One of the concerns that you might have is how to stand out in a crowded marketplace. Do you feel like you are creating content or selling in a environment where lots of other people are saying the same thing or selling the same thing? So how do you stand out? That's what I'm going to talk about in this video. So the bottom, the sort of philosophical foundation of this, I'll start there, is that you don't, is this, to stand out in a saturated environment, you need to care more than others are willing to care. You need to love more than others are willing to love. Now, that's what I would say. I'm sure other marketing consultants and business advisors will say something else, right? But this is what I'm going to say to you. Care more than others are willing to care. Love more than others are willing to love. And if you do that, you will stand out. So whether you are selling a product, oh, 10 million other people are selling this product, but this person cared enough about me to really connect with me, to find out more about me, to really serve me without feeling like I was being sold. You've got my business. You see? Or content. Everybody else is talking about personal development. Everyone else is talking, well, talk about a saturated market. What about, what about my market? Everyone else is talking about marketing. And you know, just, if you think you're in a saturated market, think about what I do. I have, there are more marketing consultants and business coaches and social media advisors than any other field. It seems like, you know, especially online. So how do I stand out? Well, that's a good question for you actually. How do, how do I stand out versus the other 10,000 other marketing consultants and coaches that you can follow? Maybe hopefully you would say, well, George seems to care more than others are willing to care. Others seem to just be, you know, I don't want to talk about others, but you see what I mean. So that's, that's one of the, that's one of the key ideas. And, and how do we care more than others are wanting to care? Do you care enough to show up enough? Okay. That's, or, or, or are you, do you care enough about your own fear and about your own embarrassment? So care more for others than, than, than the market is willing to care and you will stand out. But if you care about your own embarrassment, about criticism from other people, if you care about your own fears and, you know, what if nobody likes it? And by the way, I have, I've, I've lit, I don't know if you can see this on camera, but I've lit an incense. So some of the smoke is coming into the camera. Mango, my cat is an elderly cat, so he can't hold in his, anyway, can't hold, hold things in as much. And so he's had some accidents in this very room. This is where each of the hangs out. So that's why I'm doing an incense here for, for dispelling some of the, some of the odor. Those of you who are pet owners know what I'm talking about, or, or maybe kids, young kids. OK, so do you care enough? Do you love enough? And this is essentially what I, I love this message so much because I really believe that all of life is a stage for your soul's evolution. Everything that happens to you is an opportunity to evolve and to become better. And so we have this essential choice every single day and every single project and every single moment. OK, now every single challenge, we have a choice, love or fear, right, love or fear and the same thing with your business. Are you going to give in to love more or will you give in to fear more? That is the choice you have today in your business. So what's going to be the choice? Can you remind yourself that that is the choice? It's not about whether you're good enough. Well, even that question, well, am I good enough? Who am I to do this? Am I good enough? That, that those are fear asking those questions. Do you realize that? You realize what's underneath those questions is fear. Love doesn't ask those questions.  So how will you love them today? How will you show up today? That's what love is asking you. Listen to love. Ignore fear and listen to love. Let that energy grow within you rather than being so concerned with the fear, you know, in the silence and the embarrassment and the criticism. I set this in the last video and I'll say it again.   You're not making it for them.  You're loving your ideal audience. They need you and they want to hear from you. Whatever it is you're trying to sell or you're trying to create as content. So that's the first and most important idea that I have for you. How do you stand out in a crowded marketplace? Love because everybody else tends to give into fear. Whether we're talking about fear and therefore people don't do anything.  But a lot of it is fear is driving all of that. And of course, the manipulation that you see and experience in marketing when people are trying to send you all these emails and you're trying to strong our immune to buying, you know, scarcity, last minute things and whatever, those those are fear. And so if you stand out with your love, you will be unique no matter what. And OK, so that's the first idea. OK, that's that's the first idea. The second idea is or the second question really is, well, is my voice even needed when we talk about content, right? There are so many popular bloggers and vloggers and thought leaders and celebrities out there in my field. Why do they need my voice? I'm not I don't even say it as well as they do. Why why did why am I needed? Right. Everything I want to say, they've already said and they said it even more brilliantly. OK. So why am I needed? All right, so. What whoever Oprah Tony Robbins, I don't care. Brinay Brown, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, I don't know who your hero is or what your field is, let's say. But let's say you're in the same field as Brinay Brown. You talk about vulnerability, you help people through with more courage, etc. Brinay has already said it more brilliantly than you could. So why are you? Why do you even bother? Why? Just go home or stay home, right? Brinay's already said it. You know, Eckhart Tolle has already said it. Those of you who are spiritual mentors and teachers. Eckhart Tolle has already said it. Michael Singers already said it. You know, everyone's Jesus already said it. Buddha has already said it. Why? Why do any of us bother?  Nobody has had the combination of your life experiences, your personality, your specific challenges that you've been through. And in the context of your world today, you know, whatever day, month, you watch this, whatever's happening in the world, whatever you're going through, nobody has had that combination of emotions and thoughts as you and experiences as you. So, you know, Brinay Brown can tell her story and can tell the story of her clients. You, my friend, need to tell your story. Brinay Brown is not telling your story. Only you can tell your story. Only you can talk about what you've been through. And therefore the lessons that you can share from what you've been through. And that's authentic because you're talking about what actually happened. It could be experiences and challenges you've been through, or it could be thoughts that you've had that you thought and think, gosh, that's so, that has been so helpful to me. This particular thought that, that came to me, that maybe you've had a peak experience or you just had, you've just been thinking through some things a lot and it's been very helpful to you. Well, guess what? You need to share that because the way that you share it is going to be different than fill in the blank thought leader is going to share.  It's going to be unique. And your true fans, there are four billion people, which just to four thousand million, a million people is a lot, right? A million people, you could never talk to a million people, even if you tried individually for the rest of your life. You just don't have enough time. A million people is a lot of people. Now take one million and multiply that room of one million people by four thousand. Four thousand of those one million is how many people are on the internet. Through Facebook ads, you are able to reach half of them, two billion people, two thousand million people. And by the way, there's some people doing some stuff outside my my window right now, and I can't close a window because I'm on Facebook Live. So hopefully, hopefully it's not too loud for you. So there are so many people that some of them will resonate just with what, how you say things and just with what you say. Okay. There are some, some people who will resonate with that more than they'll resonate with Renee Brown or Eckhart Tolle or fill in the blank thought leader that you think, well, they've already said it, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Marifa, whoever. There are some, did you know this? There are some people who will resonate with you more than with them. Now, it's your job. It's your opportunity to reach them. And you could do that through Facebook ads. You can do that through Google ads. You can do that through Instagram ads. You can do that through partnerships. You can do that by showing up more frequently than they are willing to. There are so many ways you can do it, but the key is to show up. The key is to show up. Now, you might say, well, George, what I want to say has already been said and I just feel like, why do I need to add my voice? I mean, OK, maybe I can tell my story and that's maybe that's a little unique. But what about some thing I want to say?  Everyone else has self self everyone else has self care. Why do I need to say the same thing? Here's why. Here's why. How many people are still not taking care of themselves? I'm just talking if you if you work in self care. Or if you work in, I don't know, give me a topic that you work in. Put comments below. What do you what do you what do you help people with? Comment below. Now, let me ask you this question. Does everyone you talk to about what you talk about, have they already solved that problem perfectly? Do they already do it well? So I'll just I'll just use my own example. I one of my core messages, one of the key topics I talk about is showing up, as you can see in this video. Who else? Everybody else. Gary Vaynerchuk says that 50 times a day has so much content, right? Gary V has tons of content. He talks about showing up 50 times a day on all these different channels. Why does George Cal still need to say it? Why? Because you still aren't showing up. That's what I need to keep saying. I'm going to keep saying what what this message of showing up just like Gary will say it, just like Tony Robbins will say it, just like Marie Forleo will say it, just like fill in the blank marketing business thought leader will say it. Everyone's saying the same thing. Everyone is saying the same thing. Show up, right? So why do we all need to keep saying the same thing? Because you aren't doing it yet. And when I'm saying you, I mean some of you, you know, and probably all of us aren't showing up in some way that we want to show up, right? So that message is true for everybody. I'm sure I'm not showing up in ways that I want to show up yet. You know, I can always improve. And so why do you need to keep saying something that everyone else is saying? Because your audience isn't yet doing it. And they're not yet doing it well. So they can't tire of hearing the same thing again and again. They won't tire of it. In fact, they might get tired of Tony Robbins saying the same thing. Or they might get tired of Oprah saying the same thing. They might get tired of Brene Brown's voice saying the same thing over and over. But then you come, you show up and you're a fresh voice to say the same thing. And they're like, oh, it's the same message. Yes, which I need to hear, but it's said from a different person. Isn't that interesting? And she's even telling me her story. Well, is that is that interesting? So I will say the same thing for the rest of my life. And you may get tired of it and you may then go on to somebody else who's going to tell you the same thing. And that's OK. I don't mind you leaving me.  It's OK. And you may or may not come back. I don't mind because you can if it's going to help you to go to somebody else to hear the same message, I would rather you do that. OK, but the same things happening with you. Somebody is going to come to you and say, God, thank you. I needed to hear the same message from you, but in your voice, because your voice is different. I never heard your voice before. Right. I've never seen your writing before. It's all the same thing. There's only a couple of things. There's only a couple of messages that everybody says at all the time for two thousand for five thousand, ten thousand years, right? Be good to other people, just like you're good to yourself. I mean, Jesus said that, Buddha said that, you know, everybody says it.  OK, OK, treat others as you want people to treat you. You are loved, right? That's an universal message. You are loved by God.    However you want to say it, right? What other core message are there that has been through all of history? We're just rehashing it. We're just rehashing it. You know, find your calling where your strengths meet the world's needs. That's been said a billion times in the past couple hundred years. There is nothing new. Nobody is saying anything new. It's just that everyone's saying from their own story and from their own voice. And so can you. And so should you, because that's what your audience is waiting for. So to stand out in the crowded marketplace, just open your mouth. OK, just put your fingers to your keyboard, however you share and however you sell and care and love your audience more than you care and love your own fear. That's it. I hope this is helpful. And as always, I'm open to your questions and your comments. And I hope I hope you will go ahead and take this message and take action. And thanks, those of you who are showing up here, Captain and Stacy and Miriam Shweta. Thank you for your for your. Presence here in your comments as well as Kendra and Gina, Molly and Mona. Thank you. So. Yes. All right. So, yes, Shweta says she talks about gut health. She's not the only person in the world talking about gut health. Of course, there are many more famous people than her talking about gut health. But guess what? We need to hear it from her. Her audience needs to hear it from her because she has a unique story. Her own life, her own experiences.  And she has a way of saying that's different from everybody else, just because she's her, just because of the life she's lived. Right. Captain says relationships is one of the things he talks about. Well, his relationship is not exactly the same. Right. The relationships he's experienced is not exactly the same as everyone else's relationships. Now there's something unique about it, of course, because that's just the way human beings are and the way that he's going to say it inevitably is going to be different. I mean, unless any of us are literally copying and pasting entire paragraphs from other people, just just by us typing something, it's going to come out differently. Right. So you are already unique. You need to show up enough so that others and one more thing I'll say is this when you show up, right? When your audience is watching your video, when your audience is reading your post, you are the only person they are reading or watching. They are not at the same time reading or watching somebody else. They're reading or watching you right now. You're only watching me. You're not watching Gary Vaynerchuk. You're not watching Phil Neblanc.  I'm actually really curious.  But who would you compare me to? I love to know. You're not watching that other person. You're watching me. So I'm unique to you in this moment. Isn't that true? It's the same thing. When someone is reading your blog post, you are unique to them right there.  And so you need to love them. You need to care about them.  So I hope this is helpful. Shreta says our voice carries different resonance that will connect with the right people. Absolutely. So thank you. And I wish you courage and love as you continue to show up for the audience that so need and want what you offer. Be well.


computers cooperate. But I'm good, we should be live any moment here if we're not already. I'll wait to get to the official green light. Copy that link and the page loads. I'll say hi, my friends. Cool, drop the link in there. Do you all have the minutes? I will drop that in the chat. Some housekeeping here for everybody. And yeah, so we're live. Thanks everybody for joining another episode of the OpenJS Foundations Cross-Project Council Meeting. Today is the 11th day of the fifth month. Thanks everybody for joining. Where do we start? Do we have any announcements? It's a good place to start, right? Always, I mean, we're coming down to the last few weeks ahead of OpenJS World. We're really excited about the program and we hope everybody here has had a chance to register. We've got some channels open in our Slack word now. So if you wanna come sort of like preach out about any of the topics and also kind of related, we're recruiting folks who wanna come help moderate and prompt discussion in those channels. Please let me know if that's you. That's, these are the big ones. I've been out of the office for two days. So now I'm like, what's going on? I forgot. What are those channels? Oh yeah, so they're all prefixed with OpenJS World and I can just run through. So we've got OpenJS World Automation, community, development, performance, security. Obviously we've got a speaker help channel and a general channel as well, just sort of to make up some extent for that hallway track that we're missing out on by not being able to be together in person. But next year, next year, Boston, 2022. Hearing a little bit of background noise in an off, somebody's got a TV on or something. That's my washing machine, I'm needed. Washing machine? It sounded like a TV to me. That's hilarious. Funny, funny, funny. Cool, sorry to interrupt. Anything else, like we've got some great featured speakers and stuff. I can't recall if we have anything new there or anything. Yeah, I must say it's really impressive. It's great, congrats. It's rare to see a lineup like this. It's amazing. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I'm excited about it. It's all your friends, everybody watching, sign up. OpenJSworld.com works, right? So go check that out. Anything else, anything from the board? Anything before we get into the agenda? I think it's worth mentioning that, oops, I'm on mute. No, you're not. I think it's worth mentioning that the kickoff meeting for the package vulnerability management collaboration space is later today. Some confusion, my fault, that it was the same time as this meeting, but it's at three, so 12 PST or three Eastern. I see. Now it makes sense. It's not the package maintenance team and node. It's the collaboration space in OpenJS. Cool. That's right. Cool, great. That's exciting. And the only other board-related thing, we've got an issue to talk about it so I'll wait until then. Okay, all right, cool. All right, well, with that, I'll just mention again real quickly, we'll save a little bit of time at the end for some private business and we'll jump into the agenda. And of course, if anybody can help take notes, that's always appreciated. We mark you down on a list and send you a card at the end of the year. The first item on the agenda is create proposals for the community fund. Maybe this, Michael, is what you were referring to. No, but related. Okay, Toby, you open this issue. Do you wanna add any context or elaborate? Just a placeholder to make sure that we actually do it. So, well, it ties into the issue that Michael is gonna speak about. So we can speak about it then or however you wanna handle that, Michael. Let's talk about that one now. Let's do the other one, yeah. So the one that I did mention was the ad travel allocation fund for 2021. Yeah. So we'd given a short update in the past that we'd taken to the board, they'd passed it on to the Audit and Finance Committee to discuss the discussion concluded. And so I updated the issue that the fund's been restored in the budget to the 60K and it's also being renamed in the budget to be a community fund. We've never spent the full amount in terms of travel and the ideas that, or the expectation is that it'll be used for things in travel but also for other things. And it's now up to the CPC to propose what those things might be and the governance around how the funding would be, how would we would review requests to use that funds? How do we approve them? The same way we have a good process for travel in terms of how do people apply? How do we approve it? And then how do they actually get paid? Yeah, that's, I love this idea. I like converting it from a travel fund to a community fund. How do we propose we kind of workshop this out? Should we spin off a different session? Should we try to spend a little time at the end of the meeting? What do we wanna do? I think this is important and something we should get some work done on. I mean, for starters, if we wanted to, we could just come back to it at the end of our agenda but I'm open to other ideas if we want to. Well, the team put together a draft proposal, Brian. I don't know how you want to share that the best way but we have some mud on the wall. So to speak on some ideas. Yeah. I'm trying to find it, one of the thousand of open tabs I've got here so I can share it. Can you just share the screen if it's something we have time to do? Yeah. Well, I gotta find it first. Well, why don't you look for it, Brian? Why don't we just come back to this after we get through the agenda and then we'll, we can see how much time we have to dig into it a little further and Brian can share what you all have, the spaghetti you have on the wall. That's good. All right, cool. Great. So updating voting member term info, looks like it's the next agenda item if I didn't skip anything because sometimes I do. This was opened two weeks ago per 745 which is the members election. This is a poll request. Joy, did you open this any? Yeah. So this just came out of acknowledging a gap that Emily actually identified where we missed, we forgot to open the election for voting CPC members and we wanted to make it clear in the language that if we did that, that the current person serving those roles would just continue to serve those roles until such time the election changed. So I added some language and thanks Emily for catching that potential gap. So that's all that's about. Okay, so that's pretty straightforward. I put my thumb on there, looks good to me. And we got a lot of approvals. It's been open for 14 days. So this is probably even something we can just land if we think it's good, is that right? Land it. Land it. All right, I'm squashing and merging. So that's what I do. Cool, that's done. Thank you, Joy and folks for working on that. I appreciate it. Great. One just thought, I'll kind of throw out there and I think we kind of always mentioned this at different times, but do we have like any sort of reminders set up for these different points in time that we need to be doing things like elections? Do we have anything on the calendar? Should we set up a GitHub action that's just on some sort of cron that fires off an issue with a label? As I mentioned in the Comcom meeting to Joe, I'm happy to work on that. I have some other more pressing Comcom work to be doing, but I'm happy to work on that here soon. That exact GitHub actions thing is what I suggested there. Awesome, awesome. Would you do me a favor, Tierney, and just take a quick moment and maybe create an issue for it just so we come back to it or something? What do you think? It's not something that I do under this. I wouldn't do it under OpenJS, I'd be doing it under the PKGJS stuff. I'd prefer to centralize that into one space rather than doing it in all of the spaces that it would apply to. But yeah, I'm happy to create an issue in the package maintenance repo, if that makes sense. I'm just thinking about for our tracking, not specific to the work that you're doing, but just like, hey, we should have an issue or we should have something in place that helps us to not lose track of these things. I'll follow one, Joe. Great, I mean, yeah, I think that's a good point. I can drop these on the public calendar as well. To your point, that would be a good way to track it as well, Joe. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think... That is also how we've done it in Node and we have also ended up missing those, so yeah. Yeah, it's a little bit of something, but I think definitely having a GitHub action or something that would create an issue would be super ideal, it gets right on our radar. Excellent, thank you, everybody. Cool, so moving on, this is the nominations open for voting members chosen by regular members. This has been open for two weeks. It seems that Michael is maybe the one person that has publicly commented that they would run again. Let me look at the wording here. So is the direction here that they would comment in this issue or...? E-mail you. I may have mistaken that, I thought it was a comment there, but sorry if I did the wrong thing. No, that's all right, that's all right. So when and when does this close? Nope, okay. Sorry, does anybody know when this closes? I think it's today. Okay, because it's supposed to be open for a week if I remember right. We have, because we messed up earlier last year, we ended up doing a whole thing where there's a whole structure for this. So look it up in there, but I recall it being a week. Okay, if it was a week, then we're long past it being closed, is that accurate? Or maybe it's two weeks and we're now at it. Okay, I mean, should we call it closed? The nomination period will be open for two weeks in the issue. Okay, and so do we want to be particular and say till the end of the day or do we wanna just close it now and talk about it? I can say that I have two people that have, Michael commented here publicly and someone else contacted me directly. I think that that's all that I've seen in terms of activity on this. I would personally give it till the end of the day since it's exactly 14 days ago it was open. So just to be, I would like to go past the time. Yeah, and that's good too. I can go through and make sure I'm not missing any emails or anything, but I'm pretty sure it's, I just have two people, one additional to Michael. So, all right, great. So this is, notice this is ending at the end of the day. Somebody is interested and hasn't reached out to me or commented publicly, please do so. And we can talk about it soon. Toby? There are one or two seats for this one. One for the CPC. Two? Two, currently held by Michael and Emily. Cool. Yep, cool. All right, well, that's that. We will move on and I'll try to remember to post something to that issue tomorrow. Great, Slack moderators. I know Jory has mentioned this earlier. This is issue 747. We're looking for volunteers to help be moderators on Slack. Or is this, so is this, I always get this confused. I would say it's more than a moderator. Think about it as you're the host in the MC of your own channel for the time period that you would love to sign up. Yeah, I find the term moderator confusing because I always get confused as to whether it's like a COC, you know. Yeah, I think maybe it's worth possibly either editing the issue to clarify. There's actually two asks here. Like one is that longer range of availability to help in an ongoing capacity for the rest of the year help foster a healthy community in our Slack. And the second ask is more timely, which is being that MC as Robin said to these channels specifically on OpenJS world for helping to foster great discussion and help with like the Q and A sessions and that kind of thing if you are available during those time periods. So those are the, they're different asks you can do both. I see Emily has a hand up. Just about the previous thing, Joe I think you missed the other one because we've got two elections, both for two people, both in the same scheduling. You said one of them you had two candidates for. Do you, what do you have for the other one? That's a good, see, I mentioned earlier that I have a habit of skipping agenda items. So let's get back to the moderator's thing really quickly and in a moment and look at this one. Sorry for skipping this. This is issue 751. This is nominations open for non-impact voting CPC member election. Currently it is Toby and Chris Hiller. Chris mentions he will not be running, you know, re-nominating and I think the process is the same here to reach out to me. Is that correct? Trying to scan this really quickly. That is at least my understanding from reading what was written there. Okay. Yeah, if I don't know if I have anybody having reached out to me on this. Well, you got at least me. You? Okay. You volunteered for, yeah. Yeah, so we have two elections open and I'm mixing them up from memory. Okay. I volunteered for both. That's why I'm choosing me. Okay. All right, so that's out there. Does that mean Emily gets two votes if he gets elected for both? I think I'm setting us up for an interesting discussion on that. Yeah, anyway, just you. Did you really get Emily started on a topic like this? Yeah. All right, let's clear our other business. I would love to do this again if we actually did it better than what we did last year. I feel like we failed, well, I feel like I personally failed it to be a good conduit of smaller projects and I have a relationship with them. So if we were a bit supported to organize something and if Emily was interested in doing that, I would really want to do it. If it's just to do it as I did it last year, I don't feel like I'm doing a good enough job to do it again. That's fair. And this one is also, if I remember right, two, or is it just one that? I think it's two again, two for each of those elections. It was Chris and myself, Esther. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I think it would make sense. I like what you're saying, Toby, and I would love to make these roles more productive for lack of a better term. Is that something that we can help the two people who are elected build that out further? Or do you think that's something that the CPC as a whole should, you know, how should we go about doing more there and fleshing it out further? I mean, essentially, I think what I'm suggesting there is if Emily's interested to do more, I'm happy to join him in doing more in that space. And we can sort of like try to figure it out and like ask for help. And so that's kind of like, essentially my ask is if Emily, if you want to do the second, like the at-launch projects, I would like to do it with someone was the, you know, was the idea of like really built, I don't know, building maybe like office hours or like something where we create a stronger relationship with like the smaller projects. That's essentially, I'm looking to get involved with this for like a partnership to do something better than what we did. I'm happy to help there too. Go ahead, Emily. That does sound like a really good idea. I mean, I'm standing here in part because I am one of the small project maintainers here that we've got. And I would be very interested in finding ways to, first of all, network in some way with the others who are in a similar role and to get a wider understanding of what if any issues they might have that the foundation might be able to help them with and vice versa. But I don't have an idea yet of exactly how to make that happen. Some of the discussions in the tech direction stuff that we've been going through recently have prompted some interesting topics too, to also pursue there. But yeah, I mean, I was very happy for the last year to be representing the non-voting members effectively, the regular members, because that kind of is easier because these people are semi-defining themselves to be active participants in the activities of the foundation, whereas the maintainers of large projects in general are not. Some of us are, but many are not. And it does mean that the position, I think, would benefit from having more outreach happening there. And it would be, if anything, an interesting challenge to try to build on the current situation. Yeah, you have the benefit of the birds too, talking in your ear and giving you advice. So that's interesting. I think I like this idea. I think even maybe if we just threw something on the calendar every other week to kind of work on this more, it could be an open meeting, open hours for non-impact maintainers and members to join and talk about things, but also could be a time just set aside if nobody does do that for the three of us or whoever wants to get involved to work on supporting the projects more and engaging with them more and such. That sounds better than not doing anything. So I'm excited about that. Great. Would you do me a favor, Toby, and throw something in an issue? So like maybe something on the calendar or however we want to approach it just to kind of have something tracked. It does raise the question though. I mean, if emailing gets elected for both of these things, is that cool? Is that, how does that work? Is that- I'm very happy to stand out. This is one of the reasons I asked earlier whether we're doing the elections in parallel or sequentially because previously we have never had this issue of possibly selecting a person for two things at the same time. I'm very happy to stand down if anyone else would effectively be interested in the role or one of the roles here. And on the other hand, I would be also very happy for us to use this as a test case to see what should we do with absolutely no expectation on my part of getting any benefit of it myself as if we've like almost ever even built it on anything. All right, cool, cool. Well, let's just, you know, let's we'll figure it out I guess as we go. I don't know. That's what we'll do. One thing I was going to suggest just process wise, like Toby, if you're going to run for the other position it's probably good if you just sent Joe an email saying, hey, I'm gonna do that. That way we don't have to figure out what we do if we, you know, you want to volunteer afterwards. Yeah, thank you, Michaels. All right, awesome. And I'll dig through. And again, another instance of if you have an interest in either of these two open roles, please shoot me an email, josepijoesepi at ibm.com. And we'll move forward on both of these issues and we'll figure it out as we go. Great, thank you. Back to issue 747, the Slack moderators, I would ask maybe Jory if you can clarify the description on the kind of two aspects of the ask here. Regardless, I'm happy to help on both of them, but it would probably be helpful. Anything else that we want to talk about on this issue or highlight or promote or encourage or anything? Just. No, just especially if you're interested in helping, you know, with the event. And also if you're interested in helping kind of make it a, the Slack work space more useful to people and, and you know, all that I'd love for you to get involved. And I would add one thing that for the event we're having Slack or booking Slack engagement opportunities and multiple time zones. So you can do it at the time zone that works best for you during your day. Cool. All right, well, we've got another meeting or two before the event, I'm not sure. So we can leave this on the agenda and check back on it as well. Cool. Oh, look, is this another election? Am I, am I crazy? Oh, no, so this is voting CPC members election. Maybe this is the one that spawned the other two issues. Is that correct? That's correct. And we've, we've, I think started to resolve two of the three and actually we've started to resolve all three of them. There was three points. One is we got to run the election. Two is the language clarification which we just learned about PR. And three is tracking these events moving forward either via an action or a calendar. So I think this one we can probably close because we have things to resolve the three kind of pieces that we have right here. All right. So closing this issue as we have other issues needed to address the items here. Great. Excellent. And then the last one, Brian, do you have any update on DCOCLA? This is issue 632. No, I will reach up to maintain her again. Okay, no problem. I actually, when you joined us like, oh, maybe that, maybe there's something there. No pressure. No, I don't need to guilt you or anything, but it just, I was reminded of this issue. Yep, absolutely. I got you. Cool, cool, cool. On a related note, I realized earlier that message format is still using the JS foundation CLA. Do we have steps somewhere they've told about how, how should one switch from the JS foundation CLA to the open JS foundation CLA? So Emily, we can do that pretty easily. There are some steps that I haven't written down for open JS, but which have worked in other communities. And it's basically a few, there are a few parts of the process. Most of it's actually documentation and preparing people for it. I am probably looking pretty open later on this week. Maybe you and I can find some time to sit down and just go through it. The most important. Yeah, the most important part of that is for the core maintainers, we try and get them onboarded initially before we turn anything on so that it doesn't interrupt their workflow. And that's kind of the main thing I wanna make sure we get that here. Cool, opinion and slack, does that work? That works great, thank you. Cool, so moving on, there's one more item on the agenda. This is the NBM charter review. This has been open for a couple of weeks. I know we've got a few thumbs, several thumbs and rockets and I don't know what you call that thing. Confetti horn. Ta-da. Ta-da, yeah, but do you call it a ta-da? I thought, anyway. I think so. Party popper. Yeah, there you go, party popper. I like that. Jordan, do you want to comment here and just kind of update us on where you feel like we are in terms of people's comments? I know we've got a lot of approvals, but what do you think? Where are we at? On the NBM charter? Yeah, I mean, it seems okay. Like every comment that has been made, I've addressed the feedback as far as I can tell. So if someone disagrees, of course, I'm more than happy to fix it, but I don't want to accidentally rush past any feedback, but it seems good. Yeah, scrolling through it looks good. Yeah, we've got Toby and Emily on the call and Sarah, well, Sarah gave an LGTM too.  I think I added a spaceship, a rocket, whatever. Oh, nice. I should have looked up. I think. Yeah, all the emoji reactions are good and everything somebody's asked to fix has been fixed as far as I can tell. Cool, well, that's exciting, right? I mean, this is near the end for incubating NBM. Is that correct? It's the final item. So I think it is the end. Is there, correct me if I'm wrong, is the final item, the PR that actually moves it from the read me to like the at large? I feel like that was sort of the like. Yes. Yeah. Okay, so I can close the charter review issue and then I'll make that PR go from there. That's perfect. Thanks, everybody. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Cool. So we've got, if we're gonna close out 10 minutes early to do some private business, we've got about 13 minutes to get back to the community fun stuff. I see Brian just shared something. Let me look at this because I could share my screen if we want. Does that make sense? Sure. Okay, I'll do that, why not? I really quickly put together a proposal template. So bear in mind that it's really quick. The main thing you wanna look at would be in this PR that I just dropped in the chat, community fun process. It's marked down file in the same directory. And that actually has the details. Oh, was it the draft proposal? Is that what you're talking about? That's it. Okay. All right, it worked. So let me just maybe walk through the basics of this. The goal of this was to put together, well, the goal of this is to separate the actual process, like the logistics of how people request funding and how they get paid from the process of deciding that. And so one of the requests that came from the board was that the CPC put together some proposals here and really be able to articulate what exactly is this going to be used for? And the reason I bring this up is I say that's specifically excluded from the scope of what I'm doing here. This is just how do we get from point A to point B as efficiently as possible once the CPC has decided to use the funding for something and when somebody's ready to start applying. Now, a couple of things to bear in mind here. Again, many of these things in here are being taken from the process which we were using back when it was the node travel fund. It does involve having things tracked on GitHub in the public, particularly the decision making process but did make a few tweaks that just based upon past experience in places where we had to hang up some confusions where I think it may make things a little bit easier. One of the key things is recommending that we have a separate repo to be able to track these approvals given that it doesn't really cost us to have an extra repo. This also allows us to have dedicated issues and issue templates for people to be able to approve or to request being a part of the community travel fund and it just kind of cleans up things and makes it less likely that things are going to get lost. One of the other things that's changed from this we had a lot of administrative issues with the markdown file getting really big and gnarly with a bunch of PRs against it. The idea here is that we're going to at least in this proposal was trying to simplify that down so that we don't have a bunch of cooks in the kitchen and end up with merge conflicts and data getting lost. So there are a lot of little things like this where they are just tweaks on the old process but hopefully we'll just make it a little easier to know where we are and where we've come from. As far as the actual payments process goes, one of the other big changes since the last time is that we now have a tool that allows us to really efficiently get payments out to people. It also keeps a public ledger so we know exactly how much has been spent and who it's gone to. It's one of the LFX tools. We're using it in other projects and it seems like it would be a port over well to this particular process. So at this point, I'm sorry, I was just gonna close up. Robin, Jory, Rachel and I have put eyes on this and it hopefully is ready for your review. So I was gonna ask if you wanted me to interrupt with questions if you wanted me to wait so thank you for answering that without me having to ask it. Public ledger, is this blockchain stuff? No, no, it's LFX Community Bridge, or sorry, LFX crowdfunding tool, which there's a website that you can go to that says here's exactly who has been paid and when. So we're not putting it on the blockchain just yet. Okay. I was asking this jokingly in the chat. I can't believe you asked this seriously, this is awesome. Ironically though, they will be paid with Dogecoin. So yeah, that's my one question. How do people get reimbursed? Like how does the money actually get sent to them? Is it? Yeah, so it's pretty straightforward. So basically, I'll describe it from the tops down here. So at the beginning of the process, the CPC says or somebody applies for a fund of some sort. CPC says, okay, the person does the thing they apply for reimbursement. At that point, I or somebody else would get a notification that they've applied for reimbursement through the LFX site. Whoever it is, in this case, probably me who is administering this would then go check and just make sure is this the person that we're expecting who the CPC approved and is the amount correct. So this is the same thing I did before. Once that goes through, then the person submits their forms. If they're a US resident, they have to submit a W-9. If they are an international person, then they would have to submit a wire transfer form. And then it just goes through our normal reimbursement process. Is there any options other than wire transfer? So if you are, this is kind of getting down into the weeds on the logistics. But if you're domestic in the US or in a certain number of other countries, it can be done through ACH. Otherwise, if you're international, it's wire transfer. So I just know that like wire transfers very expensive for people. Yeah, and so there are certain things that we can do here. It should be expensive for them to receive a wire transfer, right? I got one from the foundation and I know it was like $40 or something like that. Yeah, sometimes that does happen. For the foundation, it's kind of for you. No, for me. Like basically it was, I got a $40 charge in my bank account. And that's why I'm asking, because I know that that's one thing with the existing thing we could improve. It's fairly common. Yeah, unfortunately it is. Maybe not. Yeah, and this is one of these things where we can address this by grossing up the amount that we budget for people. So for example, if there's, if somebody's getting 50 bucks and their bank takes a $40 cut out of it. Yeah, it's kind of nice. Exactly. So yeah, so and this is something we could just do administratively and say we will cover the wire transfer fees. It just means you gotta budget it in, but it's something which has come up in other contexts as well. Trini, do you have your hand up still or is that? I know that's from before my bed. Okay, no worries. Is there, oh, I have to figure out how to put my hand up. Is there a hand? Oh, I see that on my website. So your audio is also real choppy. Is that? Oh no, okay. That's probably not helping me. I'm not helping. Intuitively. Okay, how about if I could just look at my phone? Same. Terrible. Okay, not better. Not better. You might want to rejoin? Not better. Yeah, no. Okay. I wanna talk about my question in Jeff. I do wanna point out, Brian, that I really like your pragmatic suggesting to dealing with bank transfer cost issues. I really like that. This is a common problem that I'm being not a US citizen. I see all the time and it's good to have good solutions for this. Agreed. Sarah's question is, would it be possible for the foundation to spend the money on behalf of the person in some cases? So, Sarah, that's a really good question. And there are some nuances here with the way that this works. The process as it's proposed here is reimbursement based. And that basically, there are a couple of limitations for a reimbursement based process. So for one, somebody needs to make the initial payment or somebody needs to, if somebody, for example, is going to be traveling, they would make the initial payment themselves for the ticket and then get reimbursed for it. And this is consistent with the way that the No Travel Fund has originally run. We didn't book things on people's behalf. Now, if there are an exceptional circumstance, like, I'm trying to think of an example of this, if there were something which was... I mean, I can give you an example from Node where we had people who wanted to participate and come over from Africa and we had the funds but they weren't able to front the money themselves. And that specific situation has happened multiple times where other project members just ended up fronting it for them and then getting reimbursed for them. Yeah, and thank you, Tierney. That's a good example. And that is the way that this process would work is that somebody with a credit card needs to make the initial payment to get reimbursed. You also, at that point, one of the reasons which we have shied away from this in the past is that if somebody doesn't travel, for example, if I were to pay for somebody's ticket and then they didn't travel, I would be on the hook for it. And the idea here is that in the past, the policy has been if somebody doesn't travel and they don't get reimbursed. So we want to avoid frivolous, somebody else paid for my ticket but I woke up feeling on the wrong side of the beds, not gonna go. That's the situation which we're trying to solve against. Although that, of course, does... It's challenging to apply that completely across the board because there are always going to be exceptional cases. I think if that were to come up, then we can look into other ways to address it. But by and large, we found that the most successful policies have been in such a way that the original person who's requesting it does have something, some sort of an involved interest, whether they've paid it, they have to actually travel in order to get reimbursed or whatever the case may be. Yeah, that's interesting. I guess you can probably see how that can be exclusive rather than inclusive. And I think that that's something that the projects in the Foundation probably care about. And I'd like to see if at least in the future we can potentially try to solve for this rather than putting others at risk to include marginalized and minoritized folks. Yeah, and it's certainly something that I think we could look at on a case-by-case basis. It's certainly, if there were an exceptional case, then I think we could probably figure something out. Yeah, I'm even thinking in scholarship perspectives if we wanted to do something, for example, on certifications. It's just maybe a pool and a ticket and a coupon that we can issue, but then the funding would happen on the backend, right? Yeah, yeah. Toby, how's their hand up? Yeah, I also want to channel Sarah who's saying similar things to what I wanted to say in the chat because her headphones are going wonky, I assume. Do we actually have a history of existing abuse of funds like this at the Foundation? Because I understand sort of doing defensive design around this, but when we do defensive design like this, as Tyranny pointed out, we actually do exclude people. And I know that we can then have sort of deal with special cases, that makes sense, but then actually knowing that you can be as special cases, daring to stand up to be a special case is another way of excluding people. So I'm always concerned when we start off by thinking that people will do the wrong thing rather than the right thing. And I'm feeling that that's kind of what we're doing here. I definitely understand it. And we have in the past had this situation. So it's definitely come up in the past. And I mean, you never want to be the one who has to deliver the message of, well, you didn't comment, you don't have a valid reason. So you need to reimburse us for the ticket or you need to pay for the ticket yourself, but we have had to deliver that message in the past. All right, let's put some more thought into this aspect. I think it's really important and maybe come back to it next time and talk about it some more. The attorney's got a comment in the chat that something similar has happened in the past with mode. But we do need to jump to private business and Joy's got a drop as well. And I agree with your comment there, Toby. So I'm gonna stop sharing and let's call it a wrap to the live public meeting. Thanks everybody for joining. Please join again.


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to a new Zor education. I'd like to solve a few problems related to limits. And in this particular lecture, I will consider limits when the argument of the function goes to some finite real number. Now, as usually my kind of preamble is that this lecture is part of the course of advanced mathematics for teenagers and high school students. It's presented on unizor.com. I do suggest you to watch this lecture from this website because it has lots of notes and exams for registered students. This website is free. You can take as many times exams as you want. And another important thing is I do suggest you to go to the website to notes for this lecture where all these problems are presented and try to solve them yourselves. That's probably the most important part. You do something yourself and then, only then, you listen to this lecture and check if your answers are more or less the same as whatever I will come up with. Alright, so let's do it. Now, what are we considering right now? We're considering the fact that the function f-attacks should go to some limit l as its argument goes to some real number a. Using the epsilon-delta language, which we were considering before a few times, what it means is that for any positive epsilon, however small, we can always find such delta neighborhood of a such that if my x is within this delta neighborhood of a, so the absolute value of the difference is less than delta, from this immediately follows that f-attacks would be in epsilon neighborhood of its limit l. That's what basically this means. This is just words and this is the exact mathematical definition of the limit. So, in this particular lecture, I will just exemplify how different limits can be calculated best in whatever the properties of the limits we know. We know a lot of properties. The first few examples are related to limits of a very simple nature. If you have a continuous function and then your argument x equals a and this is f-attacks equals l, for instance, this is l. So, if your argument goes to a, then the function basically goes closer and closer to this value l and the function f-attacks goes to its value at point a for continuous function. So, if your function is continuous, then instead of basically calculating what can that limit be, you can just go and use the value where x actually is approaching as an argument to a function and that would be the limit. And it's based on the continuous property, continuity of the function f-attacks. And most of the functions which are considered in school are continuous except certain cases when they're not obviously, but most of them are and I will just offer a couple of examples of these type of functions. So, the first example is a polynomial 3x3 minus 2x squared plus x minus 1 as x tends to 1. So, the polynomial functions are always continuous. So, in this particular case, you can just substitute the limit value of the argument into the function and you will get 3 minus 2 plus 1 minus 1 which is equal to 1. So, 1 will be the limit of this function. This function actually is going to the value of 1 as its argument goes to 1. And if you will draw some kind of a graph of this particular function, you will see that graphically it's actually the same thing. At x is equal to 0, it's minus 1. At x is equal to 1, it's 1. So, it's something like probably it's a cubical parabola they're saying and it looks like this. Since this is a positive, it goes to positive plus infinity if x goes to positive infinity. So, that's approximately the graph of this function. And it's obvious that as x approaching 1, 1 is supposed to be here. 1. As x approaching 1, the value of the function approaches to 1 as well. So, basically that's the simplest way, simplest kind of limits when you don't really have to think about how to calculate it. Just substitute the value of the argument, the limit value of the argument into the function and you will get the limit of the function. Now, another example of the same kind when you can just substitute into the function instead of argument its limit value is 2 to the power of x as x goes to 3. Now, same thing, 2 to the power of x looks something like this. So, x is equal to 3, function is equal to 8, 2 to the power of 3 and function is all the exponential functions are continuous. So, you can just use the limit value of argument substituted in function 2 to the third degree would be 8. So, this function goes to 8. That's simple too. What else do I have? Okay, trigonometric functions, sine of x. In this case, x goes to p over 2. Now, again, sine is something like this, continuous function. This is 0, this is p over 2, this is 1 and obviously you can just substitute p over 2 into the sine as a function and you will get the value of 1. So, this function would go to 1 as x approaching to p over 2. There are no problems with continuity in this particular case. So, the limit of function is equal to function of limit of this argument. And the last one which I wanted to consider is logarithmic function also continuous. So, decimal logarithm of 10x as x goes to 100. Logarithm looks like this. This is 1, this is 0. Now, this is decimal logarithm with a base 10 and it's a continuous function so you can just substitute and you will see that the limit is logarithm of 10 times 100 which is 1000. Decimal logarithm of 1000 is 3 because 10 to the third degree is 1000, right? 10 to the power of 3 is 1000. So, logarithm is the exponent which should be used with the base 10 to get 1000. So, this is 100 so this would be 3. Obviously not to scale but anyway. Okay, so these are all examples of different continuous functions polynomial, exponential, trigonometric and logarithmic. So, if you have just these simple functions or a simple combination of it then basically you are in good shape. Now, let's consider cases when it's not so obvious and my first case is the ratio of polynomials as x goes to 2. Now, what's the problem in this case? You cannot substitute 2 into this particular function because it will be 0 on the top and 0 on the bottom, right? So, basically it's indeterminate as they call it. So, what would be the graph of this function? Well, let's just make a couple of simplification before. So, you see, in cases like this you really have to think about how to simplify your function in such a way that the result would be more palatable and more understandable about how to take the limit of it, right? So, what is the simplification which can be done in this particular case? Well, it's obvious like this. x square minus 4 is equal to x minus 2 times x plus 2, right? It's the difference between two squares. a square minus b square is equal to a minus b times a plus b. The a is x and b is 2. So, you know that and that's very interesting because now you can say that x square minus 4 divided by x minus 2 is equal to x minus 2 and x plus 2, right? And you have x minus 2 in the denominator. So, that will be x x plus 2 for all x not equal to 2, right? So, this is equation, equality actually for every x which is not equal to 2. And 2 is exactly the limit point, right? Now, if 2 is a limit point, that's okay. We are not equal to 2. We are approaching 2, but we are not equal to 2. So, it means we are actually approaching to number 2 using this function. And this function is just a straight line, right? This is x, so this is x plus 2. And 2 is here. So, if x is 2, it goes to 4, obviously, right? So, this limit is equal to 4. 2 plus 2, that's 4. And again, I have just substituted instead of x square minus 4, it's different representation and I was able to cancel x minus 2 for every x which is not equal to 2. And that's quite alright because 2 is not part of my limit. It's a limit point, which means we can do this. For every limit point, wherever x is not equal to 2, we can calculate it. So, that's the first example where you have some kind of indeterminate limit and you have to do something, some kind of a transformation simplification, whatever you call it, to get to something which really is much simpler. My next example is this, 1 minus cosine of x divided by x square. Now, I would like to remind you a couple of so-called amazing limits. So, if you remember, sine x divided by x goes to 1 as x goes to 0. And another example, which is actually a definition of number e, e to the power of x minus 1 divided by x also goes to 1 as x goes to 0, if you remember. So, these are couple of amazing limits which I have already explained in some other lecture. And I will use them, obviously. Now, this is cosine, this is not sine, right? But, however, again, let's just think about it. You see, if you have a sine over x, remember, sine looks like this and x is equal to this. So, they are very much close to each other and that's why the ratio goes to 1. In case of cosine, that's not exactly true. Let's put graph of cosine. Now, this is my cosine, around 0.0, right? Now, we need 1 minus cosine. So, if this is 1, so 1 minus cosine would be very close to this. It would be something like this. Now, what does it look like? Well, it looks like a parabola, right? It's not like a straight line. And what it means, it means that there is a chance that they are actually close to each other. The ratio one against another might also be close to some constant. And to basically establish this, now, this is my kind of analytical research. You see, I do see the shape of the 1 minus cosine and I remember the shape of the x square, a parabola, and I think that they might actually be close to each other. All right, so let's just see if that's true. And that's exactly why this is x square and not plane x, because plane x is definitely not good in this particular case. Plane x would be looking like this. This would be my 1 minus cosine and x would be like this. Obviously, I cannot expect the ratio to be anything but 0. In this particular case, I have the hope. So how can I come up with something which is basically allowing me to do this type of thing? Well, let's just remember that cosine of x, which is cosine of x over 2 plus x over 2, is equal to cosine square of x over 2 minus sine square of x over 2. Or if I replace cosine with minus sine, it will be minus sine and another sine will be 2 sine of square of x over 2, right? Now, 1 minus cosine of x would be 1 minus this, which is 2 sine square x over 2, right? Now, we have a very interesting situation. We have this equal to 2 sine square x over 2 divided by x square. Alright, this is closer to this one. Well, I need something square divided by something the same. I have to have the same argument, right? So I will do it this way. 2 sine square x over 2 divided by x over 2 square. Now, I have the same arguments, right? As here, x and x, right? And since I have the same argument, now what did I do? Now, this is x square divided by 4. 4 goes there, so I have to multiply this by 4, right? That would be correct. Okay, now I can represent it differently. Now, I can represent it as 1 half sine of x over 2 divided by x over 2 square, right? That's the same thing. And I know that as x goes to 0, x over 2 obviously goes to 0 as well. The whole thing goes to 1. Square would be 1, so the whole thing would be to 1 half. This 1 half. So that's how I calculated this particular argument, all right? Move on. Let's move on. Okay, what's next? Next is 5 to the power of x minus 1 divided by x as x goes to 0. Now, obviously I have to somehow use this one, right? So how can I get from here to there? Well, here is how. 5 is equal to e to the power of logarithm, natural logarithm of 5. Natural logarithm is logarithm with a base e, right? So that's basically the definition of the logarithm. e to the power of logarithm 5 is equal to 5. So now I can have 5 to the power of x minus 1 divided by x is equal to e to the power of logarithm 5 to the power of x, right? Minus 1 divided by x, which is equal to... Whenever I'm having two different exponents, one after another, the exponents are multiplied, right? So it's x times logarithm 5 minus 1 divided by x. Now, if x goes to 0, x times logarithm 5 also goes to 0. So my easy way out is times logarithm 5 here and times logarithm 5 there. Now this goes to 0 and this goes to 0, so I can use this. It doesn't matter whether it's x or x multiplied by some value. It still goes to 0, right? So this goes to 1 and the whole result is this. So whenever I have this, it goes to natural logarithm of 5. Next, what's my next? Okay, next is sin x divided by e to the power of x minus 1. Well, obviously you just have to multiply it by x and divide it by x. Well, if x goes to 0, of course. And just group it differently and it would be sin x divided by x divided by e to the power of x minus 1 divided by x. This goes to 1, this goes to 1 and that's why the whole thing goes to 1. I cannot put 0 in the very beginning as a limit point because sin of x would be sin of 0 would be 0 divided by e to the power of 0 which is 1 minus 1 also 0. So it's again indeterminate. But after this I have everything determined because now I have basically the division of two functions each of which I know where they're going, where exactly they're tending to. Okay, and more. Next example is 1 over x square minus 3x plus 2 minus 1 over x square plus 5x minus 6. Now what's wrong with this? Well, if x goes to where? To 1. x goes to 1. So what's the problem with x going to 1? Well, this is if x goes to 1, 1 minus 3 plus 2, that's 0. So it's 1 over 0, it's kind of infinity, right? Now this 1 plus 5 minus 6 also 0. So it's another infinity. Now we have infinity minus infinity. So we have two different functions, each of them infinitely growing and the question is how their difference will behave. We have absolutely no idea. So to do this, the best way is just basically get to the common denominator and see what happens. So what is the first one? The first one can be expressed as x minus 1 times x minus 2, right? And the second one would be x minus 1 x plus 6. Am I right? Right. Now the common denominator is x minus 1 times x minus 2 times x plus 6, right? So I have to multiply this x plus 6 and this I should multiply x minus 2 and I have common denominator. Now what happens? Well now we don't have minus. Now we don't really have the problem because on the top I have 6 minus minus 2, I have 8 and on the bottom I have only 1 infinity because if x goes to 1, now this is going to minus 1, this goes to 7 so these are constants basically and only this one goes to 0 which means the whole thing basically does not have any normal limit, right? So basically the answer to this is the function has no limit because we really don't talk something like function has a limit of infinity plus we don't really know which infinity, positive infinity or negative infinity. If we are talking about positive or negative then we can say that the function is infinitely growing or infinitely diminishing but in this case we don't even know the sign of this because if x goes to 1 from the right, being greater than 1, this would be positive. If x goes to 1 from the left, from the 0, it would be negative so the infinity would be negative which means it all depends on how x is going to the 1 which means that there is no limit basically, that's it. So that's the case when you can say that there is no limit. Unless somebody will tell you, okay, x is going to 1 something like this plus which means it goes to 1 from the right or x goes to 1 minus from the negative side then you can say that in one case function would be unlimited growing or unlimited diminishing but if this is not said, if it's just like this, then the function just had no limit and that's fine. Next, natural logarithm of sin of x minus natural logarithm of x. Well, this is actually easy because we obviously know that the difference of logarithm is a logarithm of ratio, right? So this is equal to logarithm of sin x over x. I didn't specify x goes to 0 in this case. Now, if x goes to 0 then you remember the compounding function. So this obviously goes to 1 so the whole thing goes to logarithm of 1 which is 0. And the last one is another little example. Square root of x plus 1 over x minus 4 minus square root of x plus 16 over 2x minus 8 as x goes to 4. Now, again we have this situation when you have at the limit point this is equal to 0 and this is equal to 0 which means we have some kind of indeterminate one infinity minus another infinity and we have no idea about what's the difference will be.  So obviously x minus 4 and this is 2 times x minus 4 so that should become a denominator. So let's start with this. So it would be what? It should be 2 times x minus 4. That's the common denominator. This would be 2 square root of x plus 1 minus square root of x plus 16, right? I multiply this by 2 so I have the common denominator. Now what can we do with this one? Well, a typical example of how to deal with this situation is this and what we usually do we use this formula. Now this I consider to be this. So let's multiply it by plus and then we will have a difference of the squares. So let's multiply by 2 square root of x plus 1 plus square root of x plus 16 and divide by the same thing. 2 square root of x plus 1 plus square root of x plus 16. Now what happens now? Now this is a minus b, a plus b. So it's equal to a square minus b square which is 4 times x plus 1 minus x plus 16 divided by 2 x minus 4 2 square root of x plus 1 plus square root of x plus 16. Now what is this? 4x minus x is 3x, 4 minus 16 minus 12. So this is 3x minus 12. Well, let's factor out 3 and we have 3 times x minus 4, right? And this is exactly what I was going to do. So x goes to 4, right? Which means it's not really equal to 4, it's just approaching 4. And that's why we can do this safely. And what's left? Well, what's left are basically functions which do not have any indeterminateness among them. So we can just substitute 4 and we will get what? 3 over 2 times 2, so that's 4, square root of 5 plus 2, square root of 4 plus 16, 20. Well, square root of 20 is 4 times 5, square root of 4 is 2, so I can say 4 square root of 5. And then I can obviously combine them together and I will have 8. And that's the answer. So that's the limit. As you see, there are different techniques which I was using. What's very important is for you to basically be familiar with these techniques, to be able to know them, to be able to apply them whenever you want and to be able to see actually which technique you should use. And for this, I do suggest you to go back to Unizord.com, look at all these problems and go ahead and just try to solve them yourselves. Well, that's basically it. Thank you very much and good luck.


this late night talking there you go the sound of Harry Styles and late night talking and that's what we're going to be doing now talking of course about Heritage Week because they're over 90 events planned for Heritage Week here in County Donegal and the message is that there is something for everyone to let you to say and join the studio now by Joseph Gallagher Donegal Heritage Officer Joseph a very good afternoon to you they're good to have you with us on the show today thank you so Joseph this week or this year's theme rather is live in heritage tell us all about it yeah this year we're kind of focusing on the traditions and practices and knowledge and skills that have been passed down from one generation to the next and kind of trying to put a focus on that so again like you know kind of communities like there's a lot of local history in those areas but there's also like a lot of local traditions that would be there and you know some of those are disappearing and a lot of people are proud of those traditions and they want to share their knowledge about their local history and heritage so Heritage Week is really an ideal opportunity to do that and it's supposed to try and bring some of those stories to life and we've got some you know great people in kind of local historical societies and local Heritage groups who are very good at bringing those stories to life so if you want to find out about the traditions and skills in Donegal Heritage Week is a great opportunity to meet with local people and to find out sort of you know about the traditions in the county and of course a lot of those traditions now are you know particularly since Covid as well are regaining a new life and they're taking on a new forum so you know it's not just about the past as well it's about the present and how we can play our role in handing on some of those traditions into the future as well and is that a fear of losing some of these traditions as the years goes on well yeah I mean I suppose it's just the way the way the society is I mean we are we are losing traditions like you know that there are ones that fall out of favour again they're being replaced by by others but will become traditions as well in the future and I suppose that's kind of natural in society but I suppose what we want to do is we want to try and set a document and record and and convey sort of you know what those practices were and their importance in terms of the story of Donegal and the people of Donegal so like I said Heritage Week is really an opportunity to do that and then we'll be embracing sort of new traditions as time goes on as well yeah so keeping the current of the supposed traditions alive basically yeah and maybe maybe sometimes it's just kind of those traditions kind of being handed on in a different form like you know they're still there but they're being relayed in a different way you know with social media now there's a whole new opportunity there to promote our heritage as well whole new world basically absolutely absolutely and can you tell us about some of the events that will be taking place throughout the week yeah I mean it's it's a really varied program you know we've got we've got field trips there's guided walks there's site visits there's traditional skills demonstrations there's a number of open houses as well throughout the county there's exhibitions and talks and workshops historical reenactments and there's also kind of launch events so you know we're kind of encouraging people to basically go out and enjoy Heritage Week but also to support the local groups and individuals that have organized events for Heritage Week and it also might inspire you know people of all ages to get more involved in their local heritage because there's a lot of heritage that needs support and needs conservation and needs better management and again by doing that you know you're supporting kind of heritage professionals as well and you know there's there's supporting tourism because again a lot of our tourism relies on our our heritage and also kind of supporting kind of local businesses but the program in Donegal has always been very impressive and every year you know I say it every year but I really do mean it you know the quality of events every year you know just seems to increase and you know there's like I said there's over 90 events most of the events are free so this is really a great opportunity to try and explore the local heritage I mean some of the events that are that are going on now today over in Glen Bay and again Glen Bay National Park has has kind of a full program of events but they have an open day at the the Bridge House Education Centre so if you want to find out a bit natural heritage between 11 and 4 today and also next Sunday between 11 and 4 you can you can visit the Education Centre there in Ruffaux all days every day this week from 11 to 2 they've just closed now probably for for for today just last time but you you've got the rest of the week to explore that and it's our heritage and pictures again looking at the the heritage town of Ruffaux there's an exhibition also on in the courthouse in Lifford looking at a threat attract through time looking at sort of how traditions have changed over that period that's on from 10 to 4 daily the Workhouse and Dunfanny has a full program for events as well starting today tomorrow for example an interesting combination here history and yoga at the county museum yeah I was thinking about that earlier that that's an interesting one I that's it so I suppose it's kind of for the for the for the heart and the mind like you know so that's that starts at 11 o'clock and if you just contact the county museum just to to book your place on that so you can find out about the history of the place and then we like said get a little bit of exercise in as well and I suppose that's one of the things too about a lot of the field trips that are organized for Heritage Week it's not just about kind of relating the history or the the heritage of a particular area it's also a social event it's kind of meeting other people that have similar interests and maybe people from abroad who are visiting the county it's a chance to to meet people in the local community as well who are kind of you know kind of telling us about the heritage in their area but it's it's also kind of about getting out and getting some exercise walking around so you know again you know you're not you're not in a gym you're actually out walking around and you know you don't realize that you're doing perhaps as much walking as you as you could so it's a good opportunity to do that as well tomorrow evening as well in St Garvin's National School in Rathmullen there is also an illustrated talk on the wildflowers and aspects of built heritage in 17 townlands from Uchtar Linn to Los Willy and that starts at eight o'clock and again there's a great local history group there that that are kind of are promoting the heritage of the area there on Wednesday the Litterkenny Cathedral Quarter here they have the Litterkenny Cathedral Quarter experience and I say if anybody hasn't been on that tour it's only about 45 minutes it's a little walk around the Cathedral Quarter but you get to meet some of the the characters who lived in the area there's kind of the historical reenactments and it's really a wonder and there's one or two surprises as well along the way so I'd encourage you it's free it starts at 7 30 on Wednesday evening it's also on Saturday at 2 30 and like I said it's you'll find out about the history of the area but like I said you'll also meet some of the characters and in that Thursday then like in a nation there's eco in a show and again our natural heritage is really important as well because our heritage covers you know our natural built in our cultural heritage so it's very broad and they have a whole day plan from 12 30 to 2 30 talking about sort of our biodiversity in our natural heritage and that's in the Colgan Hall in Cairndona and in the Central Library on Thursday evening as well Dr Angela Byrne is giving a series of talks on life in society in Donegal in 1923 because this is the end now of the decade of Centenaries yes yes so she's giving that talk at various regional locations around the county but she happens to be in Letterkenny in the Central Library at 6 30 on Thursday evening so it's a good opportunity to catch up there and and then there's there's aspects of heritage too perhaps that that many people wouldn't be aware of and you know there's an exhibition on called A Resolute People which opens on Thursday evening between six and nine and also on Friday evening between six and nine in the Orange Hall in Newton Cunningham entitled A Resolute People the Story of Orangeism in the Republic of Ireland so again to find out about you know different traditions like you know and a chance to hear sort of you know the the different aspects of our heritage as well and so there's a great program there Friday then in the west of the county the treasures in our bogs again looking at our natural heritage you know many of us would be familiar with the day in the bog but also there's that they've got an exhibition there the the Donegal Gap Heritage and History Group they've organized an exhibition and also a concert that evening sort of around the theme of our natural heritage and about our bog lands so there's really a wonderful a wonderful program there and then like I said into the weekend there's a whole whole variety of other events as well so there's something basically for everyone in there there really is and like I said you know we could we could sit here all day and probably wouldn't get through all the all the different events like you know and there's there's a wonderful festival over which starts on Thursday as well over in the west of the county in Chamomile McGowan and there's things like a tour to Enish Boffin Island there's demonstrations of traditional skills there's talks about local traditions over over four days like you know so there's wonderful there's wonderful events going on out there and I would encourage people to to go along and support them and to to get involved in heritage in the longer term as well because you know it does rely I mean I suppose a lot of the the heritage management that's taking place through these groups is taking place on a voluntary basis and you know they're very proud of their heritage and again they want other people to know about it and but they can always do with that little bit of extra support as well so if you're interested in heritage and you'd like to get involved in your local area go along to some of these events there's lots of opportunities to do that as well because it's important as opposed to for even the area now and preserving things and having for for visitors to have these attractions for people to come to and see this was the way of life in Ireland say a hundred years ago well absolutely and again too I think it's important to say you know that the heritage sector really has played its part you know in terms of economic recovery like I said a lot of the work is done on a voluntary basis but again there are people sort of coming out of college as well that you know there are opportunities as well in the heritage sector and we need to make sure that that their skills are are recognized as well and the importance of heritage be it to our tourism be to our economic development or to job opportunities I think you know heritage really highlights the fact that there's greater investment needed sort of in our heritage sector to support that sector and to get more people involved in our professional basis in heritage yeah so there's something basically for everyone whether you have young kids or whatever like there's you know every every box is ticked basically absolutely and I suppose a lot of the a lot of the school children now will be going back to school in the next 10 days or two weeks like you know so this is kind of maybe a kind of a last opportunity as well to get out and and like I said it's a good opportunity for families to go out and see what's on and like I said there's so much going on all across the county and you know again for you know for families as well you know it's challenging time financially and with a lot of these events being free it's great to go along and support them and you know and and some of them you'll get a cup of tea and you'll get a pastry and and so on the the generosity of some of the groups is actually tremendous like you know so so people are interested or to think and might go to something they can check out all the events on the website that's right yeah the the heritage week is coordinated by the Heritage Council and the local authority heritage officers around the country so if you go to heritageweek.ie you get all the details there and you can search by day and you can search by county um you can also search by times you know so you can get the whole listing there you can also create your own events trail if there's events that you want to see and you can print that out and you can share it with your friends on social media as well so there's there's an opportunity to do that we've also got a listing and a day-by-day breakdown on the Donegal County Council website DonegalCoco.ie so the the details are there and some of the local newspapers as well have carried the listing in last week's papers you know and can you tell us too about the particular theme on Saturday August 19th it's Wild Child Day that's right yeah that's right there's two theme days and like you said Wild Child Day is on Saturday the 19th and it's that really encourages kind of children and families to go outdoors and to explore the natural heritage in their area and the biodiversity and you know again one of the one of the crisis now at the moment is biodiversity loss we've got biodiversity loss and climate change to nationally declared crises so there's a great opportunity and again we have we have wonderful ecologists again working in the area who are trying to convey that not in a you know not kind of overtly scientific but kind of trying to get people to engage about their heritage in their local area and there's some wonderful resources out there as well you know that that schools can use so again we'd encourage teachers and like I said families to go out on that day and to explore some of the events there and to also get their children enthused and concerned about our natural heritage and the stories that they tell but again above all I suppose the main thing is to have fun and to enjoy it and that's a lot of the events are targeted in that way yeah perfect just remind us again of the dates yeah so it started there on Saturday the 12th of August and it runs until next Sunday the 20th of August and like I said there's there's events where you're interested in the natural heritage the built heritage or our cultural heritage there's something there for everyone and you can find out a list of all events on the website as well on heritageweek.ie yeah that's perfect Joseph Galler will best of luck with the rest of the week and I suppose it's about telling people that get out there and enjoy I suppose the last couple of days we have of the summer and enjoy basically your history that's right and I think the forecast as well I think the weather supposed to improve as the week goes on so let's hope we get to get lots of people coming out for that keep the fingers and toes crossed Joseph Galler the Donegal Heritage Officer thank you very much for joining us here on the program get ready for an extraordinary summer at Manor Motors rev up your excitement with a brand-new oboe


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Hello friends, in this video I am going to demonstrate how to check for duplicates in Menli site. When we are using Menli desktop, we were having a separate option for check for duplicates. In Menli site, this option is not available. The most common problem which we encounter out of this Menli site is the duplication of the references. That is for example, now carefully look at in this document, the seventh reference that is Crane in MD et al that reference I am going to reset again in some place. Randomly here say for example, if I reset here thinking that it has not been already cited then automatically this will be considered as 18. Ideally it is supposed to be the seven because if we look at here the seven also appears same and 18 also appears same. But when we consciously do this we can identify and we can merge the reference but when we are writing the manuscript we may not know it consciously. So, this is one crude method which I am suggesting for check for instead of check for duplicates that is we need to copy this entire references go to Microsoft Excel or any other software like numbers or sheets. So, I have pasted here. So, now what I am going to do is I am going to sort and filter I am selecting the sort and filter A to Z I am going with expand the full selection. So, when I do this I need to carefully look at the alphabets it will be arranged in alphabetical order. So, it will be visible. So, there are two cranes available here. So, there is no other repetition this goal scene has come twice but these two are different articles. Likewise, we need to check manually. So, this is not going to be the easy process as here it is only there are 18 references we can do it easily but when it is exceeding above 50 and all it is a little troublesome process but you can do this at the end of the submission. So, now we have identified this 7 and 18 are the same references. Now, you need to note this down go back to your original article or the manuscript now you have to go to that 18 and you need to type in the craning reference that is craning reference. So, here this 18 has been cited you need to uncheck this and you need to select the craning which has been already cited. So, when you save changes so what happens is it changes to 7. So, here also the 18 18 reference will be changed that is it has been replaced to the 19 has become 18 and your 7 has been merged with the 18. So, that is the way which you can check for duplicates in mainly site in Zotiro it is available as duplicate items but in mainly site you need to follow this way as for as of now till they provide a new option with check for duplicates. Hope this video was useful to you. Thank you very much for watching this video.