to the session on RC coupled amplifiers. Learning outcomes are at the end of session students will be able to explain the operation of RC coupled amplifier as well as the parameters of the RC coupled amplifier. So, these are the contents. So, what this basically this RC coupled amplifier is? Here output signal of first stage is coupled to the input signal of next stage via capacitor and here a resistive load of the first stage will also be acting as a load for that particular stage and will provide the signal to the next stage. Here the stages of the amplifier are identical. So, each stage is identical that is using the same transistor and uses the common power supply. This particular coupled this RC coupled amplifier is widely used in the voltage amplifier since it has excellent of audio fidelity over the wide range, but here due to the shunting effect. So, shunting effect is due to the capacitor and as you know that when frequency is large at that time you will get the XC value small and due to this shunting total gain is less than the product of individual voltage gain and that is why here we will see the next. So, this figure one shows the circuit diagram for the RC coupled amplifier. Here voltage divider biasing is used this register that is collector register will provide the input to the next stage that is base of the transistor Q2. So, we are using here voltage divider biasing and emitter register is also playing the role to make the Q point stable ok. So, here Cm couples the AC signal voltage and CE will provide the low reactance path CE is the bypass capacitor and the coupling capacitor CC passes the AC signal and blocks the DC signal. Now we will see the operation when input signal is fed to the first stage which will be amplified by the transistor which will appear across the collector transistor further given to the base of the next stage. So, this coupling capacitor couples the output of first stage to the input of next stage. So, I can say the overall gain is equal to voltage gain of first stage into voltage gain of second stage, but as I told you before due to shunting effect there will be loss of the gain and therefore it will be practically less than the multiplication of 2 voltage gains. See this is the circuit we can represent this circuit in the simplest form for the analysis purpose and that we can do with the help of the H model ok. As you know well that H parameter is used to represent this transistor. So, here this is the coupling capacitor in between the 2 stages this is the input impedance of the second stage and this is RC which is the output impedance of the first stage. So, we can say as hre of the transistor is small therefore, hre into v out is neglected which is at the input side of the transistor and 1 by h o is very large which is parallel to this particular output part of the transistor which is also neglected the 4 circuit becomes simply with these particular arrangement. And R 1 and R 2 which are used for the biasing purpose which are large as compared to h i since we have just this particular representation. So, we have used the emitter bypass capacitor which is also small. So, R e and C e considered as short circuit ok. So, if we analyze this further we will get the frequency response of the RC coupled amplifier. So, here what I have done I have converted this particular current source into the voltage source. Therefore, it will be h f e i b into RC in series with the RC yes and this is shown over here. Now, one more thing capacitor as it is a mid frequency analysis we are considering for the X e c value is very very small as frequency is moderately large. So, we have this current flowing through the output path or this loop is equal to h f e into i b into RC which is a voltage source upon RC plus h i e. RC is the first stage collector resistance and h i e is the second stage input impedance. So, this is my i. Now, I can say i a i m that is mid frequency current gain equal to i upon i b that is output current by input current. So, I will get this particular equation since i upon i b will be giving you this remaining ratio. Now, to calculate i out I can say it is simply the current flowing through the path into h i e. So, I will just multiply the value of i with this h i e next v in equal to what input impedance into input current that is h i e into i b why I am calculating this because I am interested in the voltage gain which is a v m a v m is what voltage gain at the mid frequency. So, this is my a v m. Now, when I consider the low frequency signal is applied at that time x c c will come into picture we cannot ignore it. Therefore, same is the thing which we have carried forward just the additional part is I have minus j x c c part over here due to this coupling capacitor. So, see here when I do this calculation and I calculate the voltage gain for the low frequency I will come across this particular ratio. Now, with this I will also calculate my modulus of this gain which gives you this equation and through this I will now calculate the cutoff frequency lower cutoff frequency means from which particular point I will get the constant output voltage.  Therefore, if I analyze it further I will come across this particular equation that is 1 by 2 pi c c into r c plus h i in the same way if I go for the high frequency at that time my inter electrode capacitors will come into picture which gives my inter wired capacitance. Therefore, I treat it as c d that is depletion capacitance and when I go it further I will again have the same procedure which we have done in the low frequency analysis and I will calculate my high frequency gain over there. Why it is so? Because only the c d will be changing over there ok this j omega c d will be extra in that analysis and when I get the ratio of a v h by a v m which is again equal to 1 by root 2 I will take it as the ratio and when I compare this part equal to the higher cutoff frequency. So, I can write 1 by 2 pi c d into bracket 1 by h i plus 1 by r c this is my high frequency gain. So, when I get the different identical stages one with the same values of r c r in and the voltage gain. So, calculate the gain in dB as I know that effective load for the resistance has to be calculated which is a parallel combination of r c and r in which comes to 333 and so I have the gain of 4 stage which is equal to 60 into 333 by 500 is what gain of the second stage is 60, but my gain of the first stage will be reduced due to the loading effect and that is why I will not get the 16 to 60, but 16 to 39 therefore, it is 2397. So, this is the frequency response over the mid range and high and low frequency range and the advantages of this is that we have the excellent frequency response over audio frequency which is giving the cheap solution and the disadvantages are lower voltage and power gain as well as noisy because we are using resistor and capacitor which also gives the poor impedance matching which it is used in the public address system. These are the references. Thank you.


Alright, are you using all of those? I am. That is how I'm going to get my opal look for my opal onyx that I am about to invent with the first time ever. I'm using all the interferences that we have. And you can find all these on the website? Yep, artist till death, death com. We are home. Finally. You can kind of see just the shade on each of them. You can see really good on the rim of that one. So, we have been gone out of the studio for like two weeks, my bad. We had to do a countertop down in Houston. And then we had to do a workshop pro class with RK3, Stone Coat, and Chandel Paint, and Clara, all in Seguin, and it was amazing. But we had bronchitis from all the excitement, so you may hear him cough. It does sound a lot like Kujo if you've been here for a while. I assure you that he's been checked out and he's doing good. He got on meds today, so they haven't really kicked in. Anyway, today I'm going to do opal onyx countertop in theory. I'm going to try. And so, I have gone ahead and mixed up my resin. This is Stone Coat Art Coat, best in the biz. You can get it from our website, artisttilldeath.com, or on Stone Coat's website. If you go to Stone Coat's website, use the code Y-A-L-L, all caps, no punctuation, to get a discount. You have to go lay down. So, let's get this party started. Sorry about that little dance jig.  It says translucent black. Shadow gray on my white board. Just a little bit in some areas just to give a little bit of depth. You're doing this at home. We're a respirator. We have some new ones coming. Just a little bit. I want it to be slight because white onyx is just white. It's just whiteness. With a little bit of like a cream looking, like a cream looking fault line. It's just, it looks like, still too light. Probably just looks like a little bit of a shadow, which is all I'm going for anyways. And honestly, we may not even be able to see it once we get everything down. So, whatever. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. This is a lot of colors for me to be mixing up. So, I'm going to mix up about half of these cups. Maybe just under a half. So, it'll be about, yeah, just under a half. So, it'll be about an ounce of each of these interference colors that I'm going to use to make my opal shades. And then I'm going to need just a little bit for my fault lines. But yeah, there's about an ounce in each of these cups. So, first one I'm going to mix up is interference green. I haven't used interferences in a long time. So, I'm going to like just barely load the color as I go. Did you guys know I don't use a lot of powders? I just want enough to give it an interference type hue. It's okay if it has a little bit of like a color in it other than the interference. Because the more you add, the more opaque the shade will be. And I don't want them to be fully opaque. So, I want to be able to still see through it. Can you see the green interference? A little bit, yeah. Interference green check. Interference violet is next. Probably going to try to put a little bit less than I did for the green on the rest of them because I don't want to make it opaque.  I'm going to set you down for a second. I hope you guys can see that interference. It's pretty slight. Is your class in August full yet? It is not. I was going to bring that up. It's too much, but it'll be fine. I was going to bring that up to you guys today. Our August class is not full yet. I have five seats left. Tammy has three seats left. It's the first weekend in August. If you have time and would like to come here, you can get $50 off if you come to both classes. I hope you guys can make it because Tammy is super talented. I'm very excited to be doing this class with her. This one is interference red. Two of these little stirs seem to be a good amount for one ounce. I keep forgetting how long it takes for a powder to mix in. Not that it's an exorbitant to length of time, but it's just different than paste. I promise you there's a red hue on it. There you go, you can see it there. I forgot my little camera. This one already has that yellow hue to it, so I'm not going to put too much in there. I don't want to have a yellow looking piece. This little light is pretty bright. This is the gold interference. Let me pick up this other one. Okay, that's the gold. Now the interference is blue. I want more of this one. So I'm going to... This will be the blue interference. I feel like you can super see it when I first put it in the... Can you see it on the outside? Like you can see that interference. With the light, you can definitely see it. That on the outside is what the interference will show.  I probably should have called this like Mermaid Ponyx. I think it'll be great. And... I'm going to do number five. Then I have Abalone. Abalone is going to give me that awesome sparkle throughout. And it sparkles all of the colors that we just mixed up. I'm going to really load this because I want a great sparkle payoff. Abalone is a lot like Milky Way. Libby says, I'm glad you're using... For once you're using colors that I have in stock, I'm usually watching an end up button. Well, happy to help. Okay, meow. I need a little bit of a different color. So I'm going to use a little bit of beige. And in the sample I have, you could kind of see some fault lines that are a beigey, parchmenty kind of color. I don't know if I'm actually going to use this, but I wanted to mix it up just in case I decided to get crazy. Right. So I'm going to use this last one for an opaque white. I'm going to use titanium for this one. I want to be able to not see through it. This heavy, heavy white is going to sink through the translucent white that I'm going to mix up. And that's going to give us a great dimensional look. And this last one is going to be translucent white. Translucent. And so to do that, I'm just going to put a little bit of my opaque white into a bunch of clear. I have a problem as my husband says. I mean... And we all have this problem. Don't we all? I don't want to use up too much of my opaque whites. I'm going to add a little bit more just from the jar. Can I ask why you use art coat and not stone coat countertop? Is it working time? So the main differences between art coat and countertop are that there's a longer working time with art coat. And it's way more UV resistant than the countertop. The countertop is UV resistant. But the art coat is what you should use for whites always. It just has more UV resistance to it. Okay. Now I'm going to start applying all these colors. I'm going to start with my translucent white. The application right now isn't going to look too beautiful, but just write it out with me. This won't be a long video. Get to the finish pretty quickly. And now I'm going to do that exact same beautiful application that I just did, but with my interference colors. I'm kind of going for bigger patches of color on this. I feel like if I do more translucent color or thinner colors, that that'll get lost. I don't know if that's true. I just feel like that would be the case. So I'm trying to lay this on kind of thicker in areas. If this turns out how it is in my head, this is going to be the most beautiful thing. And I'm going to want to do every countertop from here on out with this. And I wonder what it would look like with that UTC on it. We can do that UTC on it. If the colors aren't obvious enough, then I'm going to just use our glow method. Well, you already put some of that red in there. Yeah, I'm putting the color my interference in. You can see the difference when you have that light on it as opposed to not, at least for me anyway. Well, this way it shows like at an angle. Then when you put your light over it over the top, it shows. I'm really hoping this gold I'm about to put on doesn't like. Okay. It reads as gold, but it doesn't read as yellow. So cool with that. I'm going to probably do thinner lines of the goal just because I don't want it to read as yellow. And I feel like if I put a big patch of it, then it's just going to try to get every last drop out of my this. Cause a way someone on. And I'm going to use all the rest of my clear for my abalone. I always keep a little bit of clear leftover just in case there's something else I want to mix. I'm pretty happy with how everything was laying out so far. So I'm okay using all the rest of it. Okay. I'm going to save just a little hint of it still in my that my cup just to be sure I have enough to do what I need to do further into this piece. Right now I'm just covering all of the dry areas. I'm not trying to mix anything. I don't want to mix anything. I'm just skimming over. We'll create some movement in a moment. So if you're trying to text me, I'm live. So not bad. I think we mostly have everything covered. Just going to hit it with a little bit of heat in a moment to pop the bubbles. I don't want to create any movement right now. I'm just trying to pop the blue blades. As my good pal Rhonda would say, this could be a finish all on its own. I don't even know if they can see that interference that we've got going on. I'm just tilting here right now to create some movement between all the colors. I'm just tilting off one side. What if you were doing that on a countertop? I would use a blow dryer or a heat gun to create this movement. Since I don't have a buyer for this sample right now, I'm just doing it how I know it's going to look the best. If it was for a client, then I would not have tilted something that I couldn't tilt on site. Going exactly to play in so far. What's our surface? This is a painted cradleboard? This is a white cradleboard. It's going to hurt my whole heart if they can't see it like I see it. Should I hold that light over here? They can see it. I'm just going to hold it here to see it. That's not.  That's why I thought I was doing this. We can just take this. Now I accidentally just moved this and I really like what that looks like. Can you even see? Yeah, I mean you can see all the movement. It's very difficult. It's hard for it to focus because there's no... There's nothing for it to catch on. Yeah, it's like it doesn't know what to... Give you guys something to look at without passing out. It's a new draft.  Where's our painting? I love them. See, that's like so much better. Trying to break up the application lines and this is a great way to do it. This is just a little blower that we got from Amazon. When we got it, it was actually 50 bucks and now I hear that it's down in price. I have a link in our description box under this video. If you click on our Amazon storefront, it'll take you to all the things that we do on the channel that we don't use. A lot of people want to know where we got this thing when we did the Opalee. I'm just going to put a little bit more movement in it. Yeah, once you did that, that like... Brought out the colors? Spreads it all around. Yeah, that's... I can see a lot like... And you can see like put a lot more color in that. And it would be like... It looks like the inside of a shell. It's so difficult to see it on camera. After this video, we'll do a true color video on Jeff's phone. So these are all the colors that are in this, y'all. Does it matter if I put my light? It does. I just wanted to have a video of what we're doing just in case... Just in case that I'm about to do ruins it. So I wanted to have a video of how it is. So now I'm going to do just some lines, right? Let me pull up my wrapper. I think it would be... I think it would look nice. This makes me so nervous. I don't know why. I guess I'm going to try to do all these little pockets. I'm counting on all of these to sink so that I can shift it and tilt it as well. Like it's already shifting, so I'm happy about that. Don't like this. That's fine. Huh? You need to just do a lot more so it's not sticking out. You have like five lines out there. What if you did that spray paint and then the alcohol over that? That would like work really well.  Like it gives it that, like that subtle, real hint. Or it's like broken up or faded. That's exactly what you mean and definitely... Don't want to do it. Well, no, I can't now. You can do any of that. Let's see if we like how this looks and then we need to abort it or just take it to the next step. We can do that. Or by Emma literally just said, take it to the next level, Jeff. She knew. While you were saying that. This is stressful. I'm trying to round these corners to make it look a little bit... Are you going to heat it and blow on it or are you just going to leave it like that? I want them to sink and just stretch and move.  See how it's like sinking and like tilting? It's kind of what I wanted it to do. Do we have that white marble spray or do we only have it in black? We don't have white marble spray. All right, so I'm going to do some of these. I already know I'm going to get comments that are like, should have left it alone. Now I see, I love this subtle look, but then I seem to like most everything you do. Oh, these are the best. Casey. Cassie. Nash. Yeah, we got to go do her countertops down in Florida. He'll put resin all the way into my glove. Julie, I'm fine. I was like sitting down before she had me get up and record this. I was looking up how to set up this camera that just resin got us for a wedding gift. Let me show you guys this camera that they gave us. No, this is no joke. Like I've been looking up YouTube on how to set this camera up. It's one of those. And then side to side. Like it is amazing. It is not cheap at all. I'm guessing we could just get HDMI and plug it in. You can put a LAN, like all kinds of stuff in there. We're going to figure out how to hook it up and not break it. So that's all the fault lines I'm going to do. I'm going to do a video of how it looks. Law for just a second. Because we can't do the spurts and alcohol that Jeff is talking about when it's this fluid.  It can get the artwork in front of us. We've just been so busy. It's just our place is a wreck and I've been doing all these spray paint stuff. And our place is just a wreck right now. It's just coming back from being out of town for two weeks and all this stuff we had to bring back and then move around in here. We have a lot of stuff in here. So that camera clean house for you, right? I'd love to see this in the sunlight. We'll take it out in the sunlight tomorrow and have a look at it. You have to just look at all the rustling in cans and it's probably not going to be right there. We have been fully nonstop. Are you going to do this part? No. I was just getting ready. I have some. If I use a pencil, yeah. I have a pencil sharpener so I sharpen all my pencils. And I buy number two pencils just to have them around. Just to have, you know, 55 people. What's up, everybody? If you guys are new, what's up? I'm Thornton or Jeff. I got used to calling myself Thornton over the weekend. And this is Erica in front of me. We're artists till death. We're out of Texas and Erica is just kind of working on a, I guess, idea she had or did you see it or what? I wanted, so Judy sent me a picture of White Onyx and I was like, I want to make that opal. Do a White Onyx opal. And it looks like this. And I super love it so far, but now we're going to do some granification on it. 300 of them? Wow. In your garage. So I'm going to start in this corner. That was going to say, just like. Try the Italian drip. You can see it through there. So it's still really fresh. So it's going to move a lot. Probably doesn't make sense to actual counter toppers for me to have these lines and then do this. But we're artists and so we do what we want. Look how much different that White is. This is a great way to hide things that you don't like in your piece. Yeah. I think this is super busy. And I want to fade into having these areas and fade out of them as well. So make sure you don't do crazy cover it. I would just do a spray. You don't want to do a spray to see what it looks like right now. I don't know what you mean do a spray. A spray bottle of alcohol. It would look like this. I'm really hoping that all this that's in the middle dissipates like it did over here. I'm sure it will right? I don't want to do too much alcohol because I know that that can be a not a good thing. I just want to see what it looks like if I drop alcohol just into these. It'll do like that raindrop look. Come look at it from over here. I can see it. That is super fun. That may not stay because this resin is pretty fresh. But if it did, that'd be awesome. How's she just dripping it all over? I want to put those raindrops everywhere. So what's happening is the alcohol is pushing or dispersing the mica particles outward. And so because when you put a powder and resin it's essentially just floating in there. So when you drop alcohol in it it's going to push those particles outward. I didn't think it would do anything to the paste area but it kind of did. Sorry I didn't mean to outunfocus you. My goal is to do a finish that Rhonda's like I'm going to teach that on my channel because if it's Rhonda worthy.  Bowie is in a mood. Hopefully that stays. I hope it does too. I'm going to leave it here. And I'll come back in an hour or so. Look at that big circle. Looks like a peace sign. There's another half one right there. It's just gone. You can see it there. I'm going to leave it be. And then come back and revisit it in probably 20 minutes. See if I can drip some more alcohol on it if those have moved. If they're still there I'll probably leave it alone. And we'll do a true color video if they moved or settled back then I'll add some more alcohol to it. I'm glad I didn't put the beige in. I think that would have been a distracting shade. But to be fair my sample did have it in them. I don't. This is my reference. It looks like a really thick spider web when it's real dense and a bunch of it. So like that banana spider's web. So that was going to be where that... But anyway, happy with it. It's good. I'm going to let it live. I feel like a full counter topper now. Subtle and elegant vamp says. I'm glad you're prettier. You want to come up and say hi to people? You do. You do. You feel it for it? Come on, search a lot. Oh, it's a big boy. Erica, yours is prettier. Two of those back to back. Yours is way prettier. Bowie bands. I think my phone is actually about ready to die. All right, you got it. Thank you for watching and seeing what we're up to today. If you liked it, leave us a thumbs up. Follow us for more art things because we post most every day. When and where is the class? The class that's here with Tammy is the first weekend in August, which is the 6th and 7th. I'm pretty sure. And then we also have one midway through September in Seguin with Mix Media Girl. So that. And then also maybe we're going to have a traveling class the whole rest of August, but we're waiting on confirmation for that. Anyways, that's where our classes are. You can find them all on our website, artiststilldeath.com. Just search classes. You'll find all of them there. And so I hope you enjoyed it, you guys. Be kind to one another. You never know what someone's going through. And always remember, we do the test. You don't have to. That shirt is flattering to me, but I can't show it to you. Surf shop. I know that, but... No. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Bye.


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The following contains strong language, nudity and scenes of a sexual nature. Major point, you've said what you wanted to say. Don't care man, I don't kids just about to have a big night out. Oh it's all fine and dandy but there's going to be no cameras there. It's going to be documented. Nothing's going to be there, like it just didn't exist. When Josh says he doesn't want to film, then an alarm bell goes off in my head. Like why? What is it on your night out that you don't want anyone to say? Why doesn't Josh get it? I don't understand. He's really pissed. As relationships, I've been lied, cheated on and hurt and I can't just forget that. So yes, I do sometimes feel insecure and I do sometimes worry. Unless you're going to stop arguing with me, then don't bother texting me. Because I'm getting an argument. At the minute, you're going out, you're not coming on the trips, you're not getting your nights out filmed, you just have his teeth. Charlotte, listen, stop texting him back and just leave it now. Because you're just going to fight over the same stuff. Don't text him back, please. Charlotte. Charlotte needs to stop messaging Josh now, because this is just going to get worse. And I'm really worried that things are going to get out of control and she's just going to push Josh away. You can't keep arguing about it as well.  But I am going to, mum, because he just doesn't get it. I'm blocking him. Can't bear to hear what he's got to say. I can't bear anything. I know blocking him is an extreme step, but I'm meant to be on a trip for a lifetime. And what's worse is I was meant to be spending it with Josh. My head is all over the place, but I can't help how I feel. There's a girl there. Did you want to go? He's so drunk. It's not healthy this, you know. I love Josh so much, but I just feel like we're at different stages in our life. The age gap is so clear to us when he's constantly going out with his friends. I'm not at that stage of my life anymore. And do I really want to be with someone who is? I decided I'm splitting up with Josh. Are you having a long? No. Why? What's happened? How are you? What's happened? Charlotte, I think you've been very rational. You don't actually have any text to me yet, because... Josh, no. I'm writing out the tweet now. He's done nothing to reassure us. And Josh knows that I've got trust issues because we've passed relationships. I can't keep on feeling like this every time that we're apart. What are you exactly saying? I've just said sometimes going more separate ways is the best thing for you. I think Charlotte's made the wrong call breaking up with Josh on Twitter. She's overreacted, stopping, then making the picture bigger in her head, and then, that's it, they're over. I've already had this conversation about how I miss out on everyone's big things in their lives. I miss out on my friends. So now I have to miss out on my boyfriend, but while I'm missing out on him, he's going out with girls. I don't want to do that. Charlotte, please don't cry.  Like, it just rips me heart out when she's crying. I just wish she'd take a step back and just read things a bit differently sometimes. Just like, we're a different place, and I don't want to be living life like I was. I feel like I'm when I was eight, eight-year-old, and I was going out with someone my age, and I was so worried about all these things. I'm not eight, eight-year-old anymore, I'm really thirty-year-old. I love Josh, he's a lovely, lovely person. We're always going to have these different views, and he's never going to understand, I just want to go home now, I want to go to sleep. Like I'm up with you. I feel so insecure, all because Josh hasn't taken into account how I feel on what upsets us. The most important and the most exciting trip of my life has come about, and all I've been thinking about is Josh and what he's doing and who he's with. It just makes us realise exactly how different our lives are. For that reason, I just think it's over. Hi, I'm Charlotte Crosby, and if you're enjoying this channel as much as I think you are, hit the subscribe button for even more amazing MTV videos.


Hey everyone, Shade Bear 1000 here. Today I'm going to try to get outside here in a few minutes to Put this fuel pump on my John Deere 112. It's a 1974. I Think this is the right one. It calls for that engine. It's a colder 301 the 301 series so It comes with the gaskets and everything so it should be Should be ready to go. I'm gonna point you down here. Let's see if I can prep anything before I get out there I mean the outside of them You know are pretty much the same just some of these are different.  I think it's a good pump, but it's a pulse pump I just didn't feel like drilling any holes in anything, you know, like the block or anything like that to get a pump So I just wouldn't ain't got this. It was like 10 bucks. So free shipping. All right, so let's Let's go ahead and check this out. Well, it needs so what kind of parts we got and I'll tell you why I'm gonna try To get outside here in just a second stick around Okay, so I'll put you on this napkin here not you but this on the napkin so it's a little bit easier to see Like I said, we won't know until I pull the old one off if this is the right one or not These kind they're all pretty much the same up here in this part and This is what would be different on it, but it calls for Like I said, it's 301 series it calls for supposed to call for this pump I'll tell you why I'm going to try to do this the reason why I'm going to try is See the heat index feels like 102 now yesterday It was a hundred and eight in my area real feel they actually had warnings not to go outside yesterday. So I Didn't All right, so Go ahead and open this up make sure we've got everything here. I'm sure the other ones toasted Know these here's the gasket It goes on here. It'll go in there like that or It's got This gasket will use whatever one the tractors gone on it either want to work, I'm sure but Whichever one it has on it, that's the one we'll use Now I Am not sure what this is for But I am sure that it doesn't go on mine So it's got two different Size Let's say three. No, there's These two what they do is they'll go they'll clip into here. I gotta figure out which size I Need So I think mine is just pretty much like this Okay These are for the washers that go on the back side here for your bolts. That's where those go Yeah mine I'm pretty sure Both of them come straight up. I think the line comes in and down. It doesn't matter. It tells you Can't mix it up. There's arrows there. So You're going to come in here and it's going to come out there But like I said, I need to These just pop in you just push them in there That's the clip that holds it clips right around this Right there that little Clips in there and that's what there's the little overings that keep them from leaking But I'm not sure which ones like I said, there's different size sizes here. I'm not sure what size I've got I Got a look at the line because I changed the original line out on it So, you know, it's also got like this 90 here Kind of like a nice not a 90 but Um May go like that. I'm not sure but once these are in here, you know They're they're pretty much tight and these if you can see These teeth here Then the teeth on these right there See those teeth right there by my thumbnail They lock inside of here and that that just keeps them from you know turning around and coming out getting loose what not So let's go outside and see if We can get the other the other one off if we can That'll be super I mean, I know we can but let's just see how hot it's going to be It's not good for anybody, especially a heart patient to be in this kind of weather. So But I'm going to try to do this. It shouldn't take that long or get you set up out there I'm going to go out first to see what kind of tools I need that way I should have everything right there and ready to go. This is a how-to so Um If this is the wrong pump, then you know, I'm going to have to wait a couple days But I'll still put it in this video. So let's get outside and see what we got Okay. Now like I said, see mine are both pointed directly straight up So down underneath here there's two Two bolts that are kind of hard To get a To get a tool on it But this is aluminum. So I'm thinking this may be original Let's go Let's see if we can get this off of here. There we go And I got the wrong size Well I got a half inch on there I think it's seven sixteenths. I tried to seven sixteenths, but I couldn't get it to go on there so That happens I can bring the whole toolbox out here and still Not have what I need It came loose Let's go ahead and take it out and see I'm out back Because there's a little bit of shade here And it being a John Deere I don't like John Deere's but I do like anything vintage and antique so They don't give you enough room I don't want to drop it because I'll never find it Let's see if we can get the other one loose. I don't know what that thing is. I've never seen that before my life That kind of a bug I can get this one out. I'll see if I got the right It's just so tight in there. I'll see what I mean Once I get this out of here How close it is Now I like hex head bolts Better than uh Like Phillips But this is a case where I think A regular screw head like a Phillips Would be a lot better Because There's just no room And plus remember these are put on before the engines put on the damn tractor. So All right, let me get a seven sixteenths. Okay brought out two I brought out a uh Deep well And shallow let's see It is a seven sixteenths. It just wouldn't fit when it was all the way up in there So it tricked me There it is All right, now let's try to get Man, where can I put this so I don't lose it? I'll see if we can get this one off. I wish I had some regular screws That would fit that I would put them in instead The kit didn't come with any Any hardware let's pull this off of here Okay, it looks like it Yeah, that looks like it and it's got the paper gasket Um But as you can see Maybe See that bolt Look how close that is Plus the screw Great Let's go in the house It's hot Okay, so guys I was just telling you a whole bunch of stuff and I was not recording I just talked to you for about five minutes. Okay, so what I'm See these screws that go down into the top here. Okay I hold this together down here on the bottom There's one there See it's sticking out sticking out farther than the other ones that also makes it hard to get On that bolt and that's the one we had the most trouble with See And there's not much room there You can see that bolt the end of that bolt sticking up there So when you're there and with the angle of that frame, you know, it's hard to get it on straight So Okay, but this is so like I said these These two are the same size. They're too small And I don't need that angle anyhow Now these two this is the perfect size. I need right here. It's the same size Is what's on this old one here Perfect size fits now the one This one here that I need Is a little bit too big now. This is rubber hose. I can put it in hot water And it'll slide right over there with no problem. I'll put it on the out end of it But right now what I've got to do and I'm going to be using this gasket Because that's the gasket that is with this This is flat. This has got grooves around it Uh, what it'll do is it'll leak oil there And if you have this kind of pump If you're getting a lot of gas smell if you're if your engine's running fine It's not flooding out or anything if your engine's running like it's supposed to but you're getting Oil or gas smell in your oil when you check your oil you smell gas This could leak in here and when it does It leaks out here and that goes directly into your crankcase. So keep you know keep that in mind So what I'm what I'm going to do Is I'm going to have to Let me go get some vaseline and we're going to Pop these on here before I go outside Still debating on which one of these to use I think I'll use this I might use them both I mean it won't hurt anything To use them both I think I will I'll just use them both Shouldn't hurt anything. Let me get some vaseline And um We'll loop these up and we'll get them put in here Like I said, they've got to go straight up like that kind of like dual stacks Which that's what I want to put on it eventually so And we'll put the smaller end in the intake and the larger end on the outtake Let me get something to lube these up with. Okay, so I'm just going to use some of this It'll be all right Won't hurt a thing All right now. I have put them I have put these in my vise before And pushed them both in but I also have had them slip and break before so Okay, it's starting Make sure we got that right straight up Straight up man. There it goes. We're going to do the same thing to this side try to get them That one's kind of back a little farther than what I wanted but that one went in perfectly this one It's in there and there we go now. There shouldn't be any leaks there I don't feel like this one's right. It doesn't look right This one's like even this one's out just a little bit Yeah, that should be should be it now. We've got to brave the weather and go out And uh put this thing on so um I'm not sure if this is going to be long enough for the long one.  Right there just to help hold that So it doesn't fall down Because you'll never see it if it does If that gasket falls down all right, so let's uh Go ahead and try to get this one started Kind of a pain not having room to work, you know, I mean Like I said, I'd love to take one engineer Especially one that claims he's the best and bring him out And say here put this on for me put this part on for me See how well He engineers the next one Just help holding the gasket there Find a hole there we go Now it's just a matter of tightening this up. I've got This will go into the end of here like this I would use my impact driver But since this is plastic I like to do it by hand Come on See that's that's the stuff. I'm talking about right there guys Show me that engineer All right, so I got to get that off of there All right, let me get off get that off there. I'll tighten the other one And I'll show you what I'm going to do with the fuel lines Okay, so Since this is going to be hard to go over go over top of that What I'm going to do So I got some water here. I put some boiling water in here and as you can see I got it too hot I'm just going to dip this in here for a second And I'm I've got it dipped in right now dipped in there Then Blow it out a little bit And then this will go Right over top of there and as it cools down It will swell around it and keep it tight Just like that It's on there and now I'm going to put it on the top one which I don't need to do that too because it's the right size And there we go Like I said, that's already I cannot Pull that off of there real easy so now I know you can't see much but up here I've got this hose and I'm going to run it Down in here on the other side of this coil and I'm going to put this on that bottom part And It's on there. So we are hooked up under here see We're all hooked up our tubes coming up there Coming up there. This one's into the carburetor the top one now I'm going to hook it up. I'm going to leave it long since we got a pump That's not going to be a problem. I'm going to leave it long because my gas tank that I repaired Uh It held except the ring around the top where the cap screwed on it rusts it off. So I can't put a cap on it So what I've done I always like to keep the filter in here Got that on there This is just a vent That's why that predator tank's up there. That's the best I can do right now um I can put it down in here But if I do that if I put it down in here it Wants to crush my line So let's watch here I'll zoom me in a little bit. Let's turn our fuel on Yeah, see the fuel's coming through that All right, see it's filling up Little bubble there. That's an air bubble Now This is a vent. I don't even know if it's working. Yeah, there we go Now our vent's working. I got this on the charger. Like I said, that's the battery out of the truck Well the yeah the Toyota so let's Go ahead and sift this thing will start up Let me move you back here. I'll put you on this John Deere So you're not rattling off all over the place Let's see if this will start Remember which way's choke on this thing Switch blues I think my switch just died on it. Okay, that's weird Oh, it's going too far I've had this problem before Hank I've gotten it's got issues do some checking it pumped it up to the carburetor So I must not have spark Let me check my points because I don't have a points cover on there. Let me run a piece of of Sandpaper across them We'll see if that's the issue. Okay guys, I think I found a problem The plug Wouldn't spark when I don't want to close the points So I took another plug out of something I have over here stuck in there Well, I tried it first and it sparked So now I got to put in there. Let's see if this thing will start up and run. It'll start it up Okay, let me see why my throttle is not working Working some but not right Let me check that out And I'll be back with you Okay, guys I found the problem My throttle cable comes right up behind there. There's my throttle cable When I move it just the whole thing's moving Right down in here It's hard to see that right there right in the dead center of your screen that see it there. I turned it that Supposed to go where that bolt goes that I stuck in there So that's why my throttle wasn't working I'm not gonna do that today. I am just too hot guys besides. I got another package in there. I need to check out and see what it is I don't know who it's from or anything. So that'll be the video following this one I got to get my stuff picked up I'm gonna leave it on battery charger for a little bit, but Yeah, that's very starting fluid in there. I know you're not supposed to do that. It it hurts them and Whatever done up for years never blew an engine up for doing that but Shot something that in there wasn't doing nothing.  So I stuck my little ever went Here it is I stuck this in there and into spark plug wire And I got shocked because I wasn't holding it right It's a shocking experience guys, but Anyway, uh, so This man's got to be that plug. Sure enough. It was a plug. So Let's see if it'll start up getting real quick Okay, I don't know why I quit recording but I don't know what you got found out why my Throttle is not working right back in here my throttle cable goes in there's my throttle cable goes there to the governor that thing right there It's supposed to be hooked on to where that bottom bolt is down there And that's what holds it Holds the cable in place. So that's why When I'm going like this nothing's happening the whole cable is moving So I had a I sprayed some starting fluid in there and uh Nothing happened. I was like, well, I know you're not supposed to use it whatever guys, but so I was like Should have fired points was firing. So I thought See that like Spark plug cable don't look the greatest, but it's on there pretty snug. So I thought maybe it's that so I stuck this in there and I got sparked No, I didn't get spark. I got sparked. So I knew it was getting spark So I pulled a spark plug out of my old edger over there and I stuck it on there Open and close the points with my finger And it's spark. So there you go. So anyway guys, I gotta go. I got another package in there. I've got to open up Cut my hand and uh I don't know who it's from It might be another review thing. I'm not sure but that'll be the video following this one. I'm not gonna fix that right now It's just too hot It's like 105 now or 106. I think it was Real feel index well if it's real feel if that's what it really feels like That's what I'm calling it So I'm gonna shut this fuel off Let it run out of gas and then uh I'll see you guys in the next one. So she bear the myth of man alleged. I'm gone for now. Thanks for watching. Appreciate it And uh, check out monkey 1000's video. She's gonna getting ready to put up now or I think she is putting it up now um, she got fan mail today From uh, Dennis Hallbecker's wife Glowy She's gonna have links in the description to both their channels and so I don't want to give a spoiler alert Or anything like that new spoilers Just go check her out and you'll see what they sent her very nice. I'm thanks guys appreciate it We'll see you guys in the next one. I gotta go and get cooled down. Bye. Bye guys and take care


Besides advanced deployment techniques like canary, blue-green and incremental deployments, all the progressive delivery approaches, like feature flags, can be used to reduce risk when practicing progressive delivery. Progressive delivery is a facet of continuous delivery and it is the ability to test in production while controlling your audience of who can exercise or see updates to your application with a high level of granularity. This approach can also be thought of as developer experimentation. The benefits of using feature flags are lowering risk by preventing and schedule outages, controlling your audience in a fine-grained fashion, and by optionally using feature flags in conjunction with canary deployments. These are used by its simple configurability, support of user lists, built-in feature flag service and simple instrumentation. Our feature flag implementation is language agnostic since it supports all of the main programming languages and better compliance and audit via the automatic recording of all feature flags actions by the GitLab platform. In this technical demo, we will see how Rachel, a release manager, creates and uses a feature flag in her effort to adopt this progressive delivery approach. Rachel creates a brand new feature flag and names it with a shorthand for products in alphabetical order feature flag. Feature flags have environment-specific strategies that need to be defined, so Rachel proceeds to define these strategies. She creates one for production and proceeds to create strategies for other environments. Once she defines all of the strategies and creates the feature flag, she can enable it or disable it by using a slider in the feature flags window. Also, in order for feature flags to be used by this project, the API URL and the instance ID of the feature flag service need to be shared with developers. Rachel copies these two values for later sharing. Rachel would like to exercise the feature flag, which segments the audience of who are going to see a new feature in a control manner in a specific environment. She opens up the feature flag window and checks the feature flag products in alphabetical order feature flag, which has three strategies and a user list called product in alphabetical order user list with two users in it, Michael at CFL.arr.com and Mary at CFL.arr.com. The first strategy uses a percent rollout of 50% based on available ID for the production environment. The second one targets the feature to users in the users list products in alphabetical order user list for the staging environment. The third strategy serves the feature to a specific user, Thomas at gmail.com for their review environment, which is an ephemeral environment used for validating application updates before they emerge to the main branch. Since there are multiple review environments due to the number of concurrent feature branches developers are working on, Rachel searches among the existing review environments and selects the correct one to which this strategy will apply. Feature flags help Rachel reduce risk, allowing her to do control testing and separate feature delivery from customer launch. Rachel would like to verify the feature flag strategy in action in the review environment. She opens the application in the review environment and logs in as user Thomas at gmail.com. She validates that Thomas gets a product list sorted in alphabetical order by product name. Also noticed that in the review environment the application has an orange background. She logs Thomas out and this time she logs in as Peter at gmail.com. Rachel confirms that Peter does not get a product list in alphabetical order because the feature flag strategy for the review environment is that only Thomas gets the feature. Rachel now opens the application in the production environment to see if the 50% rollup based on available ID strategy is being applied. There are six valid user names that this application supports. She first logs in as Peter and sees that he does not get the feature. Next, she logs in as magic and he does get the feature. She proceeds to log in as Michael and he gets the feature. She then logs in as Henry and confirms that he does not get the feature. She logs in as Mary who does not get the feature. And finally she logs in as Thomas who does get the feature. If you have been keeping track of who got and who didn't get the feature you realize that three users got the feature and three didn't which is exactly this feature flag strategy for production. Rachel would like to verify the feature flag strategy in action in the staging environment. She opens the application in the staging environment and logs in as user Michael at cfl.rr.com. She validates that Michael gets a product list sorted in alphabetical order by product name. She logs Michael out and this time she logs in as Mary at cfl.rr.com. Rachel confirms that Mary also gets the feature in the staging environment. Remember that Michael and Mary were in the user's list allowed to see this feature in staging. She logs Mary out and still in staging she logs in as Peter at gmail.com. Who should not be served the feature? Indeed, Peter does not get a product list in alphabetical order. Rachel is interested in seeing how this feature flag is instrumented in the application. GitLab supports feature flags for a variety of programming languages including Java in which this application is written. She heads to the source directory of the application and views the file appcontroller.java. She notices a block of import statements for open source project and leash which is what GitLab uses for its implementation of feature flags. She finds a declaration of some variables that are needed for the instrumentation of a feature flag in this Java class. In the constructor method, she sees the definition of three of these variables. The unleash instance ID and URL values are generated when the feature flag is created and the GitLab environment name is a runtime predefined variable. An unleash config object is then declared and defined and then that config object is used to create an instance of default and leash. Once all these variables and objects have been instantiated, using the feature flag is as simple as an if else statement. The if statement checks if the feature flag has been enabled and if so, it runs the if portion which stores the product list in alphabetical order. If the feature flag is not enabled, then it runs the else portion which returns the product list in the order they were added to the database and not in alphabetical order. Feature flag instrumentation provides a straightforward and simple way to embed a feature flag in your code. Feature flags allow you to effectively test updates to your application safely in production. They can help you lower risk of unscheduled outages, they are simple to configure an instrument, they are language agnostic and help you stay compliant and always be audit ready. Thank you for watching and until next time.


My name is Michelle Nakamura. I'm the commanding officer of USS NHTSA DDG-94. I'm a commander in America's Navy Absolute favorite part of being in the Navy just going out to sea taking the ship out to sea driving the ship Anchoring shooting the gun. That's my favorite part My husband is also in the Navy and the Navy has been absolutely phenomenal about keeping us stationed in the same home ports and so I don't have to say this to you as Hype or propaganda. I just I've the Navy has been very good to me If you work hard you can do anything you want to and I will also say I think the Navy in the 18-ish years I've been in has made amazing strides with the programs and the considerations for women There's a sabbatical program the career intermission and so that allows people to take time off to have a family Travel get a master's degree off do all of these things you can take time off in the Navy and come back in The Navy particularly as a surface warfare officer They train you to adapt to any situation So you could plunk one of us down in any other ship and almost any job in the Navy and with the training and the Basic leadership skills that they give you you can be successful


Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering Grace Hopper's Celebration of Women in Computing, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of the Grace Hopper Conference here in Orlando, Florida. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Jeff Frick. We're joined by Megan Smith. We're very excited to have you on the show. She is the third US CTO and also the CEO of a new company, Shift7.co. So thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. It's so fun to be at Hopper. It is, it is. You know, and it's cool. It's the Grace Hopper Celebration because we're trying to celebrate women in computing. And we're at 18,000 people now. It's the biggest ever. Exactly. Plus I think 6,000 people joined on the live stream. Which is great. So before the cameras were rolling, we were talking about your role as the third US CTO. And just talking about getting more technology into government to help leaders work together and move faster. Tell us a little bit about this initiative. Yeah, so, and what's so great is it's not partisan, fixing the government and making it work better. So all the work that we were doing continues. So what we were able to put in place during the Obama administration and continues from Trump were things like the CTO office. So having technical people, so I worked at Google, people at Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, these companies who have that background to join in on policy conversations one. To join in on capacity building the government. So data sciences and tech and let's have our services be as great as Amazon or as Twitter or Oracle and not be sort of retro. We want to serve the American people. And then also helping the American people in general with capacity building, things like computer science for all. So that was an initiative that continues but to get all of our children to have coding at school that all children, you couldn't graduate from high school without having had some experience in learning of coding. Coding is a 21st century fluency. It's a skill we all need. Like freshman biology, you want to know some biology, you want to know some coding, you want to know how to write. So making sure to have a tech hire, which was a program that we started to help train Americans, there's 600,000 jobs open in the United States and they pay 50% more than the average American salary. The companies are starving. How do we rapidly get more Americans into these jobs? So it turns out that people of course created these fabulous code boot camps there. You can train in three months for these jobs. Some of them are paid, sometimes they pay you and all different kinds, some are online, some are offline, they're all over the country. So we're able to get more people to consider a job like that. Culturally they think, why would I, I don't know how to do that, but you can. This is a fun and interesting and exciting career. You can do digital marketing, you can do user interface design. You can get involved in front end or back end coding, product management, all those things, sales. And so how do you pull lots more Americans in, get our companies fueled so we highly have that economic opportunity? And they're all over the country, like location-wise and topic-wise. And so we did tech, now we're on a tech jobs tour, which is not what we did in government, but what we're continuing some of that work. It's just weird dichotomy, because I wanted people to worry about tech taking jobs. On the other hand, there's a ton of open tech jobs. And there's this transition period that's difficult obviously for people that didn't grow up, one of the keynote speakers today told a really heartening story that she didn't get into it until the day she had to leave her abusive husband and now she is a coder. That's Dr. Sue Black, who was just given the order of the British Empire. I mean, she is an incredible computer scientist. Yes, she escaped an abusive marriage with three small children in her early 20s, I think, ended up moving into public housing and dealing with three children and only being able to go to school from nine until three, and eventually getting her PhD in computer science. And really, she's started tech moms now. She continues to do research and other things, but she's really trying to use her story and her organizing capacity to have more people realize this isn't hard like figuring out gravity waves that won the Nova Prize. This is hard like writing a hard essay. So we all can learn to write an essay. It takes some mastery work. You don't learn it in kindergarten, but by the time you're in 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th grade, you can do it and on it. Right, so coding is like that. The other piece you said that's very interesting is the consumerization of IT. We've seen it in enterprise, a huge trend, but now it's I expect everything that's on my phone when I interact with Facebook or Amazon or whatever to be in all the applications. So as you said, that's influencing government and the way they have to deliver services. And I would imagine too with kind of the next wave of kids coming in, graduating, going into public service, they certainly have that expectation, right? They've been working on their phone forever. Of course it should be on the phone. And so we want that everybody in our country fluent in computer science and coding at a basic level, like again, like freshman biology or taking chemistry in high school or taking writing, so that everyone could realize this is not rocket science. We could have these kinds of capabilities as part of our services from housing and urban development from the department of education.  And so that's actually data coming from the US Geological Survey. If you're looking at the weather, you're looking at NOAA satellites. These are, this is open government data. We're able to open over 200,000 data sets from all over government, not private data, but public data that you could make an entire app store, you know, or Google Play set of products on top of that. Government wouldn't have to pay for that. It just packages up the API as well. And a really good example of that is the US Census team.  They have all of our information from a data perspective. And so they did opportunity.census.gov and they said to various agencies, let us help you bridge these data sets into something that someone could build on top of. You know, like we're seeing from the commercial sector, we saw wonderful things like housing and urban development said, okay, our challenges are housing affordability, mobility, these are the challenges. Instead of having HUD make an app for Americans to come to, they just can explain what their problem is, what data sets and engage extraordinary companies like Airbnb, Redfin, Zillow, these fabulous tech companies who can make instead a product for 100% of Americans rather than only wealthier middle class Americans. And so they did things like Opportunity Score and Airbnb helping you figuring out if I rent a room in my house, I can make my rent more affordable. Very creative apps that we can see, same thing for Department of Add or Department of Labor. And as the data gets out there, and as apps come, also the opportunity for data science and machine learning. What if as much as we serve ads to ourselves, and in these algorithms, what if we use the algorithms to help Americans find a job that they would love? Job matching and these kinds of opportunities. So really applying AI, machine learning, data science to all of the problems of the world and helping government get more fluent at that. And the way to do that is not so much jam the government, you have to do this, but find terrific talent like we see at Hopper and have them cycle into the government to be co-leaders just like a surgeon general would come. Are you facing recruitment challenges in that same way though, in the sense that technology is having a hard enough time recruiting and retaining women. But the government too, is that seen as enough of an employer of choice for young, talented, bright, ambitious young women? Right, so I'm not in government now, but when we were in there, we found a very interesting thing. Alex McGilvery who had been the general counsel of Twitter, who was deputy CTO with me and led a lot of our tech policy called a TQ, like tech IQ in policy, together with economists and lawyers and others have, if we're going to decide net neutrality, let's include everyone including a computer scientist, if we're going to see encryption open source. So that, we talked about that. And on the way going into government, he said wouldn't it be cool if, just like when you look at a lawyer's resume, you might see that they clerked and they serve their country through clerking and through the judicial system as well as being a private lawyer or they were a public defender. That's a pretty normal thing to see on a legal resume. If you looked at medical, you might see them going into NIH or doing some research. If you looked at scientists, they might have gone to and done some NSF work with us. But for the tech crew, there's of course amazing technical people at NASA and NIH and the Department of Energy and there's great IT teams. But there's not this thing that the Silicon Valley crew, resume would say, oh yeah, I serve my country. So that's why under President Obama, we're able to create these incredible programs, the Presidential Innovation Fellow, which is a one year term of service, the United States Digital Service, which is a three months to a two year term of service in the VA. What's more amazing if you build Amazon than to go as a second act and help our veterans? It's an incredible honor. So to the point of, will they come? Yes, that's what we were hoping. Like, could we have that be a normal thing? And yes, it's become a normal thing and the Trump administration continues it. So the 18 F team is in the General Services Administration. They're on 18th and F, so they have a cool name. But that particular team is located all around the country, not only in DC, but in San Francisco, in Chicago and others. So you see this tech sector flowing now into the government at a regular basis and we welcome more people. The government is who shows up to help and so we need the tech sector to show up because we've got a lot of money as a country, but if we're not effectively using it, we're not serving the American people and foster children, veterans, elders, others, need the services that they deserve and we have the money. So let's make it happen the way the tech sector is delivering Amazon packages or searches. So what is your feeling? This is not your first Grace Hopper, obviously, but what is your feeling about this conference and advice that you would give to young women who are here, maybe for their first or second time in terms of getting the most out of their time here? You know, I think the main thing is it's a celebration and it's fun and you can walk up to anyone. So just talk to everyone. I've been talking to a million people on the floor. Fabulous. Students are here, more senior technical leaders are here. We've been running a speed mentoring. We're running a program called the Tech Jobs Tour. It's at techjobstour.com. It's the hashtag America's Hiring and we've been going to 50 different cities and so we're running a version of that and we do speed mentoring. So come to the speed mentoring sessions. It's a five minute pop. You know, talk to someone about what you're trying to do. Lots of programs like that. Get into the sessions, come to the keynotes which are so inspiring and you know, Melinda Gates was amazing today. Dr. Fei-Fei Lee was incredible. Just across the board, Dr. Sue Black was here. I thought it was great today actually just to reflect on Melinda's keynote. I think this might have been the first time I was talking to her that she's really talked about her own technical experience as a coder. You know, starting in community science. I didn't really understand that she had really started very early, you know, with the Apple III and the story of her dad. This early high school coding, which is so important for young people in high school and middle school, even younger. The Muskogee Creek tribe in Oklahoma is teaching robotics and head start. So we can start in preschool. Right. You know, just make it fun and interesting. They're funny. They say they don't do battle bots because you don't really want to teach three and four year olds to fight. So they have collaborative robots. Robots who work together. Exactly, exactly. Age appropriate. Well, Megan Smith, this has been so fun talking to you. Thanks so much for coming on our show. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming. We will have more from the Grace Hopper Conference just after this. I'm Rebecca Knight for Jeff Frick.