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So if you are in the area and you're in the market for a new gig, and you like these, and you qualify, check this out. Adafruit.com slash careers. All right, that is the housekeeping for now. Yeah, we have kind of a short show, a short show plan for everybody. But we have some fun things that we're going to talk about. We have a very fun project, very musical, got some new resin prints and some really fun community makes. So yeah, Pedro, if you want to add any other things, feel free to do so. Yeah, let's go ahead and jump into the project. All right. Well, you might have seen this already, but this week, we decided to make a video for John Park's hex keypad. This is a lovely custom PCB designed by John Park. It uses the QT Pi RP2040 as the main dev board and circuit Python to make a MIDI device. So this has the custom PCB design that John designed was made in fritzing. And it's a free open source design that you can fabricate yourself or send to any of the awesome services out there like Oshpaq PCB way. Even Digikey has their own PCB services. Yeah, so you can check this out. And these have footprints for the chalk key switches. These are lovely low profile mechanical key switches. And then John decided to add some reverse mounted neopixels. So these are reverse mounted neopixels that are pointing at the other side to illuminate these key switches. And these, John designed the case as well. So this is a really nice design that he made in Rhino software, CAD software. And I went ahead and 3D printed it using the change filament, the change filament, G code pro processing that you can do in slices like Cura where you can swap out filament to get different layers of colors. So these are four or maybe five different layer changes to get this yellow and black kind of beehive looking color palette. And then these key caps were sent off to 3D printing service. You might have heard of them PCB way. They offer really nice resin prints. And these are using the UTR8100 transparent resin. And it has the spray varnish option as the color. And later in the show, we have some other prints that we'll share. But for now, let me do a quick little demo. So this is a mini controller. And every note has a different set of keys to make chords. And in the code, you can change all the MIDI notes. There's a range of different notes that you can play with. Here, you can use the QDPI's boot button to go into mode select mode. When you press the QDPI's boot button, all of the new pixels will light up red letting you know that it's ready for input. And then you use, you use the keys to select a mode. And if you have the Moo editor, you can look at the REPL, the serial console, to see what options you can select. And John Park has a key legend that allows you, that gives you an idea of what keys to hit. So the first mode is to select what kind of chords you want to select. So let's select this one for now. And then the Moo editor will ask you, well, what octave do you want? And you have up to seven different options. And then it's going to ask you what key. And then when you press the key, it selects that key as a root note. And then you can select either single notes or chords.  So yeah, that's kind of the gist of the project. And I've been using a lot, discover new notes and chords to make like, you know, very, very nice music, I think, and they all kind of blend well together. So I'm using, it's going to work with any number of MIDI hardware and software. I'm using Logic, which is a piece of software for the Mac OS. You can use GarageBand. You can use an iOS device. It's, you know, using USB-C. So you connect this up to your iOS device using a Lightning adapter. So any type of MIDI software will work with it or hardware. If you wanted to plug this into like a MIDI box, like maybe a cord or something like that, you control your very sense, hardware sense with this. I guess I could pick something different here. So let's take a look at the learn guide. Please do some window management here. Sorry. You're good. You're good. Trying to figure out all my key commands. Yeah, that's fine. That's a good one. That looks good. Yeah. So, yeah, most of this is put together by John Park. You have seen him develop it from designing it in fritzing to prototyping it and coding it in CircuitPython. So definitely check out JP's workshop videos. We'll probably have some links in there too of them. So you can see it kind of built. But here is all the parts that are used. You got the QtpyRP2040. You have an option of Chalk key switches. These right here are the kind of clicky ones. You could use some other ones. I think we have Black and Red, I believe. Let me take a quick look. If you open it in a new tab, there's all the Chalk key switches here. We only have two of them. Okay. But you could use other ones too. But these are the Kale style ones. So the red ones are kind of clicky. No, the red ones are silent. So if you don't want that clickiness, you can go with the red ones or you can go with the white ones that have that click to them. But that is the main difference between those two. One of them are silent and the other one has a noise. These reverse mount come in a packet 10, currently out of stock. But maybe you can purchase them from other suppliers like DigiKey. Yep, you can buy them on DigiKey. These are great for DIY projects. And at Adafruit, Lamar uses them in various designs like these little Cherry MX breakout boards. So those are really cool to use in your keyboard projects. And then if you want to purchase some pre-made hexagonal Chalk keycaps, you can purchase them from any one of these links here. Or you can 3D print them yourself. Or you can download the STL that we provide and have that send that off to a 3D printing service and get them printed in different colors. But the main difference here between the ones we designed and the ones that that you can get from like FK caps is that they have like this kind of a scoop design to them. So they have like a little dome shape to them. Yeah, for your fingers. So they feel a little bit nicer and they're made out of like the HDPE material. And they only come in one color, but they're still pretty cool. And they have good, you know, light diffusion. They're fusing. Yep, the PCB, you can go ahead and download it. Here's the schematic for it. JP shows you in a guide how you can create your own, how to get custom shapes using the fritzing software. And you can send this off to like Oshpark. There's a Gerber file here that you can use. You can get them in purple or midnight black. And yeah, Oshpark is a good one. I was lucky JP sent me one. So that's good. So John's guide shows you soldering it up. You want to probably start with the Neopixels first, get your headers on there, then solder in the keycaps or the mechanical key switches. And I think the last thing you want to do is solder in your QT pie in the right orientation. And yeah, it's a pretty straightforward assembly. It's just a little bit of surface mount soldering, which isn't too bad with these nice pads here for the Neopixels. Building the case. So we have the step file. If you want to modify it, you can add some buttons or whatever you'd like to it or change the shape, add a back cover if you'd like. We like the open back cover just so that you can access the QT pie's boot button. But the step file allow you to do that. We also have the STL. I have a little section here on how I went about using the change filament post processing script inside of Cura. Or you could do this in a different slicer like I think Prusa Slicer has a different user interface, but it's kind of the same thing. The main thing I want to look at is what layer numbers to actually apply the changes. It's kind of simple for here. It's like every 20 millimeters, you want to change it out. There is a little bit of overhang material or overhang or bridging that your printer will need to do for the USB-C port. So I went ahead and had a little area here for adding supports, custom supports, to the USB port area just so you get a really nice surface finish on that layer. And yeah, that's pretty much it for 3D printing. The hex key caps, similar kind of thing. You can download the step file. We created it in Fusion 360. So you can modify that if you'd like. But the STL will print good in both FDM and SLA 3D printing. And I went ahead and got some screenshots and highlighted, annotated like, you know, the options when you're using a PCB way and you want to create these very clear crystal clear resin prints, you want to select these options. It's the UTR8100 transparent option with the spray varnish color. And that's kind of it. Your quantity... I'm going to highlight transparent, not translucent. That is true. We had Anne Barela on the team. She chose the translucent, which is over here. If you can see my mouse cursor, there is a UTR8100 translucent. And what that is is it just makes it kind of this like frosted white color, which looks really good. But if you want that really clear, transparent look, you want to select this option here.  I've only tried out the UTR8100. But they have ABS, PLA, TPU, and aluminum. So you can get them in aluminum if you'd like. Yeah, titanium. They have a wide range of different things. I think if you get like 100 of them, the price will go down. And they have a really nice interface. So if you want to actually add color, you can use the matte diffuse and then that option there. And then you can use a custom Pantone color. And I have one print that I can show later. But yeah, you can go really crazy with the options here. Can you do transparent aluminum? I don't think so. When you change the material, all of these types of the subcategory of the material will change. Yeah, so maybe they have a polished aluminum and a rough aluminum, I don't know, textured aluminum. Who knows, right? Yeah, the texture. I'm not sure. So you all have to try that out. But like I was saying, the quantity, I think if you go like past 100, the price will drop. But yeah, your price will vary depending on shipping costs and all that. But I think they're pretty affordable compared to some other services. So that's a little bit of that. Yeah, and then slicing them, they don't need any supports. I sliced these and printed them with a regular 0.4 nozzle using 0.2 layer height. And they came out fantastic. So you can choose whatever PLA material you want. And maybe use some translucent colored filament if you want a different tone. But they look great, illuminated. And they're pretty strong, too. Circuit Python, this just is a mirrored page. It's installing Circuit Python onto your QT PyR for 2040, pretty straightforward. And then the code. John does a great job of having everything commented out, which is nice. And then if you want more or less buttons, you can modify the code. Here is the list of the modal intervals or really the set of keys. So you have Major, Minor, Dorian, and a couple other different ones. So you can mix those up if you want. Change the default modes here. And everything's commented. So you can really go in here. And even if you don't know Python, you can read the comments to kind of flip some different values if you want. Pick some different colors and that sort of thing. There's some options here on some software, music software. That's, most of them are free. There's some web-based ones, iOS ones, Linux, Windows, and Mac. So there's a bunch. And then here is the actual, you know, the key legends for the various modes. So these are all the different modes, the octaves, the root notes, and then the chord mode at the end there. And then a nice breakdown of each kind of chunk of code and what it does. So, yeah. Shout out to John for making it very comprehensive. And this thing goes on very, very detailed. But that's just a bit. Very, very fun. You can kind of design your own controller. Maybe you could apply this to another device, an existing device, maybe like a MIDI guitar, like I've done a MIDI guitar. You could apply it to that code. And you're one of the many awesome MIDI devices that you can make. And a huge shout out to John for coming up with the whole thing, really. Yeah, that was great. Cool. The QT-PIs, I just thought everything's in stock, except the reverse mount. But again, you could always go to Digi-Key. Let's see if Digi-Key has it. They are out of stock as well, because they're good. Yeah, maybe try another place, maybe a Mauser or something. All right. And that is the SoundCloud song that you used on there too. Yeah, I created a song in the background of the video, the YouTube video. And it's on SoundCloud. So if you folks want to check it out, it's a free download. Feel free to use it in your project videos. Just don't license or anything. So free how about it. All right. Cool. Oh, John says we are all about the MIDI. Yeah, we're all about the MIDI, for sure. Cool. Oh, a comment here that AliExpress sells them as well. Let's check out over there. Oh yeah, that's a good spot. Okay. Yeah, for the reverse mount. Yeah. Cool. Any shout-out for you. Yes, it's the exact same form factor. What was people saying? Yep, we are going to do a printing service video for next week, so you can get more info on that. People are interested in the polishing for the resin. Yeah, I think that's a good segue into what we're prototyping. If you want to show off some of the cool prints that came back, things to look out for real. Yeah. All right. I just had to switch them around. Yeah, so you've seen the resin key caps. They look great. I wanted to do some print and place parts that I have done with the FDM printer. So I have two of these. This is a little crank that has two movable parts. So this is using that UTR 8100 resin with the spray varnish option from PCBway. And this has two little hinges here. So we have one here at the bottom and one here for the handle bit. The idea is that you connect this to a rotary encoder. It has that D-shaft shaped connector here. And let me see if I can do a little lens change here. My software will do ultra wide. And then I can go in really, really close just so you can get a good idea of what the surface finish looks like on these things. The closer you get, the more kind of detail you kind of see. Like it's not super perfect, but from a distance, from relatively normal distance, it looks totally fine, totally clear and transparent. It doesn't look like it has any of the tolerances. Yeah, so the tolerances are pretty spot on. I don't have the FDM version with me right now, but in the video I'll show how the differences are. This is a little loose here, but when this came shipped to me, this part here was actually fused. But it just took a tiny bit of force to snap it out of kind of the stuck state that it was in. But this was free floating here. And I don't know off the top of my head, but I think it's like 0.3 millimeters of clearance between all the surfaces in these joints. It's either 0.3 or 0.4. So it's free spinning, and it's for a crank, or it is a crank for a rotary encoder. The project, I think, was to kind of replicate the playdate game device. That's why we made this crank kind of thing. So that's really cool. And then the other part I have is this handle. This is a handle that I designed as a print and place thing. And it prints like that on an FDM printer. But again, there's a clearance between these hinges here. And you really can't, maybe you can, you kind of see how this piece here has a cylinder that just kind of goes through and connects to this cylinder bit and allows it to spin in place. So it's a handle. This was for the LED noodle lantern project. So there's some screw holes here.  So you can turn on lantern. But yeah, it's about, I don't know, eight millimeters thick on the handle. And I think the clearance is kind of the same. So like a point four millimeter clearance. This did come free moving. It has the spray varnish on it. So it didn't fuse, which is really nice. So that's free spinning. And just a tiny bit of wiggle room here. And it has just a little bit of flex. You can see that there. I don't want to crack it. But yeah. Now the last print I'll share. Well, no, I do have another one. This is a really nice attempt at making a Lego Adibot. So in the original model, we designed it for FDM using a point two millimeter nozzle. And this was done with dual extrusion. You know, Adibot is fully, you know, take its individual pieces. His head comes off and dismantling it. But it's okay because it's a Lego mini fig. It looks fantastic. But what, so when I sent this model off, I got a warning saying that, hey, the minimum wall thickness is for models for printing in this material is point eight millimeters. And they sent me a screenshot of like the areas that needed to be thickened up. But then they also said, you can go ahead and have it printed anyway, but just know that it could break when you receive it. And I was like, yeah, go ahead, send it. Let's see it. Let's roll the dice. And they sent it to me back as a merged single body. So all of the kind of geometry for making these joints, they just got merged. So they just kind of merged it all into one part. So Adibot can't really, it's not articulating anymore. But it still came out fantastic. And this uses that, you see that tint of color here, I chose colored, a Pantone color basically for the resin. And it's the same UTR 8100 resin. But it has that little hint of color, but it's still clear. You know, here it is like that backlit. Looks really nice. And the closer you get, the more you can kind of start seeing the layer lines. But that is fantastic. Look at the little antenna bits, the claws, the lightning bolt, the holes here on the back of the legs. It came out really nice, even though it's like one unified part, it still looks fantastic. Yeah, it looks amazing. I think it has that spray varnish. Yeah, it looks amazing, right? I think it still has that spray varnish option. It just has some color. The tolerances for snapping into the Lego studs works out really well. So it holds on really tight. So that worked out. It's just that the reason why I didn't submit individual parts, because like all of these parts, it would have cost a lot of money. Like each part of it is like $12. I think that's our minimum, too, right? Yeah, I think it's like a minimum. You would start saving money if you wanted to make 100 adobots, right? And you would do 100 arms and 100 claws and 100 legs. There's too many pieces, man. So I was just like, let me just try to submit a whole adobot. It just didn't work out. I think these pieces worked out without being merged because there was just more clearance. There was just more millimeters of clearance.  These had like a 0.2 millimeter of clearance. Maybe even 0.15 millimeters of clearance. Yeah, it's just not enough clearance for the purpose that we could press fit it in and have some sort of tolerance on them so that it doesn't freely move so we can actually pose the adobot. That's why. Exactly, yeah. Converter a little bit closer on those. Right. And again, this adobot is FDM, but with a 0.2 nozzle, the 0.2 nozzles aren't kind of, they're not, the stock nozzles for FDM printers these days are 0.4, right? Diameter. So the 0.2 is something you can get and add as an upgrade to your printer. But yeah, these are printed on the Ultimaker printers. I think the S5, right? With the dual extruder to do those two-tone colors here. But yeah, these are all kind of printed separate pieces and then snapped together. But yeah, that's a little bit of shop talk on a so many. The tenas look like they came out nice and sturdy too. That was one of our biggest fail points right there.  Right, yeah. Yeah, they're very kind of fragile there, but I think they're a little bit more strong here. But yeah, there's a little bit of info and I'll cover all this in our video. The last part I'll share with you, you've seen the floppy case. This is our Etch-a-Sketch. So our Etch-a-Sketch is a Circuit Python Etch-a-Sketch project. Got an on-off switch here. And you have two potentiometers, a reset button and a toggle. And this was coded in Circuit Python by Carter Nielsen, who's on the support team for Adafruit, and allows you to flip a switch, changes the color of the TFT, and you can change the colors and the code and the resolution of the pixels that you're drawing. Right now I have it pretty chunky. It's in chunky 8-bit mode. Then you can use the reset button there to clear the print. Unlike a real Etch-a-Sketch, you can use the switch to turn off drawing and make a different shape here. And then you have just regular potentiometers to move the knobs. But it's a three-piece case, but I didn't want to print. I didn't want to have to send off the PCB mount, but this uses the SnapFit geometry that I use for my cases. It has a little button resetter. It has all these slots here. And it's pretty flexible. Like I can flex it here. Yeah, it's very flexible, right? This is 1.5 wall thickness? Yeah, this is 1.5 wall thickness, which again, their minimum wall thickness is 0.8 millimeters. So this uses the Feather M4 and the TFT Feather Wing to make this project. And there's a little battery in there, but it's cool that you can see the wires and everything in there. It's pretty clear. And there's a little bezel kind of going on here. And yeah, it's reminiscent to the 90s clear electronics. But all the tolerances were the same for FDM. I was even able to tap the screw mounts. You can kind of see the inside the resin that I use a screw tap. I was able to kind of create those threads for M3 screws. But yeah, this is a good example of like making a project case in that clear resin and just getting this really nice clear thing. Yeah, there are a couple air bubbles and stuff in the case parts, but you really can't see them. Maybe here you can kind of see it. But yeah, it's kind of hard to see.  So you're not going to get a perfect print, but it's good enough, man. It's really nice. I guess if you had your own resin printer, you could be as careful and cautious as you'd like with it. But it's nice that there's a service that will just make it for you and ship it. And this is the reset button there. You can press that. Flexible. Very flexible. Yeah, check out this project too on the Adafruit LearnGuy. I just typed in a sketch drawing toy, I think is the name of it. And yeah, same tolerances for the FDM works with like snap areas for this switch the holes. And of course, the snap snap fit joints here for the case. So yeah, that's what we got here. Couple, couple sets of difference from PCB way using the UTR 8100. Translucent. Transparent. Don is asking, does it feel like it would survive a drop? Do you order extra ones? No, I didn't. It depends on how far it's dropping. Maybe off the table, it would survive. Oh my God, spam. I don't know. It does feel flexible. So I think it would survive.  I'll leave that up to like CNC kitchen. But yeah, they don't feel tacky. They feel flexible. Yeah, I think I don't know which will be stronger PLA or resin. But yeah, that's a different thing altogether. Yeah, I should send in a iPhone case and then test dropping it from there. Yeah, yeah, it does feel like that that that iPhone kind of material just the spray varnish has like this slick feeling to it. It's not tacky. It's like kind of slick, a little bit flexible. So it does feel like an iPhone case, but it's resin, right? So and there's different types of resin, like form labs makes their own flexible resin, and they have different, different strengths and stuff. So I'm sure you can get some pretty strong resin prints using the various resin from like, you know, from like form labs. Yeah, so that's a that's a little bit of what we're going to talk about next week. And we'll have a learn guy, the thickness and all that will affect the strength of it as well. Sure. Yeah, I think this is the thickest thing I've had printed in resin. So it's like, I think eight millimeters or so. And yeah, I think it would be kind of strong. It's not designed to hold a lot of weight really. I mean, the the project is kind of it's under a pound for sure. The LED noodle lantern for this particular part. But yeah, it looks just by looking at the how many walls are in that one. Yeah, it looks like after four walls, the translucency will go away. It looks like, right? Is that what it is? Four walls? One, two, three, four for the cylinder that's in the middle. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. So you're saying, yeah, this bit here, right? Yeah. Yeah, you start losing it. I don't think the spray varnish made it into that joint, too. It doesn't feel rough for anything when I rotate it. But yeah, you kind of see that it's. Yeah, someone said try to drop the oil in there, some of that real butter. Yeah, I don't think it needs it. But maybe it makes it clearer, more clear when you put oil down in there. But yeah, it feels smooth, you know, doesn't feel rough at all when I, when I rotate it, you can see it kind of spins freely and kind of spins freely. So yeah, there's some things to consider. Yeah, this one's really, really good example of like it's spinning nice and free. Yeah, this is a cool print, too. It prints in place. Prints in place. A little crank for your cranky projects. Cool. So present print. Check that out next week. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah, for sure. Looks like we've still got some time if you want to continue on with the prototype or to community makes. I got nothing. My stuff is still printing. I got, I got some progress on this Epcot ball. I went ahead and wired up the bottom half of the sphere. I got magnets in there, by the way. So the ideas that you have two halves held together magnets. And that's the top half printed without any supports. It looks pretty decent there. So I'm using these Neopixel soft strands. And there's about, I think, 60 Neopixels in here. So I used hot glue to hot glue them to all the circles here, all the holes. So there's a lot in there. But these, these Neopixels are really nice because they have like this enamel coated kind of flexible wire, metal wire. I'm using a Feather Scorpio RP2040 board to power all the Neopixels. And then I have a little USB C breakout board going down here so I can route, reroute the USB board. I also have a DC jack there, just in case we need external power. But let me go ahead and plug it in. Just to get a look at the lights lit up. So USB C, here's all those Neopixels. Then of course, this is the bottom half. So the idea is to have some special code to do some Neopixel mapping so that we can get some, excuse me, different animations going on. So yeah, it's going to, it's going to be kind of fun. Yeah, we're going to, we're going to ask Phil B, if you can do the pixel mapping code because that's kind of out of our wheelhouse. But right now it's just running the Rainbow Circuit Python, LED animation library. So it's just doing Rambos, Rainbow Swirl. And it looks kind of nice there. But yeah, it's all 3D printed without any supports. And now we got it wired up there. Good amount of hot glue. I definitely recommend a nice hot glue gun like the Ryobi battery powered ones are really nice. But yeah, these Neopixels are pretty cool. They're very flexible. And they got that enamel coated wire. So it looks like they're not insulated, but they are. They have a little enamel coating. But yeah, cool. Very cool, very good. You know what I'm saying? I want to see that resident. Yeah, that'd be a pricey one, huh? Completely clear. So that's what we got so far. So yeah, that's insane. Brave for doing this without any supports. Yeah, we've noticed with a sphere, the printers will catch it really good. But when you're printing something like a helmet, that's where it has struggles a little bit, where it'll will have some nozzle strikes. I don't know if it's up in the shape, I guess, because it's more elongated, like near the top of the helmet. That's where I always see problems. Yeah, there was some overhanging bits that had to remove with some flush nips. But the thickness is not a lot like this is good enough where it catches itself. And because it's a geodesic sphere, it tends to kind of have some flat angles that work okay. So yeah, cool. So that is probably a couple weeks out now. Yeah, a couple weeks out. What was asking this? Is it Andy? Yes, Andy is asking. If you have any like little tests of that clear print, maybe do a see if light pipes will work with that. Yeah, that would be a couple just just, you know, yeah, standard. Yeah, I have this prop here actually on my prop wall. This is the this would be a good example. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is the it's a prop from the TV show low key. And there are these little cylinders. Yeah, there are these cylinders that are printed in PLA. But I think it would be good to print these in resin to see how they look out. They look like hot glue sticks. Yeah, they look like hot glue sticks, but they don't fully eliminate. As you can see the top here don't get eliminated. And I mean, it's a pretty bright. It gets pretty bright, but it doesn't eliminate all the way. So I wonder if the resin print would do better. So this could be a good print. Yeah, or a good test rather for resin. Yeah, my battery is dying here. So that's why it's making a whiny noise. But yeah. Yeah, these would be good. Good test for resin. Back onto the wall. All right. Cool. Good, good stuff. All right, cool. Are we ready for community makes that? Yeah, let's go ahead and jump into community makes. Sorry, trying to do the commands here. All right. So for this week's community make we have as we just saw Lego posted one other updated X-Wing. So we would print one as well. Where am I? Ah, I'm all discombobulated. Where am I? Always left. Yeah. So yeah, this is a really cool model that was uploaded to Colts 3D. This is a free model. And it is an excellently detailed X-Wing. You can see the little R unit in here. Super simple. Super simple, but nice detail. All that stuff on there. And what's so cool is you printed one as well, but you shrunk it down and all the details remained. Yeah. There's even a little bit of extra stuff that you can print on there that I didn't add like the rocket boosters and stuff you added that. There's even a little stand. But since this is, as soon as I'm done here, the kids are probably going to break this thing up. So it doesn't matter if I have a stand or not. But yeah, this is super cool. This is pretty big. So you are going to need a pretty big printer. But again, it scales down excellent while retaining all of the detail. And this is the thing that impressed me the most, just the cockpit of all cool stuff in there. And it looks like in the posting for this, they like a mini-fig or something fits inside there. So you continue to do some play with this. And I don't know if it's super accurate or not, but it's accurate enough for me. Yeah. A little bit of paint on there. Just made it one of the blue, there's a blue team or whatever. Yeah. Prints completely up like that. So no support materials. Excellent job, man. Oh, here's the guy. 3D, who prints. Excellent detail. Yeah, let me see if I can share mine here. Yeah, let's see here. Yeah, so here's mine. I scale it down to 54%. Yours is about 100%. So it's fairly large. Let me see if I can do a little bit more closer detail. Here we go. So there's some detail there on the R unit. There's the cockpit, boosters, all the various details. And the details are actually, you can, there's a couple of different other parts. So you can print them in different colors and attach those. You can have like a bunch of a little greeblies be in different colors. That's right. Yeah. These, these boosters here are printed separately and I just snapped them in there. But yeah, 3D4U prints is the model maker there. And yeah, this is the bottom side of the print. That's what touches the better, the 3D printer. I used a brim on here and had to remove the brim. Okay, you did a brim too? Yeah. Yeah, just so the wings are so skinny. Exactly. Yeah. But man, that's some phenomenal detail. And the stand is really nice to have. But if you're playing with it, you don't need to stand. Yeah. So there's a whole thing. Oh, what's that for? It's for a string so you can dangle it. Oh man, I should have did that. Oh funny. Yeah. I didn't even notice that hole until you mentioned it. There's so much detail. Well, it's in the photo thing. Yeah, there's some details, right? It's in the photos, which, oh yeah, let me show you that. Here it is. So it's on Colts 3D. Oh, look at that, Jedi survivor. What a great ad. I actually really want to play that game. It looks really good. Yeah. So here's a quick little video with the little string. I completely missed that. Yeah. Here are all the various pieces. There you go. So you can print it in kind of this multicolor print. Here's a really nice example of just how many different colors you can have. It looks really good. I really like the black tone. Here's a really nice kind of shiny copper with that gold, like super dope. Different one, black and gray, subtle. So many color schemes you could do on this. Yeah. They do the filament swap here. That's really good. That's what that is. So you go all out with the detail on this one. You can, a lot of planning on getting all those colors that's what you want. Yeah. No supports, man. Very, very nice. You can see where the cylinders are a little bit flat at the bottom here, just so they print what that is for. That is the best way to print a cylinder though. That's a strong render of it. Yeah. So it's excellent. And again, the designer put his handle on the print, which is always a good kind of water marker of your stuff. But they go by Dan Der Drucker. Dan Der Drucker is their username here called 3D. Looks like he was a part of a bad batch since he's a survivor. He just looked like a bad batch. Yeah, that's funny. So yeah, fantastic model. Again, free, free to download. So check it out. Yeah. Again, awesome. And I think came right off on the bed, the bed plate right on the Declan's hands. That's funny. He was waiting for it. You gotta make another one for Gavin. Oh, the one that we use is the marble from, oh geez. Who is it? A shiny? I'm using, no, I'm just using Silver PLA Pro from Matterhackers. They have their own brand. I like it. It takes color really well. So here are the LED colors. So if you have some backlighting, it looks really dope in that color there. So it reflects light pretty good. And yeah, it's just Silver PLA Pro, I think, or PLA Build series, whatever Matterhackers calls it. It's good filament. I like it. Yeah, they ship pretty quick here in the States. And yeah, I'm also using this filament on the Epcot ball, because it's just to go all around Silver PLA. Yeah, has a nice shine. It's funny how wobbly it is. Kind of adds to the stand effect. Star Wars Celebration Week, yes. We'll have some more Star Wars projects next week as well. Yeah. Yeah, I might even get that Lego kit that just came out. It looks cool. It looks so good. Cool. So check it out. These are not in the back. They were shown off with blasters. Yeah, right. Maybe cool. That's a new pixels to it. Okay. Continue on to the community makes. We got a couple of really cool makes this week. Yeah, just a handful. Just a couple. So first up, we have the magnetic USB tips holder. This is a little simple print for our USB cables that have these swappable tips. They're magnetic. And I had a lot of them, so I needed a little way to hold them all together. So we have a make here from Al Pierce one on printables.com. They printed it out in this nice purple filament. And they've heard of two of them because they have a lot of tips more than I do. It's a parametric design. So if you want to modify it and add more slots to it, you can do that or just print multiple of them. And they said a super convenient print. So glad it worked out. Yeah, just kind of snaps in and holds it in place so they don't fall out. Otherwise, they fall up because they're magnets, right? They have magnetic ends. All right. The next one is a nice timely one. This was posted by Chu Nuuk on Thingiverse. This is our Mario Boo planter. It's inspired by the Super Mario Brothers, the ghost. You can paint the facial details.  Oh, wow. Yeah. It looks awesome. It looks like it just ringed. You can see the water droplets on there. They've got a piranha plant, the turtle shell with the spikes, a ba-bomb, omba-bomb, whatever it's called. A couple different mushrooms, and a little Mario Boo. Nice addition to their collection. Yeah, super cool, right? Yeah, I kind of look at the shell, but just the way that all the parts are. It's like, oh man, that's too much stuff, right? For a time-lock anyway, it'll look more weird. Okay. Cool. Yep. Lots of Mario-inspired prints with the whole movie coming out, right? I think it came out either today or the next week. Yeah. Yeah, it looks great. Yeah. I don't want to see it. And then the last print, guess what? Another Boo. This was posted up by Raspberry, and they printed it in white PLA, and they said it came out good in 0.2 millimeter layer height. And yeah, it looks good. Good paint job. Just paint the facial details in those two colors, red and black. Red for the tongue, black for the eye, mouth, and eyebrows. It's scalable. You can print it bigger, smaller. Lots of folks have made it. And yeah. I think you designed this one Pedro in Maya or something in 2012. But yeah, it has a little drain hole in the bottom there. Another drain hole. Yeah, at the bottom bottom. Well, you can modify it. Very cool. Nice little tail there for the... I don't remember seeing them in any of the trailers, so I don't even know if they're in the movie. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe the Luigi's Mansion section of the movie there. Yeah. Oh, they have the Luigi's Mansion section? Maybe. I haven't seen it. I think it came out today, right? I don't know. Yesterday maybe? Yeah, the reviews are real. Yeah, of course they're... Cool. We have a make here from DJ Devin. We've got an Alphanumeric backpack enclosure. It's just in. Nice. Yeah, it's using the Stemma QT 14-segment displays. That's awesome. Oh, wow, look at that bag. It looks great. The concentric pattern. That's dope. I might make this. This looks really good. I'm good for like a clock and stuff. Cool. Very cool. Nice work. I wonder if that's a gel. Is that like a reflective acrylic bit? Yeah, it's a one-way mirror. That's very cool. It's a good way to do it, because you get like this really nice... When the LEDs are off, you get like this mirror effect. Super cool. Thanks for sharing that, Devin. Yeah, that's some little pieces of mirror that I've been looking to do something with. A good one, yeah. Yeah, cool. Yeah, that's pretty nice. What am I going to do with it? Oh, that 3D scanner thing. I heard it was getting the... What is it? The thing from the front part of the camera. Right. Okay, cool.  We'll have another one tonight and tomorrow with JP's workshop. So you can check this out. But yeah, next week, another more resin prints. Yeah. Again, don't forget to check out JP's guide if you want to make a mini controller. Inspired by bees. All right. We invite you to come on show and tell. Yeah, yeah. We invite you to come on show and tell tonight. It's going to be hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Lady Ada. They are back and then Ask an Engineer is shortly after that. So at 7.30 p.m. Eastern time is show and tell. 8 p.m. Eastern time is Ask an Engineer. So that's going to do it. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in until next week. Don't forget to make a great day. Bye, folks.


Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Wade. And I'm Colin Lauver. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Does your language use any English words? Yes. No. Hello. Languages often borrow words from each other. English speakers use many words that have come from other languages. For example, you may hear an English speaker say something like this. I cannot believe I made that faux pas in front of everyone. The words faux pas mean a social mistake. They are French, but many English speakers use them. Another example is the word prima donna. This phrase is Italian. It means first lady. English speakers use it to speak about someone who only thinks about themselves. Many languages also use English words. For example, they use the words computer, internet and email. However, none of these are the most commonly used English word. Do you know what it is? Okay. Yes. The word is okay. Today's spotlight is on the word okay. The word okay is an informal spoken word. You will almost never find it in formal speeches, news, media or books. But it is one of the most common English words. It is also one of the most common English exports from the United States. English professor Alan Metcalf wrote a book about the word okay. He told CBS News. There is no other word that is as widely recognized throughout the whole world. No other American English word has had so much success like that. In a general way, okay signals approval, acceptance or agreement. People can use it in many different ways. Here are some ways to use the word okay. First, okay can be an adjective or an adverb. It can describe an act or a thing. In this way, it means alright or fine. Are you okay? Here is another example. I hope the children are okay while we are gone. It can also mean fine but not so great. Did you enjoy the dinner last night? It was okay. Okay can also be an act or a thing, a verb or a noun. Did your boss give you the time off that you asked for? Yes, she okayed it. Okay is also common as an interjection. It can appear suddenly on its own. In this way, it can simply mean yes or sure. Can you please wash those dishes? Okay. Or it can signal that people need to attend. Okay, time to begin please. It can also mean enough. Okay, please stop now. Okay, we are done with this part anyway. You have already heard how many different meanings the word okay has. But did you know that the meaning also changes depending on how you say it? The tone of a person's voice makes a difference. The meaning can change no matter how you use it. For example, the sentence it was okay could be positive or negative. How was the show? It was okay. What do you think this person meant? What about this next example? How was the show? It was okay. The first answer says that the person was not really satisfied, but he could not think of something bad to say. The second answer says that the person was satisfied. A person's tone also changes the meaning of the word okay as an interjection. I think we should visit your brother tonight. Okay? Okay. The first person used okay to ask for agreement. The second person used okay to express questioning or doubt. Okay is a small word, but it has many different uses. So where did this confusing, complex word come from? People debate the origin of the word okay. The earliest record in print was in 1839 in the city of Boston. At the time, it was popular to use groups of letters to signal words. It was also common to spell the words incorrectly using the wrong letters as a joke. A Boston newspaper used the letters o and k to mean all correct. The o meant all and the k meant correct. Around the same time, US President Martin Van Buren began to use the word. He was the president and he was trying to get elected again. His political party used the saying vote for okay. Van Buren was from a town in New York called Kinderhoek. In this case, he used the letters okay to mean old Kinderhoek. The saying tried to give the message that old Kinderhoek was all correct. Van Buren lost the election. But many language experts think that the election saying helped to make okay a common word. This explanation may also explain the unusual spelling of the word okay. People can write okay in two ways. They can write the word using just the letters o and k. Or they can write it this way. O, k, a, y. And both ways are correct. Other language experts think the word has a native American origin. The Choctaw people are one of many Native American groups. The Choctaw language has a word o k. This word means it is so. This is almost the same meaning as today's word okay. As early as 1825, Christian Bible translators used o k. in their Choctaw Bible translations. In the 20th century, US President Woodrow Wilson used the Choctaw language to sign documents as o k. Other language experts say that o k came from West Africa. Some West African languages have interjection words that sound similar to o k. For example, the word o k in the Bantu and Wolof languages or o k in the Mandi language. These words also commonly signal agreement. West African people were brought to the United States as slaves. The theory is that African slaves used these words when speaking English. After a time, the use spread to the rest of the English speaking population. No one knows which story is true. But today, o k is now one of the most common words in English. People use it all the time, everywhere. O k is now an international word. But Professor Metcalf believes that it expresses a cultural value of the United States. He told CBS News, It is strong, it is simple. People from the United States do not like complex ways of life. And o k is about as short and simple as you can get. O k. So after hearing this program, are you o k with spotlight? Or is it just o k? Can you give your o k to our programs? Or would you use another word? We are o k if you are o k. O k? Do you use the word o k? Do you use words from other languages in your language? Tell us about your experiences. You can email us at contact at spotlightenglish.com You can also find us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The writer of this program was Jen Hawkins. The producer was Michio Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the internet at www.spotlightenglish.com This program is called How to Use the Word O K Visit our website to download our free official app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


Hi, this is Don again with a second micro lesson on finding the regression equation or the equation, the regression line quickly. This time we're going to do it using StatCrunch. I'm going to click on this data again. I want to open this time in StatCrunch and now we have our data and we just need to go to Stat, Regression, Simple Linear. And we need to select our X variable and that's really something I see folks making a mistake with all the time. Be very careful identifying which is your predictor variable or your X variable and which is your response variable or your Y variable. In this case, it's pretty straightforward. They give us length as our X variable and girth as our Y variable and we just want a fitted line plot and I think that's all we're going to need for this. We'll click on compute and we get our results here. Drag that down so you can see them. We get our intercept, which is B, remember the equation, Y equal MX plus B is 5.87 and our slope or M is equal to 0.723 or 0.72. I almost forgot that we did ask StatCrunch to give us the scatter plot and I just need to click on the little arrow there and you can see here we've got our fitted line. It doesn't show the equation, but you have that from the first part of the results. You might notice that they have truncated both the X-axis, the length-axis, and the Y-girth-axis. You should be aware of that, but that's really all there is to this equation.


Do lockdowns work? Mounting evidence says no. By Ryan McMacon, an audio Misesweyer narrated by Million Quinteros. The coerced economic shutdowns enforced with fines, arrests and revoked business licenses are not the natural outgrowth of a pandemic. They are the result of policy decisions taken by politicians who have suspended constitutional institutions and legal recognition of basic human rights. These politicians have instead imposed a new form of central planning based on an unproven theoretical set of ideas about police-enforced social distancing. Suspending the rule of law and civil rights will have enormous consequences in terms of human life counted in suicides, drug overdoses and other grave health problems resulting from unemployment, denial of elective medical care and social isolation. None of that is being considered however, since it is now fashionable to have governments determine whether or not people may open their businesses or leave their homes. So far the strategy for dealing with the resulting economic collapse is no more sophisticated than record-breaking deficit spending followed by debt monetization via money printing. In short, politicians, bureaucrats and their supporters have insisted a single policy goal, ending the spread of a disease, be allowed to destroy all other values and considerations in society. Has it even worked? Mounting evidence says no. In the Lancet, Swedish infectious disease clinician and World Health Organization advisor, Johan Giusecke concluded, it has become clear that a hard lockdown does not prevent old and frail people living in care homes. A population the lockdown was designed to protect. Neither does it decrease mortality from COVID-19 which is evident when comparing the UK's experience with that of other European countries. At best, lockdowns push cases into the future. They do not lower total deaths. Giusecke continues, measures to flatten the curve might have an effect but a lockdown only pushes the severe cases into the future. It will not prevent them. Admittedly, countries have managed to slow down spread so as not to overburden healthcare systems. And yes, effective drugs that save lives might soon be developed. But this pandemic is swift and those drugs have to be deployed, tested and marketed quickly. Much hope is put in vaccines but they will take time. And with the unclear protective immunological response to infection, it is not certain that vaccines will be very effective. As a public policy measure, the lack of evidence that lockdowns work must be balanced with the fact that we have already observed that economic destruction is costly in terms of human life. Yet in the public debate, lockdown enthusiasts insist that any deviation from the lockdown will result in total deaths far exceeding those places where there are lockdowns. So far, there is no evidence of this. In a new study titled, full lockdown policies in Western Europe countries have no evident impacts on the COVID-19 epidemic, author Thomas Mounier writes, total deaths numbers using pre-lockdown trends suggest that no lives were saved by the strategy. In comparison with pre-lockdown, less restrictive social distancing policies. That is, the full lockdown policies of France, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom haven't had the expected effects in the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic. The premise here is not that voluntary social distancing has no effect. Rather, the question is to whether police and forced home containment works to limit the spread of disease. Mounier concludes it does not. Meanwhile, a study by political scientist, Wilfrid Riley, compared lockdown policies and COVID-19 fatalities among US states. Riley writes, the question the model set out to ask was whether lockdown states experienced fewer COVID-19 cases and deaths than social distancing states, adjusted for all of the above variables. The answer? No. The impact of state response strategy on both my cases and deaths measures was utterly insignificant. The p-value for the variable representing strategy was 0.94 when it was regressed against the deaths metric, which means there is a 94% chance that any relationship between the different measures and COVID-19 deaths was the result of pure random chance. Overall, however, the fact that good-sized regions from Utah to Sweden to much of East Asia have avoided harsh lockdowns without being overrun by COVID-19 is notable. Another study on lockdowns. Again, we're talking about forced business closures and stay-at-home orders here. Is this study by researcher Lyman Stone at the American Enterprise Institute? Stone notes that areas where lockdowns were imposed either had already experienced the downward trend in deaths before the lockdown could have possibly shown effects or showed the same trend as the year prior. In other words, lockdown advocates have been taking credit for trends that had already been observed before lockdowns were forced on the population. Stone writes, here's the thing, there's no evidence of lockdowns working. If strict lockdowns actually saved lives, I would be all for them, even if they had large economic costs. But the scientific and medical case for strict lockdowns is paper thin. Experience increasingly suggests that a more targeted approach is better for those who actually want to limit the spread of disease among the most vulnerable. The overwhelming majority, nearly 75% of deaths from COVID-19, occur in patients over 65 years of age. Of those, approximately 90% have other underlying conditions. Thus, limiting the spread of COVID-19 is most critical among those who are already engaged with the healthcare system and are elderly. In the US and Europe, more than half of COVID-19 deaths are occurring in nursing homes and similar institutions. This is why Matt Ridley at The Spectator quite reasonably observes that testing, not lockdowns, appears to be the key factor in limiting deaths from COVID-19. Those areas where testing is widespread have performed better. Yet it is not obvious why testing would make a difference, especially to the death rate. Testing does not cure the disease. Germany's strange achievement of a consistently low case fatality rate seems baffling, until you think through where most early cases were found in hospitals. By doing a lot more testing, countries like Germany might have partly kept the virus from spreading within the healthcare system. Germany, Japan and Hong Kong had different and more effective protocols in place from day one to prevent the virus spreading within care homes and hospitals. The horrible truth is that it now looks like in many of the early cases, the disease was probably caught in hospitals and doctor surgeries. That is where the virus kept returning in the lungs of sick people and that is where the next person often caught it, including plenty of healthcare workers. Many of these may not have realized they had it or thought they had a mild cold. They then gave it to yet more elderly patients who were in hospital for other reasons, some of whom were sent back to care homes when the National Health Service made space on the wards for the expected wave of coronavirus patients. We could contrast this with the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York who mandated that nursing homes accept new residents without testing. This method nearly ensures that the disease will spread quickly among those who are most likely to die from it. Meanwhile, Governor Cuomo saw fit to impose police-enforced lockdowns on the entire population of New York, ensuring economic ruin and ruined health for many non-COVID patients who were then caught off from vital treatments. Yet disturbingly, lockdown fetishists like Cuomo are hailed as Y statesmen who acted decisively to prevent the spread of disease. But this is the sort of regime we now live under. In the minds of many, it is better to abolish human rights and consign millions to destitution in the name of pursuing trendy, unproven policies. The pro-lockdown party has even turned basic fundamentals of policy debate upside down. As Stone notes, at this point the question I usually get is, what's your evidence that lockdowns don't work? It's a strange question. Why should I have to prove that lockdowns don't work? The burden of proof is to show that they do work. If you're going to essentially cancel the civil liberties of the entire population for a few weeks, you should probably have evidence that the strategy will work. And there, lockdown advocates fail miserably because they simply don't have the evidence. With economic output crashing worldwide and unemployment soaring to great depression levels, governments are already looking for a way out. Don't expect to hear any maya culpas from politicians, but we can already see how governments are quickly moving toward a voluntary social distancing non-lockdown strategy. This comes even after politicians and disease experts have been insisting that lockdowns must be imposed indefinitely until there's a vaccine. The longer the lockdown created, economic destruction continues. The greater will be the threat of social unrest and even economic freefall. The political reality is that the current situation cannot be sustained without threatening the regimes empower themselves. In an article for Foreign Policy titled, Sweden's Coronavirus Strategy Will Soon Be the Worlds, author Nils Carlson, Carlotta Stern and Daniel B. Klein suggest that regimes will be forced to retreat to a Swedish model. As the pain of national lockdown grows intolerable and countries realize that managing rather than defeating the pandemic is the only realistic option, more and more of them will begin to open up. Smart social distancing to keep healthcare systems from being overwhelmed, improved therapies for the afflicted and better protections for at-risk groups can help reduce the human toll. But at the end of the day, the increase than ultimately herd immunity may be the only viable defense against the disease, so long as vulnerable groups are protected along the way. Whatever marks Sweden deserves for managing the pandemic, other nations are beginning to see that it is ahead of the curve. For more content like this, visit Mises.org.


The Surface Navy Association kicked off its annual three-day national symposium in Arlington, Virginia, January 15th. The symposium theme answering all bells, people, technology and innovation was hosted by Vice Admiral Tom Coatman to provide an opportunity for discussion on a broad range of topics. My main priority is to make sure that the sailors and the ships that they sail on are able to conduct prompt, sustained combat operations at sea because there are no point solutions. There is no one thing. There's nothing that I can say, see, you know, if you give me this X amount of money and I'll apply it to this thing, everything's going to be fine. Because there isn't, it's kind of the readiness kill chain. The symposium also hosted Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Mike Stevens, who spoke about the Navy's initiative of zeroing in on excellence. Zeroing in on excellence is about three things. It's first and foremost about developing leaders, secondly, zeroing on excellence is about good order and discipline.  Among the topics discussed were extended deployments and the drawdown of forces in Afghanistan. So we know that we're drawing down right now out of Afghanistan for the most part. We're totally out of Iraq, with the exception of a few. But what does that mean for the Navy? Well, it means to the Navy, we're still going to stay busy. There's a responsibility towards us and the need for us to be currently forward deployed in the SENTCOM AOR, at least at the strength that we're at right now. And we'll continue to be deployed in the Pacific at the current strength and over time we will increase that. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Matthew Halls.


Well, my dear students, the course is Labour Policy Pakistan and the topic in hand is Introduction to Khabar Pakhtunkhwa Labour Policy 2018. Dear students, under the 18th Amendment in the Constitution of Pakistan 1973, the provinces have been given the mandate to legislate and to formulate policies on the subject labour. As a result, my dear students, the government of Khabar Pakhtunkhwa has already promulgated 11 labour laws and, my dear students, you would be enlightened to know that KPK in its Industrial Policy 2016 has envied skill development, labour intensive industrialization and agro-based industrialization focusing on labour intensive techniques, employment generation and social development. My dear students, beside this, the integrated development strategy 2014 and diverse to integrate Khabar Pakhtunkhwa government's priorities under one framework and is main vehicle to improve human development and to remove inequalities. My dear students, you would be enlightened to know that unemployment it is at the rise and KPK is lagging behind from other province provinces in most of the development indicators. However, amidst these challenges, the government believes that productive employment generation is the route to alleviate poverty and sustained growth lies in creating employment opportunities with decent working conditions. My dear students, being cognizant of this situation, the government through this labour policy resolves to demonstrate its commitment to work for the protection of labour and ensuring its dignity through coordinated efforts and policy integration. My dear students, the Khabar Pakhtunkhwa labour policy intends to guide and support the government and the stakeholders in developing strategies, plans and programs for the protection and promotion of the rights and benefits of working community without jeopardizing the genuine concerns of the employers. My dear students, you would be enlightened to know that the Khabar Pakhtunkhwa labour policy commits promotion of decent work for all workers in line with international labour standards and constitutional guarantees through setting following properties, through following priorities. My dear students and the priorities are implementation in health and safety at the workplace through promulgation of new OSH laws, capacity building of the industries through provision of technical know-how, enhancing institutional capacity of labour department and through effective labour administration and governance. My dear students, the labour policy of Khabar Pakhtunkhwa also focus on the fact that facilitation of women in labour market through skill development will be done, improvement in workplace will be done, monitoring of the workplace will be done, enhancing coordination in administration of laws on sexual harassment and ensuring that pro-woman provisions for labour laws must be implemented in the industrial and commercial establishment. My dear students, the Khabar Pakhtunkhwa labour policy focuses that reinvigoration of inspection through facilitating, inspecting staff, resource allocation, provision of transport, digitization of inspection, follow-ups, improvement in reporting and monitoring of inspection and research on possibilities of joint inspection through ADP schemes and support from ILO and international donors will be done. The labour policy of Khabar Pakhtunkhwa also focuses that promoting genuine trade unionism, tripartism, social dialogue and holding of provincial tripartite labour conference annually is the quintessence of the intentions of the labour policy. My dear students, the policy also focuses that facilitation of the workers in provision of their basic rights, social protection and welfare measures through education and awareness and establishment of facilitation thus will be made available to the labourers or the workers. Hope you have understood the topic. Thank you very much indeed.


Hi everyone, my name is Irene Alvarado. I am the coordinator of the Environmental Statistics Unit of the Central Bank of Costa Rica and I am very pleased to be invited to this event even if I cannot assist personally. Today I will be talking about natural capital accounting for the case of Costa Rica. The wealth of country and consequently its growth are going to be highly dependent on the management of the different assets that this country has. Whether they are environmental assets, economic assets or social assets, these all together sum up to form the total capital of the country which is going to be equal to its wealth. Costa Rica is a very biodiverse country and very rich in natural resources that are used as inputs for our production. According to the World Bank, low income countries can sum up to 36% of their total wealth only in natural capital. We started the process of constructing environmental accounts in Costa Rica with the support of the World Bank. Together with ministries and other institutions, we published our first environmental accounts in 2016 and since then we have the mandate to update the information, strengthen it and create new accounts. So far we have published water, forest and energy accounts for the years that you can see in this slide. We are also working on other accounts such as ecosystem accounts, material flow accounts and we have worked on a couple of pilot projects with ECLAC and OECD to develop other accounts. Environmental accounts are satellite accounts. We use the methodology of the system of environmental economic accounting which is an internationally approved standard that allows us to measure natural assets in both physical and monetary terms. So first, we receive basic statistics from different sources of information. To construct the environmental accounts from these, indicators can be developed to assist in policymaking, in information sharing and also in data analysis. Here are some examples of the indicators that we can obtain from our environmental accounts. For instance, we can tell how much electricity generated comes from hydropower or how much has our forest cover changed over a specific period of time. Also, by the way the information is presented in the environmental accounts, we can develop combining indicators such as the one presented here where we can see physical, monetary and social information all together. We can also zoom in in different economic activities to see how they behave. In a way, environmental accounting works as a thermometer to assess the current state of the environment. At the same time, it fits adequately with other international requests that we as a country have to fulfill, for instance, OECD and FAO questionnaires. So what are some of the characteristics that are necessary for natural capital accounting to be useful for policymaking? The whole process of compiling accounts needs to be transparent, clear, continuous and also responsive to information that is demanded from policymakers. For example, currently in the central bank we are using a general equilibrium model to assess the country's vulnerability to climate change. In general, these kind of tools where we incorporate environmental accounting allow us to develop prospective analysis. So how has NTA been implemented in the country so far? We provided inputs for the national development plan that was launched last year. We also provided inputs for the decarbonization plan that was launched two days ago and it also assists us with international commitments such as the tracking of SDGs. In late 2017, the former minister of the environment and former chair of the National Council of Environmental Accounts requested for a diagnostic on the viability of constructing a blue account for our country. The reason why we would be interested in developing such an account is because Costa Rica has two coasts, the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean and in total we have around 600,000 square kilometers of territory in the oceans which account for 92% of our total territory. One of the results of our diagnostic was to decide upon a methodology for our study. Should we focus on fisheries accounting, on aquatic accounting or should we move towards evaluation of ecosystem services derived from the ocean? Another outcome of our diagnostic concerns the poor quality of information. Either the information is missing, it's not well organized or it's difficult to access therefore it's not possible to develop statistics out of it. In particular, in coastal areas of our country there is much more to be studied regarding small scale fisheries. Their access to markets and to credits, the techniques that they are using, their livelihoods and all the risks that they are currently facing or will face with climate change. The only way to develop a comprehensive analysis is to first, gather the necessary data and second, understand and evaluate it considering economic prosperity, environmental context and social well-being. If you would like to have additional information about the environmental accounts of Costa Rica I invite you to visit our website and if you have any questions feel free to write me an email. Thank you very much.


The fact that there were risks involved brought peace because I know that in the risk God was going to come through right but it wasn't just the risk of like leaving it wasn't just the risk of you know saying bye to our friends and family it was the risk of am I even the right person to go. Hello this is David Diga Hernandez and you are watching eTV interviews here on the EncounterTV Network. My guest today Michael Hernandez. Michael Hernandez is the pastor of Reclaim Church and the host of Reclaim Media. He and his wife Jessica reside in Hutto, Texas with their three children Liam, Ryland and Lucas and one on the way. Pastor Michael has a heart to make disciples and help believers reach their divine destinies. Pastor Michael's testimony of radical faith is inspiring people of all generations. Pastor Michael welcome to EncounterTV well thanks for having me on. So for those who do not know Pastor Michael Hernandez is actually my brother and welcome to the broadcast you and I have been working on something very special. We've launched a brand new YouTube channel called Reclaim Media so let our viewers know who you are just give us a little bit of an introduction and then talk a little bit about this new channel that we've launched together. Well obviously I've been I've been working with the ministry for a long time and something we've always talked about is is being able to create content with the ministry and so my heart has always been to invest into people to give whatever I feel like I've learned over the years in ministry and discipleship and find ways to practically give that out give that information out raise up leaders really help people get into their God given destiny that potential that they have and so whatever I can give I want to give that to invest in others and that's really what Reclaim Media is all about. Now you have a tremendous story which we're going to be getting into in just a moment and you're not going to want to miss this especially if you sense that there's a call of God on your life you're going to want to hear this testimony it is a faith builder so stick around for that but you know we talk about Reclaim Media and one of the things I really enjoy about the content that you're putting out is that it really complements the rest of the content from Encounter TV you know they come to Encounter TV they get messages on the Holy Spirit spiritual warfare prayers topics like that you cover those topics too but you're also helping to supplement you talk about marriage you talk about overcoming pornography addiction you you talk about some of the practical things in everyday life and I really enjoy that perspective you take on media you really do have a passion to build people and help them walk in their God given destiny yeah I mean it's something that I've had to learn over the years and I've had great people disciple me and teach me you know how to become a disciple and even entering into ministry before we became pastors of how to be a leader how to run ministry how to help people all that was there's so much learning involved in that and a lot of the learning was you know you watch videos and stuff right and you hear these amazing messages and they're good stuff but sometimes I would I would watch those things and take away like man what do I do though like I get the point of what I should be doing but how practically do I do those things and even with things like marriage with things like overcoming habits that are not healthy for you how do I how do I do that and I try my best to find practical ways to overcome struggles and marriage to overcome addictions and habits and but also obviously with a spiritual perspective on that but with practical teachings so not just inspiring them but instructing them specifically exactly in those areas so the I guess the goal is at the end of each video or that the end of each teaching I want to I want to be able to say okay today you can go and do this you know you can go and make these changes right now now you mentioned that you are pastoring a church right now and yeah that is part of the story that we're going to be talking about today but right now you're pastoring in huddle Texas yeah and that's near Austin and how's that going man it's been it's been so good lately we've had a lot of visitors we've had our church members staying faithful and we're seeing a genuine move of God it's not that we're just getting gathering a crowd or it's not that we're just you know we're staying above no like above water just floating through no we're we're encountering God every Sunday it's it's incredible like I've had visions of where our church would be eventually when we first moved there and I remember praying and God would show me things and I would say man that's good I can't wait to get there in the next five to ten years but we're experiencing those visions right now we've we've seen people get saved we see people get healed we've seen marriages restored and we are literally encountering the presence of God every single Sunday it's it's incredible it really is and that's that's a beautiful beautiful testimony especially since there was some groundwork that had to be done first now you have a message that's on your heart that God gave to you and the people who are listening to this right now need to hear this talk to us about taking those steps of faith yeah well you know as I was reading the book of Timothy or Second Timothy and Paul is in like this it's almost like he's in in this part in his life where he's understanding that his days are kind of ending and he's giving Timothy's this advice and a part of that advice kind of what the whole book kind of comes down to is he's teaching Timothy to embrace the risks and intentions of following Jesus and you know I just recently I read that but throughout my life I feel like God's always been teaching us that he's always been teaching me that too to embrace the things the struggles the heart the hardships of ministry and to be able to take those risks and those steps of faith I feel like Christianity becomes so boring when it's comfortable you know when it when you're when you're in it and if nothing's difficult there's no faith it's just like this routine I feel like that's when we can easily slip up and and miss what God is doing but to take those steps of faith to take those risks I think that that is the excitement and the adventure of Christianity of discipleship we were in a thriving young adult ministry my wife and I we we were leaving that ministry for five years and I always had the heart to pastor but I remember about three years into the ministry and God moved there too it grew it was it was it was a lot of fun really it was seeing people get changed and being being in our church having the my pastor covering us and and there was a comfort in that and I remember three years in I began to pray and and kind of tell God like hey I'm good here like I'm comfortable here at the home church yeah at the home church running the young adult ministry we had people to help with the kids babysitting so that was a plus to you but um I remember telling the Lord like I'm good here if I never go start a church if we never go pastor I know that's something that I felt called to do but I almost thought like he was changing he was trying to help me with perspective and so I remember telling him that like I'm good I'm good right here I could I could stay here and around that time is when my pastor approached me and said hey I want you to consider moving to Texas and starting the church he just dropped that on you yeah it was something that we had went to visit we really just went to visit to see our friends out there and uh when we came back he said you know how did you feel about it what do you think can you pray about going to start a church out there and um you know I'm pretty much down for whatever at that point how old are you at this point oh jeez I don't know man um I don't remember I think 26 26 so you're young yeah we are young still young but 26 years old and uh we had we had two kids and it was we had a really comfortable life I mean it was it would have been very easy to stay well you I know this because I you and I attended the same church you were leading the young adult ministry it was thriving we had all our friends that we had grown up with there our family was nearby your children were getting in all the children in the church we had a we have a great pastor and everything was just kind of comfortable in the perfect position and then that's when he comes to you and just says and brings that challenge and how did you feel in that moment I felt excited I didn't I didn't think about the risk in that moment honestly I remember um kind of just taking it to Jess my wife and just saying hey you know this pastor Omar is asking us what do you think she's like uh we can't move out of California our our house was literally or our apartment was literally five minutes from our parents and five minutes from her mom we were like in the perfect zone for babysitting and comfort and it was it was great um so I told her that and it was like man she's at first she was kind of you know we can't do that but we just we prayed about it and I remember um praying about a thinking of like okay what are we gonna do for a job what are we gonna do for our living situation and all this stuff was in question all this stuff was we didn't know where we live we didn't know what city we were going to go to exactly we just knew the Austin area and um we just continued praying about it and and God would kind of speak to me here and there but I remember this one specific time we every year we'd have a young adult retreat and man the young adults that we're they're like they're still our like family like we love them we love them so much and um you know seeing them get saved and God's moving their life we we never wanted to leave them we never wanted to leave and that that was probably one of the hardest things to do but I remember we were at our young adult retreat we were in the mountains and the young adult retreat is when the young adult group comes together goes on you guys would rent a cabin rent a cabin and just hang out um really pursue God together and I remember sitting in in there and I was watching everybody kind of just me you know you're like kind of just have that perspective just watching everyone's mingling yeah you're almost like on the on the outside looking in and I remember looking around and seeing everybody and the Lord speaking to me like you have to go you have to leave you have to leave them and I was just I was just like man I okay like we'll do it we'll do it because there there was there was a peace in knowing I'll put it this way the risk the fact that there were risks involved brought peace because I know that in the risk God was going to come through right but it wasn't just the risk of like leaving it wasn't just the risk of um you know saying bye to our friends and family it was it was the the risk of of am I even the right person to go you know and I think that was the that was probably the biggest battle was I can't do this right because I know a lot of pastors and I you know being around the ministry and being around the conferences that we did and all that I met a lot of pastors and and their backgrounds and their routines and the things they've done it's like man they're they're great men and I remember thinking that's not me like I'm not like that I've not written books I've not I didn't finish high school like I didn't go to I didn't go to seminary I didn't do any of that stuff and I remember thinking like I don't I don't know if you're calling the right person you know and that was that I feel like that was the biggest risk is I'm gonna go we're gonna go I'm gonna move my family and move my kids and we're gonna go to the city where we only know one family we didn't know anybody out there I remember even when we had made the move I don't know if I'm jumping too far ahead but when we had made the move we we got there in March of 2018 we didn't launch till September or till April of 2019 so we had a about a year a little over a year of just preparation just preparation and you know meeting people and stuff and I remember a couple months in we hadn't met we hadn't met anybody that was that felt like oh yeah you know this is why we've come right and I remember we didn't have any church services there was nothing going on and I remember being in my office just like God why did you bring this here like we're by ourselves it's lonely there's no church I still don't feel like you call the right person like there's there's no way that I can do this and God had we prayed about a timeline and everything in me wanted to go out of that timeline but God kept saying no stick to this I've given you this plan stick to the plan and as we were doing the plan I was like God this isn't working like what do you mean it was taking too long it was taking too long we didn't feel like there was a ton of traction being you know we didn't feel like we were getting traction with people honestly it was hard we had we had two babies you know we're two young kids that that they're not in school they're not in sports they're not you know we're not meeting a lot of people were you know I'm working from home and so it was all those challenges and I remember being so bothered like God why are we even here you know like why why did you send us here why did you put us here I don't feel like I'm the right person but he kept giving me these visions of people being in our church worshiping and people being touched by you know our ministry and and God moving through us and that was the faith that just kept us going was okay I may not feel like I'm qualified and I may not feel like it's happening now but I have faith to believe that it will happen you know and and that faith is what kept us going and it was like little steps of faith throughout on the journey just like saying little yeses right like okay God will go okay God will give I remember we didn't have any money for our church we had we had barely any like barely money in our account and the Lord told us to give it from our church account to a conference that has thousands of dollars right like our our gift was a you know dropping the bucket but he told us to give and I remember just little things like that um throughout the season before we even launched I would call baby churches that were launching alongside of us and say hey can we give you we want to bless you and we'd give them money that we can't afford and when you say baby churches you're talking about churches that are just beginning just in your church yeah and they're out there in the same season you're at and you are supporting them God would tell tell me you need to give you know 500 now 500 to a church plant is a lot of money you know that's our um growth track books or that's our flyers or whatever right and he would tell me like you got to give these amounts and and just little steps like that along the way up until up until launch and and now we're beginning we're beginning to see the fruits of that faith so let's go back for a second you've talked about the risk you've talked about the doubt including the self-doubt talk to me about the sacrifice that that tearing that that had to take place the things you had to give up almost like Abraham where God says just go out and I'll show you the land yeah that and that was that was kind of the thing is like we had before we can see what God was going to do we had to let go of what he already had done you know and and being in the young adult ministry again to most most people that may seem like well it's not a big deal we invested our whole life into that like that was everything to us you know we treated it like it was uh you know a huge huge thing when it was small and and that was everything and we had to give that up really um as crazy as it sounds we loved them so we loved them so much that I was worried about who would come after us and how they would treat the people in our ministry that that we we had been with for so long and so that sacrifice of letting go the sacrifices of man we had to take our kids away from their cousins like you know um I still haven't met uh you know my youngest niece right these kind of sacrifice of pulling away from family like we have to hey guys we're moving to Texas I remember when remember we sat down and I kind of announced it to the family and it was just sad like like it was it was a sad day because it's like man we knew this was coming but we didn't think it was going to be out of state we thought it was going to be another city and remember uh Nani our grandma was like well we're all moving to Texas then and then but it didn't happen obviously and so there was that pulling of of away from family there was a pulling away from friends is that that was our like security um pulling away from our identity like we knew everybody here and they knew us I can go to you know a ton of churches in the area and I know people there um that are really close friends we're we're leaving that nobody knows who we are nobody cares who we are in Texas you know you get what I'm saying was that there was that that sacrifice of family sacrifice of friendship sacrifice of identity and established um uh what's the word I'm looking for uh reputation right like hey we're gone and then we're putting ourselves in this place we don't even know anybody it was it was a huge sacrifice of just of just letting go and letting go and not knowing if it's even going to work right that I think that's the hardest part like if if god is like hey I already have this for you you just have to go to it that's an easy yes because you see it well when god is saying you got to give this up now because I have something for you in the future that's hard to say yes to you but that is the greatest blessing right and I think what we've learned in that sacrifice in that risk in that self-doubt is the greatest blessing of it all is that he walks with us and I think that's been our constant encouragement is that we're not alone you know and then he's he's reassured us of that many times and now you're seeing the fruit of it beginning to sprout it's just we have so many amazing people in our church we have people that gotten saved and now are serving god in our church and it's it's still it's still that god I think you've got the wrong guy like you know it feels like it feels like at some point um at some point it's like okay we've got to put somebody else in here because it's beyond what I can do but it's always been like that and that is the beauty of what god calls us to do is that it's if if what you're in is is something that you feel qualified for then where's god in it right how can god be glorified in that and that is the beauty of it we're seeing god move in such a way that I'm like man god you probably have to find somebody else pretty soon because this is incredible and there are so many people who feel that way yeah in fact there's probably someone watching you right now who feels that way would you just look in that camera and encourage them absolutely I think when I when I was sitting down with my pastor and I'm going to act like we're sitting at a coffee shop we're just hanging out right and you're you're you're wondering if god called you when I was sitting with my pastor and I told him this said one of the ways that I know that this is god calling me is because I feel like I can't do it because if I felt like I could do it then it would I feel like that would be me but the fact that I feel like I'm stepping into something that I cannot accomplish then I know that god is with me so if you're feeling that call you're feeling that urge to do something for the lord and you feel like it's beyond your capacity it's beyond your strengths then step in faith that's where the faith comes in the sacrifice the risk the tensions of following Christ it's it's all worth it it's all worth paying that cost because at the end of the day we are building the kingdom of god for his glory we're able to participate we have the privilege of participating in the building of the kingdom and sing soul saved and that is the greatest blessing that is if you look at the life of paul what he did is he invested into people all the risk all the tension all the suffering all the persecution at the end of the day what was he doing is he was he was pointing people to christ and that is that is worth our risk so don't let yourself doubt keep you where you're at don't let the risk cause you to mess out on the blessing step into what god is calling you to do step in with big faith with that adventurous spirit like you know god i may not be able to do this by myself but i know that i can do it because you're with me and if you take that step of faith i guarantee i guarantee that god will bless that and you'll see fruit that you could not bear alone it's only buried it's only you're only able to bear it because the spirit is leading you so don't don't let this stuff stop you if i can do it if i can do this and i'm not just saying this lightly i really firmly believe this that if i can do what god is calling me to do then you can definitely do what god is calling me to do would you pray with him of course father i pray god for anybody watching right now well those that are struggling in their mindset and their self-doubt god even those that are ashamed of sin god and the mistakes that they made would i pray that there'd be a covering over them holy spirit i ask that you would you would speak to their heart like that fire again but those that have lost the passion those those that have lost the drive and the burden to pursue your call god i pray you to give it back to them let the fire again god i pray lord for that individual that's just on the verge of stepping out god i pray that he would jump over that she would jump over into a faith move god into a step of faith to embrace the risk to embrace the tension to embrace the suffering god to embrace the things that come with following you because lord we know that it is worth it so i pray god give them big faith give them lord give them power give them your spirit so they can accomplish what you've called them to do jesus name father i pray that the holy spirit i want you to stretch your hands toward mine right now let's believe that god's going to stir that fire in you father in the name of jesus i pray the holy spirit would stir their faith stir that fire of faith lord to where you become their sole focus let them step into the unknown knowing only you and i pray god you begin to speak to them clearly in the name of jesus we pray i want you to say it because you agree say amen amen well michael you did an excellent job sharing and i think your testimony really is going to encourage many different people now we're going to tell them about reclaim media i know we talked a little bit at the top of the program about it but tell them again just a little bit about what reclaim media is so reclaim media is is weekly content that i pray and i believe is going to equip leaders and pastors and believers to fulfill that destiny that we talked about right that that god has called us to to fulfill um you know when i when i was called to do it i didn't just jump into it in faith by you know i i think i don't know if it sounds right but in faith without preparation right because sometimes i think we do that but what i'm hoping is that this content is preparation for others to step out in faith right with some wisdom with some guidance with some practical guidelines so i want to really encourage you to go and make sure you subscribe to the channel you can go to reclaim dot media so like you would dot com is so not reclaim dot com or dot org it's actually dot media if you type that in reclaim dot media it's a website so go to reclaim dot media you're going to see a link to the youtube channel you're going to see a link to the instagram account you're also going to see information on the church if you are in the greater austin area they say a church alive is worth the drive so make sure you make it down to reclaim church pasted by michael and jessica hernandez get down there check it out we know you're going to love it but if you're not in that area the rest of us have reclaim media which is online so go we're trying to get their channel some subscribers and their channel is actually already growing and we're pushing this thing because we know it's going to be a great great tool that god uses to equip you the 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