The first step in discussing data science methods is to look at the methods of sourcing or getting data that's used in data science. You can think of this as getting the raw materials that go into your analyses. Now you've got a few different choices when it comes to this in data science, you can use existing data, you can use something called data APIs, you can scrape web data, or you can make data. We'll talk about each of those very briefly in a non technical manner. But right now, let me say something about existing data. This is data that already is at hand and it might be in house data. So if you work for a company, it might be your company records, or you might have open data, for instance, many governments, many scientific organizations make their data available to the public. And then there's also third party data, this is usually data that you buy from a vendor, but it exists. And it's very easy to plug it in and go. You can also use APIs. Now that stands for application programming interface. And this is something that allows various computer applications to communicate directly with each other. It's like phones for your computer programs. It's the most common way of getting web data. And the beautiful thing about it is it allows you to import that data directly into whatever programmer application you're using to analyze the data. Next is scraping data. And this is where you want to use data that's on the web, but they don't have an existing API. And what that means is usually data that's in HTML, web tables and pages, maybe PDFs. And you can do this either with using specialized applications for scraping data, or you can do it in a programming language like our Python, and write the code to do the data scraping. Or another option is to make data. And this lets you get exactly what you need. You can be very specific. And you can get what you need. You can do something like interviews, or you can do surveys, or you can do experiments, there's a lot of approaches. Most of them require some specialized training in terms of how to gather quality data. And that's actually important to remember, because no matter what method you use for getting or making new data, you need to remember this one little aphorism you may have heard from computer science, it goes by the name of Gigo, that actually stands for garbage in, garbage out. And it means if you have bad data that you're feeding into your system, you're not going to get anything worthwhile, any real insights out of it. Consequently, it's important to pay attention to metrics or methods for measuring, and the meaning exactly what it is that they tell you. There's a few ways you can do this. For instance, you can talk about business metrics, you can talk about KPIs, which means key performance indicators also used in business settings, or smart goals, which is the way you're describing the goals that are actionable and timely and so on. You can also talk about in a measurement sense classification accuracy, and I'll discuss each of those in a little more detail in a later movie. But for right now, in some we can say this data sourcing is important because you need to get the raw materials for your analysis. The nice thing is there's many possible methods, many ways that you can use to get the data for data science. But no matter what you do, it's important to check the quality and the meaning of the data so you can get the most insight possible out of your project.


Hi, this is Kevin Curry from the Ford Foundation's Natural Resources and Climate Change program. And my colleagues and I were thrilled to join with more than 20 governments, philanthropies, and other funders in committing a collective $1.7 billion over five years to promoting the tenure rights and forest guardianship of indigenous peoples, afritascendants, and local communities who manage and protect the world's tropical forests. This was important not just because the persistent failure to invest in the work of these communities perpetuates inequality, but because it's just plain stupid. We know that investing and empowering indigenous peoples and local communities in tropical forests is what will give us a fighting chance at stopping deforestation, preserving biodiversity, protecting public health, and mitigating climate change. But for us, joining the pledge is not just about moving more money to the ground into the hands of communities who know how to make the best use of it. It's about working with our peer funders to remake the funding landscape, to recognize where we've failed in the past, and to come together with indigenous peoples and local communities to talk about how we can be more effective and responsible partners in empowering them to do the work that matters most.


It's DDK and I'll back send you another door dance video. You saw everybody tuning in. If you aren't subscribed, make sure you subscribe and if you are subscribed, I need everybody to stop the video right now. Five, four, three, two, one. Smash that like button. Today is Wednesday, December 8th. For those of you who didn't watch the video yesterday, I just want to let you know, go watch that. You will find out what a terrible day I had. We only made $104 yesterday and it was the worst day in door dance that I ever had by far, not even close. But today is a new day. So we about to hit 150 today. We only doing dinner shift because we have so much other stuff to do early today. We had to show a house. We had to get the drip ready for the new merch. You guys want to make sure you stay tuned for that. We got that new merch. Y'all gonna love it, baby. Y'all gonna love it. So make sure you stay tuned. Again, if you're subscribed, make sure you subscribe and if you're subscribed, make sure you give me a thumbs up. Let's go get this money. We got our first one in, 6.7 miles for 11.25 anair, bro. Let's get it. We in this zone, baby. Yes, ma'am. We are here to make sure this serves. Chocolate chip cookie hot chocolate. Let's go. We are here in the bony's. It's like nice and peaceful back here though. Very, very nice. Got a nice little setup back here. Leave that to do it. Like it's hot. Like it's hot. Probably not even with that photo. But y'all already know though. Photo. There we go. We going. Yes, sir. We just got a 14.75 for that joint. Let's get it. Got one Captain Porky's 2.7 miles for 6.75. Let's do it. We are here. I never picked up from here before. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Mommy, we can do the best friend. Excuse me, sir. Oh, I'm going to see him here with me. Oh, okay. Excuse me. Can you tell me where to pick up DoorDash orders? Here. Okay. Uh-oh, okay. This is my first time in here. Sorry about that. I'm going to have- Is it camera lean? Yes, ma'am. Okay. It's almost ready. Okay. Hello. Here you go, sir. All right, thank you. Have a great night. 8.75, baby. We supposed to get 6.75. We got 8.75. Let's get it. Mark, we just got a Walmart come in. It's five orders, 10 items. 18.7 miles for $31.25. Let's do it. Way to Walmart. This is what happens, this guy. This is what continues to happen. That's why we can't get a good amount of money doing a lot of dashes, because it's 5.41 right now, which is dinner time, and we got this Walmart order. So we're taking our orders. So we got the Walmart order, and the Walmart order is actually going to put us in Wisconsin. There's five different orders, so like four of them are in Wisconsin. So we're going to be up there. My plan is to try to, when we get up there, try to dash up there if it's possible, but I'm not sure. So we'll see you guys when we get to Walmart. Let's go. Dang, baby. Oh, excuse me. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I'll be moving kinda fast. Come on, let's go. Come here, come on, what is it? What's going on, secret? I'm fine. Who's supposed to be up here doing a job, man? Come on, what is it? I'm trying to get this money right quick. Nah, I'll call her right now. Customers need assistance at the pick up power. Mommy, they're like, dude, they need to have this. So we can see it. Yeah. So I'm here to pick up a DoorDash order at the pick up area. Jerome, are y'all here? Oh, okay. All right, nevermind, somebody up here now. Baby, scan, let's get these bags. Let's go. Y'all seen that one? Let's go. I'm trying to hurry up so we can get back, get this money. The phone is moving slowly, you guys. Took that photo? We gone. We got a big bag. 710, let's get it. Back in Walmart, on the subway this time. I'm gonna have a DoorDash for Tammy M. Thank you, appreciate it. Here's the drinks here. We got it, food is here. All right, thank you. Have a good one. On Chick-fil-A 6.8 miles for 875, let's do it. Baby, this is a beautiful house and a beautiful neighborhood. Chilies, it's like literally like 800 yards, 625, let's get it. I'm gonna have a DoorDash for Andrew T. Andrew. Andrew, yeah. 1,000 years later. Guarantee 1,000% this is my order. Dude knew I was waiting for his order, too. Instead of him bringing it out to me, he gonna put it right here. He knew I was right here. Tell you about people. Tell me, baby. I'll just tell him. I'll come out and tell him. Let's go around the last one, of course. So it's the next day. I forgot to do the outro for yesterday. But yesterday we made $76.85. Boo. We were going for 150, but doing this acceptance rate challenge that I'm working on, it's had to be complete sounds with you guys. It has been a complete disaster. Every day it seems like right when it's dinner time and it's about to start flowing, they always give me order. They're pushing me out somewhere else then I have to come back. And by the time I get back at 7 o'clock, people ain't even getting no more. So it's been terrible, honestly. But hopefully we reap a reward at the end. I'm not sure as of right now to be honest with you guys. I don't think it has changed anything. Our acceptance rate is actually at 77% right now. And we're about to start dashing soon. So hopefully we're gonna get it up to at least 90 and see what happens. But to be completely honest with you guys, it's been terrible, completely terrible, baby. Hopefully we're gonna get this money today. Let's see if we can get it started. Let's see if we can get too fixed today. We need to make up for the days. We only had like 300 and some dollars for a week. It has been completely terrible. So we're gonna keep going. We're gonna keep going. We ain't stopping, we ain't dropping. We flying, we ain't lying. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. It's DDK. Oh yeah, one more thing. Make sure you smash that subscribe button. 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Welcome back to DEI Matters, Conversations with Margaret Cuedo-Thomas, and I am so excited today to have Cooper Katzman with us, who's a rising 12th grader at Arlington High School, who has this amazing story that I want him to share with us today. Cooper, thank you for being here today, how are you? Thank you for having me. I'm doing great. Good. I'm very excited to be here.  Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Yeah, so the long trail is a trail that starts at the border of Vermont and Canada, and it goes all the way to the Massachusetts and Vermont border. And like you said, it's 275 miles, and I've done it one time before, and this time I was trying to do it a little bit faster, and I had the idea with this platform I thought I could use to raise money for a cause that affects me personally. And I thought the Anti-Demovation League has a very good overall message and they're a nationwide organization that really spreads a lot of positive and a very good message. And I really liked, I really thought that it was a good idea to sort of take initiative and raise money for them, and I think it was a very, it was very impactful for me, and I think it was a great experience, and I really think it was great to inspire so many people and have so much support, and I got a lot more support than I initially thought, and it was just overall a great experience, and I'm very glad I was able to share it with so many people. That's wonderful. Can you tell me what led you to choose the long trail in Vermont for your journey? Like I said, I had done it one time before, and I've grown up, like my dad has been in the outdoor community for a long time, and I've grown up in this community, and so over the past couple years I've been doing a lot of smaller hikes, and I had done a little small section of it before, and a couple years ago, two years ago, I had done the whole thing with my cousin, and so this trail has really, I've grown up doing this trail and hiking around Vermont, so it felt like a very meaningful trail and a very meaningful area of the, like part of the world to hike in, so. So take me back a little bit. You make this decision to do this hike. When did you make the decision? Like how did you stop prepping for it? I know you just said that you did more smaller trails, but what gave you this idea, like this is what I want to do to raise this money for this great cause? I mean, initially it just started with me and my mom having a small conversation, because I had planned to do this hike probably about a year in advance, and me and my mom, or my mom and I, had had a small conversation about maybe raising some money, because a lot of people who I've known, who have done this trail before, have also raised money and raised awareness for other causes, so I knew it was a platform I could use, and I think me, my mom and I were having a small conversation, and she was just like, oh, the Anti-Defamation League is a very big nationwide organization that you can raise money for, and I was like, oh, that sounds great, and it sort of started as a small thing, and then we sort of, I got in contact with a few people at the organization, and they sort of helped me really make it more, like, create my message and help raise money and set up a portal to raise money for it, so. That's great. So, 275 miles, how long does that take? It takes many people do it every year. It takes people from four days who do it the fastest to 30 plus days, and my goal, I had done it before in about two weeks, and this time my goal was to do it in about eight days, and it ended up being about 30 miles a day, so it was definitely a difficult physical task, but also it was more of a mental task. I was walking about 16 to 17 hours a day. I was tired. I was getting decent sleep, but also it was just hard to be out there by myself. I had my dad out there who was supporting me the whole time, which was great, and also he was showing me message. I was getting messages from all these people with support, people I didn't even know were supporting me and supporting my cause, which was amazing, so. Do you know how many steps you had tracked 30 miles a day? I don't exactly know how many steps, but it was definitely a lot. It was probably thousands and thousands of steps, so. You mentioned something about the mental aspect of that. Can you share a little bit more when you say the mental aspect of walking 30 miles a day? So the mental aspect, I mean, I was by myself for probably 14, 15 hours a day just walking, and a lot of those days it was raining, I was cold, I was wet, I was uncomfortable, and there is every single day, many times a day, I just wanted to quit, and it was just struggling in, like, my inner self, struggling with myself, and trying to overcome that want and desire to quit, and just keep pushing forward, and really the biggest thing was people supporting me, other people, there are people who came out to the trail to support me, my dad supported me, I got messages from people just caring messages who were just, I don't think I could have done it without them, and there would have been no way for me to keep pushing forward if they didn't support me. You said some of the difficulties that you had was it was raining, it was cold, you want to give up, you said sometimes sleep was good, sleep wasn't as good, were there other difficulties that you had when you were doing the trail? I mean, physically it was definitely challenging, I was tired a lot, my legs definitely hurt, but I think I was overall in good shape, I was able to physically do it, but I think definitely the mental challenges, and I was able to actually walk and hike with my dad for a decent, maybe a couple miles a day, and we were able to have good conversations, and just even having conversations about silly little things that didn't even matter, just talking to someone else was great, and that really helped me keep going forward.  Well I think my mom definitely was a little concerned, but she knows, she knew that I was able to do this, she'd seen me go out and do other things similar to this, she knows other people were doing this, and I think having my dad out there supporting me helped made her feel a little bit better about it, but even he said, I mean I was in pain a lot, I was uncomfortable, and he could see that, and it was hard for him to see me in such pain and such discomfort and discomfort, and there are a couple times where he told me, just you don't have to keep doing this, you don't have to keep going, but he knew that it wasn't necessarily his place to make me quit or like make me stop, but he definitely knew that, and deep down inside of me knew it was it was hard for him to watch me struggle like that, but it also was a great experience for me after the fact, I think. How did you feel once you got to the end, like what was that feeling, can you tell us that feeling that you felt? The feeling, so the last three, I think I finished the trail at about midnight, and my dad and I actually got to walk and hike the last 14 miles together, which was really nice, and those last two miles before we got to the end, it was the entire trail was just one puddle, it was just flooded, and I think probably about two miles from the end I just stopped talking, and I kind of got into this zone, got into the flow, and I described it to my dad and a lot of people, it felt like the strength and power from everyone else who had like been walking that trail and who had done that trail was like coursing through me, and I really felt it was a very powerful moment, and when I finished it was just this sense of relief came over me that I was finally done, but when you get to the end there's actually a three-mile hike down that you have to do, so they like, they kind of trick you, they're like, oh you finished, but I still had to hike down three miles, but I got to the car, I slept all the way home, I got home, I slept for probably 15 hours, and then I was just got to relax, so it was a great feeling to finish. That's amazing, can I actually, I should have asked you this before, so what kind of like gear do you have as you're doing this hike? So it sort of varied for me, a lot of people will hike with a big backpack, and I started the first three days carrying all my stuff, and eventually I switched over to just carrying a small little pack with like water and food, so I would meet my dad at all these roads, and he would just give me more supplies, so I didn't have to carry too much, but a lot of people, everyone who's doing this without a support crew, I was very lucky to have my dad out there and supporting me every step of the way, and a lot of people have to carry all their own stuff, so I was very fortunate.  Yeah, I was able to change socks a lot. My biggest problem was blisters on my feet, so that was probably the biggest obstacle. I had pretty bad blisters on my pinky toes, and so that was definitely just constant discomfort, and I would change socks and I'd tape them, but nothing really helped that much, so it was sort of just do as much as I could, but also have to push through the pain and discomfort. Have to ask this question. Are you planning on doing that again? I mean, when I was on the trail, like, there were many times that I was like, I'm never coming, I'm never coming outside ever again, I'm never coming outside, but after I finished that there was a guy out there who got the fastest known time while I was out there, and people like that in spot, like, I was talking to my dad maybe a day after, I was like, oh, I think I can go out there and get the fastest time, I think I can do it faster, so when you're out there, it's a, it's an inner struggle, it's an inner battle, but everyone, most people, get off the trail and they wish they were back on in a couple days. So one of the questions I have for you, you did this during the school year? I actually started a couple days after, so I started I think June 26th, which was a few days after school, and I actually got to celebrate my 17th birthday on the trail, which was really cool, so my dad and I were able to, I slept in the van, and it was a couple days before the 4th of July, but this town, Stowe in Vermont, was doing their 4th of July fireworks, so I got to see fireworks on my birthday, which is really cool, so it was a special moment. Great, so what's, what's for the future? I mean, I think the future, there's a lot of, a lot of other trails, a lot of outdoor places I can go, I think this trail is definitely a special, special memory for me, and I think I'll definitely go back, but there's many other things, the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, which are 2,000 plus miles each, both definitely are intriguing to me, but I think I have to build up a little bit more. I think a lot of it is, as I mature and grow older, my mental strength is definitely increased, and it's less about the physical and more about being able to deal with challenges and not getting overly upset and handling my emotions very well. I like how you said that this experience has helped you to understand, you've gotten resiliency, you've learned how to pass through that difficulty of wanting to give up, and I think that that's a great message to your peers, that's a great message to me and to the adults of the world that things do sometimes difficult, but if we continue that, there's hope on the other side. Your goal was to raise $1,800, and I think you raised over $6,000. What was that feeling like that you had this one girl goal, but you surpassed the goal? What was your thoughts in regards to, as you said, people supporting you, what does that feel like that you had these people in the world that are like, this is great, we want to support you and not only support you in encouraging words, but we want to support you monetarily. I think the support was honestly one of the main reasons I was able to do this, and I think the money was definitely, in the first couple hours, people were doing, I think I had surpassed my goal, which was amazing, and just having so many people showing support, some people didn't necessarily donate, but some people would send messages and send support, so the money obviously was an amazing, I reached an amazing amount of money raised, but I think people supported in many other ways than just that, and I think it was just, it's great to see so many people be inspired by what I did, and it definitely makes me want to continue down that path of inspiring people with my actions and words. Before we started the segment, you and I were having conversation, and you were saying that there are some colleges that you are interested in, and I was saying that this might be a great way, how we have to tell our story to the colleges. Is this a story that you would be sharing in your entry? I think definitely, yeah, this is probably one of the most impactful moments of my life. I've definitely gained a lot of knowledge, wisdom, I've gained a lot of support, obviously, and I think this is definitely something I want to share. I've been able to share with so many people, and I think, like you said, an entry-level essay or whatever I would be, I'd like to share this with as many people as I can reach, so I think definitely I'd like to share this as much as I can. What are your peers thinking about what you did? What was that feeling when you got home, you got some rest now, your peers know that you're back? What was that conversation like with them? I mean, they all think I'm just crazy, so like they, none of them, I think they all think it's really cool what I did, but none of them are like, oh, yeah, some of them are, a lot of my friends wanted to go out and do something like this, they were inspired to go out and do like a small section of a trail, but a lot of them, a couple of them met me at the end of the trail, and they're like, you're crazy, you're ridiculous. My mom thinks my dad and I are crazy for doing stuff like this, but I think people definitely see this incredible achievement and are very inspired by it, and I think anyone doing something that they're passionate about, some people think it's crazy, but I think people see that passion and they get inspired by it. I'm inspired by what you did because some of the things that you said that going through this and you were talking about the mental aspect of it, and so much that you've learned about yourself and about strength and about resiliency, so I'm really impacted by what you did. I'm very encouraged and it makes me feel like there's things that I think about doing that now, maybe I want to enter in doing also. So what schools are you thinking about? I've looked a lot out in Colorado has been my, like I obviously I really like the outdoors, so the location of Colorado, Colorado Boulder and Denver University have been some of my top choices, but also staying local like BC and UMass Amherst, I've looked at a lot. And honestly, I'm not 100% sure yet, but I think there's just so many great options around here, but also out west. I just love love the mountains love the outdoors. So that's definitely a draw and it's definitely calling a little bit. Are you do you know like what you might want to major in? Um, or is that something that you're still thinking about? I my dad is a teacher and my mom's a social worker. So definitely something in like the humanities education has definitely been very interesting to me. So working with other people, being able to help other people. So sort of what I've been able to do with this, but a little bit more interactive with other people has definitely been interesting. So stuff like education has been very interesting for me. Is there any more that you're going to do with the league and your advocacy in that area or there are other organizations that you might be thinking about that you might want to partner with? Um, I'm thinking I'm definitely if I'm able to do another one of these trails or adventures, I definitely want to try and use that platform again. I think the Anti-Defamation League, I really like their message. They have a very big following and a lot of people know about them. So and they're able to spread that message. And so they were able to take what I said and just broadcast it to a larger audience. And I think I definitely and the people working there, they worked with me. They were great people, very, very helpful. They helped me set up a lot of stuff. So I definitely think I'll continue to work with them if I do another one of these trails, if I can. That sounds good. One last question for you. What are you looking forward to your senior year? I'm looking forward to a lot. Going back to school, seeing my friends. I'm looking forward to the senior soccer season. So sports, I'm definitely looking forward to that.  Enjoy it while I can, but also looking at other future endeavors. So colleges, like you said, and also maybe planning another trip, like another trail, another adventure. So maybe next summer, I'll be able to get out there again and do something like this. Do you think you can get some of your peers to go with you? I think so. I'm actually in at school. We're doing a backpacking class. I'm doing it first quarter. So hopefully I'll be able to go on a little bit smaller and a less extreme version of this, but definitely be able to get outside, get outdoors with a bunch of my peers. Yeah. Mr. Bruno does that. Yeah, Mr. Bruno. Who was that? Three days? He does three days? Yeah, I think so. So I'm excited for that. Yeah, he's great with that. Cooper, thank you for coming on DEI Matters. I really appreciate it.  I am so proud of you. I commend you for doing it. And if you do it again, I know people are going to continue to support what you're doing. Thank you again. Well, that's it for DEI Matters. Conversations with Margaret Cuedo-Thomas, and we hope to see you again.


This study evaluated an overground robotic gate trainer that applies synchronized forces on the user's pelvis, known as the Mobile Tethered Pelvic Assist Device, TAPD. The device was used to increase the range of frontal-plane pelvic angles, sagittal plane angles, and transverse plane angles during walking. It also increased the activation of the left gluteus medius muscle, which helps to stabilize the pelvis. The right gluteus medius muscle activation did not significantly differ when frontal-plane moments were applied. This study suggests that the TAPD has the potential to be used in overground robotic gate training strategies to address gate deficiencies or muscle weakness. This article was authored by Danielle M. Strommel, Antonio Prado, Serge Atroy, and others.


Hello, hello, what is happening guys? It's your boy Niche coming back at you guys today We're just doing a quick video on how to find your style because this is a question I get asked a ton on my Instagram and my YouTube comments about you know How to find the right style for you picking the right clothes to match your outfits and just developing wardrobes so that you can Develop that easily for you guys now when it comes to style and fashion obviously you guys know That's a big important part of my life and my personality and who I am and I take a lot of pride in my outfits And make sure that every day when I wake up I find something suitable that's well-dressed for the occasion You know whether it's going to class or going out to eat with my friends or going to the city Whatever it is finding the balance between comfort and style is a huge priority for me All right the very first and most important thing is obviously start with your basics I was telling anyone that's trying to get into the fashion game to always start with the essentials Whether it's your black t-shirt your black jeans maybe a denim jacket khakis items in your closet that you know Will be so versatile that you can pair with any type of combination and it will still look good And when I say basics and the essentials that means a lot of different things for different people But especially as I grow older I realize that the trendy stuff in the hype beats in the street where I mean That's all cool for now for a few months, but in a few years that's going to go out of style So you don't want to be dropping mad money on that when you should be investing in good quality basics like Sweaters or jeans and denim like I said and the brands that I always go for for that is obviously Levi's and H&M and Zara So that's what I recommend is just find good basics that will last you a long time and just start developing your wardrobe from there And then you can start branching out even more and I think the biggest thing when it comes to style is finding What's comfortable for you and most importantly what makes you feel good about yourself? You know at the end of the day like it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about you or what you're wearing like for me I never dress to really impress other people like I'm doing it for myself because it makes me feel confident Makes you feel like I can have a good start on my day And just knowing that you put in that little extra effort to compose a stylish outfit Whether you're in college when everyone else is just dressing like day to day normal clothes when you're you know Going out of your way to do that it just you know Makes you stand out just a little bit more which is something that I always take pride in now Besides just going for your basis one of the next most important things is to find brands that match your style now What I mean by that is there are hundreds of brands out there that do all different types of clothes whether it's sportwear or Athleisure or you know trendy stuff or whatever and finding the right brand that has the right pieces for your outfits to 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if you've been looking to expand your wardrobe a little bit want to get Something a little bit more trendy I highly recommend picking them up because they have some really quality stuff and as soon as they open to the public They're gonna sell out really quick so definitely get on that as soon as you can and I'll have them meet down below now Another huge tip when it comes to finding your style is obviously do your research now This comes in many different forms and factors, but for me especially when I have no idea what I'm gonna be pairing Let's just say like this sweater I just do a quick Google search of gray sweater men's fashion and it'll pull up dozens of pictures of how different people are Styling it whether it's blue denim jeans or black denim jeans or different type of jacket That just gives you inspiration of how to style your own outfit and make it your own because that's the most important thing You want to take inspiration from a lot of people whether it's Instagram or youtuber me or whatever But then the day you want to put that little twist on it and make it your own and make you stand out in the crowd Now after you've been trying out the basics for a bit and you want to start expanding and trying to Experiment a little bit more definitely recommend stepping out of your comfort zone and doing things that you normally wouldn't have Whether it's going for a more edgier fit or a more classier smarter fit whatever style you're going for like Definitely try and step out of your comfort zone because if you never take the time or the effort to you know Try something new then you're gonna just be stuck with the same old style forever And something I realized very early on for me is that I'm able to switch out my style very often and find different ones that I like because I know the basics of you know fashion and what looks good with each other and color blocking and things like that So I can go for a streetwear vibe if I want to I can go for a very classic vibe or I can go for a more Edgier vibe whatever it is I'm trying to go for because I have the essentials in my wardrobe built up Like I mentioned in the first step then I'm able to just swap different pieces out You know and buy a few accessory items or trendy pieces that will just kind of accentuate the entire outfit rather than just paying So much money to go for an entire trendy outfit. I thought about wraps it up for this video I hope you guys enjoyed these tips on how to find your own style because it's not an easy thing It's not a quick process. It definitely takes years and years of you know Just learning the game and finding what feels most comfortable for you at the end of the day Like I keep saying is that like dress for yourself I mean the dress to impress is very important and is influential in a lot of part of my lies But I never let anyone else's opinion of me dictate what I'm gonna be wearing or how I'm gonna be styling something because if I think I look good, then I know damn well I look good that's all for today make sure you guys hit that like button comment down below for more videos and subscribe And I'll see you guys next time


A while back I posted reviews to two popular PS1 games, Final Fantasy 7 and Chrono Cross. To which I got questions from some of you like, hey, are you going to do videos on PS1 role playing games now? Unfortunately the answer is no I'm not, those games are just too freaking long and time consuming and they eat into my time to look at other stuff. But as a compromise I thought it'd make a video highlighting some games on other systems that, if you liked stuff like Chrono Trigger or Lufia 2 or Final Fantasy 6 or Breath of Fire, you'd like these games too. Now I want to say right away I'm not an expert on a lot of these games. I know this is the internet and all it takes is some guy with a microphone speaking in declarative statements to make a person an expert, but I have limited exposure to stuff featured on 5th or 6th generation consoles, so then obviously this video is not meant to be a be-all end-all concrete representation of games. That's what the comments are for, so it's up to you guys in the comments to add what I'm missing or what stuff I'm getting wrong, alright? So, in other words, do the usual. Okay, so if you loved all the Super Nintendo role-playing games I listed earlier, then the most obvious of obvious places to start would be with the Super Famicom. There are seriously over 100 role-playing games that never left Japan, and only a fraction have been fully translated by fans so far. But as it is, you can go play stuff like Front Mission Gun Hazard, Live the Live, Fire Emblem's Seisen No Keifu, Seiken Tetsu 3, on and on. I've made an entire series of videos for Super Famicom role-playing games covering a lot of these, so if you haven't seen it, that'd be a decent place to start. The next obvious place would be the Super Nintendo's main counterpart, the Sega Genesis or Mega Drive, starting with Shining Force 2. I've rambled about this game in particular for a while now on this channel, the point being that the SNES never really did get a good grasp on strategy-centered RPGs, the ones that were released in the US anyway, and Shining Force 2 features an approachable style with an easier learning curve, great balance, and an upbeat soundtrack. It's one of the best games to come out in the 16-bit era, period. Some more easy choices on the Genesis are Phantasy Star 2, 3, and 4. The first game in the series is on the Sega Master System, and is decent, as long as you don't mind the insane Dragon Warrior amount of grinding you end up having to do. But if you're looking to scratch that JRPG itch with your typical throwback, visual presentation, and storytelling, then the Phantasy Star games on Genesis are definitely what you're looking for, especially Phantasy Star 4, which would easily fit into the top 5 role-playing games on the Super Nintendo because of the well-told story, the fantastic visuals, and art direction, and the memorable soundtrack. Next let's take a look at the Game Boy Advance, which features Golden Sun and Golden Sun The Lost Age. There's something very comfortable and familiar about these games, from the sprites, to the pacing, to the color palette, to the background designs, both of these games would fit right in on the Super Nintendo. The story features a village of people especially attuned to magic that are tasked with protecting the world from alchemy, which is something seen as dangerous, and somehow always used for evil, I guess. The combat is what you'd expect in games like this, with some minor changes here and there that make the game stand out a bit. One thing I will say is that the Golden Sun games are extremely text heavy, people just blather on and on and on, but other than that, both Golden Sun games are fun throwbacks. I have to mention Panzer Dragoon Saga, a game that a lot of people consider to be the best ever released on the Sega Saturn. It's the third game in the series, the first two games being rail shooters where you fly on a dragon and make stuff go boom, they're both super fun. Panzer Dragoon Saga though, takes that same kind of gameplay and adds some RPG elements, I wish more franchises tried stuff like this nowadays. The real time combat system is something a little different and a little more involved than most other role-playing games.  But yeah, this game is huge and it's really really good, easily one of the best games of the 90s. Hell, let's take a look at an N64 game. Yeah, believe it or not, they had a couple role-playing games I think. Ogre Battle 64, Person of Lordly Calibur, sticks out like a sore thumb in the N64 library, but it's a great freaking title. A sequel to Tactics Ogre let us cling together, but the gameplay is a lot more like March of the Black Queen for Super Nintendo, but with some key changes, like when individual units are killed here they become much weaker zombies if you don't pay to have them resurrected. It's just an extra touch the game implements that makes the player less inclined to just brute force their way through the game, and plan and manage their way through instead. Seriously, this is a great game that's easily one of the 10 best on the N64. Next we dive into the vast world of PlayStation role-playing games, and here's where I get a little in over my head because there's a crazy number of quality games here. Speaking from experience, I can tell you that Breath of Fire 3 is an obvious choice, I mean besides the fact that the first two games are quality Super Nintendo titles, so if you liked those two games and it's hard not to, then you'd love Breath of Fire 3. That's not to say you have to play the first two to enjoy the third game, it's a great standalone title that's well balanced with a well told story and a solid combat system. I've also played Lunar Silver Star Story complete, my old roommate from way back when had this game, and I was impressed at how freaking huge this game was without being too daunting or overwhelming. There's some good storytelling and real character development here. The closest Super Nintendo or more accurately Super Famicom comparison I can draw is the first Star Ocean game, as you can see here from the 2D battles with an emphasis placed on distance and movement, but even a huge game like Star Ocean is dwarfed in comparison to Lunar Silver Star Story complete. There's also stuff I've played bits and pieces of over the years, like Grandia, Wild Arms and Xenogears. Grandia features a unique, active time battle system that really stands out among a sea of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest clones. Wild Arms is truly something different in terms of the kind of theme and story you usually see in role playing games, and Xenogears, well, it's kind of a combination of both of those aspects I just mentioned, and it might be the best PlayStation role playing game out there, and that's saying something. There's also stuff I have to mention like the Sui Code in series, but I confess I've hardly played any of those games outside of the second one. Finally, I want to mention a game on the Nintendo DS that would absolutely fit in with the SNES role playing game library and its radiant historia.  Its innovative take on non-linear branching storylines is really cool, and it takes something tricky like time travel and manages to keep it mostly streamlined instead of messy and convoluted, while giving the player a ton of freedom in determining what happens in the story based on your actions. Those aspects, along with the combat system, make Radiant Historia a really cleverly made game that would be well worth anyone's time. Uh, no pun intended. Alright, so there you go, and once again it's time for your favorite part of the video to yell at me about what games I missed and that I need to quit my job and start playing whatever other game right this second immediately or whatever. But as always, thanks for watching and have a good rest of your day.


Welcome back to another product review and today I'm gonna take a look at the art of Batman The movie the Batman is out on a digital you can buy it It's gonna be out on 4k and blu-ray very soon pre-ordered, of course And yesterday I got the art of books. I want to take a look at it. This is the front the back the spine art I'm a massive Batman fan. So this is going to be mostly me going. Oh Yes Actually, I'll took a look at this. I love stuff like that I was hoping there I say spoiler for more Batman suit explorations. I love stuff like this I would have loved massive amount of pages exploring the suit now It does have you know early designs explorations like this. This goes on the bat suit. That's cool I like seeing this These are all the old logos that they use so far In explanations as to why they have this here. It's a cool read to of course cool gadgets Got the CG version here more suit designs. That's cool. I like seeing this and Then we continue on to gadgets But that's kind of it in terms of the bat suit. That's the biggest bomber. I do love stuff like that I love seeing all those design drawings Explorations that's cool to see in detail. The movie is pretty dark So you don't always get to see all that detail So I like seeing that and then we switch over to the batmobile So like I said, I would have loved to see more bat suit variations Maybe they're keeping this for sequels or I don't know what but that's a bit of bomber. That's cool, though I like that still cool to see him here Spoiler territory towards the end of course. This is actually the the bike that you see towards the end of the movie spoilers Batcave, that's cool. I do like seeing this in the back a but way manner Headed towards the Batcave These are taken More so directly here from the movie Very cool. Love seeing that Bruce Wayne we getting into character stuff. That is a really nice looking car I have to say it's also cool things every now and then they put in some of the comic strips or just panels Just kind of compare So yeah, it's pretty fast and pure is going through the characters Spending some time on the Riddler and then that's it the apartment I think the set design has a bit more exploration than the characters There I say that's not kind of cool though. I like seeing all of these from the movie and Then we go straight to the city hall Again, that's cool. I like all of this But even for him I would have loved to see more maybe a costume variations or costume designs there I say that's cool. That is cool. Now towards the end is a bit more of that, which is awesome These two are awesome. I love their voices in the movie. I could listen to them I gotta Google them and I am to be them and see that is cool See more of that. I would have loved 10 pages of this I am greedy, but anyway, I want to see and I want to look up those actors See what they're doing in terms of you know, other rules. That's all cool That's all cool because their voices are great. I want to listen to them in other movies. That's all cool I love seeing all of this sick. That's neat. I like that I'm just greedy when it comes to Batman and the suits. I love seeing this though. That's definitely great Is it more promotional images? That's cool. I like seeing that Classic Catwoman stuff in here Then we got awesome actor. If you haven't seen Severance, by the way, he's also great in Severance Interior is great. The iceberg lounge It's more of an art of it's not really a making of it doesn't really talk about the extensive Stagecraft work that I learned that this is cool. See that is cool, but then that's it I would have loved to see. I know more design variations sketches explorations, but that is cool I love seeing this VR to screen Oh, it's with the silhouettes. I love that. So it's not all bad I am a massive fan. So I'm devouring all of this. It's definitely cool But I would have loved to see slightly more again. That's cool. I like seeing that you can see the exploration And the planning for it city outside. Now, that's cool. That's some awesome artwork. That's definitely something I'm not gonna complain about Very cool square garden and we're getting into spoilers. This is the ends. Whoa Anything with back ears and back wings awesome Yeah Cool suits love it. And there we go The end of the book There you have it still cool. I like it I would have loved to see more more sketches more exploration more variations on the suit and some of the character stuff Early design explorations, but maybe there's more at a later point. I'm not sure now If you want a really cool Batman book that really scratches all those itches in terms of designs and characters Then it's this one. This one is awesome. Check out another video on my channel I'm gonna take a look at this as well and that's that for this flip through Thank you for watching and I will see you in one of my next uploads


Who kills JFK? 25 words or less? Yes. Was this country western music on when you got here? Yes, sir.  Hello. I'm Don Corleone, a Corleone political consultant. What do you get when you play a country western song backwards? What?  Going to the marketplace in this area of France is an incredible experience because you know there's something that's been done every week. Hey, hey, hey, can you switch that channel off? All I got on here is sitcoms and news magazine. Now, yes, but soon, very soon, there's going to be like 500 channels. Besides the sports channel, the weather channel, it'll be the ballet channel, the dog food channel, the old cradle network. There won't be any books or newspapers, no telephones. We'll only be able to communicate with e-mail and QVC. We'll all be interactive. All you need to see and hear, you'll see and hear without ever having to rise from your silly posture, Peter. I'm talking about high definition. I'm talking about virtual reality. I'm talking about living in the fast lane, the electronic information superhighway. You better get ready because it's coming. What's your magic playing here, Froggy? This is a blockbuster. You pay that FOV, I'll break his back. This is a bombshell. Activate the remote. Everything man does. It's a conspiracy. Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. Who's back where you're going to break? Peggy, at your speech, I don't even know who I was talking about. I don't know what you were talking about. Marilyn Monroe is dead. A marital drug sleeping. Used to work with me. In Dallas, Texas, three shocks were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promise. JFK was shaking up the status quo and the status quo struck back. Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Are you with the Falcon? Wait. What was the question? I see I'm doing this special and I'm looking for material. I haven't done one in years. What's funny? What should I be talking about in my act? Well, you shouldn't be talking. Sexual comedy. Sexual? What? Oh, intellectual. You've got only one thing holding you back from this being a great special. What? Talent. What's funny? What should I be talking about? What makes you laugh? I don't know. What you've got to do is resort to those who are no longer with us and take their actions. This is helpless.


Did it stop raining just right around the time? I have no idea, to be honest. I know I was raining when I'm around at the field, so that's all I know.  Have you been in any situations a million times, obviously, of, you know, lining up for these type of kicks? What goes through your mind? What do you do about the future, near your right? You kind of try to treat it every kick is the same. That's how I've kind of tried to do it. So, you know, we had a day going with three extra points, field goal already, so it was, you know, we felt like getting a pretty good rhythm.  That mindset, that rhythm, how much has your experience obviously played a leg during that?  So I think you can take everything, every kick I've learned something from, good or bad. So just try to take the good and move on and learn from the bad. Being able to get that game winning kick, that feeling afterwards, how do you describe that? No, it's always good to get a win.  Offense had a great start on. Moved the ball when he needed to and got us in range. So it was a total team effort. It wasn't just me. I just said I get to put the cherry on top. So, you know, the team did a great job today.  You say cherry on top, but last week, 15 points from you. Again, the game-winning field goal today, is this as good as a start with this team as you can look for? Yeah, I mean, anytime you can kind of help the team stay in games and win games, it's a good start. And hopefully we can keep it going. You know, we talk to Morgan after and we enjoy the game winners, but the same, you know, we like the blowouts too. So we can, you know, have a good time and get the win. I think the most important thing is just getting the win. We have to do it. And today was a, you know, a full team effort to do it. Notice him being different or not? No, and honestly, he was just steady Eddie, you know what I'm saying? I don't think that God has been in the lead that long. He really doesn't get flustered from one week to the next. And like I said, I just talked to him throughout the week, just kind of expecting, just looking at him like, he's going to have a game. I wasn't expecting that something to be, or the game that he had last with the snowball until, you know, constant bad games or anything like that. First impression that you guys gave last week wasn't very good. Right. How much is this game you guys? Yeah, I mean, it's like I said, it's great to get a win. I mean, obviously we're still a work in progress. We're still trying to improve. We still have a lot of things that we can get better at, but it's always better to correct those things when you get a win. And over time, it gets a really good ball of club. Like I said, it's a big win for us. You feel confident though that this is more what you are than last week? Yeah, I mean, even last week, we lost by one point. Obviously, this game, one field goal, since I've been here, we're usually in close games. It's not always going to be blowouts and things like that. So honestly, it just feels good to get a win since I think November or so. Fight for each other. No matter what, defense is going to feel. Offense is going to get a 10-0. It's OK. You know, we went for it early in the game. We went on the field. We made them kick a field goal in that situation.  And that's our goal each and every game, you know, to work together, especially offensive defense. And you know, today's show that we played as one, you know, it wasn't pretty. But at the end of the day, we played as one and got a win. You said that earlier in the week that, hey, it's time to win a game. How good is this game? Right. It feels wonderful, man. We haven't let go back on it, man. We haven't won games since the Packers, man. And today just, it's amazing, man.  So I told Tandy, man, you all caught it back, man. I believe in you. We got your back.  Yeah, we're speaking to Kim, what can you say about his counselor?  At the end of the day, like I said, we have his back. The defense got to do a better job each and every game to put him in position, you know, to, you know, get touchdowns or whatever it may be, points, you know.  So like I said, props to him. Bounce him back this week. I mean, it's always fun to score touchdowns. That's why, you know, why we play football, why we play receiver and Ryan gave a good ball and it was just, it was big. You know, we needed this win. It was a great play call, great scheme, you know, just all the preparation through practice that showed in that play. When it starts raining and Mike sends out Nick there for that field goal attempt, are you worried at all, the way it was just like, were you coming down? No, I thought it was just ironic. You just started right when the field goal team ran out. But I don't know if you noticed that it stopped for like five seconds during the kick. It was like right, right before the ball was snapped, it stopped raining. So had no doubt in my mind that Nick was gonna make that.  So I love seeing it. For a time for a team that had not won in the middle of eight straight months. Yeah, I mean, we needed to win big. It's a new season, obviously. And then, you know, we're one-on-one, trying to go two-on-one. But for the guys that were here last year, that was big. How big was it also that everybody contributed today? It seemed like everybody in the skill positions made big plays for the offense. Yeah, it was great. You know, everybody got a little bit, got a taste, got to be able to get to touching the ball. And I think that's kind of what we're trying to do. You know, we want to try to be able to use everybody, use the best strengths of everybody, you know, to our advantage in this show today. Teresa kind of mentioned it, just the fact that, you know, you guys were able to come back to win, get to one-on-one as opposed to one-on-two and break that losing streak. I mean, what's it say about the character of this team? Yeah, it's huge. You know, these guys, everybody in here has been working, trying to get this win. All throughout camp, all throughout OTAs, we got a sour taste in our mouth. After last week, obviously, you know, they were disappointed. So it's just good to get this, and the biggest thing is to grab ahold of it and keep this momentum. Ryan's taking an awful lot of... Is 100% back or...? I would just say I'm just going to keep getting better and better each week. What, speed-wise? It shows today. Trayla, just talk about the defense and then giving you a chance there at the end as well. Yeah, they played a big role in that. You know, they went out there and played their butts off, and we were able to get off the field on third down, and, you know, we were able to kick a field and win the game, and so, you know, that's really important. Sorry, if you've got me, I should start from you, but, you know... Oh, yeah, your long pass obviously kind of got the offense going a little bit. How important was that to make that play at that particular time? It was very important, you know, I was just out there. My name got called, you know, I went up and made it for them. The offense, saying how everybody contributed today, yourself, himself, Chib, Chris Moore, I mean, how big is that? Is that what you guys expect going forward where everybody can eat and make plays? Yeah, you know, this goes back to what I say. When your name's called, you make a play.  What's this win... Sorry about that. What's this win say about the character of this team? Honestly, you know, eight-game losing streak, and, you know, don't want to obviously start over, too. You know, we put the pass in the pass and just move and keep building on this. What's it say about the character of this team? Oh, man, we just... resilience. Like, obviously, in a football game, it's going to be highs, lows, you know, all week. People talk about the offense, talk about whatever. The defense not getting that last stop last week. And, you know, just the message that I always kept saying was whether we won or lost that first game, we got 24 hours. We just won this game. We're going to enjoy it tomorrow. Three o'clock, it's on to the next. And then we play the Browns next week, and we go on the road, and we got to be ready for them. Like, each week is a new week, and it presents new challenges, you know? And so the way you lost a one the week before, the other thing that shows up the next week, it could be something completely different. And you just got to be ready for everything, and I think it's just a true testament to the work that we put in all in the off-season and truly just sticking together and ignoring the noise.  I'm so proud of this team. That final, the men's zone, you know, making kick a field goal, so you have a chance in overtime, how big was that? Oh, it was huge. You know, Harold coming up with the sack. Me and Harold have been talking really since I got here, but, you know, the last couple of weeks, trying to find the rhythm.  You mentioned the complementary football. It seems like whenever the defense need to make a play, whenever the offense needed to make a play, they were able to do it. Not really the case last week. I mean, like I said, each week is going to present new challenges. You've got to learn from whatever happened the week before and flush it down the drain and keep going, and that's exactly what we all did as a group, offense, defense, special teams, and you've seen it happen today, you know. And obviously now it's going to be great because everybody's going to be like, oh, the Titans look good now, and da, da, da. And everything that everybody wrote trash is going to be good. And then you can't, like either way, I can't rely on what y'all say about me to dictate how we feel. We just got to keep staying true to who we are, staying true to what we talk about and our fundamentals as a team and keep going.


Hey, we're back, we're live. It's Wednesday morning, I'm Jay Fiedel. This is Think Tech. And the lady with me is Helen Turner. She's vice president of Shamanad. And she joins us, of course, by Zoom to talk about what effect COVID has had on Shamanad. Hi, Helen, nice to see you. Good morning, Jay. It's lovely to be here. Thank you for the invitation. Yes. Well, we're checking in to see how things are going up the hills, so to speak. And I wonder if you can give us a broad brush about how COVID has affected life at Shamanad, because we're all affected. And I'm sure that to some significant degree, so does Shamanad. Well, you know, of course. I mean, we've entered into this sort of new, very different world, right? All of us over the last few months. I think the tone here has been to look as much as we can at getting in front of this and not being caught on the back foot, right? And so, you know, our president, Dr. Lynn Babington, who sends her best wishes, by the way, she's... And mine to her. ...right from the start of this, you know, we can come out of this stronger together, but we really have to pay attention to how this is affecting our students, how this is affecting, you know, the anxiety levels among our faculty, you know, all of those kind of social-emotional things that are happening in addition to the kind of collective anxiety about operations and the public health issues and the future of the state. And so I think it's been a time for us, it's been a challenge to our operations, no question, but not so much a challenge to the sort of the value system that we work in. And I think some of those strengths around everyone's sense of mission, everyone's sense of how do we continue to put the students first and central in all of our responses, I think that has enabled us to approach this, you know, what can you say, as well as can be expected, but with this sort of atmosphere of a kind of prayerful optimism and trying to keep the students at the center of everything that we do and all the decisions we make. You know, we've talked to UH about this same issue about the effects of COVID, and we've talked to HPU about it, talking to you, but you know, one thing that occurs to me from talking with you, Ellen, is that shamanah is different from those guys. Shamanah has a special sauce, a special focus, a special, as you say, a sense of mission. And it makes shamanah different and maybe gives shamanah a huge advantage here in dealing with a crisis where people can come together. It's a natural thing for shamanah. Am I right? Do you see it the same way? I mean, the sense of community is obviously in everything that we do, and I think that during this period that's had two main effects. One is that we've sort of doubled down on that and responded to thing as a community, made sure that we're still behaving as a community, even if we have to use technology to do that, making sure that we're not just letting our students go off onto the internet and log on to a remote class. You know, a central challenge has been how do we maintain that shamanah education, that high touch education through a distance education format. But also, I think it's affected us all because we feel the pain of the community we serve. Right? Shamanah is so connected to those in our community who are marginalised through the work that we do in our social justice mission. And of course, the whole sectors of our community, Jay, are just crying out around their economic distress, the anxiety and the mental health issues, the issues around what is the future? What is the future for a young person who is going to go to college this year? What does that look like? And so I think that closeness to community is one of our greatest strengths, but it's also been something that has, you know, really made us aware of what our partners and our stakeholders and our students are going through. And just to give you an example, in one of the, when we moved to, we pivoted to distance education, you know, in during the last semester. And for many of our faculty, that was a big adjustment. For many of them, they were already using online modalities to enrich their classes.  But one of the things that I was just so impressed by, it's not just the way that they innovated pedagogically and they figured out, how do we use simulation to teach nursing classes? How do we develop lab classes that can be delivered online? There was all of that creativity and I expect nothing less from our faculty. But what I felt they really, where they really came through for their students was to put their own sort of privilege aside and understand what this experience was like for a student who is trying to learn in a home where there might be a patchy internet connection, where there might be three or four other siblings being homeschooled, where devices might need to be shared, where people might be called in to work their other jobs as essential workers. And, you know, I've been on, I think we've all been on a lot of webinars, right? Since this thing started. And I've heard comments from colleagues on the mainland about, you know, how terrible is that the students aren't showing up or whatever. And I just think that our faculty really have thought about what is it like on the other side of this Zoom interface for those students? And they've moved to adapt and change and refine their expectations and to support the students in that really kind of one-on-one way. And that, I think, is one of the big points of pride that I see in the way that we pivoted to the distance education. I give our faculty every credit for being responsive in that way and not just sending it out into the ether and hoping that the students learn, right? Yeah, yeah. Because it's continuing high touch, there's a lot to be said for that. Right. Because you can do it right and maybe not so right and it sounds like if you continue the high touch approach to it, you're gonna do better and they're gonna do better. Yeah, we wanted, you know, to coin a not very popular phrase, but we wanted no students left behind, right? No one should be falling through the gaps because of this move to online. And if that meant that we had to get out there with technology or understand how to work with student schedules, you know, we're small enough that we could be responsive in that way. And I think, so we are returning as is UAH, as is HPU, we're returning to on-ground in-person classes for the fall. But of course, we and everyone have to be prepared to pivot back to distance education if there's ever a need to do so. And I think a lot of what we learned this semester is gonna inform that, the strategy that we have around if we do need to pivot in the future. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, one of the things that our Provost, Dr. Lance Askelson, who is an expert actually in online and distance education. So every faculty member we have is being certified in online education over the summer because it is different. It is a different pedagogy. And I just, I myself just went through the first set of workshops and they're rigorous and they're really interesting. And one of the elements of that whole training that the faculty are going through, you know, to be prepared to pivot if we need to in the future is how to build community in an online class. And so I just signed up for that workshop. And when I saw it, I thought, yeah, that's so shaman-art, right? That's what we want to be able to do is maintain that high-touch environment. However, we're delivering the education. So that makes sense. So it's more than just, are you using Zoom, by the way, or a program like Zoom? Yeah, Zoom, yeah. So it's not just using Zoom. It's not just knowing every button on Zoom or, you know, all the backend settings and all that. It's also an attitudinal thing about how you create a classroom environment using Zoom. And I wonder what the workshops are like on that point. For example, you have these breakout rooms. I don't know if your classes are big enough to warrant breakout rooms, but maybe you're using that.  That's got to be all involved in the new world of online education, such as at your workshop. Am I right? Yeah, and what I'm seeing is that it's, Zoom is the interface. And then sort of backing that up, we have the whole Google Classroom model. We have our learning management system, Canvas, which is very, it's a very sophisticated and I think a very student-friendly LMS as they go. And so, you know, you're seeing a lot of emphasis in the training, these are what I can see. First of all, on making sure that there is real connection between the faculty and the student. You know, so, you know, recording those videos, helping the students participate in discussion groups in a meaningful way. And then as you said, all of the kind of one-on-one help and, you know, just in time kind of stuff that you need to do in a classroom, that can be done in the breakout rooms and it can be done privately. The group work, I think, is something that I've, I was surprised in my class last semester after we moved it online, just how well the group participation worked. And I felt in my limited just one class experience that our students were, they seemed more willing to engage in the discussions and ask one another questions through the Zoom media than sometimes in class, you know, you can kind of just get that sort of silent treatment, right? Isn't that true? Isn't that true? There's something about the electronic communication that opens you up, that makes you less reserved. You take a student who might be a wallflower now, he's gonna come out. It's the same experience we have, actually, on Think Tech, you know, with a remote connection anywhere in the world, we find that people are so happy to talk to us one-on-one. But I was gonna ask you in that connection, you know, on Zoom, it's so good and you are refining it. I mean, I'm sure you're refining it more than just the workshop, it's every day in the experience of it, both faculty and student that maybe in September, when let's assume that we're all free to go back to school, I mean, physically, you might still use some of the lessons you've learned now on Zoom and maybe some courses, am I right, will continue to be remote? So actually our plan is that every course will be an in-person course for the fall. You know, that is the heart and soul of the Chaminade model. It's why students come up to this, you know, the beautiful campus and have those close interactions with faculty. Now, I think for a number of years now, we've seen faculty, you know, flipping, hybridizing classes where they're using online as an aid to the teaching. And so I think we're gonna see that continue. And I think that we may actually see that develop further, but I'm not sure that we will see unless it's sort of, you know, an imposed need to pivot to online. I'm not sure that we're gonna see kind of a wholesale adoption of that, you know, by our faculty, just because we, you know, we really feel that that on campus experiences is part of who we are and what we're trying to do for our students. You know, one thing that you're doing with Zoom, which I caught as you described it, is you're recording the sessions, the classes with Zoom. And indeed, you know, we have meetings among our hosts on Zoom. And we record it because not all hosts can be there. And we want the hosts who weren't there to take a look later. And so there's a tremendous advantage of that.  And I think that's a part of education. Remember the Latin, yeah? Repetitio mater studio. So repetition is the mother of study. So how do you achieve that if you're not doing Zoom in the fall? Yeah, I mean, the reinforcement is obviously of learning is one of the key things that we can bring out of this that will, you know, strengthen us going forward. And I think there's been a couple of places, you know, you hit on a really good point that the recording of the lectures, which a lot of students do anyway, actually in the in-person classes, it does give that ability to go back and check and it helps students. So if you look at a nursing curriculum, it's absolutely critical to be in contact with patients during your clinicals. And when, so then, you know, what do you do when that option is suddenly removed? And of course, we were blessed a few years ago with the ability in our nursing program to set up a really sophisticated simulation center. And so we've been using that, obviously, and that's been a great asset. Doesn't replace the patient experience, but what the literature says and what we're seeing is that it can really, really increase the student's confidence when they do eventually get into that patient setting because they can have a do-over. I mean, that's the beauty of simulation is it is a safe space in which to experiment and test variables and get that kind of, not just the reinforcement of learning, but the ability to fail safely, right, and move forward. And so I think we're seeing that in the nursing simulation labs. I think we're seeing it when we're running simulated labs for the science degrees. I think that that ability to iterate, refine, it's the scientific method in action. But of course, in a normal three-hour in-person lab, you might not really get that opportunity. And so we're seeing that be a really interesting outcome and strength of this approach that we're probably gonna carry forward. That being said, we have other science faculty who are wearing go-pros on their heads and recording their labs as they do them and letting the students see a demonstration, but from that, imagine that kind of first-person point of view. And I watched a couple of those that our faculty have done. And of course, if you've been working in a lab for 20 years, there's a lot of your technique as an experimentalist that is sort of, you might not necessarily speak about when you're doing a normal lab demonstration and the student wouldn't have the point of view to see it. And I've just been so impressed by how the students are actually getting to see how like an old lab hand like me, how do you really move your hands around in an experiment? And what are the sort of nuances of how you organize the space to do something carefully and reproducibly? So again, there are these nuances that are coming out through these new ways of looking at it. That's great, that's great.  And I really appreciate that point. Probably didn't exist before. It's like you're watching with the GoPro and you're seeing it through the laboratory researchers' eyes and you're learning more than you would have learned if you were a third person watching from the other side of the room in a crowd of students watching it. So I think that's a great advance. And in fact, it strikes me that you could do that even if you had classes in the laboratory. You could have the same kind of, yeah. I think the faculty will. I think the things that they view that's made them stronger through this process, I think they'll carry forward. And I think, again, that deepened understanding of what the circumstances of the students are, through sort of seeing, I don't mean to make this sound sort of odd, but through seeing into their homes through the Zoom and understanding where the students are at and the pressures that they have and the competing priorities. It's not like we didn't know this. Many of our students are low income, they're non-traditional students. We know this, but I think it's been brought home to us through this experience in a way that perhaps it hadn't before. Right, right. The COVID experience is to see things, both strengths and weaknesses that you just weren't looking for before. So in this case, you haven't had to give up laboratory courses in the spring semester. Oh, no, not at all. You've been able to continue right along with it, eh? Yeah, everything's been running. The faculty made a very rapid adaptation. And I would say that's the only thing that will be better in the fall, I think, is that we've had more time to plan out what we're doing. Obviously, during the spring semester, it was a very reactive, very fast moving situation. I'm not the students who don't, I don't recall whether you have dormitories or arrangements for students from neighbor islands or from out of state. How does that work? Are they still here? Is anybody studying from the mainland or from Asia or from the Pacific Islands? How are you communicating? How are you including them in the program? Yeah, well, our vice president for Student Affairs, Dean Alison Jerome, she has done an amazing job of making sure that all of our students, when they were still in the dorms. So obviously it moved very quickly across the semester. Before the students started to leave the dorms to go back to their homes, we made sure that the dorms were safe places to be in terms of social distancing. We supplied the students with meals. Everything was focused on keeping them safe and well-fed in the dorms. And then what emerged, I think, a little later in the semester was the fact that, of course, we have some students from the Pacific Islands who actually couldn't go home. So we kept the dorms open and again provided the food services and for the students who left the dorms and returned to their family homes, either here or on the mainland, we went through the whole process of making sure that it didn't hit them financially. And so I think that we have now just a very small number of students in the dorms over the summer who were from the Pacific Islands. And then as that situation changes, our dorms are gonna be open in the fall. And so there's a lot going on on campus right now with marking up the classrooms for social distancing, figuring out how we're gonna manage the, having rosters for the kitchens in the dorms. I mean, all of these things that we've just not had to think about before, but now we're trying to make sure we use the summer really well to get us prepared. Yeah. What makes it even more challenging is gonna mention this earlier in the context of how do you plan for the semester in the fall? And nobody knows for sure what's gonna happen between then and now. We have surprise events every hour and every day. And certainly how could you even predict all the surprise events we'll have between now the month of, we're still in May, and rather August or September. So it's a moving target, isn't it? And you have to have strategies and then strategies upon the strategies, plan A, plan B, plan C. I'm sure you and Lynn Babbington are working all day and all night and trying to figure out those scenarios, no? Yeah, and so the team, so Dr. Babbington obviously, and then our provost, Dr. Askelson, they've just done an amazing job. And I think probably there are binders in Lance's office that say plan A, plan B, plan C on the spines. But yeah, so what was done early on, maybe even a month or so ago was sort of the laying out of, well, what are all the possible scenarios? I mean, we can't plan for everything, but there are some more and less likely scenarios. And a lot of that was based around at that time, of course, we did not know whether Hawaii was gonna be able to flatten its curve. And so, yes, so there is a plan in existence for I would say three or four major scenarios that could happen. But the way that we are thinking about it currently as is HPU, as is UH Manoa, and the other UH campuses that will be in person with the ability to pivot in a microsecond if we need to. Yes, right, that's how you have to do it. It's a business matter. That's what we're thinking right now. And then the other group that I just wanna give a shout out to that's been really involved in all this is our campus ministry and our Marianist community here because one of the central Marianist educational values is adaptation and change, right? And so I think what they've helped us do is they've been touchstones in how do we do this in a mission-driven way, not just in a reactive way, but also seeing it as part of what Father Shamanard hoped his educational institutions would be, right? It's places where when the world throws you a curveball, you have the resilience and the creativity to not just think your way through it, but to respond to it in a way that keeps you to who you are. What a tremendous education it is for these kids to see it all unfolding and to learn the meaning of Nimble. What about all the other events and programs and you have a lot of things going on and what have you had to give up here in the spring and how will you resume them in the fall? So I think one of the things obviously that's up in the air is it's not exactly clear what the situation will be for our athletes, at least for off-island travel. And our athletics scholars are obviously really motivated, they have a lot of heart and so we're hopeful that they will see some return to being able to live out that identity as both an athlete and a student. I think that some of our summer programs that we were hoping to have in person, we've moved those online. And so I think a little while ago, I talked to you about our, we have a National Science Foundation grant that funds our Summer Data Science Institute and that's called SPICE, which stands for Supporting Pacific Indigenous Computational Excellence. The magic of acronyms, that's a beauty. What we did last year was we bought 22 students on campus and they did this one month Data Science Immersion and it was amazing. And so we had a little bit of a, I was worried for a while, how are we gonna do this? And then with our colleagues in Texas at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, we decided we're just gonna go for it. And so that started a week ago, we have 22 students, it's all being done online with some really innovative sort of virtual classroom environments. But the really cool thing is, of course, a bunch of those students wanna work the COVID data sets, right? So the whole principle is computing for change. It's basically that the students are asked to find a societal problem and address it through data analytics and data visualization and then present the outcomes. And so this year we've formed them into teams. One team is looking at COVID and working with some of the leading modelers of the COVID outbreak. One team is looking at environment, one team is looking at economic diversification and how we think about Hawaii's economy going forward. And then we have another team that's actually being partly led by one of our alums who's a public health graduate, looking at healthcare and how things like healthcare economics access to care, pre-existing conditions health disparities, how we need to be thinking about those and what the data show we need to address. Totally relevant in our time, totally. Yeah. These kids will be well-prepared to deal with a moving target. What about the Hogan entrepreneurial program? We were talking before the show and I guess there were changes there. How has that fared in the context of COVID? So I think the actual Hogan program itself continued in the online realm and over the course of the semester and ending in this wonderful recognition event that we had that kind of had two purposes. One was to honor all the students who'd been through that program and provide them with their certificates. And again, it was all done virtually. But the other thing, of course, was to honor John Webster who retired and he's headed that program for so many years and he's made it into a real launch pad for students into amazing careers and building professional networks here in Hawaii and so on. And so it was kind of bittersweet because John has retired and now Dr. Roy Panzer-Alar has taken over the program. He's gonna take it to the next level, no question about that. I do think that there will be going forward an increased emphasis in that program about the new economy, how we develop economy in Hawaii. And the students have always benefited from the first-hand experience of their mentors, the network of Hogan advisors. And I think it will be wonderful in the fall when we start to have those advisors in and coming in and telling the story of what their businesses have been through in this time. Very, very valuable program. I've attended your annuals at the Mystic Rose, and very impressive students. But beyond that, a very impressive atmosphere of entrepreneurship and that's the kind of thing we need to do to move on to a more diversified economy. Can you talk about that for a moment? Because right now, we're talking about how COVID has revealed the strengths and weaknesses of Hawaii society and institutions. And certainly it makes it clear that we have to enhance our contribution to entrepreneurship. Right, right. And entrepreneurship writ large. I mean, we have, for example, one of the students that I mentor who's an alum of our Hauulu program, she is a nurse, registered nurse. She graduated from our Bachelor's of Science in Nursing program, but she is a healthcare and social entrepreneur. That's the way that she's living out her nursing vocation. And so we are very interested in thinking not just about business development and innovation in that sector, but also in the social sector. I mean, there are a lot of jobs and there's a lot of vulnerability in the nonprofit sector in Hawaii. And I think that's something that we really want to think about how we can support that. So Shyamana, we've been thinking a lot about how we can demonstrate that commitment to be really being part of the recovery. And I think it sort of comes into sort of three main areas that we can make a contribution. You know, the one is, I mean, it sounds kind of a cliché, but education to achieve economic mobility. I mean, so Shyamana, because of the students that we serve who are typically often low income first generation, as you know, we score very highly, if not one of the top universities in the country in indices of economic mobility, of really that kind of generational change in a family that moves a whole family and community into a different echelon economically. And so we've been... In Yiddish, the word for that is mitzvah. It's a good deed. Right, right. And so we've been thinking a lot about that. And the pieces of that are that we need to make sure that we, despite the economic distress that's being felt across our whole community, how do we make sure that we continue to lower those financial barriers so that those students can get this type of education and get that... Very, very important for so many reasons. That we're thinking about all the time. I think that there are direct actions that we can take in terms of workforce development. So we've been very focused, as you know, on the healthcare workforce, which is only going to, I think, increase in terms of need as we move through this kind of COVID period. The other thing that we have done in that area is that we have started in the fall, probably the best timed opening of a program in the history of the university, which is that we are starting a community and public health degree in the fall. It's already on the books before all of this happens. I think they'll be lining up for that one. And, you know, and then it's very exciting. And that was actually, that was a decision we took, you know, over a year ago now to broaden our healthcare portfolio into the community rural health and build off of what we've done in nursing, which is amazing, but really think about, you know, community care, rural care, health education, health promotion and public health. And we are inspired, a couple of our alums who actually came to Shaman are thinking about pre-medical programs, but ended off going into public health, really inspired us, that this is something that the students we really want to be able to think about our career in healthcare, you know, either at the bedside or in a kind of public health epidemiology setting. And so one of our alums, Matau Faiai, she is a biology graduate who went to George Washington University to do a master's in public health. She's now working American Samoa as an epidemiologist and she just got admitted to the Yale School of Public Health. Oh, that's fabulous. That's, that's, that's, that's. He and I have been in contact and she's been saying for years, you know, we need to do something in public health. We need to do something in public health. And another one of our alums who's a Micronesian student, Johnny Aldan from Saipan, he just graduated with his master's in public health from Eastern Washington University. And what he did was, his thesis was actually looking at what he thought was an important data set for looking at pre-existing conditions, looking at metabolic syndrome diabetes. But of course, and he looked at it in a geospatial way. So looking at how it distributes geographically by neighborhood in Saipan. And of course, that's exactly the information you need if you're deciding where you need to do lockdowns for pre-existing conditions. We're living in a world of change. But before we run out of time, Ellen, I want to ask you about the financial aspect to this.  You know, have you had to change tuition? Have you lost students in the process? Because these things do happen. And you know, how are your funding sources during the time of COVID? Educational institutions like other non-profits, they all have their issues. How have you fared in this difficult period? So not to say that we are not worried, obviously, and taking it very seriously, but Dr. Badminton did make a commitment early on in this that we would not furlough or lay off our workers who could not work from home. Because she felt that that would, you know, strike the most vulnerable people on our campus and she just was not willing to do that. So at this stage, we have not had to make those cuts. We've not had to furlough. We've not had to lay anybody off. And our admissions and enrollment are working, you know, double, triple time. But I think that there's a lot of cautious optimism there because what we, I think, are known for here is a really excellent private education right here at home in Hawaii. And I think there may be a lot of families who are thinking about that right now and considering, you know, the decision to go to the mainland. So we are just working really hard to bring our class in and welcome a good class in the fall and just really deliver them a great shaman art education. In terms of our funding sources, I mean, as you know, we have a lot of grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health. Our Title III funding is held steady. We were able to receive CARES Act funding. And so that's been holding really well. Our National Science Foundation has showed great flexibility and great co-operation which you wouldn't necessarily expect from a large federal agency. So they've been really helping us and we have just been pumping out new grant proposals to sort of support our students. We just put in another $1 million NSF scholarship grant in addition to the one that we already have. So we're really thinking that there are a lot of opportunities out there in terms of funding. And so we want to make sure that we're well positioned to explore those. And again, really focus on how do we, where we can drive that funding towards supporting students so that they can get a shaman art education. Last question, Helen, forgive me, it's a little personal but have you been affected by COVID? So very sadly, I had lost my mom. She was 91 and she was in a care home in England and she passed away, which has been an incredibly difficult thing to process from so far away. Because of the situation in the care homes, it was locked down. So it was that situation that so many families have been in where they were not able to be with their loved ones at the end and the funerals were very, very sparse. And so that's been an incredibly difficult thing to deal with from a distance. But our community here on campus has been incredibly supportive and loving and, you know, using things to honor my mother. So there was a mass here for her. I'm so sorry about the loss Helen and sorry that it had to be the way it was, you know, we live in a new time now. I hope we can check back with you. One thing in Hawaii, we have flattened the curve, you know, and but in a lot of places in the world, that's not the case. And I think it's really important for us to understand here what other places in the world are going through. It's been incredible. I think in places like England, New York and so on. Yes, the world has to think together now. And so all the institutions of higher learning have to think together. Thank you so much, Helen Turner, for joining us. We really appreciate your sharing. And we are impressed, I think, with everything that has happened in Shamanad and that will happen. Thank you so much for your efforts, not only for the school, but for the community. It's wonderful to talk to you and hopefully we can touch base again in the fall. Absolutely. Helen Turner, Aloha, thank you so much.