you all have correspondence but we're gonna continue that item so otherwise I'd ask if people need more time. Ready? Good evening and welcome to the June 6, 2019, generally scheduled planning commission meeting at the city of Santa Cruz. We'll call this meeting to order and ask for a roll call please. Mr. Shiffrin? Here. Conway? Here. Spellman? Here. Nielsen? Here. Greenberg? Here. Singleton? Here. Chair Pepe? Present. No one is absent. Are there any statements of disqualification for the agenda items? I'll be abstaining on the consent item. Abstaining but remain present. Okay. I know that we're gonna get a continuance but I'll be recusing myself from item number three. I'm flicking out on item number three as would I if we were gonna do that. Talk about that in a bit. Actually do we talk about that right away? The changes in the agenda? We can. You can. Let's do that now. Let's talk about what we'll do with agenda item number three, 110 Cooper Street. Yeah there's been a request by the applicant for a continuance. The request is for July 3rd which is on a Wednesday night. It was scheduled in lieu of the 4th of July which is our normal meeting date. I don't think anybody's gonna be here for that. So recognizing though that it is near a holiday I'd recommend you first make sure that there's gonna be enough for a quorum given some that are not participating before you take action to continue. The alternative date would be July 18th and both the applicant and the appellant are available for that meeting if you need to go there. So why don't we share with staff our availability for the 3rd so folks can know. I think it's kind of nutty to have a before. I prefer to cancel the meeting assuming and what we have before us is a request by I don't I don't see the request by the applicant for I mean the appellant for a continuance. Is there a request by the appellant as well? There was a request by the applicant and then the appellant sent us an email confirmation indicating they were okay with it. If the appellant is supportive and supportive to continuing this till July 18th. I will not be here on the 3rd so yeah. I agree that the 3rd is a rough time to have a public meeting. And I won't be here on the 18th either or the 3rd so. So there. Maybe July is not a good yeah nor will I either either date. So that's potential I won't be here in the 18th also. Okay so we're even without your without your maybe we're down to three and perhaps two with two conflicts and two absences we're down to three and less. So I think Eric's looking at the August calendar. The August 1st will be the next available meeting date and we'd need to confirm that the appellant I don't know if the appellant's here tonight but for confirm their availability we do that between now and then. Could I question if there's a quorum can a quorum act on this item? Yes. I'll be saying even if one of the members of the quorum abstains. That's a good question. So if we have a quorum well if we have a quorum we can hear it but then you wouldn't have a quorum though if you have an extension right. We have only three people who can act. Yeah then you don't have a quorum for that item. And that's an interesting question I would think if a quorum is set by the number of people at the meeting. I wasn't aware that by extension there were quorum. That's fine if there's not a if that's your interpretation then test test might have some book. Is this does this guide us is this instructive right now or is this is it's worth going into right now or should we well if we're talking about a meeting date. My guess is that then the applicant would like to get a decision out of us so if we're if we clearly can't meet on the 3rd so I think it's worth checking into whether we there could be a meeting on the 18th. But that when my math says we cannot do either 3rd or the 18th that's why we're talking about August 1. Right except that depends on whether there an abstention. No but we have two absences and two conflicts so that every you three are the only three that could be here on the 18th and Peter's a maybe. So it's 3 out of 7 on the commission a fair hearing. I guess that's a question. So abstention aside we don't have a quorum. So the way it reads is a quorum of the planning commission shall consist of four members whether or not there are vacancies on the planning commission it's pretty general. But I would interpret that to mean four eligible members is how I would prefer that it be done. Well we don't and we don't have four. So that's a right. So we will wait to hear from you on whether and with your discussions with the appellant and the applicant and whether August 1st will work. I think we should continue to a date certain definitely so we don't have to do the re noticing. Okay. Okay and I think the applicants are here we can see if they're available on 1st August. Yes. Okay. And are there any representatives for the appellant here for 110 Cooper. So we'll still continue that and we need a motion for that move to continue the item on 110 Cooper Street to August 1st. Second. Second. All in favor. I that motion passes unanimously. So 110 Cooper Street is continued to a date certain August 1st. Thank you for coming. Good luck with your negotiations. And the next item business it's not really on the agenda yet but oral communications. So we will invite the public to address us on all of the agendized items but this section is for addressing the commission on anything that is not on our agenda. So we welcome you. It has to do with planning commission matters. Sign in if you would and if you're willing to state your name and you can address the commission for three minutes. Thank you for coming. My name is David Alexander. I'm a resident on the upper west side of Santa Cruz. Just a quick observation this past couple of weeks I've been down to the planning commission the public works questions about noise and I looked on your adenton the past and where you've modified that item eight dealing with noise and in the city and I'm wondering going forward as big projects get approved and by this planning commission if we can't make stronger stipulations about work that is noisy and offensive according to our noise standards not begin before eight o'clock and we write it into permits that if you start work before eight o'clock your permit is pulled so that public doesn't have to go through the hoops of calling the police being there making a report signing a report it's just we should put the onus on the people who are doing the building to follow the city rules around noise and it shouldn't be upon the public to have to go and enforce it and I think it starts here that's all I'm asking it's going to be really important as we begin to fill in that mission street corridor lots more of those those buildings that come down that construction happens right on the face of the community and I just think it's something that this commission could act upon to be more proactive thanks guys thank you for your comments any other comments for the public or for the commission I will accept a motion to approve the May 16th minutes removed second all in favor hi hi hi minutes pass unanimously and the next item of business is 5 17 high street which is a consent agenda so if we will invite members of the public to have this pulled as a consent agenda we won't discuss this we'll just vote but if anyone and the public or on the commission likes would like to discuss it then we'll pull it and have a different type of conversation I have a procedural question what does it mean to be a consent public hearing what it means is that there's a public hearing we just discussed I just discussed this with staff so I'm fresh on it it's it's may sound contradictory but in my asking as chair in my asking the public if they'd like to pull it and discuss it that's opening the public hearing and into the declination by the anyone here if they decline that then the public hearing is closed and then it's back to it how is that different than just the regular consent agenda item because we always ask if anybody in the public wants to pull it I don't know and is it just a requirement that there be a public hearing on this kind of an item yeah it is yeah so it's really just streamlining the the the items we think that are straightforward in nature and we're foregoing on the staff presentation usually I see well I can certainly support that and so and none of you have with that clarification and no one has pulled it so I would entertain a consent agenda second all in favor hi hi hi well abstain so that passes six to one with commissioner Conway abstaining the next is we've continued item number three and so the application submittal requirements is general business and for and staff has a presentation for that just briefly on this is a follow-up to the last meeting where there was a discussion regarding the seabright avenue project and there was some desire by commissioners to have certain items like section drawings and then the site plan to have adjacent building footprints and the other thing that's been a topic of discussion in the past has been the visual simulation so after that meeting I took a look at the application submittal checklist I attached to the memo that was in the packet and the good news is is those items are already there so I briefed staff at our weekly meeting on on the discussion that is soon here at the last meeting and describe the importance of making sure that when these plans come through and not just for the big projects but for you know medium to smaller size projects like the one you heard that we have these items in in the drawings I did suggest some maybe some tweaking of the visual simulation language to confirm that we want to see vegetation and we want to see you know adjacent buildings so that was one change that I recommended you may have others but that's just sort of the follow-up from the last meeting thanks commissioner shifrin you requested that this be agendized you yes have an interest in starting that for providing this information it is helpful I think it would be since it's a little bit strange it's the planner decides what's going to be submitted and then that's what the commission gets to see eventually I wonder if it would be and I can understand why that's only the only practical way to do it but I wonder if it would be useful to the commission if when we had an application that came we got a copy of the land use application submittal checklist so we would know what was what had been submitted and it might sort of work in terms of making the staff aware that this is going to be looked at by the commission to make sure that the everything they needed was there so that was just one idea of trying to ensure that all of the information that commissioners are interested in would be I had a question about the submittal checklist in terms of there's there's a design review checklist and then there's a use permit checklist and the use permit checklist doesn't talk about looting the what's on adjacent parcels for the site plan or just show property boundaries existing buildings and structures and I just wonder if it would be useful to also show the even if there's not a design permit just a use permit to see what's going on around it yeah well this sort of works together right so if it's if it's checked off under the design review section you know then it's applicable on the use permit section does every project that have a use permit also have a design permit many do you know the alcohol use permits don't but you know a good portion of them do if all those are my comments commissioners Bellman yeah um yeah thanks for bringing this forward I think the conversation is long overdue and I think it allows us a little bit of time to review what we have and potentially question if that's what we want moving forward I think one of the interesting things about our checklist is that it tries to address every project right we don't have four checklists we have one checklist I think there's both some positives and potentially pitfalls built into that scenario and I think the Seabright project kind of brings some of that to the forefront where if it's only at the discretion of the planner that's assigned to the project to determine which items are included you know I know staff is busy things happen if it's not clear and we're asking at the 11th hour for applicants to bring additional information I think that's problematic too so I think we should come up with a clear way of communicating what we want and potentially it's a matter of analyzing which projects require you know the additional work essentially and probably we're going to come up with some gray area where some may not need it in some light and I think there's the ability to allow for some leeway in in those items but I do think you know I've done some research on local communities around us we're pretty skinny on what our requirements are and how specific we are on the information we're asking for so I think I'm all for being simple in communication of what we want but I think we do need to hone in on certain areas and be a lot more specific on what we're asking for for example the site plan what it what does the site plan need to show right including adjacent parcels structures on those parcels with maybe even just a note it's a one-story building it's a two-story building it's residential commercial basic stuff like that sections regardless of the complexity of the project anything that comes to the level of design review should have sections through the building right should show property lines at some point it needs to show a site section you know in addition to a single family home it's playing by the rules maybe doesn't need site sections and calling everything out but something beyond that probably does so I think there's I don't know what the right answer is I think this is complex enough that it probably requires further discussion right I don't know if it rises to the level of a subcommittee to come up with a set of guidelines that might start to form any significant revisions to what we already have I'm open to hearing what what other commissioners might have in in mind for that but I think it's problematic that we address everything in one document whether it's a you know seven-story commercial mixed juice building or a new single family home I think that's a little bit problematic in our current setup Chair Nielsen I would agree with that I think being able to segment projects by size scale type could be a good a good start to to to help kind of pull it apart and and make that make the make it clear on what's required and I mean I you know in some places you know that I've worked and and I've seen is that you get a checklist that's like you get the entire checklist and the planner doesn't go through and check off what you have to put what you have to include they just hand you the checklist and that's that's everything you need to include or I mean or you are it's at the applicant's discretion to ask whether or not those things can be removed so maybe it's a maybe it's the maybe you flip it on its head and it's like everything is required or but at the counter we can say okay well this may not be required or this may not be required rather than going through and saying what is required because then that way kind of catches everything and then you're and then if you are going to remove something it's very clear that that is absolutely not required for that application based on you know what it is I think it's important still to keep the discretion of that to the planner in some way just because all projects are different and so I I think that is I think that's still a good idea but I think the idea of splitting splitting projects into scale and type would help help to identify those what those checklists are so I'm I agree with that I have at the moment other comments I didn't invite the public if this is general business so I didn't invite the public to share comments with the Commission on this no all right do I need to open and close public hearing on that test okay just a couple comments you know one of the things that we talked about in our staff meeting really is the importance of front loading the completeness determination in the first 30 days and under under state law were required to let an applicant know if their application is complete or not within 30 days and so it's important to go through these drawings with a fine tooth comb and and determine you know hey our you know visual simulations needed you know or not where's it going that type of thing so I think there's now a heightened awareness among staff that that exercise needs to happen early on then the other thing that Commissioner Nielsen kind of hit on you know not no projects are are the same and and you know there is an element of customer service and we don't want applicants spending money on things that aren't necessarily required and so we you know we we do try to take a common sense approach I mean granted you know I I agree section drawings should have been included with that Seabright Avenue project you know no question but you know we wouldn't you know the other extreme we wouldn't ask for you know visual simulations for attendant improvement you know so it's just it's it's trying to impart a bit of common sense when we're when we're reviewing these applications for completeness you know what do we really need are the questions that need to be asked um I guess I would add that I don't know the larger projects that you were looting to we we often do pre pre app reviews on those and then we really dive into the details of those projects and then we're very very thorough about what is required you know the visual simulations we'll go into the different the different views that we want and list those all out so often they come you know we'll go into that process during that during the pre application process as well I have a question Eric or either of you some of the the desires you're hearing from commissioners for potential tweaks are they contrary to that clock and the front loading driver that you're talking about um no not not necessarily um wouldn't be it's just um you know the importance of asking for it up front and not I mean from time to time you know those visual visual simulations can take time and a lot of times um projects will come in in the first 30 days and there'll be a number of changes that need to happen and it's not always good to have those visual simulations done up front because then they have to be redone um so uh you know we do need some level of flexibility commissioners um Spellman you've maybe the been the well both of you guys have talked about the desire to to see um certain renderings and when the project's before us we have it or we don't and then my understanding from the last time we talked about this well we didn't really get into it but I think it's what prompted Andy to have this agendized was I thought I heard staff say that um some of the things you want to see are actually required but then staff weren't consistently applying the requirement is that is that true or do you want to see different requirements on here I think that's a bigger discussion I think there are I think our list probably includes uh everything that we would want I think the question is when does it obvious that things need to be included in you know in a submittal for review whether it's just staff or something that's coming to commission you know for review that's really my most of the time we have angst is when I see a project being proposed and it doesn't have enough information right to really give us consideration of adjacent properties what the real impacts of a proposed design are that's really the the crux of it um visual simulations is a tricky one most of the time they're done well sometimes they're not done very well last hearing you know the guy started his meeting by saying there's a four foot change in elevation and oh by the way this drawing doesn't capture it so it's like okay you spent the time to do the drawing but it's it's not accurate so how are we supposed to analyze that it's those kind of things I think that are problematic I think a project that rises to the city planning commission review should have a visual simulation right there's many different visual simulations from a you know sketch perspective view to a full-blown you know photorealistic type of a rendering so I think there's plenty of discretion and leeway for an applicant to come up with something that you know visually communicates their design in the setting that it is versus you know and many times what we see is a fully rendered building that's has no context right that the design is fully vetted and setting drawn and you know everything is rendered perfectly but there's nothing around it you don't know this could be anywhere so I think the technology is is there and many people are using it they're just not taking it to that next level unfortunately I mean it's you know it's more time and more work and more money to make that happen but it's you know it should be at some point a requirement for the project so so how might we have a conversation to avoid that future angst you know what that looks like yeah I think we have to determine when is it required and not just an option and I don't think that the rendering is the be all and the end all I mean it's something that most people can relate to and understand assuming it's drawn correctly people can say hey that that fits in that in that view right that I can see how the design relates and you know it's not grossly out of proportion and things things work well but I think it's just as important to have you know the site plan that's accurately rendered and we see the structures and we see the outlines of buildings next door and we know what that context is so calling those things out specifically and saying you know or a single family home new house maybe you have to delineate 15 feet onto the adjacent properties around you and if anything shows up you need to show it right it doesn't have to be a huge burden to make that happen or something that has to be fully surveyed but at least give a sense for what those impacts might be and obviously on different projects it's going to be much more involved in detailed solar studies shadow impact studies heights of the buildings etc I think that's you know that's really my I went through this checklist kind of in detail I started to write notes on what would be ideal to see for that specific point and you know again sometimes it's overkill and other times it's not and I think that's where the one document does it all could potentially fall short mr. Sifrin were you um yes but uh thanks um I'm curious so what is the the desired action that we would like to see out of this commission because it sounds like that you've done a lot of research and looked into this and frankly I think you have a lot of topical expertise that commissioners like myself don't have in terms of going through the application submittal process so um or you hoping to have like a more I doubt you want to go into this conversation on specific checklist items tonight um so would the say ideal action be set a date to come back with like I say a subset of commissioners maybe a subcommittee to kind of look at the different thresholds of the checklist that you would like to see evaluated and kind of have like a proposal for the rest of the commission that sounds like a reasonable answer yeah you want to um lead that subcommittee sure and who would like to join that I would think people with topical expertise in the area of submittal I support uh doing that it sounds like there are two issues here one issue is can there be more detail in the checklist uh doesn't make sense to have one checklist or a couple of checklists given the nature of different projects I think that's something the subcommittee is working on the other issue is this tension between wanting to streamline the process and wanting to have enough information so that the commission can really make a decision and I appreciate the staff's desire to not have applicants spend a lot of money doing things necessary on the other hand an applicant is going to spend a whole lot more money if it comes if a project comes before the commission they don't have enough information you have to go back and send us give us more information and I think that's part of the process as well as the commission I think it's important to try to come up with a submission set of submission requirements that really will capture what the commission wants but ultimately since the commission has to make a decision it's going to come down to the commission saying yeah this is this is enough this is what we wanted or this wasn't done the way we think it should have been done go back and do it right because that's going to provide I think the incentive to staff and the incentive to the applicants to be thinking seriously about really providing the commission with the information but I support the idea of having a subcommittee look at the what's what's um what's required and come up with suggestions for potential change was it and you're expressing an interest to participate on it I don't I think the architects have the you know the knowledge of you know kind of design requirements certainly that I don't have and so I'm happy to leave it up to them anybody else I just wanted to echo um commissioner nelson's suggestion that maybe if I understood correctly that we take as required everything on here when people come to the counter and then conceivably people could applicants could make an appeal or something if there was some reason some some some reason why they might think one of these items is not relevant to them but it would be explicitly made um that seems reasonable to me so that it's kind of clear what they're do you know whether they're fulfilling the the checklist or not and why mr. Conway in my experience um I I think it's important that a planner has discretion these projects do very widely um and they're on there because they might be required I don't I'm not in favor of saying assume it's required unless it's not because a lot of these things are costly and time-consuming and the other thing that we're balancing is on due cost and on due time which I know you two are very well familiar with which is why I'm glad you guys are willing to do it because you know what it means to try to get a project and all the materials in so um I think that planner discussion discretion is important but clarity about what it is too I'm sure you'll work it out the mission is different it's a it's an interesting just a psychologically psychologically is the approach where the applicant comes in and says oh I don't think I need to do this I'm not sure I need to do that why are you forcing me to do this rather than coming in and say well this is ridiculous all this stuff why don't I not have to do this why don't I not have to do that it's a different it puts the staff in a different position from being the bad guys to being the nice guys in a way in terms of taking stuff out instead of putting stuff in but I'm happy to leave that to the to the subcommittee I think you have experience with how other jurisdictions do it and this pros and cons I think it's not like there's a right answer I think we're you know we just it's just a question of can we do better than we're doing now and that's the task of the subcommittee is going to be. Commissioner Greenberg you had something else? Yeah I have no issue with the planner's discretion I think that's a good idea I'm just thinking if we want to have some kind of history of how decisions were made like why people did or didn't fulfill certain aspects of a checklist and maybe there's a you know a good number of things that totally don't make sense for a for an application but at least I mean maybe there could be like a second column you know that says you know not not applicable and then there could be a reason for why and they could just fill that out or something so that you know that there's some kind of mindfulness and how they're you know they're filling it out maybe we can get it to us as well and know how these decisions remain. Eric or Sam can you share whether this is is this the path we're describing to have a subcommittee kick this around is that going to be useful for you? Yeah I mean we're happy to sit down with the architects and kind of work through some of these issues and I think Commissioner Greenberg's suggestion of having two columns might might work as well I mean I you know I really do think it's important to be mindful you know the the most important interactions that we have with applicants are the first ones you know so it is important to be real deliberate upfront. One other thing though that Tess just reminded me of is there's a difference between a task force which is single purpose and a subcommittee which has all kinds of noticing requirements and whatnot so you should task force is probably more applicable in this context. I'm just looking at the bylaws in it an ad hoc committee would be given an explicit purpose and not and it would sunset after that purpose is met and would not last longer than six months. Does that sound like it's gonna? That task force sounds so important though. I'm okay with ad hoc. Yeah Commissioner Singleton. I would like to entertain a motion. All right motion the city of Santa Cruz Planning Commission appoint a task force slash ad hoc committee of Commissioner Nielsen and vice chair Spellman to look into the application submittal checklist as before us today and come back with a series of recommendations for how it could be improved. I'll second that. I'll ask the maker of the motion and the second is to put in some time frame in that what what you know your time is is limited how two months three months is that a reasonable time period to think to get this done I find that it's better always to sort of set a date when something's going to come back that everybody and sit there it needs to move forward so three months make sense would that be reasonable yeah great well I'd like to amend the motion to come back to the commission at a time around three months second that any discussion well in favor aye aye any opposed so that motion passes unanimously and we have a task force ad hoc committee I don't have this memorized but I'll share since I have the notes in front of me you're not you're not subject to the brown act and city staff are not required to participate um it sounds like they're willing to so yeah it'd probably be a good idea to collaborate definitely yeah thank you both for doing that and thank you commissioner shifrin for bringing it forth we kind of we're on a project and then we kind of grumble and that's not the discussion so this was the container to have the discussion so thanks for having us do that and that is the end of the agenda other than information items no item scheduled for the next meeting which is June 20th and then we don't have the July third meeting so you get an early summer vacation um we do have a community care facility scheduled for uh July 18th so we do have one item so far on that meeting for sure nothing until July 18th then so the 20th is canceled right yeah yeah 20th is canceled third is canceled yes I that went by me too fast the June 20th meeting is canceled yeah no business for June 20 no business right no business for June 20 no business for July 3rd and you have likely something for July 18 yes okay we did discuss I will I will be gone on that meeting okay so I'm available and so we have three and if either of you are a yes then we have a quorum so we'll I'm a likely participant I don't know what my summer schedule is going to be at this point I know there's no reason I can't be there on July 18th but it could change do you um have any urgency on that you know what the issue that no I mean one thing we should probably do is check the conflict of interest maps to make sure that those commissioners are here can participate it's on mission street I don't uh let me see I might have the address here I think it's near the safeway okay on plex no okay far enough away I don't have it here yeah the address isn't here unfortunately um but we'll we'll do the polling make sure we're good it's tight we'll we'll do the checking we have the maps right here we don't need to do we don't need to do anything else right now um I should also mention um the rail trail appeal is scheduled for city council on Tuesday anything else any report from our one of two standing subcommittees there was a virtual meeting of the I'm not even sure how to call it it's the it's having to do with the lcp amendment set for related to sea level rise looking at the beaches which is the same committee that's working on the west cliff drive i think i'll advise you committee work on the west cliff drive ocean problems or problems with um armoring and things like that but they're they're they're two separate uh they're two separate projects but they're being overseen by one committee the tack for had a meeting out on west cliff drive which I reported on the I think at the last planning commission meeting we were around this meeting that we had earlier in the week on Monday was supposedly virtual at least it was virtual to me I just listened to it on itself and it was just introducing everybody to online and what's going to be done in terms of sea level rise issues and the need to have the lcp amendment so it's still not clear where where this all is going and what it's all going to mean but I says it started it'll probably be slow well they're they probably will be slow but they're hoping that it will be basis to have these grants from the coastal commission at they need a hey thank you thanks for serving on that and I believe we are now adjourning thank you all thank you


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Now you want to choose a school like WGU because it is a competency based university. And what that basically means is they allow you to graduate based off of your competency, not based off of how much time you've spent in the school. And WGU is also very nice about the credits they accept. So for instance, in some cases, they may accept military experience, work experience, certificates and certifications, AP and IB classes that you might have taken during high school, as well as other college classes. And of course, they also accept the typical stuff like CLEP exams, et cetera. So you're going to want to make a list of all those different things. You're going to want to get your transcript together and make sure you send that into WGU. At that point, you are going to get a list of classes back that you still have to take. And then you're going to move on to step number two, which is probably the most important step. And that is you are going to go ahead and pregame the classes that you can take with third party companies. Right.  And the reasons that you're going to be using third party companies instead of just enrolling in WGU right away is very simple. It's easier, cheaper and faster. And the third party companies that I personally recommend are going to be study.com, Sophia.org and straighterline.com. And I like them in that order. Study.com is my favorite. Sophia.org is my second favorite and straighter line is third. So a bachelor of science or BS in marketing at WGU is about 41 classes total. And you can very comfortably, even if you have a family, a full-time job and you're super busy, test out of one class per week, especially at the beginning when you're taking those entry level classes. Now, if you're not so busy, it's much easier to test out of them. And I've seen people do one per day, sometimes even multiple in a single day. And this is how you are going to be able to knock these classes out super quickly. So for instance, here is somebody who talked about this on Reddit. They said 20 years in communications and marketing did the degree in four to five months. Right. So there are some ridiculous numbers that you're going to hear online for these WGU classes. So this person was able to knock the degree out in four to five months. This next person talks about how they're really busy. So, you know, they have kids and stuff. So they're not able to accelerate like some folks, but they will likely be able to get done with the entire thing in about three terms. Now a term is six months. So three terms is about a year and a half. So even if you're really busy in many cases, you can get these degrees done in two years or less. And the greatest thing is you don't have to quit your job. You don't have to move across the country or anything like that. You can do this all in your free time. And they both say that they highly recommend WGU. So if you want to make this process as stupidly easy as possible, definitely check out my cheat sheet down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. This is going to be a cheat sheet for the marketing degree. It's going to make this entire process just stupidly easy because once you test out of these classes, they are going to send you the remaining classes left and the cheat sheet is essentially just going to tell you what those classes are. So you don't really even have to wait. Now after you've tested out those classes and transferred them into WGU, you're going to go ahead and move on to the third step, which is you're going to go ahead and pre-study the remaining classes. Right? So a lot of people skip this step, but I highly recommend not doing that. And the reason for that is because you want to finish WGU in the least amount of time possible. And with this degree, it's very realistic to finish it in one term. That's six months. And one term at WGU costs about $3,500. So you can finish an entire bachelor's degree in terms of the time you're enrolled for $3,500. That's not bad. And in many cases, people end up getting grants and funding. So a lot of the time they don't pay anything. And in many cases, people actually don't graduate with any debt at all. So my best recommendations for pre-studying these classes is really two different things. So the first one is going to be the WGU subreddit. And specifically you want to find the marketing WGU subreddit. They're going to go over different strategies and tactics, et cetera, to study for these degrees and pass the tests as quickly as possible. The second thing I recommend is going to be Facebook groups for WGU as well. It's similar to the subreddit, but there's going to be other people there who also go over strategies and tactics. And it's also a pretty good place to network. Now there's lots of other different places online where you can get free information on these classes. Of course, you want to check out their curriculum to see what they actually go over. YouTube is great. Google is great. Khan Academy is free as well. Udemy can be a really good place for certain classes.  Now after you've pre-studied these classes and you feel really comfortable, go ahead and move on to step number four, which is you are finally going to enroll in WGU and knock these classes out as fast as you possibly can. Oh, thank you. That took what? How many, how long did that take? And since you pre-studied them, you will very likely be able to knock out all of the remaining classes in one term. And if not one term, probably two terms max. So realistically, even if you're super busy of a family, et cetera, you can knock this one out in less than two years. And in some cases, people take it super seriously, and they're able to knock it out in much less than that. Now for some of the harder classes like marketing strategy and analytics and marketing management, make sure you contact your professor because that can be a great resource. So here's a person, for instance, who said they were able to graduate in two semesters. And yeah, there's tons of testimonials of people who have done this on YouTube, Reddit, et cetera. So it's completely legit. It's a top 10% university. It's regionally accredited and it is respected in many different industries. Now we're going to go ahead and jump into the cheat sheet. And I'm going to take you through step by step exactly how you would do this process. All right. So here is the cheat sheet for the marketing degree. You can see on the far left here, these are the class IDs. In this column right here, you know, business administration, marketing, these are the names of the classes at WGU. In this column right here, these are the units for each of the classes. In this column right here, you have the study.com classes that actually transfer in. So I made it as simple as possible. So basically like English 104 at study.com, here's the the number for the study.com class, which is 0057, this transfers in for English composition one at WGU. So like I said, I tried to make this and just extremely simple. I will also be updating this in the future. So if there are, you know, better classes at Sophia dot org or straighter line, or there's more classes, I will keep that updated. And I also have a column for certificates as well. Now, typically speaking, the difficulty also gets higher the lower you go. So green tends to be relatively easy.  But that's just generally speaking. Also, if you want to go to the WGU website, you can click right there. And if you want to really easily be able to find the study.com class, you can just click there. It'll take you right to the exact class.  And then you can edit it and do all of this process for your specific situation. So let's go ahead and move on to step number one, which is you're going to go ahead and transfer in your existing classes. So in this particular example, I kept it really simple. But let's just say you took AP math during high school. And then you also took a communications and an art class when you were in community college. So you were able to transfer in those three classes. So you didn't have that many classes to transfer in, but that's fine. You're going to go ahead and move on to step number two after that, which is you're going to test out of all the classes that you can using third party companies. So as you can see here, you can test out of a lot of classes, it's actually over half of them. And this is just going to save you a ton of time and money. So you're going to go ahead and test out of those classes. And by the way, when you go to study.com, I do have a coupon code that they were nice enough to give me, which is Shane hummus, you use that at checkout and you will save 30% on your first three months. And you'll also be helping the channel out. So definitely take advantage of that. But after you transfer in all of those classes, you're going to see that these are the ones that are remaining. So I'll just do a real quick count here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. So you only have 10 classes remaining that you actually have to take at WGU itself. So at this point, you would move on to step number three, which is to pre study the remaining classes. So you'd go ahead and pre study these. And when you felt like you were ready, you would move on to step number four, which is you would go ahead and enroll and you'd knock out those remaining classes as fast as possible. Now, realistically, this is one of those degrees you can, I'm not going to say easily, but you can definitely knock it out in one term.  And if you're nice, you'll move on to step number six, which is you will tell them how you were able to do it. You'll reveal your tricks and you will send them this video so they can do it as well. So congratulations. You followed those steps and now you have a bachelor's degree way faster than just about anybody else. You saved yourself a ton of time, effort, money. And most importantly, this is the thing that nobody talks about opportunity cost, right? Because at the time when everybody else is going to school, on average, 5.1 years to get a bachelor's degree, you're getting one in like something between six months and two years.  Now one thing I do want to say is WGU is a phenomenal option for a lot of people out there, but there are some downsides to going to WGU. One of them very obviously is it's all remote. So if you hate going to remote school, this may not be the best option for you, but there are other pros and cons and I talk about them in this video right here, which I highly recommend you check out.


Kim Goer is a high school humanities teacher at Foundations for the Future Charter Academy. Today, Kim and her social studies 30 students are using the considering perspective strategy to deepen their understanding of the concepts they're learning. Considering perspectives provides students with an opportunity to investigate information from an alternative perspective, encouraging students to set aside their personal biases and consider the validity of another person's values. This opportunity to engage in critical thinking is foundational in the development of the student's ability to validate information. So these are our objectives. First, we are really focusing on that critical and evaluative thinking.  Can you take a moment to not memorize the information but really understand the meaning and the concept behind what you're seeing? Do you have questions? All right, let's try it. So now what you're doing is you're thinking about these questions. So for a soldier of East Berlin, what is his perspective? When he is seeing what's happening, think put yourself here. What are you thinking? What's going on? You've been a soldier. You know soldier life. You know you had a job to maintain that military perspective. Now things are in chaos. How do you feel as a soldier who's used to order in a time of chaos? Okay, so what your job is right now is to put yourself in this perspective and start thinking about what do they think? What is their perspective? Elaborate on that. What are some of the values? What is important to them? And then give me some actions that they might agree with to exemplify. So that's what you're doing on the back as you're going through each one of those from the different perspectives. Initially I thought what is going to be the best way for them to to engage with this and it's always easier I think for them to see an image or for them to connect with a person in an image. So that was my first step in thinking we need to start with some sort of image and so and going along with that it's always I find easier when students have some sort of scaffolded template to follow. We've been using the state exemplify explain method in class in terms of our writing structure so they're familiar with it and so naturally I just thought okay I'll take that structure and put it onto some sort of template for them to be able to use as a guide in their discussions. As students work together in small groups to examine different perspectives Kim is able to circulate and engage students to help strengthen their critical thinking skills. By doing so these students learn how to apply those skills in a variety of situations including applying different perspectives in their critical essays they write in their social studies 30 class. Yeah I would say that because we're doing it in a classroom environment we have the ability to adapt and experiment about that because we did have because we're sitting in pods we have the ability to discuss about it and get some feedback on what we were thinking other things that we didn't consider or things to add on to that so by having the ability to experiment that concept in class it allows us to kind of perfect it and work it out in the real world when we're not being when we don't have to follow that activity where we can apply it to just normal lifestyles. It's also just really fun. So one of the reasons that I thought considering perspectives would be really important is because I find that students have a hard time separating their thoughts from someone else's thoughts and on a position paper especially in grade 12 and social 30 it becomes really important for them to be able to demonstrate of very knowledge of different perspectives on an issue. So what I'm hoping to see come from this is I'm hoping to see the those critical thinking skills in the writing so especially in dash two um the dash two position paper is an issue based paper where students are having to assess the underlying values of different perspectives so I'm hoping that through this activity they saw the process of putting that together and that I will see a greater focus on the values of a perspective in their next written assignment. What I'm hoping for the dash ones is that I'm going to see a variety of perspectives on an issue so it's not just going to be the generic everyone kind of agrees with this or this is the mainstream but I'm going to start to see different insights based around the ability to see this from a different perspective. So I'm in I'm taking 30 dash two social and the the third assignment is literally other people's opinions and so you write about other people's opinions and where they come from and how it could be influenced and then you talk about your own so it's important for me to see the other the other opinions in order to create my own. Being impartial and like being very objective because obviously we all have our own personal biases and by taking the time to recognize a different perspective just allows us to kind of um with just suppose um our perspective with a note perspective that we didn't initially or instinctively consider which just allows to be more informed and educated on just the matter. I guess the two takeaways are doing this when they've had the content or the context to be able to make decisions based on historical knowledge or contemporary knowledge um as well as understanding the value in seeing a bias or seeing a different perspective.


as we join you here at two o'clock the Fed is just releasing its notes so we'll watch for the movement in the market kind of bouncing around a little bit looks like maybe a little down and gonna be down a little bit anyway as we started here it was at 4053 on the SP cash we'll update that in a minute but hard to think that there's a lot in here that really says this market's going much higher I was thinking about buying puts here after the meeting I thought hopefully they'll push it up one last time and then I'll get a chance to get short this market but we shall see anyway the feds out I'm seeing stuff bounce around all over the place here but I guess we're back to flat on the S&P let's see if I can read the statement here and get any kind of idea about what's going on and now I can't not enough time anyway as always we've got a few things going on the Fed chairman will be talking at 2 30 normally he's over by about 3 15 that'll give us about 45 minutes left in the day to figure out what the definition of is is for the Fed because there's always a little bit of double-speak but that's it now we have to really look forward to after the the end of the feds question and answer session today at 3 15 Eastern look forward to Thursday and then Friday which is options expiration and then we go into Christmas week which generally about 80% of the time is about a half a percent higher so there is a fairly significant bias higher it's just not much so as I said we get into this just look probably don't want to be short much into or more into next by next Monday and be out we'll have the entire show in just a few minutes the reality is that navigating financial markets can be risked


Welcome to Toffey TV. It is the Everton News Daily. Everton have submitted plans to extend the fan zone at Gooderson Park. It's going to stretch out further into the car park due to the increased volume in the fan zone on a match day. There's also plans to build a new stage and a building behind the stage, a small building, I should add, behind the stage at the Gooderson Park fan zone as well. So, it has been really well attended. It's always really well attended. They have live music and X plays and everybody else there. And so there's further evidence of that really. But it doesn't affect anything to do with Bramley Mordoch. The club's still planning on submitting planning permission in December for their move to Bramley Mordoch. More on that when we move closer to the time. Everton will be publishing final results of the second consultation sometime in November. So we'll know more then as we head towards the plan application by the end of the year rather not the season. Marcel Brand is reportedly sending a scouting team to Brazil to check on the progress of Renier Jesus. He was heavily linked with a move to Everton in the summer for £35m although he couldn't move until January anyway due to him not being 18. As well as him, there's apparently a few other young Brazilian players that Brands wants to keep checked on and according to reports is sending a scouting team there. So we'll have to see if anything goes on from there. Renier Jesus is a massive talent. One of the best young players in the world and it'd be a massive coup by Everton if he could somehow get Jesus to Gooderson Park on a permanent basis. But we'll have to wait and see whether there's anything on that. Obviously there's also work permit issues and things like that would have to be overcome as well. But he certainly looks a top player, the kid. There's rumours today in El Tutto, which is an Italian publication that Everton are not pleased with Gibril's Shidabee and are looking to potentially send them back in January. And on the back of that say that AC Milan will be interested in taking the 27-year-old French right back. I can't see that personally. Shidabee is playing both Carabao Cup games. He's done OK. He was recalled to the French squad for this international break and is set to start his first Premier League game at the weekend in place of the suspended Sheamus Coleman as West Ham Visigolerson Park. I just can't see Everton making that kind of decision already on Shidabee. And if he gets in at the weekend and does well, why would we consider sending him back? So this story to me looks a little bit wide of the mark. Michael Keane has been dropped for England's game today against Bulgaria. He didn't have a great game on Friday night in the defeat. The two-one defeated Czech Republic and he has been left out for Tyrone Mings. But Jordan Pickford does play for England in that one. And finally, UEFA are investigating Jiang Towson and some of his Turkish teammates who produced a military salute when Towson scored the winner in Friday's 1-0 win over Albania. For Turkey, UEFA don't accept any kind of salute to military according to their website and they will be fair to investigating this situation. I mean, if you actually want to be critical, what's there to investigate? He scored and saluted. So surely that's the investigation there, but obviously we'll have to see if anything comes of it. Not sure at this stage whether anything will. And that is it. It's a quiet day as we start to build up for the visits of West Ham at the weekend. That is a very, very big game now for Everton. And let's hope we can get the three points. But that's it for today. Thanks for joining us. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't. And if you want more videos, get over and join us on Patreon. See you later.


It's now day three of NBA 2K21's launch and it's mixed opinions, fellas. Some people hate it, they think it's the same thing, some people like it and they enjoy the changes with the game. Me personally, I'm wait till I get my badges, till I get a verdict.  It's taking everything in my body to do this, guys. Cause I really just want to play online and have fun. Even though I heard the servers was cheeks, that's a story for another day. Today, I did what anybody would have done. I asked people to send me funny 2K20 memes! Send me your funniest NBA 2K20 memes and you guys did! Hey, uh, I'm a little animated cause I've been playing my career for eight hours and I'm kinda losing my mind. I hope you guys forgive me for that. If y'all new to the channel and you haven't already, be sure to subscribe or drop in daily 2K21 content and we're streaming two, three times a week now! So subscribe for that unless you guys don't want that stuff then why are you here, buddy? Second channel link is also in the description man, subscribe to that. But hold on there, fellas! It seems agent from two hours ago has a special message. Ah, I can't answer this brand's properly. There's something wrong with me. This video is brought to you by Postmates. Hey, I know you about to record an ad right now. I know you about to. Can I get food this time though? No. What's wrong? What's your problem? The 2K21 grind is upon us and we've been working really, really hard, man. We're gonna keep going daily uploads. I'd like to believe that I ain't gonna get him some food cause he's been editing for a while. There's tons of local restaurants depending on your region. You get food delivered straight to your door. For me it's a real convenient decision to help save me some time when I have no time. They even have a no-contact delivery option. They just leave it at your door. You guys remember when the spicy chicken sandwich was real hard to get? Some of y'all lined up for a whole hours. Boom! And without having to leak my entire address, now I can track where my food's gonna get here. Oh, what if food is here? The food is here. What if food is here? What if food is here? What if food is here? Bro, please go back to editing, please. Come on, man. Woo-lee, I have a surprise for you. You bought me Popeye's, didn't you? I'm gonna leave a link at the top of the description. Download the Postmates app. Use code AGENT00 and new users. Get a 7-day $110 delivery fee credit. Again, huge thank you to Postmates for helping sponsor this video. Oh, we're back. Okay, first meme, first meme. Ooh, OG, fire pop sends in this meme. Everybody trying to see the meter. Look, guys. One second. It's Lowe doing the granddad. I'm trying to look a little bit closer pose. Meme. This meme right here is kind of played out a little bit. To me, at least, cause I've seen it so much. Ah, no, this is kind of, this is very accurate. We could all agree on that. But is it funny? Sure about that one. So for that reason and that reason alone, the meme is supposed to be funny, goddammit. Six out of ten. Drake's ghost writer sends in this one. People who made pierced sharps after finally greening their first shot. Look, guys. Look, it's Kawhi Leonard before he used to be a clipper. Ah, I miss those days, man. I really miss those days. Why is his tongue blue? Kawhi, you've been eating rank pops, Kawhi. Kawhi even having some fruit roll-ups, Kawhi.  That's really what the thing is, man. When you're with the clippers, your tongue isn't blue, man. Does that mean you're having considerably less fun, Kawhi? Come back! We want you back here in Toronto. The meme, though? Hmm, the meme. Hmm. Hmm. Seven out of ten. Ronnie at 2K headquarters counting all the non-refundable pre-order money for the wack current in 2K 21. Oh, okay. This has the potential to be great.  You counted all of that that quickly, man. That's f***ing incredible, dude. That's how I know he knows his way around money. He was going four at a time, then two at a time, then six at a time. How much is that? That's 100,000? 200? That's a lot of money, Ronnie.  He didn't even give us the number. He's just flexing. This is what's happening right now. I've seen this specific meme be utilized in a better way. So for that reason and that reason alone, I'm just a little bit disappointed with this meme right here because it had potential for being honest with each other. But I'm not going to say it's a bad meme because it is a good meme. It's not solid, it's good, it's not great, but it's good. I'm going to give it an 8 out of 10. Also, little baby, pull up to the streams, man. You feel me? Drop a super chat or something. 2K support looking at their threads from today. Okay, okay, okay. I'm going to leave a note comment on this one, fellas. Okay, all right. That's where we're going with this video. Oh, did I tell you guys to drop a like? Let's get 25,000. In fact, guys, let's get 25 million. We can do it. My career is AI, noticing you have 5 points scored. I was tied, fellas. Oh my God, bro. Bro, I'm playing my career chilling. Man, big chilling. Yo, right now, guys, fellas, I'm chilling. I'm so chill right now. Man, you know what? Look how chill I am. Chilling. I got a quick question for you, man. Are you chilling right now? Big chill. Big chilling? Okay, cool. Appreciate you. Chill. Out of nowhere, out of all the defenders I came up against, James Harden was playing the tightest defense. What the f*** is going on right now? Why is he... The artificial intelligence is not too f***ing intelligent because James Harden never does that f***ing real life except for one game in the playoffs this year. Hey, so that being said, I have tips and tricks for you guys since I'm not going to drop a badge video. Look at me carefully. Stand at the three-point line. Catch the ball. You have to catch it. Jab. Right there like that. Jab like this. Once you do one of two jabs, they're going to give you a good amount of space. You're going to have space to pull up for your shot, guys. The more badges you have, obviously, the easier it gets. Do it in the corner if you can. The way easier in the corner, guys, because as a sharp shooter or someone getting their shooting badges, yeah, this is annoying. Jab, jab. No, no, sorry, not jab. What's this one called when you do this, guys? What's that one called? Do that. I just dropped a badge tutorial for you guys in a meme video. Oh my God, I'm great.  Pass the ball. Do not break a shot. Try to be f***ing Superman. Oh my God. I'm just dropping gems for you guys here in this video. Centers getting 30 rebounds each per game.  The true winners in all of this. Center. Center builds paint piece. Oh my God. Paint piece is probably elated about what's going on right now. This is such a high quality meme. 9 out of 10. Knee hopping on 2K21, acting like I didn't know it was just a roster update. You swear or not? You swear or not? You swear or not? Hey, hey, it's technically not. Let's be honest. Hey, but I'll say this, though. Did anybody else get really, really surprised when the micro story ended when you got to the NBA? They were like, we give up guys. This is current gen. This is all you get. Also, $70. But hey man, if they're going to cut corners on any game, a man like me is happy to happen on micro. Right, Miley guys? Right? When you shoot any shot on NBA 2K21, that's not a layup or a dunk. Oh wow. Yup. Put the prayer hands up, fellas. Sometimes you got to. This right here dignified very average meme. Let me ponder on the thought actually. Let me hold on. I got to make a call, fellas. If you have your hotspots and badges, it'll go on every time. Right? Word. Thank you so much for your input, and thank you for being on the board of directors. Peter's being oddly generous, but I'm going to allow his rating 8 out of 10. The CPU, after you hit a couple shots on my career. Look guys, it's AMP tripling Davis. In the 21 video we did. Ah man, first of all, if you're not subscribed to the AMP channel, holy, we're dropping bangers. We got a goddamn speed dating video dropping. We just dropped a scythe video last week. Bangers, fellas. Bangers. Link in the description. Bangers. Oh, this meme? Oh, this is a great meme. Great. Nine and a half out of 10. Me? I'm going outside. Mom, take your little brother with you. This meme is not funny, guys, because I was the little brother. You feel me? My brother would often move as if, like, I didn't even want to take him. You know what I'm saying? But I'm like, bro, you know I make every situation more fun. You wanted to take me. Cut the cat.  Cut the cat. And so because this meme is just not even remotely accurate in and of itself before we get to the 2K thing, I can't help but give this a one out of 10. When I finally get my hands on the game, look, guys, Vin Diesel. Last game. Is that Paul Walker? Last game. And then, look, guys, they both go to last game instead of sleep. Now, this would be relatable if I was potentially playing online. But because I'm playing on my career, I want to sleep. But I'm forcing myself to drive through last game so that eventually I can go down sleep, right? Eventually, eventually I can... I just want to have fun. My career is not fun, guys. Let me grind badges online. I get 15,000 goddamn points for my shooting badges every my career game on five minute quarters. That's so quick. When I go online, I get like 3,000. Okay? So of course I'm going to stay on my career. But it's a brutal experience. Mike Wayne, please. I know people might boost, but please, for me, I don't care about the boosters. Figure that out later. Please, for me, I want to grind online, man. Hey, is the art team watching this? Art team, guys.  And it's evident to me. But hey, I'll say this. On NBA 2K21, I feel like more could have been done. And I'm hoping more gets done on next gen. But I like the rooftop pro-am, 3V3 pro-am. That's tough. And then inside the arena is the pro-am. That's hard. That's hard. I like the neighbor had a good little vibe until you feel me. I feel like things are a little too spread out. And it'd be more convenient if things were just available in the menu for people who didn't want to walk around. But art team, I'll say this. Considering this is current gen, and you guys had two years to do this because you didn't do anything last year, good stuff. Good stuff, art team. Hey, still, I'm saying this for a fact. Whoever is the leader of the art team, I want to do an interview with you on this channel. If you want to do it. You don't have to do it. But if you want to do it, I'm just saying. Me after two high school games. That's a solid seven out of 10. When you keep getting the same 2K every year, look, guys, is Donovan Mitchell in a state of utter and pure depression? Hey, Donovan Mitchell, you'll get through it, man. Nothing you can do in Jamal Murray and you could just ball like that, all right? But yes, this right here, relatable feeling. Although, I don't know what everybody expected with current gen. I came in here with so low expectations, they kind of exceeded them. The top response to that one was, nah, just wait for next gen. What the oh so popular look do I hear mean? Yeah, that's what I recommend everybody do unless you really, really, really want to play 2K the next couple months. Guys, next gen is going to be out, okay? I'm going to just leave this here and it's a screenshot of a what the f... 9 for 70, 11 for 44.  How do you miss that much? I don't care what change has been made to the game, ladies and gentlemen. That is irrelevant to me. To shoot this poorly, man. It actually takes effort. This year, point guard shot one for 20 from three. But what's more impressive is his teammate who shot three for 20 wine on layups, buddy. You shot them from layups?  Watch the video. I'm going to leave it at the end screen if you guys missed it. Oh my God, guys, this game is not that hard. I've already got a jump shot.  How every center going to look after building they met 7-7? All right. This is just very... like it's just something to buy that just makes me feel uncomfortable. And I don't like to feel uncomfortable when I'm looking at memes. And that's just not a good look for me. And that's not a good look for you. That's not a good look for this whole community. People say memes, you know, you guys are respected for the most part, but we just dropped in respect due to that meme we just seen. 2 out of 10. Me after going 28 hours without greening the new meter. Look, guys. It's Kauai dropping Embiid off Embiid crying on the way back home meme. It's not Embiid, man. One of my favorite players in the NBA. No cap, no cap, no cap. Embiid, you know what I'm saying? You want to do a video or something?  I don't know. Just let me know. Hey, this is a good meme. Because we all feel like it's accurate and it's somewhat funny. You feel me? And I say this, you know, just as a man who rates memes for a living, this right here is a cool 7 out of 10, fellas. Compete sends in this one. It says it's a screenshot. What's new in NBA 2K21? Look, guys. The screen is jam-packed with emptiness. This one genuinely is funny. I'm going to give it a cool 9 out of 10. Who made a three-level score? Realizing they can't shoot. Shout out to the guys who made three-level scores. I thought you guys watched me last year. You knew not to make that error again. In fact, I dropped a build video a couple days ago. We do these daily uploads. I told you guys not to go with scoring machines and three-level scores. It's garbage builds, for the most part. Ah, man. Wow. Anyway, this is accurate. I'll say this right here, ladies and gentlemen. Hold on now. We might have a meme rating. I'll give this meme a... I'm not going to rate it because I'm not authorized yet. I'm still in training. King Locke, I got some very, very good news for you. Hold on. I got some good news for you, King Locke. All right? You right now, my God, are now authorized to rate memes. Congratulations. You made it. Park Games be like... Damn. No, the address. Come on. Come on. Come on. Damn. Park is this. Let me know right now so I never accidentally play on it. This is garbage basketball, guys. I haven't played a single Park Game yet, only Prime, so I don't know what the Park Game is like, to be honest. So I can't even tell you if it's accurate, but I'm going to say, just based off the bricks going on in the Prime, it's accurate. I'm going to give this right here, 7.5 out of 10. People hopping on 21 until they realize they can't shoot. Hey, are you trying to copy out my video? Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. I can't have the Migos making all the money off the video. That would make no sense for me here, especially considering the money I make is literally nothing to them. This is Trump change to them. The money I make in a year, he probably has way more than that in his hand as we speak. So why would I want to give them more by playing their music in his video? That's what my streams are for where I play music. I don't tell YouTube I said that. That's not a good meme. It's not that it's not good. It's just a little bit itty bitty bit below average. You feel me? Surzi, I expect more from you because you just had the best main meme. Yo, Davis, I have a quick question I'm recording a video right now. What language do I usually record my videos in? Okay, thank you. I just forgot for a moment. I appreciate it, dude. Oh, English. Jesus, man. I don't know what I just mixed up probably another language that will happen right there. Surzi, you had the best meme rating in NBA 2K meme review history. Huh? So don't follow up with something like this. All right, guy? Okay, that's just bad. 4 out of 10.  Me watching my guard shoot 3 for 40. And you can't say, because you probably shoot 3 for 41. So you can't say, you just gotta sit there, right there, right there. The top comment to that was George Paul type beat. I gave this a 7 out of 10. You can't do that. It's illegal to rate memes unless you're on the board, fellas. We can't have people on the internet believe in that your meme rating is official. That's not good for business. My lawyers will be in touch. Okay, me when I try and shoot for a game-winning layup in my player shoots mid-range. No! No! Is this rage? No! No! No! No, no, no, no, no! What? Cue the apology music. Thank you very much. This is where I'd like to apologize to you guys for making you hear that screech. I know for most humans, that screech probably destroyed your eardrums. And you came on this video expecting to laugh and you left with ear damage. That, guys, that is my fault and I take full responsibility. I wish more people did apology videos like that instead of blaming other people. You know what I'm saying? Because a man like me in the past would have just blamed rage.   Hey, guys. That's it. That's all I wanted to say here in this video. If you guys enjoyed, drop a like, subscribe to the channel and send it to rage out of context. And hopefully we get in some drama. I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one. Yo, people really do that. I'm not exaggerating. So that's why I said it. It was like an ironic joke. Hey, I don't have to explain it. English.


Good morning. The first beta zone is about designing for all. I find that quite thrilling. Thank you for being here. It is delightful to be representing the Smithsonian. We're here for the third year here in Davos, and it is my privilege to represent the museum where I am director, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Some of you are nodding, that's great. As you may know, we're located right on Museum Mile on 91st and 5th Avenue, and our purpose is to inspire, educate, and empower people through design. What's really exciting us is who's coming to Cooper Hewitt. Our demographic is the millennial audience, and what does that mean? That means that our content is reverberating for the younger generation. And why is that important? Because the younger generation are our future leaders and our future designers. Shanaid, you were just incredible. Thank you so much. And all of you should know that Shanaid was one of our earliest inspirations at Cooper Hewitt for our focus on accessibility and inclusive thinking and working. Design is all about empathy, and keeping the user at the center of the design process. So when the German idea for a design product is there, the user is brought in, but not just at that moment, at every stage of development of the design product. I'm here today to really share with you just how powerful design can be, intangibly and effectively improving how the world works. So to tell you a little bit about myself, my passion for design began very early. We moved from Paris to a suburb north of Boston when I was very small, and my Swiss father, who was a professor of engineering, transformed our basement into a laboratory of creativity and experimentation. So any given afternoon, there would be telescopes in the making, and we had a dark room where we developed film. There were oscilloscopes in the basement as well as red lasers bouncing off prisms and strobes. It was really something. But my favorite thing was setting type on my grandfather's printing press. So yes, I did have business cards when I was five. Not exactly useful, but quite an inspiration for my love for design. The importance of design really hit home for me at Bates College, where one of my peers, Eric Condo, was injured in a very serious motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Now, Eric was and is a keen athlete, and he was not going to let this accident or his being in a wheelchair restrict him. So he began adapting his wheelchair into a completely different type of mobility piece of equipment. So many of us like to hover board and skateboard. So does Eric. Being in a wheelchair doesn't restrict him. So he is enjoying that freedom of movement while gaining a sense of balance, coordination, and confidence. Eric uses a quote, uses a phrase that really resonates in my mind, which is we are the pilots, not the passengers. We are the pilots, not the passengers. When he's describing the relationship between himself and his equipment or the wheelchair. Equal access is a human rights issue, right? Shanae had mentioned there are a billion people in the world with a disability. Diversity is humanity's greatest asset, but inclusion is our greatest challenge. So I'm happy and proud to say that at Cooper Hewitt, inclusivity is part of our core and our exhibitions are embedded with accessibility as our education programs. So some of these images are showing you our high school students who are learning empathy. So we give them design tools like suits, age suits, as well as glasses that simulate poor vision so they can empathize with their elders around them. We also invite design thinkers that focus on designing for disability to Cooper Hewitt on a very regular basis. Here at a recent symposium you see Cat Holmes on the right hand side of the image. Cat Holmes is director of user experience at Google and the author of this wildly popular book entitled Mismatch. This book has been a great inspiration to me and what really is important here is the title because it's so apt. Mismatched human interactions is where the problem lies. That is where the problem lies because when something is not being designed for the user it's excluding that user. So Cat talks a lot about inclusion and exclusion to give you a few simple examples. The ice cream scoop. So you're trying to get the chocolate chip ice cream out of the gallon container but you're left handed and it's not made for a left-hander. Or you're at the grocery and at the digital checkout it's all in English. You don't speak English. The type is too small. You don't have 2020 vision. There are all these things where people are not thinking about the end user. At Cooper Hewitt we're a team of about 90 people and we're working together and with communities representing several different disabilities so that we can learn from them but also integrate people into the Cooper Hewitt experience from the very start. I was really excited the other day when someone in our design shop waved me down and said Caroline come here come here and I said what and he said I just learned universal sign language so I can communicate with our deaf visitors. I hope that you've seen our marvelous exhibition Access Possibility which is right outside this room and if you haven't this is my invitation to jump into the exhibition after the beta zone. What you'll see right at the entrance is this terrific accessible icon. So the designer Sarah Hendren and her friend and professor of philosophy Brian Glene. So Brian and Sarah worked on this gorilla street art campaign a couple of years ago where they would put stickers over the 50 year old accessible icon. Why? To show that people in wheelchairs are not statically sitting down in their wheelchairs they're dynamic they're moving forward they're making change. So what's exciting about this gorilla campaign is it's now all over the world individuals are using it governments are using it companies of all sizes are using it and it is so important to show that inclusivity must be a core value. It's also an emoji on your phone by the way so as you tweet today about our exhibition you can actually use the emoji it's part of the public domain. Now let me grab a prop for a second. This is a little big for me and you may be wondering why I'm holding this but it fits in perfectly with the theme of this talk. So Matthew Walzer is a teenager from Florida with cerebral palsy and his one dream was to have a shoe a basketball shoe that would give him the proper support that he needed where he wouldn't have to tie it but he would have easy access in and out. So he wrote to Nike and said you know LeBron James has this super cool pair of basketball sneakers I'd love something like that where there's no tying mechanism so I can go in and out with no problem and that's exactly what this is with this weird access his foot can just go in and out you can try this in the exhibition as well. The point here though is Matthew got the shoes thanks to a wonderful partnership with the legendary shoe designer Toby Hatfield and the stigma was gone. He had the cool shoe like everybody else so that's a beautiful example of an athletic company working with the community in need and coming up with something that represents design for all. So depending on the year of your births this playground picture may bring back memories or not but my point here is many playgrounds are not accessible and oftentimes they're even downright dangerous right. So in Palo Alto there was a mother of a child on the autism scale who was experiencing exclusion everywhere they went and she had the idea to create a magical playground and that's exactly what she did. So there are slides called dignity slides so some children have trouble dismounting at the bottom of the slide they simply move to the left or the right and the child behind them can slide down. There are also hideaway huts so many people on the autism spectrum would find the frenetic atmosphere of the playground just too much but they can go into a hideaway hut. All of these experiences were built and designed in collaboration with the children this was an inclusive design project. I'm going to share a video with you of the magical harp so we have brought the chandelier harp with us to Davos for all of you to enjoy today and what's so meaningful about the harp is and the entire playground it is a joyful incubator for a more tolerant society right where people with disabilities people without disabilities can come together and enjoy being outside enjoy playing together and respecting one another. So I'm going to take a little shift after sharing these three great examples of design and disability to point out how design can make such change in the arena the themes that we so often discuss here at West from poverty to equal access to water access. So starting with user centered design in Rwanda enter zipline so Rwanda mountainous terrain frequent rains that just completely flood the streets result in blood and vaccines not getting to the hospitals in time. So zipline which is an automated logistics company in California came up with this drone which is the fastest commercial drone delivery system in the world and they've done nearly 5,000 trips just in Rwanda alone. It's going so well that it'll be expanding across Africa and even to the United States in the coming year and what's so important here is the doctors and their teams can text the team at zipline and they quickly prepare the blood or the medicine it gets into the zipline and it goes straight to that hospital making a difference and saving lives. In South Africa it is often the women and the children who fetch the potable water and they'll walk for kilometers and kilometers to find that water and then often bring it back in ways that are uncomfortable perhaps with the water on their heads resulting in all sorts of neck and spinal injury. Enter cue drum. It's durable, it's cheap, it's fast, women can roll it with ease as can children. So what does that mean? That means more time and freedom for the women and children to make a difference in their communities and learn. Lastly the worka water tower in Ethiopia. The worka water tower is named for the worka tree which is an endangered fig tree in Ethiopia where community members come together because the tree provides prodigious shade. Now this tower weighs about 75 kilograms and it's 15 meters high. It's made out of hemp rope, polyester, very easy to construct and the beautiful thing about this tower is it's harvesting water in a sustainable way. What kind of water? It is collecting fog, water from fog and mist and dew and rain and you might think oh well they get you know a cup a day, not at all. We're seeing massive amounts of water every day collected from the worka water tower and the architect has given all of the plans to the world. So it is open source and he's also leading trainings so that communities nearby can also have a water tower. In conclusion, inclusive design to advance human experience is really focused on one thing and that is we need to better understand the human experience together right. Going forward it is not enough to design for some people or most people. We need to design for diversity and we need to do that now. It's a great opportunity to bring in diverse voices into the design process, to learn from what we do not know and most importantly to come together as a community and expand those people who believe in inclusion. So today we ask you join the circle. Thank you so much.


All righty new clip here. Let's watch this and Okay, good stuff in there. I will probably Give the end another 10 frames It's like we're just going hot and caught. It's almost like you want a bit of a resting point there Other than that, there is some good stuff in there What I would say in terms of policy things like when you have like a side step like this You look at the angle of that foot, but then this is pretty flat. I think you can easily Go even more Rotate it this way so that this side comes down first and then if you go like this this feels like the Foot roll is just activated towards like basically in your channel.  It's a bit odd because it has a little bit of ease in I guess you can slow down a little bit, but then I will go down and touch with the toes first and again banking Where it's touching this side more than this this feels like we're getting Right as you actually Put the foot down. It's all flat There's a bit of a complexity in there. I think that's pretty cool here as you lift You can see it's kind of pulled this way and he has a slight rotation pivoting off the toes Just pretty good, but then careful at the very end. It feels like it's just that but nothing else in here You can have a little bit of finishing rotation Just as this plans like these are like that like super polishy Super polish your notes Making sure this one also is not completely fine. I see a side here I think just means to rotate it this way. We're just good. So it's kind of polishy things like that I think you polish Arcs of arms All seems pretty good. You might argue that right through there We're kind of moving away from camera to maybe have a bit of a bigger arc, but it's it's minimal I'm also looking at spacing wise because we're here And it gets a bit over then it kind of stays there go to the right and then whoops Then as we go to the right This spacing is much bigger there can see that goes up and whoops, I need to the right You can always have a little bit of a higher arc Getting in there. I think that's a bit much in your drag in the wrist Just a tad there I have the biggest comments are probably right when you sit down But I do want to and I know you said that's from reference and maybe it's just Again, not that it's super wrong. I mean there are you can use you can Google crossed arms And you there is this pose in it. I think I'm just mainly Thinking in terms of there's going to be one Arm hands that's underneath for arm in the bicep and one where it comes out and only the fingers are visible I think that's always in my mind when I think in terms of Crossed arms, right? So it could be Crossed arms one underneath is another one on the knees, you know This is it always seems I know it's there some people have it But it always feels almost uncomfortable like it's kind of trying to rest on there That's the same one and then here's like some other Google. So like this one he has Both on there But even then it has at least a little bit of a hold on and bring up my drawing tool a Bit of a push up with a grouping of fingers Which gives us a nice little contrast. So at least that but I you know I don't I don't get quick search and it's again might just be me And maybe I know maybe it's like a specific thing that I'm just gravitating towards but to me It's always one hand in compared to Both on there and see I guess you have a little bit of a grouping there It just seems it just seems like it's trying to rest. I don't it's just this feeling of of of not Having weight and maybe it's because how this goes down if this arm was like this and the wrist was up a bit So that if there's a slight feeling of weight like this on there if that makes sense, right the weight Imaginary weight Brings this down so that the wrist goes up a bit And then careful, I'm not sure if this means zoom in here see see how The fingers here and then they go out. This is just it adds to me to the feeling of like this is not really on it Like this even here the fingers go down and like the whole finger slide And that's why to me doesn't feel like it's actually across arms. However, you have it It's at least one side. That's fairly locked You can't see you what I'm doing this even if I have both arms out. There's a certain feeling of at least one side That would be really locked in it wouldn't that move that much. So when you have something like this, all I'm seeing is Besides the angle of those kind of almost trying to stay the same for Some of the frames there. I just don't feel like there's an interlocking and weight on this But the biggest comment is that this is almost supposed to pose. I know he sits down here. We have one two One frame so there's like a one frame Completion and then you already go up and this is something odd to me where it's only one frame He goes really low was almost trying to look at it like his thighs It feels just it feels like the return is very fast return as you need to go down down and immediately up There's like a one frame direction change. So this feels pow feels really hard It's really fast. It adds to that bump feeling and this feels almost uncomfortable in how how compressed he is versus maybe between these two max and Then once we get to here watch out. There's a I See how this ends first and the head is ending at the end But because of that you can go through this and I'm gonna try to Go ahead a bit more I do this here There's a little bit in here and then it kind of locks a bit I see some pixels moving I mean, it's mostly because I zoomed in and then at the very end. It really feels like it's mostly the head So watch out for polish that there's still some movement in there Especially through here. I go through this. I don't really feel like there's anything going on in here And then that's the end right because then he goes down Then again, it feels at the very end that last frame is mostly in here. I see a little bit shimmering in there It just has a general feel of watch out once you're done like that And you're just doing those last moves here and here, right? So You go up and then we stop it's only feels like everything is only in here Rotating out of here with not much going on in here This is good, I do like how the legs come in It's just something in here and also probably because I'm still looking at those hands Because it's never really a change in the hand pose and finger pose through all of this Like once we hear it feels like that's it That's the finger pose you have and nothing else is changing which again It just adds sort of feeling of just kind of they're there Just placed parent to whatever it is without without life that is Reacting to this or being influenced by you know all the rest if that makes sense I really hope that makes sense But I know you've been living over this and it's only fine if you don't continue it because I think this has this started off I Mean already in a good place, but it's definitely so much better than what you started with So I think you can totally just look at those notes and gestos and I think about your next shot It's probably good jumping that we talked about And you don't have to do one more version of this if you don't want to all ready. 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