path through YBA was a bit rocky at times, but as she would say, it's complicated, Sonny. Alexandra was a hard worker and has passed almost everything available at YBA. Alexandra has her NCCR, culinary arts and hospitality certificates. She has passed four high sets and is waiting for her score on the writing test. Xander wants to pursue a career where she can put her years of working with horses to use. Horses? Horses. Yeah, best wishes and we will miss your smile and bubbly personality, congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Samantha Durant. Samantha came to us in January with a little extra bundle of challenges which leaped and bounded over with amazing skills. She is an extremely smart young woman who completed her graduation requirements in record time. Though she was quiet and shy while she was here, we were able to see her fire and determination within her studies. An imaginative soul who has an interest in the arts, she excelled in her creative writing assignments in English. She looks forward to finishing her very last high set test and attending SMCC in the fall. We look forward to seeing her achieve her goals, congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Beatrice Keaton. Ms. Beatrice Keaton, 10, not 10. Keaton. He writes. Arrived with a clear idea of what she wanted to achieve while in our program. She was tired of typical academics and knew that she wanted to complete her academic work and certifications. Then move on to a career in cosmetology. Beatrice's dry humor was ever present, shining through with a witty comment and a little smile. While at YBA, Beatrice earned a two year gain in math as well as a certification in NCCR and guest service goal. Beatrice, we're excited to continue working with you as you complete your high sets and work toward your goal of attending cosmetology school, congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Cassandra Dona. Speaking of cosmetology, this one has a referring to it too, let's say. If Cassie had been described as a hairstyle when she first entered YBA, it would be like Albert Einstein's. While there was great potential, it needed to be organized and shaped. Now Cassie's hairstyle is much more like Beyoncé's. Professional, spirited, intelligent, and just amazing. Cassie was a mystery when we first met her as she tried to hide behind her blonde locks, but she has surprised us and herself in more ways than one. During her time at YBA, Cassie achieved her culinary, NCCR, and front desk certification for hospitality. Cassie hopes to continue her love of cosmetology at the Empire Beauty School, where she will literally make everyone's hair go from Albert Einstein's to Beyoncé's in a matter of minutes. We know that you'll make the world a more beautiful place wherever your passions take you, congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Brittany Freeman. Brittany always brings her own crowd with her, that's very good. Picture this, Brittany's sailing on the SS public school. It's sinking and she's in desperate need of rescuing, except she's not really in need of rescuing because she's intelligent and courageous enough to take on any large disaster that might hit her. After all, she found her way to Washington and has been sailing her own ship since. During her time with us, Brittany has accomplished many certifications, including her NCCR and culinary art certification. She has also made steady progress towards achieving her high set. Brittany was also one of the select few who attended JMG's career development conference where she competed against other schools with her interviewing, marketing, and public speaking skills. Brittany is also one of the students that has completed her work-ready credentials. Brittany is smart and motivated enough to do anything she downwell sets her mind to. We wish you smooth sailing for the future, Brittany Tallulah Freeman. Please welcome our next graduate, Logan Burke. Logan joined us in January and easily adapted to become a valid member of our wonderful student community. His sarcasm and stubbornness has often given us a run for our money, but when he has his goals in sight, he has the ability to focus and meet the challenges head on instead fastly. He's looking forward to working this summer in a landscaping business and hopes that this experience and many others will lead him to his dream of owning his own landscaping business. 1-800-GOT-A-TREE, how is that the end of the business? Congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, John Sullivan. John showed up at school in quietly but consistently swept through everything we put before him. Or maybe it was his twin. Hot-telling, but regardless. One of the two left a wake of accomplishments in their path. He was an amazing YBA representative at JMG CDC. On job site, he was a quick study and seemed to take pleasure in helping his peers. In classroom, he was an analytical thinker and a good contributor to discussions and threshold Thursdays. By the end of the year, he'd volunteered at Wolfsnack Farm, Hamcatcher, Preble Street, and Portland Housing, Climb Mountains, and Icefish. He built a birdhouse and garden boxes and finished his NCCR, Culinary Arts certificate, most of his high set, and nearly every other certificate he could earn. John is very smart and will go on to do great things. We'll miss you John and hope you start by once in a while to fill us in on your adventures. Congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Mia Galant. Mia is a pistol who's never afraid to speak her mind or to stand up for others. Although she starred a few months later than most of her peers, Mia quickly demonstrated that this would have no bearing on her success at YBA. Upon turning 17, Mia completed each high set with ease while also earning certifications in Culinary, NCCR, and front desk. Mia is a talented writer who loves to share her stories and reflections with others. Mia's compassion for others will be ideal as she works to become a social worker for struggling teenagers. Mia, we can't wait to see where your drive will lead you. Congratulations. So Joe, could you go around the back and come across? We have to do a little theatrics here, all right? Because I want to thank Joe for introducing our Threshold Thursday sessions. Every Thursday we had a session where businesses, employers would come in and Joe introduced the session by giving a creative little performance on how difficult and daunting it can be to step over the threshold from being a student to a career. And so we thought it would be fitting if Joe could demonstrate for all of you just what that was because this is definitely a daunting task to graduate and go out into the real world. So, Joe, would you please step over the threshold here at graduation? Take some adjusting. There you go, there you go, oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Oh, whoa, can he do it, can he do it? Well, to do whatever we ask no matter how it is. So, James came to us on a rocket ship from the land of volume where everything that was said was yelled loudly. Although we were skeptical of his commitment at first, he has proven to be a pretty big deal and we're happy for it. By the end of the year, Joe racked up considerable experience working for Portland Housing, volunteering at Wolf Neck Farm and Preble Street Soup Kitchen, building flower boxes and even going ice fishing. Additionally, he managed to finish his high set, his NCCR, culinary arts and hospitality certificates, OSHA 10, Serve Safe, and every other important piece of the program we put before him. Joe has been accepted and has enrolled at SMCC where he plans to major in business administration in the fall. A true dynamo, it'll be tough to find is equal. You'll be missed, Joe, but we know you'll miss us more so, of course. You'll be back to brag about all the cool things you're learning in college next year. Congratulations.  Please welcome our next graduate, Sarah Gower. Sarah came to YBA with some reservations, but opted to give our program a chance, as she described in her wonderful speech there. She initially showed up sporadically and without enthusiasm, but soon became a constant in the classroom and on the job site. While at YBA, Sarah worked diligently to get every certification available. She earned her ProStar, Serve Safe, NCCR, OSHA 10, and certifications in full hospitality areas, including front desk, restaurant server, maintenance, and room attendant. Sarah began her high sets as soon as she was eligible and quickly completed reading, science, and social studies. Writing and math proved to be a bit more of a challenge, yet she never allowed that challenge to stop her from reaching her goals. Instead, she worked each day until she completed her writing and is continuing to work without hesitation toward her math. Sarah, remember that you are more capable than you give yourself credit for. Keep working hard, and we know your ambition will take you far. Congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Esfand Perez. Esfand was our resident chameleon. It was the most miraculous thing.  He would periodically speak and give away his position, but in general, he remained hidden. Esfand's strength was his perseverance. He'd quietly study something, appearing under it, and then when you half expected him to simply evaporate into a cloud of mist, his pen would move and the answers would appear. On job site, Esfand participated in the renovation of an apartment for pool and housing, helped build a shed for camp catcher, and planted vegetables at Wolf's Neck. In classroom, he completed his hospitality certification and made great advances toward earning his high set. We hope to see his face this summer so we can finish other pots and pieces, but if not, we're sure he'll be quietly conquering one obstacle after another, or at very least, getting a great tan. Congratulations. We welcome our next graduate, Christian Molina Mendez. Christian was the elder statesman of this year's cohort, and he carried himself with an air of maturity and at times grace. At other times, he was just as much of a goop as the others, but we still loved him. Christian spent the year renovating the apartment for pool and housing, pulling weeds at Wolf's Neck, serving meals at Preble Street Soup Kitchen and completing nearly all of the certificates we offered here at YBA. Christian was more of a classroom kid than a job site, though, and worked best with a pen and paper than a hammer and nail. If we don't see him this summer, we can only imagine it's because he's doing great work and is too busy making money to care.  Congratulations. Our next graduate, please welcome Brian Reed. When we first met Brian, he was resistant and wanted little to do with many of the components of our program. Upon being asked to complete a task, he was not interested in. Brian never hesitated to express his opinion. Despite his initial resistance, Brian quickly showed just how capable he was. With humor and sarcasm, Brian completed his NCCR, served safe, a maintenance certification, and a gain in math. He has recently decided to pursue his high sets and pass the first one with flying colors, and we know he'll pass the remaining tests with ease. Brian, thank you for your ever-present sense of humor. We're excited to help you as you continue to reach your goals. Congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Destin Broadley. Payshara Meyers, do you hear me? Destin is one of our students who has conquered the challenges that come with transportation to and from YBA. Coming all the way from Sanford and waking up in the early hours of the morning and putting in long hours, his determination to finish the program has been admirable. He is a bright and lively addition to the program, and we're glad to have met him and worked with him. He has a summer position lined up at Water Country, New Hampshire, and we look forward to hearing about all his splashing summer. Congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Dominic Johnson. Yeah, please, please. Dominic has the gift of taking anything that would normally be an hour long and finishing it in 15 minutes. This applied to almost everything in his life, except for brakes, which for him usually ran longer. To his credit, his burst of productivity outpaced his apathy and his accomplishments piled up. By the end of the year, Dom had finished his NCCR, OSHA, Culinary Arts, three hospitality certificates, and four of his five high sense. He wasn't too fond of job site, but he loved adventure and experiencing new things as long as it didn't dirty his sneakers. Bravely enough, he helped renovate an apartment, serve food at Preble Street, pulled weeds at Wolf's Neck, erected a shed at Camp Ketchup, built garden blocks as hiked mountains, and even went ice fishing all while texting. We'll miss you, Dom, but as long as we don't lose those giant headphones you wore, you'll always be remembered. Congratulations. Please welcome our next graduate, Riley Carpett. Riley showed up at school looking like an indie rocker, ready to stomp boots and dance around. It was hard to ascertain his level of commitment or ability, but these questions were quickly answered and the answer was high ability. On job site, Riley devoured the material put before him and quickly mastered concepts and converted them into action. He used his skills to earn his carpentry and culinary art certifications, renovated an apartment in Portland, built a shed for Camp Ketchup, and participate in other various shop projects. In the classroom, Riley was studious but fun. He paid attention when the information was pertinent and played games when it wasn't. Additionally, he climbed mountains when ice fishing completed over 30 hours of community service and basically took advantage of every opportunity presented to him. We're not sure what the summer holds for Riley, but we can sure it'll be Gucci and gold, baby. Please welcome our next graduate, CJ Waters. CJ was our resident expert on most things mechanical. When he wasn't fixing lawn mowers or chalking cars, he was cutting wood and nailing things together. CJ was a man of action. During the year, he helped renovate an apartment for Portland housing, planted vegetables at Wolf Neck Farm, built a shed at Camp Ketchup and volunteered at Preble Street. Additionally, he completed his high set, his construction culinary and hospitality certificates, OSHA 10, and in the process of registering it, as is in the process of registering at SMCC for their automotive program. CJ wasn't much for the city, but luckily there's plenty of broken down cars in the country for him to make a living. We'll miss him, but hopefully he'll swing through maybe in a sweet lifted truck and tell us all the cool things he's doing. Congratulations. Please give a warm welcome to our next graduate, Dean Train. The teacher couldn't resist this, I can tell. If YBA was a train, Dean would be the caboose at his laid back demeanor, as his laid back demeanor and easygoing attitude. While at YBA, Dean chugged along at many subjects, making incredible gains in areas such as reading and math. Dean also worked diligently in the vocational subjects. Often, Dean would be found as the only one washing dishes at the end of culinary or cleaning up the shop after a crazy morning. Dean has achieved his pro stock culinary certification and is close to finishing his NCCI. We wish Dean the best of luck in whatever station he rolls into next, congratulations. Last but not least, please welcome Calvin Goldra. Calvin is similar to a couple of other famous Calvin's. He reminds us of Calvin Klein, because he always daunts the latest fashions and sneakers and sportswear. Our Calvin is also very much like Calvin Coolidge, because he's a man of few words. A few yeps and notes is being verbose for Calvin, maybe a chat about this. But in his quiet, sartorial way, Calvin has achieved certificates in NCCI, OSHA 10, culinary arts, serve safe, guest service gold, front desk representative, restaurant server, and maintenance employee. Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes fame said that his only regret was blowing the best day of his life while he was so young. We know that you have many of your best days ahead, Calvin. Go forth and live them, congratulations. Thank you. Now we have one piece of the ceremony, but I did want to let you know after the students perform their last act, they're going to proceed out through the auditorium. We're asking them to gather for pictures before you grab them, and then you can have your pictures with them. We also have the refreshments in the back that we would like you to share with us. So graduates, please stand.  Okay, the turning of the tassel symbolizes transition, the movement from one phase of a person's life to another. With all the hard work and tremendous accomplishments that these students have attained, I believe they will transition into the next phase of their lives with the skills necessary to achieve even greater things. I have great respect for each one of you, for your determination, your passion, and hard work. At this time, please take your tassel and turn it from right to left, signifying.


The head of the main directorate of intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Kirillow Budanov, has suggested that the strikes on Russian airbases will be deeper and deeper. In an interview with ABC News that went viral on social media, Budanov said there would be more attacks on Russian bases. However, he did not acknowledge that Ukraine was behind the strikes on the Russian military base. At the moment, I cannot answer that question. Only after the end of the war, Budanov said, while responding to the interviewer's question, he added that he was happy to see these attacks. Asked whether there would be strikes on the Crimea peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2000, Budanov reminded that Crimea is Ukraine territory, and we can use any weapon in our territory. Ukraine carried out large-scale strikes that it said killed hundreds of Russian troops in eastern Donetsk and Kursan regions on New Year's Eve. Russia has stepped up its drone attacks against Ukraine recently, with Moscow launching attacks on cities and power stations across the country over the past three nights.


Hello everyone. This is Supriya Ambarkar from Walshan Institute of Technology. So, Lapur, today we are going to discuss a topic on fundamentals of distributed system, which includes what is distributed system, how it works, its architecture, its characteristics, its different types, etc. The learning outcome. At the end of this session, students will be able to explain the different types of distributed system. Also, students will be able to state the different challenges of distributed systems. Here, first we will see the introduction. The distributed system is a network that consists of autonomous computers that are connected using a distribution middleware. So, they help in sharing different resources and capabilities to provide users with a single and integrated coherent networks. So, features such as there is a no shared memory concept in terms of what the message best communication is there. Each runs its own local memory. It's having a heterogeneity in nature. Now, we will continue with the particular slide. As distributed system can be presented as a single system image view. It having a continuous availability. It's having easily expandable. It's supported by the middleware architecture. Now, we will see the details of the computer architecture. Here, the net result of the advancements in the price performance ratio has now changed to the use of interconnected multiple processors in place of a single high-speed processor. So, the computer architecture consisting of interconnected multiple processors which are of two types that is an tightly coupled systems and loosely coupled systems. Now, we will see the details of this particular architectural diagram. First tightly coupled system means what? Here, the single system wide primary memory which we want to say as an address space that is shared by all the processors. That means the value suppose 200 to the memory location of x then any other processor subsequently read from the location of x will get back the value 200 that is in terms of tightly coupled. A loosely coupled system here the processor do not share the memory and each processor has its own local memory. Suppose if a processor writes the value 200 to the memory location x this write operation will only change the contents of its local memory and will not affect the contents of the memory of any other processor. So, generally tightly coupled systems are referred to as a parallel processing systems and loosely coupled systems are referred to as a distributed computing systems. Now, we will see the different types of distributed systems. First distributed computing systems. Second distributed information systems. Third distributed pervasive systems. The details of this particular systems are as follows. The distributed computing systems include grade computing and cluster computing. Distributed information systems include enterprise application system, transaction processing systems. Third distributed pervasive system includes sensor networks, home systems, electronics health care systems and etc. So, these are all about the different types. Now, we will see the distributed system diagram. A distributed system organized as a middleware. The middleware layer runs on all machines and offers a uniform interface to the system. Here in this diagram we are having four network computers and three applications. Application B is a distributed across computer 2 and 3. Each application is offered the same interfaces. Distributed system provides a means for components of a single distributed application to communicate with each other, but also to let different applications communicate. It also hides the differences in hardware and operating system from each application. So, this is all about this particular distributed system diagram. Now, we will see the gaining popularity of a distributed system. First, it is an inherently distributed application. Means what? The several applications are inherently distributed in nature, that is the airline reservation system and etc. Then second gaining popularity in terms of what? Information sharing among distributed users means persons to person sharing information over a great distance is possible. Third resource sharing. Sharing of a software resources such as software libraries, databases are allowed. As well as hardware resources such as printers, hard disk are allowed. Then fourth one is a better price performance ratio is there. So, it is one of the important reason why gaining popularity of a distributed system. Then shorter response times and the higher throughput is there. The two commonly used performance metrics are response times and the throughput. So, this is also one of the important gaining popularity. Next one is an higher reliability. A system should be reliable means it prevents the loss of information even in the event of a component failure. So, this is one of the gaining popularity. Then next one is an extensibility and incremental growth. Distributed systems are capable of incremental growth. So, it is possible due to gradually extend the power and functionality after adding the additional resources. So, it is also the important gaining popularity. Last one is a better flexibility in meeting the user needs. So, it almost meet all the user needs in terms of the gaining popularity. Next we will see the different issues while designing the distributed system. Transparency, reliability, flexibility, performance, scalability, heterogeneity, security, then emulation in existing operating system these are all the issues. We will see one by one. In terms of the transparency, the main goal of a distributed system is to make the existence of multiple computers invisible. Means it should be the transparent one and provide a single system image view to the particular user. So, this is the first. Then in terms of reliability, distributed systems are expected to be more reliable than centralized system due to the multiple instances of resources. Third flexibility, so it is an important feature for the open distributed systems, performance. Its performance must be at least as good as the centralized system. So, it is an expected. Next is in scalability. It refers to the capability of a system to adapt to the increased service load. So, this is in terms of scalability. Heterogeneity means it consists of interconnected sets of dissimilar hardware or software systems. We want to manage those systems. So, it is an heterogeneity. So, in terms of security, maintaining security in distributed system is more difficult than the centralized system. So, it is a challenging issue. Emulation in existing operating system means for commercial success, it is a very important issue. So, we have to emulate the particular existing operating system. Now, we will see the characteristics of a centralized system. Here in centralized system, one component with non-autonomous parts are there. So, here the components may be shared by users all the times. All resources are accessible. Software ends in a single process. Here the single point of control is there. Single point of failure might be occur. So, these are all about the centralized system. Now, we will see the characteristics of distributed system. The distributed systems are the multiple autonomous components. May going together, it forms a distributed system. So, might be components are not shared by all the users. Software runs in a concurrent processes on different processors. It may be possible. It having a multiple points of control. It having a multiple points of failure also. Now, pause the video and write down your answer. State the different challenges of distributed systems. Here the different challenges of distributed systems include heterogeneity, openness, security, failure handling, scalability, transparency, reliability, performance. We will see one by one. Heterogeneity. Distributed system is a heterogeneous in nature. So, coordination and resource sharing can be difficult if proper protocols or policies are not in place. So, this is about the heterogeneity. For openness, making the network easier to configure and modify. So, this is one of the challenge for the distributed system. Security. It is a big challenge in a distributed environment, especially when using the public networks. For failure handling, it could be tough when the distributed model is based on the unreliable components. Then in terms of the scalability, distributed system should be scalable with respect to the geography, administration or the in terms of science. In terms of transparency, achieving the image of a single system image without concealing the details of the location, access, migration, concurrency, failure, relocation, persistence assistance and resources to the users. So, this is also the important challenges. Then seventh one is in reliability. As compared to the single system, a distributed system should be highly capable of being secure, consistent and have a high capability of masking the errors. So, it is an reliable one. Performance challenge in terms of as compared with the other models, distributed models are expected to give a much wanted boost to the performance. So, these are the some challenges which will be required while designing a distributed system. We have to think over that. So, here the ultimate goal of an ideal distributed computing, which is to the maximize the performance by connecting users and IT resources in a cost effective, transparent and reliable manner. So, then we are able to say that the system is an ideal distributed system when we are achieving these all challenges. These are the few references which I have referred for this particular topic. Thank you one and all.


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Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to my channel. My name is Snolly and today I'm gonna be showing you guys the top 10 study spots here at the University of Central Florida. If you guys are new to my channel, I'm a junior here at UCF studying radio television. Some of these study spots are my favorite and I also asked you guys on my Instagram stories What are your favorite study spots? So I definitely added some of those in this video as well. If you want to interact with me and take some pulls on my Instagram story and just chat in my DMs Then follow me on Instagram. It is at so gnarly without the G. If you guys go to UCF Definitely, let me know what is your favorite study spot if I haven't already showed it in this video. So let's get started The first study spot on my list is Pop Parlor And if you're someone like me that likes to study in a trendy place, this place is definitely for you It's so aesthetically pleasing and they serve tea, coffee, cold brew, beer and wine and even gourmet popsicles Which are my favorite. Pop Parlor has a pretty quiet environment. So it's a good place if you get distracted easily It's located in Knights Plaza, which is the area surrounding the CFE arena If it's a nice day and you want to enjoy the weather they even have outdoor seating My next favorite study spot is the area in front of CFE arena I love it so much because there's so many palm trees surrounding it and since I'm an out-of-state student from Georgia I definitely want to take it all in When looking at the entrance on the right They have these tables with umbrellas and then on the left is my personal favorite side because they have these really cool modern chairs This is a great place to study meet up with friends or just to take a break from your back-to-back classes The next place on my list is Memory Mall and more specifically in front of Memory Mall They have like this area with all these palm trees and people just hang out under it It's a great shaded spot to Eno or hammock or hang out with friends Study read a book or just relax and hear the music around you most of the time You'll see food trucks in front of this area So if you're ever hungry you can get a quick bite there next up is a seating right outside of the student union And you're the boardwalk. I remember during summer B I would go upstairs to the second floor of the student union get my Scantron before a big quiz or test and Then I would stop by night stop and get sushi, which is honestly such good sushi So if you guys love sushi definitely try that out and then I would come here and study a little bit and then walk to Nicholson Did you guys really think that I wouldn't put the heart of campus in this video? This is a student union. It is literally in the middle of campus This building is filled with study spots. My personal favorite is the second floor booths and even if somebody's sitting in them It's a great way to make friends and just talk to different people I know a lot of people like to go to the third floor to study because it's kind of a more open space And you can work with groups and stuff Right next to the study area on the third floor is this new game room It used to be like a beanbag room where people took naps and just a lot of other tables to study But now they have pool foosball air hockey and even this arcade game thing which is so cool So now when you feel that your brain is getting fried you can just come in here and have some fun The next place I really wanted to show you guys is technology commons, too So this is a really cool place to study because they actually have a computer lab and they offer max Which I really like to work on and these max have all the cool softwares like everything Adobe So if you ever wanted to like mess around with Photoshop, this is a place to go Moving on to what we call the breezeway the bookstore is located here Most importantly the chick-fil-a is located here and in the breezeway They have this really cool seating area so you can just hang out with friends You can study for a test real quick or just read a book So I bet you guys are kind of wondering, you know, snorkeling Why are you showing us the jam? We're talking about studying here But right above the lap pool is this patio It is perfectly shaded and it always feels so nice when you're just sitting out here and getting some work done The next place is in the engineering building it is called the idea lab and it's basically this adult play pen And they have these really cool seats I mean look at this one You can just have so much fun in it and there's like rolly chairs This is a place to have fun and let your ideas flow Last but definitely not least is Lake Claire. I know a lot of people love being by the water This is the perfect place to be when the weather is great outside. I Hope you guys enjoyed that video I had so much fun filming it going around all over campus and filming some of my favorite study spots Don't forget to let me know what is your favorite study spot in the comments down below and also if you're interested Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to see my everyday life here at UCF. I will see you guys in my next video. Bye guys


All right, this is Peter Burris with another Wikibon Action Item Quick Take. David Foyer, big news from Redmond. What's going on? Well, big Microsoft announcement. And if we go back a few years before Nadella took over, Balmer was a great believer in one Microsoft. They brought Nokia, they were looking at putting Windows into everything and it was a Windows-led one Microsoft organization. And a lot of ambitious ideas were cut off because they didn't get the sign off by, for example, the Windows group. Nadella's first action, and I actually was there, was to announce office on the iPhone. A major, major thing that had been proposed for a long time was being held up internally. And now he's gone even further. The focus, clear focus of Microsoft is on the cloud, you know, 50% plus Kager on the cloud, Office 365, a Kager 41%, and AI, focusing on AI, and obviously the intelligent age as well. So Windows 10, Myosin, the leader there, is out 2% Kager. He missed his one billion Windows target by a long way, something like 50%. Windows functionality is being distributed essentially across the whole of Microsoft. So hardware is taking the Xbox and the Surface. Windows Server itself is going to the cloud. So big change from the historical look of Microsoft, but a trimming down of the organization and a much clearer focus on the key things driving Microsoft's fantastic increase in net worth. So Microsoft retooling to take advantage and be more relevant, sustain its relevance in the new era of computing. Once again, this has been on Wikibon Action on QuickTake.


Hey everybody, I'm Lance Goyki. Today I wanna discuss probably the question I get asked the most, maybe next to how should I breathe during this? The question I get asked the most is should I, when I take my, you know, if I have squats and I've got five by five to go through, should I try to do the same weight the whole time or should I try to work up in weight as I go, as I get, you know, warmer and more accustomed to doing the exercise? This is one of those, I really don't care exercise prescriptions. The biggest thing that you should focus on is are you pushing yourself hard enough? If you're not pushing yourself hard enough because you get really, really tired if you try to hang on to that weight the whole time and you just don't wanna do anymore, then stop doing that, then, you know, work up in weight and try to peak a little bit higher. But in general, I'm gonna get the biggest strength gains, the biggest hypertrophy gains, the biggest, you know, conditioning gains, whatever it is, by pushing my body to the limit because that's how my body realizes, okay, well, I need to be able to do more than what I was able to do today because that was really uncomfortable. Now, other prescriptions, so if five by five is like the greatest example of this, if you're doing five by five for the purposes of hypertrophy, then I would just say pick whichever one you like and maybe a simpler way to do it is to just pick a weight and try to do it for five sets of five. If you get five sets of five, then next time go up 5% and try that again. If you get five, five, five, four, three, then you can say, okay, next time I'm gonna try to get five by five. And that makes the hypertrophy stimulus a very controlled and you can, you know, distinctly measure your progress on that lift. If I'm doing five by five for purposes of getting stronger though, then I might wanna taper it up so that I can gradually increase the load so that I can have some sets at a higher weight requiring more force. Yeah, I mean, because that's the goal of your strength work is to increase that force output. So think about it that way. If you're really concerned about it and you don't really have a goal, then stop being concerned about it. If you are working for strength gains, try to work up in weight. And if you're working for hypertrophy gains, try both and see which one you think you do better with.


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So I got a chance to check out the Call of Duty multiplayer reveal for Cold War I Actually saw it the day it dropped, but I wasn't feeling well that day So I definitely wasn't in the mood to try to record anything or try to edit any videos I was kind of under the weather, but I'm feeling much better now So I had to bring you guys this video. So first things first I want to say it really went all out with the multiplayer day They had the whole set up on the heart and his team. They had this nice little intricate cold war Set up going on like they were really Doing it big to try to sell this multiplayer They had all the top streamers all the top youtubers playing the game early live streaming it So I thought it was pretty cool. You know, they of course They're gonna give the best presentation possible to sell this game There's some things I liked about the game. There's some things for the gameplay that I did see and there's some things I'm not so sure yet, but we're gonna go into that I'm going to do this off-the-cuff. No script. Just what I can remember Just watching different youtubers play. I have some gameplay footage in the background. It's not mine I'll actually link the video the original video to the actual game Play and uh, you guys can go check that out if you want to um, but first things first. I will say this the graphics Look on par with modern warfare in my opinion I think What gives it the different feel is it looks like a black ops game if you play black ops went into It gives that nostalgia vibe and I think that's what they were going for with this So the graphics on par doesn't seem anything too crazy even though You would think it would be a little bit better for next-gen consoles, but From what I could tell it looked good. It wasn't crazy out of the world, but serviceable um They did announce uh that they will be having a hybrid system like a 10 pic The 10 pic system from our previous Uh Custom loadouts, but also combining it with how modern warfare does their loadout system So in modern warfare, you can stack your gun with five attachments Well in this game you can stack your gun with five attachments But they're including wild cards like in previous black ops games and with those wild cards It gives you certain advantages. So for example Say you want More attachments on your gun There's a wild card for it Which allows you to max out your gun with eight attachments And i'm interested or interested in seeing how that's going to play out A gun with eight attachments. Oh man, I'm I'm pretty sure you can make up some crazy classes make a gun super overpowered I'm looking forward to that. There's other wild card Um perks that you get. Um, I believe there is one where it allows you to have You can stack multiple perks on top of each other that you couldn't before without the wild card And I'm looking forward to that, you know wild cards in the black ops series have always been a thing. So Can't wait to check that out see how many different classes you can customize and create So i'm looking forward to just the customization part. Um, they also dived into How things are going to play out with kill streaks They pretty much taken away kill streaks and they went back to score streaks, which I personally prefer in my opinion Um, but this time is different. Your score streaks don't reset when you die So people may think oh, that's a little that's a little cheap You know, i'm i'm part of the call of duty community that had to you know You know pretty much do whatever they could to stay alive to obtain the streaks But it's different it costs a lot more to get your streaks From what they said the chopper gunner is like 60 300 score. That's a lot of score But also It's it's kind of It incentivized people to play the objective get more kills.  I do like the fact that you can loop them Not like in modern warfare.  I think it's it's different. This will be the first call of duty where You don't really have to camp To get your score streaks. In fact, you it promotes people moving around Which I love like that that makes it so much better.  Um, I also like the fact that they brought back ghost The way it's supposed to be now how it is in modern warfare Basically ghost in this game You have to keep moving in order for it to work now. You can stop for a little bit It's like they said it's like maybe a three second Period where if you stop or whatnot, it's you know, you're still, you know, you won't be seen But after that three second period, then you you'll show up on the radar So I like that I like how that's how ghost should be looking forward to that I'm so glad they also brought back Dead silence pretty much, but it's not 100% dead silence from what people are saying it's You could still hear people But their footsteps are much quieter than if if they weren't, you know, if they didn't have dead silence applied I'm not I don't think it's called dead silence It's probably called something else. I can't remember but basically If you're running around with that perk on you still can be heard. It's just it's much quieter But if you didn't have that perk on You definitely would be heard Um, people running up behind you, you know It they kind of switched up the sound system on footsteps this year Instead of it just being like how it is in modern warfare Where it's just everybody's feet sound like sound like elephant stomping. It's more of It depends on how you approach somebody So if you're running at somebody your footsteps are going to be heard If you're crouch walking or you're walking slowly You may not be heard as much And with the uh the dead silence perk it quiets your footsteps overall But you still can't be heard even if you're running up on somebody It just depends on whether the noises are going on in the background So I like the fact that it's not a clutch perk because you not clutch It's not a crutch perk. So you don't have to necessarily run it on all your classes But it is a perk that can be beneficial if you're trying to be stealthy So I like that. Yes, it's not overpowered. It's kind of right in the middle So i'm looking forward to being able to try that out on class ups because i'm I like to be stealthy as much as possible. I love running silencers on my gun. I love flanking the enemy. So Looking forward to that Um, they showed off some different maps and this is where I get into some of the negatives Um, I don't really care for ground war maps me personally Uh, I get it. There's a battlefield community that likes multiple like 36 versus 36 or 50 versus 50 type teams and you know big chaos It's cool. But that's that's not me, especially in like a call of duty setting. Um, I prefer the traditional 6v6 But uh, they were showing off all the bigger maps Me I don't really care. I can see myself Maybe trying those maps out every now and then but I'm more so concerned on the smaller to medium-sized maps Because I can see myself primarily just playing 6v6 There is one map that was interesting. I'm not sure the name is actually part of this gameplay footage of the background The map with the multiple ships and you can zip line to each one. That's unique. That's different. I think that's pretty dope Um, they brought back swimming in the game. So you can now swim underwater if you need to Um, it's dope. I like the aesthetics. It's different. Um, but me personally, I'm just not a big fan of the bigger maps Um, I did like the miami map that they showed and I like the little desert map Those are type of maps.  I'm not trying to run 30 seconds to engage with the enemy. So That's just me personally. Um But that's just all the things I could think of off top. Um, wait, there actually is one more thing one more important thing Um, I do like the fact that war zone itself will be transferring over To black ops call of duty.  I believe They're pretty much going to keep the war zone thing going But I'm guessing they're probably going to pull a fortnight. Maybe change up the map add different guns Um, I believe they said your stats are going to transfer over. So I think that's dope so for people who haven't bought the full game of modern warfare, you just have the free version of war zone Be on the lookout for a massive update. I think that's dope It doesn't it doesn't split up the player base because it wouldn't make sense for them to make another like battle royale To split up the player base It that doesn't make sense to do that because now unless people are playing War zone on modern warfare But now if people don't want to buy the new call of duty actually know someone That's not really trying to buy the new call of duty. They weren't impressed. They'll just probably play war That's it just play war zone and you know, they'll probably have different guns a different map Or you know, different things throughout war zone. So I think that's pretty dope. I'm looking forward to that I think that that's a good way to keep the player base connected And another thing that they're doing is cross platform connection. So of course right now Xbox pc playstation can play against each other right now on modern warfare But when the next gen consoles drop not only will xbox pc and playstation be able to play together But the next gen xbox pc's Not next gen pc's but xbox playstation players They will be able to play with people that are on the previous gen So everybody will be able to play together. I think that's dope Once again, it's good that they're not trying to split up the player base. I think that's amazing Um, it's not really too many negatives for me other than uh, I would say would showcase more of the smaller maps But other than that Decent decent showcasing. Um, I'm somewhat excited. I will save my full Judgment when the beta releases and best believe I'm gonna have some footage of the beta Beta gameplay on my channel So being a lookout for that But I'll feel I will definitely give my full thoughts and opinion when I'm able to actually play the game And then I will come back and give another another, you know, kind of Review on if I'm really looking forward to this game or not. But as of right now I'm semi-hyped. I'm not overly ecstatic about it, but it does look it does look good I'm interested to see how things are gonna play out and uh, I'm I'm somewhat looking forward to it I'm not gonna lie to you at first. I wasn't As much but right now as it stands Somewhat looking forward to it. So we'll see how things play out But comment down below if you guys got a chance to check out the multiplayer reveal And if you guys if this has changed your excitement for the new color duty or Did the things that you see in this, uh, gameplay Uh, not gameplay in the multiplayer reveal did it kind of turn you off from color duty this year? And you're probably gonna play some other games. So comment down below Let me know appreciate all the love and support road to 30k appreciate y'all kicking it with me See y'all on the next one. Peace


Oh, this is a bit of a mad one. Yeah, it's a lot, isn't it? There's a lot of people here, which is really nice. But yeah, it's intense. Stand stead, 15, we are with you. Stand stead, 15, we are with you. Today we're here at Chelmsford Crown Court, along with hundreds of protesters in support of the Stand Stead 15, a group of activists who cut through a fence at Stand Stead Airport and stopped a deportation charter flight from taking off two years ago. I still cannot believe that we've been charged with an offence that could lead to all of us, or some of us spending some time in jail. The disruption to our lives has been this tiny window into where thousands of people's lives in this country are disrupted by what the Home Office does to them. What's at stake if they were to be given harsh custodial sentences? What would that mean for other people protesting against deportations or maybe fracking or unlawful arrest? These people have faced a nine-week trial after 17 months on bail, so effectively they've been punished by prosecution, and it's the intimidation effect of the offence, not just the sentencing. I think it's very unlikely they will get custodial sentences because I think the state will pull back from that because it will be such a direct indication of state repression. So instead it's about setting a precedent for intimidating and repressing activists. Stand Stead 15 has shown that they're willing to put their freedom on the line to end the hostile environment and to stop a deportation charter flight. It's likely in the coming years that we are going to see many more such deportation charter flights. In fact, one is due to be taking off today. So let's all think of a very simple question. What are we going to do, personally, politically, collectively, to end the brutal hostile environment once and for all? Convictions and the 10-week trial that have led to them are an injustice that have profound implications for all of our lives. The convictions will drastically limit our ability to work, to travel and to take part in everyday life. Yet people are seeking asylum in this country face much worse than this. They are placed in destitution, they are treated like prisoners even though they have committed no offences and their lives are placed in limbo by the Home Office. Justice will not be done until the hostile environment and the Home Office's brutal and secretive deportation and detention regimes are ended. This must end immediately. No borders! No nations! Stop deportation! No borders! No nations! Stop deportation! I spent a lot of the last few days thinking about what it would mean to be inside and now I don't have to think about that and I'm really happy because I forgot to bring a toothbrush. But yeah, it's still a chilling day for anybody that engages with direct action, for anybody that engages in our political system, that people that are effectively there to stop the harmful and, we now know, illegal deportation of people to places where they face torture, violence, persecution and death can be tried, convicted and then sentenced as terrorists. It's a disgusting day for our democracy, for our society and we should all be very, very worried about where this is going. Today has been a massive win for the Sandstead 15 but the fight really is only just beginning. The hostile environment doesn't look like it's going away any time soon and while it's in place, it is likely that there will be more protests and deportation disruptions of this sort. With the government taking a harsher and harsher line on the criminalisation of protests, it is critical that all of us, no matter what our capacity, are on hand to vocally demonstrate our solidarity every step of the way.


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is my deck collection. Hey, today we're gonna look at some of my odds and ends decks. What are these? Well, basically this was like a long time before all the custom decks started coming out long before like illusionists started making custom cards When I was a little kid like when I was a teenager and I was collecting decks of cards There was really nothing out there except for like bridge decks, bicycle decks Just decks you'd pick up at a movement parks, decks you'd pick up, you know When you went to an airport in a new state You know, I don't work casino decks, you know That was pretty much all you could collect back in the day And so I was collecting cards even way back then and so these are just some of the cards that I've picked up and I've got three Shoe boxes full of these cards The you know the shoe boxes that your vans come in like these are literally vans shoe boxes And so I'm gonna do three different videos gonna show you How how many of these random cards I have there's not much to show you other than just to say hey This is part of my collection for those of you who've asked so let's get to it first off I got a bunch of little these mini decks. This is a Mickey Mouse deck comes a little plastic box This came from Disney land. I think or something so a little mini deck I also have a little mini deck from Toys R Us. This is a vintage one So long before Toys R Us did the remodel and they became a different store. These are vintage Toys R Us decks and then I have two mini Rider backs, so I have a mini green and I have a mini in blue I said earlier that you pick up decks of cards like when you're in a different state Hard-shelled plastic box and I guess these are from Chicago When I was at Disneyland I picked up the Haunted Mansion deck and then somebody else went to this land Apart from me and they picked up the Haunted Mansion deck and they thought oh, I'd want them So now I have two I don't think I've ever even opened them again They come in these little plastic boxes and they're bridge-sized cards I have no idea what this is like literally on the back. It says deck of cards deck of cards so it's a cowboy and the state capital and Random country scenes so it's like a country in a western Americana deck. I have the in-and-out Shelled case deck. I took the top off real quick just to show you what they look like They're these transparent cards That you that are waterproof and you know that you can get wet or They don't bend or break so yeah in-and-out cards another metal tin Edward Scissor hands the movie yippie I totally like Tim Burton and all his stuff. So I'm going to show you the back Looks like that Then I have a bunch of these double deck boxes that you used to play bridge with and so you it comes in a long box And then you get two decks. So those are the two decks that Come in this box says my cards my rules ideal you lose I got another double deck box that were the backs of the cards that they look like money We'll even slide out looks like that see never even opened So here's another double deck bridge size deck where the cards are plaid Um to show you what they look like they're blue and red Here's a double deck poker set of the Saturday evening post Covers of Santa Claus. So there's both that's what the backs look like and again. It's in this tin box Here's just a plain double bridge set. This is what the backs look like This is what the faces look like and I have an American legend Set of John Wayne cards. I think my dad picked this epic Costco So again, never even opened it And then lastly, I have the bicycle 2000 edition. So this came out in 2000 It was a tin box, but then cool enough inside you actually get two cases And so these were commemorative when the year 2000 came out. And so, uh, I really like these These have a really cool back Maybe I'll do a review on these one day. All right. So that was box number one I'll do box number two and three later on and I'll stick the links below in the description. Bye