It been a super long time since I made a video like this, but NBA 2K has a very serious problem. I want to talk about it. I've talked about some of this stuff before, but I've been playing a whole lot of Fortnite. It's going on behind me right now. It's a game that initially I thought like I wasn't really going to be interested in, but it was free. I said I'll try it. Who knows? I'm addicted now. And it's a lot of stuff that Epic Games does right with this game that makes playing 2K like, it's like a whole new world when you hop on Fortnite. So I just want to contrast from a couple of the games that I've played to really outline where 2K is going wrong. And I think it could spell bad things for the future of the company.  No one's going to stick around with the same mind and be like, yo, I'm just going to keep getting the finesse. Who's going to do that? So the first thing is obviously the game itself, the gameplay I like, the program is fun. But where the problem lies is outside of all that, and it's the microtransactions. The fact that you have to spend like an entire week of full-time grinding just to get all your badges and pay $50 just to get your attributes. Unless, unless, of course, you want to start your player without all the core competencies that you would expect a regular basketball player to have.  Let's say you have three players, you spend $50 each on top of the game costs, you're pushing like $220. And that's assuming you don't buy shoes which are super expensive, haircuts, shirts, whatever new content, and assuming you're not even attempting to buy packs on my team. Like, there was a time where 2K said a player came out of the pack, people spent money on the pack, and then 2K is like, no, it ain't come out yet. And people were like, what you mean? Do I get my VC back?  There was an ad that came out on 2K. It was on the park plastered around a couple of the billboards, and it said, and you probably noticed it if you were playing in the last month, buy $75,000 of VC. No, it's not the... Although they would like that, buy $75,000 VC and get $75,000 free, or was it 50% off? Whatever it was. So a couple people bought it, and they noticed afterwards in the fine print it said, Only available in Australia. 2K. Why would you display an ad even with that kind of fine print to the whole world if it was only applicable to one region? It's small stuff like that that 2K just keeps finessing people about that it's not going to work out. You do it too many times, and apparently 2K made $500 million in 2016. And they said that number has been going up in 2017, so they made even more than that. And Activision, the publisher of Call of Duty, said they were making in the billions on microtransactions. So 2K is not going to stop anytime soon. Is it a trend? We've seen the trend, right? Every year you make less and less VC on MyCure games, on park games, on Pro-Am games, and VC costs more and more. And so just making those differences year over year, it makes it to the point where like, not only do you have to spend VC, because the VC is attached to gameplay. On Fortnite, you can buy skins, but it even reminds you on the bottom it says, Yo, you don't have to buy the skins because it's only cosmetic and it's not associated with the gameplay. It tells you that. They're not trying to scam or trick you into buying anything. They're letting you know like, you could look dope while you play this game that you really enjoy, that we took our time and care in creating and developing. You see where I'm going with this? Probably the next big thing for me was new content. If you play Fortnite, a crossbow drops, then a can cannon, a deagle drops, and then new skins drop, and Season 3 came out or a new map drop. There's so every few days there's something that comes out. And it's such a glorious thing. It's like every day it feels like there's something fresh I could do. I'm addicted to the whole Battle Royale concept, and just being able to build changes everything, I'm addicted. You switch over to 2K on 2K. We got All-Star jerseys, I guess, right? That was new content. On the my team side, they're getting less content than they're used to. There was a period of a month during December where like the my team Twitter didn't even say anything. Like we just assumed they died. Like nobody was saying anything whatsoever. They just decided to go on vacation. I know that House Rules comes on. There's Anti-Up, but it's a rotation of the same events over and over and over again, trying to make it seem like I guess it's new or it's fresh because it's not there all the time. But on Fortnite, not if there's a game that comes out, then it's gone in a week, and then the skin drops, and then it's like, can we up the content game? Now, for 2K, this might not be realistic because while 2K has to worry about creating 2K 19, Fortnite, Rainbow Six, League of Legends, all these games that do a great job of creating new content don't have to worry about a sequel. All they have to worry about is dropping new content for the current game. And I feel like that would be the better route. Now, would 2K ever do that? No. But I feel like the games that I enjoy playing all have a similar kind of development cycle where the game drops and then as time goes on, the user base increases because they're creating a good game and they continue to release good content on Rainbow Six. They have a new outbreak content map. It's like zombies. It's like a horde mode on Gears of War. It's really dope. I mean, it looks dope at least. I still have yet to play it. But is that new content I'm talking about? If 2K wants to be fresh year-long, I mean, for me, Pro-M is gonna do it. I could keep playing Pro-M all year long and I'll be straight. But outside of Pro-M, just to hop on and play the park, there has to be a reason for me. And I think a lot of people need a reason and 2K hasn't been doing a good job of giving people a reason as of late. Probably the most exciting thing for me and it's a rarity in the gaming industry, okay? So when we see it, we have to look at it. We have to appreciate it and we have to say thank you and show support. It's when the community loves the game and the devs love the community. It's a beautiful cycle. Like if you scroll through the website of Fortnite, they literally every week, there's a new detailed patch explaining, we've done this differently, this differently. We changed this and let us know what you think about this and we improved this. We're so sorry this happened. On 2K, there's patches where like we get one sentence sometimes. Sometimes nothing at all. Or sometimes and literally almost all the time, actually there's omissions so they take stuff out that's been changed and we have to find out for ourselves what really changed. Like you will hop on and you'll be like, why is my jumper feel different? And it's because the slider move this way or one animation was tweaked and it wasn't in the patch note and they don't communicate that. Even when I was at the 2K event, I told them like, yo, we need to up the communication. Like just tell us what you're doing at the end of the day. They had a lot of time to prepare for 2K18. If you remember late in 2K17, Mike Wang was moving around the slider saying he was testing the sliders for 2K18. But even when the game came out, the game dropped, everybody complained and he got to moving the sliders once again. And so it was like all that stuff that he was practicing and tuning and it just flew out the window once everybody got angry about missing shots. All right, I'm gonna read out a specific patch note that Fortnite dropped and you can immediately tell the difference between how they conduct themselves and how 2K handles everything. So they say, hey, Fortnite players, you probably run into a few issues playing Fortnite this past week. We've since solved those issues. We know this is affecting a lot of you and we're working to resolve this as quickly as we can. We greatly appreciate all of your patience and understanding. As a token of our appreciation, here are some goodies. Find out more here at URL. They actively apologize, admit faults, say where they're wrong and then make it super clear that they're working even harder to make sure nothing like that happens again. There was a glitch like a month ago where there was a building glitch and sometimes you hit an input and it doesn't hit and you keep dying or dropping or whatever the case is because of one small little glitch. They issue an apology, boom, and within a week they work to fix it with a patch. On top of all the new content that's dropping, it's so crazy to me and this is really where it gets put into context for me that Fortnite is gonna come out with private matchmaking before 2K comes out with private matchmaking for the pro end. I need y'all to know how crazy that is. The money 2K has been making, right? Since this franchise has been blowing up since PS4 started. You know, it's been doing great before that but it's on a new tier with microtransactions. They're making more revenue than ever. You would think with all the new resources they would be solving a lot of the ongoing issues. One of the things we assumed they would solve was there was gonna be a private matchmaking on Pro-M so if I wanna play my buddy who has his five, we can just match up. Not only can we not do that but 2K is going out of their way to make it harder for us to match make by queuing up at the same time and readying up. So one, two, three, ready up! And we just hope we hit each other. We're on a call. No, that's not us. And we have to back out. We go through that process sometimes for over an hour just to match up with one team because 2K doesn't wanna come out with a game mode. That Fortnite, a free to play game is gonna beat 2K too. Like if the microtransactions aren't already enough it's frustrating that there's ongoing issues that aren't being solved. Whether the solve is being fixed for 2K 19 or not, I don't know and I don't care. I just wanna play a better product at the end of the day and we all do. It's a real shame. A lot of these issues aren't new. They've been going on. There's no fix for them. There hasn't been one in sight and without any communication we never know what's being changed if anything is gonna be added in the next week. Whatever the case. We literally just sit there and play the same monotonous thing over and over and over again. Literally if it wasn't for Pro-M I definitely wouldn't be on the park. I might have hopped on my team just to check it out but you wouldn't catch me buying packs on my team. First of all, let's be super clear. Opening up packs is a form of gambling. I'm not, I don't gamble to begin with. You will never catch. I might play a free poker game on a Facebook app that's about it for me. It's just not worth it when you know statistically unless you have some sort of algorithm behind you you're gonna be losing money. So I sympathize with the my team guys who've been just draining their pockets to get some of these top guys. And with the lack of new content on my team outside of the occasional moments card or when there's a special occasion they'll come out with a new special pack. Every single new piece of content that 2K comes out with is just another way for them to make money. There's nothing that really comes out that's new and fresh that they don't benefit from. Like they don't drop a new shirt and then everybody gets a shirt, right? They make you pay for it using VC so you can spend more. You see how I'm going with this? So even when they drop new content they're still benefiting and they're not necessarily doing it because they want to create a great game. And the sad part is is actually when I was at the event it was super clear to me that the devs care. Any dev cares, right?  You're gonna make sure it's the best possible game it can be. I definitely don't think they're trying to short change us on that. I just think that a lot of the decisions being made are being made based on how much revenue you can make. And if it can't make revenue then it doesn't make sense. And I think that's a horrible model. There's games like Fortnite is just taking over. Like you can't look somewhere without seeing the game. And at first I thought it was obnoxious. I figured I'll just try it. And I realized like I really understand why people love this game. It's because unlike almost in a polar opposite what 2K is doing, they're showing they care. They're coming out with so much free content it's difficult to get bored with. And not only is the battle royale a fresh idea. I mean it kind of started as a mod on Arma 2, right? And they came out with DayZ, H1Z1, PUBG. Like it's been going on ever since. It's a new genre. But it's just a fun way to kick back with your friends, man. And it's super clear. It's super, super clear that Epic Games hit a goddamn whole run with this one. And I'm buying my battle pass. I bought it a few days ago. I'm gonna start buying a whole bunch of new different skins just to support. Because when I see a game that's just doing such a good job I just, I don't know how you can't support it. I wanna make it clear. And I think everybody should have this goal that you support games that deserve being supported. So Rainbow Six, I buy it. I literally buy the operators even though I prefer working towards getting them. Just because I really appreciate what Ubisoft is doing even though there is an occasional glitch and Ubisoft messes up and the community goes crazy. Overall Rainbow Six is a great game. Anyway, that's just where I'm at. I'm hopping on Pro-Am more right now. The combine is finished. I'm kind of getting my team together. It seems like a lot of people went missing in action waiting for the 2K League to see what happens. But I'm gonna be hopping on Pro-Am and making more videos of that so don't trip. Also, I've been streaming almost every single day and uploading videos to Facebook. So if you guys wanna see Fortnite slash 2K type content I'm gonna leave a link in the description and you guys can watch more of me over there. And that's where I'm at y'all.   And I feel like this was definitely deserving of one. Every time I play Fortnite I can't help but appreciate it just because of everything 2K has put me through. Yeah, I'm gonna end there. I'm out. Peace.


Next definition, when we describe properties, we are describing a macroscopic characteristic of the system. So it's a description of something about the system as a whole. And we sort properties into different categories so that we can keep track of which ones are useful under different circumstances. The first distinction that we make is intensive versus extensive. That refers to the fact that an extensive property changes based on how much of the substance there is. Again, an extensive property changes based on how much of the substance, how much mass there is. An intensive property does not. Again, an intensive property does not change based on how much mass you have. So for example, if you imagine floating in the air above you, there was a big block of steel, and all of a sudden half of it were to disappear magically. If a property changed after half of it disappeared, that would have been an extensive property. If it didn't, that would be an intensive property. So for example, volume of the steel block would change when half of it disappeared, therefore volume is extensive. Weight would have changed after half of it disappeared, so weight is extensive. Density of the steel is likely to be unaffected if magically half of it disappeared. Density is intensive. Also the color of the block is unlikely to have changed, so color would be intensive. And then we add in a specific addition to that categorization. A specific property is an extensive property divided by mass. When you take an extensive property and divide by mass, you get out a specific property. And specific also means intensive. So once again, a specific property is an extensive property expressed per unit mass, and it is intensive. So for example, if you describe volume per unit mass, that result is specific volume. And what you get is an intensive property. Specific volume is an intensive property. It's kind of like density, in fact. It's the reciprocal of density. If you would like more examples, here are more examples. This is by no means an exhaustive list. This is just more fun exploration. We are using properties to describe systems. A system is a quantity of matter or a region in space chosen for study. When it is a quantity of matter, we describe it as a control mass. When it is a region in space, we describe a control volume. The system is the thing we're analyzing. Everything else around the system, the whole rest of the universe, is the system's surroundings. And the separation between the system and its surroundings is the boundary. For example, if we were analyzing the power produced by the gas engine in my Honda Accord, we might be considering what's happening to the gas as it expands as it is heated up. In that analysis, we would want to analyze gas inside of that piston-cylinder arrangement, but we could not establish a control volume because the volume of that piston-cylinder arrangement is changing. The piston's moving up and down, which is changing the volume. But the mass of the gas is unaffected by that process, so it would likely be more convenient for us to establish a control mass as the thing that we are analyzing. When we describe control masses and control volumes, what we are also doing is trying to limit our scope. And one way of doing that is by defining our system as being open or closed or isolated. That refers to whether or not we are considering the effects of mass and energy crossing the boundary. In an open system, both mass and energy can cross the system boundary. In a closed system, mass cannot cross the system boundary, but energy can. In an isolated system, neither mass nor energy can cross the system boundary. And note that there is no need to establish a force where mass can cross but energy can't, because the mass itself brings energy with it, so we cannot have a fourth possibility here. It's also worth noting that when we treat a system as being open or closed or isolated, we are not necessarily describing what it actually is. We are describing how we're modeling it. So for example, if I wanted to figure out how many ice cubes I should add to my Yeti thermos to bring my coffee down to a temperature that I can actually drink, after I add the ice cubes in and put the lid on, I could probably get away with treating that as an isolated system. Or should I say ice-related system? That's because the energy exchange is primarily happening internally, and there would be negligible mass going in or out of that Yeti thermos during that process. So by treating it as an isolated system, I am neglecting the effects of mass and energy crossing the boundary. It's not that it's perfectly insulated for real, it's the fact that I'm treating it as being perfectly insulated. Similarly, when I treat a system as being closed, it's not that it actually is perfectly closed. I'm saying that we can model the behavior of the actual thing as a closed system and probably have a relatively accurate result. Another way of thinking about this is the universe is made up of open systems, but we treat them as being closed or isolated to simplify our analysis. We are building a model of reality and analyzing the model. And, as my stats teacher once said, all models are wrong, some models are useful. The degree to which they are wrong is an important aspect of engineering. Bearing in mind what inaccuracies are present in your model, because there will always be some, and understanding how those inaccuracies are affected by the assumptions you make. If I wanted to figure out how much heat was required to heat my office and all of my windows were open, then treating it as a closed system would likely be an inaccurate result. When we are analyzing a control mass, that is, we are defining our system as being a quantity of matter for study, what we are doing is effectively treating it as a closed system because no mass enters and increases the mass nor leaves and decreases the mass. Control volumes, that is, regions in space, are more commonly chosen for open systems because mass is freed across the boundaries. An isolated system would also likely be a control mass. So there is a correlation between open and closed and isolated and control mass and control volume, but it is not necessarily a direct causation in all cases. The way you frame your system can also make understanding a problem a lot easier.  You might be tempted to go in and analyze all the combustion happening and figuring out how much heat is being rejected from the gas to the container or to the cylinder walls as it's undergoing its combustion process and then how much of that heat is transferred into the cooling system and how much of that is going into the radiator and how much of that is actually being dissipated and where the heat is being dissipated by and from and all the convection effects of the heat being pushed into the air by places other than the radiator and all the radiative effects from all the metal being hotter than the atmosphere. But we don't really need to do that. If instead we were to surround the engine with a control volume and consider what's going in and out because we know that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, if we figure out the difference between what's coming in and what we know is going out as other things, the leftover must be how much is leaving as heat. So in this case, I have heat exiting, I have exhaust gas exiting, and I have power leaving in the drive shaft. The inputs are fuel and air. If I were to figure out the energy available in the fuel and air, figure out how much leaves as exhaust gas, how much leaves as power and I assume that none of that energy is actually stored within the engine over time then the difference between the two must be how much is leaving as heat. Going back to the checkbook example, if you bought three video games at GameStop and a controller and you knew that each of the games cost $50 and you knew that your total before tax was $180 then the controller must have cost $30. You don't need to know the cost of the controller if you know everything else in the problem because you can figure it out. If we were analyzing a gas, it might be convenient to describe our system as a control mass, not a control volume. Furthermore, we would probably simplify our analysis by neglecting any gas escaping around the piston. That simplification from reality into a model by treating it as a closed system is probably reasonable. If we were analyzing water being accelerated through a nozzle we could figure out how much kinetic energy is increasing as a result of decreases in pressure, how the enthalpy of the fluid drops in order to accommodate that increase in kinetic energy. We could perform that analysis by treating the nozzle as an open system. We would do that by defining our system as a control volume, establishing an imaginary boundary at the inlet and outlet of the nozzle and treating the inside of the surface of the nozzle as our third boundary, closing our volume. If we were looking at an air compressor that was operating steadily, taking in power from a motor and increasing the pressure of air, we would probably want to treat this as a control volume because we have mass coming in, we have mass going out and it would not be appropriate for us to assume that no mass crosses the boundary. Therefore, we would treat it as an open system. If we were analyzing a water heater, we could have the option of treating it as a closed system or an open system or an isolated system depending on what's actually happening. If there's no water going out and no water coming in, then you could make an argument that it is a closed system. If you're assuming that the water heater has turned off and it is cooling over time, you could describe that as a closed system. If you were trying to figure out how the hot water that was in a water heater was going to mix with the cool water if no heat is added and no heat is lost and no mass crosses the boundary and figure out the resulting temperature of the mixed water, you'd be treating it as an isolated system. If you were allowing water to leave at a high temperature and water to come in at a cold temperature and figure out how much heat had to be required in order to increase the temperature of the water, you'd be treating it as an open system. Defining the parameters of your problem helps you identify what assumptions you can make to simplify the scope.  That will help you figure out what assumptions you need to make in order to simplify reality to a model. For the purposes of my homework assignments, I will often make you establish given and fine statements even if they are incredibly obvious to help you get into the habit of parsing out what you know and explicitly listing what you're looking for. Next definition. A state refers to the condition of a system as described by its properties. A state could refer to a point in space, it could refer to a point in time, or it could refer to a point in space and time. For example, if we were considering the expansion of some gas and we knew the mass and temperature and volume at the beginning, we knew the mass and temperature and volume at the end, we could describe those as two distinct states and apply properties to those states. Another thing to note on the discussion of state points is that it takes two independent intensive properties to fully define a state point. That means once we have identified two independent intensive properties, that state point is fixed. From that information, we can describe the rest of the independent intensive properties. If I know the temperature and pressure of air, I can figure out what its density is, because the state point is fixed. It takes two independent intensive properties to fully define a state point.


Hey what's up everybody, welcome to tomorrow. Coming up we're going to be talking in-depth about the 2017 Presidential Budget Request for NASA and some more information regarding the second commercial resupply contract. This is your space pod for February 16th, 2016. So the Obama Administration's final budget request came out on February 9th and it asks for about $19 billion for NASA for fiscal year 2017, which is a cut of about $260 million from the 2016 Omnibus Spending Bill for NASA. However, there were sharper cuts to NASA's two main exploration programs. The $19 billion budget, as proposed, would shift some money from NASA's space launch system and Orion programs and funnel that towards the aeronautic and space technology research programs and would also shift some money around within the science programs as well. Under this proposed budget, the space launch system would have $700 million less than the final 2016 budget and the Orion program would have $150 million less than the final 2016 budget. However, this still supports the first launch of the space launch system with an Orion capsule in 2018 for exploration mission 1. And exploration mission 2, they are looking at around 2023, but thanks to work done so far, it still could happen as early as 2021. NASA's science programs would receive about $5.6 billion, which is relatively unchanged from the 2016 budget. However, Earth Sciences would get a boost of about $111 million. However, Planetary Sciences would be cut by almost the same amount, and to make matters worse within that, for the Planetary Science Budget, the Europa mission, which I consider probably the big flagship of for the coming years, is only getting $50 million under this proposal, which is far less than the $175 million it got in the 2016 budget. And the request for Europa and the projections for funding the program through Fiscal Year 2021 would support a launch of the mission in the late 2020s, which is much later than people in the science community and within Congress itself would like. But the request also does not assume a launch on the space launch system, which was mandated by Congress in the 2016 spending bill. And also this doesn't include a lander, which Congress also mandated in the 2016 bill. So something that I like about that, because that is congressionally mandated to have a lander on the Europa mission, hopefully we can kind of further negotiations with the European Space Agency and see if maybe they want to provide the lander, or maybe even tap a private industry for that as well. But in any case, there's going to be a lander on that. It's congressionally mandated. This White House budget proposal also calls for about $217 million for different activities that are related to the asteroid redirect mission. And about 66 million of that is going to be set aside for robotic spacecraft for the asteroid redirect robotic mission. Probably one of the winners of this budget request is for space technology. I mentioned earlier that some money was being funneled into that research. And some of the cool things that are being done under this whole, I guess, program and it's for a whole different variety of different stuff. For example, there's solar, electric propulsion, satellite servicing and all sorts of different stuff that would help enable deep space exploration. So that's good. We need to put more money into research and development. Now, I'm kind of talking pretty optimistically about this budget request, but that's all it is. It's just a budget request. And this is going to get a lot of opposition within Congress. And this is going to need to get passed back and forth between the Senate and the House of Representatives before a final 2017 bill is actually passed. And considering their track record over the past couple of years, we probably won't see that actual budget until the year 2017. They're supposed to have it figured out by like August of the prior year. But whatever. Now, speaking of commercial space transportation, I was able to find some really interesting information regarding the CRS-2 contracts, the commercial resupply services. And within that, I found the request for proposals. Well, I didn't find them. I actually emailed some people at NASA and they were able to provide me links to a lot of the awesome information. Now, this is within the request for proposals. This was actually published before any commercial companies submitted their bid to be selected for the commercial resupply services to contract. And within this, it states what all of the required and optional capabilities are for any company that would be considered for CRS-2. It shows that the required capabilities are pressurized delivery of cargo, pressurized down mass of cargo consisting of either return or disposal capability, or both. The third absolutely required capability does answer a lot of our questions. Anyone who's considered for CRS-2, which has now been won by three companies, has to also have unpressurized up mass and disposal. Now, SpaceX can already do a lot of these things. And I found out in researching for CRS-2 that SpaceX already does load unpressurized trash into the trunk of the Dragon spacecraft. And that burns up on the entry. So they can already fulfill all of these different requirements with their Dragon capsule. For Orbital ATK, however, they need to do some work on their Cygnus vehicle. They can already do pressurized up mass, pressurized disposal, but not necessarily unpressurized delivery of cargo, or unpressurized disposal of cargo. And that's something that I find really interesting, because at least one of the different alternate variants of the Cygnus spacecraft will probably fly. And that's the one that would just essentially have the Cygnus service module with a kind of a rack that's based on the Express Logistics carrier that would have unpressurized cargo within it. And then they can just load unpressurized stuff onto that and dispose of it in kind of the same way that they would load pressurized trash into the pressurized section of a Cygnus vehicle. So I find that really interesting. Now Sierra Nevada, once their vehicle flies, should be able to have all three of those capabilities as well. But they also are going to be able to meet the optional requirement that was published within this request for proposal. And that's the optional capability to have accelerated pressurized return down mass, which consists of the same requirements as pressurized down mass, but it has to be returned to whoever is handling those experiments within 24 hours. And I'm assuming it's experiments that might be anything that might require something like that. So anyway, thank you very much for watching this video. My name is Michael Clark. And please let us know what you think about this whole budget request. Do you think that things are going to be pretty similar to this when the final budget is actually decided in 2017? Or do you think that it's going to be wildly different? Please let us know on any of our social media or in the comment section below. And also subscribe to us here on YouTube if you haven't already. That definitely helps us out. Also, if you're willing and able, please consider donating to our Patreon campaign. This show is entirely crowdfunded and without you guys, none of this would be possible. So thank you, thank you, thank you so much to every single one of you guys who have been donating to this. And I've been having to blast talking about all of this space stuff with all of you guys. And I hope that you're getting just as much out of this as I am. I hope that you're learning new things and connecting new dots and just getting excited for space. That's why we're here is to get you guys excited about space. Oh man. So thank you very much again to everyone who's contributing. And if you guys can help out, that would be just fantastic. There's so many things that we have planned in the future. Again, thank you very much for watching this video. And hopefully you know a little bit more today than you did yesterday, thanks to tomorrow. Keep moving onwards and upwards, everybody. And I will see you in the future.


What they gon' do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town Tell me the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down What's up y'all, we got a new episode of Talk of the Town Today we got a special guest, Jado It's that little game, GMGB the campaign, thanks for having me So you still reppin' GMGB? Yeah, of course I know, but like, some of them still rap or? Oh yeah, so like, the group, it's like we all like fake broken up like Is it beef or y'all went separate ways or they don't wanna do music?  Are you lookin' for new members?   Worst rapper Worst rapper? Yeah Like, drill rapper or just rapper in general?   Nick Toon's producer, cause he got me as his tag So like, I'm saying his, like, it's me, it's my voice What do you say? I'm saying, uh, Nick on the beat, I don't know how we rockin' Okay, okay Favorite artist currently? Uh, Drake Three things you need in the studio?  If you could ask the government one question, what would you ask them? Mmm, I don't know I asked them like, what y'all got going on? Like, what y'all got up in the sleeve? What y'all be like going for? Okay, a conspiracy theory you think is real Conspiracy theory I think is real Mmm, I think the Illuminati real Type 2? Yeah Okay, give us one of your bars that people could use as a caption For a picture Um, I'm a traffic fanatic, that's your automatic, so I cannot turn on the auto Type 2 Okay, um, what is the song that you listen to for motivation? Motivation? Uh, I listen to Meek Mill for motivation Probably like, um, it's a hella song that I listen to for motivation But if I had to pick one, I'd say like Blue Notes Mmm, okay Alright, at what age do you want to retire if you do? I don't know, I don't really think about retirement Like, I want to rap as long as I can rap As long as you can rap? I'll probably be an old man still rapping Um, Celebrity Crush Celebrity Crush Quaileray And what's the trend that you wish didn't exist? Mmm, a trend that I wish didn't exist Mmm, I don't know I can't think of one Just anything, some people don't like the stacked pants Some people don't like the shiesties Some people don't like the, like what?  Yeah, people would be taking it too far with the shiesties What, um, for real, you think every trend is valid though?    Yeah So when you did it, it wasn't no surprise, I guess Nah, it wasn't no surprise at all It was just me coming out of my shell And, like, taking it how far I took it And, like, probably being, like, the best person in my family Whoever, like, got to a certain point with it Yeah Probably surprised people Okay, did your family, like, see the buzz? Or, like, how did that happen? Yeah, so, like, the first video I ever shot Nola and her part two, it got a million views Like, the first video I ever did So, like, as soon as me trying Like, it worked out, like, from the jump So, like, everybody in the hood Wow So how much views is it at now? It's close to 10 mil It's probably, like, at 9, 9 a.m. Yeah, something like that All right, so when I was going up Who started showing you love at that time? Like, you mean, like, which state or what artist? City artist? Who? When I first started going up New York was rocking with me heavy Because it was, like, a knot It wasn't a lot of drill rappers out at that time Like, 2015, it was, like, Bambino Very few I think we thought y'all was from Chicago Yeah, now that people thought that And it was a post going viral on Facebook They were saying we sound like, like, Herb and Young Papi or some shit like that So, like, man, people just was, like, thinking We was from Chicago But a lot of people were showing love, though A lot of people gravitated to it So, was Chicago showing you love Or was they hating? Like, what was T with that?


I don't know the resolve on letting women understand that that's just sex and it's not a relationship because women don't look at sex, it's just sex. We look at it in the rims of he wants to have sex with me because he wants to be with me because we look at it that way.  Men have an amazing way to understand women, whether it's to manipulate or whatever, they get it, but understand men as well like I'm a man and understand that you're a woman. Women, we, how we feel about things we put it on you, like we don't separate men and women.   And that means that if he has sex with me, he wants to be with me, not understanding that it doesn't work that way. We don't separate it. We put our values and what we want on you. Why do you think that is? I don't know.


Hi everyone, this is Susan Hope Bard with TechSoup. Thanks so much for joining us today for our product review. It is the end of the fiscal year and we thought we'd bring you some highlights of our most popular products. Today's event will be recorded. It will be placed in the module for June 27th in our course. You can watch any of the recordings for the past few months in our course TechSoup 30 or TS 30s and you can simply go to the date that you missed or you want to watch again and you can click on the live event. We also have the survey and any resources that we've provided to you in addition to the recording. We are asking that you do complete the survey at the end of today's session to let us know what we can do differently or what we can do better to meet your needs. This is a half hour program and I'm going to be sharing my desktop with you. I'm going to go through a short PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is also on the course in the first when you click open the course. It's the very first module. You can download the PowerPoint. You can save it. You can modify it or share it with friends. So I'm going to go ahead and share my desktop. As I mentioned, I'm going to do a quick review of our popular products. I guess the first thing to really address is who can get TechSoup technology. So just to give you a brief overview, all nonprofits with 501C3 status, this includes museums, zoos, historical sites, also public libraries with an IMLS listing or public libraries with 501C3 status. Essentially, if you have 501C3 status, we can connect you with tech donations. And if you have questions, we do have resources that can help you and I will chat that number and that email out to you shortly. These are all of our corporate partners. And keep in mind, like you as an individual, our donor partners choose where to direct their donations. So I'm going to highlight just a few of these donors today and I'm going to look at the top donation programs. The first one is Microsoft donations. We're going to delve a little bit deeper into Microsoft, but there's things like Microsoft Office 365, Office 2016, Windows Server. Really Microsoft is kind of the hallmark of TechSoup's initial foray into offering products to the nonprofit and library audience. Also Adobe. Adobe has some amazing design software such as Creative Cloud, Premier Elements, and also Acrobat 11. Intuit is also a very popular product. And this is QuickBooks for the Office or Mac or QuickBooks online. We also have security products, including Symantec. And we will be hosting a webinar about endpoint protection on July 27th. So we hope you join us for that. And we also have Norton software and something that's very near and dear to our hearts. Jim Lynch, we'll talk a little bit later today about our roundup of articles, but he really started the refurbished hardware program. And we'll talk a little bit about the new and refurbished hardware program today. As I mentioned, Microsoft donations were really the start of TechSoup and it's really the hallmark for TechSoup and what we're most well-known for. You can get donated versions of Microsoft Window, Office 365 and Server. You can request up to 50 licenses per fiscal year. You can also get Microsoft Office Standard, Professional Plus through TechSoup as well as Office for Mac. Symantec donations. You can get Symantec Enterprise and Symantec Norton products for eligible nonprofits and charities throughout the U.S. And you can use these products to enhance the security on your network computers. We also have TechSoup Boost. TechSoup Boost is really a subscription service that curates some of the best and brightest software and hardware that you can purchase for an annual subscription. Discounted hardware, such as desktops, laptops, tablets, hotspots, projectors and more, we offer things such as, in this slide, there's some refurbished products and we do have a very special RCI refurbished special program. And the best way to explore your hardware options is to go to techsoup.org slash hardware and you can see the many products that we have. To take a look at our refurbished computers, these are just a sample. They're high quality, competitively priced desktops, laptops and other hardware. And many come with one year warranties and most come with Windows 10 pre-installed. So you can see here, TechSoup has partnered with really the industry leading computer refurbishers. And we call it the RCI program and it offers new and refurbished hardware from folks like Dell, HP and Lenovo. And all the products are designed to meet your standards, right? The regular standards of corporate users, folks like you in the nonprofit world, not just individual consumers for home use. So our partners guarantee that all of our hardware is in really good working condition. It's gone through testing, repair, restoration and cleaning before it comes to your office. And our partners offer standard and extended warranties, which is important. And also one year extended warranties and troubleshooting assistance. So they do accept returns on damaged products subject to their approval. And they come with things like pre-installed software saving you as a nonprofit or library time and money. And most of the desktop and laptop computers, as I mentioned, include a Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite and some type of Microsoft security software that's pre-installed. And when you look at the admin fee here, it actually includes the shipping and handling. So the admin fee is for the product itself and also for the shipping and handling to your workplace. New hardware, we have a great partnership with Dell and your organization can save up to 45% on Dell products. And that includes laptops, desktops, servers, printers and more. And your organization can save and also the employees and volunteers at your organization can also save on their own Dell purchases. So you essentially have, there's an admin fee of $10 and it gives you access to special coupons that gives you a discount on the products and those discounts change quarterly. So as I mentioned, your organization or your library, you can save on the Dell laptop, desktops, TVs, gaming systems, accessories and more. Another program we have is JourneyEd and here is the place where it used to only be available to academic institutions, but JourneyEd.com partnered with TechSoup to make these discounts available to you and these discounts are on more than 5,000 software and hardware products. So as I mentioned, most of these were only available previously to student schools or others in the education workplace. Some of the things that you might see on the JourneyEd, here's some sample products and prices and pricing. So we have like tablets. We have Camtasia. Camtasia is a product that you can use to create videos. It's really great for screen capturing to show how tos. We use that here at TechSoup. There's also projectors. So JourneyEd is a great place to access discounts on products that you might not find in our catalog so that admin fee helps you access that information and those products. IT Assist is another subscription program and what this is designed to do is it's supposed to help you manage your IT services and it's really customized to the individual organization depending upon their needs. So IT Assist serves only nonprofits and public libraries. They be there to manage your system backups. They offer live support, whether you call in, they monitor your security and performance. Essentially, you can find out more about IT Assist and really find out the cost that it would be for your organization, whether it's a small, medium-sized or large nonprofit. You can find out if that's a competitive price by going to www.techsoup.org slash IT Assist. So this is a product that can help you manage your IT because if you're like many nonprofits, some of you wear many, many hats and you may be the CFO and you may also be your main IT person. So these are folks that can help you manage that. There are lots of ways for you to find the products that I highlighted a few moments ago and I just hit the high notes of our product donations but you can go to www.techsoup.org and there's really two ways that you can browse or search. You can look on the left-hand column in the product catalog and you can search by donor or company so you can look for Microsoft or Adobe or Intuit or QuickBooks Made Easy. Just it's alphabetized. You can simply click on the donor or company and then find it and look at all of the offerings or you could look at the category. So if you're looking for communication software, you can look by category. You can also use the search bar. If you wanna type in a very specific product that you need, you can see if we have that. So when you do a search in the search bar, the search will also include products. It will also have articles and other resources including recorded webinars or blogs or how-tos. So a couple of things to mention, like if you were looking up QuickBooks Made Easy, you could also then go to the articles and how-tos. There's plenty of articles for you to understand how to better use that product, some tips and tricks. And then there's also some recorded webinars that you can go to and watch. So you can help to learn to use that new technology or to use it better. If you browse by the donor partner, a couple of things to note is that when you go into the details, you'll find out a little bit more about eligibility and restrictions. As I mentioned earlier, each of our product donors has the flexibility to determine who is eligible for their products, much like you when you donate to your synagogue or church or a nonprofit that you're making a donation to, you can designate where that donation is used. Our donor partners do the same thing. So you can find out about your potential eligibility for that product, in other words, how much you can get and any restrictions on that product. So some of our products are the fiscal year runs through June 30th, which is coming up. And within that year, you have a certain number of licenses or access to that product. And these are all under the eligibility and restrictions page. So we urge you to make sure you read that and also read all of the details of the product. We do have very sophisticated and helpful customer service reps, and those folks would be able to answer your questions and help you find the information you need to make your decision. The other thing I mentioned was that you can browse by category. So this is kind of like the solution. Like what are you looking for? Okay, I'm looking for computers and electronics and I need a mobile device. So there's lots of flexibility in terms of how you can search for something. If you need graphic design or web design, you can look at that category up and you can see the products that are offered in that category. And perhaps more importantly, to keep you up to speed and abreast of all of the new products that we do bring onto our catalog, sorry, you can actually subscribe to our monthly newsletters. So that's a curated list of tips, resources, articles, which Jim will speak about in a moment. They're free, you can opt in and you can opt out at any time. We have a monthly newsletter, we have Twice by the Cup, which comes out twice a month and we also have a product alert which tells you about specials on products or new products that have come out. So if you go to techsoup.org slash subscribe to our free newsletters, you can select which newsletters you'd like to receive. And as I mentioned, at any point in time, you can opt out of these newsletters or alerts, but it can help you keep abreast of new things that are coming out or new ways to adopt the product. And we also announce other events like our webinars or any other resources that we develop like courses and techsoup courses. So I'm gonna stop sharing for a minute and I am going to turn it over to Jim Lynch who is going to speak about a curated list of really great articles that are coming out for fiscal year end and things that may be interesting to you as a nonprofit or library. And after that, I'll check to see if there are any questions and then the two of us can hopefully answer all of your questions. Jim, take it away. Okay, hi everybody. Jim here, I'm gonna turn on my screen share here and show you the stuff we have going here in terms of content that's brand new. So there we go. All right, so here's a fun new thing that we've just launched. Probably the biggest humanitarian crisis so far in our lifetimes, believe it or not, is something called the refugee crisis. It has effects and it's a crisis in the Middle East and Europe mainly and affects 65 million people and we've partnered with TechSoup and Microsoft to provide some resources for organizations that are working on that stuff. So this is a fairly short announcement that we have and probably most importantly, what this new informational site provides, what refugee response offers. One thing that we have in here is that we have a place for you, if you would like, to send us any news, any information we might not know that would be useful to other charities anywhere in the world, United States or anywhere else. And the email address for that is internationalpartners at techsoupglobal.org. So if you have any leads for information or content that other charities might use to address this important thing, we would love to hear from you. So what's next? Here's a new thing by our content director, Janice Bernie. It's our first piece on here and Janice is a pretty seasoned professional in marketing and communications and especially digital marketing. And so here's a piece that she's done. It's the first of a two-part series. I think the next part is gonna be coming in probably in July sometime. And she basically kind of boils it down on kind of her, how she does her work here at TechSoup in terms of our digital strategy. And I mean, there's basic stuff here. Of course, figuring out your story, I think that everybody is pretty adept at that. The real problem is getting it out in several different forms, video form, email form, social media form, all that kind of stuff. And in a way that it's compelling and original and kind of like that. Who, what, how and why. So audiences king, audience is everything in the world of content, as you probably know. She has a little tiny section here on how to think about that the way she thinks about that. Communication audit is something that she's very adept at. And that's basically taking stock of all the stuff you have going and trying to find out where you may be a little thin. You might not have good social media coverage or not doing it very well or you might be sending out lots of emails that get caught in spam filters. There's a lot of different things. And then next she recommends developing your marketing narratives. And she breaks this down, this is getting into kind of the weeds in this, but she breaks this down. Probably this is the best part of the article from my point of view. Internal narrative is kind of interesting. Most people probably don't do this. This is first I've ever seen or heard of it. It's a kind of thing where you take stock inside your organization of what you guys do and what your strengths are and why people should be interested in you. And then your external narrative is putting together your value to the different audiences you have. So quite a bit, quite a bit in this piece. So I really recommend you just have a look at it and see what our Janice Bernie recommends for your communication strategy. Moving on. All right, so fundraising. So our fundraising columnist are Michael Stein. He does a column for us every month and this is his latest one. Just went out and are just going out in the newsletter tomorrow. Email deliverability is pretty much the lifeblood in the main channel for communicating with prospective donors out there in the world. People still do direct mail, of course, but sending out lots of emails is something that takes a little bit of skill. And the one thing, kind of the central thing I love that he talks about in here is how your emails become spam. That's pretty important. And he links to something called the non-profit email deliverability study, which is a super important thing. Tons of charities are sending out just, stuff that gets caught in spam filters that never, ever, ever is seen by the people you're sending it to. And so basically Michael goes into the six tactics he calls them to improve your email deliverability. Really, really useful piece here. I think that charities of all kinds can really learn something from this guy. He's really been in this business for about 20 years and consults with some major, major non-profits that you probably have heard of, but I probably won't mention because he asked me not to. But anyway, this is a good one. This is a great, great piece that I hope you like. What else do we have? Oh, by our own Susan Hope Bard. Check this out. He's talking about summer vacation. Hardly, if you're gonna be around in the summer, this is actually a pretty good time to take stock of your IT. So technology planning is something that a tiny, tiny fraction of charities do. The thing it does really to have a technology plan is it actually opens the door for grant fundraising, grant, grants-based fundraising. So lots of funders are very concerned that organizations that receive grants from them are high functioning and can really deliver on the grants and having current and practicable technology plans and is one of the ways you can demonstrate that to prospective funders and current funders. So we have this, I think it's four modules in our, let's see, is it four or three? In any case, we have an entire soup to nuts course in doing this. If you go through all of the course, which I think costs $99, you'll come out the end with a full-blown technology plan. So it takes a while to go through that thing and it's pretty useful. I've been through the whole thing myself and it's pretty great. We put this together in cooperation with Idealware. Those guys really know what they're doing. So there's that. And then this is a piece by our Nick Mediotti who is a former technology journalist with PCWorld. And came to us and is now our marketing copywriter. And so he talks about a bunch of things that charities might consider before really moving a lot into the cloud. Almost all of us now use cloud tools. I mean, Gmail, for instance, is a cloud tool. But if you get heavier into the cloud, he goes through several different things that you can have a look at that you might not have thought about. For instance, like a cloud services security credentials and record. So he explains what that is and how you can kind of check them out on that. This is the piece. This is the part that I like best. Number three, who owns the data you upload? Very surprising, incredibly surprising because lots of cloud companies retain ownership to it. The data, the stuff, the documents, the critical crucial data that you upload to the cloud, maybe on your donors, on your clients. It might not be yours, it might be theirs. So you wanna check that out. There's various ways to do that. He mentions kind of the gold standard for a place that is very clear about not owning your data or tampering with it. And all of that, that's Microsoft 365, Office 365, which actually has the best terms of service about that, the clearest language about that. So you might have a look at that to see what kind of like the best terms of service you can get are. And then he talks about more things which kind of get into somewhat technical things because he's been a technical writer on cyber security. And of course, the holy grail of all this cloud stuff is that you have to have good login security for your staff and for yourself. He talks a little about something called two factor authentication that's taking, that's a thing where you log into a website and then it basically sends something to your phone to make sure that's a you kind of thing. So there's some security things that you can do in and around. And most cloud services have that feature now that you can use. So there it is. He has some tips and tricks and all kinds of other articles that he eludes to at the bottom of this article. So I like this one. So I think I'm out of time. So let me turn it back over to Susan. Okay, Susan, to you. Thanks, Jim. Thanks so much. Actually, the last article that you were describing and Nick's article about security is actually a very well placed and it's a really great article. I encourage everyone to check that one out. I have chatted out all of the URLs where you can go to get each of these articles and read more about them. Also, a few of you in the chat, thank you so much for letting me know that you didn't have all of the slides. I have, there's a handout that's in the module for June 27th that you click on it. You can view or download the PowerPoint and it has all of the slides and it also has each of the URLs for the products or the newsletters or any of the content that I described during the presentation. Thanks, Jim, for the roundup of articles because we did have a lot that were published the past two weeks in light of the end of the fiscal year. I didn't see any questions that came into the chat box. It could be because we were chatting out so many tips for everyone, but if you do have any questions, please do chat those in before we sign off. We, oh, no questions yet. All right, it looks like then, I think we can wrap it up. It is 101. Thank you for your time today, Jim. Thanks for the great wrap up with all of those articles. I'm glad we were able to get all of those in before the end of the fiscal year. And of course, we will start back again with our Texas 30s after the 4th of July holiday because we are closed on Tuesday. So we'll start back up with our next event that will be on the following week. And we will actually be starting a series of discussions about how to create different events in your nonprofit. So whether that's an in-person event, a Facebook event, a live streaming event, or something with social media. So you should check those out. You can look for those in the course on the right hand column. There's a list of dates and you can click on the date. You can read a little bit more about the half hour mini webinar we offer about that particular topic. So I thank Jim for all of his expertise and his roundup of articles. And I thank each of you for your attention and your time today. We hope you have a great week. And we also hope you have a safe and happy 4th of July holiday. Thanks so much. Bye-bye.


Wait, spell that.  You're making up words now. Stop discovering ghost types. You boys back from Edgewood? Uh, yes, sir. It was a tough one, but we think it is a gin. Wrong! It was an ony. That's $50 you're not making. Why did you ask us to identify it if you already knew what type of ghost it is? To keep you shopped, kid. You're never gonna make the big leagues otherwise. Like, with proton packs? Don't worry about it, cuz you're not even close. You don't even know an ony when you see one. Right now, you're basically a glorified tabloid photographer. Speaking of which... Oh, yeah, here. So we found a window with some fingerprints on it. Doesn't look very spectral to me.  So actually, it's gonna be a cleaning fee. Take that out of your paint. Uh, we got a photo of a bone. Nice. We also put some salt on the ground and then we found a footprint in it later. Okay, not a cleaning fee. Okay. Well, we've got the photo of the voodoo doll, the summoning circle. Obvious. Boring. And the photo of the dirty sink you asked for. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's filthy. That's a dirty sink. Sir, we are putting our lives at risk here. Don't you think we deserve a little more money? More money? With work like this? I think that's just funny. Of course it is. It's hilarious. But it's not hilarious enough to take up an entire slot on the camera. Oh, speaking of, do you think we could get some SD cards that are bigger than 60 kilobytes? That's just probably not in the budget this year. It's never in the budget. Well, because the budget depends on performance, okay?  I keep telling you, when your sanity is below 30%, that's when you strike.  No, I want you to see a ghost, okay? Preferably with a lot of expensive equipment on you. Well, but then we would just lose the equipment. Cost of doing business. Wait, wait, wait. How much does insurance pay if we die? Insurance? What is that? Is that here in the book? Was that only? Ghost event! I guess it was. Actually, I think he was a gin. He's the rude one. Oh, come on. He's the rude one. What is he going to do? Then politely ask you to stop. He's the rude one. Do you want to get one normal order? He's the rude one. Okay.


The World Economic Forum has been involved in the G20 for the last two years because we think it's one of the most important gatherings at a global level. It involves over 90% of the global economies when you have the 20 countries together, but it has to be successful, it has to involve more than just the governments themselves. It has to involve all of civil society to really understand the key issues and to identify the ways to resolve them. After some involvement in Seoul, we've been intensely involved in the G20 process this year, following a meeting between President Sarkozy and Klaus Schwab and Davos. We've had seven task forces looking at a number of critical issues. Through the process, we came up with seven sets of recommendations, but there were three I'd really like to focus on. First, the issue of food security. Second, the really important question of anti-corruption and in transparency. And thirdly, green growth, creating jobs that are not only good for employment, but also good for sustainability going forward. Under the area of food security, the recommendations focus on improving the investment by 50% by 2015 involving private funds and public funds working effectively together. They focus on improving the markets for food distribution at a global level. They also focus on how we can use innovation and new technologies to improve food productivity and also the importance of ensuring that environmental sustainability and job creation is built into food security measures right from the beginning. The recommendations in the area of anti-corruption and transparency focused, first of all, on ensuring that the agreements of Seoul are actually translated into laws against corruption and they're being implemented in the courts. That what we see on paper is actually reflected in the courts. Secondly, that the private sector and governments work together in different sectors to actually drive out areas of corruption. Thirdly, that for those companies who play by the rule, there's a way to actually recognize their importance. So while we should maybe have black lists for companies who don't behave appropriately, we should maybe have white lists for companies who are really setting a standard of integrity and anti-corruption. And then finally, there should be a way for CEOs who actually have identified corrupt practices, perhaps historically, to be able to come forward, identify them, acknowledge them and resolve them in an effective fashion. We think this requires an unparalleled level of private public cooperation to actually move anti-corruption and transparency to the next level. On the key area of green growth, our recommendations involve having the right incentives in place so that the innovation and power of the private sector can be used to create green jobs, to ensure that it remains a standing item for G20 in Mexico and beyond, given the critical nature of this, and also that there be a private public partnership that is focused on identifying really good cutting-edge examples of green growth, sustainable development that can actually be accelerated and shared most effectively, so we can actually accelerate progress in this area.