Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking about the brave browser now I've been using the brave browser full-time for now for about a week and I have some thoughts and most of them aren't good thoughts I'm switching back to Firefox, but I think I should tell you why so let's go ahead and jump in so This is what brave looks like for me. I've managed to get an extension so I could some show my custom Startup page and new tab page where that comes up every time open up a new tab, which is good that took a while because the extension Store or whatever on brave is actually the Chrome Web Store and the Chrome Web Store is horrible It's just completely disorganized the Firefox Web Store is way better But that that's beside the point. So I got that set up Strike number one when I switched over was that it did not transfer my bookmarks over well So it actually went through and and it's not even easy for me to show you this because I've hidden the bookmarks So completely so I can't get to them, but um What it did was it completely ignored every folder I had in Firefox and just dump them all into one single folder It's like I was complete.  They have to be in their organized Titled and tagged folders. It's just a way it has to be and it really triggered my OCD seeing them all dumped into one Folder, so I couldn't even use it I ended up having to go through and use my bookmarks script that I created on video a few weeks ago in order to actually get my Bookmarks, you know able to be used Needless to say that was not a pleasant experience. I could have worked past it For anybody who has been watching this channel for a while you know that my browsing experience looks like this this is Firefox and Firefox allows you to go through and Alter the CSS of the actual Chrome, which is you know the features of Firefox around the sides and Allows you to change this stuff using CSS like I said And I got my you know my bookmarks over here and I got some pen tabs and the tabs in the URL bar And it's highly custom right and I see you know, I spent ages getting This done and ages learning how to do it and it's you know, it's something. I'm you know kind of proud of I'm happy that I'm happy with this workflow So changing to something that looks like that some to something that looks like this Was a difficult chore and you can't change anything here So the only thing you you're allowed to change is by using you can use the system Title bar and border. So if you turn this on you get clothes marks, which is you know, or clothes buttons Which you don't need in a in a tiling window manager. So I got rid of those That's the only thing you can change you can't move the home button or refresh button anything You can't move any of the stuff. It's all just there. So you like in Firefox you even in Firefox if you don't Enable like the user Chrome functionality You can still move around every button like it's just a feature because it's a feature on every open source browser Or open source piece of software really if you right click on a you know a Selection of buttons chances are you can hit the customize thing and move them around almost every piece of software I know of that's open source does that Most of them at least okay, but the point is you can't move anything here.  So I understand that if you have a ton of like Bitcoin or whatever you're a rich person Congratulations, I'm I didn't get on that bandwagon and it's too late for me now until it crashes Then maybe I'll buy some but I doubt it The the point is you may have a ton of Bitcoin or whatever crystal currency, but she can't spend it anywhere Not really. I'm not and yeah, you know, you can maybe you can buy something from Amazon from out or somewhere online But if you drive through McDonald's or Burger King or whatever and say hey, I got some Bitcoin for you You can I have a burger? It's just not gonna work I mean, it's just not the way it works and for so for me I think that cryptocurrency is nonsense, but that was I mean and we all know the Bitcoin's gonna crash and crash hard eventually. I mean everybody knows that and The NF don't give me start on NFTs, but I mean all that stuff is beside the point the point is Brave does this weird thing with cryptocurrency and that's how it blocks ads but in order to Reward certain creators who have opted into their ad system. They send you these weird Notifications through your notification system that are actually ads now if you're using Dunst It doesn't actually do anything all does is show you the ad and it goes away after like two minutes like I Mean the dismissal time is is very long and it's annoying But you can I mean you can click on it and go away, but I don't want to have every time it comes up You know click on it. I don't want to have to do that The point is is that they they're forever and they don't do anything and they're not Relevant most of the time half the time the advertisements are just for brave itself and and that's especially the case on the mobile on the On the mobile I did it again on the on the phone Um Every advertisement I've gotten on there and yes, they send you push notifications on there that are ads They've all been for brave themselves brave itself It's never once been for something other than brave and I mean that to me that just shows that they can't get advertisers You know now on the bra on the desktop I have seen ads for other things But like I said if you're in a tiling window manager and you're using Dunst for your notification system you click on it Just goes away. So I mean even if you found an advertisement that you wanted to click on and know more about it actually doesn't do anything So that's a that I mean that's one problem. The other problem is that it shows you these ads all the damn time And I'm much rather just see ads, you know if I if I'm gonna see ads on like a website I'd much further know that I'm supporting so like I run new block origin I think pretty much everybody who's a technologically Saying person does, you know, but then I will go through and like whitelist the sites that I know I want to support and then I know I trust so that I can support them, right? With the brave system 99% of the web doesn't support their their cryptocurrency nonsense They have to opt in in order to get that and now you can go to Facebook You can go to YouTube and go to the Verge you can go to Reddit whatever none of these websites So you know have the ability to Take this cryptocurrency and like even individual creators like um if we go to youtube.com. I don't know I Don't know if I went to like anybody's website here. Let's just go to a big youtuber. Let's go to distro tube Let's actually let's go to Brody because I know he uses his uses brave So let's go up here and see if I can actually Like okay, see that's something I didn't know so he is something that somebody that I could donate to So it does work on YouTube, which I didn't actually know but Not that I have any to donate to him. I mean, but the idea is like if I went to another person, let's go to um, I Don't know posk podcastage here. I don't think that he's going to be yeah See he's not this is what you see most of the time not verified yet refresh status And it's just obviously gonna stay the same because he's not verified through brave And why would he be because nobody uses brave for the most part compared to chrome? And I think that's where I come down to is that All the little nitpicky things that I've talked about today. I mean you I Could put up with I said I could put up with any of them even all together. I could put up with the Weird way it does bookmarks or the weird way it Imported my bookmarks. I could go through and fix that or just use my menu. I could put up with The the UI staying the same. I could just get used to it. It's not a huge deal. I mean whatever. I mean It's the way all browsers always used to be so whatever I Could put up with the ads because I could just figure out how I could either disable them because you can disable them Or you know, I think you can change the frequency or I could just figure out how to disable Dunst for Brave I could figure out how to do all those things because I think there's a way to keep a certain application from using Dunst All those things I could put up with But my idea is why oh actually let's go through and show you this This is an ad right here. So this is actually a lending tree ad if I click on this nothing happens So completely completely useless that I should we could just sit there for like two minutes and waited for it to go away But oh and that's how long it would take I think like 60 seconds would be way better, but it's like it feels like two minutes But anyways Like I was saying I could put up all that stuff But I don't understand why I'd want to If I need to use a chromium-based browser, I would just use Google Chrome or I'd use something like the volley which has a unique User experience, you know because you can put the tabs on different places You can put the bookmarks along the side You can do a whole bunch of different things with the volley that you can't do with brave You can't do it with chrome either all that much, you know, you can do it with Firefox because you can go through and Change the user chrome of Firefox, but you can't do it with these other ones So if I was gonna use a chromium-based browser user volley or I just use chrome there's nothing with brave that says hey use me that's makes it special because It's not special. It has this weird cryptocurrency nonsense and That most people and most creators can't or don't take advantage of And on top of that it's not a good ad blocker It doesn't have a good ad blocker build-in so the whole thing is that you're supposed to be using their ads instead of the ads that are embedded on the page to support the creators, right and The ad blocking in brave is just not good It blocks most advertisements but half the time it leaves holes where the ads are supposed to be instead of removing those holes And it makes the layout of the web pages look really odd So half the time I just installed you blocks orange in any ways and use that as the ad blocker And if I'm just gonna do that then I'll stand Firefox or I'll use Vivaldi or I use you know Google Chrome There's no real reason to use Brave I mean I understand if you're going to be if you're like a huge YouTube creator So like there's a reason why Brody Robertson uses brave and that's because he gets paid to do so I mean not a lot of money obviously not getting paid millions of dollars But the same thing with Luke Smith they they make and they have a big enough following to get You know some Kickback from brave that makes sense for them But for the normal person there I could sit here and use brave tell the end of the year and probably earn like five dollars I mean, that's just it. I mean granted. It's five dollars more than I'd earn if I use a different browser But I have to put up with all this other weird stuff, right? It's a thing so my experience with brave has not been I mean, it's not it's not a bad browser It's not it's a it a little bit faster than Firefox You know because chromium is faster than Firefox and Chrome is faster than Firefox But other than that I mean there's no like I said, there's no redeeming Qualities that say Matt you have to use this browser over Firefox now There are reasons not to use Firefox. I mean you can disagree with a ton of Firefoxes Or them you can disagree with the management of Firefox is in their political stances all the time and I do I think they should stay out of Politics all the time. I also think that they should probably not take Google's four hundred million dollars and then spend it all on the top like five percent of the executive branch You know like they're CEO makes like three million dollars a year or something like that some crazy amount of money I don't know if it's as if that's the number, but I mean it's it's an insane amount of money, right? And it's an open-source thing and it doesn't take all it's a huge organization for just basically one product But that's just fire so I mean there's reasons not to use Firefox And I've tried to find alternatives to Firefox, especially after their whole We're gonna censor the web thing that went on a couple months ago, but I haven't been successful I'm still on fire stocks because of the user Chrome thing. So anyways, so that's brave in The comments below. Let me know. Do you use brave? Do you use something else? I'm sure I'm gonna get somebody out there saying well cryptocurrency isn't nonsense I have lots of cryptocurrency like well, you know, I have lots of cryptocurrency too I have the library stuff and I have some stuff from you from brave. It's not worth anything. I Don't have any of the I don't have any of the cryptocurrency that's worse than anything That's probably why I think it's nonsense if I had some Bitcoin I'd probably it was really great and say woo. I got some I got 20 grand in my pocket, you know, I Don't have any on that's just sad for me. I guess anyways Thanks for watching make sure you follow us on Twitter at the Linux cash You can follow us on Facebook at the Linux cast You also support support us on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast with that in mind I'd like to thank our current patrons Devon Marcus. We have a new person I'm gonna mess up your name Maglen Message me and tell me how to pronounce your name cuz I'm just gonna butcher that American cam. 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Can we get a very polished everyday, beautiful makeup look with products that are all under $10? We're going to tackle that right now. Hello friends! I am bringing you this makeup look today and every single product that I did use today is under $10 which I'm super excited about because you know that I love to be able to bring you affordable makeup that can make you look your very best and I want to say a special thank you to ELF because they did reach out to me today and they are sponsoring this video. I know that I don't hardly do sponsored videos ever but when my company that I do my links through, my affiliate links through down below in the box, when they reached out to me and said that ELF was reaching out to me I was like oh my goodness this is a brand that I've been using for way long before I had my YouTube channel and it's a brand that I really believe in because I believe that there are some absolute gems in ELF's line that just are absolutely bougie makeup. That's my new word you're gonna see that a lot of videos that's my new word bougie but I think that you can really look bougie on a budget so you're looking polished you're looking beautiful you're looking more youthful even though not all of these products are from ELF they are under $10 and I'm excited to bring them to you today so let's get into all the makeup that's under $10 and let's do that right now so we're gonna start out first with hard candy this is the sheer envy pore defense primer this does not have any silicone in it I've been testing this for quite a while now and I finally have decided I need to bring this to you the reason is is because in summertime when our skin is sweating a little bit more and I know that when I have a hot flash it's so much more pronounced right now and the silicone kind of feels a little bit oily on your skin at times so when you're doing your makeup it can get to where you're feeling like what worth it is it gonna help keep my makeup on or is there a balancing that we have to do now what I like about it is that it's very very light and it's very sheer I like that about it and it makes my skin feel a little bit tacky now why would I want it to be a little bit tacky because after that it's gonna grip on to whatever is on top of it so I'm gonna let this dry down for a couple minutes because I don't want to go in immediately but I'm gonna let it just sit there for a couple minutes and next I'm going to be doing my foundation trick that I will link the video below I did that foundation video and since then I've been doing my foundation like this it just works well but I want to introduce you to a product that I just found from elf which I'm super excited about this is the sheer tint finishing powder from elf this packaging is very high end very luxe we have you know the mirror the compact the puff down here that you can use what is beautiful about this powder remember I told you I almost had a dupe for the Becca light shifter powder or light shifting whatever it's called anyway this is it it's super light it's a little bit more coverage than that so it's not an exact dupe but boy it does a good job of being pretty darn close so I have been in love with this lately and the reason that you do your powder before your foundation is to set everything down and it doesn't allow the makeup to break through something about giving this extra little bit of coverage really really helps a lot and this is beautiful beautiful and I really love this powder it just is super light super airy doesn't make me look cakey and I can use this to set my makeup as well also what's awesome about this powder is it has I think six shades so it goes from fair all the way to deep so you're going to be covered no matter what your shade range is and it's sheer enough that it doesn't have to be an exact powder match I really really like that I wanted to do two foundations that I actually mix together the reason I wanted to do two is I use the Revlon color stay 24 hour normal to dry foundation I love this this is a foundation that is a little bit thicker it is a little bit more full coverage medium to full coverage but also what's lovely about it is that it comes in that dry skin formula normal to dry and it also comes in the oily so that's what I wanted to show it to you guys today is because it does come in the oily all of my foundations right now are a little bit too light for what I've been doing with myself tanning I'll just have to warm this up with a bronzer but the one that I'm mixing it with and the reason I'm doing that is because this is a little bit more light of a foundation and this is a beautiful foundation too and I wanted to show it to you this is the essence pretty natural hydrating foundation let's see what color I have both of these in the one in the Revlon is in buff and then the one in the essence is in natural like I said right now these are just much too light look how much lighter than my skin it is right there but I'll just take care that with some blush and some bronzer this is so pretty on when it gets mixed like that and I just think it's lovely so what I'm gonna do is I'm using a new sponge that I've got sent that I'm trying out this one is called stands out beauty sponge I like this beauty sponge but at the same time I'm just getting used to it but both of these foundations they cover really well this is one coat and it's covering all of my imperfections really well while that's setting down I'm gonna use my elf camel hydrating concealer I'm not a fan of the regular one the just the camel one but this one is beautiful on my mature under eyes everything is so light right now I've got to get in and get myself some darker colors while I'm doing this self tanning it's driving me crazy but we will work with it anyway great coverage as you can tell and it doesn't dry out my mature under eyes and wrinkles they just get so pronounced I know that a lot of people don't like this concealer usually when you don't like a concealer I mean obviously there's some bad concealers out there but usually when I don't like a concealer I will find that I've used too much I you know what I had on my fingers there I even switched fingers so I could pick up a little bit of the extra extra and I'm even going to go in with my sponge now on the clean side and I'm just going to go under here I'm not going to go right up under where I need all the coverage but I'm just going to try and get it picked up a little bit so there's absolutely no creasing and I just have a minimal amount in there I'm going to set that concealer down with my catrice prime and fine dewy glow fixing spray so this has a really pretty glow to it without being too too over the top shiny or anything and that's what I'm going to set these down with because if I don't set them right away they will crease on me during the summer months so I just put a little bit on there and I'm going to do it in the parts that have a little bit of breakthrough throughout the day too which is my t-zone somebody came to visit hi boo boo hi boo boo oh goodness you get kisses and did my brows off of camera but I'll show you my two products that I really am in love with right now and this one is the instant lift brow pencil from elf you've seen this before it's like two or three dollars it doesn't have a super fine tip on the end but um it has the spoolie on the other end and I just like it because it just does my brows it goes across them so pretty and I just really really like it so and then to set it I have knocked off the elf pedestal I love the elf wow brow for when I'm just on a day when I don't have time to do my makeup it can go through that the hairs that I do have for eyebrow hair and it'll go through them it'll deposit little fibers and it'll make them look a little bit thicker but on days when I can take a little bit more time I've been loving the essence wow bra or make me brow excuse me I've been really loving that and it's because it just really clings to the brows and it sets them so well this is great and if you want to see me do a complete brow then you can go over to my latest video I will try to link that down below um not the latest but I think it was the one right before that where I completely did it get ready with me and I showed you you know tips for aging eyes so definitely go check out that video if you're interested in how your brows can make your eyes look more youthful the next thing I'm going to use um for this look is the bite size eyeshadow cream and sugar from elf I love these little things the mats in them are super buttery and the metallics in them are gorgeous so we're just going to use three colors today I think I'm going to use this one as a transition color and I didn't do the tape today either because I'm doing a very very soft look so I'm just using that color to do a very soft transition if you have been wondering about these bite size shadows the hype is real the shadows are really really good they remind me of the Anastasia Beverly Hills shadows you know how they have a little bit of kick up because they're so soft but they're very easily blendable once I get that color built up where I want it to be then I'm going to take a little shader brush these are luxe brushes if you're wondering and I'm going to go into that dark color very very pigmented so a little bit's going to go a long ways and then I'm just going to do this outer v part and when I do my outer v all I do is take this brush and lay down color to begin with I just try to make the color come up on the corner and then down in the crease a little bit and that's all I'm doing is using very small motions and not getting crazy with it trying to very precisely place it in that corner what's going to happen is if you use this brush to do shading you're going to get it way too dark too quickly and that is I find what my problem was for a long time in using shadow is that I went in with too much to begin with and then I also went in sometimes with too dark of a transition color so my my look was already dark and then you know you go in with this darker color and it just deepens up even more all right going back in with that original brush and now I'm just going to kind of buff this a little bit and just kind of keep trying to do swirling motions to buff it out make it look a little bit softer because you got that crease color I'm sorry you've got that transition color already on your brush and then what you're trying to do is just soften it and blend it with the rest of your makeup look don't pull it over yet just kind of stay right down in there and then later on after you've got it all buffed in the way that you think that it looks really soft and really natural then you can come over just a tiny bit into the crease all right I don't normally wear gold but I'm going to take that same shader brush and I'm going to kind of clean it off right here and then I'm going to go down into the gold color and I'm going to place it right next to the crease color or the darkening outer V color and I'm just going to blend those two together very softly some of you have seen me do this trick before now the color that's going to go on my lid is right here I'm going to put it on my finger I'm going to take that catrice spray excuse me and I'm going to spray my finger and then I'm just going to go in directly onto my lid what's that what that's going to do is highly intensify that color and it's going to make it stick to your eyelid all day long and this is a beautiful metallic oh my goodness isn't that a pretty metallic wow now take your brush and just make sure that everything is going to be seamlessly blended together this is the original um transition color brush okay now I'm going to take just my pencil brush and I'm going to do just a little bit of shadow liner and I'm going to stay out here in the corner as much as I possibly can and I'm taking a flat paddle brush that came with a juvious play set and I'm going to go into here so that I can put this on the inner corner but I'm not going to wet it because I don't want it to be super duper intense and I all I do with my inner corner is just lay that down just very very small amount and I've chosen for my eyeliner this elf this is the H2O pencil that is waterproof I love this thing it's so good you guys know that I normally don't do my eyelashes on camera and I will go off but I want to show you how pretty this is on your eyeliner right there it just makes a beautiful look for mascara I'm using covergirl clump crusher mascara this is one that Emily Noel talked about in a lot of older videos that I just saw very recently and I really have been liking it it does not clump together at all and it just really fans out and holds my curl really well and it's not a waterproof formula but it is very very smudge resistant and I really enjoy it does a really pretty job look at the difference in the eyes so I'm going to go and I'm going to do the other one off camera in order to warm this look up because I'm super pale right now I'm going to use the molani silky matte bronzer I really really like this you want to talk how this looks high end it's just so pretty and then I it is in sun kissed and this is the second one or 02 and what I really love about this is the tone of it so it has a little bit of red in it it has a little bit of coolness to it without getting muddy and so I can use this to carve out my cheek bones and warm up my skin at the same time so it's kind of a bronzer slash contour product and it's really great and because I do need that warmth to my face I'm going to kind of dust this a lot well I'm going to really put it into my hairline and as my bronzer but I'm going to kind of dust this across my whole entire face when you do your bronzer and blush don't be afraid to go up underneath your eyes if you have something on that's too light for a foundation because you're still going to need to warm it up but you don't want to have raccoon eyes so I am putting that a little bit underneath my eyes all over the cheeks just what's left on my brush I'm not going crazy with it and going down into it but you can see that it really warmed me up a lot all right now elf has a beautiful highlighter and I think this one is in their lightest color there's a gold and a rose gold and then this one I think this is molten pearl or something like that I'm not sure anyway it's just a beautiful pearl color I just really love it I didn't want to flip you off there and I put my blushes on or I put my highlighter on before I put my blush on I want this to show up a lot underneath that blush so I'm going to really beam that out I'm going to go in next with the putty blush and I'll throw up on the screen what this is too because I want to say it's Tahiti but every time I say one or the other I'm wrong on it there's a Tahiti and a Bora Bora and I get them mixed up if you haven't tried this blush yet it is so good it doesn't deposit too much on your cheeks at once and I love that about it but it can be built up as much as you want it to and it's just so pretty I'm going to put a powder blush on top of this because when we're talking about summertime makeup we're also talking about the fact that we want it to stay and be budged resistant so I'm going to put the primer infused blush in always rosy over top of it if you guys haven't tried this one this is awesome because it has that primer in it it's going to hug your cheeks and you really don't need both products but I wanted to show you what they look like on top of each other that you can layer them without getting too crazy now look how pretty that blush is and it just kind of glows underneath there I love that technique it's one of my favorites so I do also have the elf halo glow setting powder this is a beautiful very finely milled powder that reminds me very much of the hourglass veil powder it is so light and airy that it's almost exactly like that and if you want to blur out your pores I have big pores in this area right here so I'm just going to kind of buff this around and everybody always asks me every time where I got this big brush from and it's an it brush that you can get it ultra so make sure I link that below but I'm just dusting this in the parts right there in the middle and it's going to just blur out my complexion and make my complexion look so much nicer right for a lip liner I have chosen the Rimmel exaggerate in addiction this is such a pretty liner let me see if I can show it to you guys see how it's angled right there I love that and it goes around the curves of your lips so much and I can't talk and do this at the same time this reminds me of Charlotte Tilbury's lip cheats so much the texture and the way it goes across the lips it just reminds me of that so much and then this is a petal pout lipstick from flower beauty and this one is in naked blush that's a matte color look how it's just kind of my lips but better color I really like that and then the very last thing that I'm going to go in with is the Maybelline Lifter Gloss I believe this one is in pearl I could be wrong so I will make sure I leave it below for you guys and that is the finished look let's take down the hair and fluff it up and then I'm going to put me some pretty earrings on and I apologize because neither my shirt nor my earrings are available you guys I keep my earrings for years and years and I have had these for more years than I care to confess to you right now because yeah I'm that old and so that is the look thank you elf so much for reaching out to me I really do appreciate that and also thank you guys so much for spending a little bit of your time with me and seeing all these products under $10 each which I think is awesome that we can do a face like this and we can get it completed without spending a bloody fortune on our makeup sorry about smuckers biting her nails back there she has a little bit of a problem with that but yeah I've had two dogs that bit their nails and she's one of them so hope you like the look please leave a cut in the comment section below what your favorite elf product is I always love to hear that from you guys thanks so much for spending a bit of your time with me love you very much and I'll catch you all in my next video bye friends


Hello, I'm Charles Menzie pleased as the chair of the committee to give you an overview of the work that we did with an emphasis on some of the key data gaps and information needs that we're hoping will be addressed during this workshop. The workshop committee was quite diverse. As we were covering a wide range of topics from ecological topics to toxicological topics to human behavior. And implications for sun exposure. We were supported by a great staff with the National Academy. Who really carried us forward. And importantly, this, this study was funded by the US Congress. And sponsored by the US environmental protection agency. The report itself was designed to provide information for future application and ecological risk assessment. On the environmental side. And to that end, the committee reviewed the available information on sources of UV filters in the environment. Their fade processes. The measurements of those chemicals in the water, sediment and biota. And their environmental effects. And we provided our findings and knowledge gaps in each topic area. As well as overarching conclusions and recommendations that I'll I'll speak to today. As a result of the of the work that was done. Was decided that it made a lot of sense to have a follow up workshop that you'll be participating in. And that workshop. We'll focus on the aquatic environmental effects. So a key portion of the. Of the information that was brought to bear to think about ecological risk assessment. On the 1st day. We'll be looking at the analytical challenges working with UV filters. These are critical for achieving accurate toxicity metrics. And on the 2nd day. We'll be looking at toxicity testing with a focus on testing on non standard organisms. Throughout we will discuss and encourage progress on knowledge gaps across the government industry and academia. How many of you are familiar with the idea of. Bringing information together at various levels. So the regard to effects. What this diagram shows is on the far left. Beginning with simpler tests such as Q SARS and extending all the way to the right with model ecosystems. And in seed to bio monitoring. Effects information might be gathered. And the notion is that. At each stage, you learn something more. And you reduce the uncertainty. About understanding the effects. And or the exposures. Often this is approaches put into a tiered system where you do simpler tests 1st, and then you may progress. But this is the committee's thinking in terms of how 1 would. Bring together the appropriate toxicity information for addressing the risk questions at hand. Now the committee looked at 17 UV filters specifically those that are marketed in the US. 15 of these are organic chemicals. And to titanium dioxide and zinc oxide are in organic chemicals. And the study. Looks at each and develops information for each. One of the challenges in working with these chemicals. Is dealing with their chemistry. And being able to analyze them properly in a way that we both understand. What exposure levels are. In test systems. As well as in environment in the environment. So with regard to the hydrophobic. The hydrophobic. Or organic UV filters. There's a variety of. Of processes that can occur once these enter enter into the water. And these include everything from the physical mixing. To absorbing to various organic particles that might be in the water. To becoming deposited in sediments as a result of that adsorption. To transformations either bio degradation type transformations or. Through photolysis catalysis from the sun. There's a range of hydrophobicity. Across these compounds, some being very. Hydrophobic and more likely to want to. Bind to. Organic materials in the water or be taken up by animals and plants. Some are. Very soluble such as solute solacea benzone. Then there are others that are in between such as oxy benzone, which is moderately water soluble. For the inorganic UV filters zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. There are also a variety of things that may happen once they're in water. These 2 can include photo reactions. This solution as in the case of zinc oxide, which readily dissolves. As well as forming agglomerates. And settling to the sediments would be a very common thing for tiny particles of these. Particularly UV filters. With respect to biodegradation and biodegradable biodegradable biodegradability. There are numerous standard tests for biodegradation, but these are designed for wastewater for the most part. And they do indicate that a number of compounds are non biodegradable, including have a benzone. Dioxy benzone octacrylene. There are very few tests that have been done that look at the biodegradation of these compounds in natural water systems. With regard to photo stability. We do know that oxy benzone and solicit benzone appear to be relatively photostable in laboratory settings. Avobenzone, which is commonly used in many some screen products can be photostable, but that's highly dependent on the molecular scale of the environment. And frankly, the photo stability for other UV filters is largely unexplored. The committee looked at the propensity of these chemicals to bio accumulated to into aquatic life. That may come from chemicals in the sediments from the water or via the food path food chain pathways. And on the right. We have the information for the organic. UV filters that kind of shows their co W's, which is a measure of how likely they are to want to be present in fat. Versus water and you can see that there are a number of compounds, a select number of compounds that have higher. What we call KOW's partitioning coefficients. Examples of those are our avobenzone and octacrylene would have high ones while others are low. Such as solicit benzone. And that when we'll therefore dictate to some degree where those chemicals will come to reside with respect to aquatic biota. There have been a number of high quality laboratory based tests. And information available and on the on the right here are seven compounds for which. We have information that provides insight on their bio accumulation, which could be described for the for the group as a whole as ranging from low to moderate. Bio accumulation, there are a number of knowledge gaps. To be considered in understanding the exposure and testing dosages. Most of the understanding of physical chemical parameters comes from laboratory of pure water experiments and modeling platforms. Photo transformation of the UV filters and aquatic environments. That is without the use of solvents is significantly understudied. Limited data exist on the role of some common coatings. Apply to inorganic UV filters on their aggregation or dissolution. Field studies of tissue concentrations lack comprehensive characterizations of UV filter exposure and water and sediment. We do know that these chemicals accumulate in marine and aquatic organisms. But the statement means that we don't understand what the exposure regime was that led to those real those specific body concentrations. And there's a need for standard guidelines on bio concentration under laboratory conditions for saltwater organisms. And improved studies of critical body residues in acute and chronic exposures to understand bio accumulation and toxicity. Critical UV filters are really difficult and challenging to work with. And this impacts both toxicity testing and monitoring the environment. The diagram shows some of the glassware involved and some of the steps involved in either making measurements either in connection with toxicity testing studies or field studies. And there's lots of opposite opportunities here for the chemicals to absorb to containers to be lost from containers. And so this is a this is a key challenge in understanding what are the true dose response relationships and doing toxicity testing as well as what are the true exposures. Accurate exposures in in aquatic and marine environments. Another key knowledge gap here is that robust chemical analytical procedures are needed to better reflect UV filter concentrations over time and space. And that is both at the scale of a test system a toxicity test system and in the environment. This may include minimum replicates and reliable standardized methods developed to collect extract and process samples so that they accurately measure the UV filters. This includes minimum QA QC procedures. For example, analytical and in matrix recovery spikes and the like. I'd like to now turn to information on the ecotoxicology of the UV filters. The committee did a, I would consider a fairly rigorous review of the available studies. We understand that EPA will eventually do its own review, but this helps tee up the studies for consideration for ecological risk assessment purposes. So category one studies were those that were considered useful for ecological risk assessment directly category two were studies that may be useful to ERA or provide additional knowledge. There was a group that was not considered for ERA because of study limitations such as inadequate controls or some other aspects of the study. And then there are studies that include non ERA endpoints. And these are discussed in the report. In a section referred to as studies informing modes of action. Now. You've all have the report and the details on these toxicity studies are assembled in several supporting appendices, which are important to review. Appendix E includes the UV filter toxicity data. Appendix F includes studies on behavioral and physiological endpoints on select organic UV filters. So it'd be good to peruse those and be familiar with them in advance of the meeting. I'd like to touch on laboratory toxicity testing information a bit and I'm using here. The data that we've assembled on acute toxicity. The figure shows the LC 50s on the Y axis and micrograms per liter. And on the X axis are the, are compounds that have been tested, including a number of the organic compounds. And the two inorganic compounds. There is a line, a dash line at 1000 micrograms per liter, 10 of the 3rd that we use as a gauge in making some judgment about whether toxicity values tend to be higher or lower than that value. And we use that value because it helps us orient to the, what we know of the measured concentrations in the environment, which are for the most part. They range from range up to maybe 10 micrograms per liter. Although there are individual values that can for some compounds that can get higher than that. So as you can see from this figure acute toxicity has been observed under that 1000 microgram per liter gauge for several other compounds. The toxicity values typically exceed solubility for the poorly soluble UV filters. If you look at the figure on the right, you see these dash lines here, here, here, here and here. Those are the solubility limits for those compounds. And so if we take this chemical, for example, you'll see that the available data exists above the solubility limit. Here's one where we have something below the solubility limit, but much of the data. Well, for these are existing above the solubility limits. While not shown here, chronic studies are limited across all UV filters. And we'd really like to get at that because of the nature of the exposure. The toxicity information is also given for in a couple of cases for chemicals for which we had sufficient data. So oxybenzone acute data is on the left and oxybenzone chronic is on the right. And you can kind of see where the HC5 is and the LCL values here on the far left for the acute and for chronic. These can also be put together for zinc oxide for acute and chronic and octanoxate and titanium dioxide for acute only. But that is largely the limits of the available data. So other effects that are addressed in the report that you may consider during the course of the workshop include how to think about mixtures. Because of UV filters are typically used as mixtures. There might be several in a particular application. They exist in the environment as mixtures and if you make measurements in the environment, you could find 3, 4, 5 UV filters present detected. So mixture considerations may be important in terms of how they may act together among themselves and with other chemicals. Also important are studies informing modes of action. So there's a section in the report that's devoted to this and we flag the idea of new approach methods and methodologies because, you know, we certainly understand that's a direction that EPA would like to go in in the future. Multiple stressors are key considerations, especially in the marine and aquatic environments where there's a there are other stressors taking place. In particular, those associated with global warming. So water temperature can be an important consideration and how that might interact with the presence or influence the toxicity of chemicals that may be in the water as well. We note in the report. Information on threatened endangered species. A number of the marine. Systems or species and freshwater systems are threatened and endangered. And it may therefore may be of value to think about toxicity testing that would serve to inform the potential for effects on these types of species. And that would be obviously using surrogate species for them. And finally, communities and ecosystems. Systems such as coral reefs are complex. Both in terms of communities and ecosystems and there's a lot going on there and so that affects on one aspect of that system could have effects on other aspects of that system. And the report talks about that. Some of the key knowledge gaps. That will serve to inform higher tier risk assessment, including the creation of those. SSDs when deemed necessary include toxicity tests for non standard organisms, especially marine organisms. Toxic toxicity tests on benthic organisms that may be exposed to UV filters present in the sediments. Effects from UV filter, degradation, there is a level of biodegradation and fatalities that occurs in these environments. Studies that distinguish among inorganic, particulate properties other than particle size. Research on community and ecosystem dynamics. And finally, studies that link downstream cellular tissue, Oregon individual and population responses to population endpoints. Here, we're obviously referring to the development and use of adverse outcome pathways. We were found that we were unable to complete such a pathway, given the available information. The conclusions of the report include this matrix, which I'll just touch on. And just because you might find it useful in thinking about the chemicals as you come to the workshop. So this is arranged with the chemicals across the top and alphabetical alphabetical order, although the organics and then the inorganics. And it's organized into categories. So this first one appears UV filter production and then that's followed by environmental fate and exposure. And the idea is that this is these provides synopsis of information we know about the compounds. And they're color coded. So where something has maybe has a lower influence on environmental conditions, either in terms of exposure and effects, it may get a blue color. If it has a higher potential influence, it might get a brown color like this orange color. If it's in the middle, it might be a yellow color. So when you look at this collectively, it's handy. It's a handy way to kind of see where the blues and oranges and yellows cluster and what information is available about these chemicals. And this really serves to identify where some of the key data gaps are on a per chemical basis. The committee made two recommendations, which bear on the work of this workshop. The first is that EPA should conduct conduct an ecological risk assessment for all currently marketed UV filters in any new ones that become available. This was seen as an urgent need driven by the evidence of local exposures of aquatic organisms in UV aquatic ecosystems to the UV filters. Potentially including endangered species and experimentally demonstrated potential for environmental impact either alone or in context of other system. Stressors and you may recall that one figure I showed you with the dashed line at 1000 and where the measurements and estimates of UV filters were in the environment. Those are within an order of magnitude or two. And given the uncertainties in the information. It's it's easy to see how those could come to converge or overlap, which is why we think it's urgent to look at this. The results of that era that eventually gets. Conducted by the agency would then we would recommend be shared with FDA for their considerations. Of the environment in their oversight of UV filters. Our 2nd recommendation. Is that EPA and partner agencies such as Noah and others. And the sunscreen formulators and the UV filter manufacturers should conduct fund or support and share research. And data on sources, fake processes, environmental concentrations. Biocumulation studies modes of action and ecological and toxicity testing for UV filters alone. And as part of sunscreen formulations. And on the human health side of this we additionally recommend that epidemiological risk modeling behavioral studies. Related to sunscreen usage should be conducted to better understand human health outcomes. From changing availability and usage. The workshop will serve to inform the 1st part of this recommendation. With regard to the potential for effects. Of UV filters. Thank you very much for listening. I highly recommend that you all review the report. And with special attention to obviously to the effects section, but also to get the context of the of that. Of the that from a human from an ecological risk standpoint from looking at the. The other chapters as well. Thank you very much.


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Okay, I would like you to take the next half hour and pretend that you're not programmers for a little bit get out of that programming mindset and Try to enter the mindset of a surfer.  I want you to visualize the feeling of the sand underneath your toes The sound of the waves the sound of the ocean in front of you.   It's cold You can feel the difference between where your wetsuit begins and your bare feet You continue into the water Gets deeper. It gets awkward. You can feel sort of a current pulling at your legs kind of making it hard to stand The surface of the ocean floor is kind of uneven and unsteady and you're not sure with each step Whether you're gonna go up or down or how much And you you get to the point where it's deep enough now And you you set that surfboard down or clumsily drop the surfboard into the water It kind of makes it splash and waves are coming by and splashing up against them And you like grab the board to make sure it doesn't run away Get further out Decide to hop up on that board you grab it by two rails you pull your body up Kind of scramble around half haplessly You focus and you notice how your hips line up on the top of the surface of that board the hard board against your hard hip bones You find your center of balance you take a deep breath and you start exerting yourself you paddle you Move your arms deep into the water Faster faster paddling out the waves and waves keep coming in and they're splashing up in your face And it's salty And it's hard to see and you wipe your face and you keep going and then you see a big wave coming on the horizon and Not sure if you're going to make it over that wave it's it's pitching up it's pitching up and you're paddling harder and harder and Exerting yourself and you launch off the top of that wave Airborne for a little bit well not completely airborne but the front of your board is at least and it smacks down on the other side Of that wave and then you smack down on top of the board and you kind of awkwardly stumble you sit up on the board Take a breath Catch your breath look around Look back at how far out you've made it from the beach And then continue forward Okay, you guys can sit down now relax I could I could go on with that Mental exercise of reliving the surfing experience for a whole half hour, but I have some other points to make So hello This is me surfing a wave in Pacifica where I live in a wetsuit where it's cold I have a lot of ideas to talk about and maybe I'll convey some of them Okay, and you can talk to me after I Don't want to sound too Arrogance like I'm like a motivational speaker here telling you how to live your life So really I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm gonna pretend like it for the purposes of this presentation Again, huh? Hot coals. No So again, this is me Jacob Burkhart. This is surfing in Mexico and And important part of me is Jayburn. She's over here in the corner. She's gonna help me out later This is what she usually looks like to me in the water catching a wave surfing right by me She usually the waves big enough that I'd like just see that for a moment And then she disappears down the face and I have no idea if she made it until I see her like way into the beach This is the presentations on github Show off you can download it right now and play along and if you want to tweet at me That's my Twitter. This is where I work at Engine Yard You heard earlier today Jessica talk about the standing desk. This is the bouncing desk There's actually these like half balls that we should stand on and listen music and code Okay, so what is presence I? Was I was trying to get you to perhaps experience some taste of it with my visualization So I was talking I was at dinner last night, and I met this guy Ezekiel where's Ezekiel wave Ezekiel told me a lot of things about being a Zen Buddhist when I told him I was giving this talk But the one thing that I want to share with you is this concept of your default mental state so the way he presented it to me you have two modes of thinking you have your default mode in which you are thinking about the past thinking about the future sort of anticipating what might happen and Sort of criticizing the actions you've taken and critiquing yourself and like analyzing And then the others mental state is sort of the mental state that you like have if you're being chased by a line where you're like completely in the moment completely aware and existing in the world and It turns out you're a lot happier in that second state, but your mind defaults constantly back to the first state You guys remember this talk from yesterday by Katrina one thing she talked about that really stuck out to me that I want to reiterate is this idea of working memory and my interpretation of what she was saying is that If you're bogged down with lots of stuff you have less working memory in your mind to focus on whatever task and being present is the practice of clearing your mind and If you practice presence you will be able to have more access to your working memory essentially so other aspects of presence are Awareness and that's awareness of what's around you awareness of how your body is doing how it's feeling How healthy you're feeling Mindfulness it's it's doing things with a purpose and not entirely focusing on that purpose But being mindful of what you're doing sort of like like a surgeon is probably very mindful when they're operating on somebody And it's focus. I think there's a lot of multitasking happening with us in our lives and Practicing presence is a practice of focus and can help us in our ability to focus every day So who knows this feeling This this feeling of presence. How about how about this feeling of catching a wave? Pretty cool. This is my sister and in Costa Rica catching a wave. How about this feeling of catching away? really This is this is Jerry Lopez Famous Surfer he's still around living in Oregon Here he's surfing his signature wave on pipeline and he wrote this book that I've been reading called surface where you find it and Jerry talks a lot about Zen and presence and surfing and he does it in better ways than I can so I'm just gonna seal some quotes He's talking here about surfing the pipeline this massive wave Although instinct isn't the right word Something like it along with a clear mind work better than thinking because at the pipe there isn't enough time for thought a Zen like mine that is empty of thoughts allows a strong connection with the wave It lets the surfer be in touch with the wave as opposed to being a part of it So this is like I relate to this, but I don't need to surf pipeline to have this experience. I Could surf waves that are just beyond my ability and be completely engrossed and survival mode and Forced into this state of presence. So I'm talking more about surfing in general This it might be what you perceive of when you think surfing maybe nice warm beach sand This this was Huntington Beach last weekend in Southern California We were there For the same it was complicated reason. I don't have time to explain, but it relates to this Which is my wife and I have this company birds will calm go buy a t-shirt. I'm wearing one of them right now Well wave, that's that's not a model. That's just our friend So And at Huntington Beach, they were having this giant competition called the US Open of Surfing And Kelly Slater was there That's one aspect of surfing. There's there's the endorsements in surfing as the magazine pictures the selling bikinis Don't really relate to that but it's out there Big wave surfing. This is like your your compiler developers like your Lawrence who are writing Ruby motion when nobody else could I I admire what they're doing, but I'm scared Then then there's their style This is Dane Reynolds One of the pioneers the sort of bridging the competitive aspects with the free surfing and Pushing the sport forward and I really I really admire the this is Casio here her style or hanging heels is a really hard maneuver piece is a Aspect of surfing from the 70s that still carried on a little bit I Can relate to that and and harmony being in harmony with nature Being out there. This is this is the beach that's closest to my house called Rockway Beach Anyway, all those aspects of surfing I started here This is Hampton, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. I don't know how many people are familiar with Northeastern geography Hampshire doesn't have much has 13 miles of coastline and for about half a mile is this beach where everybody comes to surf It's called the wall and I'm gonna teach you a new vocabulary word here. It's called kook That's what I was when I started you'd see me bent down like super focused on this menial wave So we all start as kooks even even Jerry Lopez even Kelly Slater and Even as we progress We go back and we do something called cooking it up where we get together with a bunch of friends Hang out in the water catch some waves tell some lies And it's sort of like going back to this level of just having fun So here's some code So if I were giving a different presentation the point I would make here is that you should pair but in this in this presentation my point is that this code works and When I when I wrote this code I put a bunch of put statements in in between everything and Wrote it a bunch of times and had some tests and it was really long arduous approaches process that I should have been present for but because I wasn't I was being a kook and just sort of falling back on What it what I knew what I could get done and and I got it done and I Think that's okay. Sometimes just say I'm being a kook just Stingology so Jerry Lopez Not a kook pretty sweet yoga guy though. He has a quote about this after surfing in Some massive ways where he didn't know what to do And he said the answer may be so simple that it is easily overlooked If one believes that the truth lies within faith dictates that it will reel itself when it is most needed It's there so keep paddling where it leads that that one little line keep paddling is sort of a life motto I have So getting to the next level we were we were kooks. We were in New Hampshire. We were surfing on the weekends and Then I met this man. I started a new job in Boston Not there now anyway, but this is a while ago. This is Ed in his signature crouched style Important to have a style And he showed us two very important things one. He showed us there was a place to surf that was half an hour from work and He showed us that as director of engineering with two kids and an important job He was surfing at least once a week before work during the day and we were like we can do that So we stepped up our dedication This is a picture of winter surfing in Maine The water is probably 38 degrees at most you can see there's snow on the ground We surfed in the winter maybe like three times that year But but we extended our season we went further into fall We started more in the spring and we started to really prioritize surfing because on the east coast The best surf is right before a hurricane And if you know about your hurricanes, they have a season. They're not your round so you got to be ready for when the swells are up and You can be patient when they're not So I have some more advice for you about priorities These are the five priorities that were communicated to me by my dad who got them from somebody else There there there are five priorities there in order. I like to think of them on my hand They health family friends work I'll go into them each four in a little bit detail, but first I want to talk about Buddha again So I don't I don't know that much about Buddhism, but the the one documentary I watched Told it told the story of Buddha Well before he was the Buddha about how he was this rich spoiled brat And he lived this life of decadence and then he rebelled against that into the teenager and live this life of piety and restraint and sacrifice and Then he came to Buddhism as the middle path the the balance of things and With these five priorities They're in order, but it's important that you balance them like you can't completely neglect work to go surfing Even though surfing is more important So here you can see this is you know Ruby. This is an assignment operation Faith I'm a signing surf as my faith Jerry has a quote about this. This is Jerry in Indonesia Anytime I go surfing can be a religious experience if I let it It is a close encounter with one of our world's greatest natural wonders Out here on the edge of the known world far from the distractions of civilization. I can more easily find this space But in reality any of us can find it anywhere because we carry it inside of us everywhere we go So first our second priority. We just talked about faith second priority is health You got to take care of yourself before you take care of other people and I'm going to relate to things about how Surfing is good for your health. So really surfing is all five priorities, but Morning exercise, how many people will have an exercise regimen before they do anything in the morning? You should all adopt one Exercising in the morning gets your heart rate going increases your metabolism Gives you benefits throughout the day my my self explanation for this is evolution and bipedalism so Standing upright and walking on two feet was one of the first traits that our ancestors evolved that distinguished us from the chimps and We evolved that trait because we had to travel long distances for our food and our shelter and On top of that evolved our ability to think and reason and other things that make us human and so I feel like you have to think of those things as connected and exercising and using your body Comes in concert with your ability to think and they reinforce each other Wrist strength who has ever had problems with carpal tunnel or repetitive stress So so what I've read and learned and heard about this is that if your wrist hurts The last thing you want to do is put a brace on it and not use it The best thing to do is to exercise it and the important thing is that you exercise it in ways that are complementary to the stress you're putting on it and Surfing obviously exercise the whole body uses a lot of arm motion You can see me flexing my wrist here as I catch a wave So family third priority Here we are Thanksgiving so some people in my family. This is this is Shiva. He lives in LA he was one of the first people that I knew that surfed and I went surfing with him in LA when I was still in college and I was still figuring out my life and I think that struck me about his lifestyle was that he was he was doing it He was getting up every morning going surfing Packing his suit and board in the car and driving straight to work and He was just so happy with his life. He didn't have a lot of other things in his life figured out, but that really made an impact on me and Of course, I have to give credit again to Jay bird Having her with me to be there almost every time I surf in the morning and all the adventures we have in surfing has really reinforced the positive vibe I guess friends Almost as important as family So I was I was in the water surfing with some of my friends and I told him about this talk and Asked them what I should talk about with surfing This is a this is Cynthia. She's really short and vegan But but the things she relates most to in surfing is her addiction to surfing and how it has replaced all other things that you might be addicted to like caffeine or nicotine and She says she gets Jonesing she hasn't been in the water for a while. I don't need caffeine by the way. I call surfing This is Chris Starts to talk a little funny if you haven't surfed in a while. This is the source of sanity makes up words like post mango surf Mangoes are delicious by the way This is Perrin She she she told me how much surfing has taught her patients She's a little relatively a beginner when it comes to surfing and But she'll go out there and she'll spend hours in the water and she'll try and she'll try and She may she'll finally catch like one or two good waves but it's all worth it for her and she's she's learning and She says that that patience that she has and then the reward of finally catching a wave that carries on through the rest of her life Finally fifth priority work. Just Tom at work doing work I'll go back to Ed again for some advice on surfing related to work I emailed for him for a bigger picture of that Crouch style wave catch and he sent me this quote He said it's critical to always mix work in surfing The yellow board which was in that last slide was picked up while I was in LA repairing COS's and meeting customers and COS is just the product that we worked on at my last job And he goes on to talk about all these different places that he surfed with that board and customers that he met with And he said it's more complicated than sending a tech or paying shipping on a new board But that's far less satisfying So the lesson from Ed was Have a fulfilling work life have a filling surf life. Let them reinforce each other So my surf lifestyle. It's not all infinity pools in Mexico On a good day I wake up at six o'clock or rather J. Berg drags me out of bed at six o'clock Get in the water by seven o'clock. This is roughly what it looks like at seven o'clock Try to get out by nine o'clock It's good two hours session free salad Have a quick shower and Then get into work by ten o'clock for a stand-up. This is did not actually stand up because we're drinking Roughly what stand-up looks like without the whiskey And then the massive lunch so that morning surf that morning exercise Really burns a lot of calories and I get really hungry and all my co-workers know when I surf because I steal their food Pura vida who's heard of this before this is the the Costa Rican motto it means pure life And this is this is how I feel about a good day and Jerry has a quote obviously Such as the life we can know living in the past and in the future in recollection and in anticipation Creates a less clear picture of the present By being in the here and now we understand that the past and the future only exist in the present That was pretty deep. I don't know how it's to introduce that basically he's saying There is no past there is no future there's only our memory of it and an participation of it and Being present is literally acknowledging that So I want some audience participation here tell me your source of presence if it's not surfing yoga Surfing I heard snowboarding How about travel I Think Whatever your source of presence is you should attempt to experience it in as many places as you can So this is this is Mount bachelor, which is nearby where I traveled to once Westport is a place you could travel to I came to Seattle on Wednesday night conference was didn't start till Friday So that I could rent a car and drive down here. It's about two and a half hours from Seattle It's the closest place to go surfing here But you should totally check it out. There's a surf shop there. They rent boards. They rent suits waves are pretty good I was actually impressed Another place to go The place that I go locally is Santa Cruz I want to tell a little story about Santa Cruz that the problem with Santa Cruz is That the waves are so good that there's so many people there and When you have a lot of people in a concentrated area like that you have this problem called aggro So this is one of the character types that Ryan Davis didn't mention yesterday, but now you guys can use this in your vocabulary An aggro surfer is somebody who's so frustrated with the crowds that he will take every opportunity to Verbally assault anybody that he thinks has slightly slighted him or done something wrong in the water J-word experience this last weekend where somebody was actually yelling at her for being too good at surfing It was completely contradictory, but he was very angry Hap Moon Bay. This is a One or two towns over from Pacifica And we were there a little while ago This is great because Hap Moon Bay is where Mavericks is and so we'll have some screenings sometimes and some big wave surfers Will come and talk about Their experiences after we watched a little film about it so this is Grant Twiggy Baker on one of the supposed worst wipeouts ever and he said something at One of these film screenings that really stuck with me. He said don't panic after you've panicked And I think we can relate to this as programmers When things go wrong and immediately we panic and our our lesson from surfing and our lesson in work Is that you have to relax and figure out the problem and stop panicking The other guy in the room Grant Washburn explained that All of us have built into us physically about nine or seconds nine or ten seconds We have a timer where if you go underwater and hold your breath Your body will panic at nine or ten seconds Everybody even even people that free dive and hold their breath for five or ten minutes They have this in them and what they have to do is they have to go underwater wait for that moment to pass Regain composure and continue I thought that was interesting And of course Jerry has a quote about Being stuck underwater This is after he tells the story of a three-wave hold down in which he had an out-of-body experience Moments of surf liberalization are here to remind us of our true potential If that is why we surf that's good because surfing reconnects us to who we really are This is all the more reason to keep surfing Life is good surfing reminds us how good life is You guys do any activities that like make you think you might die and then get really stoked when you survive It's really worth it not intentionally all right That's basically all I had to say We're gonna have J bird here close it out for you. Are you ready? I guess I have to be have to be present right? That's right