We are deprecating rules by November 18, 2024. So let me show you how to migrate your Out Zero rules to Out Zero Actions. Hello everyone, my name is Karla and I'm a senior developer advocate here at Out Zero by OCTA. We recently announced a deprecation of Out Zero rules and hooks and we're focusing our attention on Out Zero Actions. But don't despair, this won't happen until November 18, 2024. So you have plenty of time to plan your migration strategy and to start migrating your rules. In this video, we're gonna focus exclusively on how to migrate Out Zero rules to Actions. We're gonna see some of the benefits of working with Actions, what limitations they have at the moment and then I'm gonna show you some conversion guidelines that you can take into account when starting your migration. And lastly, we're gonna go through some of the most common use cases and how to do that migration. We first introduce Out Zero rules as the first tool that allowed users to customize their authentication process. Rules are serverless code blocks that are executed right after a successful login but just before tokens are issued. Because we want to satisfy your extensibility needs, Out Zero has been working on a new tool called Out Zero Actions which cover most of the code-based customization needs. Let's talk a little bit about the benefits of using Out Zero Actions over our rules. Rules let you handle one authentication flow while Actions let you handle multiple flows. You have authentication, pre-imposed user registration, password changes, and so much more. Rules don't have an integrated version control system while Actions do. You can modify an action without affecting what's going on in production. You can create new versions and you can even go back to previous versions. Unlike rules, the Actions editors support code hints, isolated secret management, and even install all NPM packages. So overall, the developer experience is significantly improved. An important thing to remember is while rules and hooks are still available, they can live together with Actions. All you need to remember is that they will execute before Actions. There are some limitations that Actions have at the moment that you should keep in mind. With rules, you can share data with other rules in the pipeline by adding properties to the user and context objects. These properties are accessible in subsequent rules. In Actions, you can do this, although changes made in the user's main data can be accessed in subsequent Actions. Rules can modify some assertion or attributes while Actions can't. Rules have limited access to the out-serial management API and to the global and out-serial objects. Actions can't, but there's an alternative approach that I'll show you later in this video. If you wanna learn more about the limitations that Actions have at the moment, check the link in the description below. Let's take a look at some conversion guidelines you can use when migrating your out-serial rules to Actions. Out-serial rules allow you to customize your authentication flow. Because of this, when you're migrating existing rules to Actions, you need to associate the new Actions with the post-login trigger in the login flow. Now, I'll assume if you're watching this video, you probably already have some rules created and have an understanding of how they work and know how to create a new Action as well. If you need more information on rules and how to create new Actions, I'm gonna leave a link in the description below. Okay, so let's go to the out-serial dashboard and the rules section. As you see, I already have a few rules created and I want to migrate them with you during this video. Let's start with this last one called allow access during weekdays for a specific app. The name is pretty self-explanatory. If we look at the code, what this rule is doing is checking the name of the app. In this case, it's the app to check access to. Logging some stuff to the console for the sake of this tutorial and then is checking if the day is a Sunday or a Saturday. Then it's just simply not gonna allow you to use the application. So the first thing you need to do is to take the body of your rule function and move it to your action. So let's go to Actions. I already copied the body and I have an action created with the same name. Right now it's pretty empty because we're gonna be doing this together. So I'm gonna put the body here. And as you can see, this is not just a simple copy and paste and you're done. You actually have to make a few changes. So let's try to understand what these changes are. So the first thing that you're gonna notice is that the parameters in the function are different. With rules, we used to have a user, a context and a call by. And now in Actions, we only have an event and an API. So how can we translate the parameters from rules to the ones in Actions? So as a general rule, you can think that the read only properties in the user and context objects are going to be in the event object. So let's write these here. Read only props, user and object are gonna be in the event. Now any interaction with the running environment or if you wanna show a login error or modify the user metadata, that is going to be in the API object in the action. So anything related to the user data, you will find in the event.user object except for those attributes that are added by an identity provider or a custom database script. Something relevant to note here is that sometimes in rules, the user.app underscore metadata attribute could be undefined. This does not happen in action. The event.user.app underscore metadata is always present. Another thing you should keep in mind is that some of the variable names change names. So for example, in rules, you used to have a client ID and now we're talking about client underscore ID and so on. Now, if you notice, I purposely didn't talk about the callback parameter in rules. So let's talk a little bit about that now. In rules, you use the callback parameter to pass back the results of the processing. For example, in order to pass the control to the outside authentication process, which will probably rule the next rule, you should use the callback function and pass the user and the context object as it was done in our rule before. This is what you do when you want to stop the execution of this function. So whenever you want to stop the current logging process, you have to call the callback function with an error. If you did not have any errors, you can simply pass null as we did here. Now in actions, in case of failure, you can replace that instance of a callback function with an api.access.deny call. In case of success, you can simply put a return statement and sometimes you can even leave it blank because it will simply continue the execution until the end. Now let's summarize that a little bit. Basically, regarding the callback function, callback, basically if failure, then we want to do api.access.deny and if success, we want to do nothing or we can just return. So what I'm writing here is simply just a reminder to myself when I'm editing this code and hopefully it's useful to you as well as we go through the code. So since we already know how things change, what parameters map to, the name of some of the attributes type change and also how to replace the callback function, let's go ahead and edit this rule that we have here. So the first thing that we have is the context. We don't have a context anymore, but we do have an event and we need to get the client name from there. So a good thing about actions is that in the editor, you can actually test this and on the left side, you can see the event object. So before editing, I can either check this object and see how to access the client name or I can simply use the editor out of completion. So it would be event.client.name. And if you wanna double check because you don't trust me right now, we can see that in the event object, we have a client and a name. Right now we have a different name. So let's actually make sure that we use this name for testing purposes. All right, the next thing we should change is the user. So we no longer have a user and if I see my little notes here, it's in the event.user. So I'm gonna go with event.user and if you wanna double check again because again, you don't trust me. And the sad about that is event.user.email. So that's great. Then we get a few dates and here it's where I think they're a little bit interesting. So we have two places where we're using the callback function, one with an error and one just to stop the execution of the rule. So if we remember here, so if there is a failure, I can just call the API and deny access. So that would be api.access.deny. And you can put a message inside. Let's be consistent and use the exact same error message because we don't want our users to realize something has changed. This is looking promising. And then last but not least, you can do two things. You could write return here, but because this is the end of the function, it doesn't really make a difference. So we can just leave this as is. So if we wanna test this, we can go ahead and in the email, let's put a different email here. I'm gonna put Carla because that's my name and that way I'll know that this worked. We can click in run and see how this executes. It was successfully updated. And then here I can see the results, the snow error, which is good. I'm the one trying to access. Now, the reason why there's no error is because today is obviously not a Saturday or a Sunday because I'm working. But if, what day is today? So today is Friday. So if I wanted to test and see if I wanted to get an error, I can put this Friday. I can just force it to fail and try this again. And hopefully I'll get the error.  But here you go. So we get an error saying that the app is now available during the week and the access is denied. So this is what we did to migrate our rule. Now, let's go ahead and see some real life use cases and migrate them together. So I'm here, my out zero dashboard again and I have these three use cases is to add a custom claim to a token, update the user metadata and redirect users. Let's start with the first one. If we look at this rule, what we have here is we have a namespace and we're adding more information to the ID token. So keeping in mind what we did before when we were migrating the previous rule, let's copy the body of the rule function go to our actions. And I don't have a previously created one because we're gonna do this together. So we're all in this together. Sorry. All right, so we're gonna click on build custom and call it add custom claim to a token. What is important here to remember is the trigger because rules execute during your authentication progress. It should be the login post login trigger. We're gonna create that and we're gonna put the content of our rule in here and we're gonna translate it into actions. So if you remember we said in the conversion guidelines that the read only properties of the context and the user objects were going to be mapped into the event object in the actions. But what about something like the ID token? If you think about it, the ID token is something that happens in the current environment that we're interacting with. So keeping that in mind, it means that it's probably in the API object. So let's inspect that API dot and we can see we have the ID token here. And as part of the ID token, we can actually check the functions and we have set custom claim, which is exactly what we want. And what we're gonna put here is, we're gonna interpolate the string name and excuse my JavaScript here. I think it's like this, namespace, which is the namespace of my app. And we're saying favorite color. And then we want to add the value and the value is gonna be the favorite color from the user metadata. So if you remember, we no longer have the user object, but we do have the event. So we can do event.user.usernamedata.favoritcolor. So this first line will then replace line 11. So we can probably get rid of that. And we're gonna do the same for the next claim, which is the preferred contact. So we're gonna do api.idtoken.setCustomClaim. And then in here, we're gonna interpolate the namespace variable that we defined earlier. Prefer contact, contact, not contract. And also pass from the user metadata, the preferred contact. I don't know why I'm saying contract, but it's contact. And we can also get rid of that. And now we have a callback with no error, meaning we can just get rid of this. And that is how we add a custom claim using our serial actions. Now let's go with another example. Let's go back to our rules that we have defined. And here I have update the user metadata. Let's take a look at that. And what this function is doing is reading from the user metadata, changing some values, changing the preferences, changing the font size, and then it's persistent the user metadata after the update. Oh well, it's actually updating it, right? So once again, we're gonna copy this code and create a new action, build a custom action. And this is going to be update users metadata in the login post-login trigger. We're gonna create that. And we have this empty function. We put our code here and indentate properly because otherwise it's driving me insane. Okay, so let's see how we can translate this code or even simplify it a little bit. If you see, we're accessing the user metadata and the preferences and we're kind of like initializing that. So here what we can do is we can create a constant and call it user preferences and assign the event the user metadata dot preferences. And just like that, we can get rid of these two lines. That's great. Well, the next thing we're gonna do is to change the font size. So because we already have the user preferences here, we can just replace this part and just change the font size like that. The next thing we need to do is to persist the user metadata. So what we're gonna do is here we're calling the out zero users update user metadata method. This actually makes an HTTP code to the out zero management API every time you invoke it. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna do API dot user dot set user metadata, not app metadata, user metadata. What we're gonna persist is going to be the preferences and I'm gonna pass the user preferences object that we were just editing. And just like that, we can simplify this code and get rid of all of these callbacks. Not because this is the end of the function, we don't have to put a return or anything. And another thing to keep in mind is that as I said earlier, every time you call the out zero dot users dot set user metadata, that would end up in an HTTP request to the out zero management API. In actions, all the invocations that you make to the API user set user metadata will result in one single API call. And this will contribute to mitigating the risk of rate limit errors. Once that we have this rule migrated, let's go back to our rules and migrate the last one. This is another common use case. It is a redirect users rule. And this rule is meant to be used when you want to redirect the user to a different page to complete the loading process. Now this rule was drawn twice, before the redirection and on the response. Now typically you need to put the code of handling the redirection and the response in the same rule. And also you need to manually check which of these protocols is eligible for a user redirect. So let's go ahead and translate this rule. Once again, we're going to copy everything to to to go to our actions and create a new one. So we're going to build our new rule redirect users, same trigger login, post login. You're going to click on create. Now we haven't really covered this part yet, but if you notice in line 18, we have a function that is commented. So we're going to uncomment that. And the function is called on continue post login. And if we use our little editor and read the description, this is the handle that will be invoked when this action is resuming after an external redirect. And if you think about it, we were talking about this rule being executed before the redirection and on the response. So by putting part of the code in this function, we're going to simplify it a lot. So let's put the code here and see how we can do this. So if we look at this function, we see we have a few conditions going on. The first one is we're checking about the protocol, if it's a redirect callback or if it's off to password and so on and so forth. But we're also checking if the user has already been redirected or not. And actions probably can help us simplify this big condition. So let's check how we can do that. The first thing we can do is let's start with the simple one, which is checking if they haven't been redirected. So that is very, very similar, but instead of using both user is event.user. So we're going to do if the user hasn't been redirected and here's where the interesting part comes because in actions the api.redirect.canRedirect method actually takes care of checking if the protocol is eligible for a redirect. So basically if the user hasn't been redirected and the protocol allows it, we're going to redirect them right. So the way we write this with actions is we're going to say api.redirect.sendUser2 and we want to send the user to this URL right here. So we're going to copy that and put it here, like so. So we've already taken care or simplified all of this part here. Well, most of it if you think about it, definitely the redirect here, this is done. So we can get rid of it. The only thing we haven't done yet is to say that the user has been redirected but this should happen after the fact. So let's go ahead and use the new function that we discovered just now. So instead of doing it here in the onExecutePostLogin function, we're going to go to the onContinuePostLogin. So what we're going to do here is we're going to say api.user.setUpMetadata and we're going to say, we're going to use the same name was redirected and we're going to set that to true. With that, we can also get rid of this part of the code and this ends up pretty, pretty simplified. If you want to learn more about redirection on actions, I'm also linking that in the description below. Now with that, if we go back to our custom actions, that means we've already migrated our four rules into our four actions. Now that we have seen the conversion guidelines and that we've migrated some of the common use cases of rules into actions, you should have a better understanding of how the code differs from one to the other. But this is not the only thing that you should care about. You should also have a strategy to start your migration and avoid issues in production. Once you have a strategy in place and you have migrated your rules to actions, then you can proceed to activate your action and deactivate your rule. Just keep in mind that this task must be quickly in succession. Depending on the order, there might be a small period of time when both the action and rule are running together or neither are running. Also something to keep in mind is because rules run before deployed actions, something you can do is to start at the end of your rules pipeline and work backwards so you can keep some logic in your rules and test other logic in your actions. So in this video, you learned about how to migrate rules into our zero actions. We talked about the conversion guidelines and saw some of the most common use cases. Now let me know if you enjoyed this video and if you have any questions, leave it in the comments below. Thanks for watching.


Good afternoon everybody. My name is Aisayal. I am a small fruit entomologist at University of Georgia. And today I am going to talk about insect management for commercial strawberry production. In today's talk, we will discuss season at a glance tests, which tests occur what time of the year for strawberries. Then their management again will take a season at a glance look at their management options that we have. Then I will get discussed a few select pests in detail in terms of their biology and management. At the end, I will cover some aspects of pollinator management, which obviously are important in strawberry production systems. So when we look at a sort of a season at a glance, the pests of strawberries, starting with the transplant cutworms and aphids are important here at this stage of strawberries. And when you will look at this season at a glance slide, the green leaf shows that they feed on leaves. Strawberry shows they feed on fruit or flowers and these sticks will show that they feed on stems or branches of strawberries.  Moving on into winter, sort of later part of winter, two-spire spider mites they start, they all go all the way through flowering into fruit group growth period. They feed on foliage of the strawberries, then trips also they feed on flowers for the most part during flowering until initial fruit growth period as well. Strawberry clipper again feeds on flowers and sometimes smaller fruits. Also, if it's again are important this time of the blueberry growing season. Then we as new one lady like us bugs on especially on day neutral strawberries come into play early through starting with early fruit growth stage going all the way to harvest. Then we during the harvest, we have serious issues including set beetles, corn earworms, and spotted winged drosophila. Spotted winged drosophila has become more important for strawberries recently than it has been in the past as compared to some other berry crops where it has been key pest ever since it was detected in the mainland US. So now when we look at a management of those pests instead of a season at a glance look. When we look at post planting fall to early to mid-winter, crickets are important. We do have a couple options to spray cutworms. Cyclamen mites are important. We do have some miteside options, fire ants, obviously we can use those bits that are available here. And this screen that I am showing you now it comes directly from Southeast Small Fruit Consortium Strawberry IPM Guide. And a number of researchers from the region that get together every year to update this guide. So this is one of the best resources for you to learn about pest and disease management for strawberries. I highly recommend I'll share. I'll show you the main screen and link to access that in the end. So and then two spotted spider mites obviously we have a number of miteside options. Then we move on to pre harvest or bloom time late winter to early spring. If it's fire ants, flower trips, slugs and snails, strawberry clippers, two spotted spider mites. These are major pest, insect pest or other pest issues of strawberries and this slide does list options that we have to control them. Then we moved into the harvest period. Fire ants obviously still become issue, sap beetles, slugs and snails have become serious issues if we don't manage the moisture in the fields. Spotted when the safflower obviously is is one of the key pests. Tarnished plant bugs in mites they are still mites can be problem year round for strawberries. Now I will get into you know this gives you a season at a glance look, but I will show you share with you a little bit of details on some of the select pests. So one thing before you get into annual plastic culture practices do limit many pests of strawberries for example strawberry root vivo. Cyclamen mites they do with this particular system does help minimize impact of those those pests and also root nibbling diseases. So starting with the two spotted spider mites two spotted spider mites there. It's very small they will sort of difficult to see without hand lens adults are translucent greenish yellow to rusty brown or orange red in color and they're about a half millimeter long oval bodies of those mites have two distinct dark spots on even on each side. And which are which is sort of a distinguished fee distinguishing feature to separate these mites from other groups. This is actually accumulation of waste products within the body that is visible to their body wall. Eggs are clear white and spherical newly hatched larvae have only six legs compared to the eight legs as they go into older nymphs and adults they develop all four pairs of legs. Two spider spider mites the rate of development is highly variable and it is dependent on temperature ranging from five to 20 days to complete their cycle from egg to adult. So females basically they have about two to four weeks lifespan and the female can lay several hundred eggs during that time, which are enclosed in a fine silk webbing eggs hatch in about three days. And then six legged larvae emerge and undergo through two more thing. Two more to achieve the two nymphal stages. And then adults emerge after the second nymphal stage, and then adults they obviously restart the whole process that whole process can be completed within five to 20 days, depending on temperature and other conditions. Spider mite feeding on the, they primarily feed on undersides of the leaves, and sometimes stems also, they cause initial stippling, which is shown in the picture on the bottom left on the screen is sort of a white spots and eventually lead to chlorotic yellowing, or some times it's called bronzing or grain of the leaves and in severe cases necrotic and defoliation necrosis and defoliation can occur when populations are not controlled. Leaf deformities, stunted growth, parallel browning, build and reduce the food quality, the quantity and yield, quantity and quality are obviously the outcomes. These mites produce silky webbing and leave behind the skin castings and feces that reduce plants aesthetic value and ability to further synthesize. This is a good drink is relatively easy in a plot that is up to 10 acre in size you need to collect only 10 mid tier leaflets per acre. And observe them under 10 x hand lens if the field is larger than 10 acres then only five leaflets per acre would suffice. And this shows us if you have five mites per leaflet early in the season that maybe that may warrant application of mighty sites or if you have 10 mites per leaflet during fruit season, then that is when you need to make separate applications to control them. There are a number of options that I showed you in the season at a glance light as well, acromite with land, can might need to these are effective against all stages of their own savvy zeal. They are effective against eggs and juveniles. There's a lot of agrimac again juveniles and the dirt MP or the cultural oils these are organic, organically approved products which can be used for organic production. And the predatory mites obviously are the bio control option. If you want to go that route. The next pest group that I will discuss today is sap beetles, sap beetles feed on overripe fruit and are attracted to the cold produced by micro micro organisms feeding on this rotten fruit. There can be problematic in peach plum and apple productions systems as well. At least three species of right fruit feeding beetles are pests of southeastern strawberries. There are no thresholds developed for sap beetles in strawberries. At this point observe right fruit when is picking surface damage and tunneling. If harvest is anticipated to run long or if beetle damage is suspected date buckets placed at the edge of the field will attract small adults adults beetles. So that's that's one way to control that and cultural control is highly recommended for sap beetles. There are registered chemicals but those chemicals can cause issues with the during the harvest. We don't want to leave too much residues in there and minimize the pesticide application during that harvest time. Date buckets can also obviously serve as one cultural control strategy. Trips is another pest that has recently been problematic in some situations, especially these chili trips. They are serious pest in Florida and have been detected in Georgia as well. I'm not sure the status of chili trips in Alabama. But they are they have emerged as a serious issues, though both Larry and adults feed on strawberries underside the leaves. They have piercing and second pest mouth parts. They are originally from Southeast Asia. They have been several times intercepted and at the ports in Florida. And have been established in Florida since 2005 and in strawberries they have become serious issue since 2015. And now this is one of the key pests or one of the major pests in strawberry systems in Florida. The chili trips.  That can lead to leaf curling of the strawberries and the image in the middle shows that severe case scenarios of chili trips symptoms. And sometimes it also leads to bronzing and cracking of the fruit in this extreme situation. Several studies have been done in Florida as I mentioned this issue in particular is predominant in Florida, so lots of work has been done in Florida and they have developed management programs based on products here. Spinat Ram, Chlorinin, Traneleprol, and Acetamiprid, which is delegate, assail, and Ciazipir, or Xrel. These are effective products for management, obviously broad spectrum insecticides. All three of these products are reduced risk products, which is a better option to choose if there is a choice, but they'll be slightly more expensive, likely. Then you have broad spectrum choices like bifenthrin, which will be relatively less effective but can be used in some situations, and there will be less expensive option if you want to go that route. And we also have some biorational options that can be used for organic or other reduced risk type systems, which include azera and microtrol. And interestingly, these entomopathogenic nematodes when they were applied two times, they provided really good results. And the options are also available for organic growers and also other systems where reduced risk option is a desire. Now let's get into spotted winged asapola, which is the key pest in most of the berry crops and is becoming increasingly important for strawberry systems. Not only in the southeast, but across the country, even in California, it has recently become serious issue in strawberry systems as well. It was originally discovered in strawberries in California in 2008. In 2009, as you see on this screen, sort of increased spread of this invasive pest across the mainland US 2009 all west coast in Florida. And then from that front on it just quickly spread across the country in 2015 we just stopped monitoring it because it was everywhere you looked. And one name comes from these two dark spots and the exterior margins of the male wings. That's where the spotted wing name comes from. And males can also be identified using these two black combs as a feature on the front legs. All of these species are uniquely blessed with this very is this scarotized and serrated ovipositor that they use to lay eggs in otherwise healthy fruit larvae develop inside the fruit and start feeding into the whole generation from larvae from egg laying to adult This can be completed in eight to 10 days at 25 degrees centigrade, which can happen faster if the temperature is higher. So this kind of tells that this fly can go through several generations and even one field season. Over here is just images using blueberries. We generated this image of how the fruit damage progress is starting from over position to basically broadening up the complete unmarketable fruit is this takes about three to four days beyond that is fruit is not marketable. Overall impact of this fly was estimated to be $718 million in the US it was estimated in 2014 plus additional management costs included about 120 million 129 million dollars, which means it's approximately a billion dollar past when you look at take all crops into account. Starting with the monitoring initially we have used these 32 ounce plastic cups faded with the yeast sugar slurry, which is kind of a messy if you leave it for a week has become stinky and more than that it becomes really stinky and not easy to manage. Recently several states have participated in these studies to develop these dry traps, which is a red sticky card beta with these commercially available laws, and they provided comparable results and we are recommending this now for monitoring of SWD, these sticky red sticky card based traps. We did monitoring for several years in Georgia blueberries and what we noticed is that flies were actively around they don't sleep during the winter or slow down they just stick around. And what more interestingly what but you can see in this slide is that numbers were higher in the wooded areas nearby than the field themselves for the most part of the year. So it means there is obviously alternative host to plants that occur in the wooded areas as you see in this picture, we have tall pines that are mostly around the blueberry orchards here are other the cops including strawberries, but the understory is filled with several other species. And when we look within those several species were identified their SWD females were able to lay eggs and complete development in many of those plants in the woods, so there's something that we need to do to eliminate those to those alternative host, which will help in the long term, but for now. Management is includes biological control chemical control behavioral and cultural control biological control this being the invasive species biological control is very complicated. A lot of work has been done on classical by a control by large teams of researchers from multiple institutions after eight to 10 years of work. Finally, we were able to get permits of to release those exotic pastures that we imported from native regions of SWD China and South Korea. And several states are now building up the colonies to test to release those in the field and see how they will help control a stability. Currently, there's no bio control in the field based on our native pastures. All right, so chemical control is the primary means to control it. I'm just showing you this one slide which was the first attempt to control a stability back in 2012. You see very few options primarily again a fastwares and pyrethroids with spinosins. Now look at this. This is where we stand right now we have lots of options, chemical options to control a stability. They belong to several chemical classes which means we have the option to do really nice resistance management, which is highly recommended because resistance has become a major issue in California. In many cropping systems there. We haven't seen resistance in other states yet, but some states have started to show initial signs of it so highly recommended that growers implement resistance management by rotating products from one class to another. When you look at organic management, that's where we are in trouble because entrust is the only one that has good efficacy, but even that doesn't touch the line of threshold of being good. So it means we need to add additional nonchemical components to make sure we are able to control a stability in organic systems. Here are some sample management season long management programs. Again, these are just a set of samples. Now we have several chemical options that can be included and in general weekly applications are recommended in organic systems. We have to make some chemicals don't have week long residues. We need to go back after three days to make sure we protect the fruit against this fly. When we have a sort of a decisions to make for the whole season. It is highly recommended that you start with the highest of the heaviest chemicals which means the most effective chemicals as you see here. In the first slide, the no intervention in the second slide started with low efficacy product and still fly populations sustained. They did not disappear. However, in the third picture and you see here that highly effective product was used it knocked the fly populations down and then you can use low efficacy and mid efficacy product for the rest of the season to maintain that low level of populations which will not cause economic damage. All of the products obviously when we talk about insecticides they do have harmful effects against beneficial insects. So we need to keep keep that in mind even organic products do have a negative effects on beneficial insects. So we need to always keep that in mind. One thing we can do to minimize the non target effects of those insecticides is to spray. During the dawn and dusk times when flies are active in the field themselves and we can basically expose flies to direct spray residues rather than spraying other times of the day when they are not active and then relying on their exposure to the residues which may not be as strong and may not be as effective. So recommending it is recommended to spray during the dawn and dusk and the other benefit is that less beneficials are active during that time of the day. So that helps in many ways. Now moving on to behavioral control. We have tested several behavioral control strategies. The goal is to develop attract and kill approach. We have an attractant that can attract flies away from the fruit and then we have a toxic and mixed in it to kill them by the residues. So this one technology that was developed by ISCA technology is company based in California. We tested several years ago and it did show some promise as you see it reduced this was 87% less fruit infestation than when this particular product was applied which has an attractant mixed with insecticide and in this case insecticide was spinosive. Now the same company is developing these new formulations which are even more attractive. However, the difference is that these new farm TD formulation and OR formulations. TD in particular is the most effective and this is just by itself, attractant by itself is sold as Ajwant. It is currently an EPA for a consultation to be commercially available. Hopefully this will be available later this season or next year. This is sold as Ajwant itself and farmers will need to mix insecticide of their choice with it to use this as attract and kill to. Other chemical combi protect was developed in Europe and several labs we tested it last year here in the US and we found that even half rate of interest can give us just as much activity as fuller rate of interest. So not even more in slightly more in some cases. So this is really good product again currently in EPA to be considered for registration as Ajwant and hopefully this will be available later this season or next year. Cultural controls again these are really important. The goal here is to modify the environment to make the environment less attractive for SWD. SWD flies are very sensitive to temperature and humidity. They don't like high temperatures and they don't like dry conditions. So what can we do to change modify the environment. So yes. In this case we can do. Okay, so let me go through one by one by one first starting with exclusion. That's one cultural practice or strategy that you can use to cover the fruit production area or berries themselves. Keep the flies out. This is one foolproof technology that can use but it is expensive. However, some farmers I have just talked to they have repurposed their currently used materials in part and in part they got new materials to make it more economically feasible, but once you have it installed it does work as a foolproof technology to control SWD keep the flies away. Irrigation is you know most of the fruit production does need irrigation system. If you have the option use drip irrigation as compared to the overhead irrigation because drip irrigation creates less humidity in the canopies zones and that is that helps keep the SWD populations lower in the fruiting zone. Mulching is another way to control SWD. The principle here is that when flies larvae are fully fed inside the fruit they come out of the fruit and drop to the ground to pupate. If we have black weed mat or some mulch on the ground to prevent larvae from getting into the ground to pupate, they will get toasted and killed on the surface. That again has been a very useful way to control SWD flies in high pressure situations. Pruning is the other way to change the canopy environment when we do heavy pruning, but it does it allows more light through the canopy into the fruiting zone where flies are likely to spend most of the time to infest fruit. And it does reduce humidity a little bit. So that slight increase in temperature and decrease in humidity does lower fly population in that zone to help with SWD control. Harvest frequency is again important. If you leave ripe fruit out in the field for too long that is very attractive to flies and flies will have more opportunity to infest. So remove the ripe fruit as frequently as possible that will minimize the risk of fruit infestation by SWD. Sanitation is again extremely important because ripe rotten fruit on the ground is attractive for flies, they will be attracted from other surroundings into the field if they have more of that rotten fruit. So keep the field clean. Any ripe, overripe rotten fruit must be removed as soon as possible and you can deal with it two ways. Number one is either seal them in the plastic bags and leave them for two to three days in direct sun that will kill all flies. Or you can bury them at least two feet in the ground to make sure that larvae or pupae or flies don't come out again to become source of infestation. Last part is the post harvest. Once you have harvested fruit and you suspect there may be infestation is always possible to control that or kill those larvae. So you can see if you can store the fruit at 36 degrees Fahrenheit for up to three days. This will allow more time for you to market the fruit and also it will kill majority of the larvae inside the fruit. All right, so when we talk about strawberries pollinators are extremely important and there is a very little information about wild pollinators in particular which are extremely important for pollination in strawberries. So strawberry yield of course and quality is increased with insect pollination. And what do you mean by pollinator health in the system with which is currently one of the major issues and we need to take care of it.  How many bees do we have in the field and landscape what other sources of these bees can feed off of and then that contributes to overall population and their activity in the field that leads to pollination. These are the key or general pollinators that we anticipate the first one is any bees of course and the other ones are wild bees that play the key role in pollination in southeastern systems. So what we look for what is this the kind of a diagram shows you the red more red means and more negative for pesticide, more negative for bees in lighter color means better system so first on the top left corner is you know more pesticides. And the top down lower right corner is the least amount of pesticides so that is the best one for for bees bottom line. Even, you know, the scene IPM is all about making decisions and when to take management action is based on understanding of which pests are present need we need to identify those pests. How many of those pests are there what type of injury are they causing and how that injury translates into loss we need to know that by active sampling active monitoring of those pests and once we know that then we can get into making that management decisions. Then what management tools are available and what we can select to make sure that we will control the past but also will not harm the beneficial insects are other beneficial organisms in the field that is extremely important component of pest management. So now when it comes to management, there is a really important resource that I mentioned earlier is the Southeast small food consortium guide that is developed and updated every year for the whole region. It's available at small food.org if you go online small food.org you can find this guide and other small food guides as well. This is just the last, excuse me, this is the last page of that guide which shows, you know, in one page, all chemicals that are available and which pests they are effective and what is the level of efficacy here. E shows excellence, BG very good, G good and those things are denoted. This is one of the last, a few of last pages at the end of the guide. So I highly recommend you using this guide as a resource for strawberry pest management. It has really valuable information. Another resource that were recently, relatively recently created is in my IPM app. It does have information about strawberry diseases and pests as well. So you can download that available for both Apple and other devices, Android devices. With that, I would like to thank the, my colleagues, Hannah Barak, and Don Johnson and Sianika Lahiri who provided some of the slides that I shared, and also my lab team and the sponsors that have sponsored our research. With that, I'll take any questions. See if we have some time.


Matt, would you use your mother's name as a cussword? Well, I don't use anybody's name as a cussword. I'll use it in conjunction with a cussword. Better use the name of Jesus as a cussword. I've used it as an expletive. I don't know that it's a cussword. I thought so, I mean Jesus. So if I say Jesus Christ, what about that makes it cussing as opposed to praising?  That's what means to take it in vain. Yeah. And Matt, no one would use his mother's name as a cussword.


So what steps can you take to improve workplace diversity? I think we talked about it a little bit in the beginning, right? I think it's not just a one approach.  And that's important, but you don't just need to hire more people with diverse backgrounds. You need to do a cultural shift in top management, middle management. You need to make sure that your culture is aware of and your current employees is aware of what you're doing, why you're doing it so that they themselves can go and find potential candidates so that they can make those candidates feel included and embrace when they come to work so that we know also what type of accommodations and how do we best work with those individuals. Sometimes I get asked, you know, how do I disclose if I have a disability or if I'm an employee, how do I work with somebody that has a significant disability that I may be not familiar with, right? And so making sure that we have processes in place so that people feel comfortable disclosing their disability or their sexual orientation or their race because that's going to create a much bigger culture of acceptance, right? And so to our point earlier, it's really a holistic approach.


Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Christa Burns, your host here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is Library Commission's weekly online event where we cover various commission activities or anything that may be of interest to Nebraska librarians. We have presentations by guest speakers and by NLC staff is what we have today. We do these sessions every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. They'll last for about an hour or as long as it takes. And they are all recorded so that you can watch them later if you are not able to attend our live sessions. Today, well, today officially on our schedule, we still have the same topic, but just slightly different version. Today's session is, as you can see here, about doing continuing education, training, and library improvement grants that the Library Commission offers. Originally this is going to be Richard Miller and Laura Johnson from here at the Library Commission, but Richard is not here today, so Laura is taking it on all by herself. Okay, well, thank you, Christa. Go to it. Hi, this is Laura, and we're going to talk today about the Continuing Education and Training Grant and the Library Improvement Grants. These are two of the programs from the Nebraska Library Commission. The Commission has several grant programs, the Continuing Education and Training Grants. We have the Library Improvement Grants, which you may remember as the LSTA grants. They've been renamed. We also have internship grants, scholarships, and youth grants for excellence. We're going to be doing an Encompass Live program on the scholarships on December 22nd, so if you're interested in that, we hope to have a lot of information for you about how the scholarships are going to work next year. There are going to be more internship grants. As you probably know by now, we did get a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services that is going to allow us to have the internship grants and scholarships. So we'll be talking more about that later. The Youth Grants for Excellence have already passed their due date for this year, so we're not going to talk about them today, but they are part of the mix and they're an important program from the Commission. We don't want to slide them. This is kind of the main page, and we'll take you there live so you can see it, about grants. And this just gives you briefly what the grant is and what the big dates are for the grants. But you can get to this page fairly easily. You can always just search grants for a search, and it comes up right on our top. But this is the page to look for, for these grants.  Or one of the identified institutional libraries, and there is a list on our website of those libraries, or one of the Nebraska Regional Library Systems, or you can be another organization that's partnered with an eligible institution. But you do have to meet eligibility requirements to even apply for a grant. What are the ones that are identified institutional? The Beatrice facility, the libraries in the prisons, those things. So they're like a special category? It's a special category, and it's not huge. There's probably not more than what it does in maybe 15 places on the list. First I'll talk a little bit about the Continuing Education and Training Grant. These grants run from $250, that's the smallest grant you can get, to $5,000. The applications for them are available now. They're due on December 17th, so you've got them on, which is plenty of time. They'll be awarded on January 21st. We have to have given you the money by June 17th, because our fiscal year ends on the end of June. We ask that the projects be completed by September 30th next year, although if you have something that's going to go over a couple of weeks, just give me a call and we can work that out. And we ask for a final report, and you have to turn in that final report, or you're not in good standing and can't get another grant by October 21st. So that's the dates. The Continuing Education and Training Grant asks for a 25% match. And the way that match is figured is if you're requesting $1,000, then your match is $250, or 25% of that thousand. And your total project budget then would be $1,250. And the purpose of the grant is to help your libraries to improve their services through Continuing Education or Training for their personnel and supporters. So a successful application is going to show how your proposed project is going to support your mission. So it is the education and training is a means to an end, and the end is improved service. So you don't want to say that the purpose of your grant is to provide Continuing Education to staff people. It is, but it's so that those staff people can provide better service, and that's really the goal always. The training these grants don't cover, and it's just fair for us to tell you, that you don't cover a Nebraska regional or statewide professional conference. So going to NLA would not be eligible. It won't cover an event sponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission for the purpose of training. Our basic skills classes, our workshops, you couldn't use Continuing Education and Training grant monies to attend one of those things. It wouldn't cover an event sponsored by the Nebraska regional library system for the purpose of training. So the Spring Colloquium or the Leadership Conference, some of those things, no, you can't use the Continuing Education training for grant for that. The reason is that we feel that these grants really are trying to get, to offer people something beyond the usual, beyond what they could handle on their own. And we all, we make a great effort to keep the costs of the programs that we offer down, and so we feel that in many ways we're already kind of underwriting some of that. So a Continuing Education training grant is to help you do something that would be beyond the usual. This is like, last year we did an Encompass Live about PLA. Yes. That, was it five-way, five librarians? Four. Four librarians who had used Continuing Education grants to travel to the Public Library Association annual conference. So that kind of thing, get out of state, go somewhere you would never have been able to go to before. Some special, go to a special conference, something like that, yes. And that is one of the requirements of the Continuing Education grant, that if you do something special, then you share it. And what we've done, we had them come and speak at Encompass Live, talking about their experiences, and we have one of those coming up. Yes, we do. December 1st, we're having, we're doing it again. Not about PLA this time, though, but a couple other conferences. Yeah, some special conferences, a conference for circulation, and a conference for, I think it was volunteer coordination. The South Dakota Statewide Volunteer Coordinators Conference. Yes. Yeah, so follow up, kind of follow up for this session is we will have a couple of people coming and talking about how they use these grants to actually attend these conferences and what they learned there. Yeah, so that'll be in December 1st. We hope this will be an interesting value-added kind of thing. Okay, now we're going to talk a little bit. We're going to switch gears a little bit and talk about the LIS grants. The LIS grants minimum size is $500, and there is really no maximum. But if your project is going to be, oh, say over $10,000 or in that neighborhood, you'll want to call us and discuss it. The bigger the grant gets, the more likely it is that it would, for instance, be partially funded rather than completely funded or funded over several years, depending on the project. The dates for the LIS grants, the applications are due January 7th, and we'll be announcing the recipients on February 17th. The applications are available on our website now. The LIS grants require a 25% match, and it has to be 10% cash, and they're figured a little bit differently. So this, you start with the total project cost. So if your total project cost $5,000, then the match is 25% of that, or in this case it'd be $1,250, and at least $500, that's 10% of 5,000, of the $1,250 must be cash. So it can't be your time or something. You have to come up with some funds. So your grant request then would be $3,750. So see, that's a little different the way we figure that. More math involved. A little bit more math involved, but these grants tend to be bigger, and so that's kind of how it works out. There are six purposes for LIS grants, and you want to really talk about what purposes you're kind of fulfilling in your grant. The first is expanding services for learning and access to information for all types of libraries, for people of all ages, all formats. So it's expanding your services, or providing something new or more of what you're doing. The second is developing services that provide access to information through local, state, regional, national, and international electronic networks. So this would be databases, that kind of thing. Three, providing electronic and other linkages among and between libraries. Then, I have to go to the second slide here, then developing partnerships with other agencies and community-based organizations. So for instance, if you wanted to have a joint program with a senior center or community center, something like that. The fifth purpose is targeting to individuals of diverse backgrounds, or to individuals with disabilities, or to individuals who need help with literacy or information literacy. So you could have a special program to serve the Hispanic element in your community, or to people who need to learn to read, or to people who say are deaf or blind or have a disability. So that would be five. And six, targeting your services to people having difficulty using a library, or to underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line, and they do define what they mean by poverty. These are federal, because this grant comes from federal money. So we do have to abide by a number of their rules. This is on the application. You can look these over, but you do want to pay attention to these. We also ask that the grant help fulfill our goals, our LSTA goals for our long-term, our agency's long-term five-year plan. And those are. Goal one is all Nebraskans will have improved access to enhanced library and information services provided and facilitated by qualified library personnel, boards, and supporters with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes necessary to provide excellent library and information services. So this is making sure that Nebraskans have good service. And goal two is Nebraska libraries will have appropriate technology to access and deliver online library and information services. So appropriate technology can be almost anything, but it does mean that you want to give some thought to how you fit into those goals as well. It's nice that they make it vague enough, the appropriate technology, realizing that there's going to be new things that come up that you would never have been able to predict. Oh, yes. Yes, there's new stuff all the time. You do need to realize that your funds, LIS funds cannot be used for library construction or renovation, and they can't be used for furniture. So that's, you know, you really need to consider that. Okay, now in either grant, I'm giving you some particulars about the CE grants and particulars about the LIS grants. Now we're going to talk about what are we looking for in a grant application. Well, in a nutshell with very broad brush, we're looking for a good idea. Do you have a good idea, something that you want to do? And do you have a workable plan to carry out the idea? And that's really what we're looking for. And yes, we seem to ask a lot of questions about it, but that's because we're trying to get at, okay, we're happy if people are going to experiment to do something innovative. But we want to be sure that they have kind of thought it through because we're going to give them money. And we have to be responsible stewards of the money. How do we define a good idea? Well, we would say that it was innovative. It might even be a little experimental. This doesn't mean it's a wild-eyed, you know, trip into the blue. It just means that this is something new that you'd really like to try, that it will benefit library users. And we can't emphasize this enough. We need to know about how these ideas are going to help library users. And it may be that indeed you're going to offer training to your staff, and it will benefit the staff members. And that's fine. And we want to benefit staff members. But ultimately, it needs to benefit library users as well. And it helps a lot if it's sustainable. The grant will come to an end. How are you going to sustain this? Are you going to be able to keep it going? If you've gotten some equipment, are you going to be able to replace that equipment? That's a big issue when we're talking about, say, computer equipment, and you have to start thinking about, you know, really, you're talking four or five years and you're going to have to replace that equipment. How are you going to do it? So this is what we mean by a good idea. And what makes a plan workable? Well, first you have to have the people. And the people have to have the skills or the knowledge or the time to carry out the plan. This is not, the plan may be that people will get more skills. But are they at a level where they can do what they need to do to achieve the goals? We need stated goals. How is this going to benefit library users? And we need a way to measure how well the goals were achieved. So you have to give some consideration to how we would evaluate this program. What would you say the good things and bad things about it were? Would you say that the goals were achieved? We need to know what your strategies are for achieving the goals. Specifically, what are you going to do? What tasks are there going to be? What projects are there going to be? How is this all going to fit together? We need a timeline, you know, when you're going to start, when you're going to do each thing that you said you're going to do, and when you're going to finish. We need a budget. And we need a fairly detailed budget. We need to know, okay, if you need this many dollars, this many are going to go toward a consultant or a speaker. This many are going to go toward equipment. This much is going to go toward publicity for the event. We really need to know that. And if you talk about, for instance, purchasing a piece of equipment, remember it can't be furniture. We don't just want to know, I want this X59Z. We want to know we need a computer that can do the following things. So we believe that something with these specifications will do that. And it seems to us that the best value is the computer X59Z. And we're going to purchase it from this place because this place has a local service center that can help us install and maintain the equipment. And that's your sustainability built right into it. Yes, it is. So it's not just we need $59 for this. Yeah, you need $59 for that. But why do you need that? What were the things that you needed this piece of equipment to achieve? What were the specifications of this piece of equipment? And why is this particular piece of equipment that meets those specifications the one you want? So that all kind of goes into the budget. Then we want to know that you have support from stakeholders. If your community or your board or other people that you're dealing with are really in, because things don't work very well if you don't have the support from others. So this is kind of what we're looking for. This is what we think will make a plan a workable plan. Now I'm going to show you a couple things. This, of course, is our grants page again. So take a look. And these are links so you can get to the grants applications and information when you need it. Goodness, I think that's the next place we're going. Oh, is that what your next link was? Yeah, that's my next link. So that's fine. This is Nebraska Access. We do have grant resources. And you'll see that we have a number that you can go for more information about grants. This is one of the things we'd like to emphasize with our grants is, you're probably never going to get much more sympathetic readers than we are here at the commission. We really want you to have the money. We want your project to succeed. And we'll be happy to help you do that. You can send us a grant application before you finalize it and we'll read it. Once someone has read it and helped you with a grant application, then they can't sit on the committee that evaluates the applications. So we probably need to get somebody who's not centrally involved with that particular grant. So for instance, Richard really administers the LIS grants. You can talk to him about your grant, but if you really want somebody to read your application, you probably want Sally to read it or me to read it or Catherine to read it. And give you some suggestions about it. Just as if it's a CE grant, you probably want Sally or Catherine or Richard to read it because I centrally administer those. We have plenty of staff we can reach out to at the commission who would have knowledge of what your grant is all about and then read it and see if it needs anything. And we'd be happy to give you some suggestions. And when we give you suggestions, it's not because we're being difficult. It's because we want you, because this is the other thing about our grants is they're a great place to get started doing grant writing. We all know when we did our CE survey last spring, we found out that grant writing was something that people were very concerned about. And you know, the best way to learn about grant writing is to do some grant writing. And this is a wonderful place to get started because you have sympathetic readers. You have people who would give you some help. So we'd really like to encourage you to do this because it's a good way to sort of get into the whole idea of grant writing. And one of the funny things about grant writing is it may not get easier, but as you've done it several times, you find that you have pieces that you will need in most grant applications that you kind of develop and then you can kind of use one on the next grant. So in some ways it gets a little easier, although each grant application needs to be very individual. So anyway, we really want to encourage you to take a serious look at these grants. Okay, so that's the Nebraska Access Grants that we went through. Oh, this is the continuing education. My slides seem to be behind. Oh, there we go. Yeah, just take a second before to bring up the page. Okay. On how to write a grant. So we're just asking because we're asking because we're stewards of the money and how we do it. So it's detailed. And it has a justification for why money needs to go this way. If you have a question about a grant application, ask them. One of the things you really do is sit down and read all the directions, read the whole application. And if you take notes while you do it and if you have any questions, if you're not sure of anything, we have to talk about it with you. As we said, it can be a primary grant. And again, we're threatening this way. We could succeed in anything because we write applications. And maybe we have some insight into this and we can really help you. You do want to do some homework. Wow, this is so easy. But you know, it's one of those things that we all can forget so easily in the heat of trying to get it done is make sure you've got a copy for yourself. You probably want an electronic copy and a hard copy for yourself. It also, if you're submitting it in print, you want to be sure that every single page has your library's name on it and a date and a page number.  Always protect yourself in the way you present your materials. So those are some of the tips we have. Then we also have some places outside the commission that have some excellent information about grant writing. This one, I just want to take a second. All of these links that Laura's jumping to will be included when we put up the recording of the session. So you don't have to try and write all this down. We'll have links to all of them when that goes up. So you'll just click on go off to find all of these sites. This is the Rural Assistance Center and they have a wonderful thing about grant writing and they give links to other tools. They give links to a lot of places you can get grants. So I think this is a pretty good thing. Of course, the big, big granddaddy thing on writing grants is the Foundation Center. I don't think I have a link here. This, oh, it's coming up in a minute. Yeah, the nonprofit guides. I think this one on grant writing is very nice. And they really explain the parts of a grant. And the parts maybe arrange a little differently. The questions maybe asked a little differently. But the parts are pretty much going to be these parts. And for instance, our LIS grant asks for, it has questions and it asks for a description of the project. Then it asks for how the project relates to our long range plan, those two goals that I read you. It asks for the audience of the project. How you're going to implement the project. That's your strategy. How you're going to evaluate the project. Whether you have the community support so that you're buying. How it's going to be sustainable. How you're going to communicate about the project. Because remember, we just, we have to communicate more than we ever thought we would need to. So often we think, well, it's self-evident that our service is wonderful and people will find it. That's not necessarily so. People are busy. People are confronted with an awful lot of choices to make about how they spend their time and where the places they go. And they don't always notice. So you have to get kind of loud sometimes to make sure people notice you. And then the budget. So those are the elements we ask for in our grant application and they're pretty much the same elements that other grant applications are going to ask for. Okay. And that was it. That was kind of what I had to say today about grant applications. I hope this helps. I hope that if you have any questions, you will contact me or contact Richard Miller, who is the library development director. And I hope that we'll see your grant applications. Homepage for the. Okay. The very first tab all the way to the left. I think that was, yeah, one of those. Yes, here we go. Here again is the main page for these two grants. Now remember the scholarship grants and the internship grants will be talking about on December 22nd. Yes. So, Merry Christmas. Does anybody have any questions? Let's see if you do have any questions from the audience. You can type it into the question section. It doesn't look like anybody is jumping with anything right now. I guess we answered it. We stunned everyone in silence. But you know, you guys know where to find us where to find Laura and Richard call the commission. If you have any questions, do you have any of these grants do and better sooner than later? Yes, because especially the deadline for the one is just coming up next month, December 17th. So, you know, and we'd be thrilled to death. If you if you had a good project, so let us know, let us know what we can do to help. And thank you very much. Great. Thank you very much, Laura. That was very, very informational because I don't know a lot about the grants that we do here. I know we do them. Yeah. And then a lot of people do some cool things with them. But as far as the details of how to do it, I wouldn't have any idea. So I think it's very useful that we have these sessions to tell people about it. So that's it up for today's session. We hope we'll join us next week when we have a couple of hours where he's got he does have an interview for this month. He's got some news for you. Some things in QR codes, Wi-Fi security, and some other news that he wants to get out to you guys. So that will be next week, right the day before Thanksgiving. And what we were mentioning earlier, the fall conference roundup. That's the session where we will have a couple of librarians coming in and talking about how they use these continuing education grants to attend conferences. That's December 1st. And as Laura did mention, there is a session scheduled for December 22nd on the scholarship grants. It just hasn't been put out onto our website yet, but it is definitely scheduled and happening. Yes. So look for the actual registration we get up there on the website. So thank you very much for attending and we will see you next week. Thank you. Bye. Bye.


Well, well, well ladies and gentlemen you are watching entrepreneurship Tuesday only on why in the morning your favorite breakfast show We do this every week between Monday and Friday 7 to 10. So today in the spirit of entrepreneurship We've decided to open again with a segment of laughter and joy.  Every morning on Instagram when you're there on Twitter and you see a funny video. Yes. Yes Comedy is their money in comedy, you know people assume that they just laugh their way to the bank But today we are here to hear if that's a true story, you know So with me in studio, I have people from the industry and I want them to introduce themselves because I don't want to downplay any Achievements that they might have accumulated along the way. Go ahead. Say good morning to the why in the morning family. Hello Are you guys I'm right now in Y254? Pleasure to meet you guys. Mm-hmm. I'm a victim surfing. Mm-hmm. That's my name Okay Okay. Hey guys Okay. Hi Why to fight for in the morning? My name is Bernard Nabiliswa. I'm an online content creator Yeah Yes, and today they're here to share the story especially with regards to Victor Safi's journey in the comedic industry or the comedy industry Generally, so let's talk Victor. I think you've been in character.  Yeah So let's talk about your journey in comedy. How did you land in this particular line of work? It is passion. It's something that is in me. So I just decided to expose it so When I told you and I being me on a time and some respect because if you came all night, oh, yes I know. Yes. Yes. Oh, man. I'm also they don't care about education. That's why I'm decided to be an official Yes, so when it comes to economy one so I don't waste your own time. It's a man That's what I mean. I can't be a tool. So we saw my cool is that who? Who's only in the summer to be 15 she turned in a talk on guard? No one I end up if you could fake a preps do you sing easy man's and I couldn't get a dome me come back as a boy So she do it. Hey comedians, let me just talk to you a direct Let me ask you. How do you sport talent? How do you pick Victor Safi up? What is it that you do to spot the talent and what did you decide that you wanted to be an online content creator? Okay with Victor. There was a place. There was a studio. I had gone to do some errands Then I found him there Then from the way I saw him talk. I saw these guys very funny. So it was cracking jokes here people are laughing so I saw I I Decided to talk to him. I asked him if we can be creating these videos Then we put them online.   Oh, first of all, there is a topic that might be trending in Kenya So I do mount but some of them you just sleep and wake up you find you can't do this. Oh, you just get the right idea That's how it is. You know, have you ever gotten um You know, it comes to making people laugh It's a very difficult job I might imagine like because you can't predict if someone is gonna find it funny or not So let's talk about let's talk about the reaction that you got from Other people outside like from the fans and the people who've been watching you watch reactions from the hate to the love We'd like to hear as a comedian But to make somebody love is not all about a letter my boyfriend.   So I wanted to be serious for people just didn't take you seriously Oh, at times I do address people on some serious issues, but they for example When I'm dressing I'm addressing such as people are concerning Slay queens. They don't take it serious because they just know I'm cracking jokes out of that Because there's no such thing as a sleigh queen also There is Please so what's your definition of a sleigh queen? Sleigh Queen is just a sleigh Really, really Okay, and you let me go back to online content creator. How did you get yourself out there? How do you get a viewership? What are some of the steps that you take to make sure that people notice the work that you do? For someone at home was probably even in the same line of work What is it that you do to get noticed? Like the the process not is not that complicated first of all You have the you have to do your research like you go online. There are tools that you can use to see Which topics are trending online at a certain time or a certain period? Maybe within one day within one month or even 12 months. That is one year So you use the keywords that you get from that to create a certain content that goes with that those trends You can even predict To a certain period you can predict. Yeah, you can predict from what is going on at the moment So currently based on what's going on? What are you guys predicting? Like now people are talking about 20-22 you see elections such kind of stuff Rumours of people being left out in the cold and all that Yeah, that kind of stuff So when we get to 20-22, everybody's mind will be about elections So when you create content that time, you'll be creating content that is going towards the election And you get the viewership So that increases the chances of people clicking on your videos? Yeah, viewing your content Okay, but but but Victor you have not told me about the reactions from your fans Like tell me from the worst to the best. What kind of feedback have you gotten? I can imagine it might not have been as easy as you're making it look It is not a must you really impress everybody but the number of people that appreciates me That accept me are more than the number of people that hates me But with time what I depend on to miss Nangaubai With time So who are you when you're not in character? Because the gentleman I met a Few minutes ago was dressed. Oh my god. Like damn. I thought I thought you were a You know a musician or a pop star. I can go to the baby disappear 10 minutes later. He's in a shot And a very interesting outfit. So I'd like to know who's victim Safi outside of comedy Our victim Safi outside comedy. I hustle We have a studio called Pro clips small magics located on feather estate just at the stage We do videography Our photography We do several stuff that has been done in the photo studio We also even do audio recording Organize events with the The director is called small magics director sourcing. Yeah, that's where we do our stuffs So is this comedy your main hustle or is that videography and photography your main hustle? Comedy comedy at least in and if I pass at least it was a cousin and Mr. Nowango which I'm yet to get In and if you're a number, I know why you don't have a girlfriend. You'll be calling you for sleigh quiz anyway. Just continue Yeah, so comedy comedy Because being you guys hosting me people are getting to know me outside there being called for show I'm currently signed with the girl alive Kenya. Oh, you've been signed. Wow Oh, we are in America comedies also happens every start of the month And several people just coming through the actual gems co-band here. I appreciate him Been trending and she come gone even a mama a to flora Gatwiri So so many support out there I've had you mentioned a flora Gatwiri. Who is this? She's also a youtuber. Uh-huh. Yeah She's part of the bent bend trending or big trending Kenya. Yeah, I work with her. Yeah, she's my girlfriend Oh, okay You've also been working with other superstar comedians as well such as that can you just list Are those that you look up to here in this country? I cannot say I look up to someone because that one means I want to be lucky but inspired by maybe I'm inspired by Jalanga But I've worked with a comedian. She's a fan and I need the likes to go re-comedy I want to know about the likes of Mula Mua, Cuckoo Danger, Smart Joker So to keep at a stage see see to cut to up or to men at a checker check me men at a checker You actually you actually you actually had an event on Sunday. Was it Sunday? Yeah The show was good. The show was late. The reception is good That is all you can say for it. It was good. It was good. I really I really invited you but we didn't turn up So I'm sorry So they see it was empty Okay, guys, can we not be funny? I'm sorry next time. I'm going to make some timing come Please do make sure you follow us on social media to hit five one channel The hashtag is one in the morning hashtag it up in worship Tuesday So let's talk about some of the shows that you're also anticipating to do a bit much later or much later Let's let's hear from you The show is that the platform I'm willing to get into First of all, I'm willing to I'm willing to get into a radio station as a co-host Oh, wow. So you do have a you do have a plan to to to become a radio presenter. Wow. And after that We are We have started our online TV The street 254 streets 254 TV. Yeah, so I'll be hosting there Mm-hmm What's amazing? Congratulations. So thank you so much. I'm gonna do Anyway, let's talk about some of the challenges that you guys are facing in your particular industry Yeah, and what and what the government can do to make it easier for you as well. Can we hear? As comedians, do you even have a union?  First of all, uh, there is hatred amongst us. Oh, there's hatred. Yes. So that I'm sorry to say that so that you find that That comedian was made it to her platform as a queen Because uh, he or she is not sure if the spirit you are coming with then People are also ignoring you. So there is some things if you look into there is so many negativity Me I call them small negativities.  They are like, ah, we are going to waste our time there something of the sort You know, you need to let that go So that's what's I affecting us so much At times you might send link to someone But you know So you can see there's a bit of disunity when it comes to some of the members better. Can you comment in the entertainment field? One, I didn't get to lucky. There is disunity. Okay, mr. Direction. Do you agree with these sentiments? Yeah, they are but okay on my side the biggest challenge is The equipment for production like the cameras. You find that they are the equipment that are very expensive Oh, they cost a fortune. Yeah So you can find a a very short clip of maybe let's say 30 seconds But now the the equipment that you have to use so that it can attract viewership Because you have to make something that is of high quality Yeah Then another thing is the The internet service providers the the rates are too high for people to To be able to watch some videos online You see Like somebody using the bundles Watching videos on youtube is very expensive For that person. So I think the government should look into the ways of at least reducing the the rates the internet rates Yeah Okay, okay. I think I think I think hopefully someone in the in the relevant opposition of authority has had that Um, let's talk about some of the or the ways in which that um, you can say that the industry has progressed Like now what's good? What's so good about it? And what should we keep as an industry when it comes to entertainment? It's going to appreciate the small milestones. Oh, first of all, uh, what I can say about the industry right now There is uh, so many tv station with good heart presenters like you So if if you book for an interview or they just bought you We are brought to interview So there is nothing good like being exposed to tv channels When I spoke to that you had been exposed to millions of people So I can say it is improving The entertainment industry can improve but, uh, I think the government is doing very minimal on the entertainment Because right now when we do host the girl alive at National theater, you find the cost of the hold is too high So I think the government should look into such things They need to make your work easier because there's also no guarantee that you guys get any returns All right, amazing. Please make sure you let us know your social media platforms as well So what time we wind this up and perhaps, you know, maybe you can let us know Maybe for someone at home who wants to do this. What words of encouragement do you have for them as well?  Yeah, we need that respect to fans Thank you, and your social media handles Get me at IG at VictimSurfing Subscribe to my YouTube channel at VictimSurfing Subscribe to Street254TV We are coming there in full force Alright, I wish you the best of luck with that endeavor Banag, yeah, let's hear from you Okay, what I can say is with the internet Anything is possible Internet has brought up many celebrities Even if you are at home We shall go co-op You have your phone Just record, if you know you are an artist If you can sing, you are a comedian And share with people on the internet You will be known If it's good, people will notice it If it is good, people will like it They keep sharing your content And it will grow from there Okay, but it's about time we conclude this Thank you so much, Banad and VictimSafi There is a clip we want to finish Which is the truth about Polinyari You know some of my roots are in Nyeri So what is your issue with us, my friend? No, there is nothing like an issue There is nothing that is wrong Okay, anyway, you let us know Let's have a look at the clip We will be back with the next interview You are still watching Entrepreneurship We were talking about money in comedy And we have heard from the comedian himself And from his director So please don't go anywhere My name is Hilda Wadibi


Tell me that this is amazing. I even have a friend named Josh Who used to work at Abercrombie and Fitch who loves fierce and I told him exactly what I just told you that I really like the Original Dua's fierce. It's literally like probably my favorite fragrance to wear like hands down So I told him he like has all the fiercest. Hey, bro. Get it. He we're all tight We're all talking he gets it and then he's quiet and then I'm like, okay Something had to happen. So we ended up talking about fierce attar, which he absolutely loves and then he said that Dua's fierce was had too much of a BO vibe and he gave it away I could not believe it I respect him and I love that his name is Josh and that he worked at Abercrombie and that he likes fierce But I just don't get that at all because I love fierce if I wasn't a fragrance reviewer and Somebody offered me unlimited Dua's fierce so long that I only wore Dua's fierce. I would literally take it. I'm a hundred percent hands down. Yeah, I just love it It's just what I like. I love Dua's fierce However, Josh thought that this was the basically perfect He said they finally nailed it and then on top of that I had at least two or three other people Just tell me how good it is. So let's jump into fierce attar the notes online They got tons of notes, but it just smells like fierce You know what fierce smells like the tons of notes we got here are petite grain cardamom lemon orange fur Aquatic notes jasmine rosemary rose lily of the valley sage Vettiver musk oak moss rosewood and Sandalwood and I double check the original Dua's fierce and they're the exact same notes It's supposed to be essentially the same fragrance, but just maxed out the attar meaning basically means that it's just the highest Projecting fragrances that they make they're going a little bit away from the original DNAs to make that original DNA as Maxed out as possible. So it's just super high projection with just sacrificing just a hair of the original DNA Situations, this is good for it smells like fierce. So you should already know what situations it is good for But I'll tell you anyway work. I think this is okay. It's a good I've always enjoyed kind of fierce for work.  It just smells good It's kind of like an everyday style scent as it is and you know, it can be a bit sexy It's not the best thing for the office, but it definitely works Jim sent this is great for a Jim sent, but I would just go with one spray It's all you're gonna really need the date. This is good fierce has always smelled sexy But it's never been really one that people look for for a date It's just kind of like an everyday hot weather style fragrance It does smell pretty good on a date, especially if it was warmer out But it's not the first thing that I would grab either. This is just basically like an everyday summer scent like I was just saying I mean, that's what most people wear it as and I just like how versatile it is because it kind of fits into everything But I've got to say it is pretty much just an everyday style scent. All right guys Let's jump into the pros of fierce a tar The pros is that it is cleaner and more woodsy than the original do is fierce So if you're somebody to where you think that fierce has a noticeable off-putting vibe Personally, I would not say BO, but I know what they're talking about when they say that it has just a general kind of off-putting a little bit weird style vibe at times and That's pretty much taken out of this almost a hundred percent I would say I get that vibe maybe ten to twenty percent, which is really gonna open up certain different other kinds of audiences This is like I said, it's more mature. It's more cleaner If you think it smells like too much like BO or too much so weird, you know This one definitely removes that I kind of felt like this smells like a little bit like 2009 ish fierce to me personally It's definitely not a bad thing. I'm just saying that's kind of what I smell So I actually compared this to some other fierce clones that I have fiercest at least when I was testing it You kind of go nose blind. So if you smell one, you don't really smell the other and vice versa But because the other versions of fierce that I tried had different ingredients in them I was able to smell just the differences because the part that smelled like fierce I was nose blind too. So it was actually very easy to spot the differences There was one that I really like that I reviewed highly and I really enjoy and it definitely had like almost like a vanilla Vibe or just something slight that I'm like that doesn't smell like fierce when I first smell that it smelled like fierce But when I compared it to this, I'm like this smells more like fierce than the other one So a lot of people can make a lot of things that smell like fierce But do a really went out of their way to give you at least in my opinion what we want with fierce So anyways, yeah, so it's closer to other clones. Okay. This has really good projection Obviously, this is going to be an at's hard. So fierce do is fierce already had amazing Projections so if you're gonna try to make this even better, it's not surprising that the projection is good I'll kind of get more into that in my smell rating and into my cons I don't have any cons about it not lasting long enough, but it definitely has above average projection I've sprayed this up and you know twice when I woke up the next day I got little whiffs of it on me, which was and it was obviously smell really good So that kind of confirms what people are saying I think someone else commented that they had some insane projection I think it was like they sprayed it on their skin and then 24 hours later They could smell it and then I had another guy tell me only spray this on the skin Don't spray it on the clothes for me. I haven't had a problem spraying it on the clothes I could kind of treat it like a normal fragrance So just want to put my two cents out there other, you know, maybe the best way is to spray it on skin And then obviously it's just a compliment getter I remember I think somebody said that they don't even wear fierce and They tried this out and they got like a few comments in a week It just is really, you know, it's it's got this light smell that you continue to smell for so long And it does really smell really sexy and good So it's not surprising that it's so clean so pure and just has just the right projection to last it Really is a compliment getter in my opinion and then the last pro is kind of like what I was saying before It is a little bit less offensive than the original fierce up there was kind of like an immature quality It's pretty much gone here. All right guys jumping into the cons of this fragrance The cons is that now don't kill me. You like what you like. I like what I like I'm gonna be a hundred percent honest people hype this as if it was literally like gold in a bottle I was kind of expecting above perfection with this one But this is noticeably less punchy than Dua's fierce It also at least temporarily does not project as far away in my opinion than Dua's fierce And when you spray Dua's fierce up, you know a quite a bit I mean people are probably gonna smell you if there's wind 15 20 25 feet away right when you spray up it just jumps off the skin this one It's feels lighter But then there's also been times where I spray up and it really just you know It can jump a little bit or and it can feel like wow I don't spray more than three and get in the car kind of a thing and then like I said I also was getting little whiffs of it when I woke up the next day and I don't really get that I'm somebody who tries clones out all the time and I didn't really get that vibe either So it is less punchy It is got less initial projection than fierce But like I said, it is pretty noticeable Especially if you get in the car and then some people probably didn't want fierce to project that far away Maybe they want something a little bit more reserved, but also retaining that really clean fierce vibe That's what you have here. And then the only other con I was kind of just saying it right now is To me the vision of fierce This isn't as close as Dua's fierce I had one of my friends who absolutely loves fierce did not like the original Dua's Absolutely loves a tar so that tells me if you really like fierce You probably need to order them both and see what you think for yourself because I can't believe we would have such split opinions I'm not talking badly about this fragrance But when I first was about to smell this and after hearing all the hype I was Really let down for like a couple hours and I was kind of trying not to Judge it right away or to go in my comments and be like, dude, what is this? This is like further away from the original like what do you mean? Like and it doesn't even project super far away either so it's like I just didn't really get it But obviously doing the testing I really do like this one And I think if you like fierce you pretty much need to try both and Dua's fierce is always sold out Which means it has an insanely high demand So it's really nice that they're creating other versions of fierce. All right guys if I was gonna give it a smell rating I'd give it a 8.5 to 9 for the smell It just is really good and obviously, you know, I think do is fierce is a little bit more what I'm thinking of with fierce But I did try this against other versions and this one was still really really nice compared to those other versions Like ability, I'm gonna give an 8.5 to a 9 It's so I would say it's maybe even a like point five more likeable than the original do is fierce Just because it is more safe. It is more mature If somebody's gonna be kind of angry or upset at you wearing a cologne or just kind of gets upset by cologne This one is going to be easier for them to like than the original do it So I would say 8.5 to a 9 and then also of course if you get it in the right circumstances I'm sure somebody's gonna love it like a 10 and then long jab any projection I'm gonna have to give this an 8.5 to a 9 what really sold me was Smelling a little whiffs later on it just has a noticeable smell a very above average projection Which I really do appreciate anyways guys. Let me know what you think of fierce a tar for me I would probably go with like I said that do is normal fierce or do is version of vintage fierce personally I would say definitely get both. I think it's like on Saturdays. They do 30% off I also did try this against that one mix of Elysium and fierce. I think it's all fierce supernova.  Let me know what you think of fierce a tar Let me know what your favorite version of do is fierce is have you tried that one do a fragrance with like five different ones in there I'll be very interested to see down below and it continues to blow me away How good all these clone houses are and how I prefer do a buy a hair so many times I don't know what else they're doing, but I really enjoy it Anyways guys were on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I could not do it without any of you guys Help you guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video Peace