Are we good? Yeah. Hi. All right. Everybody. Thanks for joining us today. I'm David Kealy with cornerstones of science We are one of about four or five organizations that are involved with NASA at my library It is a five-year project. We're in year three Other organizations that are involved the lead organization. It's a space science Institute out in Colorado with a National Center for Interactive learning EDC is the project evaluator and NASA naturally is really interested to know whether we're having the intended impact that we hope to be having through NASA at library We have the Pacific Science Center is also a partner in this COSLA the chief officers of state library agencies is also very involved and you can see here on this slide that we have a Number of state library agencies that are involved all these acronyms across the bottom there are 18 of them and we also have 75 public library 49 states, so we Were well into the project. We're delighted that you could join us today Vivian and Heather are going to really help us understand how it is you can bring space science experts into your public libraries And with that I turn it back to Vivian Right It would you like me to go ahead and start talking about the NASA night sky network? Sure. Is that all right? I think that's our next slide here. Let's see how that works. No, that would have been too easy to shakes Right So welcome everybody. I am so excited to partner with the libraries across the country. My name is Vivian Met many of you a minute ago. I'm with the NASA night sky network at the astronomical Society of the Pacific here in San Francisco and The NASA night sky network has been around about 15 years and we are a group of about 440 amateur astronomy clubs across the country and amateur has have any of you ever worked with amateur astronomy clubs? You can say so in the chat if so They are some of the most dedicated enthusiastic space science nerds enthusiasts I use nerds in a kind way being one myself and and we are Thrilled to share the night sky the day sky And space science specifically NASA space science with the general public So I've got on the slide here a few different Resources that you can use to reach out to amateur astronomers in your area a Couple of things on the bottom right. You'll see the network of All the different clubs if you go to the home page Two shakes Let's see if that works There you go you go to the home page you can see on the right hand side You can put in your zip code in your current location and find the closest amateur astronomy club to you there are they are all over the country as you saw on the map and You can find upcoming events that they're having and also just Clubs that are near you who would might be available to come and be a resource for your library So just going back a couple of things that you can do you can certainly from the Web page many of them will allow you to request an event Directly it's great to go and check out one of their local events to see what kind of things are going on to see what they're already offering It's a nice way to give your patrons something to do after you Have some kind of space event say hey if you're really interested and you want to learn more go check out your local amateur astronomy club they have Telescopes and usually speaker sessions so you can learn a lot about astronomy with a lot of other enthusiasm that way the night sky network though is more than just a Depot for amateur astronomers. We also have a lot of outreach resources. So from that front page you can find many dozens and dozens of Informal astronomy activities a lot of those are great for use in libraries. So if you search for libraries You'll find quite a few different Activities designed specifically for use in libraries including connecting them with books and How to partner well with what with your amateur astronomy club if you're a library some things to consider There's also a night sky planner So if you're looking for this year for things you'd like to do space related You can look up things that are happening this month. You can look up things that are happening this year You can see what the sky will be like in your area when there's going to be the next full moon for example things like that The night sky planner gives you all sorts of great resources for finding out what's up in the night sky There's also on the 15th of every month. We publish a one-page Article called night sky notes that is just Telling about what is what are some great things to see in the night sky in the next month and how NASA science is related to those things? so There we go So you're welcome to the little bit.ly right below that bit.ly slash night sky notes is the way to get there You can see the most recent one that just went up last week and Oh One other thing on here. I was going to show you in the middle here are lots of Handouts you can find handouts if there is if there's a moon Observing night or if there's a meteor shower coming up You can find handouts that are very easy just to pass out to your audience that allow them to know more Information about what's going on in the night sky. So there are a lot of different resources I would say that the amateur astronomers are some of the best. They love to bring their telescopes out. They're often keen to have an ask an astronomer Evening or set up a small presentation or do some outreach activities the night sky network provides the amateur clubs with Activities and demonstrations that they can do with the general public and so that's an Easy way for them to connect and do some activities that have been tested all over the country and are easy for the public to understand So that is probably I think all I have for the amateurs Heather and I have put together a document that we'll be sending out afterwards that have tips for partnering with amateur astronomers and solar system ambassadors So with that, I think I'll stop sharing and see Heather if you want to go after me, I'm gonna Take a look at the chat, which I couldn't see while I was on here But I love that so many amateur astronomy clubs are working with libraries already. That's great One thing I didn't mention is there are also many Library telescope programs and there's information on that if you look up library telescope program You can find plenty of information where you can have a library and Telescope to check out in your library. I definitely Recommend that if at all possible. So I'll stop there and hand it over to Heather. Are you on? Yes? Can you hear me? Great. Yeah, great. And you want to share your screen? I will do. Thanks for that Vivian That's awesome as always Let's see. I guess I'm gonna share desktop one Let's see All right, can you see my screen? Looking good. All right So I would work with the solar system ambassador program, which is very similar to the night sky network and my name's Heather Doyle I also have another person Kay Ferrari who's been working on the program for about 20 years now since its inception So she's also a big part of the solar system ambassador program But we have about a thousand volunteers nationwide and they are individuals who are basically NASA in your neighborhood So they get science briefings directly from NASA scientists and engineers on a monthly basis Usually two to three a month With the latest in NASA science as well as we do Obviously like with the Apollo 50th. They're they're getting briefings about that and looking back as well as looking forward So these folks were hand-chosen. They went through a very rigorous application process to become a solar system ambassador Now we call their references and everything And then they're continuously trained on NASA science and then they're tasked to run four events a year So that's part of what their requirements are for volunteering So an event could be with a library obviously and they already do partner with a lot of libraries But also with schools with troops with clubs So there's about I think in the last 20 years. I just look this up There have been over 43,000 events by ambassadors reaching over eight point two million people directly So they're well-versed well-trained and ready to help you with all of your events so I wanted to kind of Share with you a couple of things a couple of ways to get To find your local ambassador and then some of the resources that they have once you find them So we have our website, which actually I'll warn you we're going to get an upgrade this year, but if you go to Solar system dot nasa.gov SSA it will take you to our solar system ambassador website where you can watch this video of an ambassador So you can kind of get a gist of what they do and then if you want to find an ambassador near you Or if you want to find an event near you, which you probably wouldn't but it's just another resource The general public can use to find events that ambassadors are running and if you have an event at the library you could advertise it there but mostly you'll be clicking on the directory and Here is a list as it is by state so you can look up ambassadors by state or if you happen to know an ambassador's name You can look it up by name So it's taking a little while to load But there you can see all the pins just in California alone You have a lot of ambassadors and when you find one that's near you and you want to click on the pin You'll see their picture And then when you when you click on that picture you see a little bio so you can learn about Where did they go to school? What was their degree in and you can look at some of the previous events that they've either hosted or been a part of So you can get a good gist of what this person is like I can see their address and remember you won't be able to see that but I'm logged in as an admin so You'll be able to contact them through a form that you'll see there That says email this ambassador So you'll click on that and you'll be able to send an email and then you can correspond directly in exchange You know phone numbers and stuff like that if you want to but we don't we just don't put their information out there for everybody to find of course So once you contact that ambassador As Vivian mentioned there are some tips that we put together for you so that you can have a really successful event So things that you need to coordinate with the ambassador like telling them what type of audience you have You know is it kids is it adults? Is there a specific theme that you'd like or would you like them to kind of come up with their own theme? So they they're very flexible and one of the other resources that they do have is we created a flyer for them So this image over here or this PDF is actually the front is just a general explanation of what the solar system ambassador program is But then the back is the what who went when where what why type of Where the event is happening so they have resources like this to be able to easily advertise the event So besides advertising on our website, they can give you a ready-made flyer And typically you can't use the NASA logo. So I got special permission on this one So that's that's kind of fun, but that just means no other logos can go on it. Unfortunately So with the ambassadors you can do just a one-off event or you can plan a series There you just have to work out with them exactly what they can do as far as time commitment But they are always really excited when you reach out to them because as I mentioned They have four events to do a year. So when you reach out to them, it helps them accomplish those It gives them one less thing to worry about and they love talking all things NASA so they're happy to come into the library and Help you with whatever you need One other thing I wanted to mention. I don't think it's on this here But if you have any other questions or if you have any Issues with reaching an ambassador sometimes we need to update their email address in the system You can always email me at Ambassador a m b a s s a d so it's like ambassador without the OR at Jpl.nasa.gov and that I think that website is actually on this page here So you can contact us and we'll help you find someone local as well But I think that's all I had to share on ambassadors Thank you so much Heather Okay, I think next we have Sarah post also from cornerstones of science and Sarah, can you let's see if we can hear you? Hello, how are you? Yeah, absolutely So I don't have any slides, but I'm gonna just really a quick hello from the NASA at my library project team and Cornerstones of science. I'm here in Brunswick, Maine. So not not so sunny today, but very very chilly Um But I just wanted to let you know that if you are in one of the 18 states that are part of the NASA at my library project they have two STEM facilitation kits that are available to public libraries They'll be circulating so you'll just need to request those from your state library agency I can just show you here. This is a STEM facilitation Guide for the first one.  So a lot of fun activities and science tools specifically for librarians or you can bring in and work with a Astronomical club member to come help you do activities or solar system ambassador that can help as well So I just want to let you guys know that those resources are available and you want to track those down with your state library agency or a lot of great activities through the STEM activity hearing house That's an online resource with lots of activities as well and I'm gonna put in the chat two links to the introductory videos of those two state kits for you guys to kind of watch a little bit of What's what's exactly in those kits? So you will track those down with your state library agencies and if you're not one of the 18 then Again, there's so many resources out there. You're gonna have fun Finding them on the STEM activity clearing house or working with the night sky network and the solar system ambassadors So and also one more thing quarter stones of science We do a library telescope program so you can maybe check us out online as well for your library telescope Thank you. Oh Excellent, that was me that wasn't muted. I was trying to mute everybody Thank you so much Sarah and I think we have one more presenter Kathy Lancaster Kathy. Can you introduce yourself? Sure, I'm Kathy Lancaster with the library of Michigan. I'm new services coordinator here for our statewide library services Department and we are one of the original four in the cohort of NASA at my library for state libraries And I believe now David correct me if I'm wrong that we are at 15 state library agencies 18 all together So Chances are your state library Might be participating and you probably heard about this webinar today through your state library But be sure to go to their website and take a look At your state library's site for more information on NASA at my library Including links to all these resources talked about today We link to the clearing house from star net libraries. We link to Sarah's videos and of course we link to night sky network and solar system ambassadors And so make sure you contact your local state library for information on that a lot of state libraries are offering training throughout their state on STEM and space science so Check in with them to see when the training might be coming to their area in Michigan We did those back in September and we trained nearly 200 librarians So it's really fun really exciting program and we're just grateful that NASA and Space Science Institute and everybody involved here Was looking to partner with libraries. So thanks so much This is great. Thank you everybody for joining us. Okay. I'm going to hop out of here So maybe you can see everybody else's picture Um Thank you. Thank you so much. I am really excited to be partnering with all of you And I hope that you have lots of good questions I see a few coming in if you have any more questions go ahead and put them in the Q&A section There and let's see Brittany says can we distribute the planner and monthly notes to the public absolutely please do we would love that You're welcome all of the NASA materials are free to the public You have paid for them already with your tax dollars and we thank you very very much Margaret talked about can we locate a bilingual English Spanish ambassador via the website and Heather did you want to take that? Sure? We do have some bilingual ambassadors and if you look at their bio You can usually tell it doesn't explicitly state it and that is actually a really good point for our new Website that we should have maybe a legend that says what languages they speak So thank you for bringing that up, but you can usually tell from their bio and But if you want specific help with that you can certainly email me at the address that I mentioned before Ambassador at jpl.nasa.gov and we can hook you up with someone. We know that specifically has those skills. I Wanted to mention to that Solar system ambassadors and night's my network club members. They are not doing this for the money This is actually something they do for the love of space and so that these are volunteers that you can ask to come to your libraries and But as such they are volunteers So there's not if there may be times that they can and can't make it So it's best to plan a little bit as early as early as possible I would give them at least a month notice, which is probably pretty good for Libraries who do planning pretty far ahead as well sometimes the schools they say hey, can you come on Tuesday? And that's that's a little hard sometimes to them to do because they are volunteers with day jobs and It would just love to share the night sky and astronomy so Also as such if there's any kind of thank you like a card that you Could get from the participants to sign it said hey, thanks for sharing your time and and your knowledge We really appreciate that I've seen some libraries who Check out an astronomer. I don't think that's actually the right term for it But they have an astronomer who comes kind of like they have a tax preparer who comes there's a name for that Trying to remember it like check out an expert When full of good information also, this is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing many of the amateur astronomers Began their obsession with space right around that time so many of them were young people at that time And now they have really amazing memories of what propelled them into space exploration So they might be really great people to have if you're having any sort of commemorative Talks about that they are really fabulous To share their knowledge around the 50th anniversary of the space exploration human space exploration Let's see. We have a couple more questions here Lori says to the clearing house help libraries get telescopes and libraries are libraries interested, but funding is tight Lori the clearing house Well, Sarah, did you want to talk about that? I think the clearing house Yeah, yeah, the stem activity clearing house is mainly a place to go find activities See how to how to do some of the activities they provide how-to videos You know, so it's not necessarily a place to go find library telescopes There's there's actually a number of library telescope programs throughout the US and some of them are, you know, local astronomy clubs who are either donating or Do mainly excelling at costs, you know a modified telescope so you can have a telescope in your library they'd either stays in your library for programming or You could even circulate them out to patrons like you do a book So there's quite a few programs if you need some help Finding one that's maybe local or again cornerstones works nationally So you can you can contact me if you want to find out more information about that But there's a great a number of great clubs for instance Aldridge Astronomical Society in Massachusetts has a huge program The St. Louis Sesh Phenomical Society. I could I could kind of go on and on but there are some really amazing ones that are Localized the New Hampshire Astronomical Society. So yeah, you can contact me or Again contact your local club to see if they have anything going on like that And let me jump in here on the question of funding. Um, so your state library might be doing Grants through the Institute of Museum and Library Services. So check with your LSTA grants coordinator at your city library. And I will mention that the fund scope that goes in the via Detective via NASA detective. I believe that was what Sarah was that that's around $90 It's pretty expensive and we like that one. It's just it's a small telescope, but It's a good starter one to just kind of you know, not not it's not huge Kind of feel okay, especially if you're new at it And then a typical library telescope that a lot of the libraries are using is a what we call a 4.5 inch and It's also not not all that big but just a little bit bigger and You it's a mighty one I tell you you can have a lot of success and I think that's the key To using a telescope or binoculars is that you're successful with it in a short amount of time and again a lot of these Astronomical clubs are using the that specific 4.5 inch telescope as the library telescope Go to because it is so so powerful and small and that one typically ranges I think anywhere from 200 to To 350 depending on if you're gonna get a fully modified and you know books that go with it and everything so yeah So a lot of public libraries here in Michigan Have access to LST LST a grant funding right now the applications are coming in and that will be for summer reading funding and This NASA my library program has been great because they gave us access to the notebooks that come in the kits And quite a number of public libraries in Michigan have told me they're looking at funding Their own kits that they will keep in their library to do outreach with Thanks to the LST a dollars So, you know definitely take a look at what your state library has to offer to support you in this And I will say too that many amateur astronomy clubs help libraries get set up with that and they become kind of the The person in charge of the telescope I know I have two telescopes in Berkeley that are my telescopes that I work with that I keep up to date and I Make sure they're aligned and things like that. So, you know do some kind of quarterly maintenance on them I put a link in the chat. That's for a library telescope dot org There was a question about is there a preferred Telescope to use That's not something that we can really comment on it's not There are clubs that use different kinds of telescopes But that place that I sent you library telescopes or they do have some recommendations there and and there are some modifications You'll want to make to make it as unbreakable as possible So I recommend partnering with your local astronomy club on that because they are experts in this and can help you with the eyepieces you might want or Locking everything down so that nothing gets fiddly to be broken with Yeah, there were a lot of other questions and a couple here for Heather great Heather does the ambassadors site list the requirements to come to become a volunteer ambassador. Oh We're unmuted There we go, I think I'm unmuted now It does list the requirements every September. That's when the application process opens besides that we have the application Process hidden through the rent the rest of the year So if you're interested in becoming an ambassador You can still email me and I'll add you to the interested list that we'll send out an email probably late Well, usually early September Once we the application is open Then we have a whole list of people that we email that to whose email list throughout the year and said hey How do I become an ambassador? So if you want to be on that list just send me an email and This other question from Rebecca is probably apropos both for Vivian and Heather about knocking on the door Is this the travel question from Rebecca? I contacted Travel yep. Yes. Yeah, so although there are many ambassadors and clubs if they're not really close to you That can be an issue. We we do say that an ambassador can ask if it's more than 50 miles from them they can ask for help with gas or accommodations in that regards so you could offer that if You're having a hard time with one person But yes, most of the time in the directory I see like, you know seven emails because I get every email that goes through the directory so I can monitor for spam So a lot of times I'll see like five to seven go through at once Because someone's obviously reaching out to a bunch of folks in their local area hoping that one will say yes So that would be the best strategy. I think is reach out to a bunch of people See it like, you know fishing and see which one you can get And again, if you have issues with contacting people you can also reach out to K or myself and we can we can help you with that, too Yeah Montana unfortunately is just one of the least pop or I guess Least dense people states so there are not as many clubs or ambassadors in Montana as say New Jersey But we Definitely would love to help you coordinate with them if there's any way to you can send us an email to our emails are on that We'll send out a list of links and emails so that you have all of that at the end along with our best practices for working with NASA subject matter experts like the solar system ambassadors and the night sky network All right that about it I think we're good Vivian Heather Kathy Sarah. Thanks for For supporting us today Absolutely Thank you. Thanks for having us. Thank you everyone. Make sure you contact your local state library for more information, too Good Thank you so much. Thanks. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye


well good morning from day 25 of the vlog. day is sailing day so let me show you what's happening out here. so that's always a pretty good view to wake up to. currently my mom and aunt are getting the laundry. they woke up about like two hours before i woke up and started the laundry and now it's dry so they're going to get that right now and then i'm gonna go down for some barraque fussed and i'm wearing my new alaska sweatshirt because i figured why not. currently still wearing if you guys can see in the little mirror my pajama pants because all my pants are in the wash so yeah. so anyway um today is going to be glacier day so we will um see the glacier one one of the glaciers about i don't know between like 10 and 11 and then um the other glacier is going to be out 12 30 or something like that so anyway that will be good plus i have my fun fashion show today so i gotta do that um at four o'clock and yeah that's that's about it but i will check in with you guys when things get more interesting or when i start seeing a glacier how's that sound but um yeah okay i need to close this out and i don't know how to so bye. well hi my makeup's done for a very important reason um i'm in a fashion show in like an hour so that's gonna be weird but i'm going to give the camera to the favorite mother and she's gonna vlog it because i won't be able to from the stage so yes and um i have my outfit it's interesting it's not my style but if it is your style out there i appreciate it um it is over in the closet over there so i need to get that on and head to the jewelry store get some jewels on my neck and my ears and my wrists and my fingers and then go and uh you know walk and say like buy the stuff on my body buy the stuff on my body so anyways i'm gonna give you over to the favorite mama she's gonna vlog it all and then um you guys will see me i guess when i'm on stage or something so you're looking good dear looking good my mom got the most disgusting thing oh it looks absolutely delicious it's islands uh floating islands and vanilla sauce this is out of this world is that whipped cream what's ice cream uh kind of creamy that's not ice cream it's Emily wouldn't like it and it's got a little bit of caramel sauce on it too yeah the best i know yum yum her he got the crème brûlée and then i got the cheesecake this is like the third time i've gotten the cheesecake but that's all right i'd still like it the cheesecake is good yeah my mom was reading or is reading our newsletter about tomorrow and apparently there is a what a harmonica class yes but it's part two part two so i don't think we're eligible to go to that because we missed part one um there was clearly an oversight by us but we've also got the naturalist lecture on the humpback whales of alaska so here's my thought on the humpback whales of alaska my thought was we're gonna be the dummies in the princess theater listening to a naturalist on humpback whales and then the whales are outside and then we're gonna miss the dang whales because we're sitting in a dark theater logic i don't know i'd rather be like close to a window than in theater with no windows wait a minute there's one more thing uh oh here we go glacier bay experience screening for those who didn't look at it today and walk outside you can actually see it in the theater tomorrow at 12 30 in the afternoon see what stunning glaciers from today stunning sites and fascinating park ranger interviews oh from glacier bay pretty sure that's been pre-recorded also we've got grand finale art auction one more art one more the last opportunity to purchase artwork that you have been eyeing and wanting to bring okay so here's the deal i don't think i told the vlog this but we did go to an art auction and um it was when you guys saw like a little champagne glass and it was crappy champagne it was not very good but it's okay it was free and that's the only real reason that we went there and man this auction was so weird and we did not understand what was going on the entire time and the people that were working there were very excited like very enthusiastic people and ever since then basically daily we get invitations in our little mailbox about art auctions or art by the art it's real weird so we're not going so i don't wait every time i see the art area and i'm like oh we can't go in there they're gonna make us come back again oh there's a movie tomorrow afternoon uh oh wonder woman oh i didn't see that one wonder woman the only wonder woman out there is linda carter wonder woman i don't know i don't think it's that one i know but those of us that that was like that show back in the day there's a tv show yes she was good that's my only wonder woman she still looks good okay before you disembark turn in your future cruise deposit form to earn on work yeah they want you to get this is a nice photo i mean i think you have up to a year there's more bingo there's bingo at 3 30 tomorrow too oh we gotta go so we can do 11 11 and 3 30 they really they really want your money the little culinary thing in the morning and we can do bingo at 3 30 in the afternoon okay man this day why are we gonna pack i don't know once the packing party does it say on the that's a personal problem does anyone have anything to say to the vlog before i end it today um we saw a good little show we did yeah we saw a show called encore it was very colorful it was colorful like my outfit not my current outfit a different outfit yes did you say about the fashion show did you already do that well that'll be in the vlog before this clip goes that's a major vlog i guess um but anyway yeah the show was all right i mean i have thoughts on it but that's all right it was just wasn't like the songs and the performing was really good but like the actual show and the culmination of all the songs that were chosen kind of didn't go together but that's okay i mean it's a show so whatever yeah so we had opera with uh yeah there was opera with like other weird kind of i think it was like jazzy stuff italian guys that um who there was singing in foreign languages which was fine but then i don't know and they were just singing like random songs and i don't know three or four guys that sing nothing but italian i think it's i think it's tenors that's what i was thinking that was no isn't it al divo there's an al divo too yeah that's what there's two different ones yeah but i think that's what it was supposed to be it wasn't wasn't that wasn't bad but anyway i'm gonna say goodbye to the vlog i will see you guys tomorrow with whatever we decide to go and do um it will not be an art auction i'll dig in just i feel like that's not gonna happen but anything else you never know so i'll see you tomorrow with more fun vloon catch you then well folks it's time to kick it old school


I want to take a second just to show you something. This is my program files folder inside my computer. The reason why is because you might notice that I have this thing called Microsoft Office. If I dig in there, I want to point out there's nothing in here that says Excel just yet. Everything is pretty generic. Clipart, very generic. But Office 15. If I go into there and I dig a little deeper, it's only here that I start to see for example, Microsoft Excel. But I also see Microsoft Access. I actually also see Publisher. Outlook is even in here. One note is even in here. PowerPoint, Word, Visio. All of these programs that we use inside of the Microsoft Office week, they're actually all the same program, just a different view of it. And the reason why this is important is because you might notice if you've played around with Word or PowerPoint a little bit is really the same things that are in that program or those programs are inside of Microsoft Excel. Take a look at our home tab over here. This home tab has all of the same formatting abilities of Microsoft Word PowerPoint. The only difference is subtle. For example, we have a number section where I can change this percentage from a percentage to a dollar sign. Obviously, in the context of it being taxed, that doesn't make any sense. But this is where things change just a little bit. But I can change my fonts as necessary. Say, for example, I wanted these to stand out a little bit more. One of the things I can do is I can click, hold and drag to highlight all three of them. And then I can set them to be bold, maybe give them a background color where I highlight them with a little bit of a dark blue. And then maybe I can change the color of my text to white. Suddenly, I've given it a little bit more formatting to make it a little bit more presentable. I can even go a little bit further. I could add in say an underline a bottom border after my tax. And so suddenly I can see that these are my options of input. And here is my calculation.


Hey guys, welcome to Splitting Hares, the hairdresser's podcast, episode four. We're running around right now, unplugging the phone so they don't ring during the podcast. So you're welcome. So yeah, you're welcome. We don't want to mess up your experience. So we're coming at you live, but we're also filming a little bit differently today because we want to make sure the quality of this podcast is the best that it can possibly be. So we have a couple cameras set up. Today we're only going to have this straight on camera with you so you can see all of us all at the same time. Now we're going to go over a few different things. We want to talk about blow-up bars and braid bars. We're going to talk about holiday promotions in the salon. What can you do to kind of boost your holiday revenue? And then we have some celebrity hair changes. Natalie Portman by Nam Bray, I guess, is what they're saying. And Jennifer Hudson did a dramatic change as well. And then we're going to talk about what's coming up tonight, what we're filming tonight for you guys on our once a week. We make sure that we put together a really quality, long instructional video for you guys. So we have one of those that we're going to be filming tonight. But the first thing that we're going to do is what we always start off with is questions from social media. So we had some love again this week. I think I had one guy, which we like to call the delete of the week because somebody just out of nowhere is very rude on YouTube. It's inevitable. Yeah. It's bound to happen. So we, but other than that, we had a lot of people with great questions. This is the best place underneath this video to leave your comments and questions because we can get right to them and answer them for you. So the first one, the first question we have is, you want to read these? Okay. Let's see. The first one, I love these videos because I'm attending cosmetology school next year and it puts in perspective how important education is because from the outside, it's like, oh, yay, I can do hair all day. But once you're stepping in the door or on the inside, it's so different and so much more exciting. What's your advice for people starting cosmetology school? That's how I would guess to say that. So advice on people starting cosmetology school. I agree. I mean, I started school because I thought it would be fun to do hair and the more I got into it, the more excited I got. I think the, I guess the first advice I would give for you just starting off is don't limit yourself. Realize that there's so many different avenues that doing hair can take you, you know, whether you're completely content working behind the chair for the next 30 years or you want to do photo shoots or education or anything. Definitely just keep yourself as open as possible right from the jump off so that you really can go anywhere at this career as you advance. Yeah. I agree a lot with Brian with what he's saying is to keep yourself open. I believe a lot in any opportunity you get in hair school, whether it's to help out with a fashion show or a hair show or something along those things is you always want to say yes. And even if it's just a community that with going to volunteer at a women's shelter or something like that, getting involved in those activities is really going to help build your public relations and make you known in the community or in the industry itself. And I think that's important as well. Cool. Going off of what Dre and Brian said, I really do agree with them as far as Are you looking into the audience as well? Exactly, I want to look deep into their stories. You're very into that. You can go right for them. I would definitely like look into like the schools like I chose my school based off the fact that they were very active in the industry, not only in making sure that you passed state board, like they wanted you to do that obviously as well. But they gave you so many different options as far as like going and like backstage at hair shows they had like working at the women's shelter or working like in every different avenue like fashion shows like just to say a few. So it really gave me an idea as to like what I wanted to do. Like I know I would never want to do stage makeup. I know that I would never want to work on like one of those sets. I think that that would be like way too overwhelming but that's me. Well I think too you guys both went to the temple in Maryland and the great thing about that school is Charles and Sharon have like they're always involved in everything. They're always getting it seems like they're always getting the students involved. So you know I think it's it's very important where you go to school and you know making sure that when you make that choice and what school you want to go to and then while you're there personally for me I think the best thing that happened was that I just tried to make sure that I wasn't scared to try anything and and just like you have the opportunity when you're in beauty school to to mess up. So they're actually you're doing five-dollar haircuts they're expecting you to mess up right. So trying techniques and trying things that you see and not being scared about you know and just taking any guests that walks in and you know making the best of the situation. So I think it's been a long time on that question but I think you know it's important. We fleshed it out. We fleshed it yeah. Cannot say we didn't answer your question. Actually I'd like to add on just like real fast just make sure that not only the school owners but the like the education team is excited for like what they're doing like if they're not excited when you're going on the tour chances are you're not going to be excited throughout school so yeah. Well I think also a lot of schools I know Palm Central schools do it but you can after your tour you can even shadow for a day at the school so that really gives you a true experience of what it's going to look like going to school there every day. That's great actually I didn't know I didn't really did that. Very cool. We didn't have Palm Central schools when I was back in the day. Back in the day yes we didn't have that. Yeah. All right the next. All right moving on to Angela. Angela is my favorite. She loves Brian. She's always commenting. She she gives Brian lots lots and love. Well I love her. She says glad you guys are back this week. I have a few questions. Graduation is looming and I'm trying to decide on a color line. I've used Bureau K-Pack at school and bought a starter kit but I'm not completely sold yet. When you mind sharing your favorite color line or perhaps steer me in a good direction. I had my interview at my number one choice line and was offered a chair. I enjoyed the session last week. Thanks again for all your efforts. Well go ahead. No I was going to say I think right off the bat. Good direction is the fact that you're trying different lines. You know everything is going to work a little bit differently. Everything will really much get you to a similar end result. It's going to be a matter of what you're most comfortable with. And the other thing Angela was talking about she actually left another comment saying that she took a professional class from some line. I don't know what it was but she said that she had a really bad experience in that class. And I think you know when you when you are choosing your line and what you're saying you want to make sure that not only is the product performing but the people that are representing the company you respect and you look up to and you feel like you can learn from. Right I mean that's definitely been one of the good things. You know like them I went to a Palm Mitchell school so I've had that color sort of from the jump off and I've always loved the education that comes behind it. You know I was never just handed a color and said okay good luck. You know it was a great company as far as making sure that you will always get it. And I know there are other companies that are really big into education now especially. So you know if that's something that is important to you then try to steer yourself in that direction but try everything. Try everyone. Forget what you like best. Let me know. All right so we don't overwhelm these questions. Let's what do you want to let them hit this one. Here you guys go. Okay Anissa I Anissa I think that's right. I've never met her. I'm really sorry if I butchered your name. I absolutely love these videos. I'm always open to learning new things. I have a question for you. What is the difference between the results of teas cutting and using razor? I can't I get the same results thanks. What do you guys think? I have an answer for this one. I do have an answer for this one. What do you think? I personally prefer the teas technique versus the razor technique on certain types of hair because I know with like my hair personally after two weeks of having a razor done on it I have frizzy ends. I also like the control of the blade and that I don't always have to make sure that I have a sharp razor in my eye. Which is a good point there because I do feel that razors have a bad name but as long as you're spending the money and getting the blades because if you think about it we spend probably $30 every couple of months sharpening our scissors right. So the thing that you buy and then you use it 14 times on a haircut. Exactly. It's razor blades are $12 a pack or maybe $20 a pack depending on the razor I guess. But that's meant to be used one time. So a pack of razors is going to last you a couple of months just like sharpening your scissors. You're spending the same amount of money and you're keeping the quality of the hair. A razor blade is very very sharp. It's not going to shred your hair up but if you use it over and over again on the same hair type you're going to. So it's kind of frustrating like I think some people that don't use a razor correctly like you're saying it's going to make the hair quality damaged. So it's giving razor cutting a bad name but razor cutting is not a bad thing right. Right. But the tease cut the difference for me is in the it's a very similar delivery but I could never tease cut wet hair like so if I'm going to if I'm looking for texture and movement within a haircut I'm going to use a razor on wet hair and then if I'm looking for dry hair it's like using a razor on dry hair. I don't want to use a razor blade on dry hair. It's not you know so it's a it's a same concept you're just doing one on dry one on wet for me and what I'm cutting here. Yeah I don't think that you can go wrong with either but definitely know the reason why you're using the the razor for a razor haircut and why you're using the teasing technique for another haircut. As long as you have the you know the knowledge which hopefully that kind of clarified that then I think you're good. Yeah because both both techniques are going to cut the hair very differently like the teasing technique is going to be putting more of like in like internal layers or giving you like more of like a jagged effect whereas I'm looking at like a razor haircut it's taking like finer sections and having more of like a flow if you. Yeah well I think that's the challenge too like we look at razor cutting as a precise kind of thing and a lot of people look at razor cutting as shredding layers in chair. So you know it's just all about how you go about it.  Your Mickey Mouse cup is staring at you. But it's smiling. I know I'm like that thing is just like okay what's the next question. From Aaron how do you decide where the part line will be? I know it will vary person to person but is there a rule of thumb. Okay and the part line they're talking about the pompadour haircut. Okay so it differs what you're doing. Yeah yeah they were talking about the pompadour cut. We had a couple questions on that haircut but I'm just finding the part line. Head shape and the natural fall of it. I mean it's one of those things especially with guys. You're talking about the guy pompadour cut? Yeah. You're going to be very hard pressed finding a guy that you can teach to retrain his part where that's going to fall is where he's probably going to let it fall forever. So don't ignore that on a guy like I know with some women you kind of be like oh let's move your part and this is how to style it. Guys they're not going to fight it you know like if that's where the part is that's where it's going to be. Right. Go off that. Yeah and you got to also look at the pompadour doesn't technically really have. No not when it's styled but that. We really are working off the parietal wherever that bend happens on their head and based on the weight the amount or the density I guess of their hair. If they have a high density of hair you're probably going to want to take that line up a little bit higher on the parietal. And like my hair is really fine so we go a little bit deeper with it so it has more it allows more weight to be you know on top of my hair. So I think you're right it's based on the person but just really working on the parietal and where you want that weight distribution in there. Yeah just there's your rule of thumb figure it out on the parietal as far as how it needs to sit. Yeah all right what else we got. What's that brush called and it has pompadour video. Yeah it's also on the pompadour video. What brush did you use for the style. The round brush that we used for the front. Yeah. That was I believe that was the Paul Mitchell express eye on round is it the large. No it wasn't. Well I thought it was. Or did you pick up the medium. I think I picked up the medium it was a small it just it depends on the hair length. Real small small round brush.  Yeah I think that was definitely I think we lost our camera there. That was definitely the the main goal of of the pompadour was just get that kick so we round brush it forward get the kick back and then watch it flip so sweet. All right we have another pompadour haircut question. Love this haircut how do you like the the Paul Mitchell clippers can you change the blades? We also had a question about the heating up of the Paul Mitchell clipper so we obviously all love Paul Mitchell we've been working for Paul Mitchell for a long time the clipper gets really hot so I know we kind of have a breakdown of why that happens but depending on what you're working with I love the Paul Mitchell clipper because of the power that it has so that's why I like using it and that's the one that I use it is interchangeable with the austere clipper blades the metal blades so I like that as well I think it makes it look more professional and obviously those blades work the best but as for heating up that's the only challenge I have with the clipper is that you got to keep using the cool down or the cool loop the monster just to keep them cool so you don't burn your guest's head yeah I mean it's it's the trade-off with these clippers versus some of the others the reason it heats up did you want to go into them yeah yeah okay the reason it heats up so much is because it doesn't have the fan that some of the more traditional like the Titans or the 76s have so it's lighter it's not blowing the little hair clippings everywhere because there is no fan but the trade-off for that is that the blade gets hotter faster which I mean it's it's half a dozen of one six minutes whatever you like it works fine for me because I use clipper work usually just a small amount in the men's haircut just to get myself started so I don't use it for a long enough time that it heats a problem for me but I know a lot of people will go and do a lot more work with clippers so that it you know the heat might be an issue for them yeah I think if you spend if you're spending over 15 minutes clippering and you're not interchanging your blades out it's going to get really hot so you know you just got it the problem is you can't test these things out so if I was recommending a clipper you know I would I would base your decision on that you are you just kind of are using a lot of scissor over comb and a little bit of clippering and you want a really powerful clipper that works really really well then go with the pulmonary clipper and also how comfortable you are with using the plastic guards because you slap one of those on a blade and you're fine because that's not up against the head which is what it comes with because it does come with a whole collection of plastic black clips clip on it extensions for it but um you know I guess so once you go to the metal blades then I would probably go with the more classic 76 or something yeah and you can also be honest with yourself as far as like when you're doing the hair you don't need the turbo you don't need the turbo for like every every uh every every is the turbo but so if you're using the regular it's going to be a lot less yeah we have to change cards over camera tactical it is a diva so um all right is that it for the questions we have one more question okay let's boss this one out great blow up matt quick question what's better for longer last being curl to curl set and let the hair or to hit it with a cool blast from a blow dryer while you have it set with the round brush then roll it out so this is a awesome question actually so basically the difference between putting in a pin curl set or hitting with a cool shot with the round brush and then kind of twisting your hand out what I I did write them back two two two reasons for me the pin curl clip that's helping you keep organized and keeping out of the way if you twist it out it's great too I mean the cool shot is going to set it but then now you've got that hair just hanging there for the rest of the blow dry so it's not going to set completely as much so you know with the blow dry and I want to kind of clarify this blow dry a little bit because that's the one guy that I had um my favorite comment of the week was that he can blow dry hair better which is great the point of this blow dry was a quick nine section blow dry I don't know if it was nine sections but it was very a very quick creation of a volume voluminous blowout kind of thing for either a guest at home or you in the song as a quick technique this is definitely not you know the best blow dry ever what it is is just a really simple set so I like the pin curl clips in this specific set because we were using bigger sections so it allowed it to cool down in time and I wasn't messing I wasn't getting tangled up in the rest of the hair as I was working through so with this particular blow dry I like the pin curl set if I'm working in the salon then you know sometimes I will twist the brush out hit it with the cool shot as well so you guys have anything I know you guys like the round brush so I don't like cool shotting personally just because I don't like cooling down my brush I like my brush to get as hot as possible because it acts like a smoothing iron and I just have this way of thinking about cool shot I'm doing that well what also I like about the pin curl clips versus the cool shot is even if you are being careful of not going in and working in your space and whatnot if you use the cool shot you twist out the hair there's still a chance that the hair is going to heat up again by just working just around it around it yeah so what I like about the pin curl clips is even if that hair does get heated up again it's still cooling back in that same shape whereas if you use the cool shot it's now cooling again in a shape that you didn't originally want right cool all right all right that's a different question all right that's it for the questions so we have a couple industry topics I want to talk about two things one thing that told me about was like a steam blowing flat iron which oh yeah which I think it's battle list is that may say a baby list whatever I don't but I did try to contact the company see if we can try this thing out because obviously steaming your clothes when you iron them works really well but I don't understand hair fabric is something that you know I don't know if it reacts the same but I doubt it yeah I think clothes are a little bit stronger than hair fabric and I think anytime you're adding a lot of moisture to the hair so that worries me but I would love to see the result of it I don't know yeah I'm very interested in knowing the result but it seems like a huge contradiction to everything we know about smoothing hair and humidity with smooth hair or humidity with anytime like anything like with like changing the structure of the hair right so it's interesting and I want to get my hands on it and try it out so hopefully we can get back to you to you guys on that the other thing that we we sent out to check out is this thermal cutting system from Jaguar which is is having me I'm I'm laughing about this because some guy is charging $125 more for a haircut with this scissor which is basically a scissor that is heated so it's supposed to close the cuticle as you cut and it tests are saying that it works which is you know cool and they're charging more mine for the for the haircuts with this scissor so another interesting thing I don't know we had two people cut themselves yesterday in the salon well actually you cut yourself out of the salon but um so we have two finger injuries and um you know I would hate to cut myself with this heated up scissor I can't even imagine holding it in my hand so another thing I'm looking forward to getting our hands on because it's also let's see if I can I'll cut my is there any image with it I'll post up an image um on the one I redo the video and I'll show but the uh it's basically a corded scissor so it has a cord I don't know and hopefully freestyle systems will uh maybe attach that to it so we're gonna have to hang scissor heated scissors as well so we'll see about that but um there wasn't wasn't a ton of new things going on in the industry the funny thing about our industry is I'm like we're doing a lot of research for this show but um it's not people aren't putting new stuff out it's like every company puts out the same thing on like a quarterly basis so trying to find new things um and new products to try out uh there was two things I wanted to do can you grab the uh the two dry shampoos that we have so we have um a couple dry shampoos that we use in the salon well most of the time we use palm Mitchell uh dry dry wash which we love and um so the big thing with companies now what I wanted to kind of go over real quick was that um they're talking about dry shampoos and it's almost gone nice but it's basically that uh there's no white residue so um I want to talk about the benefits of that because that seems to be the selling point for everyone and I'm like well I've never really had the issue where I've seen a lot of white residue I don't know if you guys have but um both of these state that they don't leave white residue they don't and they're both seem to be great we have surface um trinity dry shampoo and uh palm Mitchell dry wash both great products um surface kind of set this over so we've been testing the their products out a little bit but um and palm Mitchell dry wash we've been using since it came out so um both great um what do you think what's your favorite thing about dry wash uh I love well one this mount which is completely irrelevant but I do love the smell of it it's kind of irrelevant but it's whatever guest cares about like for us it's not what we look for but if the guests they will buy it just because this mouth yeah I being a guy with short hair my whole life I never really knew much about dry shampoos because I know for a long time it was a big industry faux pot you can talk about it and now everyone's got their own version of it um but I have friends who've been avid dry shampoo users for years and say they love just that it actually does what it's supposed to without the caking up or making that weird pancake dough on the scalp kind of thing so it's been I mean it's been great for doing exactly what it says it's supposed to yeah and so it's funny because I watch people sell this not us but um sales consultants so basically they take it and they'll spray it you spray that on on the black cloth so no white residue right is this one gonna spray I don't know we might have to grab a new one look no white residue either yeah not even product actually yeah there we go that's on it there we go wetter true story yeah so our test concludes that that was a little wetter they both smell delicious yeah and if you're gonna have three day old hair and you're gonna use this on it then you definitely want something that smells good right so um basically I think that's what I've heard from dry shampoos everyone's talking about selling it with no white residue I don't think it's that big of a deal um I think it was more of a powdery residue before anyways and it worked into your hair so it wasn't like um so well what the powdery residue leaves is the hair's not as shiny and it looks kind of dull okay after that and I I always felt that it was very um old lady like hey because it like almost puts a cloud over your hair yeah okay so that's the big thing with the no white residue and if we jump back to like the blowouts like this is great to like put in like right after you've just done a blowout to give it a little bit more volume a little bit more texture yeah yeah really like especially during a blowout if you want to really get that texture in there yeah um and lighten up the hair these products both worked really well so when I even love it for doing up styles it's a great um add-on tool for that true story true story all right let's get into two more things real quick and then we're going to get ready for our day um I want to talk about holiday promotions and Brian I know that you've talked about one that you've been wanting to do for a long time so I just want you to do a little rundown that might be a cool tip for somebody to use in uh yeah actually it's it's a great way to make sure that you've got yourself some business during the slowest months of our winter which is usually get some some talk going in the salon and basically it's a promotion that from the beginning of December to the end of December it's how I wanted to run it you can change it however you want but from December 1st to 31st when you leave if you book your neck or pre-book your next two appointments before you leave name goes in a fishbowl January 1st one name gets picked out and then they get free haircuts for a year and what's funny is every time I've ever brought that up the first reaction people's like whoa are you talking seriously like free haircuts for a year I'm not doing that but when you think about it you're sitting there asking one stylist in the salon to give up 45 minutes a month an hour a month for 12 haircuts at most and in return what you've done is now had way more guests booked for their January February appointments because if you think about it in a salon everyone that's ever been to that salon is going to be back in the month of December because every holiday new years everyone's coming back in December and now we're sitting there give them a reason to come back in January and February yeah other fringe benefit of that is maybe now you're getting clients that were not pre-bookers or not you know ones that plan ahead with their hair appointments to now start doing it to get them used to planning out two months ahead and it's just it's very and we kind of touched on last week I think but it's really taking your busy time the busiest time in the salon whether it's today is your busiest day or the month of December is your busiest month and being smarter about the way you go about business because we're in a business if you're busy usually that's when customer service lacks all these different things you don't rebook people you don't upgrade services you gotta look at to see the most people how do we get them to come back January February let's run promotions let's do something some kind of contest like that is very cool I mean you could even give away I've heard about people they've given away iPads but think about it I mean it's you're gonna spend $399 you would have spent that on a on a newspaper ad you would have spent more than a mailer yeah on a mailer and there everyone is going to rebook for January February you're going to make that iPad back over double so it's like little things like that that are creative ways to get people to come back sooner I want Drea to hit on she's really big into braid bar and blow up bar we've been talking about a couple weeks the difference and what Drea was saying to me was what is what do we like more what I think for me is how do you incorporate both of these things in the salon exactly so braid bars are becoming just as popular as blow up bars they're supposed to be the new quote-unquote trend you're seeing in Hollywood all these different braids being put into up styles or even everyday styles but people don't always know how to achieve them I think it's cool to maybe not necessarily do an entire bar of braids but like we were talking about doing it more as an add-on service it's making it that upgrade or quote-unquote luxury yeah it's it's about creating an experience right so just like the blowout bar everyone got upset the blowout bars were coming out what what if a blowout bar opens in my town well we have blow dryers we've had blow dryers way before blowout bars so it's a matter you tell me that we style hair here we do style I had no idea so um I think the camera messed up again being very finicky today um but you have a you have blow dryers you have you can create your own blowout bar experience create a braid bar create all of these different menus in your salon so that you can attract the people who are looking for those type of services somebody's turning white over there um boy so uh it's like as we speak it gets wider and wider um and all fairness I think that spray was a little closer than instructions I also think it's a little more concentrated in there that's so fast yeah there's also not any oil in the tablecloth so um so yeah just create the experience create the menus and you know develop the blowout bar for yourself and the braid bar braids are huge everyone's doing braids now well I think not me but everyone else she's using them so I think it's cool to be able to change around the blowout experience because for the longest time nobody was getting blowouts right and now we've incorporated it to being something fun and interesting and who doesn't want to add on a braid because honestly it's more creative than just blowing out someone's treat yeah yeah and everyone gets attracted to I don't know what it is everyone gets attracted to braids like that catches your eye more than a blowout more than anything well I what I love about braids is it shows off um dimension and color so wow within a hairstyle yeah and then you don't have to close all right two more things we can hit on real quick um we have our celebrity changes yeah so the first one we're going to pull up is good old Jennifer


Good morning everyone, I am Srikanth. So most of you are aware that Akash tablet, the Akash tablet which you have can be made into dual boot version. That means on the internal NAND flash we already have Android operating system running and we can optionally boot your Akash tablet into a Linux machine by installing Linux on HD card. So as I mentioned it's completely optional, it's not that you have to install Linux for any particular experiment. Why Linux? First of all let me give you a brief introduction. So with Android we have few limitations, we can't run our regular Linux applications directly on our Android operating system. As you might have known that Android is completely Google owned and it's a community based open source operating system but though it has some limitations it doesn't allow you to run Linux, though it runs on Linux kernel but it doesn't allow you to run native Linux apps directly on your Android tablet. Second it restricts user to block few features like Android is continuously tracking whatever the user performance tablet. So if you take a scenario when a student is browsing something and he is online with his Gmail account, so Google get all the statistics what site he is getting and what site he is visiting etc and he gets the advertisements based on the search results and that somehow annoys end user. Most of our electronics and embedded system applications won't run on Android platform. So suppose we need to connect a microcontroller to our Akash tablet that is not possible with Android because Android doesn't provide any APIs, especially our version of Android doesn't provide any APIs to program Arduino or any microcontroller interfacing programs. Moreover we can't run any educational apps similar to Sylab or Scientific Python or anything else. So today we are going to see how to install Linux on SD card, it's a one page slide it contains all the information, take a SD card, micro SD card, say 8 GB or more, so these are micro SD card adapter, so I use this adapter because my laptop supports this adapter and I just insert this micro SD card into my micro SD adapter then I insert this adapter into my laptop. If you have a card reader you can insert your card reader in the USB slot, next is I will perform few steps here that we have to watch carefully. So as I suggest you need an 8 GB SD card which is recommended because our Linux image is of 8 GB, download Linux image from this link, so this is a link, when you click it will give you an option to download, maybe server is slow, anyway you will get a 2 GB image file for download, download that image file, unzip that file, then you will get a .img file extension similar to this, let me open a new tab, so after extracting my Linux image which I have downloaded from here, this place, so it's a 2 GB image, it's a compressed file, when I uncompress it I will get something like this, it says 12.10 dg spark, 278000, so if you see the file size of this, du is disk uses hsh, show me in human readable form, it says 6.9 GB, so 6.9 GB can comfortably fit in 8 GB SD card, so we have our files ready, what next? So download a DD maker for dev systems or DD maker .sh for thing, so what is DD maker, let me give you a brief introduction before we proceed, when we create a bootable Linux SD card, when you insert it to your akash tablet, instead of booting to android it will boot directly to Linux, so that means there are some modifications in the boot sector that is initial sector of your SD card, that means when you make it a Linux bootable SD card, you can't make it a regular SD card like your phone or for your tablet, probably you might be thinking that why can't I copy this, copy 12.10 this to my SD card, will it work? No it won't work, copying means it will just copy this image file to your 8 GB SD card, that won't work, that won't make it bootable, so what we need to do is, we have special tools in Linux which copy bit by bit to the entire SD card and make it bootable, for that I have written script, so that script is known as DD maker, so what I will do is, I will download this DD maker script, so just click on this, it will open a page, right click on this page, save as, save as, it's a shell script, replace, yes replace, ok. Now I will come to my akash directory, so here I have DD maker dot sh, so as you know I have downloaded the image file also which is 6.9 GB, so I will make that image file right into the SD card, so how I will do it, I will just type bash, let me clear the screen, bash DD maker dot sh, that's it, that's all I have to do, it is asking my password, so if you are running a Linux machine, give your user password and enter, so it is telling me please remove your drive SD card if connected, then press yes to continue, so I have already removed it, so I need not to remove, if you have connected your, inserted your SD card in your SD card slot, then please remove it, this is a safety feature, we don't want to write this image to some other drive of your hard disk, that's why for precaution we are just asking you to remove the SD card, yes, now it says please insert your drive back, then press yes to continue, so I will insert this micro SD card similar to this, yes, so now I will press yes, so it says waiting for device, fine, so it again warns you, it gives you a visual reference that a 7.4 GB is detected, the size will be less than actual size of your device, would you like to continue, press yes to continue and note to quit, so why we have detected 7.4 GB, because we have our 8 GB SD card, so in 8 GB SD card some portion of the SD card is used for file system purpose, so these are fact file system so it will take around 400 MB for file system operations, so need not to worry, so if you have 8 GB card it will be something like 7.5 GB, if you have 16 GB card it will be something like 15.4 GB and so on, so yes we know that we haven't connected any pen drive or any external hard disk of 7.4 GB size, so we are pretty sure that whatever we have connected is our SD card only, so what I will do I will do yes, so now it ask me select your file, which file the IMG file which we want to write, so I know my location of the file it is in ISO images, so 12.10 dg spar 278 2013, so I will select this 8 GB card and press ok, so now DD process has started, so you can see a progress bar, so it will take approximately 35 to 40 minutes depending upon the size of the SD card, for typical 8 GB SD card on a regular Linux machine it might take say 40 minutes, so once it is done it will give you a pop up and it will say your SD card is ready, you can remove your SD card and insert to Akash, so what I will do is I will just cancel this because it will take lot of time and I will proceed with my next step which is inserting to Akash, so DD process is cancelled it has detected that the cancellation have been done, you may have to format the drive to use it again, because we have interrupted the DD process, so your drive your SD card might not be usable, so what you have to do is you have to format it back, so I will show you how to format it back to make it usable, so before that let us finish ok, any questions so far? So, DD maker does not have to do anything with version of Ubuntu, you can either use Fedora, you can use any other Linux favor, DD maker is just a tool to write your image file to SD card, you can use DD maker tool even for writing for Raspberry Pi and Beagle board for any images, our present Akash supports 12.10, 13.10 images, we have 13.10 images also and very soon we are going to make 14.04 images also. So, there is any constraint about the operating system bit like 32 bit or 64 bit in Akash like that I have used since 13.04, they have commonly said that whenever there is a new machine you have to install 64 bit rather than 32 bit, so actually 64 bit and 32 bit are concerned of desktop operating systems, so we are not dealing here with desktop operating system, desktop operating systems are typically either x86 or AMD 64, so the Akash tablet is of ARM architecture, so ARM architecture is 32 bit so far, there are 64 bit ARM versions also but they are very costly and beyond our reach, so most of your embedded Linux devices may be it is Akash or Beagle board or Raspberry Pi, they all are 32 bit operating systems, so you need not to confuse with desktop versioning like 64 bit of Ubuntu 64 bit of Fedora, etc. Yes, so good question, actually I forgot to mention, so the instructions which I am displaying now that typically for Linux based operating systems, you can use any flavor of Linux maybe Fedora or Red Hat anything, it can be done on Windows also but I have not tested, so you can just search on Google or I will just find out and let you know that how to make a DD image in Windows, but typically it is better to do a DD operation or writing image operation in Linux operating system, I guess all of your means at least one of your lab machine do contain Linux operating system. Yes, so if you want to access Android operating system, you have to remove the HD card and if you want to access Linux operating system, you have to insert the bootable HD card, press the power button on for 10 second, then you will get an Akash logo, then if you boot to Linux, there is no boot selection menu in the Akash tablet, unlike desktop operating systems where you get an option with arrow key, you select which operating system to choose, there is no such facility here, so the only option is to remove the HD card and insert the HD card to use the application. Okay, this is also good question, sir has asked, out of many Linux operating system Linux distribution, which one is the best, so for educational purpose, we would suggest rather, I would suggest Ubuntu because it has lot of online support, suppose you are getting into trouble and you can easily search, network is not working on Ubuntu, so you will get lot of community based answers, which might suit you. Sir, what about Fedora and CentOS, they are also equally good and you may use any of them, yes sir, you can make, so you have to probably search for a tool similar to DD maker, which will do the particular operation. Sir, actually I just want to add something, in Windows if you want to make a bootable Linux image, so there is a freeware software which is called Linux live and I also use this procedure in Windows, but it won't work, it will only work in Linux, so if we basically use DD maker, then only we will be able to create that SD card bootable. Correct, so this method only works on Linux operating system, for Windows operating system, sir as mentioned, Lili, Lili USB creator, it's a freeware software. Yes, Lili USB creator, you might explore Lili USB creator. So, some kind of hardware damages are also there associated with the Linux users, can you tell us something about those? Sir, what kind of hardware damages you are mentioning? While you are installing and while you are using as well, so many kind of hardware damages I heard about, so I am just asking you about if there is any kind of the hardware damage associated. Okay, let me answer this question this way, so Linux, voting to Linux is just yet another way of using operating system, so as far as Linux operating system is concerned, it is very safe and secure, it is used by almost 75% of world servers, so with the operating system uses you won't be damaging your hardware, that's for sure. The hardware damage might happen in Android operating system as well and that could be some mechanical damage or accidentally you can erase your hard disk, not hard disk, the internal ROM etc, but there are no such hardware damages, maybe when you do multiple times insertion of SD card and that might damage your SD card slot, but that's the farthest I can think of right now. Sir, actually Android is a lightweight operating system, right? Correct. And Linux I know actually works on desktop and when you are trying to boot Linux and to the tablet, don't you think the performance will be completely degraded? So, by looking at the experiment, you are trying to have an embedded equipment to check for the temperature, instead if you can have such hardware interaction programming for Android, that helps better than this, right? With Android operating system, we don't have facilities or APIs to interface Anudino or Interface Arduino directly. So, as you have aware of that with Linux operating system, we have liberty of using any hardware, we can interface any USB to serial device, any USB device, anything we can use directly, but with Android due to security reasons, those features have been disabled. The second question is what is the motivation behind of using Linux? So, as I mentioned with Android, we can't install native Linux apps because Linux contains most of the open source apps like Sylab and Scientific Python, many other things. So, those apps we can't directly install on Android operating system and Android operating system doesn't have many educational apps. If at all they have, they are paid apps and they are ad-prone, so we don't recommend them to use by students. Though we are in a process of making good Android apps, you might have aware of AkashLabs.org, your teams and your colleges are also participating in that. So, once that repository is ready, we can say that we have few apps which are very good, but beyond that, Linux have repository of more than 60,000 apps. Out of 60,000, maybe 10,000 plus apps are either embedded related, educational related, learning related apps. So, we don't want to leave behind those features because they are very handy and with a small AkashLib tablet, one can easily connect a micro USB adapter, a USB hub, keyboard and mouse. And one can easily use this device as a regular computer. And coming to your first question, speed. Let me tell you, when Android boots, it uses around 250 MB of your RAM because it cache everything into your RAM. When Linux boots, it only takes 50 MB. So, we have almost 400 MB like free space for Linux. Let me tell you one more thing. The sila, which we learn, run on Android version of Linux, which is very slow. We can see APL app, which is just in hack, which is very slow compared to the Linux version. In Linux, if you connect a keyboard and type, it is as fast as any desktop operating system. It is really fast and it has been optimized for this tablet. It's not that we are running exactly the desktop operating system here. We have reduced many overheads. We have removed many unwanted things. And only the slim and optimized version of Linux is available here. Can we use the lightweight versions of Linux such as X Ubuntu? This Ubuntu, which you have seen is not a regular Ubuntu, it's a Unity-based Ubuntu. It's an LXDE-based desktop, which is L Ubuntu-based desktop. It is even more lighter than L Ubuntu because we have removed many components of L Ubuntu. We have just taken the simple LXDE desktop and just added few themes over it. And that too very optimized themes and fonts to make it visually appealing. That's it. Sir, as you said, it can be act as a small PC. Can we interface this projected to that Akash? Is there any drivers available? Because we are struggling to like play this all PPT set to the class. So if it is that, then it is easy for us to carry into the class. Excellent question. Even with Android version also, this feature lacks and this really hurts because whatever we develop, we can't project directly to our projector. Though with Wi-Fi-based projectors, the new version of Wi-Fi projectors, that can interact with Akash. The other option is using a VNC server and VNC client approach. So install a VNC server on your Akash, access the VNC client on your laptop, project the laptop screen to the projector. So this small hack, but it works for presentations at least. You can't play videos at all because the frame rate is very less, but it is quite good for presentations. So that VNC server approach is very much useful. It is only important with the Akash graphic or other F2O devices like we have the Samsung and other. Unlike desktop operating systems, in desktop what we do, we take a portable CD and we can run it on either Dell machine or Lenovo machine or anywhere else, it works. But in case of ARM based operating systems, the one which is made for this tablet, Akash tablet, can't be run on my same Android phone. Though this is also ARM platform and this is also ARM platform, but they are incompatible. So this is a big issue with ARM based applications. So the HD card which you have made is particularly constrained to only one version which is Akash 2. So when Akash 4 will come, we have to make a fresh SD card because there are minor changes in kernel and bootloader only that we have to make and we have to patch it for new version of Akash. I want to ask that we have a new type of the Akash tablet with him that also support the mobile communication facility. After booting with the SD card, it is possible to make the cellular communication or it is stopped working. No, that feature is not yet available. Okay. One additional thing I want to ask you. Vantu has just released their own mobile phone. Correct. And it also allows the Vantu operating system to be ported on the smart devices. Correct. So what is the big difference between this version that we have made compatible for the device Akash tablet and the Vantu has done. That you raised that question. So Ubuntu recently has launched a unified operating system which can run on any platform. So Ubuntu is run by Canonical. It is funded by Canonical company. So Ubuntu on phones you might have aware of that Ubuntu can run on phone also. There is an Ubuntu phone operating system similar to Android and that can make a phone calls. But the issue with Ubuntu on phone is you can't run your regular Linux X server that is Linux graphical applications on your Ubuntu on phone because Ubuntu on phone uses QML and different UI interface which is incompatible with your desktop X server which we call X server X means X window system X server. So they are incompatible. So unless Ubuntu finds a way to port regular Linux apps to Ubuntu based tablets which can make calls also. So we are stuck in between. They have an option that you can connect an HDMI cable to a monitor. The phone immediately turns into a desktop operating system. But in our Akash we don't have any HDMI cable and so we can't make it happen. It's the Linux prompt. Correct. So what is the difference? Only we get GUI using this method or? So sir has raised a question. In Android marketplace we have such applications like Android terminal, Android terminal emulator. And there is an application known as Android Linux on Android. So that application runs inside the Android operating system. It connects to the Android operating system using a VNC client and VNC server interface. I will tell you what problems we have with that. First of all, for using a regular Linux application it's quite good. Though it is slow because you are running virtually two operating systems on the same platform. So experience a performance degradation. Beside that, suppose you want only Linux terminal, I think that approach is quite good. If you want only terminal based Linux programs to run and test, you can use Linux on Android which is available on Android marketplace. Or you can anyway contact me and I can provide you a custom Linux version for Akash. The second issue with that is the main features of Linux operating system which we want to explore, they are absent in the Linux on Android version. Because the Linux on Android version access the Android kernel underneath which doesn't have support for IO communication, USB to serial communication, etc. So it just exports the display in the VNC server, VNC client. It's like viewing a remote machine on a local host. So what it does is just run a Linux image on a local host server and export the display. So it's just in hack but it consumes a lot of CPU and it's same as running two operating systems in one. Second, with that approach you can't replace regular Linux on Akash approach because with regular Linux on Akash approach you have accessibility of all hardware interfaces. You can connect USB, you can connect Android, you can connect Arduino, you can connect 8051 controllers, any of those. So I will take just 5 more minutes. I have one more slide to show you. And meanwhile what I will do is I will just make a quick revision of what we have seen so far. So you have seen how we have created a bootable Linux image. So I will take this microSD card out. So I will take this microSD card and I will insert this microSD card in microSD card slot here. So because this SD card is damaged because I have stopped in between. So just for demo purpose I have already created a microSD card and I have inserted here. Now I will do a long press of power button. So it is showing a Akash logo and it will take hardly 10 seconds to boot into Linux. It's a regular Ubuntu 12.10 desktop. It's a very custom version so you can see there is a panel at the left side which I can access as menu. And this menu icons and separation between each menu entry has been optimized for touch based operations. To turn off the machine I will do a log out. It is showing a shutdown option.  And once it's done, if I press the power button again it won't boot to Android. So to boot to Android what I have to do is remove the microSD card, press the power button. And this time you don't have to press for 10 seconds because Android boots immediately. And you are back to your regular Android. So as this microSD card is damaged to how to format this in your Linux operating system. So you can use G-parted tool. So I will search G-parted. It's a graphical tool. You can do it command line version also. It is searching for devices. So this will detect a 7.4 GB image. So your Linux SD card contains three partitions. One is swap partition, swap is a virtual file system. And EXT4 which is your root file system. And this is for your kernel and bootroader. So what I can do is I can just select this and delete. Right click. Unmount. Unmounting means they have been already been present on my desktop here. This is 17 and 7.3 GB. Unmount will release them. So now I can format them. So before format I will delete them. Delete. Delete. Now right click create a new file system. Make it FAT32. Because FAT32 you can use it on either phone, desktop, anywhere. Add. Apply. So this will create your SD card back. And now you can use your SD card on your phone, tablet, wherever you want. Coming to next option. Anu Duno which you probably know better now. So we have this Anu Duno documentation. Some sample projects. And a mailing list. And this is the Anu Duno documentation. So all you need to know about Anu Duno is listed here. So it contains why Anu Duno, what is different between Arduino. And how to program it. Board files. These are simple single-sided PCBs. And how to program it. How to program the bootloader. And what kind of screen you will get. USB connection. If you want to make Anu Duno on breadboard. What the connections would be. And how to program Anu Duno chip. How not to program Anu Duno chip. So everything is listed here. Even your. This. Temperature sensor experiment is also listed in detail. At this documentation page. So sample projects. Coming to sample projects. We are looking forward for Anu Duno book. A free open source Anu Duno book. Which will contain. As many applications possible with Anu Duno. So that you can easily replicate them. And customize them for your personal needs. So far. Intern is working. Nivedita is working on this. And she has made around 12. Experiments possible with Anu Duno. So I will show you few of them. So this is a simple one. How to make a link LED project. So what you can do is. What components you require. The schematic of that. A circuit diagram. And the code. Similarly DC motors. How to connect. A circuit diagram. And code. RGB LED. Code. So we have a list of 12 experiments now. And we are soon. 25. There are many in pipeline. So please expect a open source book very soon. Maybe in two months. So following the instructions in the book. You can easily customize your Anu Duno applications. There is a mailing list which I created this morning. So you can just click on this. And you can join this Anu Duno mailing list. To raise any questions. Post any questions. And there is an online form. For your feedback. To receive newsletters. So with Anu Duno. As soon as we make any progress. Suppose we release a book tomorrow. Or we conduct a workshop. To let you know. We want you to fill this form. So only mandatory. Options are name and email address. Because we need your email address. For obvious reasons. And if you want. That your email address to be included. And that mailing list. So I will put my name. Email address. Include this email address into my mailing list. So I will receive the notification. I will add you to the mailing list. Your college or institute address. If at all we want to communicate you. Or send you some invitation for Anu Duno workshop. Your phone number. That is also optional. And what you think about Anu Duno. How it can help. What kind of applications you are going to use. With Anu Duno. Stick box. Or you can add few suggestions here. And just submit it. That's all we want for you. And if you have any questions. Please ask me regarding Anu Duno now. Yesterday they showed that. Not working. Particular apps. Correct. Linux version. As you said those apps are directly for android only sir. They won't work on Linux version. Is there any alternate then. Both to android and use that. On Linux we don't have any apps then. Actually Linux. All the desktop applications which you use here. Suppose you go to. Synaptic. So it's a package manager for Linux. Unlike Windows operating system. In Linux you don't have to hunt for applications. Across the web. In Windows we just search free. Free download. Option for this application. For Linux we don't have to. We have inbuilt software repository. So all you need to do is search here. And the same interface is available on Linux version of Akash also. So whatever application you need. Suppose Sylab. It's available. So all I have to do is check this. Mark apply. And apply that's it. It will install Sylab. So at akashlabs.org we don't have any particular application listed there. Because all of the applications are available. Inside the. Synaptic package manager. Can we use pen drive instead of the SD card? Unfortunately no sir. Akash Tablet. SoC system on chip. Which is all winner based. And that has a. Algorithm you might say. It has a bios. Which rather search for micro sd slot. Instead of. Pen drive slot.