So today's agenda, we'll talk about what teams is the setup, the creation of channels in team, how to use chat, some of the app integrations that exist in teams, and then how do you think about the distinction between guest users and people who are already a part of your team. We'll also talk a little bit about some administrative considerations that you might have when you're setting up a team and you're thinking about administering it for your organization. And then most of our time today will really be spent on a question and answer. We want to understand what you have questions about so we can best answer it and learn from each other to see how you are all using teams in your organizations. So teams is for those that might not be aware, I know some of you are not using it right, is a platform and a communication collaboration platform. It runs on multiple kind of device device-based applications so you can get it on desktop. Many of you might be using it on the browser right now. There's also a mobile application that you can use. But what teams is essentially trying to do is create a one-stop shop for your platform so you can access all of your productivity needs in one place. Microsoft's goal sometimes that they say is like to have teams be the only desktop that you need so that you can chat in it, that you can talk to each other in it, that you can share documents and collaborate within teams, that you can use it to host meetings, to host live events. And so what we're going to try to do today is talk about all of the different features that are available to you in teams. Obviously how you use them and what works for your organization is going to be really reliant to how your teams want to function. But the functionality really is pretty robust within teams and there are a lot of features that are available. At TechSoup we've been using teams for the last couple of years. We use it along with other platforms so it's not our only thing that we use but we found it to be a really great and useful tool. One for collaboration so it's just a repository so that we can see the chats that we've had with people, that we can collaborate on documents, and that we can have one place to go that many people can access to see where we're at. So it really helps us in increasing transparency, communication and collaboration. And so I'm excited to go through a little bit more with you and I'm going to pass it on to Kevin for the next part. Kevin can you see my screen? I can. You can hear me okay? Yeah so thank you very much Shruti. As Shruti mentioned what this is basically going to be is a front end introduction to the basic structure of how teams exist to her point. Teams is very, I'd like to think I know enough to be dangerous on teams but the more as I discover and go down the pipe hole here that there is so much to this so really I think the best thing to do is just to start with the setup, channel creation, discuss, chat and then app integrations and then we'll wrap with get and that will segue from the actual teams functionality to a discussion about a slight review of administrative functionalities. I'm going to go ahead and pull up my demo. Alright so when you first launch teams the experience is going to be a little bit different particularly as someone who may be a global admin the person who has brought your organization into the 365 fold. When you do launch it as is traditional like across all end points Microsoft likes to welcome you with pop-up wizards. You'll see it for a lot of things so just as a preface this is one that my demo client has already been built out to a certain degree so this is not necessarily what the initial experience will look like but moving past that the basic functionality of creating a team's team is the same. So in the UI here down over on the join or create a team you're going to go ahead and click that. You'll click create a team and then this is going to walk you through the process here. You'll see there's several options. Don't be dawned by that what the template options are we're not going to go over this but what the template options are basically custom configurations that already have pre-created channels and applications integrated with. We can get into that in the Q&A but for this demonstration I'm just going to actually start with creating a team from scratch. So you're going to see this pop-up here. There are three options there are a private team a public team and an org wide team. I'm going to actually start with the last one so an organization wide team is exactly what it says. Everybody in the organization that's operating within your tenancy is going to be by default part of that team. Those are that is a team type that you'll want to use mindfully. Only a global administrator who is the person who either created the 365 account or has had their permissions elevated to GA can actually create an org wide so it's something you're going to want to think a little bit about before doing. Public teams these are ones that you'll probably most frequently use. These are where you can bring together certain groups, certain departments, certain teams together. Anyone in your organization though will be able to join. So if Shruti wasn't a team and I was just out there doing my own little thing and I wanted to join that team I would be able to join that team. The last here is a private team. As it states here people need permission to join these teams. These are teams from a organizational and or security perspective that are things that you'll probably consider for if you from a managerial standpoint maybe between you and an employee for say like your one-on-ones or reviewed from a more of a security standpoint for a finance team for individuals that are maybe communicating sensitive informations that other people do not need to be privy to. This is a case where a private team might be in your best interest. So I'm just going to go ahead and click a public team here. I'm going to call this public test one. You can type in a description and then you're going to click create. It's telling me nice work. It's very proud of me. So as it states here this is important. This is a good thing too to just read a little bit to take your time when doing this and anything within 365. So team members can be added by an individual name, a distribution list, or a security group. So security groups are a discussion either for the Q&A or for another time because there are two different types of groups typically in 365 security and Microsoft 365 groups. But I'm just going to go ahead and just simply type a name because this is going to be a small group. I'm going to just have Adelaide. Adelaide is my imaginary marketing colleague. So I'm going to just go ahead and add her to this group. Now this is something to take a quick peek at. So when a person is added to a team is that they are added as either a member or an owner. Obviously membership versus ownership implies two different levels of abilities to interact with a team. So you'll want to decide that when you're doing that. I'm just going to keep her as for the sake of this demonstration. And then I'm going to go ahead and close this. So as you can see here that now this team has a team name and by default when a team's team is created, a general channel is created here within the framework of the interface.  I'm not going to spell correctly because I don't ever do ask anyone that's gotten an email for me. So this type of post as you can see here in the upper part of the screen is a general post. This is posted to the team's team channel. Everybody can view it as a part of the team. That is different from from chat and I'll step over to chat just for a second, even though it's a little bit further on just so that people understand what's the difference between a post and a chat. So a chat is a conversation that I'm having privately one-on-one with someone. So I wanted to let Adelaide know, not in the general channel, but through a private message that I added you to the new team. I just went ahead and did that. So jumping back into the new team that we created here, you'll notice here on the top and then this goes into expansion of different things. So as part of the general default channel that's created, it introduces a couple of different applications or features. One of which is files. The other is wiki note taking just without getting into a really high higher level like what it is just on the surface. It's just simply for note taking. It's maintained and it stays within the general channel here. It's not quite as flexible as one note is, but if it doesn't really, the data in there doesn't really necessarily be moved around, this is probably the ideal place to put it. Files, this is a big one. So you can actually create files inside a channel. You don't actually need to launch an application. You can simply go to file, new and then select the type of asset that you want to use. Do you want to create a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation, etc. You can go ahead and do that from here. You can also upload files from this computer to this location as well. So the thing that just really quickly, I just wanted to talk on that understanding and I'm not going to go right into administration stuff, but you'll see a feature here that is important and because I want to double down on this is open and SharePoint. When you create a Microsoft team, it creates a SharePoint website for that team. That's worth knowing as an individual and then as an administrator because you can interact with these resources both here and within SharePoint. If you don't use SharePoint, I wouldn't be concerned about it, but it's just, it's something that's just, it's worth knowing. So the next part here really quickly that I wanted to discuss was the integration of applications. So you can see here on the sidebar that I have several different, we'll call them functions, but applications. So when I consider something that I'm looking to do, for example, like I wanted to create like a planner bucket. That's something that's integrated within teams. So it's called tasks by planner and to do. And I can actually interact with to do, which is the more commonly known application that's available as a standalone. And I can go ahead actually and create tasks and task buckets here. This is one that I probably use most frequently. I don't go too far down the rabbit hole with application, but it is one that that I am fond of. Another one is calendar. So you have the ability to export a calendar, your calendar from outlook into the interface here. Now just worth noting is here on the side is that sometimes this acts a little funky this sidebar. So one thing that you might want to do if you find that you're losing these applications from the display on the interface is you're going to actually want to pin them. That reads unpin because I've already pinned it to the sidebar. I've seen it that when you work with different versions, the web version like HTML or the desktop version or in some cases even like a tablet version that sometimes these acts a little funny. I don't know if it has to do with scaling, but if you find yourself using certain applications regularly, definitely pin them to the sidebar. So calendar here is where you can meet. So basically have video and or voice calls. If you wanted to, you can create new meetings from here. Also, depending on your version of teams, you can schedule a webinar like this one or you can create a live event. You can also integrate applications, third party applications. We use Asana here. As Trudy said, it's one of the many things that we do. So when you integrate any third party application, big ones that I integrate our Asana and Adobe, you are going to have to sign in before you can actually interact with that. So I would go ahead and log in to Asana. It will verify, authenticate my login credentials and at which point then I can go into and actually start to do things in teams that are reflected in Asana or Adobe. In this particular case, say I wanted to create a new task under project that I'm managing, I can go ahead and do that here. There's a ton of these applications, a ton. Can't go over them all, but there are a couple that I definitely recommend that if you have in your tech stack, Adobe, Asana, Airtable, there's a variety of them. There's likely an integration if it's a major application. So moving on from the applications, I wanted to then go into guest users and then we'll get to the administration stuff in a second. This is the admin. You'll see here in the URL bar. This is the admin portal homepage. So admin.microsoft.com. So from here, from the page, I'll go into the whole process here. I'm going to go down to users and I'm going to go to guest users. This is where I can add a guest user. Now you'll see here that there is a hyperlink. Guests have access to teams, managed team settings.  By default, guests will have access to teams. So you're going to want to take a look here and figure out what's best for you and that ties into the administrative conversation about how much access is the right amount of access for your guest users. So from there to create a guest user, I would add a guest user and then invite user. So from the invite user tab, I'm just going to, I'll let you look at this at greater length, but from this redirect name, email address, first name, last name, Tom Green, and then the email address. Now see if you click on the email address of the user, you would like to invite to the directory. Now this does not have to be a custom domain. Say you're working with a food pantry and it's, we'll say Tulsa food pantry. I'm going to be biased here.org. It can be. So if I'm working with Tom, it could be Tom at Tulsa food pantry, but also you can add like an SMTP type mail client, like an outlook or a Gmail client, as well for in your tenancy. So then first name, last name, and then you can just notify them, hey, I'm inviting you to this team's team and to this channel to collaborate on different activities. So you can then assign them to a group or role. This is a larger kind of conversation that I'm going to just go back to maybe open on Q&A to groups or roles, settings, usage location, and then just some other general information here. It's pretty self-explanatory when you're going through that. Hey, Kevin, we had, I'm just going to stop you really quick here just because we had a few questions, particularly on guest users. So it might be good to just try to address them here. One was a lot of people are interested in guests. When had asked, they often have a need to send and receive large files from outside of their organization. Is there anything specific we have to do to enable that in the guest? That's where you like for advanced settings, like within guest users, and then into the team's admin. Let me jump into the team's admin so I can touch on some additional things here. Okay. And then another question from Felicia was, can we add people outside our organization's email suffix to our team? I'm sorry, one more time. Can we add people outside of our organization's email suffix so it's outside of their own domain to that team? Yeah. So that's the same thing, domain and then suffix, alias, upn. Yeah. So that you can invite anybody again from a custom domain or suffix, alias, domain, or even a general domain. I have somebody actually as a guest in my own personal one that uses an outlook account. This is where you will go in to address guest access functionality within teams. So that's a, I'm glad that this is where we're at because two things worth noting to the admin component. Again, I want to reiterate that when you create a team's team, it does a couple of things. As I mentioned, SharePoint website is created. It also creates a mailing address as well as a distribution list. So for the global admins, for anybody that's working in an admin capacity, just so that you're aware that there are things that happen on the back end, like that are created in teams elsewhere. We have resources for that. I actually would be able to get that to anybody that is interested that goes over that whole topology, if you will. So calling, this is everything in here is pretty straightforward, right? So you look at it, everything's toggle in, toggle off. So calling, meeting, messaging, these are all controlled within this functionality. Now as far as information sharing in general, that's something that you may also want to take a look at within your SharePoint administrator because as I mentioned, SharePoint is like the king of the castle here, so to speak. And teams is like the prince, if you will. So that's something where you're going to want to go in and take a quick look also at how sharing occurs there. So I'm going to go ahead and go into SharePoint, the SharePoint admin center, and then sharing right here. So policies, sharing, this is something that you will have to adjust. As I mentioned, the organizational guests, you to enable that functionality, you're going to just simply lower this bar here. I love how simple this stuff is right here as far as you don't need PowerShell, you don't need any of this crazy stuff. You just go ahead and then just move sharing to enable that because again, all this stuff is technically really in SharePoint and it just happens to be either created and or secondarily housed in Teams. So you'll go ahead and you'll make that change and then you'll go ahead and save that there. Just so that a little quick since we're on this, OneDrive cannot have an elevated position above SharePoint, just an FYI SharePoint controls SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams as far as permission level access. So hopefully that helped in answering that. Let me close some of these out here. All right, but this is also again, this is for the guest access. So you want to take a look here. So between guest access and things, think SharePoint admin center and then think Teams admin center. Again, everything typically terminology wise, if you're struggling to find something, the key words really to always look for are configuration or policy. Those will answer probably two thirds of all the configuration questions that you'll have like, where do I go to do this? That's where you'll go usually. So this is how all of this is controlled. You'll want to take a look through this. Any changes that you make, because these are the default settings, I haven't touched this, you would just go ahead and save that there. So I'm going to go ahead and go to the home here if it's going to let. So this is the Teams admin homepage. So this really quick, you have a global administrator who was created associated with the creation of this. Hopefully your organization has at least a secondary global administrator. One thing that's worth considering, because I saw from the poll earlier that a lot of people over half are actively using Teams. And then even for those that aren't, I would recommend using the role-based access control to elevate someone's permission to be a Teams administrator. Do we have time for that, Shruti? Do you want me to go through showing how to elevate to Teams admin? I think that would be helpful because we've had a few questions on it. So I think that would be perfect. So I'll go into active users and say that I'm picking on Adelaide. Say that I want Adelaide to be a Teams admin. And this you can do with anybody. There's actually 60 different RBAC roles. If you're small or big, it doesn't matter. My opinion is like many hands make light work. So if you have people that are willing to say be a Teams admin or an Exchange admin and from a security position, you're comfortable with it, have this conversation so that one person isn't doing all the work. If, of course, that's appropriate. So I'm going to go ahead. So I clicked on Adelaide's name here, display name here, and it brought it brought this.  I click on, by default, she's a user, whichever one by the GA will be. I go to add the admin center. And then I click on Teams admin. And then I would click save changes. You have a question what any of these admin roles are right over to the circle info circle. And then it explains exactly what it is. So I'm going to go ahead and then just click save changes. And now she is a Teams admin. I close some of these out. Okay, so some considerations here really quick. And I'll leave this to the questioning. And then this is probably going to be more conversation, perhaps for some people as well. So Teams policies may or may not be something that you want to take a deeper dive in. Okay, so from here, it's very similar to the general admin.microsoft homepage. You've got but it's obviously addressing specifically teams. So you've got things like users, guest access, external access. Genesis, we're having a Teams admin, competent Teams admin administrator would be very helpful. And you can get into things such as policy packages. Do you work in an industry that requires deals with PPI, PHI, like different types of things like ISO certifications, etc. I don't know them all because it's not my forte, but there are things like policy packages that you may want to take a look at. Are you an educational services? Are you in the financial industry? What these packages essentially do, and they actually do a very good job of explaining it here. This is a policy, for example, with the financial for addressing banking related PPI. If you know that you are going to be dealing with that or certain teams are going to be dealing with it. Applying these policy packages to those teams is very advantageous, especially if something like auditing comes down the pipeline. Very important. Are you in healthcare? Are you HRSA? Are you a rehabilitation clinic? These types of things, these are definitely some of the additional packages that you're going to want to look applying to groups that are working and operating within Teams, patient information, clinical workers, etc. As you can see here, there's quite a few in this list. Again, this is something to definitely go exploring here. There's things such things like messaging policies, right? So you can create customized, there's a default policy that's assigned. These are the types of things that you're going to want to take a little bit of a deeper dive at from an administrative standpoint when you are interacting with Teams. If you want to use Teams, it's an amazing platform, but just understand what's my security, what are these things that we should be concerned about, and have a plan for adopting Teams. That's what things like Teams Advisor are for. I won't go too far into that, but just know that there are resources that Microsoft makes available to help you launch this from beginning to end. Thanks, thanks, Kevin. I'll start getting us into the questions because I see them coming in right now. There's a few questions about calendars. So I'm going to go to those. One was from R.E. Pruitt, is the calendar shareable with the team? So are those calendars shared? Yes, yes. So is it from the distribution list? So that's where that comes into that, is by creating that list, you can house a calendar or shared calendar in it. So that's what sometimes IT admins get a little, oh, why do you keep creating Teams? And it's because it creates these other resources that you could use to leverage to create calendars and other things. Okay. And then I think coming off of that, John asked a question, which I know that a few people were looking for answers on as well. John's from a behavioral health organization. And so he had two questions. One was, what is the best way to do centralized scheduling in Teams where our schedulers can create appointments for providers with clients without cluttering up schedulers calendars? Using the schedule function within Teams, that is actually an application. Let me see if I can pull that up here real quick. A scheduler. It is an application in here. I will find it because I have used this before. But yeah, just if you can mark that one. What we'll do is John will follow up and we'll send that and then we'll add it to the resources on the slide. So if anybody else wants to look at it, they can see it as well. The other question that John had was, what are the best methods to use Teams in order to capture signatures remotely by clients? Approvals. Please don't let me be 0 for 2 on this one. There we go. Right here. Do you just, if he could answer into the, do you want me to enable the, do you want to just take them in? Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. If they have Adobe, Acrobat, DC, I would probably use sign. It's included in there. And then that's a third-party app integration. That's what I've used. I don't, it's not that I have anything against the SharePoint automation for approvals. It's pretty easy if you, if your team wanted to use that. But I like the idea of just logging in and the system knows like what it's asking for. So it's just going to be displaying the assets just that you need. It's not going be taking you through several steps. John also had a, had a clarifying question to the scheduling. That's not really a question, but just say clarifying that the schedule would not actually attend the appointment or want it in the calendar. So when we follow up, just to note that there's probably some things. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. There might be some different considerations. Yeah. Okay. Great. And then Tom asked, is it what you're looking for schedulers the same as bookings, but it is a little different, right? Different. Schedule has like a slightly different integration and backend versus bookings actually communicates with Outlook to, to generate the user interface and how that's constructed. So bookings is a really cool and easy interface to work with. I would probably recommend at first looking at bookings from creating that from a bookings perspective as it's through the dedicated application endpoint and then carrying that over to teams. Because if you have several people that are going to be using bookings, having some a little bit of control over how it happens and is deployed might be worthwhile because you might find people creating at like assets, duplicate assets or creating like unnecessary like calendars that don't necessarily communicate with each other unless you're really as an individual keeping tabs on everybody's calendar. It's, it can be clunky, but it can come straight from teams and be managed through that. But I would go through the bookings app first to understand the hierarchy of it. We also had a question just because I know we were starting to talk about some third-party apps as well is do third-party apps require specific licenses or does these incur additional costs? And what's your recommendation regarding allowing users to add third-party apps? I'm trying to, to the last part, I'm trying to think like how to like be like a non-admin and then admin at the same time because I have a reputation for asking for a lot of things. So technically what you can control applications through the teams admin portal, the third-party applications, you can actually control third-party application integrations also through it depends really how you want to manage that. From an IT security standpoint, depending on the nature of what it is that you do, I may lock it down if I'm in something like healthcare or financials like dealing with that that might be leaving that. The marketplace is great. I've heard literally nothing bad about it, but I also think do I necessarily want people interacting with things that are not an improved list? So approved applications can also be published internally specifically using Intune for those that have Intune functionality in their licensing. So I would probably at the very least open up popular applications used like Adobe, again Adobe Asana, those type of ones. I'd keep those open just because that's a really deep question. If you can, can they plug in their email because? Yeah, no I have that. Okay cool because there's actually a lot of layers to that and I would like to present you with option A, option B, and then you can figure out from there. Perfect and the other part of the question though was some of the licenses I think about the costs for the third-party apps and some of them do have additional costs associated with it. Correct. This is like a lot of marketplaces. If you're edge Chrome browser users, some are free, some are open source, and then there's some that you're like oh my god this is the greatest thing. It's oh like I need all these features. Oh it's paywall and the publishers do a pretty good job of explaining like and like here's a jet docs. I don't use this. This is definitely a third-party API because you look at who the publisher is here, Microsoft Corporation, Jet. There are some that sit under the radar though. You can really again just go exploring down here and the one thing real quick that I did want to say if you want to focus in I want to have questions about I really just want to keep this in the Microsoft's universe. This is the thing here is that it looks like it's freezing up on me but Microsoft apps like the full list of applications is actually not under the Microsoft category. So just so that people know things like communications which I've heard is a really interesting application integration you're not going to find this under the Microsoft title. It's actually I think under productivity or workflow and business management. Yeah that's something to just keep in mind is that if you're really set on if you're really set on Microsoft Corporation apps they may exist like across the entire catalog. Great the other question that we got here was this was an interesting one I don't know the answer to this from Jason within the desktop app is there a way to auto alphabetize the list of teams? Not that I'm aware of. Yeah I didn't think so either. Teams as far as I know with the UI at least by default like there might be custom like third-party applications for modding teams and by their might I'm going to bet that there are it typically the hierarchy works by the interface by when it's created it doesn't go by yeah okay and then the other question that we had here was from Kathleen is there this is one that I've struggled with a little bit myself Kathleen asks is there an easier way to toggle between two separate teams two separate Microsoft 365 accounts besides logging in and out each time. Logging in and logging out I would run an incognito or private session if you're running on a single monitor or split screen yeah that's what I do I actually typically run through three because I have one that I use for just breaking things that I'm trying to learn so yeah I would just use I would just use a private session just because it's not going to cash to that accounts other accounts login yeah and one thing I would notice I know that this might not be as useful for people who have different Microsoft 365 accounts but I'm a guest on other people's teams and that is a little bit easier to toggle between so I can log into my account and then on my account name or on my where it says MA for Kevin's thing right now I can look at that click on it and then I can go into my different users and different guests I will say like when I'm in a meeting like this I can't like switch out very easily but it is something that I'm able to do while I'm working in multiple different teams and I still get the notifications throughout all of those teams so I can see if somebody's sending me a notification on one of the other guest teams that I'm a part of to Kevin's point I also think that using your desktop app for primary team that you usually work in and if you have another account you can use a browser version for that so that you can log into it and using the platforms that teams is available on to distinguish is sometimes helpful as well yeah I know some people are even partial to like the web-based version versus desktop and so again this is really just I run both of them simultaneously like Trudy it's just really whatever works best there's a couple ways to do it and I think Wynn had similar feedback to us about running one in desktop and one on the browser there was a question from RE Pruitt as well about does teams have time in tracking yes so analytics log analytics you can pull those from the teams admin portal I don't normally do this so here we go analytics and reports and then usage reports call quality dashboard as if you use teams calling I'm definitely not going to throw anything into the mix with that in this conversation because business voice is probably a meeting in of itself but if you do use teams calling you can use the quality dashboard so usage reports are right here you can also configure teams to post analytic information into power BI if you're a power BI there's a question that I see from Holly is there a cost to talk to someone about teams at a more basic level and I just wanted to note here that Holly one of the assets that we're going to be sending out after this meeting is going to be an offer to sign up for our teams courses they actually start with a much more basic level of understanding it really helps in terms of understanding how to log on to teams really like for your team members themselves how to interact with it that's a course and for everybody that is here today we're going to provide that course for free so you can use that to get more resources for a basic understanding of teams there's a teams 101 course and a teams 201 course as well and we also have content and blogs that I'll show in a few minutes to help talk a little bit about basic usage of teams as well but if you have other questions you can feel free to contact us and we're happy to help okay I just wanted to share it's not a question but when I had a really good suggestion or learning before that one thing he's learned is that they have a large folder of photos and he often needs to use a browser to figure out and pick the right photos for marketing purposes and don't necessarily want to house that on a local machine but they look at the thumb thumbnails of those images a lot in SharePoint but that hasn't there's not an easy way to look at that in a thumbnail feature in teams that he's found of so sharing that as a learning but also just asking Kevin if you've heard of that before I haven't as far as the only thing I've dealt with is just general storage of those and offloading those to Azure Blob Storage that's really the only conversation I've ever had but to to that point though one thing I will say is as a Mac and PC user is I don't know if you're in a Windows based environment but it's it seems to be a thing I don't know but I would love to have a general functionality drop down to just preview like images which doesn't exist so I think that while that's not exactly the same thing I think it speaks to the larger graphical user interface experience that's just not something I think that's built in but I'd be happy to look to see what I can find that maybe could be used to configure something like I think we went through all of the questions that everybody had Kevin I didn't know if you wanted to go through the admin slide really quickly and then I can go over some of the other resources that we have if you do have any other questions we have time so feel free to put those into chat we definitely have time to address a few more questions as well yeah the admin slide was really just yeah considerations yeah exactly let me browse here I think I can pull it up there was also a question that just came in does teams have a time clock so there I think is that's really interesting that I'll need to look that up because not to name drop other video meeting organizations but zoom actually does have an integrated time clock that I use so yeah okay yeah okay so shifts that's actually the scheduler that's what I was looking for earlier I was also first for shifts so I'm glad that I got brought up perfect let's move the slide we want to be in here you go yeah we've covered I think to a certain degree like what these are again settings policies templates and packages you're an admin again this is going to depend on what it is that you do and then the security approach that you really want to have I don't know you're just doing these are fee for shifts no there's not a there's not a fee for shifts that's integrated that's actually a microsoft corp yeah shifts yeah shifts I've only integrated like in testing with someone once so I don't know all the bells and whistles of it but I do know that it exists we did have a customer that actually used those for remote inoculation for the COVID-19 vaccine and like a rural part of California they actually used shifts for setting the nurses that were performing inoculations or schedules so I probably should have gone down the rabbit hole then with him about how he did that but that just didn't happen but to the point with this is that again like understanding that these types of policies like in packages and settings this is not really again this is a part of teams and it's important especially again security what you do guest access that's another one because we work with guests right so it's not it's not it's actually very common this is also something and it's like a template that can also be adjusted or addressed across your tendency the big thing again like I mentioned earlier with SharePoint we haven't gone down the hole with SharePoint I'm not really going to but just understand that as far as application ends like controlling like data exists primarily through where the two sources of them are like you could do it at the teams level and or you can perform these operations at SharePoint yeah I saw something coming in about resources for that yeah no it's just a question from Cindy so I'm guessing we're not the right resource for shifts and I was saying I'm not sure if there are other resources or contact but I also just wanted to like say if there's anybody else here who's using shifts would be great to connect you guys together so maybe we can learn from each other as well yeah that's another thing too so thank you Shruti is the digital transformation forum like if you have a question it's not built for just Microsoft but like by by all means I would absolutely recommend posting anything and everything there the all of the Microsoft Corp and third-party applications even to a degree really go in detail of what that application like how to deploy it and use it again there's probably other resources for that if you want to know about it post it to the digital transformation forum on our website and I will be more than happy to learn about it thanks and then there's a question from Donna and I'll try to get that link and put it in the meeting chat for the forum as well about how do you make a poll yeah you so you can yeah if you want to just show them yeah okay all right looks like I lost you there for a second can you hear me okay yep okay okay I actually haven't integrated I don't know why it keeps freezing like when I'm sharing my screen but if you integrate the forms app into that I could actually probably go to that and it's not gonna kick me out here okay and while you're pulling that up I see a question from Paul does TechSoup have any discounted paid resources to hire administrative support for a small shop one to two staff and non-profit board and I will put that link in here Paul we definitely do we have managed services that we can provide with four non-profits who want to do that we also have help desk bundles that you might want to use that might be more appropriate as well I'll send you some of the resources so a couple so forms is one see if it's gonna pull up here forms can be used to conduct polls right here and integrates within the user interface I couldn't share like the actual live screen I was on unfortunately for some reason forms is one and then the other one that we actually use is completely free it's apples and oranges so it's really whatever one that you like there's also something actually I've not used this and I'm actually curious if anybody here has it's called Q&A and of course it's not going to pop up but I know it exists it's called Q&A it's probably a typo because of my spelling here maybe okay there it is boom Q&A I have no idea what this is but it sounds very excellent so again if you have a desire to have like really interactive like we do webinars but we haven't touched live events yet and maybe we will but this is this is probably a really robust feature like to level up from like forms or poly into I get again I have not used it if somebody has feel free to chime in I'd be very curious about what your experience was with that okay great I know we're running a little low on time there's a question from Paul can you talk more about sharing multiple calendars with both internal to teams and with general outlook user as far as scenario I probably just like to follow up by email because I think I'm going to go a little bit beyond the the rest of the time but yeah definitely grab an email posted in the chat if you can please because there's a conversation there I think it's going to be a little bit longer than five minutes okay great and then Paul has a follow-up how do we integrate within teams and outside of team use so maybe that's yeah integrate email within teams okay yeah as far as desktop application there is an integration I don't there is one within OWA I don't really use integration like between those two and I'm not a desktop user I'm notorious amongst the customer success team like that Kevin doesn't use outlook for desktop that's just my way but yeah there's integrations for that and I can talk about I actually think I'd love to have a longer conversation about just even between the two because I think there's maybe some resources that could be created there because calendar extension is it's going to be a huge part of this I think for everybody amongst other things and yeah perfect okay I know we're getting close to time this has been a really great session and I've been learned a lot and I hope you guys have too and found this useful I wanted to just mention a few things before we ended today's session one was about the teams resources that I talked about what you will get at the end of after we finish this meeting we'll wrap up the recording the slides we'll send an email within the next few days and part of that email will be this free teams training course and so you will have access everybody here we'll have access to these courses it's a value of seventy dollars and we're hoping that this will be really useful this has a basic level course so this might be a perfect kind of introduction course for getting started with teams there's also a few resources that are in here so outside of the courses we also have a getting started with Microsoft Teams guide that we've created a quick start guide and then you have all of the links here as well and then the last thing is just a few other resources that might be helpful to you as you're using more of the technology suites that you have we have getting started guides for your Microsoft cloud licenses we have that digital transformation forum we put that link in the chat as well but that's a forum that's available to connect with your peers to connect with other people who are discovering different apps that they might be using and integrating as well and then definitely want to plug for our next virtual office hours I'll put that link inside of the chat as well we're going to do a different format next month we're going to do an ask me anything so we're going to do a completely agenda list if you will but really just focus on whatever questions that you have so bring any of the questions that you have if their questions are related to other tech soup products or solutions or services feel free to bring that there we're going to do our best to answer as much as possible so that you guys get the most out of it so again these slides will be sent to you I think we have a few more minutes left if anybody has any burning questions otherwise we wanted to thank you for your participation today and hope that you have a fabulous weekend


But right now your total time and find is 771 months, $106,000, $106,000, $3,000. I'm sorry, could you say that again? Yeah, I know. Honey, this is Khalida Scornwood, LSPD. Just saw your number one text that you sent in. Yeah, I parked with what guy was gone.  Yeah, shot at me. He was real mean. What color car was he in? It's black. It's like half naked guy. He got a mask on and he kind of looked kind of thick because he said he'd been bulking. Can we write this down? He threatened to shoot me and leave me in the middle of nowhere. Who? Kirk? Yeah, Kirk. I mean, Kirk, Kirk comes to not shoot people. Kirk, Khalida said don't shoot people. He's making me hang up. I'm sorry. Hello? Hey, he gave me this gun and he didn't tell me it was police department gun. I'm going to put it back in the glove box. Where are you right now? I think we're somewhere in Sandy. Can you just have one for me right quick? Yeah, chatterbox. He said he's the old apartment. Yeah, leave that gun. Where are you going to leave that gun? Oh, he left me. He got past Harmony in the glove box.  Yeah, he drove away. Okay, appreciate it. Yeah, we'll get this sorted. Hey, we got to go get a PD.  Yeah. What's going on? That 911 that just called in, I called him, started making a report on it. I'm talking to him. He says that it's a heavy set fella who's half naked. He says he's bulking. He's the guy who shot at him. He's in a black vehicle. And he's on the phone. The guy shows up and he's like, okay, well Kirk just said he's going to shoot me. Well, Kirk Jurgums has been bulking and he's half naked and I've been told that he has a gun on him. I believe the person that shot at him initially is Kirk Jurgums. Hey, 1-8, I'm 76 to Red Garage. Is there anywhere you want me?  They're right there. Hey, one northbound smaller exit. Hello. Howdy chatterbox. Hey, so many phone the clowns on his way right now. He has a gun. It's actually good that you're here, Kirk, because he wanted to kidnap you. So if you've got a spike strip, when he comes up here, right? Just go and put spike strips on either side, on both exits on the floor below. And then come up here and chase him. So when he tries to run, he's spiked and he's yucking. Any visual? You're getting a gun off the street? Yeah. Yucking over a clown? It's funny. You're going to give me a couple of bucks? We're all in. They're going to be a hero. They said they know that they're coming here with the gun. And allegedly, they wanted to kidnap me. So here we are. Don't worry. I can't let my boy go down like that. I'm not your son. I want to give you a whooping still, but you're doing a good job. No, I'm okay. Thank you.  You have such a striking resemblance. Yes, you do. That's true. That is true. You have my nose. Literally how? It's so big. Okay.  You could definitely be a clown. Whoa.  Where the heck did you come from? Okay. Let me give you all of my secret. Well, you should. Because if you don't know, I'm not going to say it. Top of red garage. Many of you know where the red garage is. Hurry up. Me and Mubbles are here. We have a plan. We know we have somebody watching. We're going to go get him. But you got to get him. You got to like act that. All right. He's on his way right now.  Keep that in mind. I would hope that doesn't happen. So I don't have to shoot him. I'm going to go get out in the open. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Don't do that, Mubbles. That would be horrible. Look at him. He just, he has such a shootable face. No. You know, I get that. I do actually. I get that. You do get that? Yeah. I don't have a gun. I don't have a gun. Mini has the gun. Mini has the gun. Mini has the gun. I'm sure I promise. I don't got nothing. Ten forward dispatch. Can we get a channel for this? Ready to check him? Ten two. Okay. We should have no more than six units here. Probably don't need that many. I think I hear a car pulling up. Ten four. I'm here in the corner. Seeing you just hold up. Oh, he just ran over. He just ran over him. He just took him out. Oh, my God.  Get out of the car. Right now we're all shoot.  I shot him. I shot him. He's down. You okay? PDDMS. My curls. Can we get a, can we get a 52 request here? We got a one down with gunshot wound. And one person got ran over by car. Up on the top of the red garage. My God, what just happened? Well, he ran him over. And I told him. Good to see you. Where'd you come from? Oh, wait, what? Chatterbox.  Chatterbox. Look, Chatterbox. You're chatting my curls. Chatterbox. Go. Step away. Okay. This is a major problem. Please, I'll never make it in jail. I was supposed to be a doctor.  Hey, hear me out. It's on site with mumbles. That makes sense. He's a draft doctor like George Bush. George Bush was the best man in prison we ever had. Which one? All of them. I don't know about that.  He's just a positive. He has the PD clock on him. Now, I don't know why he kept it in his pocket, came up here and ran over most.  Um, belt. Chatterbox, do you have a gun? No, I do not have a gun. Okay. Can you step out of the vehicle and I'm going to go into the kitchen for a gun because there's a, they made a report for, uh, of you having a gun. Who made a report? Uh, somebody. I don't have one. I don't have one. Okay. Well, I'm fishing.  A corner. A corner. A corner. A corner. A corner. A corner. I don't have one, right? Okay.  Um, yes, I do. Um, but it's just clown stuff. Okay. I don't feel a gun. So, oh, I feel a wrench. That's all I feel. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Bill, could you go check the vehicle? Can you check the wheel box? Check the vehicle? No, you don't gotta look in there. I'm looking for a gun. Look, I don't have a gun. Anything else is fine. All right. I do not have a gun. Okay. I got a gun off the street for you both today. You're welcome. And I'll be going now. Let's just think we can get two off the street. Oh, then let me find out who has another gun and I will get on top of that. No problem. I'll be going.  It's great to see you, right? Um, you can have this. All right. You can have that. Hey, allegedly, uh, we've been told chatterbox has a, uh, has a gun.  We have to follow the original suspect. Uh, Callista, can you go follow him? I'm going to take this 95. Callista, why do you run like you're tired? What do you mean? Look how you move your arms. I don't know. It's a higher run. I mean, don't you get tired after running? No.  Breathe in through your lungs. What else am I supposed to breathe in through? What?  Just get, get, get old like big breasts in. If you get, if you get big breaths in, you get more oxygen. I mean, yes and no. You know how hard it is to run with a, with the best over your breast? Yes. Okay. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it that way. I'm sorry. Okay. So I'm almost done here. I'm treating his wounds right now. They are good to go. Oh, hi. I'll be safe. Okay. Yeah. You grab her. We're going to fight. Okay. I swear. There we go. I think maybe we get lawyer now. You want a lawyer? I can call a lawyer if you want one. Yeah. Let's see. Okay. You want to do your charges at first and then get lawyer. Yeah. That's okay. Okay. Well, I can't give you the wrench now. Okay. Okay. I just warning. I might do a little freak out. Okay. Well, I'll be fast then. Okay. Okay. That's what I tell my wife. Yeah, man. That's a good idea. That's why you still my wife. Right now. Here's the whole menu. Yeah. Criminal possession of a government issued firearm. Criminal use of a firearm. Assault with the deadly. That's the car operating a motor vehicle without proper identification. Resist and arrest. Yeah. Now I can get you a lawyer. One by two. I might be. Or I can offer you a guilty plea. Are you trying to sell that? Like what comes with that? I mean, I may be able to work these funds a little bit. But right now your total time and find is 771 months. $106,000. $106,000 and $3,000. I'm sorry. Could you say that again? Your total time and find is 771 months and $106,300. And two points on your record. Yeah. I mean, that sounds fair. Okay. So you plead guilty. Yeah. I have my mask and hat back. Yeah. Yeah. You should be able to get back here. Let me, I'm gonna see if I can help you out a little bit. Okay. Okay. You try to get me job. I need job. Actually. How much money are you paying? Yeah. $200. Give me a second. I don't know. I don't know me wants the debt because I think the clowns want the debt. Would you would you rather get a really high fine or not a really high fine? High fine. Okay. And I'll give you some time off. Okay. So I'm good. You do me favor. Next time you see chatty and Kirk, you hit him with car. And if you see mumble, shoot him. It's on site with mumble. Okay. I can't, I can't shoot mumble's on site. Okay. He deserves it. No. I'm gonna do that. Yeah.  Nice officer. What are your plans for tonight? Do you have plans tonight? I need more. Okay. So you would rather get chores with $100,000 fine than $900,000 fine. I would prefer not to have a fine at all if that was an option. Okay. Is that an option? No. Okay. I've kind of, I don't understand what you're asking me. For a guilty plea, we're gonna keep everything. I'm gonna drop this criminal possession of a government issued firearm. Okay. Otherwise we can get a lawyer. No, that sounds good. Because I don't, I'm just gonna be honest with you. I don't think that this is proper. I have enough reason to believe that you do not intend to be in possession of this and you want to turn it in if anything. Well, I tell you what I did intend on doing was smoking mumbles with that car. Yeah. I can see that. That's gonna be a $6,300 fine and 51 months in jail. How do you plead? Oh, way guilty.  Okay. Vote Cornwall for Mayor or for Sheriff. If I'm running for anything, just vote for me. Okay. Vote Cornwall for Sheriff, Mayor, PD liaison, whatever it is. Yeah. I'll hold them hostage with a PD clock and tell them not to vote for you. No, don't do that now. Okay.


Item number SCP-3166 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures The Garfield Media franchise is to remain active and successful for as long as feasibly possible. Funding is to be provided to any Garfield Media Ventures via Foundation front companies present in the comic and film industries. Agents embedded within Paws Inc. and Universal U-Click are to place targeted memetic agents in outgoing comic strips, encouraging the retention of a sizable Garfield fanbase, and discouraging Jim Davis from discontinuing Garfield. Agents are to monitor individuals at significant risk of attack from SCP-3166. In the event of an SCP-3166 manifestation, agents are to use supplied frozen lasagna to lure SCP-3166 away from its target and dispatch it once out of public view. Any witnesses are then to be administered amnestics as appropriate for their level of exposure. Description SCP-3166 is a 2.1 meter tall humanoid entity, presumed pataphysical in nature, known to manifest during periods when the Garfield Media franchise is performing poorly in terms of public reception. The exterior layer of SCP-3166's body resembles a crudely made costume of the character Garfield, which field inspection has shown to be composed of legitimate cat fur. However, announces of SCP-3166's composition in the field has shown that its interior mass is composed entirely out of pasta, specifically lasagna. Upon the criteria for its manifestation being met, SCP-3166 will appear in the vicinity of a suitable individual, hereafter referred to as the target, and moved toward their location. The lone targets of SCP-3166 have included individuals prominently involved in rival media to the Garfield franchise, individuals formally involved in the production of the Garfield comic strip, individuals involved in parodies of the Garfield franchise, vocal critics of the Garfield franchise, Garfield creator Jim Davis. Upon reaching its target, SCP-3166 will attempt to inflict bodily harm upon them through a mixture of blunt force using nearby objects and force-feeding of lasagna, obtained through self-disembowelment. During this process, SCP-3166 will vocalize by meowing, purring, and screeching in the manner of an extremely agitated cat. Lasagna outside SCP-3166's mass has proven to be an effective form of bait for the entity. As upon seeing it, SCP-3166 will abandon its original goal and instead attempt to incorporate the pasta into itself. SCP-3166 first manifested on October 23, 1989 within the Chicago offices of United Media, who were the publishers of the Garfield comic strip at the time. Upon manifestation, SCP-3166 wandered around the offices in a confused and distressed manner, before indiscriminately assaulting any individuals present after security attempted to apprehend it. It de-manifested 20 minutes later. Foundation agents responding to the situation distributed amnestics as appropriate. Over the course of the following week, similar manifestations took place at a number of United Media offices around the country, ending on October 29, 1989. In that date, SCP-3166 altered its behavior to its current form. See the week of Garfield comic strips beginning on October 23, 1989 in supplementary Document 3166-1 for additional context on Pataphysical Awakening. Initially, individuals involved with production of Garfield comic strips claimed to have no memory on working on that week's strips. All researchers working on SCP-3166 containment are to familiarize themselves on this material. Addendum 3166-1 Using tissue samples taken by Agent Molar during SCP-3166's most recent manifestation, genetic analysis of the meat present within the lasagna has shown it to be genetically identical to Garfield creator Jim Davis. The implication of this are currently unclear. However, during surveillance of Mr. Davis by containment teams, he has complained of severe mosquito bites in the night on a number of occasions immediately preceding SCP-3166 manifestation.


So now I feel we can start to add some warmer colors in here and then start to judge the earlier colors we've put on to it and then see how the painting is progressing. So just with the yellow and add a bit of the red to it. So I haven't had any white to this because white always cools the color. I'll always bring out the pinks or the blues. It always goes towards cool. So if you lighten the color with yellow, it will always keep that warmth to it. When you've got that warmth, get it like this lovely orange. That's looking nice. So you can see how, because I'm using the palette knife and their artist quality paints, you can really cover over what you've already painted quite easily. So now I can start to add some more of the darker purples and lovely heathery color that you get say much in Scotland.  This gives us a good basis of how the colors are working together and now we can start to refine some of these areas working more with a brush and maybe some more areas with a palette knife just with a cleaner color. You start to see how these colors are nice and clean at the top but sometimes when you run out of paint on the palette knife, you'll start to get these areas where they're a bit more mixed up color and they can start to look a bit messy sometimes. So it's often nice to get to this stage, you know, have a little break from it, come back with fresh eyes and just see okay what can I now tweak. I can immediately see there's areas here I want to be lightened to bring the house out a bit more. Other areas that I just want to change the drawing a bit and maybe add in another punch of color somewhere. So I'm just going to cover over this area here. It's not quite dry yet but I'll still be going to cover it over. So I'm just going to use a bit of the yellow and a bit of burnt umber. See how it creates a very muted green. It's very very handy because it stops your paint from becoming too green and too vivid especially if you've got a lot of oranges in the actual landscape. It feels better of a solid color. And now when I look at this side of the house that's too gray I can afford for that to go a bit brighter so that you really are focused in more on the house and I think a few very fine lines will just help to give the illusion that it's more detailed than the painting actually is. So I'm just going to scrape that off and then go a little bit lighter on top of there. I'm just going to take a small brush just a small round. This can just help you to get you know an odd sharp edge. See I'm just having that sharpness there really help. I'm just resting my finger just on the edge of the actual painting just to help me with a bit of balance. It gives you more control with the brush just so I can just put in the window here.


Hey guys, welcome to Path to Nowhere. So we're here with Zoya's build and What are your priorities? We'll start off with her skills.  So Skill priorities guys What to start off with first? Definitely going to be her ultimate, which is Legion's arrival. Not only that it gives a ton of damage She's in the middle and ton of damage with a nine square, you know area and Also, she switches to a fighting strategy increasing the number of hits and normal attack damage coefficient at the expense of some attack speed Definitely Increased damage on her end, but again, she trades off for attack speed. So this is your first priority second, I would say would be her basic basic attack She's a bruiser she deals damage with When her ultimate then after all her ultimate definitely it's going to be your basic attack or your normal attack So number two for her assault Next would be definitely this one extreme violence for number three Every third attack deals an extra 2% of the targets current HP through damage The damage dealt will not exceed 34.3% of Zoya's attack. This is scaling up to 45% So this will be your third priority in the last one would definitely be fiery invasion Which gives Zoya a bump under attack speed. So it's a small bump. It's one point. It's an increment of point one So from 1% To Definitely 2% But that's a small bonus. So definitely this will be your last Skill to be prioritizing. So again, that is her skill priority First is legion's arrival next is assault third is extreme violence and fourth is fiery Invasion moving on to her crime brand. I decided to set her up with two sets Actually, so the first set would be Fury one because this gives her additional HP because when she's in the front Definitely, she's gonna take hits and this will replace her HP. That is why I used it And the other two are going to be provident. So this is going to be your attack plus 6% and also an additional crit rate of 6% as well your other option if you don't have these would be equipping this set The Eastside dream which is going to give her normal attack damage at 15% this will make Zoya more of a On a more of attack oriented This one is more balanced because this will give her a chance to gain it HP especially if She is kind of, you know, having a lot of things to Confront with especially with enemy. So again either of the two sets or set sets Is going to be good.  So a combination of both Okay, guys. So for her deployment role Zoya is I actually use her as type of a bomb sometimes what I do is I would Take her out and if there are a bunch of enemies here Put her in the middle then use her ultimate. Sometimes I do that Sometimes I use her as a bottleneck in Entry, let's say for example here. This is going to be the entry point So As you can see here, so if there are multiple, you know Multiple pathways merging in one entry point. I usually put her there even though she cannot block multiple enemies She can definitely damage What is coming her way and she can hold her own So again, she is usually I usually use her beside Nox to Probably take care of the biggest waves that I have in terms of enemies waves that Nox can also kill with the three rows and Zoya will actually pick them off once they for example reach Her her what they call this her grid or her square once they reach her then use the ultimate Then she does a lot of damage. So again, she can be used For light enemies And also for heavy enemies as well. So again, she's your bruiser. Just keep her alive. Sometimes I would use this kill Not this one this one so that I Could evenly distribute the damage to all sinners. This is link. So sometimes I use it with With Zoya, sometimes I use it with Nox Again, she will be your main bruiser aside from Nox. Nox is more of her burst damage Zoya's burst damage to Nox is not as comparable But again, Zoya has her uses especially if you try to leap her across the field and do her ultimate She is going to deal a lot of damage there imagine that you deploy her in the middle and this 9-square area will be full of damage. So you can use her as an AOE bomber and That is her play style guys Okay, so in terms of Zoya's shackle, I know it's unfair that I have her ready at 5 But it took me a while because I was summoning on her banner Previously and I went kind of all out on that and the rest I There was a free Zoya in the store as well Not not a free one that one that we could purchase so that was the one for the fifth one But if you're trying to build Zoya right now The best one is to go is number one because this extensively just arrival Duration by 5% this is kind of similar to Noxus increase in duration This is by 5% the next that you will try to bring her is at number four Because again any energy consumption reduction in your ultimate is very well comes because again the cost is lower and You can spam it more quickly. So definitely go with number one Then ensure way up to number four number five is a damn, you know, it's additional damage It's an additional norm attack of five percent So more or less one and four will be your targets for her shackle. Okay, so let's go to her exclusive crime brand to Determine whether she is going to be worth it for phase three So for phase three while Legion's arrival is activated Zoya gains 30% additional damage reduction It becomes immune to negative effects Definitely. Yes, she's going to take a lot of hits If she is your primary or secondary DPS or damage dealer or slasher in the front Definitely, she's going to need this as For as her phase three, okay So definitely if you're going to have her as your main or main or secondary front line, you know a sinner Definitely, you'll need this phase three skills. So she's going to be a must I'm going to have her at phase three after knocks So she's going to be more resilient at the front Additional damage reduction and could probably so survive more hits. So that is it guys for for Zoya Definitely phase three Phase three must so thank you. Stay safe. See you in the next one


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As a matter of fact, our master detective is at this moment closeted in his laboratory while Patsy Bowen, his efficient and long-suffering secretary holds the world at bay in his second-story office and consulting room. Finally, the hidden door that leads to a secret passageway creaks open and at her, Nick Carter. Patsy, would you get that blame thing fixed? Not me. The way you gumshoe around without making a sound gives me the jumps. Every time I think I'm in a perfectly empty room and suddenly look up and see you at that old roll-top desk which you won't let me throw out. As if you just materialized out of thin air, it makes my heart do nip-up. Yes, Patsy, your grammar's a bit thumb-diddle, but I think I get your drift. You want me to stamp her on a bumper to furniture like the average man? I do not. Tell me, did you finish whatever it was you were puttering around with up in the laboratory? I did. I examined the shirt the man accused of the Pemberton murder was wearing the night Daily Pemberton was killed. But that shirt had been washed and ironed here. Like so. Murderer made the common mistake of believing that a thorough washing and boiling would eliminate traces of his crime. But not with a modern benzidine test, sweetheart. Oh? Took me less than three drops to reveal the presence of blood stains. Mr. Pemberton's blood. You needn't look so pleased. I'm always pleased when I've managed to enter criminal career. Murder so often becomes a habit. Huh? Anything happen when I was upstairs? Anything, everything. The mayor called, the head of freedom for Moravia called, the tenant Riley called, the butcher called. Trivia, all trivia. Anything worth bothering about down in the waiting room? This is Delacy Trump's pearls. What about them? Stone. Tell her to report to insurance company. She can. Seems some jiggler's wiped them. She doesn't want her husband to find out. Not interested. Old Mr. DeWitt Hemingway's second wife has run away. You should have done it years ago. Not interested. Mr. Roger Winthrop, author and lecturer, has taken a house in some forsaken spot up the river. He's writing a history of the folklore and superstitions of the Catskills. He wants you to know. I never collaborate. Besides, what I know about the River Valley superstitions and the plenty gory, he can dig out of the records for himself. Not interested. Will you not jump to conclusions, Nick? He does not want you to collaborate. His servant has been hexed. The local witch has put a curse on him. And he's had a succession of headaches or corns or something. Tell him to wear a nice affetative bag. I believe that's a useful round. It's too late. The servant, whose name was Jacob, died about dawn this morning.   Well, why didn't you say so? He wouldn't let me. Send Mr. Winthrop up. Well, send him up. What are we waiting for? Keep your shirt on, Nick. I can't have him shot out of a cannon.  Butch.  Butch, Mr. Carter will see Mr. Roger Winthrop. You mean the guy with the ribbons on his glasses? Right the very first time. OK, Mr. Winthrop. Hey, halfway up the stairs already. Athletic for an author, I'm fancy. Come in. Mr. Carter, Mr. Nick Carter, where is he? Right behind you. Mr. Carter, I am. I know. Roger Winthrop. Author. I'm now engaged in collecting data for my latest novel. In fact, I have already. Has this novel anything to do with your servant's death? Why, no. Let's skip it. Of course. But if it went for the novel, I never would have rented the old Brocken house. And we'd never have met the old Witch. You said Witch? He did. You keep out of this, Betsy. What old Witch do you mean, Mr. Winthrop? Who is this, sir? I'm Nick Carter's secretary, and then you enter General Factotum, and the lady who shows the buttons on his shirt. Now let's get back to the Witch. She sounds more interesting. Thanks. Of course, I don't actually think she is one. Still, the natives who live around the Brocken farm are quite convinced of the fact. It seems she's placed a curse on people before this.  Young William Tappan was thrown from his father's farm horse and dragged twice around the barn. Henry Vandervoort fell out of an apple tree and broke his arm. And Johnny Upsendike had scarlet fever and jaundice both at the same time. It seems to me I've heard of accidents like that happening to kids even without their being ex. Yes, Betsy, but that's not the significant part of the narrative. What is? The boy's last names. Tappan, Vandervoort, Upsendike. I take it, Mr. Winthrop, the old Brocken farm you've rented is in a Dutch community. It is. Up the river at the foot of the Donderberg. Wild hag-ridden country. Those families settled there before the revolution and had married and intermarried ever since. All but the Brockens. They seem to have been disliked right from the beginning. Some say they aren't Dutch at all, but Hessians. Yes. Let me see. Brocken. Isn't that the name of that mountain in Germany where all the witches are supposed to gather on Walpurgis nut? Yes, that's why the Brockens are said to have settled where they did. Because old Donderberg, the local mountain, bears a strange resemblance to the Brocken. I see. Local gossip has it that on the eve of May Day, which, as you know, is Walpurgis nut, all the family and their cats, they've always had black cats, would swoop up the chimney on broomsticks, and fly away to Donderberg Mountain for some sort of witches' Sabbath. Then this witch who's supposed to have hexed your servant Jacob is, I gather, one of the famous Brocken. She's the last of them. Miss Hermina Brocken is an old maid. And when she dies, the family will be extinct. And high time, too, if you ask me. Now, you don't really think she's a witch. No, but she's a vindictive, highly neurotic. I might even say dangerous female. And you think she killed Jacob? I do.  She named the doll Jacob, of course, and then began sticking pins into it. And last night, or rather early this morning, he died. Tell me exactly what happened. Well, I rented the Brocken house for the summer. It seemed to have the sort of weird, not to say, sinister background I needed for my novel. Did Miss Hermina go with the house? Oh, no, no. She and her cat moved out to a sort of farmer's cottage. I insisted on that. I can't abide cats. Well, as I was saying, last night I was in my study scribbling away the better part of the night. It was a peculiarly black night, you may remember. This is what is called the dark of the moon. Yes, yes, I know it. Well, finally I became aware that everything was unusually quiet. And then I realized I'd worked through the entire night. And this was that queer, unearthly silence that comes just before the dawn. Suddenly I was conscious of a dull, muffled thud, a thud that was almost a clan. What was that? Curious how strange sounds become at night. Sounded like the clan of a coffin lid. Better lay off work for tonight, Winther of Old Boy. First thing you know, you'll be imagining ghostly footsteps. Good Lord, what's there? Something's coming around the corner of the house. That's the toolhouse door. Someone's trying to get in.  Better go see what it is before my imagination makes a fool of me. I'll take the lamp. It's probably nothing at all. Just the wind rattling the lock. But there isn't any wind tonight. Pull yourself together, Winther. Down the steps to the woodshed. Yes, something is moving the lock. Someone's out there. Some wait till I unlock the door. I'm done for. Jacob, what are you doing out here this time of night? Jacob, what's wrong with you? I don't go near it. Don't go. She's right. It goes straight down the hill. But I, I, I, I. Good Lord, he's having convulsions. Jacob, Jacob. And what happened then, Mr. Winther? Jacob died right there in my arms. It was horrible. As the death raffle left his throat, his right hand relaxed and something rolled to the floor with a metallic clink. I picked it up and brought it here, thinking it might serve as a clue to this whole horrible business. Let me see. Here. Black with AIDS. Looks like a metal slug of some kind. Betty, how about giving this a going over with that metal polish you keep around for polishing up the door now? With pleasure. Right here in this drawer. I keep it handy, Mr. Winther, because all the hardware in this old house is brass. And I always say, what's the good of having real brass furnishings and looking to keep them well? I'm not interested, Pat, to postpone the housekeeping. Well, Mr. Winther, from your description of Jacob's death, the panting, the dragging footsteps, and the final convulsions, I'd say it was probably poisoned. No possibility of suicide, I suppose. Of course not. It was the witch, Miss Hermina Brocken. I told you she'd put a curse on him. Curses don't cause convulsions, Mr. Winther. I never said they did. The point was, she hated Jacob enough to want him dead. Why? Well, I suppose it was my fault in a way.  He unearthed plenty. Some of them, like the headless horseman and the crew of Hendrik Hudson, who go bowling in the mountains whenever there's a storm, have already been recorded by Washington Irving. Yes, yes. Then there's the two spectral riders who are supposed to be the ghosts of Major Andre and General Benedict Arnold. They met and rode through that territory. You know the night Arnold sold out to the enemy. Yes, yes. Then there's the story of a lost treasure that's supposed to be cursed, not to mention a batwoman and a black culture who appears whenever there's to be a death in the valley. Interesting, but irrelevant. Why did Mr. Rocken hate Jacob? Certainly not because he worried those stories out of her. Well, no. As a matter of fact, I rather imagine Jacob overdid his attentions for the old girl. When she discovered he had a wife and five children in the Bronx, well, she turned on him like a vixen. It was all Peter and I could do to tear him away from her. She was trying to scratch out his eyes. Hell, have no fury and so forth. Quiet, Betty. Just who is Peter, Mr. Winter? A local character who does the gardening for me. He's, well, not exactly bright, but he can make anything grow. How does he get on with Miss Rocken? Scared to death of her. Carries a piece of cold iron in his pocket all the time he's around the place. If you touch cold iron, you know a witch can't harm you. Speaking of cold metal, how's this for a handsome hunger staff? It shines better than I do or not now that I've got the tarnish off. Well, very interesting. That coin, Patsy, is gold. What? I'm very skinny, to be exact, minted in the reign of George III. In those days, coins like this were called Trader's Gold. For Pete's sake, why? 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Most of the barns had hex signs painted on them. Nick, have you noticed the clouds gathering behind that mountain? Yes. Imagine the old dustbin will start their game of ninetons any time now. Hope we'll reach your house, Mr. Winthrop, before the storm breaks. It's just over the next rise, Mr. Carter. Here's the gate behind the lilac bush. Well, that's what you'd call a very good repair. After you, Betsy. Thank you. That's the house down there in the hollow. And that's Peter sitting outside the toolhouse door. I gave him strict instructions not to let anyone move the body until you arrive. I know you detectives prefer to find your clues undisturbed. It's sometimes helpful. Why doesn't Peter sit inside the toolhouse? Because he's afraid of the dead. There's a superstition around here that the soul of anyone who's died a violent death is afraid of being alone and always tries to take along a companion. Oh, what's that? Something up there in that tree. It's there to celebrate it against the sky. A black cat. It's Miss Brocken's hecuba. They're inseparable. If that cat's around. Then the brocken female isn't far behind. I wondered who's been following us the last quarter mile. Nick, I didn't see her hear a thing. You, you don't mean she's invisible or something? Come, Mr. Fetcher. I'll admit she's kept out of sight. But no disembodied spirit breaks twigs and rustles dead leaves. She's imperfectly audible to anyone that took the trouble to listen. Here, that's it. She does stuff in a little pebble. My feet are chattering, so I couldn't hear an ambulance. Oh, Nick, I don't like this place. Easy, Fetcher. Oh, here comes Peter. Poor guy, he looks relieved. I thought you was never coming. I told you I wouldn't stay if you didn't get back before night falls. But we did, Peter. This is Mr. Nick Carter, the famous detective. He'll find out what killed Jacob. The light's fading fast. Better make her examination before it's completely dark. Oh, Catty, it may not be nice. You want to stay out here? Well, that woman and her cat crawling through the bushes and a storm coming up the side? Thank you. I'm coming inside, no matter what's in there. Hold the flashlight steady, Fetcher. It's horrible, isn't it? Extreme written mortise and marked italic constriction of the muscles, yours who firmly clamped together to permit any investigation of the oral cavity. We can take a look at the inside of the lips. Oh, the poison, whatever it was, was violent, but I don't think it would have ministered my mouth. No. Now, let's see. Rest in the instep of the shoes between the so-called heels. Heavy boots and tortler trousers, no, nothing to lower them. Ah, hands bare. Yes, yes, look here. The two small punctures of the right thumb. Yes. Fetcher, help me roll back a sleeve. Right, Mr. Carter. Here we are. Two more. And here again. And again. And all the punctures have already started to gangrene. That's how the poison entered the body. That's the evil eye, those two dents. It's the mark of the evil eye.  Interesting idea, Peter, but what killed Jacob was quite a bit more deadly than any evil eye. You mean you know who killed him? Definitely. The question now is to find where the killer's hiding. But, Nick, I... Let's see if we can get a line on how Jacob spent his last 12 hours.  Or when you might prepare a few slides. Right, you are. Just exactly what you're doing that for, Mr. Carter. They're cleaning the dead man's nails, I mean. A good scientific detective, Mr. Wendler, can pretty well deduce from what he finds under any person's nails, where that person has been and what he's done for some time previous. Oh, slides, please, Petty. Here you are. Isn't my most powerful lens, of course. This flashlight isn't as strong as one could wish. Will... You got anything there? Yes. Quite a few things. We ate a piece of chocolate cake for dinner, with a finger to put. Sawed quite a bit of wood. A minute bit of sawdust. That was yesterday afternoon. They also plucked the chicken reasons very impolite to furniture. Finely globules of very fine oil. The most interesting ingredient in the whole collection is a certain tiny spored mold of fungus. Great deal of it, as a matter of fact. Maybe he went out picking wildflowers in the woods. No. This particular fungus only grows in places where there's a great deal of moisture and where sunlight never reaches. Any place like that around here, Mr. Wendler? Basement? Springhouse? No, no, the basement's bone dry and there is no springhouse. How about a well? There are few enough improvements on the place. No electricity, no telephone. But we do have a hand pump in the kitchen sink. Which means that there's a well under it. Jacob couldn't very easily get down into it. I'd say it would be absolutely impossible. Wait a minute. There's some sort of boarded up stonework with a padlock out back of the barn. I remember someone told me it's a condemned cistern or well of some sort. Yeah, that's the witch's well. You'll be wise to stay away from it.  A way to hell? Yeah. Weren't those Jacob's last words before he died? One yes, Mr. Carter. Come on, show me the place. Unless I'm very much mistaken, that's where we'll find the answer to this problem. At the bottom of the well. Counted as if Henry Hudson's crew had started a game of 19.  Nick, Nick, I just remembered something. Now what? Isn't tomorrow the 1st of May? That means this is Walt Pregis' night. When witches ride and graves give up their dead, yeah. That one sounded like a strike. This is the cistern, Mr. Carter, or whatever it is. I thought you said it was padlocks, Mr. Winterf. It always has been. Not now. Locks flying on the ground. The staples all bent and twisted. That's as if someone had broken it. And the cover's been moved recently, too. But here, Nick, these scratches on the stone. That thing, I do believe you're finally beginning to notice things. You know where you can go, don't you? Yeah, that's just where you will go if you get too interested in that well. Now look here, Peter.  You don't really think Miss Brocken's a witch? I know she is. Ever see a ride a broomstick? No, but I've seen her go down this well. When was it? Winter nights. Me and my brother Timmy would hide in the hay of that old barn and wait for her to come along. First we'd hear the scrape as she pulled off the lid.   Why do you think she did it? Climb down inside, I mean. You get warm, of course.  You never went down in summer? Oh, I should, she. It's hot enough right here in the valley in summertime. Very interesting observation, Peter. And it verifies my hunt just how Jacob was killed and why. What do you mean, Mr. Carter? Help me pull the lid off this well, and I'll show you. Here, take that side, and I'll fix it. Right, I need it. There. That does it. Now, Clatsy, give me that flashlight. Here you are. Thank you. Now, let's see what we've got. Ah, yes. Notice those rusty spikes driven into the stonework to form a sort of ladder? And notice where the rust has been scraped recently. That's how Jacob got it in his boots. He followed Miss Brock in his example and climbed down into the well. You'll also notice that the stones are covered with that curious fungus we found under his neck. Nick, she's watching us. Over there under that apple tree, and the cat standing on her shelf. We've been waiting for you, Miss Brogdon. I think you can tell us how Jacob died. It was his own greed killed him. I warned him no man could go down there and live. You knew he died if he went down into the well, and yet you let him go. I did not. I refused him the key I did, but he broke open the lock like a thief when no one was locking. He wouldn't listen, and so he had to die. And I'm not sorry. You killed him. Easy, Wintlop. Miss Brogdon isn't responsible for Jacob's death. Then who is? You said yourself he was poison. Quite right. And I think if I drop this rock down into the well, we may rouse the killers. Aye, if you do, let's play you that devil's tattoo. Oh, let me be careful. I'm afraid. Here goes the stone. Now, let's... Nick, I heard him. Good Lord, what is it? Rattlesnake. Forget this is rattlesnake country. And I rather imagine there's a rattlesnake nest down there. Aye, that there is. Old ones and young ones. The darlings. I told Jacob not to go down in that well. I told him he'd go to hell, but all he cared for was gold. And so he's dead! Dead! Dead! And I... One thing I still don't understand about that Donderberg mystery. Why did Jacob go down into the well? And why wasn't Miss Brogdon bitten when she did the same thing? I'll answer the last question first. Miss Brogdon was careful to make all her descents into the well in winter. What for what? You see, when snakes hibernate, they become cold and almost lifeless. As can a snake charmer. It's an old trick of the trade to put snakes on ice just before a show makes them quite harmless. Oh. And as for the reason that drew both Miss Brogdon and Jacob into the well, I deduced from the sample Jacob had in his hand that the Brogdon well is a hiding place of Benedict Arnold's famous lost treasure. What's that? Major Andre is supposed to have given Arnold a golden guinea for every man then garrisoned at West Point. Arnold undoubtedly hid the money and didn't have time to dig it up when he had to flee for his life after his treachery was uncovered. But if the Brogdon family knew where it was, why didn't they use it themselves? Probably because they felt it was painted money with a curse on it. I see. Well, thanks, Nick. Now in just a moment, I want you and Patsy to give us a preview of next week's exciting case. Everybody's heard the old saying that home is where the heart is. 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Linux Cream Polish, Linux self-polishing wax, and Linux clear-glass varnish at your nearest hardware, paint, or department store. And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. Well, Nick, what about next week's story? Next week, Ken, I think I'll tell you the story of how an heir mysteriously disappeared before it was born. And a curious and frantic case it was. When a woman who's going to have a baby any minute disappears into thin air right on the threshold of a famous maternity hospital, then she... Now, Patsy, don't give the whole plot away. Wait until next week. What do you call a story, Nick? I call it The Vanishing Lady. Nick Carter, Master Detective, is featured in Street and Smith magazines. Lawn Clark is starred as Nick with Helen Chote as Patsy. Original music is played by Lou White. The programs are written by Edith Meiser, and any resemblance to their interactual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The entire production is under the direction of Jock McGregor. 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Today marks the beginning of a new exercise. Welcome to, I don't know what I'm calling this, lifting talk with Lance Goikey, that's me, and welcome to my living room and my girlfriend's lovely couch. Today we're starting the pushup. So what is the pushup? Basically it's thought of as a chest exercise, but I like to think of it more as a moving ab exercise. So yes, you are indeed working your upper body, your upper body muscles, and you can develop them pretty well with pushups. But if you're going to do them effectively, you need to have the right core position, middle position, and good scapular mechanics, scapular position, because that will keep your neck relaxed, it'll keep your back stable, it'll help you turn your abs on, and you can still get the training effect that you're looking for. So what's a pushup? Let me make sure I got a tight frame here today. Okay, good. So the pushup is pictured kind of like this sometimes. I know that's a little shallow, maybe it might go all the way down. Try not to bang that mic too much. But I like to do them in very particular ways. So if you're going to do this corrected, or correctly, first thing you got to do, I'm exaggerating my hip position here. First thing you got to do is round your low back. I'm trying to bring my stomach into my low back, okay? I get that.  I can feel my abs on the outer, lower oblique parts of my body. I'm going to hang on to that. If I can't feel that, just take a big exhale. Oh yeah, now I can definitely feel it. And then from there, I am going to pull myself down to the ground and push myself away from the ground, right? And then once I get to the top, I don't stop here. I need to make sure I finish with my arms long. I find this very particularly difficult, especially with my neck pain. But that's the idea, right? Pull myself down, push myself all the way away. And yes, I do that on every single one, every single rep. That little muscle that you get there helps support the scapula and helps prevent the scapula from winging off the rib cage. So if you're doing a push-up, it can become very therapeutic as long as you do it really well.