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I'm going to bring the range of the dates back to 2022 because that's the data input range I'm adding to the system so I'm going to hit the drop down 2022 January to December of 2022 and update our report so we have just what we've entered from the bank feeds and the prior presentations tapping to the left we have 2022 for the point in time on the balance sheet that looks good let's tab to the left again this time we want to be looking at our bank feeds so we've uploaded the bank feeds in a prior presentation in the accounting drop down if we go into our bank accounts we have our bank feed information here we'll hit the drop down up top I'm going to go into the account transactions and now we're basically in our bank feed type center we're going to go into the reconcile area as we have done in prior presentations and this time we want to imagine a situation will be a little bit different in that we still have money going out but instead of a normal kind of purchase that we're making for expenses that happen periodically for fairly regularly and therefore lend themselves to bank rule creation quite readily we are now going to be looking at the purchase of equipment which is not something that happens on as regular a basis and therefore when we think about the rules and the account we set up we got to be a little bit more mindful of it all right so I'm just going to pick a transaction and imagine that the transaction is coming from the bank feeds I'm going to go next year I'm sorry it's going to imagine that it's coming for the purchase of it's coming through the bank feeds for the purchase of equipment it's hard to talk and look for the transaction here but you know I'll just be quiet and find my transaction there's the one this is the one I want so I'm going to pick this one here so we haven't been entering any transactions on our end we've waited till things clear the bank and now we're going to be recording them on our side so we're going to basically do the same kind of thing we did last time record the transaction and think about whether or not we want to make a rule for it now let's just take a look a quick look at the difference in a flowchart this is a quick books desktop home page flowchart but we are just using it to look at the flow of transactions which is basically the same for any kind of accounting system we're looking at the outflow here now remember when the money is going out of the business we're purchasing usually services oftentimes and goods that are short term things that are expenses when we actually pay for them therefore with the bank feeds we can basically use a check form or a reduction of the bank type of form and that works perfect that's what we looked at last time with the utility bills and the telephone bills however if we're purchasing equipment then you're basically going to have to deviate from the standard accrual or cash kind of basis and do an accrual thing putting the equipment on the books as an asset now you might say why do I have to do that I'll just expense the equipment when I purchase it but if you're in the United States for example just for taxes the tax code is going to force you to deviate even if you're on a cash basis from that cash basis to an accrual basis and so you so you're going to have to do that on certain types of things so that's why equipment becomes more complicated you can see the rationale for that most clearly was something like a building if you paid a hundred thousand dollars for a building what would happen if you just expensed it when you compare january's performance on the income statement to february january would look like a very bad month if you purchased a whole building and expensed it during that month which isn't actually proper from an accrual standpoint because you're going to be using the building in the future and therefore you should allocate the cost over the useful life and so that's the same concept with other pieces of equipment that we're purchasing like a forklift or large large equipment so that means that when we're looking at this from our bank feed standpoint the the problem is we don't buy equipment all the time it's not like a regular thing that we do such as we do do with inventory or something like that if i buy inventory or i pay for my normal utility bill that happens on a fairly routine basis and the vendors are probably just providing that particular thing such as inventory or the utility the electric or something like that so it's easy to make a bank feed with but with large pieces of equipment we're usually deciding something that we need at this point in time that we haven't purchased for a long time because and once we make the purchase we're going to be using it for a long time and we might be purchasing it from the same place that we purchase say supplies from so if we just set up our bank fees to say whenever i purchase something from like a home depot and or in our case this series or whatever then then i want you to record it as an expense of supplies expense we're going to run into problems with that when we purchase large pieces of equipment we might accidentally record it as an expense when we're going to need to in reality record it as an asset in order to comply with the tax code and whatnot for that particular purchase so you might be able to think about kind of how can you set up your bank rules so there maybe there's dollar limitations to help you to determine to at least think over whether or not something should be expensed or put on the books as an asset now the other thing just to mention when you're purchasing large equipment for example you might have a loan or part of it is financed so you might be paying a down payment and finance the rest of it if that happens then clearly the only thing that you're going to see pulling through from the bank feeds uh if you're waiting till it goes through the bank feeds is going to be the dollar amount here so uh that came out of the checking account not the financing portion so you would have to then think about how you're going to be dealing with the financing portion now you can enter a transaction so that you can include uh the loan that you're putting on the books or you could try to stay on a cashed based system for example and work with an accountant to help you to shore these things up at the end of the year so if you paid any money for the equipment as long as you make sure to put it down on the books as the equipment for example and then tell your accountant at the end of the year and say hey look i'm trying to stay in a cashed based system there was a loan kind of transaction that took place here i've just record the payments to the loan to the loan account but you need to shore up the transaction with regards to the purchase of the equipment and put the loan on the books for the proper amount and make the adjustment for short-term and long-term loan if you need to as well as break out the interest so so again if if you're working with an accountant and you're trying to automate everything you might be able to come up with a system where you basically can kind of automate everything when even when you hit some of these more complicated complicated areas if you're able to yourself or work with an accountant that knows the system that you're doing and can make the proper adjusting entries to shore up those things that make it difficult to automate the bank feeds all right so i'm going to copy this and just say this is going to be the name and choose what it's for i'm going to expand this down here let's add the details so i can add a new account when i choose what it's for so here it is the date's going to be good reference we're not buying inventory so no item so this is good now on the account we're going to need to add an account and this time it's not going to be an expense account we're going to put it on the books as an asset type of account so i'm going to add so where the the assets should be up top i'll just say like one two maybe so i'll say add number i'm trying to think of the code one two one zero let's see i think that will be open and then the account type is going to be a fixed asset so it's a fixed asset type of account i'm going to call it equipment equipment and that looks good that's all we need so i'll save that and that looks good now before i save now i'm going to look at the rule related to it so now that we have an account added hit the drop down and i'm going to create a rule for it we need some rules around here so any conditions match and notice that if you're going to try to set up a condition where you want the dollar amount to be over a certain dollar amount in in order to to make it a a fixed asset which is kind of an arbitrary thing because really something that should be a fixed asset if you're going to be using it for multiple periods into the future however there is kind of a materialities threshold where you're like well i'm if i bought a year's worth of paper clips even though i'm going to use or five years worth of paper clips i might just expense them because the dollar amount is small so really i you might have a dollar amount kind of involved and say hey look if i'm looking at a rule if it's over a certain dollar amount that's when you might put it in the books as a fixed asset as opposed to say supplies for example if that was the case we might go to all conditions here and say we're going to look at not the payee i'm going to look at the any text field just like we normally do any text field if it contains and i'm going to put part of the name and that's all i need all that other junk uh if it just has that i should be good and i have another condition where maybe i put an amount uh and if i say the amount is over if it's greater than let's say uh one thousand then possibly we put it in the books as a fixed asset if it's less than one thousand maybe you put it in the books as supplies and that can at least help you to to see the dollar amount or for example if you bought multiple things from this place like if it was an amazon or an office depot or a home depot and most of the time what you purchase you categorize as supplies but sometimes you might be purchasing fixed assets from that same location you might set a dollar amount for your normal transactions that are below everything that's below one thousand dollars you put into supplies and then you might leave that as your only rule and that rule then would not be applying if the amount was over a thousand dollars so that you can kind of give a more of a double check to make sure that you are categorizing uh uh the proper amounts for fixed assets or you can make two rules right you can make one rule saying it's the same vendor if it's under a thousand dollars i just want you to put it to supplies and if it's over a thousand dollars like we have it here we want you to put it to equipment right that's the general idea all right uh set the the contact uh existing contact i'm going to say it's going to be that series series we set it up last time i'll create it here hopefully i didn't put in there twice and then down below we're going to say the account is going to be the equipment account that we just set up equipment so there it is and then i'll set this to reference checking account so there we have it so i'm going to save that and the rule should be applying now so there's the rule applying my voice is going this is not good this is not good don't go voice don't go so i'm going to add this this will record the transaction and it will reconcile the transaction so we'll go ahead and say let's say okay and check it out so if i go to the balance sheet then we update the balance sheet and if i go into the the i got a little thrown off there because zero actually does the proper thing here which some software doesn't do like this like a for example uh a quick books doesn't normally do this it pulled the checking account down here into the liability why because the checking account is overdrawn so it's actually properly recorded now as a liability because it's overdrawn because we haven't yet put the beginning balance into the checking account so so that's actually again another thing that that zero does uh more properly actually than than some other softwares uh like the major competitors like uh like quickbooks online for example so if i go into this there's the money out the spend money form if we go back on up the other side did not go to the income statement but rather uh hold on i went too far back i just want to go back to the balance sheet the balance sheet all right the other side went into the equipment here so it went into the equipment with the money out form a fixed asset type of account and if i go to the tab to the right nothing happened to the income statement so that's going to be you know the point of the fixed assets now when we get into the fixed assets just realize that when the next question is well when do i get an expense from it and when i say get an expense i'm often thinking from a tax standpoint because if you're in the united states you can have to do your income taxes and when you do that you're going to say well i want to i would like to just expense the entire thing to lower my net income and pay less taxes but we have to do it in the form of depreciation there might be accelerated depreciation for the tax software and whatnot but that's the that's the general idea we have to depreciate it so because of that uh in the united states we often don't really have the sub ledgers within the accounting software to record the depreciation because we're going to have to give it to the accountant to do depreciation on a tax basis anyways using other software such as tax software now then the question is do you want to keep your books on a tax depreciation schedule or do you want to have it on the book depreciation you have to do tax depreciation for taxes but you it's not the best depreciation schedules to use for accounting purposes typically so you could use the tax software then to run depreciation schedules on both a tax basis for taxes and a book basis for your books so you want to kind of keep that system in mind because the sub ledger being in another software means that you want to set up your accounts here if that's how you're doing it you want to set up your accounts to line up to the account categories that will be on the sub ledger schedules created from the tax software so that's what you want to keep in mind when you're adding your equipment account your fixed assets what what are the asset classes and you might want to talk to your accountant about this on the tax software so that I can match them and mirror them over here so that when I do my adjusting entries for depreciation it will be as easy as possible also note that when you deal with your taxes what do you have to do with regards to the depreciation you're going to have to give your tax preparer at least yearly in order to facilitate the depreciation schedules the additions and subtractions to the the fixed asset type of accounts so you could give that to them with this like general ledger right here you can give the tax preparer this at the end of the year there shouldn't be too much going on because you don't purchase a lot of stuff and remove a lot of stuff during the year because equipment is stuff you don't purchase on all the time you only purchase it periodically however you want to make sure that you give as much detail to your tax preparer as possible so that when they put it on their books they they do a good job of being able to identify the exact pieces of equipment they're putting on their books in other words if this 2082 represented three forklifts or something like that then you don't want your tax preparer putting it on the depreciation schedule as just equipment that would be way too generic you don't even want them to put it on the books as three forklifts because that's too that's still too generic and you want them to put it on the books as three separate forklifts and be able to identify those three forklifts with basically an identification number if possible or some description so that you can actually locate them from the schedule to physical reality why is that the case well it won't be a problem if they shortcut when you first put the thing on the books for taxes I can put 2082 and just call it generic equipment not a problem for this year however if I sell the forklift five years from now it's going to cause a problem if the tax preparer put it on the book as one lump sum and just called it equipment because now I don't know where the forklift is that I sold and I can't figure out my depreciation schedule so so make sure you're working with a tax preparer that is is doing a good job identifying the the actual pieces of equipment on the sub ledgers because it will make things easier in the future all right so that's the general idea let's open up a trial balance I'm going to right click on the tab to the right just to open up a trial balance so we'll open up the trustee trial balance over here going to the accounting drop down reports reports and then I'll type in trial balance to open up the trial balance just to see it being built kind of as we go so we'll open that up and this is for December 2000 so now you just got the balance sheet on top of the income statement there's our checking account they still put the checking account up top for for this one because I think it's ordered by the check numbers even though it's a liability because it's overdrawn at this time there's our equipment and then the income statement accounts of utilities and the telephone account the debits and credits mean the double entry accounting system it is in balance when I convert that to an accounting equation we can see on the balance sheet the assets of 2082 uh equal the liabilities and equity that's really the same thing uh that the the debits and credits is this in balance is the same thing is saying the assets equal liabilities in the equity how does the income statement fit into this the income statement is part of equity it's the breakout of equity of the 101 51 that you can see here these two items in the trial balance which is the income statement income minus expenses which we just have expenses of the 101.51


or school or we have two of the five regions built out so far and it's a list of profiles of ramoners of color who talk about ramon in their own words unedited and why ramon is their home why they call it my home and the with the good that i have to ugly but ultimately where it comes back to is quality of life you know sections on culture kind of multi cultural ramon from an artistic standpoint performing arts visual arts recreation in terms of who comes to ramon and who's already in ramon in terms of our association with the national worker of steers or out the rafro black cyclist black motorcyclist to let people know that there's a fact there are in fact people out here that are fully engaged you know you go to barry to see the michael jackson review band that's your that's your thing or you go down to jag and you wouldn't stop to see black playwrights show their works so it's a work in progress and if you're who that's your are you online there? yeah right here so we need we need about $45,000 to finish building out the site what you see there is a prototype with shankley valley and south east of ramon we'd like to be able to complete the entire project within a year from now and then we would make it a closed subscription site so that employers that are committed to do sort of certify for the world that these are employers that are really focused on inclusion and equity and this is one way that they can demonstrate that to candidates that have come in rather than having the deer in the head look of a person of color asking well let's like my hands are here and that's where at least in the private sector where we work a lot of people decide not to come here based on the reaction that the interview community or anything I can ask when asked a question so we talk to each other about the job my complications match what your needs are but once the conversation is off topic in terms of well what's like my family here and you choke on the question they say well you're not ready for me so I'll take you jobs in place out so this type of design that's awesome because I was recruiting for another company and most of the people I was recruiting for here in Vermont before I was here most of the people I was recruiting for were from out of state and that was the biggest thing that the interview community if they're going to be bringing their family and you know by themselves coming here the connection to the community their community is is paramount to that decision whether to come exactly the case that you know I think there's more too I mean I am that person I'm that story I've been here for ten years now and I can't be here to take a job because I've chosen to stay here anyway but the question is is not what gives you here is what keeps you here so I want to you know politely kind of push back a little bit on your courage but support you because I think in good conscience I have a hard time asking somebody to come here if I don't think the conditions are right or suitable for them to really sustain here I think not to sound pretentious but I'm a little bit of an anomaly to have stayed here for ten years eight more years than I've ever made anyplace else in my life but the conditions on the ground right here are very tenuous for people of color in this state and we gotta be really transparent about that and we gotta do the work to fix it so we can keep people here not just get them here and I've only been here for 40 years oh it's all I've only been here for you're still doubting for mine and yes there's that as was all my advice to people is if you want to be a couch potato this is not the place to be amen if you want easy access to the mall if you want if you want then this is not there a little bit but that the and yes there's a post of color in the state of the mall share the same challenges post of color everywhere my pitch though is 15% of the population where do you go in the world and I've traveled all over the world 15% of the population are knuckleheads I'll make 15 I think you're being generous well I can think of a couple of countries where it ends up to about 25 but the question one has to ask oneself is where the other 85% do it and if you can demonstrate that our foreign government in terms of civic engagement in terms of town meeting in terms of access to policy makers access to the decision makers that affect everything from you know the tree warning to school board, select board then this is the place to be because you're not going to find that it's very true anyplace else so if you want to live on a human scale this is this is the place but it has to be balanced with you know maybe amity in the car and drive to Dublin from Brattle World to see Stump or the Barry Albert House to see the Michael Jackson review band or fences at the Flynn or so that there's there's a we just have in Brattle World Chris McBride you know who's like a Grammy Grammy winning bassist so there's a lot of things to do here that's what's got me here it's very positive it's very positive we can train your HR departments yeah I think the challenges it's not traditionally the HR department that has the front line experience with interviewing and hiring to Bill's point we're taking a more active role in supporting hiring managers but it's the actual supervisors that are typically engaging in those conversations in the interview so it kind of broadens the audience a little bit who are the people we should be training to make a reality but with that it was state police and they had incredible five or six years which is interesting because they're struggling with recruitment in general so the fact that they've had the success of recruiting minority populations is actually very interesting in the light of the overall market for their recruitment I guess this is a place where I work on a daily basis so I've got to chime in but I've got to chime in the question is to what end why are we recruiting back and around police officers to reflect the community I would think hopefully so I can get my incarceration rates now hopefully so I can get my arrest rates now as well because if they're reflective of the community then that means their actions are going to be reflective in a manner as such that the disparities are going to reduce correct so that's where we start counting the success so we still got some counting to do I'm sorry I don't want to interrupt I know they're getting close to the end of the time and we do have other lists I do want to talk about something but before people get out of here I don't know what is the history of this council in terms of supporting legislation when it is like proposed legislation but I would really because you my guess is you're an advisory council to the commissioner is that correct it's an advisory council to the governor and to the secretary of administration so sometimes there's legislation and I anticipate that there will be some it would be really nice to have this board or this council advise or provide really take a position on some of those pieces of legislation and so my hope and goal here today was really to see if you have any willingness to do that in 2019 when there is pending legislation whether this council can take a position on it and advise the commissioner or secretary young or the agency of administration to take a position about some of those that is a novel suggestion that I'm going to turn to Diane because I think she and I started around the same time on the council like around 2002-ish and to the best of my knowledge we have never taken a position on any legislation but I'm not sure why not or that there would be any problem with doing so what do you think I think we could certainly take a position and we could certainly advocate with the commissioner and the secretary of administration I don't know I think this is something for Tom or Rachel in terms of you can go as a citizen to the legislature and testify on anything any time regardless of your state employment but I'm not sure that the chair of this council could go to the legislature and testify right and not so I'm not really necessarily asking that anybody do that so much that more so that if you took a position on a piece of legislation you could advise the people that have that you're supposed to advise which is the commissioner on that legislation and then we could develop or at least discuss it in our meetings and work on that and I think what you're suggesting would be maybe a fourth subcommittee that's what it sounds like maybe no I'm thinking that because we know that legislation comes up really fairly quickly right so if there's legislation at the you know January or February or there's a bill that there's proposed and it directly involves equity, diversity inclusion, state government or whatever the people that will be testifying there will be the HRC the commissioner Tom, other people it would be nice I think because one of the questions is this council's job is to counsel the commissioner and give advice to the commissioner the question is can we take positions can we take a position on a piece of bill and advise the commissioner to take that position on that bill no see we we have a special unique to us part of our statute that doesn't allow us to put restrictions on us but I think it's ridiculous they don't want women to suspect it seems to me that this test might be whether it is aligning with the governor's priority or not do we serve at the pleasure of the governor on this council some of us could advise influence that's all I'm saying could you advise the governor or the commissioner to take a certain position it's not that they have to take your advice but it would be great if the council voted or agreed that we when we look at this bill we think this is a good idea and we would like DHR or the commissioner or the governor to support it or be against it because I think that would be a really useful thing for this council to do whether it's public you're taking a public position that might get into a slip versus advising the powers that be feels absolutely like that I don't know what goes into the report which I think is the only public piece although we're being recorded today I don't know I don't know what is public or not but I guess everything that we do is public and I think so we have two reports per year and the first one is through in mid-January and it's basically our accomplishments and our goal setting for the next season and then in April we submitted updated kind of EEO plan for state government in general and both of those documents I believe are on the website the website isn't real updated I think it's still got some 2017 stuff including the roster but pretty much our meetings are all open meetings we are now being recorded if I'm not mistaken we're going to be recorded moving forward in 2019 maybe I thought that was if you request it I requested you requested I know Chris Green personally we probably will be recorded unless there's some serious objection to the group doesn't seem to have had a chilling effect on our conversation today so I mean I'm all for transparency and I think that we are this is part of the democratic process so I don't think we're going to have some closed door discussions I do think that there is a question about we are serving most of us at least at the will of the governor because he's the one who appointed us or continues to sign our paperwork there's a couple of agencies and departments including Carey yours and Department of Labor that and you that are automatically on the council no matter what but the rest of us I think are serving at the pleasure and will of the governor so the entire council exists at the will of the governor but I think I like the idea of us of our advisory process saying we think this legislation is good or we think it's bad or offering input it could possibly get a little sticky if there's something that we're really opposed to that the governor is really in favor of and so then we I think we talk about how do we proceed in that case or maybe it's just presented as advice and not as this is our position we're going to issue a press release but here's our input I agree and I think it's just about being transparent we can advise the governor and he could just say thanks a lot but we're going to do this because it's a problem he's the freaking governor so that's I mean I think it's okay to have the public see that as a governor I'm receiving advice but I chose to do otherwise and I've seen often where a leader turned out to be right in instances like that you know against better advice so transparency is always good I have those of us who work for state government work for the governor and so pretty much have to support the positions of the governor it's much more important at the commissioner level but all of us too there's an elaborate process or a comprehensive process within state government to review bills to do bill review forms and you know it goes up the chain and there's positions taken by the administration ultimately based on input feedback from departments so it's not such a good idea it's not such a good idea being born well I don't know so I think that it is a good idea for our council to at least the made aware of bills as they're proposed and pending and for us to be discussing it and I think that there is an opportunity for us to weigh in I don't know that it's any one of us individually taking a particular position as much as we as your council are recommending the following position on this pending bill and I think honestly if you asked the commissioner of DHR and the governor would you be interested in our input on this bill they would probably both say yes I don't want to hear what the GWDC thinks about this bill it affects the work it's a charge for the council to do that exactly so board do you have any particular pieces of legislation in mind that you think are coming down the pike I cannot say yet but I do believe that there is some coming up that I think would be definitely in the realm of being more equity and diversity focused and fair particularly to persons of color and so certainly I think that I would really love to see this council give the advice that would be in support of those bills but and when we know what the language is and what the bill is then I would certainly come here and share that with you so that we could discuss it and share whether we want to advise I think that that sounds great I think logistically because as somebody said the bills come fast and furious and the activities and our council at least last year's schedule was meeting quarterly and then having subcommittees meeting more frequently that's why I had thought that maybe we were talking about a new subcommittee but it sounds like not necessarily and I think that if there's a way for council members to just keep each other and the rest of us all in the loop as things like just send a link to a bill if you become aware of it and say this I think this might be of interest to the council and we can see how soon thereafter we're going to be having a council meeting or whether we need to communicate just the emails and stuff like that I would just ask that people be really careful and discreet about anything that we're committing to because we don't want to cause anybody any embarrassment including ourselves I know there will be probably four or five coming from us alone to include the constitutional menu so there's going to be a lot of activity that's great, that's great to hear so so are there other others as far as things that we haven't yet identified or talked about for things that we want to tackle in 2019? I just wonder if we want to revisit quarterly meetings it just feels like there's a whole lot going on and so I think that we're now segwaying into our like business portion of the meeting which is all of the things that we usually discuss how often we want to meet where we are going to meet where and when, how often and then also electing chairs or co-chairs or whatever so I agree with you Diane that for me quarterly meetings is too far apart for us to meet as a group and we lose a certain amount of continuity and particularly if we don't I think the whole premise was easier for because we were lacking consistency having everybody attending the meetings when we were holding them more often but we lacked the consistency even if we only held them quarterly so I would want us to consider maybe going back to every other month but I think every other month maybe skipping the summer so we do five meetings five meetings a year I think that that would make sense and then there's nothing to say that the subcommittees can decide when and on what meeting schedule they want to meet and some of that may be driven by some of the focus of their activity at certain times of the year you could say that the subcommittees could meet on the opposite meet on the opposite so do we put that to vote but I'm recognizing that technically I think we only have one two three four five of us, six of us that are actually voting members at the table but I think that's still a quorum maybe possibly I don't know how many total members we have right now I think who we're missing at today's meeting so Dana who just wrote to us and said she was sorry she couldn't come we're missing Ruben Jennings and I'm forgetting somebody who? well no she's actually at Hock oh Kasey oh Kasey thank you Kasey's from the AG's office so if we're only missing three then maybe six is a quorum um sounds like it I said with great confidence so should we go ahead and vote on that is there any discussion on the frequency of the meetings pros, cons, what do you think? I think every other month is great I'm just trying to think about when which months that would be and if we skip the summer so if we we could do February, April and June and then we could do September and November pastly have still an annual retreat in December is that too many? Cheryl let's give that a try I like it, February, April June September and November September and November and then maybe a retreat in December okay okay and let's just go if we can pick a date and times right now that would be great can we do that and then we can just vote on a whole yearly schedule we had been doing Mondays, well we were alternating Mondays of Tuesdays that was part of the promise what you did right? Mondays are my only bad day really yeah so I think that we were doing good for you but is there a particular day first of all does CAPS work for people or are there groups or folks that want to advocate for alternating with Waterbury or I think right now we happen to have the majority of members that are located here on Piliu but I know that doesn't help you guys but it's fun sure I think CAPS works in terms of usually for availability and meeting space and parking parking was tough today depends on who's in here for training let's wait Tuesdays and Thursdays are SSG so those are like days for CAPS for training there's another activity happening this morning too so women use something you should probably know yeah meeting about the 2020 suffrage well it's Wednesday a better day is that a regular Tuesday Thursday for supervising state governments at least through this month I don't know what they're I think it changes because I'm about to take it and it's Wednesdays but I don't think we should choose our day around CAPS parking I think we should do it instead of meeting there's other people so Tuesdays 2 to 4 just for the sake of consistency it seems like first Tuesday second Tuesday third Tuesday doesn't work for me because I got a classification committee but the other three Tuesdays I can this Tuesday afternoon work for most of us and 2 to 4 works so do we want to go with maybe the fourth Tuesday of the month or the first or second I just realized we're not meeting until February so maybe have the first the first tends to be bad because so much stuff happens at the beginning of the month the second Tuesday of the month going once going twice second Tuesday 2 to 4 CAPS be there be square and I'll reserve the rooms and send out the advice and if I notice that we don't have many people coming we can always try to find another alternate day okay second Tuesday of February April June I like Tuesdays better besides the fact that we don't have to worry about losing Joe is that frequently we got holidays on Monday not frequently so do we need to go with eyes and stuff or like okay all again so and we're going to continue with the same committee structure so that's going to work and committee groups will be deciding if they're scheduling in there and within the next month we should have an updated website with all of our information on our minutes and I'll post agendas there when I can so I'd have to be trained on how not to ruin the website first which is necessary for me pictures of my dog I hope yes excellent so hopefully that will help too providing information to other people who want to come too so now comes the favorite part of the meeting for everybody and it's the election versus the nomination of co-chairs and then it's the campaign speeches and the passing out of candy and the kissing of babies and then the actual election by Australian ballot so so I always like to make a whole perspective grow it open to folks who haven't previously had a chance or exercise I nominate Mark he's great he's never nominated good luck thank you Mark very very very welcome your presence and participation was extremely welcome today thank you so much I really appreciate it I'm guessing also that are we limited to the chairs have to be members of the council those facing rules and I think we've lost another voting member lost a couple there goes the quorum but is there a reason I guess what I'd be interested in hearing is if we ran away did she leave or did she just leave I think she's gone we better vote then so who's left so we've got Karen and we've got Carrie and there's me and we've got Joe you're not a member? I'm not so Rachel and I don't I'm just a commissioner I'm just a commissioner I'd have to look at the board I think we would want it to be a broader but I'd be interested is there any reason that our co-chairs don't want to continue or I would be perfectly willing to continue it's really challenging for me to find the time to do it just honestly I don't feel like I've been the greatest co-chair thank you so much I wonder if if we can send an email to everybody saying asking for nominations and then vote at our next meeting we can easily do that that makes total sense if you're comfortable Rachel with having I mean it's not like we'll ditch you between now and then we'll continue I don't know they're usually rarely are there co-chair emergencies like that's the best I just get a message that says if this is an emergency please hang up and dial 911 so I think I like that maybe I don't know if you're planning to create notes meeting minutes and share with the whole committee and that way we can have it as an agenda item for the February meeting to have an election do we want written nominations in the meantime or I'm just going to ask the same question would you be soliciting nominations from I mean we could have them in our I think that would probably help I'm also curious for those members who are here Joe and Karen whether either one of you is eager or interested not particularly happy as sort of a civic contribution but I I'm thrilled with the leadership we have well thanks did you already serve once or no kind of a newbie so that's two years on would you also sit on this council representing a population that's important to remember as we're obviously something that can be pushed a little bit to the side if the focus is strictly on racial diversity so it's important I think Joe that you are representing absolutely thrilled and continue to once important to agreed okay so what else do we have I think we may be done actually I think we identified the things that we're going to be doing in 2019 so we have that information and we set a meeting schedule and we made a decision about the chair election process and it all happened before 4 o'clock pretty good and now circle this day well thank you all for coming and participating and I'm looking forward to the council doing all kinds of good things in 2019 just feel like an important year coming up and the new person coming on board so I'm really excited thank you all so Curtis you're the one who I think gets the award for coming from the furthest away yes so take some snacks on your way home I'll just shoot our estimate description to people and there's a lot to do there


How can I manage users on my Moodle? As the site administrator, you can see and do everything. This is a big responsibility. It's best to have only one or two administrators who are confident in their Moodle skills. If you really need to add a second site administrator, first make sure they have an account on the site and then add them from site administration, users, permissions, site administrators. Adding teachers and students is slightly different. Apart from administrators, all new users who log into Moodle have the role authenticated user. They must be added to courses as students or teachers. They don't have the role of student or teacher across the whole site. Why not? Because when you are in a school or university, you usually study or teach a certain number of subjects, but you don't study or teach every subject available in the whole school or university. You could even teach one subject and be a student in an evening class in a different subject. Moodle works the same way. Watch our other videos for how to add teachers and students. Moodle offers a number of standard roles you can give to users in courses, activities, categories or throughout the site. You can see them from site administration, users, permissions, define roles. The administrator isn't there because the admin can do everything and you cannot restrict their role. As a beginner, it is best to leave these roles and settings as default. Managers act like lesser admins. You can give this role to someone and allow them to do certain tasks, but not others, either in the site or in a course category. Teachers can add, edit and delete activities in a course. And non-editing teachers can grade activities, but not change the course activities. Moodle also allows you to create custom roles for specific tasks. See the documentation for examples of custom roles. To allow a role to do something or to prevent a role from doing something, you modify the capability for that role. Example, we want to prevent teachers from manually enrolling participants. We click the cog icon next to the editing teacher role. And note how this role is assigned in a course, but not to the site. That's because teachers don't teach everywhere in an organisation, as mentioned before. Clicking show advanced displays the full selection of options for each capability and clicking the links takes you to the documentation for that particular capability. We scroll down to manual enrolments and change, enrol, manual enrol to prevent. This is just one example of what you can do with capabilities and permissions. It's a very complex and powerful feature. Find out more in the documentation and ask in the Moodle community forums if you need more help. To summarise, Moodle has standard roles you can assign. Roles are assigned in a context such as a course. Teachers and students are usually given their roles within courses. Admins can add or withdraw permissions by modifying the appropriate capability.


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This is stock number 9154, a 2017 Chevy Silverado 3500 crew cab short box. This truck has the all new 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the L5P motor, which gives you 445 horsepower. From this HD video, you'll be able to tell that this truck is super clean all the way around. We take all of our videos in HD, so if you have HD capabilities, turn them on. So it's like you're standing right next to the truck, taking a look at it with me. Factory chromed alloy rims has the Michelin LTX 26570 R18 tires, and they look like they have roughly about 60-70% of the tread left. Summit white is the color, projector lamp headlamps has the front sonar on the bumper. All new for 2017 is the cowl induction hood. Very cool looking hood. Passenger rim is in excellent shape, no scuffs or scrapes on that. And as you go down this side of the truck, you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective the paint is. We take these videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So you can make a smart buying decision. Put the money down, hold that truck, make sure this is the one, and nobody else gets it from you. Chrome step bars, back rims are in excellent condition as well, and this back tire has about 50% of the tread left. Frame and underbody is very clean on this truck. You want to make sure we get the most accurate representation of the vehicle as possible so that when you get here, absolutely no surprises, lower rockers all look really good on here. This one has the in bumper steps, full towing package which includes the receiver hitch, 7-pin and 4-pin wiring, back up sensors, tailgate is in excellent shape, no denser dings, has a back up camera, locking tailgate, and it has this drop down assist on it. It looks like a factory spray and bed liner, it's in really nice condition. It is to go down this side of the truck, just as clean as the passenger side. For good measures here, this back rim is in nice shape as well. You can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and glass like that paint is. It has telescopic tow mirrors, so these telescope out, they also fold in, but they are a power folding mirror. You also notice you have built in directional signals, you also have some LED lights, and then running lights on here. Inside the LTZ package gives you the black leather seats, both of these seats are heated and cooled, there are no rips or tears in the seats. We have factory floor mats throughout, has the factory brake controller, turned out four wheel drive, and auto headlamps. Power windows, power locks, and like I said, the power fold in mirrors, so that's a really neat feature. Then you get those built in directional signals, I'll show you how those LED lights work on there in just a second. As you can see, this truck has 10,282 miles on it, you have your information center, the Z71 instrument panel trim, very nice. Has the heated leather wrap steering wheel, you have your radio controls and Bluetooth audio controls here, you have your heated steering wheel, this is your forward collision warning, so you can change how far you want that alert to be, what it'll actually do is it'll, if you're coming up on something it'll actually kind of buzz the seat, it's kind of neat. And then these of course are your cruise controls.  So when you turn those cargo lamps on, that's what turns those LED lights on right there.  Downhill assist control and factory exhaust brake. Passenger seat is very clean as well, no rips or tears on that. Up here we have the home link system and your on-star capabilities. Your backup camera shows up right on this nice big touch screen here. Down here we have USB jacks, two power points, and then we have a 110-150 watt plug-in right there. So lots of really neat stuff in this truck, lots of options, has the wireless cell phone charger right there, and of course we have Bose sound system throughout. Take a quick look at the back seats, and then we'll check out under the hood. Back here we have a lot of the same as up front, very clean seats, no rips or tears. We have the latch child safety system for car seats, we also have power sliding rear windows. These seats do fold up for extra storage, we have a Chevy winter front back here, factory all weather floor mats throughout, carpeting is very nice and clean, and then we have a sleeve for the receiver hitch. Very clean truck inside and out, still got those car lights on, they're really bright. What they do is they help out, you know, if you need to see around the truck. 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There are so many people involved with Do The Right Thing, because you have two regular captains, on top of that you've got two guests. I find it difficult to book one guest. You've got like five people involved, plus producer, was there anyone else? Do The Right Thing has run a bit like a radio production in the sense that it is not as easy as normal podcast. There is a lot of when that's only put out like six episodes a year, so much work goes into it and it is edited like a radio show and it is booked like a radio show but with no money. And that's why we don't have it's not as free as a lot of podcasts would actually be. So me and Ben put together everything, script, everything like that. Ben is the producer so he books the room, he gets all the audio tech together and so I put in all the jokes and come up with all that sort of stuff. And Michael and Margaret, I'd worked with Margaret Loads on different things, she'd been in both my musicals and Margaret worked with Michael quite a lot and so Ben was just like these people, let's get them involved. Having regular people makes it easier because what we just do is we have the dates and we all know that we're free for them all. If we were having to book four guests each time that would be incredibly difficult. What were the biggest challenges to getting it off the ground? Like there weren't any because it was just a knockabout, like it was Ben had all the audio equipment, I knew how to put together a script and we just asked our mates to do it. The biggest challenge I think was Ben editing it because he wanted it to sound good because we would record long and then he'd have to edit it down to however long they end up being. We didn't know it was going to become as popular as it did and we certainly weren't thinking let's try and have a smash hit podcast. What we wanted to do was create something that was fun. I think originally with the aim of basically saying to radio, look it's really easy. We've done it and then our radio show got picked up anyway. The dilemma which was the sort of counterpoint to do the right thing and we just kept making it but I think we both knew what we were doing because we both had a background in radio comedy. That made it a lot easier and because we both work in the comedy industry we could book whoever we wanted really. And you had a live audience as well.  It was a world that we were both really comfortable in. And then it picked up Sony Awards. Yes it did. For the internet category. So it was up against everything in the world ever. It was up against the entire internet. We came third out of the internet. Thanks for listening. The next episode is listed in the description along with all the episodes for the podcast producers podcast. And if you've reached this bar, thank you. You could send me a little signal with a little thumbs up or a subscribe or maybe even a comment. All of those help me to keep this thing going and I appreciate them all. And I'll see you over on the next episode. Can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers? Just click on his face. Thanks. Bye.


First I'd like to welcome to the stage and I'm delighted to see this a focus on work placement coordinators and the pilot group here was led by the expert mentor Angela Short and they're going to do about two animation about their professional development experience and impact. So there are nine participants a very healthy group within this work placement coordinators so our first group Angela you're very warmly welcome. So I'm Angela Short but I was just a bystander really the people are the work placement so I'll let this lady introduce herself. Hi everybody my name is Amy McMullen and I am a work placement manager from UCC. This is our video if I just want to mention that there were other people involved in the process in UCC as well so I'm just a representative. There were four of us Dervolokalahan, Gillian O'Mahony and Aileen Waterman and Aileen is part of the presentation but just virtually so here we go. Hello everyone we are Amy McMullen and Aileen Waterman workplace of managers in University College Cork. We want to share with you an overview of why we got involved with the professional development framework and our experience of it. We're very definite reasons why we decided to get involved. As placement managers we would have found it difficult to identify as teachers so we looked forward to the opportunity to reflect on and document what we have already achieved in the teaching and learning space. We wanted to validate our teaching skills this was possible through reflection and working through the five domains of the framework. We looked forward to learning new skills together especially IT skills using Google sites to create our websites and learning about other platforms that might improve or enhance our teaching for example Pautun and Padlet. We work a lot of the time as individuals so we looked forward to having an opportunity outside of our core work to collaborate with each other and with other colleagues. We got off to a bit of a rocky start. We had a lot of questions. Are we doing this right? Are we on the right track? Especially as we missed the introductory workshop with all these questions we decided the only thing to do was to call Angela. And problem solved. Angela came to the rescue. Her support was invaluable and whether through email or her visits to Cork her advice and help always reassured us. So what were the positives of being involved with the framework? Well it's flexibility. The domains could all be completed or you could engage with those that you felt most qualified or comfortable to work with. The framework offered us the welcome opportunity to reflect on positives and challenges we experience within the teaching and learning space which in turn encouraged us to think positively about our skills and encouraged us to seek out solutions to challenges. And finally the framework's domains, descriptions and prompts were extremely helpful in guiding us through the practical putting together of our Google sites. What did we feel we achieved from being involved with the framework? Certainly increased collaboration, sharing ideas and teaching techniques. Aileen and I even collaborated on a short article along the way. We increased in confidence using IT. For example we built our own websites, we created infographics and even this presentation is only possible because of our engagement with this framework. Overall we feel more confident identifying as teachers and an increased confidence in our teaching skills and abilities. We are delighted to be here to celebrate the framework with all of you today. Thank you for listening to the story of our PDF journey.


Right folks, we're about a minute or so after our start time, so I think we'll get going and this is being recorded and will therefore be available for others to view later as well. So my name is Doug Johnson-Pernskine, I'm the co-founder and chief exec of Circular. We've been members of Hyperledger since about 2017, contributing to a variety of the Hyperledger projects and our platform, which I'm going to tell you a little bit more about as we go through this uses Hyperledger fabric. What I'm intended to cover in the next sort of 25 minutes or so is an introduction to some of the problems that we solve, how we have implemented a platform to do it and to unpack a little bit some of those lessons from the front line of trying to deal with carbon emissions. So the title of this presentation is Tackling the Supply Chains Contribution to Global Carbon Emissions and what I want to, after giving a little bit of an introduction to who we are, I want to explain a bit about why that is a problem and something that is worthy of being solved or addressed and then get into a little bit more of how does it actually work. The reason you're seeing me like this and I'm not actually putting my PowerPoint into full screen is so that I can actually keep an eye on the chat and also the Q&A, which I can't do if I go into full screen mode. So if you want to ask questions, either pipe up in the chat or the Q&A and I'll try and either pick those up as I go along or, alternatively, turn to them at the end of this presentation. I've also put my contact details in chat if anybody wants to pick up with me offline after this. So just a brief introduction then to who circular are. We were formed in 2017, originally in the UK we now have officers in London, Dublin and Berlin just opening an office in Singapore and about to open one in the United States. About 40 people so far and we focus on complex industrial supply chains. The reason why complex industrial supply chains is there are some inherently critical challenges in those industrial supply chains where materials change between their origin and their consumption, which need tackling both from a responsible sourcing perspective but also from a carbon emissions perspective and that's what I'm going to be talking about today. There have been traceability applications for things like food for some time and also gemstones. But unlike a diamond, which is a diamond at a mine site and it's still a diamond will be cut and polished by the time it finds its way, for example, into a piece of jewelry. The challenge with the commodities that we deal with is that they change. So you dig out or from a mine site in say Australia and it will undergo smelting and refining and amalgamation without materials co-mingling as well with materials from other batches at various stages in the life cycle before that that material is incorporated within components that might find their way into a battery cell that go into a battery pack and go into an electric vehicle, for example. And so those multiple transformations are what make these supply chains far more complicated than say tracking a tuna steak or tracking a diamond. And that's the use case that we've given ourselves. We're venture funded. We've raised around 20 million dollars so far. And just to give you an idea of some of the people we work with, the customers shown on this slide have gone public with what we do or their downstream OEMs have talked about what we do with them. You'll see car manufacturers there like Volvo, Daimler, Polestar, you know, manufacturers of industrial vehicles like CNH, for example, mining companies like BHP and a whole variety of midstream participants in primarily the battery supply chain, but also hard to recycle plastics. You can see Total Energy as they're now called. They're just renaming themselves from Total, the oil company. There is both a customer and an investor at last. And you can see a selection of some of the investors that have investors. Many of our early customers also chose to invest. And we built our platform on top of the Oracle blockchain cloud service and also use some other components of Oracle, which is why you see Oracle on there. And I'll show you an example of the art of platform logical architecture as I go through this talk. So why am I focusing on this question of carbon emissions and supply chains? Here's a quote from from the United Nations high level climate action champion talking about the role of supply chains in global carbon emissions. I'm going to bring that to life a little bit for everybody in a second. But last year, of course, when we all went into lockdowns all around the world, global carbon emissions fell by about seven percent because we weren't travelling. And so many of the things that we as consumers do stopped, whether it's car travel or air travel or, you know, et cetera. However, your global supply chains still continue to operate, whether it is shipping, logistics or the processes that go into the manufacturer of goods that we ultimately consume. And so that's why dealing with the supply chain challenge is such a significant one. The start of this year, the World Economic Forum published a report about the supply chains contributions to global carbon emissions. They identified eight supply chains. And you can see them described on this or some of them described on this slide. They identified eight supply chains that between them account for about 50 percent of total global carbon emissions. And the reason for that is the enormous amount of energy that is invested in the production of various materials or that those materials just by their nature produce carbon in their manufacture and example is cement. The production of cement means, you know, that the the mind material goes to a refinery and the process of creating cement drives off CO2 in very, very large quantities. And of course, carbon capture is possible at those plants, but in many cases isn't yet being used. And I want to pick on two of these electronics and automotive, which are our principal target sectors at the moment. And the reason why total emissions are so high there is because obviously they're large consumers of materials like aluminium and steel, but also batteries. EV batteries, consumer electronics batteries, lithium ion batteries are massively energy intensive to to manufacture and and subsequently to recycle. And that's that means that at the point of which you or I might collect the keys to a new electric vehicle, the inherited carbon in that vehicle is enormous. And of course, it's offset by lower carbon emissions during the lifetime use of that vehicle. But the supply chain contributes about 70 percent of the total embedded carbon within that vehicle and the battery is half of it. So a very, very significant contribution. So what this means is that if car manufacturers are to achieve the net zero ambitions that they're now setting out and many, many car manufacturers have now started to go public and talk about a desire to be net zero by the late 2030s or about 2040, many of them will be net zero within their own manufacturing plants, probably by the middle of the by the middle of this decade. But it'll take them potentially another 15 years in order to get to a point where their supply chain has also managed to decarbonise its operations. The embedded carbon within the cars that we buy has come down to zero. One of the car manufacturers and you might have seen their logo on the slide I showed a couple of minutes ago. One of the car manufacturers on that slide was Polestar. Polestar is a spin out of Volvo cars. It's their performance EV manufacturing line. And they're currently on their second generation of cars. They're a direct competitor of Tesla, although perhaps not quite so well known. They've just set an audacious target to try and create a net zero car by 2030. So about 10 years ahead of other car manufacturers and have announced what they're doing with us in an attempt to try and get a better grip on the supply chain. Now, to decarbonise a supply chain, there are a number of challenges. First of all, you have to understand who is in your supply chain for your most polluting components. Secondly, you have to know what level of embedded carbon is coming through each supply chain, of course, and not linear. What level of embedded carbon is coming from each participant in the supply chain over time and use that knowledge in order to buy more sustainably so that, you know, procurement professionals, for example, in car manufacturers now need to be able to marry data about sustainability alongside price and quality, which has traditionally been what procurement professionals are focused on in order to try and use their buying power as a way of, you know, selecting the lower carbon reach through supply chains. And some, you know, some of our customers are starting to do this just now. And it's it's really that that I want to unpack a little bit more and explain for the benefit of this presentation. So our business is traceability. And in order, and I touched on this just now, traceability means understanding the flow of materials in a supply chain. Now, you know, there are already two approaches to doing this. One is to track the various bits of paperwork generated by a supply chain and use that as a proxy for creating a picture of the flow of materials, which participants of different tiers of the supply chain were involved over time. But that's not the same as giving a digital identity to a blob of commodity and following that commodity all the way through that network of suppliers, sometimes from tier seven, all the way through to the original equipment manufacturer, in this case, the car manufacturer, and then attributing a dynamic slice, if you like, of the embedded carbon, the scope one and two emissions from each participant over time, based on how much material from each of those participants in the supply chain aggregates up over time into the things that you buy month on month. And one of the things we already see is a significant monthly variation in embedded carbon, just for something like an EV battery. And that's because various midstream participants are buying from different, you know, different suppliers over time. Some are using a combination of renewable and non-renewable energy. And some of them are using no renewable energy at all and not also not offsetting their carbon emissions. And so you end up with this very fluctuating picture. The fundamental driver, of course, is you cannot manage something you cannot measure. So the first thing is you have to know who is in your supply chain over time. And you have to understand what contribution each of them makes to the things that you as the manufacturer consume, because then you can start to engage in a dialogue with your tier one suppliers and then with their tier one suppliers about how to select lower carbon routes through the supply chain. So what I'm going to do is unpack a little bit of how that works and start a little. I'm going to start with a brief discussion of how traceability works and why a blockchain plays a part in this. So I mentioned complex industrial supply chains and the challenge with complex industrial supply chains is the material changes on its journey from source to consumption.  It could be a 200 ton parcel of nickel from the mine site in Australia or a 30 kilo bag of cobalt or from an artisanal mine site in the Congo. But you have to be able to give a reliable identity to that blob of material. It depends how you do it. Of course, depends on the availability of technology in different locations. If you're talking about the toughest use case of all, which is an artisanal mine site in the Congo, there is no technology. You may have a mobile signal. You may not have a mobile signal. And so you need to be able to identify who the actors are, where you are. Reliably, you also need data on your working conditions, for example, at that mine site, possibly scope one and two emissions, if it's relevant at a particular mine site. And of course, a technology can't completely replace any form of physical due diligence. They work together. But the first point is the creation of that digital twin at the origin of the material, which could also, of course, be scrap, e-waste, for example, or scrap batteries. And then that material undergoes change on its journey. And at every one of those circle steps that you can see here, where it says trace materials, every one of those, which is refining or amalgamation of other materials, the input ingredients go through an industrial process, usually consuming a significant amount of energy. What comes out often has a completely different chemical composition or sort of it's a totally different material that comes out from that process, from the ingredients that went into it. So you have to be able to reliably connect input ingredients through a combination of process and mass balance and elapsed time and other logical tests to the output product of that process, doing it multiple times through the supply chain. I've already mentioned that there are many participants that each tier of the supply chain. And over time, a car manufacturer will have, perhaps, 30 or 40 different participants in its battery supply chain. And for each of those, we're looking to collect data about their Scope 1 and 2 emissions. And for those of you that are not experts in carbon tracking, Scope 1 emissions are your direct energy consumption, if you like, in the manufacture of your goods. Your Scope 2 emissions will be inputs from, for example, your wider workforce or logistics. And Scope 3 is everything that happens downstream and upstream of you.  And there are many, many different methodologies for the measurement of carbon emissions. And that's part of the challenge here because every car manufacturer will take a slightly different approach. Every tier one supplier will take a slightly different approach. So trying to make sure that everybody's talking about the same things consistently is one of the key challenges in this space. So just a little bit then on the architecture that makes this possible. You can see here that this is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We deliberately chose to build this on Oracle Cloud because we were creating, which is quite unusual for a startup, but we were looking to create an enterprise class application out of the box. And I didn't want to have to be trying to explain to customers why we had, why what we had built, it was secure and scalable. One of the reasons we picked Hyperledger Fabric as our blockchain as our blockchain layer was because I didn't want to have to explain why we had picked a particular blockchain technology. Hyperledger Fabric has been recognised for some time as pretty much the enterprise standard for a blockchain technology layer. I'm sure we can have a big argument about whether or not there are other better or different blockchain technologies, but it's still a reasonable assumption. And what you see here is the ability to combine blockchain alongside other technologies. So obviously, whether it is for the inputting of information, which can be done, I'll show you some screenshots in a second through a mobile app or through a desktop application. Or we also take data certainly from the midstream onwards directly over API from production management systems in large industrial plants. But also the ability to check data that is provided by supply chain, self reported by supply chain participants for for veracity, looking for anomalies in that data where potentially material is being introduced from unknown place. Or you're not able to make sense of the chain of custody information that's coming from the supply chain. And that's why you'll see in here a mention of traditional databases, machine learning, various analytics tools, as well as, of course, a blockchain. And it's the combination of all of these technologies together applied to a very specific use case that's allowed us to get to a point where we are working on three or five year contracts with all those car manufacturers that I mentioned earlier across a variety of commodities, but primarily in batteries. I can come back to this in questions if people have questions about how we've done it and what we do. So forgive me for this slide being quite busy.  But essentially what we're trying to do based on that flow of materials to a supply chain is attribute a slice of the scope one and two emissions from each participant in the supply chain based on the flow of materials. So at a tier two supplier, they might over tier two in the supply chain. There might be three, four, five, six different participants over time. Each will have a different scope one and two emission factors data. And so what we're taking is an attribute, an attributable slice of that based on who got involved in the supply of material in a given month and how that aggregates up over time. Because, you know, where you have lower months, the question then for the OEM is how do I replicate more of those lower months, essentially using buying smarter as a tool to drive greater sustainability. So although there's a lot here, the basic principle is how much stuff came from who over time and what are their skip one and two emissions and how do I therefore attribute a proportion of this to the material that I consume. Now, there's a world of complexity in here, because as I mentioned, there are different approaches to measuring scope on two emissions. And you want to be able to measure that consistently through a supply chain. But also, of course, some of this data is commercially confidential.  That's something that most companies will jealously guard. However, I need to know that what proportion of scope one and two emissions in a particular month, I attribute ultimately to a battery that goes into a Mercedes as opposed to a battery that goes into Volvo. And so we've we've developed a whole selection of privacy preserving technologies in order to allow the the input by a participant in the supply chain of some of that commercially sensitive information, what proportion of production in a given period in time is finding its way to a particular set of customers. But without that being disclosed further on down through the supply chain. There are zero knowledge proofs in here, but but actually a lot of it is done in other ways to preserve the privacy of that information so that, you know, a supplier in the supply chain is uploading information which is used to aid in a downstream calculation without that underlying data being directly disclosed. So what does that look like to a user? Well, I mentioned a mobile app. There's a couple of screenshots on the left hand side of this slide of our mobile app being used in the field for recording, you know, creating that first digital twin for commodity. That's the most difficult use case because, you know, if you're going to an industrial mine, for example, in Canada or Finland or Australia or places that we currently work, they already have quite sophisticated technology platforms that manage production and allow you to essentially draw data directly from those systems. It's where, you know, in the smaller scale and more artisanal end of the mining world and a significant proportion of some of these materials are artisanally produced that you need to be able to provide technologies that are very, very easy and intuitive to use in order to be able to reliably digitize that commodity. But if you then take that process that I talked about of the material undergoing its multiple transformations and the aggregation of this data over time, you end up and I've shown here four screenshots from the platform. The first talks about, you know, the flow of materials. You can see a Sanky chart there showing how different participants over time have been involved and how much material is flowing. And there's a whole variety of different ways of visualizing this data in order to understand who is in your supply chain. And by the way, you know, this level of transparency is not common across many supply chains, but increasingly in the battery supply chain, particularly driven by things like the European Battery Passport Project, you're starting to see a far greater level of transparency about who participants are that are involved. I've talked quite a lot about the attributable CO2 footprint. Those yellow bars, I know this is a very small image, but bottom left of that second circle, the one in the middle, you can see sort of those yellow bars, wildly different month on month. And that is largely due to uncontrolled buying behavior by the midstream within that supply chain. So a tier two supplier buying from different tier three suppliers, some, you know, with lower emissions than others. And that's and what this is doing is highlighting that for the downstream that has the net zero target. You can't manage something you can't measure. So the first point is understand why your carbon footprint is higher in some months than in others and start buying smarter. Obviously, when you know the participants within your supply chain, you can also collect other information from them such as, you know, the fair pay, gender balance, you know, the whole variety of ESG metrics, environmental, social and governance metrics, which are increasingly important to downstream brands in their own reporting of doing responsible business. So, you know, if you know who the actors are and you're collecting information from them, you can not only produce supply chain maps, but also help create heat maps to manage risk in your supply chain. And then finally, on the right hand side, obviously a whole suite of tools for being able to visualize and report data on this. All of this can be integrated into into core ERP platforms within within car manufacturers. And some of this data actually then forms the basis of a battery passport, which is, you know, something that is is coming in the European Union. And we think probably likely to to to come to the U.S. fairly soon as well under the Biden administration. But you can see, you know, this data actually has value in life and then into a second life, the provenance of the materials, the total embedded carbon footprint, which of course you will need to have for things like carbon border adjustment taxes. So that's, you know, that's how this is that this is working in practice in the field back to where we started. The the digitization of supply chains is in its relative infancy, although increasingly, I think, you know, we see our customers recognizing the importance of understanding who is in their supply chains and what contributions they make and the risks that therefore need to be managed by the downstream manufacturer. And also, you know, what is the supply chain's contribution to totally vetted carbon footprint and then seeking to engage the supply chain in a conversation about how to try and reduce it. And we are starting to see that flowing down into contracts that have been let tier one suppliers, both around the requirement for traceability, but also to work together on carbon emissions and those contractual obligations are what's starting to drive change through these supply chains. Clearly, it's early days, but the reason we wanted to share this presentation today was because this is, you know, some some good work being done by car manufacturers like Volvo and Polestar and Daimler on this, which actually deserves to be amplified because we as citizens of the earth or need carbon emissions to fall and supply chains contributions are very, very high. Thank you for your attention. We only had a relatively short period of time, but I'd be very happy to answer any questions. Very happy to answer any questions. I can see one from Ashie five minutes ago asking, is there a download link for the deck? What I will do is I will I will upload this and I will share it. Does anybody have any questions for me? I'm conscious that we only had a relatively short time window, but does anyone have any questions for me or anything that they'd like me to cover? I don't know if you can write. I've just got a question from Joachim in chat. What kind of machine learning approach are you using in your architecture? How is it integrated into your architecture and how the models are validated? How to detect suspect activities? Right? That's quite a rich question. So we're using machine learning in a number of different contexts. So first of all, imagine you're standing in a muddy puddle in a mine site in the Congo, we use facial recognition as a way of knowing the identity of the individual or knowing that the individuals involved in a transaction at the start are registered miners or registered employees. We're also using machine learning as a basis for anomaly detection. So, for example, where the chain of custody data that is provided by participants in the supply chain don't add up. So material being introduced from an unknown origin at various points in the supply chain is very common, co-mingling, etc. And we're looking for those anomalies because they might be risk factors about material coming in from other places. When it comes to when it comes to two calculations, we're also comparing third party data that is available, whether it's emissions factors data or, you know, imagery analysis, for example, from from particularly polluting sites where you can, for example, find fugitive emissions of methane gas, for example, in the oil and gas space and augmenting the self-reported data with that to essentially test the the degree to which you can trust the self-reported data by the supply chain participants themselves. I'm sorry, that's such a short answer to such a complex question, your thing, but by all means, ping me an email and I'd be happy to happy to help some more. What I'm doing is just putting in chat my email address, if you haven't already seen it, for anybody that wants to take a question offline. Any other questions from anybody? Well, I think we're pretty much out of time. So I'll stay in the room for a little bit longer if there are any questions. If not, I'm very grateful for all of your time. I appreciate you joining and I know recordings recordings will be available for people. And so thank you very much indeed for your attention. Much appreciated. Thank you. Bye bye.


Hello everyone, this is Alice Gao. In this video, I will discuss the forward-backward algorithm. Now that we understood forward recursion and backward recursion, let's put them together in the forward-backward algorithm. I'll explain the algorithm using a hidden Markov model having four time steps. The algorithm works for a hidden Markov model with any finite number of time steps. The purpose of the forward-backward algorithm is to calculate the smooth probability at each time step. For our model, we want to calculate these four probabilities. If we treat this model as a generic Bayesian network, we have to calculate each of the four probabilities separately. For example, by using the variable elimination algorithm. This approach is inefficient since there is no way for us to reuse any intermediate calculation results. For every probability, we have to start the process from scratch. The forward-backward algorithm allows us to calculate these probabilities more efficiently through two passes through the network. Let's take a look. We will first perform a forward pass using forward recursion. Start from time zero and go forward in time. At each time step k, calculate the message f sub zero to k and store the value. After the forward pass, we have four values from f sub zero zero to f sub zero three. Next, we will perform a backward pass using backward recursion. Start from the last time step time step three and go backward in time. At each time step k, we will calculate the message b sub k plus one to t minus one. Then, we can combine the stored message f and the message b to derive the smooth probability at each time step. That's everything on the forward-backward algorithm. Let me summarize. After watching this video, you should be able to describe how we can calculate the smooth probabilities efficiently using the forward-backward algorithm. Thank you very much for watching. I will see you in the next video. Bye for now.