Well, thanks, Dean. Again, I'm Rob Myers. So the way the USDA Sustainable Ag Research and Education program is set up is that unlike a lot of federal grant programs, most of our employees are actually university employees scattered across the country. In fact, we have over 30 people that work for the program and only one of them is a federal employee, our national director in Washington. All the rest of us work at various universities. So you'll hear that as we're going through this. I'm based at the University of Missouri as a plant science faculty member, but then serve as a regional director for the SARE program. We have two pots of funding that we administer through SARE at a regional level. One of them is for extension related activities, what we call our professional development program. And the other is for our research and education activities. So that's Dr. Beth Nelson at University of Minnesota. And she'll be speaking in a moment after I do some introductory material. We also have a variety of education resources I'm going to be talking about. A lot of people think that SARE is just a grants program, but really much more than that. And that's another way that we're different from a lot of USDA programs. So what I'd like to do is to give you a little bit of just general overview of what SARE is about. And then we'll dive into each of the five different grant programs that we have and talk a little bit about those. We'll go through this fairly quickly so that hopefully we'll have some time for questions and get you out of here by one o'clock. So first of all, what is SARE? Some of you are familiar with it, but if you're not, we are a grants and outreach. And I want to emphasize an outreach program to advance sustainable innovations to the whole of American agriculture. We did this seminar a couple of years ago at Kansas State and one of the longtime agronomy faculty came up to me and said, Well, that was really interesting. I thought SARE was just about organic agriculture. And so I've never bothered applying to it. And I said, no, no, SARE funds all kinds of aspects of agriculture organic, because I don't know, maybe 10 or 15% of our portfolio and certainly something we support. But as you'll see in a minute, we really fund a lot of different aspects of agriculture. Really anything that you do in agriculture or horticulture, obviously can have a sustainable component. And that's what we're about is trying to move all that we do in agriculture and horticulture forward in a more sustainable fashion. We try to be say that we're kind of take a new and different approach in SARE. SARE was really within USDA, at least one of the first strongly grassroots based grants programs. We try to be very practical and problem solving, certainly doing good science, but one program that is inclusive. So we have a strong emphasis on farmers, as many of you've heard. You can have the greatest research idea in the world, the best methodology. But if you don't have farmers involved in your project, you're not going to get funded. So that's a key component of SARE that's maybe different from a lot of the other USDA grant programs. This grassroots basis also is reflected in how we review our proposals. We have strong farmer involvement, NGOs, state and federal agency partners that are involved in reviewing our application. So it's, although we have a good emphasis on science, and in fact our research proposals go through a technical review committee. We have a diverse group of people that look at these proposals to make sure that we are solving problems that are going to help farmers and ranchers in the long term. Our model is that our funds flow out through four regions rather than one central office. Those regional groups have what we call administrative councils that make the priorities. And we also have SARE outreach. I'll come back to that. Our funding comes through the USDA National Institutes of Food and Agriculture, like a lot of the USDA grant programs you see. But we are involved in partnerships with other USDA agencies, particularly NRCS, but we even work with other agencies and certainly a lot of land grant partners. The SARE model is the one that you've seen before. We're talking about the three-legged stool, profit over the long term, stewardship of our nation's land and water resources and quality of life for farmers, ranchers and their communities. And that community component is very important. You hear a lot about local food systems today, other aspects of quality of life and communities. So that's a big part of what we try to think about in SARE. So three different components that we talk about comprising sustainability. Our model also involves partnerships heavily with extension and other ag professionals and educators, really in every state and even the island protectorates. And this is a slide I want to particularly emphasize. I mentioned a minute ago in starting that we're not just organic ag, we do lots of different types of ag. So you'll find if you looked at the hundreds and hundreds or even thousands of projects SARE has funded, you're going to find projects in all of these areas. Whether it's energy, marketing, taking a systems approach, that's an important part of what we try to do. Again, communities, diversification, lots of soils projects in the livestock area. Grazing has been a common thing but we've also funded many other types of livestock projects. So don't feel like if you are not doing what you might think, well this is a big sustainable ag project or organic, there may be, you may have a very particular idea related to a horticultural crop or a cover crop or IPM. I mean lots of different things fit into this portfolio. SARE has been around for 25 years now. A couple of indicators, 79% of the producers say that they feel like they improved their quality. These are producers who get direct grants from SARE, you're going to be hearing about those in a second. 64% of those producers said SARE helped them achieve higher sales. And we do have farmers also involved in some of our bigger research or extension projects. And of the educators involved, 75% said that at least one additional program was done to share innovation. So we feel it is a program that has an impact. As far as graduate students, I know we have several graduate students in the room. 75% of our projects that are in the research area have employed graduate students and about half of our students co-author scholarly papers. So those are a few of many indicators that we look at. Since 1988, SARE has funded over 4,000 projects nationally. The one key thing to know is we've got a pretty good database on nearly all these projects. It's called MySARE, M-Y-S-A-R-E. And anybody can go in there, you don't have to be a SARE grantee.  And then you can go in and search that database for all the different types of projects we funded. You can do it by state, by region, by type of grant. Let's say you want to look for farmers that have done something with blueberries. You can go in and look for those types of projects and pull up their annual and final summaries. So that's a good resource to have. We do have in the North Central region five different grant programs. Each region varies their programs a little bit as you look at these four different regions. The 12 North Central states are up there in gold. And these are the five grant programs we have. So we're going to take a minute to go into these in more depth. But the research and education, professional development, grad student, farmer rancher, and youth educator. And then just what have we funded in Michigan? If we look over that last 25 years, close to $6 million now have gone to Michigan projects. These are projects directly to lead project leaders in Michigan. There have been other funding that would have been part of multi-state grants. And of these, a lot of them in the red have been the farmer rancher, which are smaller projects, but over 100 projects directly funding farmers in the states. But even if you look at like graduate student, 29 projects there, quite a few. 37 research and education projects. So pretty good portfolio projects here in Michigan. Michigan's been one of our more successful groups. So at this point, I'm going to turn it over to Beth Nelson, our regional director for research and education. And as Rob said, we are stationed kind of in different places. So I am stationed at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus. We are hosted by the biosystems and bioproducts engineering division there. My background is actually in physiology. I came through with a PhD in plant physiology at the University of Minnesota. But we're being hosted in BBE right now. So I'm going to talk to you about, as a part of that, I'm the regional coordinator for our research and education activities. But then I also do directly coordinate our research and education grant program and our graduate student grant program. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about the research and education program. It's our largest grant program. We fund projects for $200,000 for up to three years. Those are usually collaborative projects with teams of farmers, researchers, extension educators, nonprofits. Just large groups of people working on a sustainable agriculture project. These are pretty highly competitive projects. At the $200,000 level, we get about 150 pre-proposal applications. It does go through a pre-proposal process. And this year we funded eight projects at the end of it. So it's pretty competitive. They can be research or education demonstration projects. For the research projects, we do emphasize outreach even for research projects. So there will be some sharing of information along the way. So when we go through our review criteria, that's always one of the things that we look at is whether there is outreach in the project. Grants do go primarily to organizations rather than individuals, but it does not have to be a land grant institution. It can also be if you're working in partnership with other organizations, nonprofits, or also other universities or colleges. Again, we fund eight to ten grants per year, and those projects are in a wide array of areas. So that's pretty much that grant program. There are aspects that you can use to increase your chances. So one of the things that they look at is, Rob mentioned the MySIR database, and looking back at past projects that have been done. Reviewers like to see that you have looked at what's already been done in that area. Farmer involvement is a big one, as Rob said. If you don't have farmers involved, even in a research project, either on your advisory committee, maybe as part of justifying the project, you did a survey and farmers have indicated that they need this work. Those are the kind of things that we're looking for. And then on-farm demonstrations, of course, are great too, but they don't have to have that question. Can you share some examples of what those ate more last year? I would have to look at the list right away. We just sent out the letters. I will look it up while the others are talking and then get back to you about that. We actually just sent out a press release that listed the eight projects that were funded. Marie, didn't that went out like last Thursday? Maybe if you can look that up and read those off when we get done, that would be great. We'll read off the titles anyway. Those are usually pretty good explanations of what was funded. So I'm just going to say a little bit more then about the timeline for this. It is a pre-proposal process this year. We just also released the call for proposals for the R&E projects. They will be due October 24th. We're using an online application system now. So they'll come in that way. The timeline is that we review those and we invite full proposals probably in late January and those will be due in April. We generally invite about 25. We try to really narrow it down at that point from the pre-proposals to the proposals so that you've got a one in three chance if you make the proposal cut. Then funding decisions are made in July and the funds are available in October. So we've actually sped that up. It used to be a much longer process. It was almost 15 months and we've cut about three or four months out there. So now you've got the funding available when you start in October. So then the second grant program that I coordinate is a graduate student grant program. And I had the pleasure of meeting with some of the graduate students who currently have grants or have just finished up or were just awarded. Michigan actually this year out of the 19 graduate student grants that we awarded Michigan State had five of them. So got a lot of graduates exciting projects coming in. Those grants are small. They're up to $10,000. It's not meant obviously it doesn't support a graduate student. It's meant to support an aspect of their thesis project. It doesn't have to be their whole thesis project. It might let them do something that lets them interact with farmers or do an on-farm test or farmer survey, something like that. You do have to be a currently enrolled graduate student when you receive the funding and the graduate student writes the proposal and leads the work on the project. From our point of view, this is a researcher development tool. So this is to give a graduate student a chance to write a grant, manage and administer a grant. And often your grants administration will want your advisor will be the actual PI on the grant. But we do ask that the graduate student does all the work of requesting no cost extension, doing budget revisions, those kind of things to get the experience doing that. So we send out the call for proposals for those. Usually in late February those are due in May. We fund about 12 to 16 grants. This year we had a lot of good grants. We funded some extra ones with some leftover funds we had. And then the funds are actually available in September. So you hear at the end of July and you can actually start the funds September 1st or as soon as your office can get them processed. So that's basically the graduate student grant program. I should mention that our online, our website, really has a lot of good information about our grants. And that website is www.northcentralsare.org. And if you go to the grants, it's got a lot of good information. Even some samples, the sample call for proposals from last year so you can begin looking at that and planning ahead. And we'll answer questions at the end. So, what did I do with my glasses which are on top of my head? Yeah, you've all done that, I know. So I can't read it, I don't have my glasses. So, Koya, I have to use Marie's phone. Uh oh, uh oh. Okay, so integrating perimeter trap crops and row cover into curbit crop farming systems. There's another improved cover crop options for corn belt farmers. Tomato grafting, developing grower recommendations for the Great Plains and enhancing our understanding of the rhizobiome. Promoting sustainable biological control of the soybean aphid by examining the effect of biodiversity as the parasitoid wasp. Oh, here we go. Phylinus, who? Phylinus. Nope. Ethyleneus, is that right? Phylinus. Okay. Close enough. I knew there was a reason I didn't want to read the list. Understanding the impacts of grazing and baling corn. Residue on subsequent crop yields across various soil types with different erosion potential. Neonatal calf diarrhea reducing impacts and antibiotic use with natural therapies. And then there's a protecting diversified direct market and value-added operations with smart business structures, written agreements, and regulatory compliance. I think that was like writing up sample agreements for land lease and that type of thing. And then high quality beverage raw materials for the craft brewing industry. So those were the R&E grants, the eight R&E grants this year. So with that, I think we'll go ahead and take questions at the end. And I'm going to go ahead. I think that the last comment I wanted to do was just to emphasize, as Rob said already, that stakeholder involvement is critical. If you don't have farmer involvement in your grant in one way or another, SARA is not a good funding source for you, so they won't make it through. So with that, I think I am going to turn it over to Joan. Okay, I'm Joan Benjamin and I'm Associate Regional Coordinator for North Central Region, SARA. I coordinate our Farmer Rancher Grants and our Youth Educator Grants. And I'm located at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, which is the only 1890 school in our region. So the Farmer Rancher Grants are a program that is really unique in that it gives farmers and ranchers the opportunity to try and solve problems on their own farms and ranch using their own ideas with sustainable agricultural solutions. We ask them to share that information with others. And so what we have is three opportunities for them. There's an individual grant for up to $7,500. Partner grants for two people working together from separate operations. Those are for up to $15,000. And then group grants for three or more people who are working together. They have to be farmers or ranchers and they're also from separate operations for up to $22,500. We have a very simple definition of a farmer. It's someone who raises crops or livestock, especially as a business. Very broad definition to try and be as inclusive as possible. So there's not a dollar amount? There's no dollar amount. There's no income level they have to have. They don't have to own land. That's it. Someone who raises crops or livestock, especially as a business. And that also allows us to include things that others might not consider farming like maybe forestry or agroforestry, aquaculture. So it's very broad. The applications are due November 14th this year and the application forms will come out. The call for proposals will come out the end of this month. We do encourage people to work with extension and non-government agencies. They have to have outreach in there. We really encourage this. We're wanting people to share the information that they come up with through these grants. They're grants that are very small, but what we get out of them is tremendous because people are working with their own ideas. They're incredibly enthusiastic and they put a lot of their own money and resources into these projects. And so when we see these small amounts, you might not think a lot happens, but we've got great results from them and we give out 45 to 50 of these. In the past we gave out 50, but since we've recently raised the amounts, we give out about 40 to 45 of these a year. Over the years it's become a considerable number of grant opportunities and you can go to our website, as Rob mentioned. It's www.sare.org. You can click on project reports from all of these grant programs. You can find the project reports and see what the results were. There we go. The other grant program is the Youth Educator Grant Program, which I also coordinate. This one is open to youth educators and again we have a very broad definition. Basically it's anyone who teaches young people about sustainable agriculture qualifies as a youth educator. We've had everyone from people involved in formal education to home schoolers. We're just looking for people who are going to be innovative, creative and try and get young people involved with sustainable agriculture. The idea behind these grants, which are also very small, these are $2,000 grants, is to provide opportunities for youth in the north-central region We want the youth and their parents to try out sustainable agriculture practices and see sustainable agriculture as a viable career option. When you look at this, you think, well, what can people do for $2,000? And it's actually pretty amazing because what's happened with the majority of these grants, I would say over three-quarters of these grants, when they're awarded, it acts as a catalyst. People from the community come around in support of the project and over three-quarters of them have actually not needed all of their $2,000 once people start donating things to help the project out. So it really acts as a catalyst. The call for proposals will come out the end of this month and those are due November 1st. All right, we'll just have a few slides to wrap up here. So first of all, our fifth grant program is our professional development program. This is the one that uses our extension funding. These are competitive grants that are again once a year, up to $75,000. This is where pre-proposals are due in May, normally mid-May, and then those that are selected to be advanced to full proposals in September with approval in November. So some of our extension funding goes to those competitive grants and those could be training around nutrient management. It could be integrated pest management. It could be a particular style of production, such as intensive grazing management. It could be training around marketing systems. It's really the same wide range of topics you see for our research projects, but aimed at training for educators. It could be extension educators, NRCS, even Votech AG teachers, a wide variety of audiences. So we've had some very innovative projects in this area. I know one of them in Michigan has been training around IPM through an academy here. And then we also take some of our extension money and we put that out through each of our states in the North Central region. So we give $50,000 each year to Michigan State University that is administered by our two state SARA co-coordinators.  And Dean Boss over here. They work together to administer that small amount of funds to do travel scholarships for people that are interested in going to a sustainably oriented agriculture meeting. They do funding for workshops and trainings and farm tours in the state and also have mini-grants available. Dale and Dean also spend some time doing what we call face of SARA activities. So if you're putting on a meeting and you'd like to have some of the SARA information there, we have a nice booth that goes out with some of our publications and resources. Again, many of those are available for free. So those bulletins would be available for farmers or others to pick up. And then we have a variety of initiatives that we pursue through these various mechanisms such as the mini-grants. You might have a small idea and you think, well, this isn't quite ready for a $200,000 proposal yet, but I need just a little bit of seed money to test that out. Talk to Dale and Dean. They may be able to help you out in the way of a mini-grant to get started with that idea or to put on a workshop or something in that area. So, again, a pretty wide range of mechanisms available to help you get started with a project. I mentioned earlier that we're not just a grants program. We're also an outreach program. If you look at USDA grant programs, they don't have any communications staff whatsoever. We actually have not only a full-time communications person in each region, but some national communications and education staff. So, because of that, we've been able to develop a wide range of publication and information resources. I think we have something like 15 bulletins that are typically 12 to 18 pages. Those are all available for free, including in bulk form. Then we have these books that are available for free online or if you want to order the actual hardbound copy, you can purchase those for a small amount. There's lots of fact sheets and videos and other material. So, please take a look at that. That's all available through our main website, sarah.org, or you can get through it through the North Central SARA website. But that's something that a lot of work has gone into developing. As far as new directions for the future, well, we are looking at possibly doing a matching program. We'll see what we can do with that funding. But there's a proposal that there would be some bigger projects that would be based on putting that federal money together with some state funds. So, that's a possibility. We're working to further broaden our outreach to all facets of American ag. So, to that end, for example, we're doing a national conference on cover crops and soil health this winter. And that will be definitely involving some people from Michigan. And then we're also, again, trying to strengthen our training for ag professionals that are broadly defined. So, working harder with NRCS to get them involved, do trainings for them on topics like soil health. It might be on something specific like building high tunnels under organic farming. It could be really a wide range of practices that we might work with them on. So, I wanted to stop there and thank you for your attention and see what questions you have for the three of us. Rich? This question is probably directed to John. The question is about with the grad program and the youth program, have you been getting applications that would be urban ag in nature? And are you considering urban ag as part of those programs? Urban agriculture is definitely considered a part of agriculture through a north-central region, Sarah. And yes, there have been many urban agriculture projects that have been funded. And I guess that question will also apply to the other programs. Are you starting to see some applications in the other programs that would be more urban ag in nature? Yes. How's that? Yeah, so we are getting ones for urban farming, urban ag. Yeah, plenty of them going around. And actually, from both farmer rancher and youth educator, we've seen a lot. Those two areas particularly focused a lot on the... Those dollars could go a long way. Exactly. You may have said that with commercial beekeepers being included in farmer rancher categories? Certainly. Beekeepers, and there have been actually a lot of bee projects lately. And in the past, bees were considered livestock, but that's no longer the case. Don't wait for the maker. That's no longer the case. And so, actually, if it's part of the project, the bees can be included as one of the expenses. I have a question. So if a research idea has a real narrow focus and is unlikely to impact many farmers or much acres, how much is it downgraded for that? You know, there are ideas that certainly cross many thousands of acres. So the question is, if it's narrow focus, so might have a big impact for a niche area. Like a specialty crop or something like that. Is that a big negative? And I would say it gets discussed. We just had this discussion a couple years ago about what does impact mean. And they have settled on the idea that it can mean that it's a large impact for a small group of people. So we definitely have funded projects that are for specialty crops like hazelnuts. We did a hazelnut project that has led to a big consortium and those kind of things. But it gets, you know, with just 8 to 10 grants we're kind of trying to balance hitting all of those different areas. Trying to have big impact in some areas to a broad number of farmers. But we, those will be funded as well. Yes. Okay, so the question is matching funds. We don't require matching funds so it does not get taken into account a lot. We have a little bit of a concern if the whole project needs the whole $400,000 so what happens if we award it? We ask you to kind of have figured out how you could divide that up so your project could go forward if we fund it and you don't get the other funds. That said so I just am coming out of the technical committee a month or so ago where we had these discussions about projects. We had a number of good projects that we did not fund and sometimes it comes to very small things that separate one that we decide to fund from another one and that is something that gets brought up. It's worth mentioning in your proposal that we also have funding from this other source to do this because that will someone say well they already have some funding to do part of this so this would leverage those funds and do more work with that so it can figure in it is not one of our main criteria. Yes. What kind of reporting is necessary along the way? So they all require so what kind of reporting is necessary so the projects have some requirement that you have to do an annual progress report for each full year that it's funded and the reports are not terribly extensive the progress reports for each year the R&E grants are three years you can often get an extension for a fourth year then you do a more comprehensive final report and those are all online but even the final report just asks you to look at impact what are further things that need to be done what have the outcomes been farmer adoption those kind of things so I don't think the reporting is too onerous and they all have the same type of reporting requirement even the youth ed and the farmer rancher I'll let Joan say a little more about that We do have the same requirement as she mentioned for youth ed and farmer rancher they do have to turn in an annual report in a final report for those programs and all the programs actually are reporting online which most of them do then you also have the option to add photos, graphs, charts everything is also able to be uploaded online the farmer rancher and youth educator grants are a little bit of an exception we are going to offer those calls for proposals online this year for the first time but we will still hold open the option that people can apply via email and handwritten which is almost unheard of anymore but we find that if we do not want to exclude people from this and we do not want to then we need to have those options open go ahead I just want to follow up on the matching funds what I heard and I want to make sure I'm clear that if you have money and you're asking for a grant to make something happen that looks more positive because it's okay if we gave this they could actually do it if you're saying we've asked for money in these four places and you don't have it yet you have a negative because what happens if you're trying to do this and you don't get the other three places yeah I would say you have to make sure you've clearly said this is the part we plan to do with this grant not we can only go forward if we also get the money from this other source I want to just re-emphasize something Beth said the SARA program does not require matching funds which is different from many of the current USDA grant programs so it is not a factor really in our evaluation I was going to say the other thing that's a little bit different it is an online application but it is not grants.gov I knew that would get a positive so we don't require a lot of those forms that you have to get in that way so it's basically questions about what your outreach plan, your evaluation plan those types of things the funding support one that's about the only and one cover page those are about the only things that are like some of those longer ones where you've got a lot of paperwork to upload with them so along those lines with the farmer rancher and youth educator grants these are some of the simplest grant applications you will find and so if you know people who've never applied for a grant before these are not intimidating or they're not meant to be and they it's much simpler to start with one of these in many different grant programs so we're actually interested in granting these are the categories do you discourage if we were going to apply for something in all three even though maybe two in one time we're looking at something on the youth side and also what we're representing for what is your opinion on that I don't think that's an issue so is there different projects oh sorry I need to repeat the question so if you have like several projects you're looking at and you want to apply to multiple grant programs would that be a negative and it would not be a negative so as long as you've outlined what you want to accomplish with that part of the project that would be fine in fact we have funded sometimes a graduate student working in an area and an R&E project working in a very similar area in the same year so can you describe the grant with your process please so are you talking about the well so they're all a little bit different that's to our reviewers or is it one panel okay so I will start with the R&E one and that's the most complex so the R&E the pre-proposals come in we divide our administrative council so we're Ron you heard Rob say that the way we're organized is we actually have an administrative council that decides the directions of our programs as well as actually approves the funding so that's our fiscal authority so they vote on which ones to fund and they are the ones who review the pre-proposals so they get together they choose three or four that they want to come forward from each of five groups we issue those invitations and then we have a completely separate we have 20 members on our I should say 20 members on our administrative council those are researchers educators members of state agencies and then farmers non-profit representatives so it's pretty diverse group we invite the proposals and then the proposals are reviewed by a technical committee it's about another 20 member committee they each review each proposal and they do for each so they also can have broad expertise we try to have expertise in each of the areas that we're doing funding in but we do seek two external reviews of people who are actually working in that topic for each grant so we have those two reviews those are shared with the technical committee they actually come together and meet for a day and a half and it's kind of a traditional grant panel where they discuss all the grants and choose the ones they recommend for funding and those actually get the applicant get feedback they get some feedback it kind of depends on what the reviewers have written up we do share the comments we sometimes we'll paraphrase them but we do share the comments with applicants so sometimes in the pre-proposal process those are pretty sparse so there's not as much information as applicants would like another thing that we do we actually have a separate question on the grant that says is this your are you coming have you submitted before if you have please address the comments that you got and that really does go in your favor and you've turned down for a grant and you can see the point of some of the comments and can address those to do that that does get talked about in the review they do say that was something that we would have liked to have this is one that came back they addressed that well we should fund this one so the graduate student is much simpler it's just one no pre-proposal process it's just a group of AC members and a few outside people and that's just a simple review and again we do share the comments they're not as extensive as the other as there are any proposals okay for the farmer rancher grants we have a review committee of about 29 farmers and ranchers who all go over it before the meeting and then they have an in-person meeting where they discuss all the proposals and make a recommendation to the administrative council the youth educator is a smaller group of about 10 people they are mostly administrative council members they review it and have a conference call to decide who's funded well I think we're a little bit past one so we'll stop our official program here but Beth and Joan and I and Marie as well as Dean and Dale will be here for a little while if you have further individual questions we want to thank you all for coming and look forward to interacting with you in the future thanks


The earth has a heart, and her heart beats. For Lakota people, we say that's the heart of everything that is. When the universe was created, all of the universe was given a song, and each piece of the universe holds a piece of that song, but the entire song is only in the black hills. And when we go there and we perform our ceremonies, we revitalize the beating of the heart. We delighted in the workings of the natural world. Nature was perfect in its complexity, its beauty and terror. We saw ourselves actively involved with the process of living. This land wasn't just a wild land where we went from plant to plant and ate where we could. In fact, it was a very well-managed environmental system. The research is proving our oral traditions that all of this area burned every ten years, and that over a hundred-year period, the whole place was controlled by fire. And if you look at the amount of buffalo that the Great Plains supported three hundred years ago, five hundred years ago, it's more than the number of cattle that can survive with haying and with planted food. And so in fact, it was a highly-managed environment that we lived on. All of our teachings of relationship go back to the initial relationship with the earth. That the earth has four children. And of the two-legged, she has the bear and humans.  All our relations shared our origins, and they were our lifeline to survival. We observed them and emulated them, honored them and praised them. Their flesh became our flesh. Their spirit became our spirit. Roles and responsibilities within our daily lives are specifically defined. Rules of adherence were strict. Enormous value was placed on human life. Some people have roles as teachers. Some people have roles as artists.  And so we have some people who very seldom talk, and they keep our histories. We select young children who have arid memory, photographic memory for what they hear. These children are located at around age four or five. They're tested. Then they're taught the story by rote. And so they're like tape recorders. They're a library. And then we have other people that are taught how to interpret that story. And that training begins later at maybe age 11. They begin learning the symbolism. Why does something mean this? So we say that when you really know the story, you can take it from the origin legend, from Otchokahekta, from the time of different motion. Kota people, we have stories of when each society was brought into our people. And they followed the Kid Fox society, the trochala. The Kid Fox is low-moving. It makes an attack. It hunts in a pack. It knows when to fall back and regroup.  So our trochala society based themselves around that. They were the war leaders. And then we have the Choka, the Badger. And the Badger because it knows how to go under. Those people were responsible for food caches. We had the Shultkayoha, the bare lance owners. And those people were the ones who made the decision to sacrifice themselves so the rest of the camp could get away. Through the centuries, our ancestors developed concepts and customs of government and justice. Founded on the notions that leaders were in positions of responsibility, not power, and that each and every voice must be heard. Councils representing all aspects of our society made decisions of a political or social nature. Never forgetting the premise that no individual was greater or more important than the whole. This is the foundation for today's tribal governments. If you did something in Lakota society, you went on the hunt before it was time to go.  The next time you did it, you were dead. Because the life of all the people was more important than the life of one person. The words of wisdom, of myth and legend often came to us to light the way in times of darkness. Sweet medicine was such a profit for the Cheyennes. These ceremonies, it's wakan. Taku wakan is something sacred. It's a mystery. All you have to do is be there, and the lessons will come on its own. It's going to be hard for the younger, for my generation, the seventh generation to hold on to these, our wallakot, to hold on to our way of living because of money, because of drugs, because of alcohol, because of jealousy, hatred, all because of these, all these different things that are diseases of the mind. The future is yet to come. The future began when we leave this earth. That's when the future began. This is just a stopping point. While you're stuck here, I don't know how you get out. There is life after death. There is life. And that's what I see, and that's what I'm looking forward to. Life after death. The end of this life, we look forward for a journey. There's so many heavens up there, a lot of places to travel. The contamination becomes, pollution begins in the mind. So that's why the whole world is in the turmoil. We totally refuse that this is to God's love power. We totally deny it. Just me. I have a wisdom. I have a knowledge. I have a power. I have a gift. This is me. I think the best thing to look at is look at the origin legends of the Judeo-Christian people. You have an origin legend that says that Adam and Eve were banished onto earth, and earth is an enemy. And you have native people, Lakota people in particular, who say, the earth is my mother. And we all have to live together as a family.   And I think those attitudes are what came into play when you had Western encroachment and the wars of the 1800s, the whole uprooting of native people.


Hi, my name's Fernando and I'm a technical marketing manager here at GitLab. And today I'm going to go over some of the newly released security features in GitLab 14.3. Now let's get started. We've recently added project-level DAST and secret detection scan execution policies. This is the first step towards our vision of bringing unified security policies to GitLab. Now, users can require DAST and secret detections to run on a regular schedule independent of the GitLab CI YAML. This will allow security teams to separately manage these scan requirements without allowing developers to change the configurations. Let's take a look at this. First we go to the security and compliance tab and click on policies. This will open up the policies window. Then we go and we click on new policy. Once here we see that we have the policy typeset to network. This is for network policies. Let's go ahead and change that to scan execution. Here we can configure the scanners. We have released the first version of our proprietary SAS engine built in-house and maintained by GitLab static analysis and vulnerability research groups. To start off, this tool will be working for Ruby on Rails and it will reduce false positives. I'll show you how it works now. Within the vulnerability report, I can now click on one of my vulnerabilities and I can see that a false positive was detected. Note that this can also be seen in merge requests. If you want to learn more about our next generation SAS analyzer, be sure to click the links in the description. Another feature is that you'll be able to see audit events for merge request approval setting changes. This allows us to see what rules are now enforced via merge request approvals and who has changed them. Let's go to the security and compliance tab and click on audit events. Here we can see different events including that of merge request approvals. This really helps auditors figure out what configurations were edited or removed. And finally, the last thing that I wanted to go over is the static analysis analyzer updates. Since static analysis is composed of many different security analyzers, we make sure to manage and maintain these over time. Here are some of the new updates which contain additional coverage, bug fixes and improvements. There's Breakman, ESLint, PMD Apex, SpotBugs, as well as Sungrep. And as always, thanks for watching, and if you enjoyed this, please hit that subscribe button and check out the links in the description for more information. Until next time!


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Hello my Nakamantachi, this is Joygirl, and I've got a fever. No, I'm not sick because early translations for the fever pack of the new Viva Card Booster pack is now available. So I was actually working on a video predicting King and the Tobiropo's bounties, which has now been rendered redundant because that information has already been revealed. But lucky for us, that means we can discuss the actual bounties plus loads more information instead. First of all, big thank you to Japanese-speaking One Piece fans who makes this information readily available to the rest of us, and I'm basing our discussion of translations by Soul Storm OP, so thank you. So this fever pack was all about the Beast Pirates led by none other than their Governor General Kaido, which this Viva Card pack does contain some information about, such as the fact that he's 59 years old, 710 centimetres tall, or that's 23.29 feet for you Americans, and he was born in the Grand Line. Interestingly, it also states that Kaido is the strongest creature. Not that he is called the strongest creature, or that he is said to be the strongest creature. He is the strongest creature. And whilst we may have to wait for some revisions or further clarification in terms of translations, at this point it seems like this is just a fact, that Kaido is the strongest creature in the world, which opens up for a lot of questions and anticipation for his backstory. Now you guys know my theory on this, Kaido became the strongest creature because he proved it by fighting all sorts of beasts in the wild, which is a theory I developed based on the Japanese Kintaro legend, and if you haven't watched that video I'd highly recommend that you do, until we finally get this clarified through his long awaited backstory in the series. Now moving on, we also got some other information about Hacha, who is 188 years old, 6,680 centimetres tall, which is just under a massive 220 feet, and confirms him to have come from punk hazard, which is something we already knew. Now the only really interesting thing about these details is Hacha's age. We know the numbers were the result of experimentations to recreate ancient giants, and for Hacha to be that old raises some questions. It got me thinking of how far the experimentations to recreate giants date back to, or was Hacha simply part of a race that already has a longer lifespan, and was experimented on to try to turn into an ancient giant. For example, we know that giants in general have a longer lifespan than humans, and the numbers may be giants who were experimented on to be transformed into the specific ancient giant race. Hacha's age could even be the result of the experimentation, which involved extending one's age to match the lifespan of the ancient giant race. In any case, whilst the numbers have been largely underwhelming, I am still quite intrigued as to their origins, because this is another case of a so-called failed experimentation involving lineage factor, but for the sake of today's discussion, let's move on. Because we also found out that Queen is 56 years old, making him only three years younger than Kaido, and interestingly enough, exactly the same age as Vinsmoke Judge. Queen, like Kaido, was also born in the Grand Line, and comes in at 612 centimetres, or 20 feet tall, which is only one centimetre shorter than King, who is revealed to be 613 centimetres, which is essentially the same if we go by the Imperial system, but King is a fair bit younger than Queen at 47 years old, making him only one year younger than Katakuri, for example. And what I found most interesting was his birthplace, also being the Grand Line, which in itself is pretty vague, because I suppose the Grand Line encompasses paradise as well as the New World, and at two points, the Grand Line also intersects with the Red Line. So I guess we didn't really get anything majorly telling about King's race in addition to what we already found out so far in the manga, so I guess we're just gonna have to wait. So finally, let's get to the bounties, which is in any case what I originally planned to discuss with you today. Now this is the list of bounties that we got for the Tobirapo members and King. Page 1 at 290 million berries, Ulti at 400 million, Sasaki 472 million, Black Maria 480 million, Huzhu 546 million, and King with 1.39 billion. Now some of these aren't so surprising. For example, in my predictions, I had Ulti exactly at 400 million berries, and Black Maria at slightly higher with 490 million. But some of these really are quite surprising. Page 1's for example being below 300 million berries was quite unexpected for me, because whilst he hasn't had a great showing in terms of strength, the fact that he holds the status of a Tobirapo made me think that he would at least have a bounty over 350 million berries. This is considering that Hawkins and Apu are not members of the Tobirapo, but each have a bounty over 300 million, with Hawkins at 320 million, and Apu with 350 million. So this leads me to really wonder about Ulti and Page 1's backstories. This is something that I thought we were going to get in the manga during their fights. Actually, I was expecting a bit of a backstory for each of the Tobirapo, but seeing as we didn't and they're already defeated, it seems like individual backstories for each of the Flying Six are unlikely. So many people get these in the Viver cards, either in this pack or another. But now, me with my wild brain is now conjuring up scenarios on how Page 1 joined the Tobirapo with such a low bounty. And although yes, we should note that bounties aren't a measure of strength and abilities, it's also true that Page 1 hasn't been so impressive himself either. So I'm imagining a scenario where Ulti declared herself to be a package deal and demanded that her sweet Peipei be also granted the Tobirapo rank if she was to join. But in terms of some of the other Tobirapo members, Sasaki having a lower bounty than Black Maria didn't come as all that much of a surprise for me. Whilst I did initially think Sasaki to be stronger than Black Maria with their initial introductions and portrayals, their respective fights and showings in their one-on-one fights really boosted my respect for Black Maria. So I think the two having very similar bounties with Black Maria slightly coming up on top fits with what we've seen so far. And before we discuss King's bounty, it was also confirmed that each of the Tobirapo members are able to use both Armament and Observation Haki, which also doesn't really come as a surprise. But the fact we didn't see each of them use both forms of Haki does raise the question of why not. And for me it begs the question of whether the Ancient Zoans were just very confident in their natural zoan durability and strength. Now as for King's bounty, what surprises me the most is that his bounty is higher than Marco's. Considering Marco's Captain Whitebeard whilst alive had a higher bounty than Kaido, I think it's natural to have assumed that his first commander would have had a higher bounty than that of Kaido's first commander. And again, I think we really have to stress that bounties aren't just representative of strength because King's higher bounty may just be the result of his villainous demeanor, who may also wreak havoc against normal citizens and his overall cold-blooded ruthlessness. Because we do know that this is something that the world government takes into account, such as in our introduction to Eustace Kidd, who had a higher bounty than Luffy precisely because of his love for blood. It's also possible that King's race and his potential backstory may make him a greater threat than Marco in the eyes of the world government. But then in that case, simultaneously, I'm surprised that King's bounty is as low as it is when considering his race is close to extinction with him being the last member. 1.39 billion berries isn't such an astronomical number that I believe reflects the interest that would exist surrounding such a rare race. So let's add this to the list of things we'll have to see fall down in the series. For now, we're gonna move on, and we're gonna move on to Yamato, whose Vivricard states Yamato to be female, which I imagine is going to re-spark lots of debate about Yamato's gender, which I don't really want to get into. And if you guys want to share your thoughts on this topic, I will only have one request to please always remember to be respectful, whichever side of the argument you're on. We're all friends who share one awesome trait after all, and that is our shared love and passion for One Piece. But for me, I'm still waiting for Yamato's development in the manga. I've always said that a big part of Yamato's character development will see Yamato embracing their own identity and not merely wanting to live out odens, which in the manga is the reason Yamato gives for going by male pronouns in the first place. But at this point, we simply haven't seen this in the series. In any case, we also have other information about Yamato, and more interestingly for me, Yamato's birthplace is listed as unclear, which perhaps may be teasing us for something to come by way of a backstory in the series itself, in which case, I cannot wait. Now this wraps up the information I found on the Vivricards, and I would be keen to discuss this with you further, so let me know any thoughts and speculations that these additional details spurred for you, and maybe we can discuss it further in another video or in a stream together. Don't forget to like and share this video, and please do subscribe for more One Piece updates like these, and also join our Discord server for other One Piece related fun. And remember that becoming a Patron can give you fun Discord perks and powers, and on that note, thank you to our Patrons who help support the channel. This is Joygirl, and I'll see you again soon.


What is up Dan? How are you today, sir? Very good. Thanks for having me. Yeah, welcome to the market report We are happy to have you here today I know we have some burning questions for you to get your insights about what's happening in the market So just kind of kicking things off here like what is your overall sentiment right now in regards to the crypto market? Where do you see Bitcoin heading here in the days and weeks ahead? So I'm a bit cautious Bitcoin in the short term here over the next couple of weeks We've made this 70% move from 29 straight up to 65 or not 65 straight up to the 50s with a lack of weekly consolidation so every week's a higher low and it's just been Impressive and really frustrating for the bears every leg up that we see but we're getting to a point where I'm expecting an Equilibrium pattern on the monthly time frame and equilibrium is just a pattern of higher lows and lower highs in a tightening range And I'm anticipating that we're going to be looking for a lower high compared to the all-time high Initially and just just watching the pattern of you know the last five weeks We've had a green day every single Friday And that probably has to do a bit with options expiration that Marcel was talking about and just watching for some short-term Patterns to shift to lead to some weekly consolidation. We should be healthy bigger picture to cool things off a little bit Right on now.  Is it gonna be some sort of like? Catalytic event or is it gonna be kind of several events that kind of all pair together like where what are your thoughts on something like that? So 50,000 is definitely a short-term resistance level and I don't think it's gonna take You know, you don't need a news event to get over 50 But if we're talking a new all-time high I think you're gonna need a catalyst to see an increase in volume because if we're gonna get over 65 from here It's going to have to be on the backs of a very notable volume and as you mentioned previously the potential for the ETF I think that could be a catalyst that could do it, but in the absence of a catalyst I'm looking for that lower high compared to the all-time high and a tightening range towards the end of the year Very good. Now, are we in alt season right now? What are your kind of thoughts about that? I? Guess that depends on what the definition of alt season is but the pattern that we've seen since Bitcoin hit the new all-time high Over 20,000 is essentially that when the alt coin market is strong It shows confidence in the entire cryptocurrency space So I personally am a more confident Bitcoin bull when I'm looking and seeing all these other alt coins Essentially stronger and leading the way. So I guess you could call that an alt season, you know We've got names like Cardano and we've got soul and they're hitting all-time highs and that definitely again It just breeds confidence when there's profits flowing in the space people are just moving their profits around one coin to the other and it's this perpetual Confidence essentially so I think it's a good thing for the the crypto space as a whole and again I want to see the alt coins leading the way to have Confidence in the strength of the entire sector done done I Kind of disagree with you on that because whenever we see a local top on BTC, okay It tested 50,000 now. It's back to 47 so we fail to reach the 50,000 I think that people move their money out of Bitcoin to alt coins So you see an alt coin rally, but it's not that market is gaining confidence in my view It's just opposite people don't see upside for Bitcoin and short term so they're gonna risk on alt coins Don't you think that what's usually happening? I don't I think that when there is a Lack of confidence of Bitcoin when it starts to show a little bit of signs of weakness and a little bit of fear out there That all coins generally are dropping harder and you know, they've run harder They've established less support on the way up And so you'll see the dominance chart of Bitcoin generally is going to be going up When the cryptocurrency space as a whole is dropping and that shows me that the alt coins are dropping harder than Bitcoin is So I think that there's the most confidence in Bitcoin So I see that people flee alt coins when there's any kind of fear entering the space Fascinating now. What are some of the biggest threats of to like some of the larger cap cryptos right now? Is there any threats really? Honestly, one of the biggest threats that I see in crypto that I'm always watching for is fear in the stock market I'm watching for the correlation of that fear because when fear is this, you know, it's it's it Supercedes everything it just it hits all markets and back in when we saw the COVID dump We saw Bitcoin dump. We saw metals dump. Everything was dumping. So when there is a prevailing fear in the Stock market world crypto definitely drops with it and that's something I'm always watching for and we know the stock market has been on Absolute fire since that COVID low every dip caps keeps being bought, but I'm always watching I'm watching for that fear and I know that it will very likely impact Bitcoin and the crypto space and again We're talking short term, you know the end of the the COVID dump the crypto space recovered Significantly, but it's that short-term Correlation of everything where the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater and that's what I'm watching for for the next very Significant dip in the crypto space. I think it would be accompanied by a significant dip in the stock market It's what is what is fueling the stock market right now like in years past it like some argue that it's been like quantitative easing Like what is fueling this continuous rally going up and up and up and up and up and is there going to be an end to it? That's what everybody points to everybody points to you know the Fed Oh, it's a manipulated market the Fed honestly, I don't care why it's going up I just care that it's going up and I'm going to continue to trade with the trend as long as that's the case and we know that when we have these slow grinds up that are just continuous that when they and they end fast and hard and Seemingly out of nowhere. So Definitely want to be paying attention to that but again, I don't care You know, I put out my YouTube videos and every time people are commenting. It's fake. It's manipulated. I just don't care That doesn't mean anything to me Exactly But if the Fed says okay, we're gonna start tapering we're gonna start not buying monthly assets anymore the market The exact month enters in panic in fear mode don't you think that could drive both S&P and cryptocurrency prices down? Definitely and we're starting to get that, you know, they're starting to change their language a little bit They're starting to throw those keywords out there to almost, you know, get us ready for it a little bit But with where we stand right now the S&P 500 it hasn't seen any monthly consolidation And I'm talking about the monthly time frame or every candle is one month It hasn't seen comes consolidation on that time frame in something like nine months And so we know it's due, you know in the next time the S&P 500 sees monthly consolidation It won't surprise me in the slightest. I know it's gonna happen at any point So I'm ready for that and it was the same thing with Bitcoin when Bitcoin was running up to 65,000 I started getting cautious granted a little bit early, you know, I was scaling out upper 40s low 50s But it was because the monthly time frame was so extended that I knew monthly consolidation is inevitable and Just being prepared for it So I am definitely prepared for monthly consolidation the S&P 500 and whether it's not whether or not It's you know tapering that is the reason for it. It definitely could be it is something to be paying attention to for the cryptocurrency space as well It's something I'm always telling people in my videos. If you're trading crypto, keep an eye on the stock market And what are maybe some signals that that you would see from the stock market that would be like, hey That's a giant red flag. Like that's a that's something huge. I should definitely track Volume I mean volume you can't go down the S&P 500 and I'm talking about you know spy the ETF that tracks it It can go up on very low volume. It just grinds higher and higher, but it can't go down without a big spike in volume so you keep an eye out for that volume and I watch the major sectors because the S&P 500 has had this beautiful rotation going on where it's just You know the tech sector is going up and financials are consolidating and then they flip And so I'm watching for when all of our major sectors the tech sector financial sector the healthcare sector if they're dropping at the same time That tells me this isn't rotation. This is money leaving the market So I'm watching all the little components of the broader market for clues as to whether it's just the continued healthy rotation Or whether it's something different Yeah, those are excellent insights now I want to kind of ship gears from Bitcoin over to maybe some altcoins Are there a particular set of tokens that you are extremely bullish on right now and if so why So as a trader I fundamentals are at the bottom of my reason for trading. I'm a very much leaning technical trader Marcel so for me, honestly when something's in blue sky breakout That is when I am most interested in terms of trading it and we have a trade I love playing bounces so there's a trade that I call the back burner trade Which is just if something is at all-time highs the first five minute oversold bounce the first hourly oversold bounce generally had very Significant gains. It's a high probability trade So if something's in blue sky and Cardano just had this happen within the past two days It hit first hourly oversold conditions where the RSI is dipping below 30 and it has this very Significant bounce now that's not to say that you're just blindly buying and and you know going head first in you Have to manage your risk as always, but those are very high probability trades So when something's in blue sky it has my attention and back in 2017 when I was first getting interested in crypto I you know, I read some articles and okay a lot of this is over my head I understand some of it, but I looked at the chart and I said okay, Ethereum blue sky all-time highs I know what that means and I have confidence in that technical setup So that was a big reason for me getting involved with the space Apart from the RSI what what other indicators are you most frequently using for our coins? volume RSI and price levels previous price supports. I also like Exponential moving averages. I like the 12 EMA a lot and when things line up So if you're getting first five minute oversold and the hourly is Hitting hourly EMA 12 support looking for a higher price level to form on the hourly again That's multiple things lining up that have that as a higher probability trade Yeah, and I've watched some of your AMAs and I love how you take this this very like holistic approach To trading and it seems as though it's it's not just looking at numbers and charts But it's also being in touch with the psychology being in touch with yourself your emotions your environment So like how important is that to you personally when you're doing daily trading? It's very important I love that Jordan it has a psychology background because I've always said psychologists would make really good traders you know learning technical analysis is one thing the book learning part of things and a lot of people can do that but it's It's really I mean It's a lifestyle trading is a lifestyle and you have to be balanced in so many aspects of your life to be able to do it successfully consistently and recognizing yourself and recognizing your ego and constant self-reflection are a huge part of Evolving as a trader and constantly improving Do you think most traders are successful in like managing those things? No, that's that's why most people are not successful traders That is that's the hardest part and yes, it takes it takes a whole reworking of your lifestyle You know if you're if you get angry at people in traffic, you're not gonna be a good trader Yeah Didn't help me try and be a better trader like it's mastering your own psychology and like not buying when that you I should buy it when you know you shouldn't like yeah, it's it's a tricky game What are some of the characteristics that you that you were constantly like working on in regards to kind of like the mental game of trading? Patience is a big one and even outside the world of trading Patience was one that I had to look to master and then again just self-reflection. So, you know, I'm not immune to these emotions I feel formal I can look at a chart exploding and feel formal But it's it's zooming out and recognizing. I'm feeling FOMO. I probably shouldn't trade right now And that's a really important aspect because if you have your blinders on and you're not, you know Zooming out and and watching the thoughts that are occurring in your head It's it's how you're just suddenly placing a trade and how you have no game plan and next thing you know You're buying the top so constant self-reflection No, it's sometimes not making a trade the best trade Absolutely that is very often the best thing to be doing you you want to have a game plan established before you're ever entering a position You want to know where you're looking to enter where your stop-loss is going to be so you know Your maximum risk and where your targets going to be and you obviously want to ensure that your target has a greater value You know your reward is higher than your potential risk And so you have to establish this trade game plan before you ever click the buttons Because again, if you're just acting on impulse you're acting on emotion and your emotions are guiding things And you will find the more you watch markets that it's it's acting on the opposite emotions that you would normally be feeling That would be the best scenario. You know when there is maximum fear. I love over so bounces It's one of my edges as a trader and when there is maximum fear that is when I am My most aggressive as far as looking at trades and when there's maximum FOMO It's when I'm trading a lot less and like I said I was I was scaling out a little bit too early on bitcoin on this all-time high run But I was going to be darn sure that I was not holding when we saw that monthly consolidation take place And are there any like basic Baseline tips or tricks for learning ta to help anybody that's kind of just getting started here watching today Stop-loss on every trade. I mean there are I don't know any long-term successful trader that does not do this and Generally, I know that even though I can say that to people a hundred times that they still will not do it And they have to learn for themselves. They have to feel the pain in their stomach And they have to be sick and and that is something that is part of the path to becoming a trader And you have to feel that enough to say man, I don't ever want to feel that again Well, if I just put a stop-loss on every trade and I know my maximum risk on every trade then that Can be that that's a way to avoid that feeling I was gonna say Go ahead and there's life from bitcoin ethereum that you more like a long-term hope I have so I have long-term no touch in bitcoin ethereum some link and then some LTC from back in in 2017 I'm not very hopeful for it, but I designate these things as no touch Psychologically that's very important for me and I just account for them is zero dollars, you know They go to zero it's zero and anything else that they're going to be in 10 years great And that's just a way because as a trader when I'm constantly staring at the screen It's hard for me to zoom out. You know, I'm looking at these, you know, five-minute candles I need to be looking at the decade-long candle. So I have to designate those as no touch Yeah, I well, I do want to kind of move us into our our fire round for today This is kind of a fun little segment where we kind of ask you just a gambit of random questions to get to know you Dan So I'm going to kind of fire away here So how do what is like one thing that you do to deal with the stress of trading? What is like a garden or so? Gardening outside. I love growing plants had a little farming background as I was learning to trade and that is how I find balance Okay, what's your favorite cheese Favorite cheese. Oh man. I guess I would go with Huda Guda cheese. All right. What is your price prediction for bitcoin and ethereum by the end of the year? End of the year. Well, I mean, I could give without an etf catalyst I think that we're going to see a tightening range and I think maybe we'll be Maybe in the in the 40 thousands towards the end of the year. I think we set a monthly lower high I think we pull back and set a higher low compared to 29 and look for things to continue tightening if there's an etf Marcia, I'll give you all-time high with an etf Now if somebody offered you five bitcoin or 75 eth, which one are you taking today? I'm taking five bitcoin Fair enough. Are you a believer in social tokens? If so, why? Um, honestly, I I don't I haven't looked into them enough to to have a long term Uh, viable opinion on them to be honest All right, fair enough and last question here of the fire round and then we're done.  Are they going to be a bust? I think Like like most all coin projects where you see this, you know huge rush and tons of things being established I think 98% are bust, but there will be some booms Very good. 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Let's see what's on thinking man's mind today. What is a temperature rise door and where are they required? That's another great question. A temperature rise door is a whole metal door that has a special heat blocking core. You actually have one in your kitchen if you think about it. If you look at your stove and you turn it on to 500 degrees, close the door and let it come up to temperature, hold your hand near the door. You're going to feel the heat and you'll be respectful of that heat, but it's not going to be 500 degrees heat. Wood doors don't need this special heat blocking core because they're already solid core. Now let's look at where they're required. Chapter seven of the IBC talks about fire ratings and the different types of walls that they are going into. What types of construction? I'll be basing my answer today on references from IBC 2015. Other additions are very similar. Always consult your state or local code as well. Fire door assemblies and interior exit stairways and ramps and exit passageways shall have a maximum transmitted temperature rise of not more than 450 degrees over ambient at the end of 30 minutes of standard fire test exposure. This means if it's 70 degrees in the building, that you won't feel the heat more than 520 degrees as you pass by the door. As you're walking down the stairs, that is your exit that gets you out of the building. And on every level, you're going to pass by a door that is temperature rise rated.  There are, there is an exception to this. The maximum transmitted temperature rise is not required in buildings that have full automatic sprinkler systems in accordance with Section 903 of the same code. For more information and continuing education opportunities, please visit Osa Obloy Academy by clicking in the link in the comments below. Please click like and subscribe to this channel. You can follow me on Twitter at Art Consultant and or connect with me on LinkedIn for updates. If you have a code question, you can email me at Catherine.Flower at osaobloy.com and I may use it in a future episode. Thanks for joining me in the code corner today. My name is Katie Flower and my goal is to help you achieve safe security in the built environment.


Thanks, Jill. As Jill said, I currently work with the Sunday Times, and next month I'm joining the Sunday Independent. So I'm going to try and hit that balance and objectivity that Konstantin Gurjiyev, the Russian economist, and Shane Ross, the senator, would be known for in my speech. Going back to, for me, the whole thing when it really came home to me was on November the 30th, 2010, which was two days after the 82 and a half billion euro bailout had just been announced. And I remember I was standing on a bridge in Dublin's, Docklands, and I was kind of keeping an eye out for whether anyone was around. And I thought I was being pretty casual about it, but I probably looked quite furtive. And then this little door opened, and there was a shortish, well, it was my height, a white haired man opened the door and I slipped in. And I was doing what I didn't know at the time but what was to become my final interview with Sean Fitzpatrick. And he was quite bewildered that it had come to this, that it had come to, you know, we'd known we were in trouble, but it had come to an 80 billion euro bailout and the loss of sovereignty. Back when we'd started doing interviews on and off, it started in January 2010. At that stage, everybody knew Anglo was going to cost billions, the other banks are going to cost billions, but we didn't, most people would have thought it was, you know, single digit billions, maybe in the tens, but no more than that. In Anglo's case, I mean, it was fascinating to see how, on the night of the guarantee in September 2008, PWC was advising the government, one and a half billion max. By April 2009, PWC was advising the government, four billion on the outside, if everything goes really, really bad, and this was at a time when John Fitzpatrick and David Drummond left the bank. There was no suggestion of anyone hiding anything from them. They could see what was there. From there, it rapidly went from, you know, it went from four to over 10 to 25, to eventually 25 to 34 billion, which is an absolutely colossal sum. If you think about it, if it's the top of the range, which is 34 billion, that would take about 144,000 people working on the average industrial wage, which would all be pushed back onto them eventually by Europe. It would take them their entire working lives to repay that sum. Assuming they retire at 65, which we may not be allowed to, we may have to work to 80, unless we get a deal, of course. And I remember talking to Sean about this, and during the period of January to November, you know, when I met him first, he was pretty upbeat. He felt, you know, yeah, he was pretty shocked at his personal experience. That was tough. But he figured, first of all, he might be able to repay the money. Had an Algerian oil well. This could come good, and if it came good, he might be able to repay the money and clear his name. With time, he also felt that some of the pressures the banks were under from Sean Quinn, et cetera, would come out or would emerge, and people might say, well, you know, he was a bad guy, but maybe he wasn't the worst guy. But like Ireland, he was on a railroad. He was heading towards something which he remained far too optimistic about, and didn't recognize the reality, all until it was too late. By that summer, July 2010, you know, he went to the High Court in Files for Bankruptcy. His assets were taken off him. They're being sold off to pay his creditors.  For Ireland, though, it's not that simple. When we went bust in November 2010, through all of the things, excessive public spending, the banks going crazy, we aren't going to be able to just walk away from our debts like that. Instead, we accept to the government guarantee, which has never really been questioned, and we're going to have to pay all of our creditors 100 cents in the euro, which is absolutely crazy, and would never happen in any insolvency situation full stop, except for in this case, when it's the country. And this has, of course, gone down well with some quarters in Europe. So last month, Jürgen Stark, a board member of the European Central Bank, saying, you know, we're a role model, and isn't it great that there's consensus, politically and economically, to accept these austerity measures? And, you know, he's right, and Europe is right that, you know, we need to take some amount of pain. If you look at between 2004 and today, you know, our gross current spending went from 39 billion to 60 billion. That's a rise at 55% in a very short space of time. I mean, clearly, we've got to take some steps back, and we've got to tackle some of the obstacles taking those steps back in the spending, which I would include in the Crow Park Agreement, which was absolutely unbelievable that we signed up to such an inflexible agreement at a time when Ireland really, really needs to be flexible. So you can kind of understand why in Europe they both see us as good, and they see us as bad. Good and bad boys. And you can see why there is this gathering momentum around austerity, because we're not bad enough to cause them trouble, yet we're good enough to keep accepting it. If you look at what Davey, the stockbroker said, they say that between now and 2015, we're going to take 33 billion out of the economy. That's about 25% of GNP in a very short space of time. That's the sort of contraction you don't see in Europe or America. You might see it in a very poor country in Africa or a rogue Latin America state. We're going to see it here in this country. And I'd argue that that treatment is going to kill the patient. I'm a business journalist. I'm not an expert on Europe. Every week we're dealing with the people who are going bust and are losing everything they've ever worked for. These guys weren't heavy hitters in the boom. They weren't bankers. They're just ordinary guys who got it wrong. And they are the lifeblood of the economy and they're being sucked out of it. These are the small and the medium enterprises. And what started as a problem in the construction sector is now impacting every single business. This reality I don't think is being expressed strongly enough to Europe because Irish people we're not the kind of people who rise. And I think that that's a good thing. But we do need to start becoming the type of people who complain and complain a lot more. And I think that this is something that the Irish government needs to press home to Europe. We shouldn't be spending all of our time making this incredible effort to get Kevin Cardiff, a man formerly associated with overseeing the banks. We shouldn't be making this incredible effort to get him appointing European court holders. We should be making an incredible effort to argue the case for the country and get a fair deal from Europe. There's been a number of very important steps. We've got, we brought in Pat Cronin, we brought in Machua Elderfield. And I think that they're both respected from the incredible Governor of the Central Bank. And I think we've got a credible financial regulator. Politically, the leadership has been okay. But I think that they're still cruising on the argument that they're not being involved. They need to start saying to Europe who we are. And I think that if we keep calling back, you know, nobody's gonna be able to buy anything. Nobody has ever deflated them, deflated their wage prosperity. And we still, the way that things are going, we're not gonna be able to rely on our exports anymore. Either if you look at America, Europe, China, all of these places are talking about spending less. If they're all calling back, it's worth looking at like Paul Krugman, the American economy said this week, like if everybody calls back, what scenario will anybody buy? It's going to feed into itself. And, you know, it's very rare for me to quote, quote Vincent O'Toole, who's a notice at theater critic, but he just said, he did say, he's going to buy this week. You know, is it time for Ireland to get stroppy? And he might have something there. I think that Europe is right to receive Ireland that is still needing to take some tough decisions. And it's right to say that, you know, we do need to have some sort of fiscal discipline and we need to take on some of the vested interests. Well, on the other hand, it's very wrong for Europe to say we have to pay the bond bonus. The reality is, you know, the holders of these bonds are not, in many cases, the original institutions who lend money to the Irish Bank or Irish Nationwide. Instead, these banks, because they're, they value their credit rating, when they see something risky, they start selling it down and getting rid of it. And the people who buy that are hedge funds and speculators and we're making them very, very wealthy with our foolishness. I think we need to start getting tough on that while accepting what Europe is saying that we have to start cutting our cost to suit a new reality. You know, we have to not be a doormat. We need to ensure that we are grateful to our European partners, keep them on board, we'll be prepared to use the stick of, we're gonna put this to the people and have a referendum, guys, if you don't give us a decent deal. We have to make that very explicit to Europe.  We have actually recognized the hold in our banks, which most other places haven't. We've got a NAMA in place for our property assets. There's going to be similar NAMAs across Europe, maybe for property assets or for different types of assets. We need to say that, you know, this is an economy that's worth saving. There's strengths to it, like agriculture, technology, foreign direct investment. We can make it, but we've got to get a fair deal. And the principal area we need to fight this on is Anglo and Irish nation would, to boost banks, which are going to cost us three billion a year every year until 2024. That's absolutely crazy. There's no way that we can pay it. And we're paying it to speculators in many cases. This is the time to do the overdue work. We need not just austerity, but also stimulus. Nobody has ever taxed themselves under a recession. Ireland's reputation is gone. We've little to gain. People are not speaking for themselves. We might as well kick off. Our reputation is pretty ruined everywhere anyway. And otherwise, the Irish consumer and Irish businesses are going to continue to go under. And I think that the decision by Britain to veto the EU treaty, that this is actually, gives us a moment when we could strike a deal. The last thing Europe is going to want to see is if England is shaking, if Ireland starts looking shaky, they're not going to want that. And if we start talking about a referendum and bring it back to Canada and all that sort of stuff. We're going down a very dangerous road and no disrespect to Constantine Gurdjieff. Like I think that this is the time when we need to, the next couple of months, we want to be critical, we need to strike a deal with them. If you, to bring it back finally to Jean-Faith Patrick, where I started this speech, when he went bankrupt, under the old bankruptcy halls, he would get out of his bankruptcy in 12 to 14 years. The bankruptcy halls are going to be reformed in the next couple of months. And he's going to, along with every other bankruptcy, there will be hundreds of others. He's going to come out in three years. Ireland needs the rules to change, otherwise we're going to be stuck in some sort of downward cycle for about 14 years.