recently Um What I heard in speaking to their representative was it was a much better attended meeting than most And very enthusiastically received. So they're very enthusiastic about the changes that metro is pursuing But the safety issue is very real for them So, uh, I support the action I am representing the whole downtown commission I'd like to suggest one change in the actions if you look at number two on your suggested actions For the motion is his direct staff to review the potential impacts of the plan on parking revenue With the downtown commission our interest is really more than just the revenue. It's how does it function? So, um, I hope and it's I have this in my comment here I hope you can change that to direct the staff to review the potential impacts of the plan On parking revenue and supply with the downtown commission And also provide regular updates on the overall functioning of the plan to the downtown commission downtown association And downtown management corporation. There are a lot of stakeholders in this They want it to succeed and I think for all of us So much work has gone into this Um, uh Eyes on the prize Thank you. Thank you very much miss matthews Good afternoon, sir Good afternoon council. My name is zenin lea crow. I'm a commissioner with the transportation public works commission And I did want to want to talk today a little bit about Part of our decision also some personal thoughts We took a very unprecedented step in rejecting The recommendation. I we haven't taken that step In as far as I'm aware in very recent memory of the transportation public works commission And that's because we had a lot of concerns But we see a lot of those concerns were really addressed And so we really appreciate the the dedication that went into especially the contra float bike lane On the river street extension and also the widening of the bus lane On front streets so that there's more space for cyclists to get around vehicles or for buses that'll be using that Lane and there's a real couple things though that are really important to be brought up because in that we are looking at Uh, anywhere between I think you remember from the presentation It was 25 to 32 buses per hour using this lane, which is an insane amount of people we are talking about Thousands of people per hour using this facilities. And so when we're talking about the additional When more part of the recommendation for transmission public works commission was the reevaluation of the 11 parking spots that are on front street on the south side And We know that those were preserved for the plan But I do really want to reiterate the point that was made earlier by our friends at smart that When we are thinking about the capacity and how many folks are using bus lanes versus how many people are using parking spots There's no comparison. It's really we are talking about thousands of people versus maybe 30 people using those 11 parking spots in the course of an hour And so when we think about the priorities of cyclists using the exact same lane as 32 buses per hour That is a really undue burden. I don't know about you guys, but when I bike and I get passed by a bus It's scary like they're massive And not having the protected infrastructure to separate that bike infrastructure from that bus infrastructure Especially when we're talking about 32 of them per hour on what perhaps is one of the most most traffic north south routes for anybody going Anywhere north of downtown anywhere south of downtown on a bike That was part of the concerns that we brought up and so really I do want to talk about the parking because we do have the front And river it's a coil garage that is frequently empty And we did make the recommendation at cpwc to look at adjusting those rates to make sure they were in line with the Rates of the parking that was being lost. But again prioritizing parking when we have 69 of our carpet emissions coming from Transportation is insane planning to me and it's also insane planning to me that we're prioritizing parking when we know that We are looking at how we're expanding the downtown We're looking at how we're changing the movement in flow of people and we know that we're going to be You know if things move forwards having a large expansion plan south of laurel And that's going to result in a huge amount of influx of folks into south of downtown That are going to need to be using front street as the main transit priority corridor of santa cruz And so I really want to implore everybody here to recognize that in terms of making these decisions about infrastructure and Making the decision two years from now when we decide whether to get rid of these buck planes Or rather to keep them and expand upon these facilities in a more permanent way That we consider that this is the direction that we need to be moving in and prioritizing parking over people isn't necessarily the right way Thank you. Well, thank you and while you're still here Thank you for your work on the commission and also thank you for Generally bringing a student voice oftentimes to our public policy discussions. Thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you Ms. Johnson, good afternoon Speaking of someone who needs to be thanked regularly for your good work. Good afternoon Thank you. Thank you, ma'am and councilman women and men for allowing me to be here this evening this afternoon Is it afternoon or is it evening? Thank you so much for the great presentation that you gave You know, I stand here before the council and and the mayor and and invite you to approve the recommendations that was presented before you Or as we all know this project is so so critical And the fact that the move is temporary and it's not going to be permanent I think we could be able to adjust to some of the shifts and changes that will take place And so I ask you to seriously consider Approving this project. Thank you Thank you You know, I said it rather lightly when you Approach the dais, but I do want to thank you for your work at the housing Santa Cruz county all the work that you do on affordable housing. Thank you very much for that He's so very welcome. We're a great leader on that Let me ask if there's anyone else with us this afternoon who would like or this evening who would like to make comment on this item Seeing here, none the matter is back before the council I'd be glad to recognize that council member for a motion Miss galtar johnson is recognized. Thank you I would like to move stack from recommendation with some changes So maybe it's best if I read it all at work, okay Adopt a resolution approving plans and specifications for the metro downtown transit interim operations plan Pursuant to government code section eight thirty point six Design immunity and authorizing removal of unlawfully parked vehicles when the plan is implemented I think this could go as one a Schedule implementation of the plan such that it will minimize impact on residents and businesses during the upcoming peak holiday season item two direct staff to review It says um miss matthews um shared with us. So i'm going to read her proposal Because i'm in alignment with that direction direct staff to Do you have it i'll read it direct staff to review the potential impacts of the plan on Parking revenue and supply with a downtown commission and also provide regular updates on the overall functioning of the plan to the downtown commission Downtown association and downtown management corporation. I did email it to you bonnie. I don't know if you got it No Okay, are we would you like me to read the rest of it? Number three four five and six are as staff have recommended with no changes Okay, and then I have a I think a number seven direct staff to explore and implement increased safety measures along river street And the adjacent river levy There's motion is her second. There's a second by Council member wattkins, uh, miss culantary. John c may open on your motion. Great. Thank you Um, you know as daniel said, this is all in in the bigger vision of creating a modern and responsive transit center I don't know if you guys have all been looking at the news our local news But our metro has been getting a lot of attention um in our community statewide nationally and um And it's been showing in the form of investments. We got a 38.5 million dollar grant and Um another 14 million dollar grant. I'm looking at michael. I don't have all the numbers off the top of my head but This is because nationally we're being recognized for the bigger picture And I've been saying this over and over again Metro is beyond moving people from point a to point b and that's that's uh apparent in this project It's about deep partnerships with cities like ours It's about affordable housing. It's about accessible equitable transit It's really about community well-being So I am really excited for our city to be A part of this bigger vision that metro is embarked on a key partner in this bigger vision And I just want to be mindful that There will be growing pains Transitions are hard. It'll be hard for all of us metro here at the city Thank you to the bus drivers. It'll be a change for all of you It'll be a change to our businesses. It'll be a change for our community members who go shop downtown So let's be patient with each other as we transition And let's get excited. Let's be patient, but let's get excited about what this is really contributing to This is bigger than moving the transit center. It's much bigger than that. So I'm excited So noted Councilmember Watkins, uh, thank you for your excitement and also for your work as our metro chair and Representative I know that you've spent a lot of time I too want to thank everybody who's here and also those who've just been part of this process as A former mayor and councilmember matthew said this is really a big this is a big deal And this has been a long time coming and it has required a lot of Input and compromise and it's so wonderful to see it Before us today in this way Absolutely agree with some of the amendments. I think that's really important Really want to be mindful of our downtown businesses and Making sure that this isn't going to really impede on their ability to have Just robust sales during the holiday season I know that's that's something that in the past has Was an oversight and we definitely don't want to repeat that So I really appreciate you bringing that addition I just have one question What was brought to my attention and it's completely anecdotal was that Sometimes ucsc students will buy parking passes to our downtown parking garages As a way to get around the restrictions on the campus and so I don't I only heard that I don't know But I do want to See if there's a way to verify that or understand that because This as brought up was we're losing parking for our residents. We're losing parking for our Visitors. We're encouraging Having our sustainable Public transit, but we also want to be mindful of potential Workarounds if that's something that might be happening. So I just that was brought to my attention I don't have any evidence to back it up But wanted to bring it up just as a potential thing to look into and then on a positive note I just want to also echo what councilmember countari johnson brought forward. This is truly also what health and all policies looks like in action This is affordable housing. This is walkable communities. This is sustainable design That's what this is and that is that connection to the broader initiative that this council and community has also taken To ensure that we're thinking of those things when we're making these types of decisions So I just wanted to highlight that as well. Thank you This matters before us and typically we would not go out Are you asking a question for clarification purposes that you would like an answer to I don't necessarily need to answer. I'm just bringing that up as something for us to think about as was brought to my attention Thank you councilmember Let me recognize councilmember Newsom for comments. Thank you, merkely. I just want to associate myself With my colleagues excitement for this plan This is I think will be really great for my district and for downtown And I just want to thank everyone who's worked on this plan Through the years and also thank my colleague councilmember countari johnson for her work as chair of the santa Cruz metro and all the work that she's done on this on this On this plan and I'm just really excited for 120 units of affordable housing and especially 32 units of extremely low housing and You know a brand new modern Metro center. I think that would be a great addition to her to our community. So thank you councilmember brown Thank you. Um, well, I'll send a blanket Thank you to all of the people who have been involved in this project from its Inception decades ago to the current moment. There's so many people I can see here in the room and others who have been so actively involved and committed to this But I want to Share as I say just give a special shout out to mr. Freeman. Thank you for being here And describing from from your perspective your your Expertise from that through that lens What this opera temporary operations plan will do? To make to address the public safety issues that have been raised here You know, I just really appreciate hearing from you It it made it more clear to me how The the challenging period that is ahead of us is is gonna work and that it is gonna work, right? And I also want to thank mr. Tree your your leadership at the metro. I think has really Given us like a lot of of energy of impetus to move forward and support In the form of resources resources from the state and elsewhere The grants and and I just want to appreciate your work to get this moving when one of the first Conversations I had when I first was elected to city council with our then city manager was about this project And all of the concerns that were up around, you know, kind of inter-jurisdictional challenges Uh Funding challenges, etc. And it it felt very shaky and so to see this happening now Just just a few years later. It's been a while, but not that long Is is really really heartening. So I want to thank you as well I um couldn't let the opportunity pass. It looks like maybe Once and always council member matthews is no longer here. Um, oh she is there. There you are I want to commend you. You I mean you've really been committed to this and and seeing it through in this way It's great to for you to be here and your Your ability your enduring ability to craft motions is noted. Thank you for the addition And again just really thrilled to to see this happen and look forward to this project For the questions comments seen here none I would the the only addition I would make is to recognize miss bousis who is the director of real estate development for Eaton housing and and thank you and your organization We literally not figuratively literally could not do these things without you Please pass out on to your staff our our thanks and appreciation Seen here in no further debate the clerk will call the roll Councilmember newson. Hi brown I Whatkins I Brunner is disqualified Calentary johnson. Hi vice mayor golder. Hi, mary keely. Hi Passes and so ordered Miss city attorney for the business Madam city clerk for the business motion to adjourn will be in order the vice mayor moves reluctantly Newsome seconds To adjourn it's not debatable those in favor signify by saying I oppose motion carries and supported. We stand adjourned


Today on Spirit Church I want to talk to you about gaining and keeping a passion and love for God. Stephen Moctezuma is here with me as usual. He's gonna lead you in some worship and we're gonna get into this lesson and I believe that you can live a Christian life where you never know burnout, where you never know apathy, and where you never lose that passionate love for Jesus. When I first became a believer I experienced many wonderful things with the Holy Spirit but there were also some areas where I needed to grow. One of those areas I needed to grow in was my understanding of my salvation and my understanding of my relationship with God as it pertained to my actions. Many people believe in a works-based salvation and many people believe in a liberal grace, a sloppy grace as some would call it. And so I want to talk to you today about the two extremes of living your Christianity and the one place you can find a balance in all things and a Christianity that never knows burnout, apathy, that is always filled with a passionate, fiery love for Christ.  You'll never know what it is to backslide. I don't believe that backsliding is a phase that Christians must find. We talk about the backsliding phase as if it's something every believer must experience at one point in his or her walk with Christ. But this is not the case. In fact, when God calls us to follow him, he calls us to a wholehearted commitment to follow him with all that we are from that moment until the moment we go home to be with him. And I want to get into the scripture in a moment, but first I want to talk to you about the two extremes. There are two extremes called liberalism and legalism. Now liberalism is something that we see portrayed in the lives of those who believe in things like inclusion, where they don't believe there is any actual eternal consequence for sin that everyone ultimately ends up in heaven. These people believe that you can live however you want to live in that no matter how you live, there will be no consequences again in eternity. And this is not the case. In fact, if someone is truly a spirit-filled believer, they're going to walk in holiness. They're going to walk in righteousness. Grace is not an excuse. Grace is not a license, as the cliche says, to sin. Grace is the power of God coming upon a life that gives that individual the power to gracefully resist the lure and seduction of sin. And so I'm not one who sides with those who believe in liberal Christianity. On the other extreme, we find those who also don't understand how salvation comes about. And this is that group who believes in what I call legalism. It is a works-based mentality. Now I do believe that as a believer, I am to portray and exemplify the fruit of the Holy Spirit, but I also am not a slave to works-based Christianity. My performance did not save me and my performance cannot keep me saved. When I talk about the righteousness of God, when I talk about the holiness that's empowered by the Holy Spirit, I'm not talking about working for salvation. Salvation is not produced by good works, but good works are produced by genuine salvation. That's a distinction that many people have trouble making. And in fact, whenever I say that, people accuse me of being someone who's a works-based believer, but that's not the case at all. So in my early Christianity, I found this oscillation between two extremes, liberalism and legalism. In liberalism, I had no power. In legalism, I had no peace. And so I would go back and forth between the two, and I would find seasons of my life where I would lean toward a works-based Christianity, and then other seasons of my life where I would lean toward this liberalism. And I said, Lord, I don't ever want to come to a place where I'm so comfortable with where I am that I lose complete fear and reverence of you. And I also don't want to be in a place where I'm bound by fear, where I'm living out a life that is tormented and lacks peace and clarity. I want to find that place where my passion, where my love can be genuine. And this is what the key is. It is not found in legalism. It is not found in liberalism. The answer the truth rests in love. You see, legalism is motivated by fear. Liberalism is motivated by apathy. But love is motivated by selflessness. Legalism brings about works based on slavery. Liberalism brings about unholiness based on apathy. But love brings about production and kingdom expansion by love and service. That love reciprocates. When I give my love to God, he gives it right back to me. And the scripture says in Romans chapter five verse five that the love of God is shed abroad through our hearts by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit works in us to produce, to create, to cultivate, to fan into flame a love for God. You don't have to know burnout. You don't have to know apathy. You don't have to lose your passion for Christ. You don't have to backslide. You may be in a season right now where the circumstances of this life are beginning to press against you. Where the pressures and responsibilities of all that you have to do put you to the task of overthinking that causes fear. You may be in a season right now where you've been serving the Lord and working in ministry and trying for so long to see results that everything within you feels like quitting.  I'm here to tell you today that you don't have to live in that apathy. You don't have to lose that passion. Here's the key and the key scripture here today. Luke chapter 10 beginning at verse number 38. The scripture says this and this is a wonderful story here. Luke chapter 10 verse 38. As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. Her sister Mary sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he taught. But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tower to come and help me. Verse 41, but the Lord said to her, Dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details. There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it and it will not be taken away from her. This is a powerful story. Jesus visits the home of Martha and Martha, the scripture says, is busied with service and trying to make preparations for the Master. Now, I have to be honest with you, if Jesus were to come into physical form into my home, I too would probably be busied with trying to make it the perfect evening. But Martha was so busy, so distracted, so caught up in trying to make everything work out that she missed something that Mary found.  How judgmental we become when we fall out of that faith, that love for Christ. When you fall out of that love, when you become distracted by the cares of this world and even by the cares of ministry, because I'll say this, the greatest idol in the church world today is none other but ministry. Ministry is the greatest idol in the church world today, not that it is evil unto itself. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that all too often we measure how we're doing in our relationship with Christ by how we're doing in ministry. Ministry is not an indication of how your relationship with God is going. Favor results, yes. Power results, yes, out of a love for God. But ministry itself cannot be the standard by which we measure our relationship and love for Christ. It has to be, it must be, personal obedience, personal holiness, personal righteousness, and personal devotion toward Christ. And so Martha, who misses the point, who becomes so distracted by work that she misses her fellowship with Christ, she begins to become angry at Mary. She begins to judge others. And so Jesus corrects this. He says, you're worried about so many things, but there's only one thing worth being worried about or being concerned about. Or that deserves your focus. He says, Mary has found it and it will not be taken away from her. The scripture talks about this all throughout the Bible. This love for Christ, this love for Jesus. In fact, when asked what the greatest command says, go to Matthew chapter 22 verse 34. But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again. One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question. Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?  This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important. Love your neighbor as yourself. The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commands. You know, being in ministry, I've had people come up to me and they talk to me as if I'm living out the ideal situation that they themselves want to live. And people who are on the outside looking in, they see the television broadcast. They see me standing on platforms. They see miracles. They see the books and they see the stuff online. And all of that is great and God is using that and I'm thankful for the ministry God has given me. But can I be honest with you? When I'm traveling, most of the time it's by myself. And when I leave that service and I leave the crowd, sometimes it may be a few dozens, sometimes it may be a few thousands, sometimes it may only be a few hundred.  There's only one thing that matters and that's the presence of the Holy Spirit. That's my love for Christ. You strip it all the way and what do I have? If not that love for Christ. The Holy Spirit, the scripture says as I told you earlier, sheds the love of God abroad in our hearts. He cultivates that love to greater measures. He fans the flame. The Holy Spirit gives us all that we need to live the Christian life. Jesus said all of these commands hinge upon, hang upon are fulfilled within that first love. If the greatest commandment is to love God with all that we are, then what for the believer is the greatest sin? It's to love them any less and the Holy Spirit takes that love that we receive from Christ and that faith that we receive from Christ and he stirs our passions and he causes us to become so focused on Jesus, so in love with his person that the intensification and the vivifying of the countenance of Christ takes precedence over all that we see or experience. The person of Jesus becomes alive and real and vivid and we begin to fall in love with that image and when we focus on that image, when we pray to that image, when we love that image, when we worship that image, when we adore that image, we become like him. You know you talk about legalism, you talk about liberalism. I don't want to lose my love for Jesus because is what causes it all. Every great ministry, every true ministry is birthed out of a passionate love for Jesus. What do you think it was that drove the martyrs to give their lives and spill their blood for the gospel? What do you think it was that caused the gospel message to spread rapidly from the very place where Christ was crucified? What do you think it was that caused people to boldly stand and proclaim the truth in the face of the threat of persecution and death? It wasn't emotion, it wasn't blessing, it was the person of Jesus. It was the image of Christ and when we fix ourselves upon that love and when we give all that we are for that love it grows within us and the Holy Spirit helps to bring it about. And then all of a sudden holiness is not about being afraid and trembling that we might be punished because God is angry. No, holiness becomes not wanting to grieve the Holy Spirit of God. Holiness becomes about our love for him, that we love him so much that we wouldn't want to do anything that would hurt him, that we wouldn't want to do anything that would break his heart. Ministry is not about status or success or self, you know, praise. Ministry becomes about Jesus or spiritual growth becomes about Jesus. I don't read the Bible so that I can get up here and preach a great lesson. I read the Bible so I can get to know Jesus. And then all of these things, your character, your worship, the power of God upon your life, all of those things fall into place. Is it that simple? Yes, all truly spiritual depths are found through simplicity. Complexity is not spirituality and Jesus simplifies this for us. Instead of chasing devotion or chasing ministry and you should do those things, we choose rather to chase Jesus. And when we grab hold of him, the substance and the person of Christ, we become transformed in his presence. Something begins to stir, something begins to change. And a genuine overflow, a genuine expression of that love becomes everything that we're supposed to do. All of our spiritual duties are empowered and fulfilled when we simply love Jesus. You want to know how to never know burnout, you want to know how to keep a passion for Christ.  I want to pray with you now and let's believe that God is going to touch you and he's going to do something new in your life. I really do believe that the Holy Spirit right now because I truly believe it's not an accident that you're watching. The Holy Spirit right now is going to cause that love to be cultivated to greater measures. So let's pray, let's believe, and God's going to touch you right now. Come on, stretch your hands toward mine. Father in the name of Jesus, Lord I pray that your Holy Spirit's presence would abide with us. I thank you Father you've given us the Holy Spirit to cultivate our love for Jesus to greater measures. Lord help this one watching to recognize that there's only one thing needed that is a love for you. Holy Spirit, intensify and vivify the wonderful Savior. Let us see Jesus. Let us see our precious Lord with clarity and detail. Holy Spirit make Jesus real to that one watching right now and I pray this be done Father and that you would fan into flame the fire of the Holy Spirit within the heart mind and soul of that one watching. I give you honor, I give you glory and we thank you that it is done in the name of Jesus and I want you to say it like you believe it. That's right. Amen. Well I want to now transition. I really felt the anointing on that one but I want to transition now to welcome the new members of the Spirit Church family. There you are up on the screen as I always say because I always mean it. We love you. We are praying for you. Get in touch with us. Let us know how you're loving the program and we welcome you. We thank God that you're part of our community. We thank God that we have more brothers and sisters joining us who are willing to gather together in spirit and collectively help spread the Gospel all around the world. 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Here's a comment on three keys to clearly hearing God and this is from Francis Mendoza I love you David you're anointed thank you for letting the Lord use you to help the church I could fill the Lord's power right through my phone thank you Jesus well you know Francis we often get comments from those who are watching from all over the world and they are filling the presence and power of the Holy Spirit just by watching these videos in fact we've had people give their lives to Christ get filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and receive healing just by watching these clips so we're glad that you did and in even some people who wrote to us they said I've never felt the presence of God through a YouTube video I've never been healed while watching something on media and that's what's happening it's exactly what's happening with many of our YouTube viewers so you're not alone in experiencing that thank you for watching here's another comment from Amabel Alviado thank you brother David that was very encouraging you said these words just at the right time all glory and praise to our almighty Father God bless you your ministry and the people behind the camera well we couldn't do it without the people behind the camera so we thank God for them also on the reign of heaven happy family rights hi brother David and Tim lay nice to meet you both praise the Lord that me and my friend can meet David at the church in north Carolina well actually I remember meeting you and if you're watching this I want you to know that we do events all over the United States and all over the world so to keep up with the events go to davidhernandezministries.com slash events we update that every single time we add an event as soon as we solidify the booking we put that on the calendar so that link right there is constantly being updated and you can go there see when I'm going to be in your area I would love to meet you too and it was nice meeting you happy family there in north carolina so here's a comment on the video how to pray in tongues king warrior writes hello david such a good explanation and presentation it is good to keep it simple I pray in tongues a lot I want to encourage the younger christians as you said not to be ashamed I sing and praise in tongues and this leads to extended worship God loves praise and worship bless you here's a comment on the video how to pray in the spirit susan you writes after receiving the holy spirit and speaking in tongues the pain I was having in my shoulder was gone I didn't even ask praise the most high and our messiah shalom well shalom to you too Suzanne and I'm glad that you had such an experience while watching encounter tv that's it for the comments now if you have a comment here go ahead and leave them in the comment section below we're more likely to read your comment if you post it on the most recent spirit church and now I need to transition don't turn off the clip just yet I need to talk to you for a second about 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This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you listening right now thanks to all of you including Norm Physicus, Chris Allen, Justin Pruitt, and our brand new patron, Jay. Coming up on DTNS, stop saying autonomous cars are dead, they're just resting. Plus, did MetaPanic announce a new Quest VR headset? And BReal enters the chat. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, June 1st, 2023 in Greenville, Illinois at the Smart Center. I'm John Merritt. From the loveliest Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Richard Rapaleno. And from Deep in the Heart of Texas, I'm Justin Robert Young. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. California. Am I right, Roger? I know the temperatures are so mild. West Coasters. Yeah. You're not wrong. It's like really nice in California right now and it's super hot out here. All right, let's start with the quick hits. AMC Theatres makes money off tickets and concessions, but as folks started to go theaters less, it started its own streaming video service. They called it AMC Theatres on Demand. Wanted to fill a little of that revenue gap. Well, Fandango, separate company, makes its money off selling tickets for theaters. But similarly, for seeing a gap years ago, bought a video streaming service and then later bought Voodoo and merged them together. So the consolidation continues. AMC Theatres on Demand is being replaced by Fandango's Voodoo, which will still be owned by Fandango, but become the official streaming destination for AMC Theatres patrons. Users of AMC Theatres on Demand have until August 31st to transfer their movie collection over to Voodoo. Well, back in April, Reddit announced it would start charging for API access. It had been offering free API requests before then. According to Christian Selig, the developer of the popular independent Reddit reading app Apollo, Reddit plans to charge $12,000 per 50 million API requests. So based on Apollo's current usage, that would cost them about $1.7 million per month. By comparison, Twitter does charge $30,000 for the same number of requests. Under Reddit's new API pricing, it should be noted bots and academic researchers are not charged. That feature to send out just a newsletter or automatically send blog posts through the email. All newsletter features are available to any WordPress.com blog, even the free ones, but paid plans will have lower transaction fees on newsletter subscriptions, including 0% on the commerce tier. Security company Eclipseum says it's discovered that the firmware for up to 271 gigabyte motherboard models don't properly secure automatic firmware updates. This could let malware hijack the firmware's built-in update installer and effectively make it a backdoor. The up-to-date utility isn't malicious in itself, but Eclipseum says gigabytes of firmware did not properly authenticate code or even consistently use encrypted HTTPS connections over regular old HTTP, making it vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Eclipseum recommends disabling the app center download and install option in the firmware, blocking as well as blocking the three sites, the uploader contacts and implementing a BIOS level password. Eclipseum passes on to Gigabyte and they are working on a fix. And Motorola officially announced its new Razer foldable phone, the Razer Plus, launched on June 23rd for $999, a 3.6 inch 144 Hertz OLED screen on the front. So when it's closed, that's about twice the size of the one on the Galaxy. You can run full apps on that closed screen, has a usable keyboard, the entire foldable phone uses a Qualcomm 2022 flagship system on a chip, does not leave a gap when it's closed, and is IP 52 water and dust repellent. There's also the standard Razer offering, which is a smaller 1.5 inch screen when closed. That one will use a mid-range Qualcomm SOC, no word on the pricing of release date for that yet. All right, let's talk about this new Quest headset. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Instagram today, today being Thursday, that a Quest 3 VR headset will come out this autumn. A 128 Gigabyte version will cost you 500 bucks. There will be an option with more storage space, didn't give any price on that one though. Zuckerberg said the Quest 3 will be 40% lighter than the Quest 2, run on a newer Snapdragon chip, which seems obvious, but he promised it'll have twice the performance, graphics wise. Your old Quest 2 games will also run on the Quest 3, we got backwards compatibility, and the Quest 2 will remain available. They'll just cut the price, and performance boost will come from a firmware update. Meta will share more details at the Connect event, and you say, oh, well, they're announcing it June, when's the Connect event? September, September 27th. But if you want, you can sign up for more info at meta.com slash Quest. A surprise announcement on Instagram just a few days before Apple's WWDC, where Apple is expected to announce their own mixed reality headset. Justin, what could it mean? That Meta lost the plot when it came to VR and mixed reality. This was the pivot that was supposed to redefine their company, and every move that they have made since then has not landed. They wanted to make these headsets a fleet product for businesses. Not a thing. They have not really advanced the line of the Quest as a mainstream gaming platform that it was certainly on the path for before they decided to make it the entire focus of their company. And let's not even get into the metaverse, how much that looks like an absolutely propped up system. The fact that they're rushing out a half an announcement to an announcement that will eventually be fulfilled toward the end of the summer is kind of desperate. Yeah, and it's interesting that this comes after they already gave a hands-on to Apple Boo Mark Gurman. Very notably, the biggest Apple reporter out there gets a hands-on with the MetaQuest 3, I don't know, like a week ago, and had pretty glowing reviews with the pass-through video and stuff like that. And either that didn't get the reaction that they wanted, or Meta got some information on pricing for what Apple is going to be announcing or something like that to feel like they had to come out and come out with something concrete and something to fill up the news cycle ahead of WWDC. But yeah, Justin, the fact that this kind of came along with their VR gaming showcase that was happening today, too, very much feels like, hey, we're focusing this on a gaming device, an area, a word of the metaverse, at least in this announcement. They showed people gaming in the preview video on that, and that definitely was the focus. Back in March, the estimate was they'd sold 20 million quests all told. Probably the majority of those are Quest 2s, I'd guess at least half, probably more than half. I'll push back a little on the Quest Pro being not fulfilling its purpose. I don't really know what the enterprise sales of it are, and what kind of long-term service agreements they get. A lot of times, when you look at enterprise stuff and think it isn't succeeding because we don't hear a lot about it, but maybe that's doing fine. Nevertheless, it is wreaking of desperation for meta to come out the Thursday before a Monday announcement on Instagram to say $500 in case you were wondering. Does that mean, Justin, we get in the world realm of wild speculation, but does that mean that meta figured out the price that Apple's going to sell its mixed reality headset? Or did they just say, you know, it's going to be a little more than a $500? Let's get that price out there. One of the most long-running Justin Tom back and forths is the idea that I believe failed consumer products say that they're pivoting to enterprise, so they don't have to report earnings and have any kind of footprint. And you seem to buy that, I seem to be skeptical. That being said, the plan for that headset was to be enterprise, and we have not seen a ton of them, and we've seen a lot of the reviews for them be lackluster. And I don't think that that is something that is conducive to getting the kind of sales that they want. As for the price anchoring, almost assuredly, they probably know what this is going to be priced at. One of the games that Apple has long played in the press, and this is going back decades, is they usually leak a price that is way higher than what they're going to actually put it out at. I remember early iPhone articles being like, well, it's going to be a $2,000 phone, which is $1,000 for a phone. No, it was going to be less than that. And so that was the plan that they had from the very beginning. This might be a weaponized opposite version of that. Let's anchor a price that is lower than what we know they're going to go at. Yeah, and I would be shocked if Apple's mixed reality set were $500. That just that seems hard for them to do because even the believable leaks were that Apple was trying to figure out how to get the bill of sale down to and decide whether it should be a loss leader or not. I guess they could, they're Apple, they've got enough cash, they could decide to make it a super loss leader for a while, but I don't expect them to do that. Five hundred, five hundred is Apple watch. Yeah. Yeah, they would not, Meta would not like be this forward with basically just the price and okay, it's lighter and more comfortable. That was like the only other thing we didn't get specifics on a chip inside of there. We got some performance figures, but the idea that they're leading with price, right? They want to the first post about the Apple headset to be it costs four to six, you know, meta-quests and stuff like that. So I don't think that is a coincidence to me that signals that's, I mean, that's obviously their play. Hey, it's cheaper than a PSVR too. It's going to be factors cheaper than, you know, an Apple headset. And we have this catalog of games that we've built up at the Quest two that's highly successful that great. Look, hey, look, they're going to look really awesome on this new headset.  No, you don't need to remove. Yeah. If anyone out there is wondering about this, you don't go on Instagram with the CEO of the company to announce pretty much nothing but the price. They're like, Oh, it's going to be lighter. What a shock. It'll use a different chip. You know, yeah, that's exactly right. All I will add is that if you are an enterprise user of the Quest Pro, feedback at DailyTechViewShow.com love to hear your stories. And if you're not, please send one in too. We'll see who gets one. All right. Well, the social imaging sharing site Be Real has been expanding its functionality. Its latest test is called Real Chat. They're on brand with this naming convention, a chat feature available to users in Ireland right now. This lets users send messages, images and reactions to friends in private whenever they want. You don't have to wait for the, you know, for the Be Real usual two minute window of authenticity. You can just send messages to your heart's content. This is the latest new functionality added to the app to try and grow engagement. It added a real people feature of curate users last month added the ability to show what you're listening to from Spotify or Apple Music. When you're posting your authentic Be Real moments and also rolled up bonus Be Real posts for users that post when they're prompted, you get two extra ones to post. So Justin, lots of new features from Be Real messaging, kind of a big feature. They said customers wanted it, feel like part of a plan for Be Real or just throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks at this point. I think that it's actually just a smart move no matter what. I'm not privy to the growth or stagnation of Be Real, but we do know that it is a class of app that came in for a post Snapchat generation of users, largely aided by the pandemic where they were forced apart, that they could have some element of authenticity and put them in some version of something that's not as important as Instagram, but not as work intensive as creating a Snapchat profile. That being said, if you want to ingratiate yourself within the social fabric of your user base, a chat system is mandatory. It is equally as smart to me as a decision if everything was going great as it is if everything is not as great as you would like it to be and you would indeed want there to be another reason to have people open your app. Yeah, we knew that Be Real's concept of like in the moment real pictures was not going to be enough to continue to grow the audience. We always knew, okay, they're going to come up with something else. This isn't a bad one to say like, hey, those of you using this every day, here's a way to talk to each other more. That gets you to use the app more. It's something people like they did it in Ireland. I guess they think they're chatty in Ireland. They launch all their tests in Ireland. I don't know what they're doing. Now we know the server load for what's the craic being. What's the craic? Yeah. So this all tracks. The second question I've had about Be Real beyond engagement has been, how are you going to make money off this? We still see no clue on that because they're not going to start charging people for chat. So it doesn't answer that, but it does say, okay, this is their first step towards trying to keep people on the app more. Chat opens up some monetization options. You could do the classic sticker pack that's fallen out of fashion, but you could build a there. It's easier to build in services in a way that don't feel obtrusive into chat than they would if they were in your main feed. In a lot of ways, I see them coming almost like trying to do a reverse Snapchat where Snapchat takes off in a lot of ways because it's this disappearing chat app that feels like you can just have one-off conversations. They don't follow you. You don't have to worry about managing them. This kind of feels like, okay, we have this visual aspect of it. Now let's graft on this chat. Hey, this is what the kid's like, but it also feels like a worse version of that because they don't disappear unless you both delete the messages. There's no word about, oh, are these encrypted? Like any kind of security? It just seems, if I'm looking for a secure ephemeral chat, like that's the drawback. And I don't think they're trying to sell it. Rich, you are way overthinking this. This is a standard feature for any kind of social media app in the modern era. I will say which is right. If they wanted it to stand out, they would have launched within an encryption and put a privacy feature on it. Yeah, but that's not their audience. Their audience does not care about that. What I will say is I enjoy using Be Real and I treat it like a little baby bird of a social network that I don't find annoying. And I feel it trying to fly away for me at this point with these, you know, each new feature is this baby bird growing up and it's starting to get little talents and it's clawing up my hand and it's trying to, it's trying to be its own thing. And I just want it to be this non-annoying thing that's very subtle. Are you talking about your kids or Be Real? There are many metaphors that I'm mixing here. However, Be Real, please don't be annoying. I chat feels like of all of their new features. Honestly, this one feels like it has the most utility. I can comment on someone's thing and it doesn't have to be public with all of their friends, even if that is a very curated list. I do enjoy that. I enjoy that that feels very organic to how I want to use Be Real. That being said, I just like, if you're going to do this, we are in a saturated messaging marketplace. I would like it to be a little bit more focused if your whole thing is your ephemeral pose. You're focused on that. You're thinking about it the wrong way. The point isn't that it differentiates itself as the place to talk. It's that you can talk. Your goal is to just get you to open it more than the one time when they give you the two minutes. The community that you create on Be Real is something for which you are able to interact with your friends there. If you created a community, you can now interact with them more. It does not have to differentiate itself in terms of the chat marketplace itself. That being said, Rich, I can only imagine how upset you were when the band you first saw in the club got a record deal. They sold out. I can't believe it. Yeah. No, that tracks. How dare they make a living? Well, folks, we're not on Be Real. Maybe we should be. I don't know. But we are other places on social media. If you'd like to get in touch with the DTNS folks here, go to DTNS Show on Twitter and Mastodon. That's DTNS SHOW. Mastodon server is MSTDN.Social if you need that. And we're Daily Tech News Show on TikTok and DTNS PIX, DTNS PIX on Instagram. For a while now, self-driving cars, autonomous car predictions, were kind of like free beer signs. It was always tomorrow. We'll have them tomorrow, we swear. We'd hear predictions that by a given year, we'd have autonomous vehicles. 2016, we heard Ford and Lyft say it was going to happen in 2021. It didn't. Since then, we've seen ride-hailing services shut down their autonomous divisions.  But Timothy B. Lee of Ars Technica recently published a post arguing that this, quote, death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated. He points to the slow but significant development of Alphabet's Waymo and GM's cruise services, both of which now offer driverless commercial services. Both companies are still making rosy growth predictions, but Lee argues that these are now informed by real-world knowledge, rather than assumptions of where driverless tech would be. So, have years of crying driverless wolf made us overly cautious to any self-driving promises? Tom? It's like podcasting, right? It's going to replace everything. Oh, it's dead. Oh, wait, it's going to replace everything. Oh, it's dead. I see that cycle happening with autonomous cars. I always felt that it was overblown in its earliest days, and then a lot of folks in our audience are like, it'll never happen, people were saying. It's going to be 40 years, and I'm like, well, that seems a little too long. So, I have enjoyed following the progress, but the progress has slowed over the last several years, and it does feel, and I think Timothy B. Lee has noted this very well and is Ars Technica piece, it is starting to accelerate again. Pardon the metaphor. We are starting to see the expansion in Phoenix of Waymo's service. We see a good chance that crews might in fact be able to get 6,000 vehicles on the road by 2025. These are starting to feel like achievable goals now because of the progress we're seeing. It's slower than the biggest optimist we're saying at the beginning, but it's actually better than the biggest pessimist we're saying. The thing that stands out to me is this idea, back in 2016, I feel like especially when you're talking about maybe the more tech platform company, you're talking about Uber and Lyft making these grand proclamations about self-driving, it's like the realization that there's no Moore's law for making an autonomous car. They saw the tech platform going forward, like, hey, we can scan our lighter so much faster, we can process this much data so then we can get to this place. One, there's not an agreement about what technology even is the best for these types of systems. Two, to Lee's point here, having miles on the road really matters. I think Waymo has learned this very astutely in their stuff. There are so many variables and simulations and real-world testing that you have to do that just doesn't scale because you have a faster processor or something like that. Yes, you have a system that can control the car, that can scan however many meters ahead or something like that, but I'm walking into puns right here. The rubber has to make the road, I'm sorry. Yeah, no, go for it. Just steer into those puns. The problem is that this is not simply an engineering challenge, and everybody keeps looking at it like it's an engineering challenge and that Moore's law is what we need to do, but it's not. It's just as much winning hearts and minds of humans that are going to be staffing governments that have to decide whether or not driverless vehicles are on the road, and for every one person that gets injured, hurt, or god forbid killed by a vehicle that does not have human hands at the wheel, regardless how illogical it might sound to those who just want to look at this like a spreadsheet, it will set this back, not only in the monetary sense of the companies that are funding them, but also as far as it can progress. I do believe that a lot of this is media narrative. Yes, there are engineering problems. Yes, they might be solved by the AI revolution that we are seeing right now because that is a great pathway to solving a lot of problems that might be very, very imperceptible to the human brain because you can throw that amount of computing power at it, but the idea that it was going gangbusters and then slowing down it, how it might be growing again. I think that when we look back in history, it will look like a far more steady incline than our perspective is on it, watching it from the 24-hour news cycle.  That's when Waymo had bought 62,000 mini vans and all that. And sadly what happened in 2018 was an Uber autonomous car because of a failed safety driver struck and killed a person. And all of a sudden you see the progress slow because all of these companies focused on safety. And I hate to put it like this, but this will happen again. We are seeing them pick up the pace now because they finally feel like we can move on from safety, not because we've cracked it, but because we've done all we can on safety and we need to move into a different kind of service in order to progress. And they're going to do that. And there's going to be another incident and it's going to slow things back down again. That's just the way this has to work. And auto fatality will happen. Exactly. In five seconds, in five seconds, by a human. From now, statistically, auto fatality will happen in America. And the idea of bringing self-driving cars, which could be safer than human drivers, unfortunately, will likely still include an auto fatality at some point. How the people process it and how it affects the business case going forward, that's the question. Yeah, and we've seen one example of that. It slowed things down and refocused on safety. It's probably going to be something like that in the future. It reminds me, Tom, a lot about your discussions about where we are with AI. We're at that plateau that we've gone through that giant advancement of like, oh my gosh, we have autonomous cruise controller or all these different driver assistance systems. We're at that plateau in part because unlike AI, these, to your point, have to interface with real world infrastructure that's been around for decades. That they are engineering around that in a way that AI doesn't necessarily have to deal with. So I think that's an interesting parallel. Also, if you're a Tesla fan wondering why we're not talking about Tesla, read Timothy B. Lee's piece. He has a great ending piece about the difference between what Tesla is doing and what Waymo and Cruise are doing. They're trying to achieve different things and they're both doing them well, but they're just aiming at different parts of the problem. All right, well, Tom, Justin, do you like tennis? Yeah, I can go for tennis, tennis school. Would you like tennis legend Roger Federer to be the voice of your directions and the Waze Navigation app? Now, that's a separate question. Why not? Because if you speak French, English or German, we have got good news for your Roger Federer has become the first celebrity Waze voice to give directions in three languages. Justin, are you excited to have some Roger Federer in German telling you to make a left? No, but I want to take this into a totally separate direction. I love the fact that Google is spending money on Waze and they're still trying to keep Waze special. They understand that despite the fact that they have a competing service with Google Maps that there is a there's room for Waze to exist. And I desperately wish that Apple had made the same decision. Oh, just to let dark sky live.  Stop it. Waze is the correct way to go with this for Google. Come on. Not everything is about dark sky. Most things are when I'm bothered by it and it's actually raining in Austin. Well, and it is a great example of Google. I still wonder why Google has not merged Waze into Google Maps. And yet I'm very glad because they're both equal data fire hoses. They can extract user data from both of these services equally. They don't need to merge them. Well, theoretically, they would extract the same amount of data. But I think you're right. I think there are there are people who would stop would not use Google Maps if or in vice versa. So yeah, it just tells me they don't hover up as much data with the weather app. That's what that's for Google. It also allows Waze to be something where they can sell ads against it in a different way than they can Google Maps. They've kept Google Maps has been fairly ad free in terms of like the front facing element of it. They don't care how much they make ways into a NASCAR. Yeah. And Apple doesn't need to do a better advertising delivery mechanism. No, they don't care about it. They just care about cleaning my favorite weather app. They don't want to collect data. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Justin. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Hopefully it's not about dark sky. No, in fact, we have this fantastic email from Eugene writing in after listening to the latest episode of Know a Little More. So just listen to know a little more about Taiwan. It was very well researched and a great primer on the topic. My grandfather was a general in the KMT. My father would tell me stories of the old days. My wife is also from Taiwan and we go back to visit regularly. I've had a vague understanding of the political situation, but your podcast helped crystallize everything for me. Many thanks. That is one of the highest compliments that we could get. And when I say we, I mean, me, Amos, and Justin Robert Young, who worked on this episode as well at Know a Little More, to have somebody who has family stakes in the history that we were telling, tell us that it was not only told well, but helpful is incredible. So thank you, Eugene, for writing in. If anybody else wants to check that show out, go to know a little more.com. All right, Justin Robert Young, besides Know a Little More, what else you got going on these days? Well, of course, yeah, Know a Little More, a fine dog and pony show production. And yet another one is there if you would like to get the political panel discussion that is sweeping the nation. 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Hey friends, today I am at the Lake Lanay Antique Mall. I came down here to show you some cool Disney world props that you can buy from here, including some Magic Kingdom parade float props and a lot more Polynesian inspired like room art and things from the Polynesian rooms. But also show you how you can win some of these cool things and also help out some of our beloved cast members. So let's go do this. Like I said before, I come down here to show you guys some of the cool Disney props and universal props that you can purchase. But today, I want to show you some things that you can actually win and also help out cast members. As you know, a lot of cast members have been furloughed and laid off recently in the holiday seasons coming around. So a couple of people decided to put together a nice cast member toy box and offer up some really cool artifacts from the Polynesian resort and even some gift certificates from the Lake Lanay Antique Mall itself. Right here is all the information and I'll put all the information in the description too. But we're basically collecting unwrapped toys for cast members and for every unwrapped toy you bring in, your name will be entered in a drawing to win a Polynesian Antique Desk Lamp which is right there and it's so awesome, those were in the rooms and then all these toys are going to go to the cast members and I'd really love that. I think that is such an amazing thing and if you can't physically drop off a toy, there's also an Amazon wish list and I'll put the link for that in the description of the video as well but it's nice to get back to the cast members and try to help them during this tough time and I'm really honored that I can show you it. And now I'm going to show you some of the cool new items that they actually put down here and also show you some of the popular ones that are restocked. So if you missed your opportunity to get it, maybe you can get one now. One of the coolest things that I noticed though is this Magic Kingdom Parade Float Prop. Look at it, it's a gigantic Mickey balloon and this was actually on the Celebrate Today parade and they have a little picture of it right there. That is such an awesome rare thing, especially because it was a parade float in Magic Kingdom. I really love it. It's $595. I think that's amazing because how rare it actually is. Another really cool thing is these Polynesian pillows right here. I really like these. These were actually in the Polynesian Resort Rooms. Sweet dreams. These are very fancy. I like those a lot. $95 for those. If you guys are interested in purchasing any of these items, you can actually call the Lakeland Antique Mall and I'll put their number in the description and they can actually have you pay for it over the phone and they can put it to the side for you so you can pick it up or have somebody come and ship it to you like using a U-Ship company. And like I said, I'll put all of the information down there and you can also check the prices.  I think this is one of the coolest looking little lamps. This is a Mickey lamp and these were actually at the Yacht Club. That is so fancy. I'm literally mind blown with these. I also like the Wilderness Lodge pillows. They got little thumper on here too. Oh wow. Very nifty. This is actually really cool. I saw this peeking out back here. I like the odd things that like you would never know what you would do with it if you bought it but this is one of them. How about your own room service cart from Bay Lake Tower? How cool is that? I mean what would you do with this but it'd be so cool to actually own it. I think that's really awesome. Oh and I think this is a couch from the Polynesian. Is this like a lobby couch? Wait, we gotta check. I'm pretty positive that's what it is. Or is it from the rooms? Oh, it's from the rooms. This is a Polynesian sofa sleeper. That is super fancy, $200. I know that everybody's been looking for the Polynesian lamps and the Polynesian pictures and they actually go really quick but as they actually renovate more rooms they'll actually end up more stuff here so you have to keep checking back. Right now all the popular items are here and you can buy them. All the Polynesian resort room art like I showed over here before all stocked up they have basically all the different variations of them. They have tons of the floor lamps. These are super super popular.  So that's really cool that there's a lot of them here. I know a lot of people have asked where I got my cast member outfit from when I dressed up on Halloween and I actually got it from here and I'll show you some of the other very cool cast member outfits that they have. Take a look at this Disney parks shirt right here. This is like for one of the like engineers would wear this and if your name was Mark that would match up so perfectly. These were only like a dollar and they have a whole rack over here. A dollar cast member outfits that is such an amazing deal. Does anybody know what these are from? These shirts look so fancy. Oh wow I love it. I would buy so many of these. Another really cool thing if you're a Wilderness Lodge fan are these actual like little critters. These were on the headboard like in the rooms, the post and they're really cool because they actually have the artist's like initials on the carvings and I love them. They're only $55 a piece. They're very well done. A couple of other really cool things here that I noticed are these Run Disney marathon medals. These are from 1995. I like that because if you actually participated in the run then and you lost it you can always get one right here and that's really awesome. But also they have some Christmas decorations. I think that this is from Animal Kingdom. It looks like it. That is such a nifty little wreath I would say. I don't know what you call those. They also have some of the resort ornaments and resort garland like that's crazy. White garland is like a whole nother level. This white garland right here is actually from the art of animation resort. I remember seeing this so many times when I was just walking through there during the holidays. It's so beautiful. Here's a couple more Christmas items from this one is a Grand Floridian. Oh that's really pretty. Look it's got a little chandelier in it. And then also how about Fort Wilderness Cabin wall art. That is the first time I've seen any of those and that is really really nice. These are only twenty dollars. That is a deal. Here's a couple more Christmas items from this one is a Grand Floridian. Oh that's really pretty. Look it's got a little chandelier in it. And then also how about Fort Wilderness Cabin wall art. That is the first time I've seen any of those and that is really really nice. These are only twenty dollars. That is a deal. Speaking of Fort Wilderness this is such an amazing picture right here. This is from I believe the Cabins and this is the Fort Wilderness Railroad that used to be there. I absolutely adore this picture. Wow two hundred ninety nine dollars. This is so amazing to me. I really really like it. That Fort Wilderness Railroad picture really is an amazing piece and they also have some other really cool pieces over on this side and some universal stuff as well. These are some props from inside Universal Studios like how to train your dragon and then even some blink universal signs like that one is really awesome. Stuff like that really gets me I always love it and of course the arcade machine still sitting back there. They've got a bunch of pillows from all the different resorts including some of their like bed runners and stuff of course the Grand Floridian, Saratoga Springs, they even have Coronado Springs resort pillows. Oh this one. This one's a good one. This is from Disney's Pop Century and take a look at all of the amazingness happening. 101 Dalmatians, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Carousel Progress. This is only sixty five dollars and it's from the sixties. This should be a very popular piece right here. This is a birdhouse that actually hangs in the Grand Floridian Christmas tree. I really love that tree and just seeing a birdhouse here for sale is so amazing. $150 for that and it's pretty massive like it's pretty big. And then I stumbled upon some other amazing treasures. Take a look at these bad boys right here. These are posters, some from movies, some from attractions. In the morning you have the Mickey's Filler Magic and Donald busting through the wall. $129, Bambi, $129, Song of the South. Now that one is probably going to sell very quick but who knows $159 and then that very beautiful Alice in Wonderland one. I know a lot of you guys like the old school Disney Landline phone so I want to show you a couple of those because the goofy one that was here is sold out, it's gone and I absolutely love that one. But look here's another goofy one. These are so fun looking aren't they? Look at that. That is awesome. This guy is $79 and yet another Mickey Mouse one here too. This one is very nice too. This one is $89. Very cool stuff. And take a look at this. This is a Disneyland record player. Look at Mickey's actually hand is the spinner. This is amazing. Please ask for assistance to test it out. Wow, that's $120. These are very awesome. This is good stuff right here. Take a look at this picture of Walt Disney right here. I think that's really awesome. It's $95 and it's actually like signed, well it's not signed by Walt Disney but this picture actually says see the back so we're going to take a look to see here. Wow, the back. It's actually in rediscovered picture in the archives. That's really awesome. Comes with a certificate and everything. That is a really cool item just for $95. I really like it. Also take a look at this Mickey phone. This is a weird one that I haven't seen before. It's like he's just hanging on the bed and he's got his feet kicked up and everything. That's really fancy. $65 for that one. I really hope you guys had the awesome nifty wild counter going on this video. Definitely happened a lot. Oh, I like this too. You don't really see old goofy stuff the animals but look at this one. He looks so amazing. This is $40. I love it. I wonder if you get the little like holder too. Wow, look at them. Oh boy and then I come across some glass shelves and you know they keep the good stuff behind the glass. One thing I caught my eye was this Pirates of the Caribbean ornament set. This is $99 and the reason I think this is really cool is because that's the old red. That's pretty rare I would say. And then also a vintage Disneyland Amber ashtray. That's only $30 and then all these big figurines themselves. I like them. But I love Dalmatians.  I'm going to get a Christmas tree this year. Before I leave I want to show you guys this again because I think that's such an amazing thing. If you have some toys that you can donate unopened they're going to go to cast members so they can give out to their kids and you get the chance to win like some cool things like that Polynesian lamp and also the $50 gift certificate to the Lakeland Antique Mall. Here's all the information like I said in the description I'll put it as well. Any hoos that's going to do it for me here. I absolutely love this place and I'll put all of the information in the description below. The address, the phone number for Lakeland Antique Mall, the information for the Casper Emperor toy box and I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye.


The Itong River in Changchun has been affected by antibiotic and heavy metal pollution. Antibiotics such as Ophlaxocin, OFL, and Norphlaxocin, nor, very seasonally due to changes in the climate. Heavy metals such as copper, Cu, zinc, ZN, and cadmium, Cd, also vary depending on the type of activity taking place in the river's surrounding areas. The levels of antibiotics and heavy metals found in the river have been determined to be dangerous to humans and animals alike. Children are more susceptible to the effects of these pollutants than adults, and the polluted river water can pose a serious threat to their health. This article was authored by Ku Jiao, Chen Wang, Xiaofeng Chen, and others.


Hello, we are going to talk about our special article in human mutation. Free the data, one laboratory's approach to knowledge-based genomic variant classification and preparation for EMR integration of genomic data. Current technology allows rapid identification of disease genes and subsequent translation of research discoveries into clinical genetic tests. Many sequence variants identified in individuals with clinical features of genetic disorders are detected by clinical laboratories and are often not published or made available. Many clinical laboratories are willing to share this data and eventually will through efforts such as NCBI's ClinVar project and the Human Variable Project. Anticipating the need for large-scale transfer of sequence data, we at Emory Genetics Laboratory developed a data management system called M-Base to record, store, and manage data on Sanger-confirmed sequence variants in a highly structured data format. This structured format allows the base pair change, predicted amino acid change, positioned relative to a genomic or mRNA reference, as well as our laboratory director review classification of the variant as pathogenic, likely pathogenic, unknown clinical significance, likely benign, or benign to be recorded for a variant and for the variant data to be associated with specific patients. To demonstrate the ease with which M-Base can be used to disseminate de-identified information on observed sequence variants, we developed M-Base class, a web-based tool that allows any user access to variants seen at EGL and the variant's current classification. From this website, a review of the variant's classification can be requested or a discussion about the variant can be initiated. No registration is needed. We will now demonstrate the use of M-Base and M-Base class. M-Base sits between Emory Genetics Laboratory's EMR, Laboratory Information Management System, and Reporting Systems, as depicted in Figure 2 of the paper. For every gene, we maintain critical transcript and mapping information and the variant seen here at EGL for that gene. For every variant, we maintain an extensive annotation system that includes HDMD, DBSNP, Exome Variant Server, and predicted effects from Polyfan 2 and SIFT version 4.04 and 5.02. M-V class is the public interface to EGL's variant's data. As depicted in Figure 3, M-V class allows the user to monitor and review Emory Genetic Laboratory's current classification of a variant, count a review for reclassification, or to request an updated report. M-V class may be accessed off of Emory Genetic Laboratory's primary website at genetics.emory.edu.gl. M-V class may be searched by entering an HGNC-recognized gene symbol, such as ACA-DM. From here, you are able to review a summary of your returned results, 66 records of which 20 are pathogenic, 37 are variants of unknown significance, and 9 are recorded as benign. You are also able to further refine your search by changing nomenclature, such as K304, something like Exon, Exon 7, or even classification, pathogenic. You may open the dialogue with Emory Genetic Laboratory by clicking on this button here where you will be requested to enter your name, email, phone, and question or comment where we will get back to you. You may also expedite the review of variants of unknown significance by clicking the appropriate checkbox. M-V class also allows you to access our data by direct URL construction, as this example is shown here, or by download for integration into your applications. So in conclusion, with the exception of a few gene or disease-specific databases, there is currently no systematic way for clinical laboratories to share knowledge about sequence variants. The time is rapidly approaching when clinical laboratories will share informational sequence variants to web-based databases such as ClinVar and the Human Varian Project. In the meantime, we have designed a system that both prepares our laboratory's data for future data transfers and allows a real-time view of our observed variants and their classifications. We believe that a good management of sequence data as well as the willingness to share this data are critical to providing the best genetic healthcare possible.


Hi, I'm Matthew Coast, head dating coach and founder of commitmentconnection.com and in this video we're going to talk about struggling with being sure that a man really loves you. And so before we talk about that, if you're struggling to attract the right man into a committed lasting relationship, make sure that you go to my website and at commitmentconnection.com and take my quiz. So today's question comes from a woman in our community who's asking, she says, I struggle to be sure if he really loves me, what should I do? So this is something that happens with, you know, even with parents and children, I come from a family with three, I have three older brothers, so it's a family of four kids, and I'm, you know, I'm the youngest and there's a lot of drama and questioning about mother and fatherly love just going on in the realm of my family alone. And so that's a pretty normal and natural thing that a lot of people end up experiencing due to a lot of different reasons. And, you know, if my advice to you is instead of trying to figure out whether he really loves you or not, which is, I mean, that's really difficult to, it's really difficult to figure that out and to be 100% certain about that. But you can be 100% certain about that will relax you and ease kind of your pain and your questioning around that is making sure that you love yourself and focusing on your feelings of being worthy of love. Because when you feel that you're worthy of love, you'll start to find evidence that the people around you really do love you regardless of who they are, whether they're your parents or whether it's a man that you're in a relationship with. And so really, you know, my suggestion is to focus on loving yourself and feeling worthy and that involves changing the way that you think, changing the way that you feel and changing your behaviors so that they're consistent with someone who is worthy of love. Right.   And getting in a habit of acting in that way is definitely one of the key things that you need to do. And a second thing that you need to do is deal with past trauma or emotional baggage that may be preventing you from feeling lovable. And that can be some really, really deep stuff and just, you know, pinpointing where kind of those feelings originated from, you know, is this a pattern that you experienced in your life? Did you feel this way about your father? And just taking a look at that and kind of exposing it, pulling it out and going through kind of a process of forgiveness, forgiveness of, you know, any men from your past, forgiveness for your, for yourself in the case of feeling like you weren't worthy of love or that, that you were denied love at some point in your life. And then, you know, putting on top of that loving yourself and taking care of yourself and, you know, like we said, changing your thoughts, behaviors and feelings. And if you do those things, then you won't worry nearly as much if at all about whether your partner actually loves you. And so, that's it for this video. If you'd like to know more about what's stopping you from attracting the right man into a committed lasting relationship, make sure you go to my website at commitmentconnection.com and take my quiz. I'm Matthew Kost and I'll speak with you again soon.


Over 450 City of Fort Worth Park and Recreation professionals use their diverse range of skills to make this a great place to live, work and play every day. We're celebrating Park and Recreation Month this July by recognizing the vital role Park and Recreation professionals play in bringing people together, providing essential services and fostering the growth of the communities. With passion, creativity and enthusiasm, we show that Park and Recreation is where community grows. With 12,893 acres and growing of Parkland and public spaces CTY, we create opportunities for residents, families and visitors to get outside to enjoy everything our beautiful city has to offer. We make sure that everyone has a chance to grow and play regardless of age or ability with three inclusive playgrounds, including the first playground in the United States to implement a universal design to create access for all. Recreation experts at 20 community centers throughout Fort Worth provide a variety of classes, community events and lifelong learning opportunities for kids, teens, adults and seniors ensuring our community members thrive all year long. Residents of all ages get fit and have fun with a variety of sports, whether it's on a team, solo or pick up game. We cultivate a high quality of life here in the oldest and longest running tree city USA in Texas, all while preserving, managing and growing Fort Worth's urban forest. We preserve our history while working side by side with community partners to build a vibrant future. Reservamos nuestra historia mientras trabajando al lado de la comunidad para construir un futuro vibrante. Through exemplary land stewardship, we manage the largest city-owned nature center in the United States, conserving our local ecosystems to enhance the flora and fauna for our ever-growing population to ensure a sustainable home for all. By mowing our parks, medians, alleys and city facilities, and by eliminating illegal graffiti on commercial, residential and private property, we beautify the great city of Fort Worth. When your report to us and my FW app, we make sure your requests are taken care of promptly. Fort Worth stays cool and refreshed while splashing the heat away in our pool and spray ground. We keep the lights running on Fort Worth's athletic spaces. Making sure our community can safely participate in sports, whether it's on the field or at Hawes Athletic Center. By working out contracts with local businesses and organizations, we make sure that our community continues to thrive through mutually beneficial partnerships while keeping our parks beautiful. Our professional staff provides residents with all the tools they need to perfect their game while relaxing at top rated golf courses across Fort Worth. We grow our community engagement by offering our residents a plethora of ways to volunteer in their parks, on their trails and along the waterways that make Fort Worth where the best begins. By maintaining 297 parks, our experts create spaces for community to grow through worry-free outdoor recreation, whether it be for a picnic, neighborhood, celebration or a bike ride through the city. From frontline staff to behind the scenes professionals, City of Fort Worth Park and Recreation employees bring innovation, dedication and excellent customer service to residents of Fort Worth. We're honored to serve with such a passionate team working together across the city. This month we applaud all the ways they engage with our residents in all of our facilities to ensure our city remains a place where community grows.